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LEO M. FRANE. 351

spattered towards the dressing room; you know it was
blood because Starnes says he saw it was blood and he saw
that the haskoline had been put over it,—and I’m going to
read you this man’s statement, too, unless I give. out phys-
ically, about this haskoline, it’s the purest subterfuge that
ever & man sought to palm off on an honest jury.

Starnes tells you that ‘2 found more blood fifty feet
nearer the elevator on a nail.” Barrett,—Christopher Co-
lumbus Barrett, if you will, that discovered the hair that
was identified, I believe, by Magnolia Kennedy, Monday
morning, es soon as they began work, before anybody ever
had had time to write a reward,—Barrett, who was not
caught in a single lie, Barrett, who though he works for the
National Pencil Company, had the manhood to stand up—I
trust him and put him up against this man Holloway, who
says that Jim Conley was his nigger. This man Holloway,
who made a statement to me in my office, when he didn’t
see the purpose and the import and the force of the sugges-
tion that this elevator key, after the elevator box was
locked, was always put in Frank's office, but when it be
eame apparent that too many people saw this man Frank
Sunday morning go there and turn the lever in the power
box, without going to his office to get the key, then it was
that this man Holloway, who we put up and for whose ve-
racity we vouched and who betrayed us and entrapped us,
after he saw the force of the suggestion, after he had told
us that always, without exception, he had locked this ele-
vator box himself and put the key in Frank's office, throws
us down and by his own affidavit ag read in your presence
here, made at a time when he didn’t see the importance of
the proposition, changed his evidence and perjured him-
self either to have this jury acquit this guilty defendant,
his boss and employer, or to get the reward for the convie-
tion of “this nigger,’ Jim Conley.

Contrast him with Barrett,—Barrett, the man who dis-
eovered the hair on hia machine early in the morning and
whose attention was called to this blood there by the dress-

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