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LEO M. FRANE. 317

the murder of this girl on Saturday, he forgot to get the rain
coat that old Jim saw him have. Miss Mattie Smith leaves
building, you say, at 9:20 A.M. She said—or Frank says—at
9:15. You have it on this chart here that’s turned to the wall
that Frank telephoned Schiff to come to his office at 10 o'clock,
and yet this man Frank, coolly, composedly, with his great
capacity for figures and data, in his own statement says that
he gets to Montag’s at that hour. And you've got the records,
trot them out, if I’m wrong. At 11 A. M. Frank returns to
the pencil factory; Holloway and Mann come to the office;
Frank dictates mail and acknowledges letters. Frank, in his
statement, says 11:05. Any way, oh Lord, any hour, any min-
ute, move them up and move them down, we've got to have
the alibi—tike old Unele Remus’ rabbit, we're just ‘bleeged
to climb. ‘12:12, approximate time Mary Phagan arrives.’”
Frank says that Mary Phagan arrived ten or fifteen minutes
after Mies Hall left; and with mathematical accuracy, you've
got Miss Hall leaving the factory at 12:03. Why, T never
gaw so many watches, so many clocks or so many people who
seem to have had their minds centered on time as in this
ease. Why, if people in real life were really as accurate ag
you gentlemen seek to have us believe, I tel! you this would
be a glorious old world, and no person and no train would
ever be behind time. It doesn’t happen that way, though.
But to crown it all, in this table which is now turned to the
wall, you have Lemmie Quinn arriving, not on the minute,
‘at, to serve your purposes, from 12:20 to 12:22; but that,
gentlemen, conflicts with the evidence of Freeman and the
other young lady, who placed Quinn by their evidence, in the
faetory before that time.

Mr, Arnold. There isn’t a word of evidence to that effect; those
ladies were there at 11:35 and left at 11:45, Corinthia Hall and
Miss Freeman, they left there at 11:45, and it waa after they had
eaten Innch and about to pay their fare before they ever saw

inn, at the little cafe, the Busy Bee. He says that they saw

jainn over at the factory before 12, as I understood it.

Hr. Doracy. ‘Yea, sir, by his evidence.

Mr. Arnold. That's absolutely incorreet, thi i
there then and never swore they aid. ———

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