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LEO M. FRANK. 281

Harlee Branch says that he was there when the detectives
made Conley go through with what he claimed took place, and
that he started then at 12:17, and by Mr. Branch’s figures, it
took Conley 50 minutes to complete the motions, Well, the
state has attacked nearly everybody we have brought into this
ease, but they didn’t attack Dr. William Owen, and he showed
by his experiments that Conley could not have gone through
those motions in 34 minutes,

Jim Conley declared that he started at 4 minutes to 1
o’elock to get the body, and that he and Frank left at 1:30,
If we ever pinned the negro down to anything, we did to that,
and we have shown that he could not have done all that in
34 minutes.

Away with your filth and your dirty, shameful evidence of
perversion; your low street gossip, and come back to the
time—the time-element in the case.

Now, I don’t believe the little Stover girl ever went into
the inner office, She was a sweet, innocent, timid little girl,
and she just peeped into the office from the outer one, and if
Frank was in there, the safe door hid him from her view, or
if he was not there, he might have stepped out for just a
moment.

Oh, my friend, Dorsey, he stops clocks and he changes
schedules, and he even changes a man’s whole physical
make-up, and he’s almost changed the course of time in an
effort to get Frank convicted.

Oh, I hate to think of litfle Mary Phagan in this. I hate
to think that such a sweet, pure, good little girl as she was,
with never a breath of anything wrong whispered againat her,
should have her memory polluted with anch rotten evidence
against an innocent man. Well, Mary Phagan entered the
factory at approximately 12 minutes after 12, and did you
ever stop to think that it was Frank who told them that the
girl entered the office when she entered it? If he had killed
her he would have just slipped her pay envelope back in the
safe and declared that he never saw her that day at all, and
then no one could have ever explained how she got into that

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