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...nation outside. But the quiz game became really perplexing when the defense brought in testimony on a book theft from the Columbia Library over 20 years ago, and when the prosecution started asking about the color of wall-paper. The jury, confused, but air-conditioned, fiddled with a Woodstock typewriter and then gave up; they were 8 to 4 for conviction, and they were as angry and upset as most others. One juryman, who had been in the majority, told reporters, "We pounded hell out of those four. . . . I felt like wringing their necks...
Murphy turned and pointed to the Government table. There, side by side, were the Woodstock typewriter, copies of the State Department documents which Chambers said Hiss had delivered to him, and the trial's testimony in four green-bound volumes. "There are the three solid witnesses in this case," said Murphy...
...reminded the jury of Pat Catlett's testimony that he had taken the Hiss typewriter to one of two Woodstock repair shops soon after the Hisses gave it to him-but one shop had not opened until May 1938, the other not until September 1938. "Those are facts you cannot change," said big Tom Murphy...
...like stumps in a clearing. One of these was the stark evidence of the State Department documents which Chambers had had in his possession. On the basis of an FBI expert's testimony (never challenged by the defense) they had been typed on the Hisses' old Woodstock typewriter...
...point was obvious: if the defense could prove that the Hisses did not even have the typewriter when the documents were typed (in the early months of 1938), Hiss's case would look fairly secure. Mrs. Catlett's young son, Mike, recalled that it was an old Woodstock. From under the defense table, Defense Lawyer Edward McLean dramatically dragged a battered machine. Was this it? Mike pecked at a couple of keys and decided that...