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dice and passion to come up here and swear that that man’s
character is bad and it not be true? I tell you it can’t be
done, and you know it.

Ah, but, on the other hand, Doctor Marx, Doctor Sonn, all
these other people, as Mr. Hooper said, who run with Doctor
Jekyll, don’t know the character of Mr. Hyde. And he didn’t
eall Doctor Marx down to the factory on Saturday evenings
to show what he was going to do with those girls, but the girla
know,

Now, gentlemen, put yourself in this man’s place. If you
are a man of good character, and twenty people come in here
and state that you are of bad character, your counsel have
got the right to ask them who they ever heard talking about
you and whet they ever heard said and what they ever saw.
Is it possible, I’lt ask you in the name of common sense, that
you would permit your counsel to sit mutef You wonldn’t
do it, would you? Ifa man says that I am a person of bad
character, I want to know, curiosity makes me want to know,
and if it’s proclaimed, published to the world and it’s a lie, I
want to nail-the lie—to show that he never saw it, and never
heard it and knows nothing about it. And yet, three able
counsel and an innocent man, and twenty or more girls all of
whom had worked in the factory but none of whom work
there at this time, except one on the fourth floor, tell you
that that man had 2 bad character, and had a bad character
for lasciviousness—the uncontrolled and uncontrollable pas-
sion that led him on to kill poor Mary Phagan, This book
says it is allowable to cross-examine a witness, to see and
find out what he knows, who told him those things—and I’m
here to tell you that this thing of itself is pregnant, pregnant,
pregnant with significance, and does not comport with inno-
cence on the part of any man, We furnished him the names
of some. Well, even by their own witnesses, it looks to me
there was a leak, and little Miss Jackson dropped it out just
as easy. Now, what business did this man have going in up
there, peering in on those little girle—the head of the factory,
the man that wanted flirting forbidden! What business did

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