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LEO M. FRANK. 315

to read you a definition that an old darkey gave of an alibi,
which I think illustrates the idea. Rastus asked his compan-
ion, ‘“What’s this here alibi you hear so much talk aboutt’’
And old Sam says, ‘An alibi is proving that you was at the
prayer meeting, where you wasn’t, to show that you wasn’t at
the crap game, where you was.’’

Now, right here, let me interpolate, this man never made
an admission, from the beginning until the end of this ease,
except he knew that some one conld fasten it on him—wher-
ever he knew that people knew he was in the factory, he ad-
mitted it, All right; but you prove an alibi by that little
Kerens girl, do you? She swore that she saw you at Alabama
and Broad at 1:10, and yet here is the peper containing your
admission made in the presence of your attorney, Monday
morning, April 28, that you didn’t leave the factory until 1:10,

Gentlemen, talk to me about sad spectacles, but of all the
sad spectacles that I have witnessed throughout this case-—I
don’t know who did it, I don’t know who’s responsible, and I
hope that I'll go to my grave in ignorance of who it was that
brought this little Kerens girl, the daughter of a man that
works for Montag, into this case, to prove this alibi for this
red-handed murderer, who killed that little girl to protect his
reputation among the people of his own race and religion,
Jurors are sworn, and His Honor will charge you, you have
got the right to take into consideration the deportment, the
manner, the bearing, the reasonableness of what any witness
swears to, and if any man in this court house, any honest man,
seeking to get at the truth, looked at that little girl, her man-
ner, her béaring, her attitnde, her actions, her eonnections
with Montag, and don’t know that she, like that little Baner
‘boy, had been riding in Montag’s automobile, I am at a joes
to understand your mental operations.

But if Frank locked the factory door at ten minutes past
one, if that be true, how in the name of goodness did she ever
seo him at Alabama and Broad at 110% Mark you, she had
never seen him but one time; had never seen him but one time,
and with the people up there on the street, to see the parade,

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