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back from the factory. Again he says, ‘‘but I know there
was several of them and I went on chatting with Mr. Mon-
tag.’ I told you I was going to read you this, and I just
‘wanted you to know we were going to have this out with
you. Another thing he says, ‘‘I moved the papers I brought
back from Montag’s in the folder;” old Jim says he hed
the folder and put the folder away; ‘I would look and see
how far along the reports were which I used in getting my
financial statement up every Saturday afternoon, and, to
my surprise, I found the sheet which contains the record
of pencils packed for the week didn’t include the report
for Thursday, the day the fiscal week ended, that’s the
only part of the data thet Schiff hadn’t got up.’? “A short
time after they left my office, two gentlemen came in, one
of them Mr. Graham’*—Mr. Graham says that he talked to
this negro down stairs; the negro told him the way to the
office, and they tried to get around it on the idea there's
some difference in color. Well, being in jail, gentlemen,
changes the complerion of anybody. That man was there,
Graham says, Tillander says, and he was there for what
purpose? By whose request? And he wasn’t drunk, either.
And then he says, “I gave the required pay envelope to
the two fathers,’”’ this man Frank says, ‘‘I gave the pay
envelope and chatted with them at some length.’’

Mr. Arnold says these darkeys pick up the language and
manners of the men by whom they are employed. I tell you
that, if Frank didn’t come in contact with the people that
worked in that factory more than he would lead you to be-
lieve, old Jim Conley never had the opportunity to pick up
words that he uses; and yet here old Jim says, and even in
his statement, even in his statement, this man uses the very
language that Jim puts in his mouth. I just picked out
four of them, in a very few pages, I don’t know how many
others there are.

‘Miss Hall finished her work and started to leave when
the twelve o’clock whistle blew.’’ Whistle blowing on @
holiday? Well, maybe it did, I'll leave that for you to say.