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death of Christ on the Cross, says thet, when He suffered
that agony, He said to the thief, ‘‘This day shalt thou be
with Me in Paradise ;’’ and unless our religion is a fraud and
a farce, if it teaches anything, it is that man, though he
may be a thief, may be rehabilitated, and enjoy a good
character and the confidence of the people among whom
he lives.

And this man Dalton, according to the unimpeached tes-
timony of these people who have known him in DeKalb and
Fulton since he left that crowd back yonder where he was a
boy and probably wild and did things that were wrong,
they tell you that today he is a man of integrity, notwith-
standing the fact that he is sometimes tempted to step aside
with e woman who haa fallen so low as Daisy Hopkins.
Did we sustain him? By more witnesses by far than you
brought here to impeach him, and by witneases of this
community, witnesses that you couldn’t impeach to save
your life.

Did we sustain hin? We not only sustained him by proof
of general good character, but we sustained him by the evi-
dence of this man, C. T. Maynard, an unimpeached and un-
impeachable witness, who tells you, not when Newt Lee waa
there, during the three weeks that Newt Lee was there, but
that on a Saturday afternoon in June or July, 1912, he saw
with his own eyes this man Dalton go into that pencil factory
with a woman. Corroboration of Conley? Of course, it’s
eorroboration. The very fact, gentlemen of the jury, that
these gentlemen conducting this case failed absolutely and in-
gloriously even to attempt to sustain this woman, Daisy Hop-
kina, ia another corroboration of Conley.

But, ah! Mr. Rosser said he would give so much to know
who it was that dressed this man Conley up,—this man
about whom he fusses, having been put in the custody of the
police foree of the City of Atlanta. Why, if you had wanted to
have known, and if you had used one-half the effort to ascer-
tain that fact that you used when you sent somebody down
yonder,—I forget the name of the man,—to Walton County

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