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LEO M. FRANK. 253

But the defense, on the other hand, were allowed to let down
the bars and walk in,

That peneil factory was a great place for a man without
8 conscience. It was a great place for Frank, his handsome
assistant, Mr. Darley, and the able Mr. Schiff. We find that
Frank had coupled himself up for nightly meeting with Dal-
ton, who now has, it seems, turned respectable. My friends,
no doubt, will argue that it was strange a man of such busi-
ness and social position should consort with such a character.
It will be a good argument, likely, but probe a little deeper
and see if Dalton was not the kind of man required by a dual
personality such as possessed by Frank?

‘We all have dual personalities, There is not a man so good
without evil, and no man so bad without good. But when the
evil is predominant the man is bad. Vice versa with the
good. A man may mingle with his varnished class by day,
but when the shades of night are falling and the evil domi-
nate, he doesn’t go and get good men who can tell of his good.
character. He goes for his Dalton. We all are Dr. Jekyls
and Mr. Hydes. There are two sides to each of us.

Dalton seems to have overcome this evil. He is apparently
making good, a8 many substantial folks have told us on the
witness stand. You ean’t blame Dalton so much.

‘This factory was under the control of this man Frank. It
is a house of bad reputation. You find other acts of this sort
committed therein, It is unsavory. Frank is its head. He
eontends he did not know Mary Phagan. Why, every day as
he walked through the floor on which his office was situated,
he passed by her at her machine. You find, gentlemen, that
he often stopped at her place of duty to show her this or to
show her that, to help her in her work. Not only that, but
he followed her out of her beaten path—following like some
wild animal, telling her of his superiority, coaxing, persuad-
ing, all the while she strove to return to her work at her me-
chine. You will notice on this diagram that every time he
crossed the floor he passed this beautiful girl, looking upon
her with the eye of lust. The first indication of his attitude

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