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LEO M. FRANK, 327

about Jim Conley reading the newspapers. Well, if Jim
had committed that erime and he hadn’t felt that he had
the power and influence of Leo Frank back of him to pro-
tect him, he never would have gone back there to that fac-
tory or sat around and read newspapers, and you know it,
if you know anything about the character of the negro.
‘Why was he so anxious to get the newspapers! It was be-
cause Jim knew some of the facts that he wanted to see,
negro-like-—that’s what made him so anxious about it.
Here Mr. Arnold comes,—'‘Yon are a lady that works on the
fourth floor, and I’m going to ask you a question that we
are going to ask every lady that works on that fourth
floor ;’” and we caught them out on that proposition, too,
didn’t wef And you don’t know right now how many wom-
en that worked on that floor were put up and how many
weren't. You’ve got the books and the records and you
could have called the names, and you didn’t dare do it, and
after you had gone ahead and four-flushed before this jury
as to what you were going to do, we picked out Miss Kitchens
and brought her here and she corroborated your own witness,
Misa Jackyon, as to the misconduct of this superintendent,
Frank,

Now, let’s see what Mrs. Small says—Mrs. Small is the
lady that got the raise, you remember, and couldn’t tell what
date it was, thought it had been about four months ago, she
got a five cent raise; about four months ago would make it
since this murder, and when I got to quizzing her about it
she didn’t know when she got the raise, and she’s not the
only one that got the raise, and it wasn’t only in the factory
that they raised them, either, Even Minola McKnight got
some raise, and after she saw the import of it, “Yor don’t
Temember the exact date.” ‘No sir, I don’t,” when she
had already placed the date subsequent to this murder; and
this woman, Mrs. Small, aleo corroborates Jim Conley about
being up there Tuesday.

“*Did you see Mr. Frank up there any of those days?” “T
saw Mr, Prank up there Tuesday after that time.’? “What

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