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LEO HW. FRANE. 287

man—it’s the crime of a cannibal, a man-eater. Hooper is
hard-pressed and wants to get up a plot—he sees he has to
get up something, He forms his plot from Jim Conley’s
story.

They say that on Friday, Frank knew he was going to
make an attack of some sort on Mary Phagan. The plot
thickens. Of all the wild things I have ever heard, that is the
wildest. Tt is ridievlous, Mary Phagan worked in the pencil
factory for months, and all the evidence they have produced
that Frank ever associated with her—ever new her—is the
story of weasley little Willie Turner, who can’t even describe
the little girl who was killed.

A little further on in his story, Jim is beginning the plot.
They used him to corroborate everything as they advised.
Jim is laying the foundation for the plot. What is it—thia
plot? Only that on Friday Frank was planning to commit
some kind of assault upon Mary Phagan. Jim was their tool.
Even Scott swears that when he told Jim that Jim’s story
didn’t fit, Jim very obligingly adapted it to suit his defense.
He was scrupulous about things like that. He was quite con-
siderate. Certainly. He had his own neck to save.

Jim undertook to show that Prank had an engagement with
some woman at the pencil factory that Saturday morning.
There is no pretense that another woman is mixed up in the
ease, No one would atgue that he planned to meet and
assault this innocent little girl who was killed. Who but God
would know whether she was coming for her pay that Friday
afternoon or the next Saturday? Are we stark idiots? Can’t
we divine some things?

They’s got a girl named Ferguson, who says she went for
Mary Phagan’s pay on the Friday before ahe waa killed, and
that Frank wouldn’t give it to her. It is the wildest theory
on earth, and it fits nothing. It is a strained conspiracy.
Frank, to show you I am correct, had nothing whatever to do
with paying off on Friday. Schiff did it all. And little Mag-
nolia Kennedy, Helen Ferguson’s best friend, says she was
with Helen when Helen went to draw her pay, and that Helen

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