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LEO M. FRANK. 337

Jim says looked at him like he thought “‘I done it.'?
It’s the difference between ignorance and education, and
these notes that you had that man prepare in your office on
this paper that stayed on that floor and on that pad that
eame from your office, bear the marks of your diction, and
Starnes and Campbell, with all their ingenuity, couldn’t have
anticipated that old Jim would get up here and state that
“this man looked at me when he ran into that baby, like I
done it;’? and couldn’t have made him say ‘‘I locked the
door like he done told me;”’ and couldn’t have said “‘I went
on and walked up to Mr. Frank and told him that girl was
done dead, he done just like this and said sh-h-h.”” I could go
on with other instances,

‘And there’s your word “chat,” ‘‘chat,”” “chat,” “chat,”
four times, I’m going to read it to you, it’s here in black 4nd
white, and you can’t get around it. This girl went down
there in that seuttle hole? Listen at this,—you didn't want
to say that she went back there to ses about the metal, but
you knew that the ladies’ water closet was back there, and
you make this poor girl say ‘‘I went to make water,” “I
went to make water, he pushed me down that hole, a long,
tall, black negro’’—'‘long, slim, tall, negro, I write while he
play with me.’’ And this note says ‘‘that long, tall, black
negro did it by his self."” Make water? Where did she go to
make water? Right back there in the same direction that she
would have gone to see about the metal. You tell me, except
providentially, that that would have crept in here? You tell
me that old Jim Conley, negro, after he had struck that girl
with that big stick,—which is a plant as sure as you are liv-
ing here and as sure as Newt Lee’s shirt was a plant,—you
tell me that negro felt any inducement or necessity for leay-
ing that girl’s form anywhere except where he hit her and
knocked her down! You tell me that he had the ingenuity,
—and mark you, Starnes and these other men weren’t there
then to dictate and map out,—you tell me that he would
‘write a note that she went back to make water when there’s
no place and her usual place was up there on the second floor?

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