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300 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

Dorsey did, only he gave him several lessons, and they must
have been just sort of finishing touches before he got his
degree. Well, in the university course they didn’t dare put
the steps in writing, as they had done in the high school; it
wonld have been too easy to trace from step to step, the sug-
gestions made, the additions and subtractions here and there.

Professor Dorsey had him seven times, I know that, but
God alone knows how many times the detectives had him.
‘Was it fair to take this weak, pliable negro and have these
white men teach him, one after another? Who knows what
is the final story that Conley will tell? He added the mech-
bag when he was on the stand.

Mary Phagan had reached the factory st approximately
twelve minutes after 12, and it must have been after Mon-
teen Stover had gone, See the statements of W. M. Mathews
and W. T. Hollis, street car men ealled iby the defense, and
George Epps, the little newsie, called by the state, and also
the street car schedule.

But, supposing that she was there at 12:05, as I believe
the state claims, then Monteen Stover must have seen her. .
I don’t see how they could have helped meeting. But eup-
pose she got there a moment after Monteen Stover left, then
Lemmie Quinn was there at 12-20, and he found Frank at
work, Could Frank have murdered a girl and hid her body
and then got back to work with no blood stains on him in leas
than fifteen minutes? If Frank is guilty, he must have,
according to Conley, disposed of the body in the time be.
tween four minutes to 1 and 1:30. There can be no dispute
about this; it’s Conley’s last revelation. If Frank is guilty,
he was at his office between four minutes to 1 and 1:30, but
who believes that story?

Little Miss Kerns saw him at Alabama and Whitehall at
1:10, and at 1:20 Mrs. Levy, honest woman that she is, saw him
get off the car at his home corner, and his wife's parents saw,
and they all swear he was there at 1:20, and then, if-you are
going to call them all perjurers and believe Jim Conley,
think what you must do; think what a horrible thing you

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