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282 X,. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,

basement. But Frank couldn’t know that there was hatred
enough left in this country against his race to bring such a
hideous charge against him, Well, the little girl entered, and
she got her pay and asked about the metal and then she left,
‘but, there was a black spider waiting down there near the
elevator shaft, o great passionate, lustful animal, foll of mean
whiskey and wanting money with which to buy more whiskey.
He was as full of vile lust as he was of the passion for more
whiskey, and the negro (and there are a thousand of them in
Atlanta who would assault a white woman if they had the
chance and knew they wouldn’t get caught) robbed her and
struck her and threw her body down the shaft, and later he
carried it back, and maybe, if she was alive, when he came
back, he committed a worse crime, and then he put the cord
around her neck and left the body there.

Do you suppose Frank would have gone out at 1:20 o’clock
and left that body in the basement and those two men, White
and Denham, at work upstairs? Do you suppose an intelligent
man like Frank would have risked running that elevator, like
Conley says he did, with the rest of the machinery of the fac-
tory shut off and nothing to prevent those men up there hear-
ing himt

‘Well, Frank says he left the factory at 1 o’clock, and Con-
Jey saya he left there at 1:30. Now, there’s a little girl, who
tried the week before to get a job as stenographer in Frank's
office, who was standing at Whitehall and Alabama streets,
and saw Frank at ten minutes after 1. Did she liet Well,
Dorsey didn’t try to show it, and according to Dorsey, every-
body lied except Conley and Dalton and Albert McKnight.
‘This little girl saya she knows it was Frank, because Professor
Briscoe had introduced her to him the week before, and she
knows the time of day ‘because she had looked at a clock, as she
had an engagement to meet another little girl. That stamps
your Conley story a lie ‘blacker than hell! Then, Mrs. Levy,
she’s a Jew, but she’s telling the truth; she was looking for
her son to come home, and she saw Frank get off the ear at
his home corner, and she looked at her clock and saw it waa

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