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of a store employing two or three people, and we don’t now
how many more; and if the uncle wasn’t in Brooklyn, he was
80 near thereto that even Frank himself thought he was at the
very moment he claimed he was there, because he says, “you
have seen or are with the people in Brooklyn.”

All right; let’s go a step further. On April 28th, he wired
Adolph Montag in care of the Imperial Hotel—listen, now,
to what he says—‘You may have read in Atlanta papers of
factory girl found dead Sunday morning.’ In factory? In
factory? No, ‘‘in cellar’? Cellar where? ‘‘Cellar of pencil
feetory.”” There’s where he placed her, there’s where he ex-
pected her to be found; and the thing welled up in his mind
to gach an extent that, Monday morning, April 28th, before
he had ever been arrested, he wires Montag forestalling what
he knew would surely and certainly come unless the Atlanta
detectives were corrupted and should suppress it,

“You have read in Atlanta papers of factory girl found
dead Sunday morning in cellar of pencil factory. Police will
eventually solve it,”"—he didn’t have any doubt about it—
“Police will eventually solve it’’—and be it said to their
eredit, they did,—‘‘Assure my uncle’’—he says, Monday
morning—‘‘I am all right in ease he asks. Our company has
ease well in hand.’’ ‘Girl found dead in peneil factory cel-
lar,’’ he says in the telegram, ‘‘the police will eventually
solve it,’”? he says, before he was arrested, ‘‘I am all right,
in case my uncle asks,”’ and ‘‘our company has the case well
in hand.’”

‘Well, maybe he did think that when he got that fellow
Scott, that he had it well in hand. 171 tell you, there’s an
honest man. If there was a slush fund in this case,—these
witnesses here say they don’t know anything about it, but if
there was a slush fund in this case, Scott could have got it,
because, at first, he never heard any words that sounded bet-
ter to him than when Scott said ‘‘we travel arm in arm with
the poliee,’”’ that’s exactly what Frank wanted them to do
at that time, he wanted somebody that would ran with Black
and Starnes and Rosser, and it sounded good to him, and

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