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348 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

‘White out of the building, in order that he might call Jim
Conley, if Jim had seen, and his esying that he had seen
would have given him away; then it was that he wanted to
get her out of the building, and he sent her upstairs and
then went upstairs to get her out and pretended to be in a
big hurry to get out, but secording to her evidence, instesd
of going out, he didn’t have on his coat and went back in
his office and sat down at his desk. Anxious to get out,—
going to close up right now! Now, that wasn’t the purpose.

Talk about no blood being found back down there? Talk
about no blood being found? Well, there’s two reasons why
there wasn’t any found: Thia lick the girl got on the back
of the head down there wasn’t sufficient to have caused any
great amount of blood, and if old Jim Conley hadn’t
dropped that girl as he went by the dressing room and the
thing hadn't gone out like a sunburst all around there, like
these men describe it, there wouldn’t have been any blood.
When you assaulted her and you hit her and she fell and
she was unconscious, you gagged her with that, and then
quickty you tipped up to the front, where you knew there was
a cord, and you got the cord and in order to save this repu-
tation which you had among the members of the B'nai
B'rith, in order to save, not your character because you
never had it, but in order to save the reputation with the
Haases and the Montags and the members of Doctor Marx’s
ehurch and the members of the B’nai Brith and your kin-
folka in Brooklyn, rich and poor, and in Athens, then it
was that you got the eord and fixed the little girl whom
you had assaulted, who wouldn’t yield to your proposals,
to save your reputation, because dead people tell no tales,
dead people can’t talk. And you talk about George Kend-
ley saying that he would be one to lead a riot, and you talk
about your ability to run George Kendley with a fan or a
corn shuck. I tell you Frank knew and you know that
there would have been men who would have sprung up in
this town, had that little girl lived to tell the tale of that
brutal assault, thet would have run over ten thousand men

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