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310 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

he have going up into those dressing rooms! ‘You tell me to
go up there to the girls’ dressing room, shove open the door
and walk in is a part of his duty, when he has foreladies to
atop itt No, indeed. And old Jim Conley may not have been
fo far wrong as you may think. He saya that somebody went
up there that worked on the fourth floor, he didn’t know who.
This man, according to the evidence of people that I submit
you will believe, notwithstanding the fact that Mr, Reuben R.
Arnold said it waa a lie and called them hair-brained fanat-
jes—according to the testimony even of a lady who works there
now and yet is brave enough and courageous enough to come
down here and tell you that that man had been in a room
with a lady that works on the fourth floor; and it may have
been that he was then, when he went in there on thia little
Jackson girl and the Mayfield girl and Miss Kitchens, look-
ing out to see if the way was clear to take her in again—and
Miss Jackson, their witness, says she heard shout his going
in there three or four times more than she ever saw it, and
they complained to the foreladies—it may have been right
then and there he went to see some woman on the fourth
floor that old Jim Conley saya he saw go up there to meet
him Saturday evening, when all these good people were oat
on Washington Street and Montags, and the pencil factory
employees, even, didn’t know of the oceurrence of these things.
August 23.

Mr. Dorsey. I was just about concluding, yesterday, what
I had to say in reference to the matter of character, and I
think that I demonstrated by the law, to any fair-minded man,
that this defendant has not a good character. The conduct of
counsel in this case, as I stated, in failing to cross-examine, in
refusing to cross-examine these twenty young ladies, refutes
effectively and absolutely the claims of this defendant that
he has good character, As I said, if this man had had a good
character, no power on earth could have kept him and his
counsel from asking those girls where they got their informa-
tion, and why it was they said that this defendant was a man
of bad character. I have already shown you that under the

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