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Q74 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

a morning. There is detail enough, and he admits that they
are lies. Now, in his third statement, thet of May 28, he
changes the time of writing the letters from Friday to Satur-
day. Here are two pages of what he said, all of which he
afterwards said were lies. He says that he made the state-
ment that he wrote the notes on Friday in order to divert sus-
picion from his being connected with the murder which hap-
pened on Saturday. He also says that this is his final and
true statement. God only mows how many statements he
will make. He said he made the statement voluntarily and
truthfully without promise of reward, and that he is telling
the truth and the whole truth. He said in his statement that
he never went to the building on Saturday. Yet we know
that he was lurking in the building all the morning on the day
of the murder. We know that he watched every girl that
walked into that building so closely that he could tell you the
spots on their dresses, We know that he was drunk, or had
enough liquor in him to fire his blood.

I know why he wouldn’t admit being in that building on
Saturday. He had guilt on hia soul, and he didn’t want it
to be known that he was here on Saturday. That’s why'

‘When they pinned him down, what did he dof He says
that he was watching for Frank. My God, wasn’t he a watch-
man! He said that he heard Frank and Mary Phagan walk-
ing upstairs, and that he heard Mary Phagan seream, and that
immediately after hearing the scream he let Monteen Stover
into the building.

Why, they even have him saying that he watched for
Frank, when another concern was using the very floor space
in which Frank’s office was located, and you know they
wouldn’t submit to anything like that. Look again! He says
that Mr. Frank said, ‘‘Jim, ean you writet’’ What a lie! He
admitted that he had been writing for Frank for two years.
It’s awful to have to argue about a thing like this, gentlemen!
You will remember Hooper said, ‘‘How foolish of Conley to
‘write these notes!’? How much more foolish, I say, of Frank
to do it!

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