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- I do.
- Be seated, please.
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- Your name?
- Miss Edna Hooper.
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- Your residence, Miss Hooper?
- Twenty-three Catalpa Avenue, Strand.
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Strand is the town in which
this lynching took place?
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Objection! Object as
to his incompetence.
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- Question assumes a fact not in evidence.
- Sustained. Strike it out.
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I will reframe the question.
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Strand is where the jail burned down
on the night of October 26th, is it not?
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Yes, but I certainly had nothing
to do with the...
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You're not on trial, Miss Hooper.
Your occupation in Strand, please?
:55:37
I am a couturier and a modiste.
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By couturier and modiste, you mean
you're a dressmaker, do you not?
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It's just the difference between a
dress shop and a gown shoppe.
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On the afternoon and evening
of the day in question...
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...you were employed in your capacity
as a couturier...
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...in the home of Frederick Garrett
in Strand, were you not?
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- I was.
- Who was in the house beside yourself?
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The baby and Mr. And Mrs. Garrett.
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And this Mr. Garrett...
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...is the same Frederick Garrett
who is one of these defendants here?
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Yes.
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Will Frederick Garrett stand, please?
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This man, charged with murder,
is the Frederick Garrett who...
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...by the testimony of your eyesight,
Miss Hooper...
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...was at home that Saturday afternoon
and evening, then?
:56:35
Yes.
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I will remind the witness
that she is under oath...
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...and ask her again.
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Edna Hooper, will you swear that during
the hours when this indictment...
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...charges that this defendant,
Frederick Garrett...
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...among others,
murdered Joseph Wilson...
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...will you swear that during those hours
Garrett was peaceably in his own house?