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

324 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

he said all right. He didn't want him to run anywhere else,
because he wanted him to work hand in glove with these
men, and he wanted to know what they did and what they
said and whet they thought. But Haas—and he’s nobody’s
fool—when he saw that they were getting hot on the trail,
opened up the conversation with the suggestion that ‘‘now
you let us have what you get, first,”’ and if Scott had fallen
for that suggestion, then there would have been something
else. You know it. You tell me that letter and that telegram
are not significant? I tell you that this evidence shows, not-
withstanding what ‘‘Joe Darter’’ Schiff swore, when he saw
the neceasity to meet this evidence of Miss Fleming, which
Mr. Arnold tried so hard, because he saw the force of it, to
turn into another channel, that Frank didn’t fix that finan-
eial sheet Saturday morning. I say that, with the steno-
grapher gone and Frank behind (and Schiff had never done
such a thing before, he had always stuck to him in getting
it up before), that what Gantt told you is the truth.

This man, expert, brilliant—talk about this expert aceount-
ant, Joel Hunter! Why, he isn’t near as smart as this man
Frank, to begin on, and besides, the idea of his going up there
and taking up those things and trying to institute a compari-
son as to how long it would take him, even if he had the ca-
pacity of Frank—he hasn’t got it—to go up there and do
thoae things—why, it’s worse than ridiculous.

And Frank himself wasn’t satisfied with all this showing
about what he had done, he got up on the stand—he saw
the weakness of his case, and he’s as smart as either one of
his lawyers, too, let me tell you, and I71l bet you he wrote
that statement, too, they may have read it, but he wrote it-—
Frank realized that he must go over and beyond what the evi-
dence was, and through his statement he sought to lug into
this case something that they didn’t have any evidence for.
Why! Because be knew in his heart that all this talk about
the length of time it took to fix that financial sheet was mere
buncombe. Then he seeks to put in here through that state-
ment—and if we hadn't stopped him he would have done it—