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

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her, even if he had been auch a fool and so unlike the other
members of his race, by whom brutal murders have been
committed, should have taken time to have tied a cord around
her neck, a cord seldom found down there in the ‘basement,
according to your own statement, except when it’s swept
down in the trash, but a cord that hangs right up there on
the office floor, both baek there in the varnish room and up
there in the front. If he had done all that—a thing you
know that he didn’t do, after he had shot her down in that
hole in the Clark Woodenware Company, down there in that
wing of the place where they keep this shellac, if they do
keep it, why would that negro have gone down there and
moved her body, when she was more securely fixed down
there! And why was it, will you tell me, if he shot her down
that scuttle hole, that he wrote the notes and fixed the cord,
and will you tell me how it happens that, when after this
man Holloway, on May Ist, had grabbed old Jim Conley,
when he saw him washing his ehirt and said ‘‘he’s my nig-
ger,’’—fifteen days afterwards, when squad number two of
the Pinkerton people had been searching through that fac-
tory a whole day and right down in that area, the elevator
being ron, the detectives, both the Pinkertons and the city
foree had looked around there immediately after the crime,
will you tell me how it happened that, if he shot her down
that hole, that there was so much blood not found until the
15th of May, and more blood than that poor girl is ever
shown to have lost?

Another thing: This man Frank says that ‘‘Mr. Quinn
said he would like to take me back to the metal department
on the office floor, where the newspapers that morning stated
that Mr. Barrett of the metal department had claimed he had
found blood spots, and where he had found some hair.’? Al-
though he had seen in the morning papers that this man
Barrett claimed to have seen blood there, before he went
back to see it, although this thing tore him all to pieces, and
although he was anxious te employ a detective-—so anxious
that he phoned Schiff three times to get the Pinkertong