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242 X. AMERI€AN STATE TRIALS.

idence I have listened to. 1
would say that indicated that di-
gestion had been progressing less
than an hour.

Cross-examined. Coudn’t pre-
sume to say how long that cab-
bage lay in Mary Phagan’s stom-
ach; if it had been a live, healthy
stomach and the process of di-
gestion was going on ordinarily,
it would be pulverized in four or
five hours. It would be more bro-
ken up and trienlated than it is.

Dr. John Funk, Am profes-
sor of pathology and bacteriolo-
gist; was shown by Dr. Harris
sections from the vaginal wall of
Mary Phagan. They showed that
the epithelium wall waa torn off
at points immedately beneath

that covering in the tissues be-
low, and there was infiltrated
pressure of blood. They were
engorged, and the white blood
cells in those blood vessels were
more numerous than you will
find in a normal blood vessel.
Those conditions must have been
produced prior to death, because
the blood could not invade the
tissnes after death. I would say
that under those conditions that
the epithelium was torn off be-
fore death; would not express
an opinion as to how long eab-
bage had been in the stomach,
from the appearance of the cab-
bage itself. It is reasonable to
eegume thet the digestion had
progressed probably an hour.

EVIDENCE FOR PRISONER IN SUR-REBUTTAL

T.Y. Brent. Have heard Geo,
Kendley on several occasions ex-
press himself? very bitterly to-
wards Leo Frank. He said Frank
was nothing but an old Jew and
they onght to take him out and
hang him anyhow.

M. E. Stahi. Have heard Geo.
Kendley, the conductor, express
his feelings toward Leo Frank.
He said that Frank was as guilty
as a snake, and should be hung,

and that if the eourt didn’t con-
viet him that be would be one of
five or eeven that would get him.

Miss C. 8. Haas. Heard Kend-
ley two weeks ago talk about the
Frank case so loud that the en-
tire street car heard it. He said
that 90 per cent of the best peo-
ple in the city, including him-
self, thought that Frank was
guilty and ought to hang.

The State offered in evidence the following:

Frank’s statement made before Lanford, Chief of Detectives, on
Monday morning, April 28:

Am general superintendent and director of the National Pencil
Company. Saturday, April 26th, was a holiday with our company,
and the factory was shut down. There were several people who came
in during the morning. The office boy and the stenographer were in
the office with me until noon. They left about 12 or a little after.
‘We have a day watchman there. He left shortly before 12 o'clock.
After the office boy and the stenographer left, this little girl, Mary
Phagan, came in, but at the time I didn’t know that was her name.
She came in between 12:05 and 12:10, to get her pay envelope, her
salary. I paid her, and she went out of the office. I was in the inner

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