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H: Yes.

B: So who was he dealing with?

H: I presume he was dealing with the court [in] some way.

B: Krentzmen or the U. S. attorney's office?

H: The U. S. attorney's office, and that they had been in agreement that we would
 be there at a certain time to accept the service from the federal marshals and the
 United States attorney, and we would appear that day at 2:00 in Tampa. I think
 the sticking point was, I think the federal marshal said something to the governor,
 well, you reneged, and then the governor said no, I did not renege. You all are
 the ones who reneged and caused the problem. This was not the way it was
 supposed to be. Anyway, they finally got it worked out, and we were called and
 told, look, you need to be in Tampa at 2:00, and we got there.

B: Perhaps this will jar your memory, perhaps not, but I know Mr. Hoffman said that
 the sheriff's department spirited you out and put you up at a hotel for the night,
 and I think it had something to do with the fact that you were afraid that when
 you were served by the marshals, you were going to be taken out in handcuffs or
 something like that...

H: Right.

B: And you had an aversion to that.

H: No, I did not have any aversion to that. I was just determined they were not going
 to arrest me there.

B: I see.

H: And they were going to put the handcuffs on me. I mean, he was reaching for
 them when he said you are under arrest.

B: On Thursday?

H: Yes, and I was not about to do that. Of course, if they could have gotten to me
 Friday, yes, they probably would have tried to, since we did not appear before,
 you know, did not allow it. But on Friday, if the governor was going to accept the
 service, why, I did not have a fear they would try to handcuff me there,
 necessarily, because if the governor accepts the service [and] says you are
 going to be there at 2:00, I mean, if you are not there, well, they are going to
 come looking for you, sure enough.