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LEO M. FRANK. 269

on. Everything brought against Frank was some act he did
openly and in broad daylight, and an act against which no
kick was made.

The trouble with Hooper is that be secs a bear in every
bush. He sees a plot in this because Frank told Jim Conley
to come back Saturday morning. The office that day was
filled with persons throughout the day. How could he know
when Mary Phagan was coming or how many persons would
‘be in the place when she arrived!

‘This erime is the hideous act of a negro who would ravish
@ ten-year-old girl the same as he would ravish a woman of
years. It isn’t a white man’s crime. It’s the crime ofa
east—a low, savage beast!

Now, back to the case. There is an explorer in the pencil
factory by the name of Barrett—I call him Christopher Co-
lombus Barrett purely for his penchant for finding things.
Mr. Barrett discovered the blood spots in the place where
Chief Beavers, Chief Lanford and Mr. Black and Mr. Starnes
had searched on the Sunday of the discovery. They found
nothing of the sort. Barrett discovered the staing after he
had proclaimed to the whole second floor that he was going
to get the $4,000 reward if Mr. Frank was convicted. Now,
you talk about planta! If this doesn’t look mighty funny
that a man expecting a reward would find blood spots in s
place that has been scoured by detectives, I don’t know what
does. Four chips of this flooring were chiseled from this
flooring where these spots were found. The floor was an inch
deep in dirt and grease. Victims of accidents had passed by
the spot with bleeding fingers and hands, If a drop of blood.
had ever fallen there, a chemist could find it four years later.
Their contention is that all the big spots were undiluted blood.
Yet, let’s see how much blood Dr. Claude Smith found on the
chips. Probably five corpuscles, that’s all, and that’s what
he testified here at the trial. My recollection is that one ain-
gle drop of blood contains 8,000 corpuscles. And, he found -
these corpuscles on only one chip, I say that half of the
dlood had been on the floor two or three years. The stain on

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