312 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

280 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

Every word on that chart is taken from the evidence, and
it will show you that Frank did not have time to commit the
erime charged to him. The state has wriggled a lot in this
affair; they put up little George Epps, and he swore that he
and Mary Phagan got to town about seven after twelve, and
then they used other witnesses, and my friend Dorsey tried
to boot the Epps boy’s evidence aside aa though it were
nothing. The two street car men, Hollis and Mathews, say
that Mary Phagan got to Forsyth and Marietta at five or six
minutes after twelve, and they stuck to it, despite every
attempt to bulldoze them, and then Mathews, who rode on
the ear to Whitehall and Mitchell, says that Mary Phagan
rode around with him to Broad and Hunter streets before she
got off.

Well, the state put up McCoy, the man who never got his
watch out of soak until about the time he was called as a wit-
ness, and they had him swear that he looked at his wateh at
‘Walton and Forsyth (and he never had any watch), and it
was 12 o’clock exactly, and then he walked down the street and
saw Mary Phagan on her way to the factory. Now, I don’t
believe MeCoy ever saw Mary Phagan. Epps may have seen
her, but the State apparently calls him a liar, when they intro-
duce other testimony to show a change of time to what he
swore to, It’s certain those two street car men who knew the
girl, saw her, but the state comes in with the watchless McCoy
and Kendley, the Jew-hater, and try to advance new theories
about the time and different ones from what their own wit-
ness had sworn to. Well, we have enough to prove the time,
all right; we have the street car schedule, the statement of
Hollis and Mathews and of George Epps, the state’s own
witness.

The next thing ia, how long did it take Conley to go throngh
with what he claims happened from the time he went into
Frank’s office and was told to get the body until he left the
factory. According to Conley’s own statement, he started at
four minutes to 1 o’clock and got through at 1:30 o’clock,
making 34 minutes in all.