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LEO M. FRANE. 237

had windows opening onto the street. There was no lock on the
door, and I know I never went into that room at any hour when the
girls were dressing. Occasionally 1 have had reports that the girla
were flirting from this dressing room through the windows with
ten; sometimes the girls would loiter in thie room when J
ought to have been doing their work. It is possible that on some
oceasions I locked into this room to see if the girls were doing their
duty and were not using this room as a place for loitering and tor

The statement of Conley is a tissue of lies from first to last. I
know nothing whatever of the eause of the death of Mary Pha-
gan, and Conley’s statement as to his coming up and helping me
‘dispose of the body, or that I had anything to do with ber or to do
swith him that day is a monstrous lie.

The story as to women coming into the factory with me for im-
moral purposes is a base He and the few occasions that he claims
to have seen me in indecent positions with women is a lie so vile
;that I have no language with which to fitly denounee it.

"have no rich relatives in Brooklyn, N. Y. My father is an inva-
lid. My father and mother togetier are ¢ people of very limited
means, who ‘have barely enough upon which to live. My father is
not able to work, I have no relative who has any means at all, ex-
cept Mr, M. Frank who lives in Atlanta, Ga, Nobody has raised a
fund to pay the fees of my attorneys, ‘These fees have been paid
by the sacrifice in part of the small property which my parents

possess,

Gentlemen, some newspaper men have ealled me “the silent man
in the tower,” and I kept my silence and my counsel advisedly, un-
til the proper time and place. The time is now; the place is here;
and I have told you the troth, the whole truth.

. Mies Emily Mayfeld. Worked Mollie Blair, Ethel Stewart,
at the pencil factory last seri Cora Cowan, B, D, Smith, Lissie
have never been in the Word, Bessie White, Grace Ath-

room when Mr. Frank would
come in and look at anybody:
thet was undressing.

Cross-examined. Don’t remem-
ber any oceasion when Mr.
Frank came in the dressing room
door while Mise Irene Jackson
end her sister were there.

Annie Osborne, Rebecca Car-
son, Maude Wright and Mrs. Ella
Thomas seid they were employees
of the National Peneil Company.
Mr. Frank’s general character
‘wes good; that Conley’s general
character for truth and veracity
was bad and that they would not
tbelieve him on oath.

erton and Mes, Barnes, employ-
ees of the pencil company, said
that the character of Leo M.
Frank was good; that they have
never gone with him at any
time or place for any immo)

purpose, and that they have nev-
er heard of his doing anything
‘wrong.

Corinthia Hall, Annie Howell,
Litie M. Goodman, Velma
Hayes, Jennie Mayfleld, Ida
Holmes, Willie Hatchett, Mary
Hatchett, Minnie Bmith, Marjo-
rie MoCord, Lena McMurty, 5
W. R. Johnson, Mrs. §. A. Wil-
son, Mrs. Georgia Denham, Mrs,

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