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of his race, and he was a thief and worse, if there can be, and
yet he joined the church. He joined the church and he’s now
a decent, believable man, Well, you remember how brazenly
he sat here on the stand and bragged of his ‘‘peach,’’ how in-
decently he bragged of his fall; how he gloated over his vies.
He was asked if he ever went to that miserable, dirty fastory
basement with a woman for immoral purposes, and he was
proud to say that he had.

Gentlemen, it was the first time Dalton had ever been in the
limelight; it was the first time decent, respectable white men
and women had ever listened to him with respect, let alone
attention,

‘When he was asked about that, if he waa guilty, if he had
fallen, he might have declined to answer, he might have hung
his head in shame, as any decent, respectable man would have
done, but instead, he bragged and boasted of it.

‘When Conley was asked what sort of a woman Frank had,
he brazenly and braggingly said he did not know, that he him-
self had such a peach there that he could not take his eyes
off her to look at Frank’s woman. Well, you have seen Dal-
ton’s peach; yon all have seen Daisy.

Conley telle a different story. He says Frank took the
peach (that lemon) for himself and that Dalton had to get
him another woman.

I’m not saying that wo are all free of paasion, that we are
all moral and perfect, but at least the decent man don’t brag
of having a peach, Well, if you believe Dalton’s story, and
let’s presume it true now. If you believe it he went into that
scuttle hole there at the factory with Daisy. Dalton took that
woman into the factory, into a dirty, nasty, fetid hole where
the slime oozed and where no decent dog or cat would go, and
there he satisfied his passion. That’s what he told us. Well,
Dalton told us he went there about 2 o'clock one Gaturday
afternoon last year, and of course, at that time the Clarke
‘Wooden Ware company occupied the lower floor and used the
same entrance that the National Pencil Company did, and
Frank waa at lunch and knew nothing of Dalton’s visit. Of

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