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July through the middle of August. He had deposited the $100 check in person at the bank on August 9- Then he explained why he had given his old car to Chambers.
Q* Did you see Mr. Crosley during the fall of 1935? A. Yes. I don't remember why we got together, but I do remember telling him that I had bought a new car, and that he could have my old Ford as I had promised him. I gave him the certificate of title for the car. A couple of months later he brought the car back and said he didn't have any use for it then and wondered if I would take care of it. So that winter I
kept it for him on the streets. He picked up the car sometime in the spring of 1936, and I never saw it again.
Hiss examined the certificate of title. He insisted that when he received it the reassignment of title
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