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occasionally when she went to work. He said nothing as to having
seen the girl on Saturday and coming in on the car with her. I
directed my questions to both the children.

CROSS EXAMINATION. I was not seeking evidence for the defendant.
There was no defendant at that time. This was on Sunday, the day
the body was found, I have been working under the direction of Mr.
Olofein, city editor.Olofein visited Frank in jail. At that time Mr.
Frank had not been mentioned in connection with the case at all.
At the time of the interview with the little girl and the little
boy they were both in the room with their father. Their father took
me out v there.

W.D. WORTH Sworn for the defendant.

I am a Pinkerton detective. I worked for fifteen days on the
Frank case. For three days I took statements from the factory em-
ployees and on May 15th, I made a thorough search of the ground
floor. I found near the front door on the ground floor, stains that
might or might not have been blood. All the radiators in the factory
had trash, dirt and rubbish behind them. Behind one of the radiators
near the Clark Woodware place, where the partition is, I found
much trash, behind the trap door, up against the partition, and on
top of the radiator were pipes and about eight or nine lengths of
that rope that they tie the pencils with. One length-the only one that
came loose-was pulled straight away from the radiator. I saw
signs of it having been recently with a sharp knife, among the
trash I found papers there dated February,1911. That rubbish had
been there some time, because the rest of the floor around there
was clean. About six or eight inches from the left side of the
radiator, there was a small pile of dirt and sweepings. When I took
Mr Whitfield, another pinkerton detective, back there to show him
the spots I had found, we looked behind the radiator and as I was
sticking my hand around the dust and dirt, I discovered a pay
envelope.(Defendant's exhibit 47). It was covered with granulated
dust. I opened it and looked at it and saw the number 186 there.
And the first initial of the name and "W" and a "P". I handed it

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