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LEO M. FRANE. 341

‘be put by the dead bedy, and was willing to help this man
take the body from the second floor, where the blood was
found, into the basement and keep his month shut and to
protect him, until the combined efforts of Scott and Black
and Starnes and all these detectives beat him down and made
him admit a little now and a little then, he wasn’t willing,
and he had too much sense, to go down into that basement to
do that dirty job by himself and cremate the remains of this
little girl that that man in his passionate Inst had put to
death. You don’t show that he didn’t have the money, and
the truth of the business is, I expect, that out of that $1,-
100.00 for the pay-roll, and $30.00 in eash which you had, if
the truth were known, you offered old Jim Conley and bought
him with that $200.00 just as rely as Judea Iseariot im-
planted the kiss for the thirty shekels.

He says that ‘‘No one came into my office who asked for a
pay envelope or for the pay envelope of another.’’ This run-
ning-mate and friend of the dead girl tells you under oath
that she went there on Friday evening when they were peid,
with the knowledge that little Mary wasn’t there, and aa she
had done on previous occasions, sought to get the money to
take to her. And I'll show you when I get to the State’s
case later on that this diabolical plot, of which you have made
so much fun, is founded in reason and really did exist, and
that this man really, goaded on by passion, had been expect-
ing some time before to ultimately, not murder this little
girl, but cause her to yield to his blandishments and deflower
here without her resistance. Let me do it right now.

‘Way back yonder in March, as far back as March, little
Willie Turner, an ignorant country boy, saw Frank trying
to force his attentions on this little girl in the metal room;
he is unimpesched, he is unimpeachable. She backed off and
told him she must go to her work, and Frank said ‘‘I am su-
perintendent of this factory,”""—a species of coercion—‘‘and
I want to talk to you.’’ Yon tell me that that little girl that
worked wp there and upon the same floor with you in the
metal department, and you had passed right by her machine,

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