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308 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

‘We did exercise that right in the examination of one wit-
ness, but knowing that we couldn’t put specific instances in
unleas they drew it out, I didn’t want even to do this man the
injustice, so we suspended, and we put it before this jury in
this kind of position—you put his character in, we put up
witnesses to disprove it, you, could cross examine every one of
them and ask them what they knew and what they had heard
and what they had seen; we had already given them enough
instances, but they didn’t dare, they didn’t dare to do it.
Mark you, now, here's the law:

“Where character is put in issue, the direct examination
must relate to the general reputation;’’ we couldn’t go fur-
ther, but on cross examination, when we put up these little
girls, sweet and tender, ah, but ‘‘particular instances or
statements of single individuals, you could have brought into
the inquiry,’’ but you dared not do it. You tell me that
the testimony of these good people living out on Washington
Street, the good people connected with the Hebrew Orphans’
Home, Doctor Marx, Doctor Sonn, you tel! me that they know
the character of Leo M. Frank aa these girls do, who have
worked there but are not now under the influence of the Na-
tional Pencil Company and its employees? Do you tell me
that if you are aceused of a crime, or I am accused of a crime,
and your character or my character is put in issue, that if f
‘were Mean enough to do it, or if Messra. Starnes and Camp-
bell were corrupt enough to do it, that you could get others
who would do your bidding? [I tell you, in principle and com-
mon sense, it is a dastardly suggestion. You know it, and I
know you know it, and you listen to your conscience and it
will tell you you know it, and you have got no doubt about it.
The trouble about this business is, throughout the length and
breadth of our land, there’s too much shenanigane and too
little honest, plain dealings; let’s be fair, let’s be honest, let’s
be courageous! ‘Tell me that old Pat Campbell or John
Starnes or Mr. Rosser—in whose veins, he saya, there flows
the same blood as flows in the attorney’s veins—that they
could go and get nineteen or twenty of them, through preju-

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