126 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

94 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

Worrell’s manner of travel. No misplaced eunning of an old
and skillful detector could long keep him from the track of
the prisoner.

The cireuit attorney was embarrassed by the first step after
the homicide. He tells you that at firat he thought the body
was hid in ‘‘a strange place,’’ but on mature reflection he
concludes that it was the best hiding spot; and the reason
he gives is that no sane man would ever think of looking for
it at such a place! For this happy suggestion he is perhaps
in some small measure indebted to the witnesses who swear
that they never dreamed of searching for the body in the
place they found it. You know, jurors, that the body in point
of fact was not hid from the eyes of any man traveling east-
ward on that road, The evidence of Mr. Hutchinson puts
this matter beyond controversy. The body was left in full
view and the snow that fell afterwards made its covering.
But if this, the middle of a public road, was so excellent a
spot in which to hide a dead body, pray tell me why the sad-
dle was carried a half a mile in the thicket and secreted?

Hr. Gale. In a tree-top.

Mr, Wright. There is no such evidence as that, and it is
wrong in you to attempt to break the force of an argument
by manufacturing testimony. The State has proved no such
fact and the illegal effort to supply it by suggestion of coun-
sel, concedes the force of the argument. He feels pressed by
it, and the pressure is great enongh to prompt him to an
impropriety. But why was the saddle of Worrell carried
away and concealed in a thicket? A saddle unknown, without
mark, without anything to distinguish it from another saddle,

“and the eaddle of Gordon, the bridle of Gordon, each pe-
culiarly and strikingly marked, each capable of easy and
certain identification, carefully kept and conspicuously ex-
posedt Can that be explained by another impropriety? Why
hide an unknown saddle in a thicket, and then mount the
horse of a dead man, and ride him, seen of all men, on a pub-
lie thoroughfare, down the identical road up which Gordon
just previously traveled? And such a horse! Remarkable
in every way, courting observation by the style of his