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338 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

T tell you, gentlemen of the jury, that a smarter man than
Starnes, or a smarter man than Campbell, a smarter man
than Black, a smarter man than Rosser, in the person of Leo
M. Frank, felt impelled to put there these letters, which he
thought would exculpate him, but which incriminate and
damn him in the minds of every man secking to get at the
truth. Yet you tell me there’s nothing in circumstantial
evidence, when here’s a pad and there’s the pad and there’s
the notes, which you must admit, or which yon don’t deny,
old Jim Conley wrote, because you say in your statement you
had got numerous notes from him, and yet, the very day, at
the police station, according to your own statement, when
you wrote that, you saw the original of these, and you didn’t
open your mouth, you didn’t say a word, you didn't direct
the finger of sugpecion against this man Jim Conley, who
had been infamously directed to keep quiet to protect you.
Things don’t happen that way, gentlemen, and you know it.
There isn’t an honest man on that jury, unbiased, unpreju-
diced, seeking to get at the truth, but what knows that these
letters,—silly? Yes, silly, except you see the hand of Provi-
dence in it all—that don’t know that the language and the
eontext and the material out of which they are written were
written for the protection of Leo M. Frank, the superinten-
dent of this factory, who wired Montag to tell his uncle ‘‘if
my uncle inquires about me state that I am all right, the po-
lice have the thing well in hand and will eventually solve the
problem,’’ and the girl was found dead, not in the factory,
but in the cellar. The man who wrote the note, ‘“‘nothing
startling has happened in so short a time,’’ wrote it with
a knowledge and conscious of the fact that this poor girl’s
life had been snuffed out even at the time he penned the
words,

You'll have this out with you, you look at them, if yon can
get anything else out of them you do it, and as honest men, I
don’t want you to convict this man unless you aro satisfied
of his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but don’t let that
doubt be the doubt of a crank, don’t let it be the doubt of a

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