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LEO M. PRANK. 269

was expecting Jim Conley, and he also knew that Newt Lee
was coming. Aye, there was the rub! He expected them
both, and it depended upon which one arrived first aa to how
things would go. If Jim got there first and disposed of that
body, all right; but suppose Newt Lee got there first! Then
wag the defendant in the position of Napoleon at the battle
of Waterloo, when he wondered which army would arrive
first, and knew that upon this question depended vietory or
defeat, The wrong army arrived, and Napoleon went down!

Newt Lee arrived at the pencil factory that afternoon, but
where was Jim Conleyt ‘Yes, that’s what the defendant
asked himself, ‘“Where is Jim Conleyt’’ Jim Conley was
getting that much-needed sleep after the exciting events he
had gone through with. That’s where Jim Conley was. Then
was the defendant lost.

\He sent Newt Lee away, with the last hope that Jim might
yet turn up and burn the body as had been agreed upon.
“Go out and have a good time, Newt,’? that’s what the de-
fendant told good old honest Newt Lee. He said, ‘‘It is not
Newt Lee I want, it is Jim Conley. Go away, Newt, and stay
until 6 o'clock, Give me two hours more.”? Two hours
passed, and Jim Conley did not show up. He was taking
that much-needed nap. Newt came baek, and the game was
up. He talked to Newt Lee about the night’s work and
started home.

Now, gentlemen of the jury, I want to call your attention
toa very peculiar thing: As the defendant passed out of the
factory door, he met Gantt, old long-legged Gantt, who was
ooking for hia shoes, Witnesses testified that the defendant
Jumped back startled, Whyt Think whyf He wasn’t
afraid of Gantt. Gantt wouldn’t hurt a flee, That wasn’t
the reason. He knew that Gantt knew Mary Phagan and
had lived close to the family, and Frank thought that Gantt
was looking for little Mary, who was missing from home and
should have been baek long ago. That’s why he jumped back
when he saw Gantt. He had called Gantt down about ‘‘set-
ting up’’ to Mary, and had fired him over an argument about

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