Mr. Griffin. Either the second or third finger on his right hand?
Mr. Hansen. I don’t recall just exactly which. I believe it was the left hand, come to think about it. I believe I remember I was shaking that hand, and I know it was hurting. The boy bit his finger and spit it out in the street.
Mr. Griffin. Did you actually see the boy bite it off?
Mr. Hansen. No. I got there after he did it.
Mr. Griffin. Did you see Jack with part of the finger missing?
Mr. Hansen. Part of it missing, and the other part just hide hanging down. And I run this old boy down the street that was the one that was supposed to bite it off, and I finally caught him. We had a fight and I got him handcuffed. That’s been so long ago, I don’t recall his name, but I do remember his waving that finger and blood running, and he had a pretty chewed up finger. It was just stumpy.
Mr. Griffin. Did you ever come to find out what the fight was all about that provoked that?
Mr. Hansen. Never paid much attention to that. We had stuff like that that went on all the time. It was sort of customary. If it wasn’t a finger, it was an ear or something.
Mr. Griffin. After Jack opened up the Carousel Club, how often did you have occasion to visit the Carousel Club?
Mr. Hansen. Well, I never visited the Carousel Club regular or anything. I have been up there, and I would say during the time he had the Carousel Club up there, to my knowledge, maybe I went up there 9 or 10 or 12 times, I don’t know, just if I had somebody come to town I knew, or some boy I had known when I was younger, we would go up there and watch the girls dance and maybe drink a beer, and have a drink or something.