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Miller: 





Baum: 



Miller: 

 Uri 



Baum: 

 Miller: 



your crop peacefully. This is strictly illegal." 



And this is one thing that I have resented over these 



years. I know now who bought the gas. I didn't say 



very much about it because they didn't ask me. The 



LaFollette committee found out. I never even knew 



who bought it or where it was stored, but this came 



as a distinct shock to me to learn this at the tail 



end of the investigation. 



One of your subordinates had this gas — 



No, no peace officer had it at all. The farmers had 



it. 



The farmers had it in their own warehouses? 



You asked me a question and I answered it by saying, 



"Yes." The farmers were frightened. They were 



frightened sick and they knew in their own hearts 



that this young snipe of a sheriff couldn't keep the 



peace, and so they were prepared to keep it in their 



own way. This is what I found out later. But after 



I cured them of sucking eggs and kept curing them 



over the years, then of course there was no need for 



any of that any more. What they ever did with that I 



don't know. I never did ask and it was a question I 



