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issue and torn down, who refnsed.to go into specific instances
on cross-examination, if he didn’t contemplate this little
girl’s ruin and damnation it was becanse he was infatuated
with her and didn’t have the power to control that ungovern-
able passion. There’s your plot; and it fits right in and jems
Tight up, and you can twist and tarn and wabble as much es
you want to, but out of your own mouth, when yon told
your detective, Seott, that this man Gantt was familiar with
that little girl, notwithstanding at other places in this state-
men you tried to lead this jury of honest men to believe you
didn’t know her—I tell you that he did know her, and you
know that he knew her.

‘What sre you going to believe? Has this little Ferguson
girl lied? Is this little factory girl a hair-brained fanatic
suborned to come up here and perjure herself, by John
Starnes or Black or Campbell or any of the detectives? Do
you tell mo that such a thing can-be done, when the State of
Georgia, under the law hasn’t a nickel that this girl could
gett I teil you, gentlemen, you know that’s a charge that
can’t stand one instant.

Now, he says right here in his statement that he kept the
Key to his cash box right there in his desk. Weill, he makes
a very beautiful statement about these slips—but I'll pass
that and come to that later. He explains why they were put
on there April 28th, and so forth. Now, here’s the first refer-
ence that he. makes to ‘chatting’: ‘I stopped that work
that I was doing that day and went to the onter office and
chatted with Mr, Darley and Mr. Campbell.” “I should fig-
ure about 9:15, or a quarter to nine, Miss Mattie Smith came
in and asked for her pay envelope.’’? Jim is corroborated
there, he identified Miss Mattie Smith and told with partic-
ularity what she did. Hoe says, ‘‘I kept my cash box in the
lower drawer of the left hand side of my desk.” Jim says
that’s where he got some cash, This man also shows he took
a drink at Cruickshank’s soda fount and two or three times
during this statement he showed that he was doing at the
soda fount exactly as Jim saya he was doing as they came on

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