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320 &. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

til that time—‘‘I didn’t stay there very often on Saturday
afternoon ;’? Miss Fleming didn’t stay there all afternoon.
Now, gentlemen, I submit this man made that financial sheet
Saturday morning. He could have fixed up that financial
sheet Saturday afternoon, but he wouldn’t have done it with-
out Schiff having furnished the data if he hadn't been sns-
pecting an aceusation of murdering that little girl. A man
of Frank’s type could easily have fixed that financial sheet—
a thing he did fifty-two times a year for five or six years—and
eould have betrayed no nervousness, he might easily—as he
did when he wrote for the police—in the handwriting, s thing
that he was acenstomed to do—even in the presence of the
police—you’ll have it out with you—he may have written so
as not to betray his nervousness.

And speaking about perjury: There’s a writing that his
mother said anybody who knew his writing ought to be able
to identify and yet, that man you put up there to prove
Frank’s writing, was so afraid that he would do this man
some injury, that he wouldn’t identify the writing that his
mother says that anybody that knows it at all, could recognize.
I grant you that he didn’t betray nervousness, probably, in
the bosom of his family; 1 grant you that he could fix up a
financial sheet that he had been fixing up fifty-two times a
year for five or six years and not betray nervousness; T grant
you that he could unlock the safe, a thing that he did every
dey for three hundred and sixty-five days in the year, without.
betraying nervousnesa; but when he went to run the elevator,
when he went to nail up the door, when he talked to the police,
when he rode to the station, then he showed nervousness.

And he could sit in a hall and read and joke about the
baseball umpire, but his frivolty, that annoyed the people
Saturday night thet they had the eard game, waa the same
Kind of frivolity that Beattie betreyed when he stood at the
automobile that contained the blood of his wife that he had
shot. And certainly it is before this jury that he went in
laughing and joking and trying to read a story that resulted
only in annoyance to the people that were in that card game.

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