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278 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

that fitted. And Conley changed things every time he had
a visit from Dorsey and the detectives. Are you going to
hang a man on that? Gentlemen, it’s foolish for me to have
to argue such 8 thing.

The man that wrote those murder notes is the man who
killed that girl. Prove that man was there and that he wrote
the notes and you mow who Killed the girl. Well, Conley
acknowledges he wrote the notes and witneases have proved
he was there and he admits that, too, That negro was in the
building near the elevator shaft; it took but two steps for
him to grab that little girl’s mesh bag. She probably held on
to it and struggled with him. A moment later he had struck
her in the eye and she had fallen. It is the work of a moment
for Conley to throw her down the elevator shaft.

Inn’t it more probable that the story I have outlined is true
than the one that Conley tells on Frank! Suppose Conley
‘were now under indictment and Frank out, how long would
such a story against Frank stand the pressure?

Tn the statement of May 29 there are any number of things
that are not told of which later were told on the stand. In the
May 29 statement Conley never told of seeing Mary Phagan
enter; he never told of seeing Monteen Stover enter, nor of
seeing Lemmie Quinn enter; now he tells of having seen all of
them enter. Don’t you see how they just made it to fit wit-
nesses and what the witnesses would sweart It was, ‘‘Here,
Conley, swear that Quinn came up, swear that the dead girl
came up, and swear that Miss Stover came up; they all did,
and it's true, swear to it!?? And Conley would say, ‘‘ All right,
‘boss, Ah reckon they did.”? And it was ‘Conley, how did you
fail to hear that girl go into the metal room? We know she went
there, because by our blood and hair we have proved she waa
killed there,’’ and the poor negro thought 6 minute, and then
he said, ‘Yes, thoss, I heard her go in.’? The state’s repre-
sentatives had put it into the negro’s head to swear he heard
Frank go in with her, and that he heard Frank come tiptoe-
ing out later, and that by that method they made Conley
swear that Frank was a moral pervert. Now, I don’t know

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