He will be out again and you want to re
member what was on the paper you
signed for the Sun. But after the storm
I thought you might not conic and began
writing for The Leader.”
Mr. McLaughlin was asked:
“How in the world did they ever induce
you to sign anything 9 ”
“Web, the truth is 1 am so used to
signing my name to anything Warren
asks me to that it has become a kind of
second nature. The fact is that when
Shapcott read the paper to me I told him
that it was all true, except the reporter
had put the price of the land at less than
what I did pay and that he had not put
the number of acres right but made the
number too small. Then Shapcott asked
me if 1 would sign a statement to that
effect and I said I would. The reporter,
sitting upon the wagon, spoke up and
said: ‘Yes, Mac, let us fix this up some
wav. You know they were pegging away
at Warren just the same way two years
ago and it didn’t do any good.’ I had it
in my mind to tell him ‘Yes, but two
years ago the pegs wasn’t as long as they
are now; that we are going to drive them
clear in this time, and they’ll stay there.’ ”
“When you signed the statement lor
them did it read as when printed in the
Sun ?”
“ No. ”
’’How did it read as near a< von can
remember ?”
“In regards to to the conversation be
tween me and a LEADER reporter it h not
all true —not all of it is true
That doesn’t sound right.”
Mrs. McLaughlin—“lt dor- sound fool
ish. butthat is just wh t Mac told me
half an hour afterward
“Well, I thought it didn't amount to a
row of Dins and I could see that the
sheep business was what looked big in
their eyes and I wouldn’t give in a bit on
that point.”
Mr. McLaughlin said he told his visit
ors that he didn't want to get into any
trouble over the matter and then the
Sun man spoke up and said, apparently
half jokingly. “Oh. 