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896 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

word, that there are other instances you might pick show-
ing that he used that word ‘I done,’’ and they know it. All
right, leave the language, take the context.

These notes say, as I suggested the other day, that she was
assaulted as she went to make water. And the only closet
kmown to Mary, and the only one that she would ever have
used is the closet on the office floor, where Conley says he
found the body, and her body was found right on the route
that Frank would purene from his office to that closet, right
on back also to the metal room. The fact thet this note
states that a negro did it by himself, shows a conscious ef-
fort on the part of somebody to exclude and limit the erime
to one man, and this fact sustains Conley. Frank even, in
his statement eustains him, as to his time of arrival Sat-
urday morning at the fectory, as to the time of the visit to
Montags, as to the folder which Conley saya Frank had in
his hands, and Frank in his statement says that he had the
folder. Conley is sustained by another thing: This man
Harry White, according to your statement got $2.00. Where
is the paper, where is the entry on any book showing that
Frank ever entered it up on that Saturday afternoon when
he waited for Conley and hia mind was occupied with the
consideration of the problem as to what he should do with
the body. Schiff waited until the next week and would have
you believe there was some litile slip that was put in a cash
box showing that this $2.00 waa given White, and that slip
was destroyed. Listen to this: ‘Arthur White borrowed
$2.00 from me in advance on his wages. When we spend,
of course, we credit it; there was a time, when we paid out
money we would write it down on the book and we found it
waa much better for us to keep a little voucher book and
let each and every person sign for money they got.’”

“Let each and every person sign for money they got,”
says Frank in his statement, ‘and we have not only this
record, but this reeord on the receipt book.’? And notwith-
standing that you kept a book and you found it better to
keep this little voncher book and let each and every person

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