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mind - a much better than average mind, not only than the average politician, but the average man in society.

This was demonstrated later when he became a judge. He was the best judge of probate we ever had in New York State. But that was later. He became learned, scholarly and trusted. But this was his rough period. He was Murphy's mouthpiece. He was educated in a Jesuit school and he had been extremely well-trained. I remember being told that he once thought he had a vocation for the priesthood and that he had been through a great deal of examination of conscience. He knew right from wrong and he knew black from white very well indeed. Many of them didn't. Many of them thought that whatever Mr. Murphy said was all right. But Foley had a very acute sense of right and wrong and he had, therefore, a conscience that hurt terribly.

I saw, and the few words that he dropped to me indicated, that he was passing through a crisis of conscience at that time. He was the Senator from Murphy's own district and he was Murphy's son-in-law and he was the mouthpiece of Murphy. He told the boys what they were to do and what they were not to do; what would be tolerated and what would not be tolerated. He was the one who went to see Sulzer privately and alone in order to tell Mr. Sulzer, the