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ing room at a time when no reward is shown to have been
offered and indeed, when you know that no reward was of-
fered beesuse no executive of this State or of this city of-
fered any reward during Sunday or as early as 7 or 8
o’elock Monday morning. I say to you that this man Bar-
rett stands an oasis in 8 mighty desert, standing up for
truth and right and telling it, though his own job is at
etake, and you know it. And you may fling your charges of
perjury just as far as you want to, but I tell you right now,
gentlemen, that Barrett, when he swore that he found
blood there at the place where Conley said he dropped the
body, told the truth; and when he said he found that hair
on that machine, I tell you Barrett told the truth, and if
there be a man in this town that rightly deserves and who
ought to receive the rewards, if there are any, it’s this poor
employe of the National Pencil Company, who had the
manhood and the courage to tell the truth, and I hope if
there be such a thing as a reward te be given to anybody,
that this man Barrett gets it. But not a single thing did
Barrett swear but that either didn’t occur before any re-
wards were offered, or that weren’t substantiated by four
and five of the most reputable witnesses that could be
found. And Barrett didn’t make his discoveries May 15th,
either, Barrett made them Monday morning, April 8th,
and they haven't any resemblance to a plant, They come 30
clean and so natural that the most warped and the most
biased must recognize the fact that Barrett has told the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

But you can wipe Barrett out of this case and still you
have got an abundance of firm ground upon which to stand.
Barrett isn’t shown to have lied, dodged or equivocated.
Mra. Jefferson,—and I’m only going to give you a few of
the people that saw blood there—Mrs, Jefferson saw dark
red spot about as large as a fan, and in her opinion, it was
blood, and it was blood. Me! Stanford saya he saw the
blood at the dressing room Monday, dark spots that looked
exactly like blood and this white stuff, haskoline, had been