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LEO M. FRANK. 298

birds, while others slumber even through the tempting call
of the breakfast bell, Would you hang us for that?

Then, they say he hired a lawyer, and they call it suspi-
eious—mighty suspicious. They wouldn’t have kicked if he
hed hired Rube Arnold, because Rube has a good character.
But they hired me and they kicked and yelled ‘‘suspicions”’
so loudly you could hear it all the way from here to Jesup’s
eut. I don’t know that I had ever met Frank before that
morning, but I had represented the pencil factory previously.
And as to their employing me, it’s this way:

There’s no telling what was Hoating around in John Black’s
head that morning. They sent men after Frank and there
was no telling what was likely to happen to him. They were
forced to do something in his own defense. And, as a result,
the state’s worst suspicion is the fact that they employed me
and Herbert Haas. Now, gentlemen, let’s see what there is
in it; I have told you that twice on that Sunday he had been
to police headquarters without counsel, without friends. The
next day they adopted new methods of getting him there
and sent two detectives for him. Black had said he had been
watching Frank, and woe to him who is haunted by the
eagle eye of dear old John. They took him to police station
Monday—took him I say. The police idea was to show their
fangs. He was under arreat, that’s an undisputed fact. They
had him at police station, Lanford, in his wonted dignity, sit-
ting around doing nothing, letting Frank soak. Beavers, the
handsome one, was doing the same. Frank didn’t call for
friends or lawyer. He didn’t call for anything. If he had
known what he was up against, though, in this police depart-
ment of ours, he’d probsbly have called for two lawyers—or
even more. But old man Sig Montag, who has been here a
long time, knew this old police crowd and he knew their
tactics. He was well on to their curves. He knew what danger
there was to Frank. He called up Haas. Haas didn’t want to
come to police station—he had a good reason, Sig went to
police station and was refused permission to see Frank. Now,
I want you to get that in your mind. A citizen—not under

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