322 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

290 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

Mary Wallace, there three daya, and Estelle Wallace, there
a week and Carrie Smith, who like Miss Cato, worked there
three years. These are the only ones in the hundreds who
have worked there since 1908 who will say that Frank has a
bad character. Why, you could find more people to say that
the Bishop of Atlanta, I believe, bad a bad character, than
have been brought against Frank.

You noticed they were not able to get any men to come
from the factory and swear against Frank. Men are harder
to wheedle than are little girls. Does anybody doubt that if
that factory had been the bed of vice that they call it, that
the long-legged Gantt would have know of it? They had
Gantt on the stand twice, and, well, you know Gantt was dis-
charged from the factory, of course you weren't told why in
plain words, but you all know why. Well, Frank is not liked
by Gantt and Gantt would have loved to tell something against
his former employer, but he eouldn’t.

If they have any further suspicions against this man, they
haven’t given them, either because they are afraid or are un-
able to prove their suspicions, if they have such suspicions,
though, and are doing you a worse injustice.

‘What are these suspicions that they have advanced thus
far? First, Miss Robineon is eaid to have said that she saw
Frank teaching Mary Phagan how to work. Dorsey reached
for it on the instant, seenting something improper as is quite
characteristic of him. But Miss Robinson denies it. There’s
nothing in it, absolutely nothing. Then they say he called
her Mary. Well, what about itt What if he did? We all
have bad memories. If you met me on the street six months
ago, ean you recall right now whether you ealled me Luther
or Rosserf The next is Willie Turner—poor little Willie!
T have nohing against Willie. He seems to be a right clever
sort of a boy. But just think of the methods the detectives
used against him—think of the way they handled him, and
think of the way Dorsey treated him on the witness stand.
He says—Willie does—that he saw Frenk talking to Mary
Phagan in the metal room. What does it show if he did see