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LEO M. FRANK. 297

Here is another suspicious thing. Newt Lee came to the
factory at four o’clock and Frank sent the old man away, It
was suggested thet he waa afraid the nigger would find the
body, yet when he came back at 6, Frank let him stay at the
factory when he knew that in 30 minutes Newt was on the
job he must go into the basement where they say Frank knew
the body was.

They say he was laughing at his home. If he had known of
the crime of which he would be accused, that laugh would
have been the laugh of a maniac to be ended by the discovery
of the body.

Another suspicious thing. You know that he was in the fac-
tory, int it turns out that he was not the only one, If the
corpse was found in the basement and he was the only one
in the building, then there might be some basis. But he was
in an open room and there were workmen upstaira. My friend
tried to dispute that, That wasn’t all. Conley was also
there, and it came out yesterday that there was also another
nigger—a lighter nigger than Conley—there. What scoun-
drels in white skin were in the building and had opportunity
to commit the erime, God only knows.

The thing that arises in this case to fatigue my indignation
ia that men horn of such parents should believe the statement
of Conley against the statement of Frank. Who is Conley?
‘Who was Conley as he used to be and as you have seen him?
He was a dirty, filthy, black, drunken, lying nigger. Black
knows that. Starnes knows that. Chief Beavera knows it.
‘Who was it that made this dirty nigger come up here looking
80 slick? Why didn’t they let you see him as he wast They
shaved him, washed him and dressed him up. Gentlemen of
the jury, the charge of moral perversion against a man is a
terrible thing for him, ‘but it is even more eo when that man
has a wife and mother to be affected by it. Dalton, even Dal-
ton did not say this against Frank. It was just Conley. Dal-
ton, you remember, did not even say that Frank was guilty
of wrong-doing as far as he knew. There never was any
proof of Frank’s alleged moral perversion, unless you call Jim

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