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details in this respect. You remember the evidence about
honest old Newt Lee’s finding the body. That’s all we need
to know zbout him. No suspicion attaches to Newt. He
notified the police, and tried to notify Frank. The police
came and took the body of little Mary Phagan to the under-
takers.

The police called up Frank then and told him they wanted
him. Detective Starnes got mixed up when he told about
this on the stand, but he never forgot that when he called
Frank up, Frank did not ask him what the trouble was, He
didn’t ask him whether anybody had been Killed at the fac-
tory. He didn’t ask them if everything at the factory was
all right. They took Frank te the undertaker’s, He waa
nervous then. But have you seen a quiver of a muscle since
he has been these weeks in the court room? He is facing the
fight now, and his nerves are set. But that morning he was
as nervous as a cat. He said, ‘‘I think it’s a girl I paid off
yesterday. I'll have to look at my books and see.’’ That’s
what he said about the body of the girl he saw every day and
talked to. He offered no consolation, or anything. He got
away from there.

Another thing, when they carried him to the basement and
brought him back upstairs, what was going on in his mind
thent He thought he must look at that time slip. So he got
the key and unlocked the clock and took out the slip. He
examined it while others were looking over his shoulder, and
said it was correctly punched, that it was all right, and
others agreed to it. ‘‘Here’s the slip.”? He aaid, ““That’s al]
right. That clears you, Newt.’’

What next occurred to himt He'saw he wae getting into
a fix, and he had better take a shot at Newt, What happens?
Another slip turns up. He says he waa mistaken at first.
There were lapses in the punches on the slip, showing time
enough unaccounted for to allow Newt to go home.

Policeman Black had suspicions. He goes to Newt Lee’s
home. He unlocks the door with his keys, and looks in the
house and on the trash pile, and in the bottom of the barrel,

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