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that they told Conley to swear to this and to swear to that,
but they made the suggestions, and Conley new whom he
had to please. He knew that when he pleased the detectives
that the rope knot around his neck grew looser. In the same
way they made Conley swear about Dalton, and in the same
way about Daisy Hopkins, They didn’t ask him about the
mesh bag. They forgot that until Conley got on the stand.
‘That mesh bag and that pay envelope furnish the true motive
for this crime, too, and if the girl was ravished, Conley did it
after he had robbed her and thrown her body into the base-
ment. Well, they got Conley on the stand, and my friend
Dorsey here asked Conley about the mesh bag, and he said,
yes, Frank had put it in his safe. That was the crowning lie
of all!

‘Well, they’ve gone on this way, adding one thing and an-
other thing. They wouldn’t let Conley out of jail; they had
their own reasons for that, and yet I never heard that old
man over there (pointing to the sheriff) called dishonest. He
runs his jail in a way to protect the innocent and not to con-
viet them in this jail.

Gentlemen, right here a little girl was murdered, and it’s
a terrible crime. The Phagan tragedy, the crime that stirred
Atlanta as none other ever did.

‘We have already got in court the man who wrote those
notes, and the man who by his own confession was there; the
man who robbed her, and, gentlemen, why go further in seek.
ing the murderer than the black brate who sat there by the
elevator shaftt The man who sat by that elevator shaft is the
man who committed the crime. He was fall of passion and
Inst; he had drank of mean whiskey, and he wanted money
at first to buy more whiskey.

[Mr. Arnoid asked the sheriff to unwrap a chart which had pre-
vionsly been brought into court. It proved to be a chronological
chart of Frank’s alleged movements on Saturday, April 26, the day
of the erime, and Mr. Arnold announeed to the jary that he would
prove by the chart that it was a physical impossibility for Frank
to have committed the crime.]

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