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LEO M. FRANK. 255

Truth is stronger than all the brains and ingenuity that can
be collected in this whole town—this state, the world. How
they did hate to give up the fight. They lost, and with the
loss went the loss of their theory in whole.

‘When all was through, they were forced to sit and leave
Jim’s truth unseethed. How unfortunate! Ali they could
gay was that Jim had been a big liar. That is true. In his
first two stories, he lied. But, if I had any comment on Jim
Conley, it would be that if they had bored me as they bored
him at police headquarters, they could have muddled me
even more.

Suppose Frank’s conduct in this case is shown as it has
keen. Ho is @ smart man. There is no disputing that fact.
He needn’t have told you all the details on the stand of the
amount of work he did that day. You can tell that he is
smart, clever, ingenious.

Now, Jim, he comes back that Saturday morning by order
of the brilliant Frank, his boes. There’s no denial of this, so
far. Other people tell you they have seen women enter the fac-
tory with men at suspicious hours. Jim tells you of watch-
ing for these folks, And there is this to reckon with: Provi-
dence has a way of revealing the truth at the final minute.
At the eleventh hour we found two men yesterday who had
been to the pencil factory at the noon Mary Phagan was
murdered. They saw Jim Conley just as he tells you, sitting
on the first floor, near the door where he watched for Frank.
Mrs. White saw him, although she doesn’t identify him per-
feetly. One thing true, she saw a negro in the position Jim
tells us he waa in. Now, for what purpose was he theref
Waiting to do the same thing he had done before—to watch
for his bow, They say he was drunk. Very well. But, did
you notice how clearly he récited incidents and told the
names of people he saw at the times they claim he was 80
drank?

We are brought up to the time of the tragedy. Jim is still
there. Everybody has gone, leaving him and Frank in the
duilding. Frank knew that Mary Phagan was coming that

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