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at first cold and formal but finally
became very friendly after he saw
we had some intelligence"
On the day Col. Brittin came after
his personal letters, she related, he
dashed in" went to Mr.. Lees room
and remained 10 or 20 minutes.
Lee Takes Witness Stand.
Frederick Lee, partner of Mac
Cracken and formerly one of the legis-
lative counsel for the Senate, told the
circumstances of permitting Col. Brit
tin to have access to the files in the
Office. He emphasized that Col. Brit
tin had letters and papers in the
Office, supposed to be personal, which
were not part of the files Of Mac
Cracken & Lee that were under
subpoena.
Lee stressed as reasons why he as
sumed some of the papers of Col.
Brittin were private and personal that
Col. Brittin was having some difficulty
with his firm, that the colonel had
some marital difficulty" and that he
had been lin the hospital in the Sum-
mer." Knowing these facts, Lee said
he deemed it natural some of the pa
pers would be personal and that ne
had no desire to know what was in
them. Lee said he claimed no i'm
munity. After he gave Col. Brittin
access to the files on the day in ques-
ton, Lee testified the colonel took out
"a number of papers"
Put Papers In Pocket.
"Col. Brittin took the papers, folded
them up, as recall it. and put them
in his inside coat pocket. and then
Immediately left the Office" Lee said.
It did not walk out with him"
May I ask you how many papers
there were taken, to the best of your
recollection" Richardson asked.
"Mr. President, did not count
them, but am pretty fairly clear
there were a small number. My best
Judgment would be somewhere around
four or five letters and one or two
kilograms. I mean I do not want to
swear that there were just that ex-
act number Of papers, because I did
not count them, but 1t took me only
lust a few seconds to take look at
those papers, and that is the best OF
my recollection"
Twill you search your recollectlon'
sir. and tell the Senate whether to the
best of your recollection there were
among those letters any letters having
four pages within the single letter."
well, Mr.. President, recall hav-
ing in the case of one or two letters
to turn over the page to md the
signature. I do not have any definite
recollection Of having to turn over
more than one or two pages at the
best. I do not recall having turned
over three or four pages, but I am not
wholly certain on that, sir"
Admits Action Inadequate.
As to the subpoena, Lee said:
THE committee subpoenaed Ger
tain definite papers. Other papers
were not subpoenaed. If a gentle
man had come to my office and left
purely personal papers, and because
he was afraid they would be made
public he wanted to get them and had
a right to them, I had no right to
withhold his personal papers from
him. I did want to do everything
that I then thought was necessary to
protect that subpoena OF the Senate.
The truth of the matter is that
should have done a lot more than I
did. I should have read those papers
through I am not defending myself
from that. am simply stating what
I did actually do"
Lee said he did not examine the
papers taken out by Col. Brittin, ex-
cept to look at the addressee and the
signature. He did not charge his
memory with the names Of the per-
sons to whom the letters were ad-
dressed. He thought one was to .
Miss Stein.
Throughout Lee took the position
that Col. Brittin's papers did not be-
long in the MacCracken and Lee fles.
And he pointed out the subpoena did
not cover matters other than those
relating to ocean mail and air mail
contracts.
Tells Of Letter Search.
hlUcI bIlC 0cIldGC tOOh q lCSCcc "a
about 40 minutes for lunch, ]. A.
Bradley, post office inspector. was
called by Senator Black. He gave
details of the search Of the waste
paper in the basement of the Ma
tional Press Building, where certain
letters Of Col. Brittin which had been
torn up were found. These were
pieced together and are in the hands
of the Black committee. Bradley
identified q number of such papers as
having been found among the waste,
about 80 in all.
Richardson asked number OF
questions designed to bring out that
it was not possible to, tell on what
dates the papers went into the waste,
but Bradley held the dates could be
told from the dates on the daily
newspapers from various offices found
in the sacks of waste. He said that
in searching the waste paper for the
Col. Brittin letters he was represent
ing the Post Office Department and
the Special Committee.
After Bradley, the Senate heard
Sol w. Voorhees,, travelling auditor
for Western Air Express, on behalf
of Hanshue and Givvin. He was
called by Frank K. Nebeker, attorney