Reading Time: 3 minutes [450 words]

LEO M, FRANK. 395

Mr. Rosser. He says time and time again “I disremember whether
I did or not”; he says “T did it,” page after page, sometimes three
times on a page. T've got the record, too. Of course, if the Almighty
God was to say it you would deny it.

Mr. Dorsey. Who reported it

Mr. Rosser. Pages 496, (Mr. Rosser here read a list of page
numbers containing the statement referred to.)

Hr, Arnold. 3 want to read the first one before he caught him-
self, on page 946, T want to read the statement—

Hr, Dorsey. Who reported it, that’s whet I want to know.

Mr. Arnold. This is the official report and it’s the correct report,
taken down by the official stenographer, and he said, “Now when the
Isdy comes I'l stamp like I did before,” “I says all right, Il do
Jui se you say and T aia” Frank “and he

fs. Dorsey. He’a quoting here, “ane says now when
the lady comes I'll stamp like I did.”

Mr. Arnold. “I says all right, Pl do, jost ae you sey, end T did
as he said.” He has ot it both ways, “I did it,” and “I done it,”
you ean find it both ways.

Mr, Dorsey. The jury heard that examination and the cross-
examination of Jim “Conley, and every time it was put to him he
gays “I done it.”

Mr. Rosser. And I assert that’s not true, the stenographer took
it down and he took it down correctly.

Mr. Dorsey. T'm not bound by is stenographer.

Mr, Rosser. I know, you are not bound by any rule of right in
the universe.

The Court. If there's any dispute about the correctness of this
report, I will have the stenographer to come here.

‘Mr. Parry. I reported 1 to $1 myself, and I think I ean make a
statement that will satisfy Mr. Dorsey: The shorthand character
for “did” is very different from “done,” there's no reason for a
Teporter confusing those two. Now, at the bottom of this page—T -
see E reported it myself, and that waa what he said, quoting “All
right, Tl do just as yon say and I did sa he asid.” Now, as 1 say,
my characters for “did” and “done” are very different and shouldn't
be confused—no reason for their being confused,

The Courr, Well, is that reported or not correctly?
wth Porry. That wes taken as he said it and written out as he

it

Hr. Doysey. Let it go, then, I'll trust the jury on it.

Maybe he did, in certain instances, say that he did so and
so, but you said in your argument that if there is anything
in the world a negro will do, it is to pick up the language of
the man for whom he works; and while I’ll assert that there
are some instances you ean pick out in which he used that

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