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Defense Witnesses / 107
Friday, December 16, 1949 Witness: Lucy Davis
The defense needed to prove that the Peterborough trip on August 9 and 10, 1937, never took place. Lucy Davis ran Bleakhouse, the fourteen-room guest house in Peterborough where Chambers said he and the Hisses had stayed overnight. Bleakhouse was opened August 1,
1937. Davis testified that she was on the premises twenty-four hours a day. Davis said that she had never seen the Hisses or Chambers before the trial. She produced the guest book. All guests registered when they arrived. The guest book was kept on a desk directly opposite the front door. She remembered all three guests who had visited before August 13.
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If all guests had to sign the register, why weren't the names of Chambers and Hiss in it?
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