348 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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‘waiting for her companions, this daughter of an employee of
Montag comes into this presence and tells you the unreason-
able, absurd story, the stery that’s in contradiction to the
story made by Frank, which has been introduced in evidence
and will be out with you, that she saw that fellow up there
at Jacobe’.

On this time proposition, I want to read you this—it made
wonderful impression on me when I read it— it's the won-
derful speech of a wonderful man, a lawyer to whom even
such men as Mesera, Arnold and Rosser, as good as the country
affords, as good men and as good lawyers as they are, had they
stood in his presence, would have pulled off their hata in admi-
ration for his intellect and his character—I refer to Danict
Webster, and I quote from Webater’a great epeech in the
Knapp ease:

“Time is identical, its subdivisions are all alike, no man knows
one day from another, or one hour from another, dut by some fact,
connected with it. Days and hours are not visible to the senses, nor
to be apprehended and distinguished by understanding, He who

apeaks of the date, the minute and the hour of oocurrences with
nothing to guide hia reeollection, speaks at random.”

That’s put better than I could have put it. That’s put
tersely, concisely, logically, and it’s the truth. Now, what ele
about this alibi, this chronological table here, moved up and
down to save a few minutes? The evidenoe, as old Sig Montag
warned me not to do, twisted, yea, I'll say contorted, warped,
in order to sustain this man in hia claim of an alibi. For
instance, they got it down here ‘Frank arrived at the factory,
according to Holloway, Alonzo Mann, Roy Irby, at 8:25.”
‘That's getting it down some, ain't it? Frank says he arrived
at 8:30. Old Jim Conley, perjured, lousy and dirty, says that
he arrived there at 8:30, and he arrived, carrying a rain coat.
And they tried mightily to make it appear that Frank didn’t
have a rain coat, that he borrowed one from his brother-in-law,
but Mrs. Traenback says that Frank had one; and if the truth
were known, I venture the assertion that the reason Frank
borrowed Ursenback’s rain coat on Sunday was because, after