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LEO MW. FRANE, 329

facts are too firmly and too deeply rooted. Oh, yes, says
Mra. Small, I saw Frank up there on that fourth floor be-
tween eight and nine o'clock Tuesday morning, and the other
lady saw him up there between nine and eleven, she wouldn’t
‘be sure the day he was arrested—I say arrested, according to
Frank’s own statement himself, they got him and just de-
tained him, and even then, red-handed murderer as he was,
his standing and influence, and the standing and influence of
his attorney, somehow or other—and that’s the only thing to
the discredit of the police department throughout the whole
thing, say what you may—they were intimidated and afraid
because of the influence that was back of him, to consign him
to a cell like they did Lee and Conley, and it took them a
little time to arrive at the point where they had the nerve
and courage to face the situation and put him where he
ought to be.

Now, I'll tell you another thing, too, if old John Biaek—
and Mr. Rosser didn’t get such a great triumph out of him
es be would have us believe, either. Black’s methods are
somewhat like Rosser’s methods, and if Black had Roser
where Rosser had Black, or if Black had Roeser down at
police station, Biack would get Rosser; and if Black had been
given an opportunity to go after this man, Leo M. Frank,
like he went after that poor defenseless negro, Newt Lee,
towards whom you would have directed suspicion, this trial
might have been obviated, and a confession might have beet:
obtained, You didn’t get your lawyer to sustain you and
support you a moment too soon. You called for Darley, and
you called for Haas, and you called for Rosser, and you called
for Arnold, and it took the combined efforts of all of them
to keep up your nerve. And I don’t want to misquote and
I won't misquote, but I want to drive it home with all the
power that I possibly can or that I possess. The only thing
in this case that can be said to the discredit of the police de-
partment of the City of Atlanta is that you treated this man,
who snuffed ont that little girl’s life on the second floor of
that pencil factory, with too much consideration, and you

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