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[page 918] begun that the whole investigation would be at once dropped, if Dr. Harlow should be removed. Ans. Not exactly so. I said that when this investigation begun it was without a view of making a personal attack upon any prison and I did not want it to take that direction. I foresaw if a lawyer was put in it would become like a trial, and I foresaw there would be a personal attack upon Dr. Harlow. Ques. By whom. Ans. I did not say by anybody. Ques. Did you state to anybody that if that man could be removed the whole thing would be dropped. Ans. I said this, I believed as the things then stood, there must inevitably be such an attack made, but I believed that the whole thing could be adjusted satisfactorily to all around if Dr. Harlow would do now what I was confident in my own mind he would soon wish to do, in a graceful and easy way to himself, withdraw, I said then I believed this whole thing would be dropped. Ques. Did you or not state to any person since this investigation begun, that the whole matter would be dropped if Dr. Harlow could be removed or retired. Ans. I did not say dropped; you can state, for I