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LEO M. FRANK. 361

you know you can’t see from the kitchen into the dining
room, you know that, don’t youl” ‘‘Yes sir, you certainly
ean see;’’ and the very evidence of the photographs and
Julius Fischer and others who came here, after that side-
board had been moved, sustains Albert McKnight, and
shows that once that sideboard is adjusted, you could see,
as Albert says, and he did see because he would have never
told that tale unless he bad been there and seen it. ‘‘You
ean gee in there!’ ‘Yes sir, you can see; look in the mir-
ror in the corner and see all over that dining room;” that’s
what Albert swore. And if there’s anybody in the world
that knows how to get up a plan to see from the kitchen
into the dining room or to hear what’s going on among the
white folke in the dining room, it’s a negro. And Albert
told too straight a tale, he told too reasonable a tale.
“Don’t you know that you can’t look in the mirror in the
corner and see it??? Albert says ‘‘I did do it, I stayed there
about five or ten minutes while he was there and looked in
that mirror at him, Mr. Frank.’’? ‘‘You stayed there in
that kitchen on that oecasion and looked in the mirror at
him that five or ten minutes he stayed there??? ‘Yes sir.”
“By looking in that mirror you ean see what’s going on in
that room!’’ ‘You ean see if they are eating at the table.”
“Don’t you know that you can’t see in that room by look-
ing into that mirror?’ ‘Yes sir, you can see in there.’’
“You can see all over the room?’’—tried to make him say
that—'‘No, not all over it exactly.’’ ‘‘But you can see
even when they are eating at the tablef’’ ‘‘You can look
in that mirror and see in the sitting room and through that
dining room,’’ said Albert, ‘‘to a certain extent.’’ .And he
says he never was in the dining room in his life. That’s
reasonable. ‘‘You were right side of the back door of the
Kitehen#”? ‘Yes, sir.’’ ‘Let me give you a little drawing;
now were you sitting right in front of that little hallway
between the two rooms, in front of it?’? Says Albert, ‘Not
exactly.” ‘You were sitting right here against the wall,
weren’t you!’ And he said ‘Yes sir.” ‘‘I don’t know

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