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294 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

arrest, as they say—held without the privilege of seeing
friends, relatives or counsel. It was a deplorable state of
affairs, What happened!

Haas went to the phone and called an older and more ex-
Perienced head to battle with this polices iniquity; Why
shouldn't he? Dorsey’ sees in this harmless message a chance.
He maps at it like a snake. Dorsey is a good man—in his
way. He'll be a better man, though, when he gets older and
loses some of his present spirit and venom. There are things
he has done in this trial that will never be done again. Gen-
tlemen, I assure you of that.

Did Frank do anything else suspicious? Yes! Two others,
according to Hooper from the Wiregrass. One of which was
the employment of a detective agency to ferret out this hor-
rible murder that had ‘been committed in his factory building.
‘Why? Under what circumstances? 11) tell you. Frank had
been to the police station and had given his statement. Haas
was the man who telephoned me and who employed me—not
Frank, I went to police headquarters and was very much un-
welcomed. There was a frigid atmosphere as I walked in. I
saw Frank for the first time in my life. Insaid: ‘‘What’s the
matter, boyst’’? Somebody anawered that Mr. Frank was
under arrest. Black was there, Lanford was there. Neither
took the pains to deny that he was under arrest. Somebody
said they wanted Mr. Prank to make a statement, and I ad-
vised him to go ahead and make it. When he went into the
office, I followed. They said: ‘‘We don’t want you.’’ I re-
plied that whether they wanted me or not, I was coming, any-
how. I had a good reason, too, for coming. I wanted to
hear what he said so they couldn’t distort his words. While
we were in the room a peculiar thing happened. Frank ex-
posed his person. There were no marks. I said that it was
preposterous to thing that a man could commit such a crime
and not bear some marks. Lanford’s face fell, Why didn’t
Lanford get on the stand and deny it? Was it because he
didn’t want to get into a loving conflict with met Or did he
want to keep from reopening the dark and nasty history of

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