376 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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in the way of the consummation of your diabolical and evil
plans.

And yon sey that you and Schiff made up the pay-roll Fri-
day, and I wouldn’t be st all surprised that, after little Mary
had gone and while you and Schiff were making up the pay-
roll Friday afternoon, you saw little Mary’s name and you
knew that she hadn’t been notified to come there and get her
money Friday afternoon at six o’clock, and then, as early aa
three o’clock,—yes, as early as three,—knowing that this
little girl would probably come there Saturday at twelve, at
the usual hour, to get her pay, you went up and arranged
with this man Jim Conley te look out for you,—this man Jim
Conley, who had looked ont for you on other occasions, who
had locked the door and unlocked it while you carried on your
immoral practices in that factory,—yes, at three o’clock,
when you and Schiff were so busy working on the pay-roll, I
dare say you went up there and told Jim that you wanted
him to come back Saturday but you didn’t want Darley to
know that he was there. And I wouldn’t be at all surprised
if it were not trae that this little Helen Ferguson, the friend
of Mary Phagan, who had often gotten Mary’s pay envelope
before, when she went in and asked you to let her have that
pay envelope, if you didn’t refuse because you had already
arranged with Jim to be there, and you expected to make the
final onslanght on this girl, in order to deflour and ruin her
and make her, this poor little factory girl, subservient to
your purposes.

Ah, gentlemen, then Saturday comes, Saturday comes, and.
it’s a reasonable tale that old Jim tells you, and old Jim says
“T done it,”—-not ‘‘I did it,”? but ‘‘I done it’ just exactly
like this brilliant factory superintendent told him. There's
your plot. I’ll tell you, you know this thing passion is like
frand,—it’s subtle, it moves in mysterious ways; people don’t
know what lurks in the mind of a libertine, or how anxious
they are, or how far ahead they look, and it ian’t at all im-
probable, indeed, I submit to you as honest men seeking to
get at the truth, that this man, whose character was put in