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

328 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

time Tuesday!’’ ‘‘I couldn’t tell you, I guess it was between
eight and nine o’clock.”’ The other one saw him somewhere
between nine and eleven or eleven thirty. This lady, their
witness, saya that he was up there between eight and nine.

‘Why was Frank eo anxious to go up there on that floort
Why? It was because he wanted to see this man Jim Con-
ley that he thought was going to protect him. Mr, Rosser
characterized my suggestion that this man Frank called upon
and expected Jim Conley to conceal the crime as a dirty sug-
gestion, and I accept it as absolutely true, and I go a step
further, and say it was not only dirty, it was infamous.
And he would today sit here in this court house and seo a
jury of honest men put a rope around Jim Conley’s neck,
the man that was brought into it by him; and he didn’t
mean to bring Jim Conley in unless he had to—and he had
to. Jim says the first question he asked him when he saw
him down there after this dastardly crime had been com-
mitted waa, ‘‘Have you seen anybody go upt’’ ‘‘Yes,’’ saya
Jim, ‘I have seen two girls go up but I haven’t seen but one
come down.”’ And then it was that this man saw the abao-
lute necessity of taking Jim into his confidence, because he
imew that Jim was on the lookout for him, and Starnes and
Campbell and Black, combined, together, and even if you
make & composite intellect and add the brilliance of Messrs,
Rosser and Arnold to that of these detectives, could never
have fitted that piece of mosiac into the situation; it iem’t
to be done.

“Jim, have you seen anybody go up!’’ ‘‘Yes,’’ said Jim,
“T see two girls go up but only one came down.”” And you
told Jim to protect you, and Jim tried to do it, and the sug-
gestion was dirty, and worse than that, it is infamous, to be
willing to see Jim Conley hung for a crime that Leo Prank
committed.

But I’m coming to that after a while, I haven’t got to the
State’s ease yet, I'm just cutting away some of the under-
brush that you have tried to plant in this forest of gigantic
oaks to amother up their growth, but you can’t do it, the