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334 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

no slush fund back of this case. Now, let’s pass on here a
little bit.

They tried mighty hard to break down this man Albert
McKnight with Minola—and I believe 1711 leave that for a
little later and come now to this statement of Frank's. Gen-
tlemen, I wish I could travel faster over this. I’m doing the
very best I ean, J have a difficult task and I wish I didn’t
have it to do st all.

Now, gentlemen, I want to discuss briefly right here these
letters, and if these lettera weren’t ‘‘the order of an all-ruling
Providenes I should agree with my friends that they are the
silliest pieces of stuff ever practiced; but these lettera have
intrinsic marks of a Imowledge of this transaction,’’ these
pada, that pad,—things usually found in his office —this man
Frank, by the language of these notes, in attempting to fas-
ten the crime upon another, ‘‘hag indelibly fixed it upon him-
self."’ I repeat it, these notes, which were intended to fix the
erime upon another, ‘have indelibly fixed it upon this de-
fendant,” Leo M. Frank. The pad, the paper, the fact that
he wanted a note,—you tell me that ever a negro lived on the
face of the earth who, after having killed and robbed, or rav-
ished and murdered a girl down in that dark basement, or
down there in that area, would have taken up the time to
have written these notes, and written them on 4 scratch pad
which is thing that usually stays in the office, or written
them on paper like this, found right outside of the office of
Frank, as shown on that diagram, which is introduced in evi-
dence and which you will have out with yout You tell me
that that man, Jim Conley, sober, as Tillander and Graham
tell you, when they went there, would have ravished this girl
with a knowledge of the fact that Frank was in that house?
T tell you no. Do you tell me that this man, Jim Conley,
“drunk as a fiddler’s bitch,’’ if you want it that way, would,
or could have taken time to have written these notes to put
beside the body of that dead girl? I tell you no, and you
don’t need me to tell you, you know it. The fact, gentlemen
of the jury, that these notes were written—eh, but you say

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