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292 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

though he’s a mighty bright man. It is true that some of
the pay envelopes were left over on Friday, but he didn’t
know whose they were. Helen Ferguson says that on Friday
ahe asked for Mary Phagan’s pay and that Frank refused
to give it to her, saying Mary would come next day and get it
herself. Magnolia Kennedy swears to the contrary. You
have one or the other to believe, Consider, though, that this
be true! How would Frank know who would be in the fac-
tory when Mary Phagan came? How did he know she was
coming Saturday! Some envelopes went over to Monday and
Tuesaday. How would he know whether she would come on
Saturday or either of these latter days?

Now, what elee have they put up against this man? They
say he was nervous. We admit he was, Black says it, Dar-
ley says it, Sig. Montag says it—others say it! The handome
Mr. Darley was nervous and our friend Schiff was nervous.
‘Why not hang them if you’re hanging men for nervousness!
Isaae Haas—old man Isaae—openly admits he was nervous.
The girle—why don’t you hang them, these sweet little girls
in the factory—all of whom were so nervous they eouldn’t
work on the following day!

If you had seen this little ehild, erushed, mangled, muti- -
lated, with the sawdust crumbled in her eyes and her tongue
protruding; staring up from that stinking, smelling base-
ment, you’d have been nervous, too, every mother’s son of
you. Gentlemen, I don’t profess to be chicken-hearted. I
ean see grown men hurt and suffering and I can stand a lot
of things without growing hysterical, but I never walked
along the street and heard the pitiful ery of a girl or woman.
without becoming nervous. God grant I will always be so.
Frank looked at the mangled form and crushed virginity of
Mary Phagan and his nervea fluttered. Hang him! Hang
himt

Another suspicious circumstance. He didn’t wake up
when they telephoned him that morning the body was found.
That might depend on what he ate that night; it might de-
pend on a lot of other things. Some of us wake with the

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