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

288 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

course, Dalton left an oozy trail behind him; wherever he
went he did that. You ean still feel it in this court room. Of
course, too, Dalton may have gone into the pencil factory that
dey and left his cozy, slimy trail there, but otherwise there’s
nothing against the factory, and you know there’s not, for
oar great quartet—Starnes and Campbell and Black (oh, how
T love Black; I always want to put my arms around him when-
ever I think of him), and Scott, for he was with that crowd;
they tried their very best to find something that would show
that factory up aa a vile hole.

‘Well, there’s another reason that proves conclusively that
it was not the assignation place Dalton and Conley name it.
It has always been wrong for men and women to commit for-
nication and adultery, but it’a always been done and the
world, as long as it waa done decently and quietly and not
bragged about and blazoned forth in public places, has rather
allowed it to go unchecked, but it’s not so now.

You know, I know the working people of this state and this
city. I’ve always worked with my head and it’s never been
my good fortune to be one of the working people, but there
are no silken ladies in my ancestry, nor are there any dudish
men, I know the working men and the working women, be-
cause that blood runs in my veins, and if any man in Atlanta
knows them I do, and I tell you that there are no 100 work-
ing girls and women in Atlanta who could be got together by
raking with a fine-tooth comb who'd stay there at that fae-
tory with conditions as bad as they have been painted, and
there are no 100 working men here se thin blooded as to allow
sach conditions there.

Frank’s statement to the jury, it was Frank’s handiwork
only, and neither he nor Mr, Arnold knew what Frank was
going to say when he got on the stand. Look at the statement
this man made to you, and it was his statement, not mine. I
ean prove that by the simple reason that I haven’t got brains
enough to have made it up, and Mr. Arnold (though he’s got
far more brains than I), he could not have made it. Mr. Ar-
nold might have given it the same weight and thickness, but
not the living ring of truth.