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LEO M, FRANE, 273

had to tell 2 Lie and put upon someone the burden of instruct-
ing him to write them. The first statement about them was
a blunt lie—a lie in its incipiency. He said he wrote the
notes on Friday. This was untrue, and unreasonable and
he saw it. Frank could not have known anything of an in-
tended murder on Friday from any viewpoint you might
take, and therefore he could not have made Conley write
them on Friday. Ah, gentlemen of the jury, I tell you these
people had a great find when they got this admission from
Conley! If Conley had stayed over there in the Tower with
Unele Wheeler Mangum he would have told the truth long
ago. There’s where he should have stayed, with Wheeler
Mangom.

My good friend, Dorsey, is all right. I like him. But he
should not have walked hand in glove with the detectives,
There’s where he went wrong. My good old friend, Charlie
Hill would not have done that. He would have let the nigger
stay in the jail with Uncle Wheeler. I like Dorsey. He sim-
ply made a mistake by joining in the hunt, in becoming a part
of the chase. The solicitor should be little short of as fair as
the judge himself. But he’s young and lacks the experience.
He will probably know better in the future. Dorsey did this:
He went to the judge and got the nigger moved from the jail
to the police atation. The judge simply said, ‘‘ Whatever you
say is all right.””

Now, I’m going to show you how John Black got the state-
ment of Conley changed. I am going to give you a demon-
stration, I have learned some things in this case about get-
ting evidence]

They say that Frank cut Conley loose and he decided to
tell the truth. Conley is a wretch with a long criminal ree-
ord. Gentlemen, how can they expect what he says to be
believed against the statement of Leo M. Frank? They say
Conley can’t lie about detail. Here are four pages, all of
which he himself admits are lies, ‘They are about every
saloon on Peters street, saloona to which he went, his shoot-
ing craps, his buying beer and all the ways in which he spent

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