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LEO M, FRANK. 377

Mr. Rosser. He doesn’t claim that. He says the point is it was
essily gotten in the office, but that’s not what he said.

The Count. You claim that’s 2 deduction ycu are drawing?

Mr. Dorsey. Why, sure.

‘The Court. Now, yon don’t claim the evidence shows that?

Mr. Dorsey. I claim that the power box was standing open Sun-
day morning.

9 Court. Do you insist that the evidence shows he had it in
his pocket?

Mr. Dorsey. I say that’s my recollection, but I’m willing to waive
it; but let them go to the record, and the record will sustain me on
that point, just like it sustains me on the evidence of this man
Rogers, which I’m now going to read.

Rogers said ‘‘Mr. Gheesling caught the face of the dead
girl and turned it over towards me; I looked then to see if
anybody followed me, and I saw Mr. Frank step from out-
side of the door into what I thought was a closet, but I after-
wards found out where Mr. Gheesling slept, or somebody
slept, there was a little single bed in there.’”

I don’t want to misrepresent this testimony, for goodness
knows there’s enough here without resorting to any such
practice as that, and I don’t want to mislead this jury and
tarthermore, I’m not going to do it. Frank saya, after look-
ing at the body, ‘‘I identified that little girl as the one that
ha@ been up shortly after the noon of the day previous and
got her money from me. I then unlocked the safé and took
out the pay roll book and found that it was true that a little
girl by the name of Mary Phagan did work in the metal plant
and that she was due to draw $1.20, the pay roll book showed
that, and as the detective had told me that some one had
identified the body of that little girl as that of Mary Phagan,
there could be no question but what it was one and the same
girl.’? And he might have added, ‘‘as I followed her back
into the metal department and proposed to her that she snb-
mit to my lascivious demands, I hit her, she fell, she struck
her head; to protect my character, I choked her—to protect
my reputation I choked her, and called Jim Conley to move
her down to the basement, and for all these reasons, because
I made out the pay roll for fifty-two weeks during which
time Mary had worked there, I know, for these reasons, al-

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