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lawyer was a dreadful person, a fly-by-night, an ambulance chaser. He was no good anyhow. His lawyer had told him that Spargo had gone away and was up in the Adirondacks somewhere and couldn't be found. I said, “Did you impress upon him that it was very important that he should come in?” He had done the best he could.

He brought in Spargo's lawyer very early the next morning. I tried to impress upon Mr. Spargo's lawyer that it was important that I see Mr. Spargo alone. Spargo's lawyer said he didn't want to have anything to do with these other manufacturers. They were a lot of poltroons. Spargo wasn't going to be bound by them or associated with them either. He told me again that Spargo had gone away.

Johnny Flynn had some secret people operating for him. I asked him to find out if it was true that Spargo had gone away. We discovered that it was. Spargo had beat it in the middle of the night. Then we had it put in the local paper that Spargo had run away. I thought it was just as well to do it. He had run away in hiding. He'd beaten it in the middle of the night. Johnny found out what time he'd left town in an automobile with one other man with him. The Adirondacks is a big place and there was no way of tracking down where they'd gone or where they were. It was then, I think, that Johnny revealed to me that there was in