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

322 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

fair men, courageous men, trae Georgians, seeking to do your
duty, that that phrase, penned by that man to his uncle on
Saturday afternoon, didn’t come from a conscience that was
its own accuser? ‘‘It is too short a time since you left for
anything startling to have developed down here.””’ What do
you think of that? And then listen at this—as if that old
gentleman, his uncle, cared anything for this proposition, this
old millionaire traveling abroad to Germany for his health,
this man from Brooklyn—an eminent authority says that
‘unusual, unnecessary, unexpected and extravagant expres-
sions are always earmarks of fraud; and do you tell me that
this old gentleman, expecting to sail for Europe, the man who
wanted the price list and financial sheet, cared anything for
those old heroes in gray? And isn’t this sentence itself sig-
nificant: ‘“‘Today was youtiff (holiday) here, and the thin
gray lines of veterans here braved the rather chilly weather
to do honor to their fallen comrades”; and this from Leo M.
Frank, the statistician, to the old man, the millionaire, or
nearly so, who cared so little about the thin gray line of vet-
erans, but who cared all for how much money had been gotten
in by the pencil factory.

“Too short a time for anything startling to have happened
down here ainee you left’’; but there was something startling,
and it happened within the space of thirty minutes, ‘‘There
is nothing new in the factory to report.’* Ah! there was some-
thing new, and there was something startling, and the time
‘waa not too short. You can take that letter and read it for
yourself. You tell me that letter was written in the morning,
do you believe it? I tell you that that letter shows on its face
that something startling had happened, and that there was
something new in the factory, and I tell you that that rich
uncle, then supposed to be with his kindred in Brooklyn,
didn’t care a flip of his finger about the thin gray line of vet-
erans. His people lived in Brooklyn, that’s one thing dead
sure and certain, and old Jim never would have known it ex-
cept Leo M. Frank had told him, and they had at least $20,000
in cold cash out on interest, and the brother-in-law the owner