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shown up white, as it showed up then, but it would have
showed up either pink or red.”’

Now, first, contrast that statement for a moment with
this statement with reference to the condition of the floor
where Barrett worked. There he says there wasn’t @ spot,
tauch less a blood spot,—‘looked at the machinery and the
lathe, looked at the table on which the lathe stands and the
lathe bed and the floor underneath the lathe and there wasn’t
a spot, much Jess a blood spot underneath.’’ All right;
you say that that wasn’t blood, you say that that haskoline
wouldn’t turn that eolor. In the name of goodness, in the
name of truth, I ask you, if that haskoline mixed with that
blood on the second floor wouldn’t have produced the identi-
eal result that these witnesses have sworn, if it be true, as
Mr. Rosser stated, that you don’t attach any importance to
the cabbage findings and experiments made in this case, why
didn’t you devote a little of your time to bringing before this
jary a reputable chemist and a man who could sustain you in
that statement? You had that evidence in your possession,
or if you were able to bring in these medical experts here
to tear down the powerful evidence of Dr. Roy Harris, as
eminent an authority as lives in the State of Georgia, in the
name of trath and fair play, before you men who ought to
have every fact that will enable you to get at the truth, why
didn’t you bring one chemist to sustain yout There’s but
one answer, and you know what it is. Those spota were blood,
they were blood over which had been placed that substance,
haskoline, and the eclor that blood and haskoline would make
upon that floor was the identical color found there by the
numerons witnesses who saw it. Important? There is no
more important fact for you to have shown than that this
haskoline, when wiped over blood, would have made a color
the like unto which Frank in his statement would have you
believe would have been made,

Are you going to accept the statement of this man, with all
these circumstances unsupported by chemista or anybody
on earth, because they couldn't get them to come in and stul-