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

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Mr, Dorsey. Rogers said he never did look at that body.

Mr. Arnoid. 1 insist that isn’t the evdence. Rogers said he didn't
know and couldn't answer whether he saw it or not, and Blaek said
the same thing.

I’m not going to quibble with you. The truth is, and you
mow it, that when that man Frank went down there to look
at that body of that poor girl, to identify her he never went
in that room, and if he did look at her long enough to iden-
tify her, neither John Black nor Rogers nor Gheesling knew
it. I tell you, gentlemen of the jury, that the truth of this
thing is that Frank never looked at the body of that poor
girl, but if he did, it was just a glance, as the electric light
was flashed on and he immediately turned and went into an-
other room.

Mr. Rosser, There isn’t a bit of proof that he went into another
room, I object again, sir, there isn’t a particle of proof of that.

If that man Frank ever looked at that girl’s face,—I chal-
Tenge them to produce the record to show it,—it was so brief
that if she was dirty and begrimed and her hair was bloody
and her features contorted, I tell you that, if he didn’t know
her any better than he would have you believe he knew her,
he never could have identified her as Mary Phagan. Never
eould. And I say to you, gentlemen of the jury, that the res-
son why this man revisited that morgue on Sunday after-
noon, after he had failed to mention the subject of death in
the bosom of his family at the dining table, when he tells
you that it tore him all to pieces, there was but one reason
for revisiting that morgue, and that was to put his ear to
the ground and see if at that hour there was any whisper or
suggestion that Leo M. Frank, the guilty man, had commit-
ted the dastardly deed.

Black didn’t see him, Rogers didn’t see him, Gheesting
didn’t see him. One of the earliest to arrive, the superinten-
dent of the factory (Rogers said he had his eye on him) he
turned and stepped aside, and he himself said that the sight
tore him all to pieces, and he seeks to have you believe that
that automobile ride and the sight of that poor girl’s fea-