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    "ocrText": "-2-\nThe early part of his statement was rambling. The principal\npoints reiterated were that if we would play ball with him he would play\nball with US. That he was a very valuable man to have with us and not\nagainst us. That the consideration was that he must be paid not only\nfor work which we would ask him to do on examinations of former employees\nbut on those that would come to him for treatment in jaw conditions.\nThat he must be paid by somebody and the class of patients that he had\nbeen treating were not able to pay adequate fees and that he must get the\nmoney out of us.\nDr. Knef was asked to state his proposition.\nHe replied\nthat he wanted a list of all former employees and their addresses so\nthat he could get in touch with them for purposes of examination and\ntreatment. That he wanted us to pay him $10,000. which he said was\nsmall compensation for all the work that he had done on the cases that\nhe had treated since certain of them involved great effort and a large\namount of time directly with the patients as well as for research work.\nHe mentioned a treatment machine that he had designed. He said it was\na secret. He would divulge it to us if we would play ball with him.\nThe rest of his proposition was that we pay him $2.00 an office call for\nall former employees that he could get into his office. When asked if\nhe thought most of them would come to him, he said he thought it could\nbe arranged because he would speak to some of the dentists in the district\nand that they would be glad to send him any work of this kind.\nDr. Knef said that if we did not accept his proposition and\nplay ball with him, he would bring suit against certain of his former\npatients to collect large fees. That he was in a position to make any\ncharges he desired and that in turn these people would sue us for heavy\ndamages. That in that event, he was in a position to testify for them\nin such a way that he would guarantee that we would lose the suits\nbecause he could produce evidence that could not be controverted by any\nlawyers or medical experts and that he was, without blowing his own horn,"
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