Chapter Forty-FiveIt was hard trying to sue someone from jail, but Mr. Beirne did a pretty good job trying to accomplish it, for very little reward.
That slimy pig Girnau eventually mailed copies of his trash paper to Will Hays, to a couple Supreme Court justices, and to some local PTA officials. That got him arrested for spreading obscene material through the mails. Driving up to Malibu and telling Clara and Rex he’d stop the harassment for $25,000 didn’t help him either. He wasn’t especially bright. He and his sleazy lawyer actually had the gall to call me as a defense witness in his trial when I was suing him myself. I refused to testify, but Maw brought me a copy of the Times the day after he was sentenced. The judge told him his paper was “verbal garbage, unfit to be fed even to swin
