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

368 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

murder, that any lawyer, Rosser or anybody else, could keep
you from confronting him and nailing the lie? No lawyer
on earth, no lawyer that ever lived in any age or any clime
eould prevent me, if I were innocent, from confronting a
man who accused me wrongfully, be he white or black,

And yon, Leo Frank, went in and interviewed Newt Leo
down yonder at twelve o’clock, Tuesday night, April 29th.
And what did you dot? Did you act like a man who wanted
to get ai the trath, who didn’t know it and wanted to get at
the truth! Ah, no. Instead of going into that room and
taking up with this negro Newt Lee, the man towards whom
you had directed suspicion infamously to save your own
neck, a man that you would have seen hung on the gallows in
order to save your reputation with the people on Washington
street and the members of the B'nai B’rith, did you make an
earnest, honest, conscientious effort, as an innocent employer
would with his employee, to get at the trnth?

No; aceording to Lee, you hung your head and gnized him
not, but predicted that-both Lee and you would go to hell if
Lee continued to tell the story which he tells even until this
good day: snd then in your statement here, try to make it
appear that your detective Scott and old John Black con-
cocted a scheme against you and lied as to what occurred on
that Tuesday night. The reason why Frank didn’t put it up
to Newt Lee and try to get Newt Lee to fell bim how that
murder occurred and what he knew about it, was besause
Frank knew that Lee was innocent, that he was the murderer
end that he was adding to the dastardly erime of assault
upon the virtue of this girl, was adding to the crime of
murder of this girl, another infamous effort to send this negro
to the gallows in order to save his reputation and neck.

Listen to this—he’s smart, and just listen how, in his
statement, he qualifies and fixes it up so that, when we come
back with rebuttal, the technical law will protect him:
“They (meaning the detectives) streas the possibility of
couples having been let into the factory at night’’—by night
watchmen? No,—‘By night Watchman Newt Lee.’? Lee