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LEO M. FRANK. 283

1:20. Then, Mrs, Selig and Mr, Selig swore on the stand that
they knew he came in at 1:20.

Oh, of course, Dorsey says they are Frank’s parents and
wretched liars when they say they saw him come in at 1:20.
There’a no one in this caso that can tell the truth but Conley,
Dalton and Albert McKnight. They are the lowest dregs and
jail-birds, and all that, but they are the only onea whe know
how to tell the truth! Well, now Albert says he was there at
the Selig home when Frank came in; of course he is lying,
for his wife and the Selige prove that, but he’s the state’s
witness and he says Frank got there at 1:30, and thus he
brands Conley’s story about Frank’s leaving the factory at
1:30 a lie. Well, along the same li Albert says Frank
didn’t eat and that he was nervous, and Albert says he
learned all this by looking into a mirror in the dining room,
and seeing Frank’s reflection, Then Albert capa the climax
to his series of lies by having Frank board the car for town.
at Pulliam street and Glenn.

Now aa to the affidavit signed by Minola MeKnight, the cook
for Mr, and Mrs, Emil Selig. How would you feel, gentlemen of
the jury, if your cook, who had done no wrong and for whom
no warrant had been issued, and from whom the solicitor had
already got a statement, was to be locked upt ‘Well, they got
that wretched husband of Minola’s by means of Craven and
Pickett, two men seeking a reward, and then they got Minola,
and they said to her, ‘‘Oh, Minola, why don’t you tell the
truth like Atbert’s telling itt’?

They had no warrant when they locked this woman up.
Starnes was guilty of a crime when he locked that woman
up without a warrant, and Dorsey was, too, if he had
anything to do with it. Now, George Gordon, Minola’s law-
yer, says that he asked Dorsey about getting the women ont,
and Dorsey replied, ‘‘I’m afraid to give my consent to turn-
ing her loose; I might get in bad with the detective depart-
ment.’? That’s the way you men got evidence, was it?

Miss Rebecca Carson, a forewoman of the National Pencil
factory, swore Frank had a good character. The state had

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