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had been there but two or three weeks,—three weeks,
Frank could have told you that the detectives stressed the
fact that couples went in there holidays, Saturdays and at
nights, at all times and at any time when other night wateh-
Ten were there, but Newt Lee, having ‘been there but three
weeks, he effectively shuts off the State from impeaching his
statement or contradicting it, and therefore, he tells you that
the detectives stressed the fact that couples had been in here
while the night watchman Newt Lee, was watching,—and
Newt had been there but three weeks.

That wam’t the period, that wasn’t the time. During that
three weeks that old Newt was night watching, there was
but one person for whom your passion burned, and that was
Mary Phagan. And she wouldn’t meet you, and she didn’t
meet you any time during that period that Newt Lee was
night watching. But in the summer previons, when Dalton was
seen to go there, if it be not true that couples were admitted,
why didn’t you make the bold, emphatic, challenging state-
ment that at no time were couples ever admitted? And then
you tell me that that’s a good statement and a fair statement
end a frank statement?

Now, another thing. Liston to this—I read from the de-
fendant’s statement: ‘‘Now, with reference to these spots
that are claimed to be blood and that Mr. Barrett found, I
don’t claim they are not blood, they may have been, they
were right close to tho ladies’ dressing room, and wa have
secidents there, and by the way, in reference to those acci-
dents, the accidents of which we have records are not the
only accidents that have happened there. Now, we use paint
and varnish around there, a great deal of it, and while I
don’t say that this is not blood, it may be, but it could also
have been paint; I have seen the girls drop bottles of paint
and varnish and have them break there on the floor, I have
seen that happen right close to that spot. If that had been
fresh red paint or if it hed been fresh red blood and that
heskoline compound, that soap in it which is a great solvent,
had been put on there in the liquid atate, it wouldn’t have

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