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336 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

actly four times, as I'll show you when I come to read this
statement by Leo M. Frank, for he chatted, and he chatted,
and he chatted, and he chatted, according to his own state-
ment, This letter that I hold in my hand says that thia
negro ‘‘did it”? Old Jim Conley in his statement here, which
T hold in my hand, every time he opened his mouth says ‘‘I
done it.’ Old Jim Conley, if he had written thea¢ notes,
never would have said “‘this negro did it by his self” but
Frank wanted it understood that the man that did do it,
“did it by his self,’ Jim Conley says that Frank says he
wanted to chat, and four times in this statement before they
suspended to go out and let you refresh yourself, this man
Frank had said that somebody came in the offices “‘to chat,”
and Mr. Arnold, in making his argament to the jury, real-
ized, because be is as keen and as smart as they ever get to
be, the force of that word and endeavored to parry the blow
which I now seek to give this defendant.

And you tell me that old Jim Conley, after he had robbed.
and murdered, or after he had ravished and murdered thia
girl, when he would have bad no occasion in the world to have
eared whether her dead body was found right there at that
chute, was snch a fool as to take the time to take her body
way back there in the basement and hide it behind the cor-
ner of that room? [I tell you that it never occurred. That
body was taken down there and put in the place where it was.
‘Why? Beciuse she was murdered on the second floor, where
the blood spots are found, and because Leo M. Frank, the
superintendent of the plant, saw and felt the necessity that
that girl’s bedy should not be found on the second floor of
the pencil factory, but, to use the langnage which he put in
the letter or telegram which be sent to Adolph Montag in
New York, ‘‘in the cellar.’’ My! My! ‘That negro fireman
down here did this.”’

Now, let’s see how many times Jim says ‘‘done it’’; “I
locked the door like he done told me, I remembers that be-
eause the man what was with the baby looked at me like ha
thought I done it.’? That’s when they ran into the man that

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