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262 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

with a lot of things piled on top of it, he found a bloody shirt!
How did it get there? Newt Lee accounts for his time Sun-
day. No suspicion attaches to Newt Lee. He is a free man.
How did that bloody shirt get there? It had to be planted.
Gentlemen, it was planted! Here are the two propositions,
gentlemen, If Newt Lee was to be made the goat, suspicion,
had to be directed to him. Somebody had to plant that sus-
picion.

He would sacrifice Newt Lee that he might live!

The Bible says, ‘‘What will not a man give for his life?’”
He was willing to give the life of Newt Lee that his own life
might be spared. He was willing to give the life of Gantt
that he might live. Was not Gantt arrested a few daya
after? .

But not once at that time did he think of giving the life
of Jim Conley, But somebody found Jim Conley washing a
shirt to go to the trial, and there was where Jim got into
trouble.

But Frank didn’t try to fix it on Jim then. He waited
until Newt had failed, and all else had failed, exeept the sus-
picion which rested upon himself. Then he turned on Jim
Conley,

I call your attention, gentlemen of the jury, to another
peculiar thing: Weeks after the murder, and after the fac-
tory had been searched, a big, bloody stick was found by
shrewd Pinkerton detectives, whe can find anything—even
an elephant, if it geta in the way. They also found a piece
of envelope. But, fortunately, they showed this to Mr. Cole-
man, who said that Mary had received but $1.20 and that the
figure ‘‘5’? on the envelope had no business there. And so,
it was rubbed out. Besides the shirt, then, we find the club
and the pay envelope. Another very peculiar thing is about
this man named Mincey. Conley was asked, ‘‘Didn’t you
confess te Mincey that you were the man that killed the
girlt’? Conley said, ‘‘No.’” That question was asked, gen-
tlemen, as a foundation upon which to introduce Mincey.
Where is Mincey! He is the man who could clear it all up.

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