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LEO M. FRANK. 285

of the speakers, and but for the masterly effort of my brother,
Arnold, I almost wish it had ended with no speaking. My
condition is such that I can say but little; my voice is husky
and my throat almost gone. But for my interest in thia ease
and my profound conviction of the innocence of this man, I
would not undertake to speak at all,

I want to repeat what my friend, Arnold, said so simply.
He said this jury is no mob. The attitude of the juror’s mind
is not that of the mind of the man who carelessly walks the
streets, My friend, Hooper, must have brought that doctrine
with him when he came to Atlanta. We walk the street care-
lessly and we meet our friends and de not recognize them; we
are too much abeorbed in our own interests. Our minds wan-
der in flights of fancy or in fits of reverence; we may mean
no harm to ourselves, nor to our friends, but we are careless.
No oath binds us when we walk the streeta,

Men, you are different; you are set aside; you ceased when
you took your juror’s oath to be one of the rollicking men
of the streets; you were purged by your oath. In old pagan
Rome the women laughed and chattered on the streota as they
went to and fro, but there were a few—the Vestal Virgins—
they eared not for the gladiatorial games, nor the strife of
the day. So it is with you men, set apart; you care not for
the chatter and laughter of the rabble; you are unprejudiced
and it is your duty to pass on a man’s life with no passion and.
no cruelty, but as men purged by an oath from the careless
people of the streets. You are to decide from the evidence,
with no fear of a hostile mob and no thought of favor to any-
one.

‘What suggestion comes into a man’s mind when he thinks
of a crime like this? And what erime could be more horrible
than this one? What punishment too great for the brute in
human form who committed it and who excited this commu-
nity to a high pitch? .

Since 1908 the National Pencil factory has employed hun-
dreds of girls and women, and also of men, and not all of the
girls and women, not all of the men have been perfect, but

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