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258 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

Now, which is the more probable—that Jim heard this ex-
pression, or that he imagined the story? Did Jim know
Frank had relatives in Brooklynf. Did Jim know there was
such a thing as Brooklyn? Did he know they were rich?
And Jim says, with the typical soul of Africa: ‘‘What’s
goin’ to become of mef’’ Frank says, ‘I'l take care of
you, for Jl write my mother a letter, so that she can help
you.”” He asks Jim if he can write, and Jim tells him a little
bit. He wasn’t on his guard. He should have detected
Frank’s purpose. Frank was smart, Jim was dull Frank
dictated, Jim wrote.

Now, gentlemen, I suppose most of you are southern men,
men who know the characteristica of the negro. Will you
please tel! me what idea this negro would have had to write
these notes accusing a negro, and, just the same as saying,
this was done by a negro who is a fool and who cannot write!
It was foolish enough for the mighty brain of Frank to put
the notes beside the body. The truth of the business is, that
this looks like the only time the brainy Frank ever lost his
head. Then, next comes the money. Frank pulls out his
roll of bills, and says, ‘‘Jim, here’a that $200.’ Jim is so
overwhelmed that he doean’t notice the amount, but puts the
roll in his pocket. Frank reflects. He need not waste the
$200. Jim is as deep in the mire as he is in the mud. He
recovers the money. ‘‘Let’a aee, Jim, if everything comes
out all right, I'll return this money.’’ He tells Jim that Jim
has the goods to deliver. The body must be disposed of.
That will be left to Jim. He depends on Jim’s lust for the
$200 to bring him back to the factory to burn the corpse of
little Mary, the victim! Nobody else was expected by him
that afternoon but Jim Conley and Newt Lee.

It makes no differences to me about how long it took Frank
to go to lunch, the minute he put in here and the minute he
put in there, about which there hes been such a squabble in
the evidence. That is aside from the point. The fact remaing
that at or about 3 o’elock he came back to the pencil factory
to await the arrival of Jim Conley to burn that bedy! He

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