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LEO WM. FRANE. 335

that it’s foolish. You say it’s foolish. It’s ridiculous. It
was a silly piece of business, it was a great folly; but murder
will out, and Providence directs things in a mysterious way,
and not only that, as Judge Bleckley says, ‘‘Crime, whenever
committed, is a mistake in itself; and what kind of logie is
it that will say that a man committed a crime, which is a
great big mistake and then in an effort to cover it up, won’t
make a smaller mistake?’’ There’s no logic in that position.
The man who commits a erime makes a mistake, and the man
who seeks to cover if up nearly alwaya makes also a little
mistake. And this man here, by these notes, purporting to
have been written by little Mary Phagan, by the verbiage and
the language and the context, in trying to fasten it on an-
other, as sure ag you are sitting in this jury box “‘has indeli-
bly fastened it on himeelf,”’ These gentlemen saw the eignifi-
cance of the difference between Scott’s evidence, when he
‘was before the Coroner,—and he wasn’t quizzed there par-
ticularly about it,—‘‘I told her no,”’ and “I told her ¥ didn’t
Imow ;’? to tell that little girl ‘“No,’? would have given her no
excuse, according to their way of thinking, to go back to see
whether that metal had come or uot, but to tell her “‘I didn’t
know,’’ would lure her back into the anare where she met her
death. And your own detective, Scott, says, after he gave
the thing mature deliberation, that this man on the Monday
evening,—and he was so anxious about getting a detective
that he had that man Schiff telephone three times, three
times, three times, three times,——-remember that,—so anxious
was he. Scott says, after thinking over the matter, that Leo
M. Frank told that girl that he didn’t know whether the
metal bad come or not, and she went back there to see about
the metal, and he followed her back there.

Il tell you another thing, that old Starnes and Campbell
and Rosser, and even Newport Lanford, if he had been called
in, and even if I had been called in, to save my life, could not
have nown that the very word that Leo M. Frank used, ac-
cording to Jim Conley when Conley says Frank told him
“Tm going to chat with a girl,’ would have been used ex-

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