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LEO M. PRANK. 373

down, according to his own statement, Lemmie Quinn had
to come and ask him ‘back to eee the blood spots on the sec-
ond floor, found by this man Barrett,

Is that the conduct of a man, the head of a pencil factory,
who had employed detectives, anxious to assist the police,—
saw it in the newspapers and yet Lemmie Quinn bad to go
and ask him to go back? And then he tells you in this state-
ment, which is easy to write, was glibly rattled off, a state-
ment that you might expect from a man that could plot the
downfall of a girl of such tender years as little Mary Phagan,
that he went back there and éxamined those blood spota with
an electric flashlight, that he made a particular and s minute
examination of them, but strange to say, not even Lemmie
Quinn comes in to sustain you, and no man on earth, 60
far as this jury knows, ever saw Leo M. Frank examining
what Barrett said and Jefferson said and Mel Stanford said
and Beavers said and Starnes said and a host of others said
was blood near the dressing room on the second floor. You
know whyt Because it never happened. If there was a spot
on this earth that this man Frank didn’t want to examine,
if there was a spot on earth that he didn’t want any blood
found at all, it was on the second floor, the floor which, ac-
cording to his own statement, he was working on when this
poor girl met her death.

Schiff, he says, saw those notes down there and at police
headquarters. Frank ssys he visited the morgue not only
once but twice. If he went down there and visited that
morgue and saw that child and identified her body and it
tore him all to pieces, aa he tells you it did, let any honest
man, I don’t care who he be, on this jury, seeking to fathom.
the mystery of this thing, tell me why it was, except for the
anewer that I give you, he went down there to view that
body again? Rogers said he didn’t look at it; Black said he
didn’t see him look at it.

Mr. Rosser. He is mis-etating the evidence. Rogers never said
that he didn’t look at the body, he said he waa behind him and didn’t
know hether he did or not; and Black said he didn’t know whether

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