"I would like to ask the Judge a few questions," said Governor Slydell.
"All right, governor. I'll turn the witness over to you," the attorney-general replied.
"Judge, you know that the mayor of Freeburg was whipped by masked men, don't you?"
"No, I do not. I know that the Journal stated he was whipped. Do you know that he was whipped by masked men, governor?"
"Yes," the governor answered.
"How do you know it?"
"By the evidence of Mayor Krouse himself and such honorable and credible witnesses as Pat McBryan, Springer and McMichael."
"Governor, do you know who did it?"
"No, or I would prosecute them."
"After you had had special detectives in Freeburg for three weeks and they had given up their investigations you made a speech in another state in which you said that the Klan did it."