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Nobody can prove otherwise, and I do know the case to be tubercular.
He
said that he could go on the stand and think that the moon was made out of
blue cheese without perjuring himself.
Dr. Knef explained that if we did not play ball with him
that there were cases that would be brought against us that would not be
settled out of court and that there would be no Kalisches in the proposition.
Another member of the conference asked whether his proposition meant in so
many words that if we paid him what he asked he could save us a great deal
of expense and trouble and if we refused he was in a position to make a lot
of trouble for us and would do so.
Dr. Knef said, yes.
Dr. Knef was asked point blank whether his attitude was not
entirely one of $10,000. plus.
He replied, yes, that he must be paid, that
he could be most valuable man to us from a business view point. On bring,
a
question, he explained that it was not his intention to disclose to any one that
he had a contract or a "gentlemen's agreement" with the Company. That he
could tell his patients when they came in that they were suffering from
pyorrhea and other diseases and hold them along so that they would move out
of town, get married, and eventually die of other causes.
He explained that
if he collected any fees from these people he would credit them to the
Company.
He was questioned at some length on the details of handling and
explained that he was sure that he could cover things up and protect the
Company satisfactorily.
When asked whether any proposed arrangement with
the Company should not be for future services since we had had nothing
whatever to do with the past work, he said that that would not be sufficient.
He must have the $10,000. and intended to get it one way or another.
One
of the other conferees stated that we did not believe that radium had anything
to do with the condition that he referred to.
Dr. Knef said, well, people
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