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

LEO M. FRANK. 855

that scuttle hole, and don’t you know that Frank would
have rushed to get his detective Scott to put the police in
charge of the information that blood had been found here?
But Jong after Jim Conley had been arrested, after this
man Holloway had arrested him, after this man Holloway
had seid that Jim was “‘his nigger,’’ realizing the despera-
tion of the situation, realizing that something had to be
fortheoming to bolster up the charge that Conley did it,
then it was and not until then that this man McWorth,
after he had gone looking through the factory for a whole
day, at about 3:30 o’clock saw seven large stains, found the
envelope and stick right there in the corner.

Now, he found too much, didn’t het Wasn’t that a lit-
tle too much? Is there a man on this jury that believes that
all these officers looking as they did there, through that fac-
tory, going down in this basement there through that very
seuttle hole, would have overlooked seven large stains
which were not found there until May 15thf Scott said “‘I
looked there just after the murder, made search at the seut-
tle hole, didn’t see blood spots there.’? Starnes says the
same, Rosser says the aame, and these men Mel Stanford
and Darley both say they had been cleaning up all thet
very area May 3rd, and yet the men who cleaned up and
all these men never saw them and never even found the en-
velope or the stick. Why it’s just in keeping with that
plant of the shirt at Newt Lee’s house. I don’t care how
much you mix this man Black. Boots Rogers says, Darley
says, that Sunday morning, when suspicion pointed towards
this man Newt Lee, that this man Frank, the brilliant Cor-
nell graduate and the man who was so capsble at making
figures that certain parts of his work have never been fixed
since he left that factory, when he knew a girl had been
murdered down staira, when he knew that suspicion pointed
towards Newt Lee, took that slip out of the clock and stood
there, looked at it, told those men, in answer to a question,
if Newt Lee would have had time to have left and gone