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296 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

but T don’t want to. This seems to me the most unkindest
eut of alt. They say that that time slip was planted. They
say the shirt was planted. Gentlemen, is there any evidence
of thie? Let’s see about this statement. Black and somebody
else, I believe, went out to Newt’s house on Tuesday morning
and found tho shirt in the bottom of a barrel. They brought
the shirt back to the police station and Newt said the shirt
was his—or it looked like his shirt. Newt Lee had been
hired at the factory ‘but three weeks, yet they want you to
believe that they found a shirt ike the old man had and went
out to his house and put it in a barrel.

One thing is wrong. The newspapers and others, I am
afraid, think this is a contest between lewyers. It is not.
God forbid that I should let any such thing enter into this
case when this boy’a life is at stake.

There are several things I don’t understand about this
case, and never will, Why old man Lee didn’t find the body
sooner ; why he found it lying on its face; how he saw it from
4 place he could not have seen it from. I was raised with
niggers and know something about them. I do not know them
ag well ag the police, perhaps, for they know them like no one
elee. But I know something about them.

There must have been 8 nigger in the crime who knew
about it before Newt or anyone else. I am afraid Newt knew.
Yet, if he did, he is one of the most remarkable niggers I
ever saw and I wish I had his nerve. There were things you
detectives did to him for which you will never be forgiven.
You persecuted the old nigger, and all you got was ‘Fo’ God
T don’t know,”’ I don’t believe he killed her, but T believe he
knows more than he told.

But they say now that he jumped back. Suppose he did
jump back. Look at the boy (Frank). If you put a girl the
size of Mary Phagan in a room with him she could make him
jump out of the window. Suddenly this boy stepped out in
front of this giant of a Gantt, and he jumped back. Dorsey
would have done the same thing; Newt Lee would; Jim Con-
Jey would, and f would, as big as I am.

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