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Company, owner of the McDonough telephone, 

 upon the opinion of distinguished lawyers, one 

 of whom was Roscoe Conklin, that McDonough 

 was the inventor of the telephone and entitled 

 to the patent, his claim having been filed two 

 years before Bell's. Just one year thereafter we 

 were beaten in Washington upon a theory of 

 sound transmission that McDonough afterwards 

 demonstrated, by a mechanical contrivance as in- 

 genious as the telephone itself, to be untrue. 

 Benjamin F. Butler, too, showed me a device of 

 a client of his which made the theory of the deci- 

 sion ridiculous. 



We also owned the Drawbaugh claim, of 

 which there appeared in the New York Sun of 

 November 23, 1913, the following: 



"Alexander Graham Bell will go down in his- 

 tory as the inventor of the telephone and com- 

 paratively little space will be given to Daniel 

 Drawbaugh, yet Bell and Drawbaugh filed their 

 patent papers the same day, and after eight years 

 of litigation, in which some of the greatest law- 



