382 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

350 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

you are born, that man is not like other men. He saw this
girl, he coveted her; others without her stamina and her
character had yielded to his lust, but she denied him, and
when she did, not being like other men, he struck her, he
gagged her, he choked her; and then able counsel go
through the farce of showing that he had no marks on his
person! Durant didn’t have any marks on his person,
either. He didn’t give her time to put marks on his per-
son, but in his shirt sleeves, goaded on by an uncontrollable
passion, this little girl gave up her life in defense of that
which is dearer than life, and you know it.

Why this man says he had an impression of a female
voice saying something. How unjust! This little girl had
evidently—listen at that, gentleman, this little girl whose
name had appeared on the pay-roll, had evidently worked
in the metal department, and never was such a farce en-
acted in the courthouse as this effort on the part of able
counsel to make it appear that that wasn’t blood up there
on that floor. Absurd! Not satisfied with the absurdity
of the contention that it’s paint, that it’s cat blood, rat’s
blood, varnish, they bring in this fellow Lee, who perjures
himself to say that that man stood there just letting the
blood drip. Old man Starnes tells you that they saw the
blood there and chipped it up, and saw the blood right
along on the route towards the elevator; Jim Conley tells
you that right there is where he dropped the head so hard,
end where Frank came and took hold and caught the feet.

Every person that described that blood and its appear-
ance bears it out that it was caused by dropping, because it
was spattered,—one big spot here and other little ones
around it,—and if human testimony is to be believed, you
know that was blood—that that was blood and not paint,
you know that it was the blood of Mary Phagan and not the
blood of Duffy. Duffy says 30. You know that it was the
blood of Mary Phagan because it corresponds with the man-
ner in which Jim Conley says he dropped the body. You
Imnow it’s blood because Chief Beavers saw blood there. It