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LEO M. FRANE.

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blow was hard enough to have
made the person unconscious, but
not sufficient to have caused
death; beyond question she
came to her death from strangu-
lation from this cord being
wound around ber neck, The
bruise around the eye was caused
by a soft instrument; the inju:
to the eye and scalp were cause:
before death; examined the con-
tents of the stomach, finding 160
eubic centimeters of cabbage and
hisenit, or wheaten bread; it
had progressed very slightly to-
wards digestion; impossible for
one to say absolutely how long
this eabbage had been in the
stomach, but am confident she
was either killed or received the
blow on the back of the head
within a half ‘hour after she fin-
ished. her meal; made an ex-
amination of the privates of
Mary; found no spermatozoa.
On “the walls of the vagina
there ‘was evidences of vio
leneo; that injury had been
made some little tima before
death; perbaps ten to fifteen
minutes. It is my opinion that
the lived from half to three-
quarters of an hour after she ate
her meal; that the child was
strangled to death was indicated
by the lividity, the blueness of
the parts, the congestion of the
tongue and mouth and the blne-
ness of the hands and finger-
nails; the wound on the baek of
the head eould not have been
Produced by this stiek.

Cross-examined. Tt was im-
possible for any one to say ab-
solately how long the cabbage
had been in the stomach of Mary
Phagan before she met her
death, not within a minute or
five minutes, but I say it was
somewhere between one-half an

hour and three-quarters; am cer-
tain it was somewhere between
one-half an hour and three-
quarters; am certain of that,

‘he violones to the private parta
might have been produced by
the finger or by other means.

C. B. Dalton. Know Leo M.
Frank, Daisy Hopkins, and Jim
Conley; have been in the offiea
of Frank two or three times;
‘have been down in the basement;
saw Conley there and the night
watchman, and be was not Con-
ley. ‘There would be some ladies
in Mr. Frank's office. Sometimes
there would be two, and. some-
times one, Maybe they didn't
work in the mornings and they
would be thera in the evenings,

Cross-ezamined. Have been
down thera one time this year,
one Saturdey evening ‘with
Miss Daisy “Hopkins, Every
time I was in Mr, Frank’s office
was before Christmas. Miss
Daisy Hopkins introduced me to
him; saw Conley thera one time
this year and several times on
Saturday evenings; Conley was
sitting there at the front door;
when I went down the ladder
Miss Daisy went with me; wa
went back by tho trash pile in
the basement; gave Jim Conley
8 half dozen or more quarters;
saw Mr. Frank in his office in
the day time. Mr. Frank had
Coca-Cola, lemon and lime and
beer in the office; never saw the
ladies in his office doing any
writing; am the Dalton that
went to the chain-gang for steal-
ing in Welton County in 1894;
stole a shop hammer. It hag
been 18 or 20 years since I have
been in trouble.

8. L. Rosser. Am a city po-
Teeman. On Monday, April 28,
went out to see Mrs. White; on

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