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270 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

all chips but one were not blood. Dorsey’s own doctors have
put him where he can’t wriggle—his own evidence hampers
him! They found blood spots on a certain spot and then had
dim adapt his story accordingly. They had him put the find-
ing of the body near the blood spots, and had him drop it
Tight where the spots were found.

It stands to reason that if a girl had been wounded on the
lathing machine, there would have been blood in the vicinity
of the machine. Yet, there was no blood in that place, and
neither was there any where the body was said to have been
found by Conley. The case doesn’t fit. It’s flimsy, And,
this white machine oil that they’ve raised such a rampus over.
Tt was put on the floor as a cheap, common plant to make it ap-
pear as though someone had put it there in an effort to hide the
blood spots. The two spots of blood and the strands of hair
are the only evidenee that the prosecution has that the girl
was killed on the second floor,

Now, about these strands of hair. Barrett, the explorer,
says he found four or five strands on the lathing machine. I
don’t know whether he did or not. They’ve never been pro-
duced. I've never seen them. But, it’s probable, for just
beyond the lathing machine, right in the path of a draft that
blows in from the window, is a gas jet used by the girls in
eurling and primping their.hair. It’s very probable that
strands of hair have been blown from this jet to the lathing
machine,

The detectives say that Frank is a crafty, cunning crimi-
nal, when deep down in their heart of hearts they know good
and well that their case is built against him purely because
he was honest enough to admit having seen her that day.
Had he been a criminal, he never would have told about see-
ing her and would have replaced her envelope in the desk,
saying she had never called for her pay.

I believe that a majority of women are good. The state
jumped on poor Daisy Hopkins, I don’t contend, now, mind
you, that she is a paragon of virtue, But there are men who
were put up by the state who are no better than she. For in-

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