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not go back on the affidavit which he had signed, though he
did modify his statements.

All right; I’m not going to call over all these other peo-
ple-—Mrs. Small and others,—though Mrs. Carson denied
it, she went there—who claimed to have seen that blood.
But to cap it all, Mel Stanford says “I swept the floor,’”-—
he’s an employe and he’s an honest man,—‘it wasn’t there
Fridey.””, Why? Beeause old Jim, when he went to move
that body, put it there Saturday. To cap it all, Doctor
Claude Smith, the City Bacteriologist, says ‘‘I analyzed it
and I tell you that I found blood corpuscles.” And now
you eome in with the proposition that that blood had been
there ever since that machinist Lee saw that fellow Duffy
stand there with his finger cut and let it spout out at the
end,—a thing Duffy saya never happened, and you know
never happened, and we called on you to produce the paper
this man Lee said he signed and you can’t da it, because he
never signed one. Not only that, but your own employe,
your own witnem, Mary Pirk, your own witness, Julia
Fuss, your own witness, Magnolia Kennedy, your own wit-
ness, Wade Campbell, and your own witness Schiff and
others whose names are too numerous to take up your val-
uabdle time to mention, all say that they saw this great big
apot there covered over with something white, which we
know to have been haskoline.

Now, Harry Scott didn’t manipulate exactly right, so
they got them some new Richmonds and put them in the
field, and this fellow Pierce,—and where is Pierce? Echo
answers where? And where, oh, where, is Whitfield? And
echo answers where? The only man you bring in here is
this man McWorth. Starnes denies, Black denies, Seott de-
nies, every witness put on the stand denies, that around
that scuttle hole anything was seen immediately after that
murder. Don’t you know that Frank, who went through
that factory,—that Schiff, Darley, Holloway, don’t you
know that they would have been only too glad to have re-
Ported to Frank that blood rpots had been found around