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He stated that he could not have sold this typewriter as he sold ne typewriters. subsequent to lesving the employ of Weedsteck in December 1927, His only conjecture on this point was that 1f the typewriter produced by HISS wag a typewriter originally in the office of FARSLER and MARTIN, it must have been one purchased by these men from soma other person. He pointed out that in those days soodstock typesriters were relatively new on the market. they usually undersold the other old line typewriters and the other typewriter companies would net take them on tirade under ag good terms as the acodstoeck Company. It was customary in those days for people in offices to trade their typewriters quite often and he peinted out it was possible MARTIN or FANSLER had traded the typewriter he sold them in 1927 for a new ons subsequent to 1929, If this was dene, GRALY believed it would probably have been a sale made by JACK CAC whe was manager of the Philadelphia Offices ef Acodsteck, when GHADY left in 1927, and for several years theraafter. GRADY hag not contended, except on the original interview, that his commisaion on the sale of the typewriter to FANSLER and MATIN was applied upon an insurance policy sold by MARTIN to GRADY. Upen second interview, previously reported, when the dates of GRADY's policies with Northwestern Mutual, together with tre names of the agents gelling them, were Svailable he then recalled that he had also sold a machine to Jd. Gs BaTTERSBY, Ei. B, STAVENS, and W. L. CUATES in 1927 when these men associated themselves together in the salo of ineurance for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, and that it was on this policy that his commission upon the sale of a typewriter was applied to the premium on a policy. ‘Therefore, ginca that time, the application of a commission on the sel¢ of a typewriter has not entered inte his recelleetion of selling FANSLER and MARTIN a typewriter, It was suggasted to GRALT that perhaps in January 1930 he wight . have sold MARTIN a typewriter even thoucsh he was no lenger in that business but may have relied upon his former connections. He denied that this was possible, stating he never sole a typewriter after he left the employ } of Woodstock. os Recapitulating GHADY's recolleetion of the sale of a typewriter to FANSLER and BHARTI“ resolves itself in tha following. iie geld @ Weodatock typewriter to FANSLER and MARTIN. ‘The only bases of his recollection as to the time of the sale are the terminabion of his connection with Woodstock in Dscember 1927 and his recollection that FANSLER and MARTIN had only recently associated for the gala of insurance. If the typewriter produced by HISS, bearing serial muwber 5N#N230099, did, in fact, come from the office ef FANSLER and MARTIN it could sot have been the typewriter GRADY sold to that firm for the reagon that it was manufactured in 1929 and GRADY never sold a typewriter te anybody after 1927, UC, “20 1032/71 | BQ