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358 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

have lunch, { got my house and Minola answered the phone
and she answered me back that she would have lunch im-
mediately and for me to come right away. I then gathered
my papers together and went upstairs to see the boys on
the top floor; this must have been, since I just looked at my
watch, ten minutes to one. Mrs. White states thet it was
12:35, that she passed by and saw me, that’s possibly true,
I have no recollection about it, perhaps her recollection is
better than mine.”” She remembered it very well.

Now, this Minola McKnight business. Isn’t it strange
that this man Albert, her husband, would go up there and
tell that kind of a tale if there wasn’t some truth in itt
Ien’t it strange that Minola herself, in the tale that they
seek to have you believe was a lie, should have been sus-
tained by Mrs. Selig, when she tells you ‘Yes, I gave her
$5.00 to go get some change,”’ and Mrs. Frank gave her a
hat? Do you believe that this husband of hers didn’t see
that man Frank when, after this murder, he went home and
was anxious to see how he looked in the glass, but as the
people had gone to the opera, anxious to get back to keep
his engagement with Jim Conley And all this talk about
Mrs, Selig, about this thing not having been changed. Gen-
tlemen, are you just going to swallow that kind of stuff
without using your knowledge of human nature? And you
tried to mix old Albert up, and right here, I’m going to read
you a little bit about Albert’s evidence: ‘‘Yes sir, he came
in close to 1:30, I guess, something like that.”’ ‘‘Did he or
not eat anything?’ ‘‘No sir, not at that time, he didn’t, he
eame in and went to the sideboard in the dining room and
stood there a few minutes, then he goes out ‘and catchea the
ear.’ ‘How long did he stay at the house?!’ ‘I suppose
he stayed there five or ten minutes.” ‘‘About five or ten
minutes?” “About five or ten minutes.” ‘What did he
do at the sideboard?”? ‘*T didn’t see him do anything at the
sideboard.” ‘Isn't there a door between the eook room
and the dining room!’ These gentlemen asked him, and
Albert said, ‘Yes, this here dining room was open;”’ yea,

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