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such a scene? I can’t see for the life of me where it indicates
any sign of lascivious lust. Does what Willie Turner saw,
taking for granted he saw it, show that Frank was planning
to ruin little Mary Phagan? Does it uphold this plot my
friend Hooper had so much to say about? Even with that—
considering Willie Turner did see such a thing, there’s one
faet that takes the sting out of it. He saw it in broad day-
light. Frank was with the little girl right in front of Lem-
mie Quinn’s office in an open factory where there were a Jot
of people and where the girls were quitting their work and
getting ready to go home to dinner. It wasn’t so, though, and
Frank never made any improper advances to this little girl.
Let me tell you why. Mary Phagan was a good girl, aa pure
as God makes them and as innocent. She was all that, and
more. But, she would have known a lascivious advance or
an ogling eye the minute she saw it, and the minute this man
taade any sort of a move to her, she would have fled instantly
to home to tell this good father and mother of hers.

Then next, they bring Dewey Hewell, who says she saw
Frank with hia hand on Mary’s shoulder. That’s all right,
but there is Grace Hix and Helen Ferguson and Magnolia
Kennedy who contradict her and say Frank never knew Mary
Phagan. You can say all you please about such as that, but
there is one fact that stands out indisputable. If that Httle
girl had ever received mistreatment at the pencil factory, no
deer would have bounded more quickly from the brush at the
bay of doga than she would have fled home to tell her father
and mother, :

Now, my friend from the Wiregrass says Gantt was a vic-
tim of his “‘plot”’ by Frank against Mary Phagan. I don’t
doubt that this ‘plot’? hes been framed in the hearing of
every detective in the sound of my voice. Hooper saya Frank
plotted to get the girl there on the Saturday she was killed—
says he plotted with Jim Conley. Jim says Frank told him at
four o’clock Friday afternoon to return on the next morning.
How could Frank have known she was coming back Saturday.
He couldn't have known, He's no seer, no mind-reader, al-

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