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

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home after he killed that girl and ehanged his clothing,
that old Newt didn’t have the time.

Why did he say it then? Beeause he knew that Lanford
and Black and the other detectives who were there would
have examined that slip for themselves, then and there, and
would have seen that these punches wero regular or irreg-
ular. But he stood there, and because he knew he would
pe detected if he tried te palm off a fraud at thet time and
place, this man of keen perception, thia man who is quick at
figures, this Cornell graduate of high standing, looked over
those figures which register the punches for simply twelve
hours,—unot quite twelve houra,—in that presence, sur-
rounded by those men, told them that Newt Lee wouldn’t
have had the time, but, ah! Monday afternoon, when he
sees that there ian’t enough evidence against Newt Lee, and
that the thing ain’t working quite as nicely against this
man Gantt, who he told was familiar with this little girl,
Mary Phagan, and then he suddenly proposes, after a con-
ference with his astute counsel, Mr. Haas, that ‘“‘you go out
to my house and make a search,’’ and then, in the samo
breath and at the same time, he shrewdly and adroitly sug-
gests to Black that Newt Lee, he has suddenly discovered,
had time to go out to his house, and forthwith, early Tues-
@ay morning, John Black, not having been there before be-
cause Leo M. Frank told him that Newt Lee didn’t have
time to go out to his house, but after the information comes
in then Tuesday morning, John Black puts out and goes to
old Newt’s house and finds a shirt; that’s a plant as sure as
the envelope is a plant, as the stick is e plant, as the spots
around the seuttle hole, And the man that did his job, did
it too well; he geta a shirt that has the odor of blood, but
one that has none of the seent of the negro Newt Lee in the
armpit. He puts it, not on one side, as any man moving a
body would necessarily have done, but he smears it on both
sides, and this carries with it, as you as honest men must
know, unmistakable evidence of the fact that somebody