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introduced me on Broadway and Dr Griffith took me in a buggy to his office and brought me home again. 

Q   Did you drink anything?

A   Yes. he gave me some brandy,
 
Q   Did he ask you to tell him about Dr Bell then?

A   He asked me about the Hospital & how I was getting along & I told him I would not risk an amputation,

Q   Did he advise you to beware of Dr Bell?

A   He said Dr Bell kept school before the war, and had no diploma.  He meant Dr Bell was not a good Doctor. He said he would if he were me have no amputation performed save by a good surgeon, he mentioned Dr Griffith, and Forsythe, and a Doctor living opposite 4th Street Infirmary.

Q   Have you been with him since? and what did he say?

A   Yes, got some books with him, drank beer with him. He treated me as a gentleman should do.

Q   Do you know anything about the disposition of dead bodies in the Hospl?

A   No Sir. 

I wish to state that Dr Bell wanted to get my stump, and was