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LEO M. FRANE. 357

planted that shirt sometime Monday, at whose instance and
suggestion we don’t know.

And that club business: Doctor Harris says that that
wound could not have been done with that club, and Doc-
tor Hurt says it could not have been done with that club,
and not a doctor of all the numerous doctors, good men and
good doctors as they are for some purposes, ever denies it.
A physical examination of that shirt shows you that it
wasn't on the person when that blood got on it,—there is as
much blood on the inside or the under side that didn’t
come through to the outside. Lee didn’t deny the shirt,
but he never did say that it was his shirt. Cornered up as
he was, not a negro, one negro in a thousand, that wouldn’t
have denied the ownership of that shirt, but old Lee was
too honest to say that it wasn’t his shirt—he didn’t re-
member it; and you don't know whether it was his or not.

Now this envelope and this stick is found at the radiator,
at the scuttle hole, May 15th, after the place had been
cleaned up, aceording to Darley and other witnesses, in-
eluding Mel Stanford, and after, as I said, it had been thor-
oughly searched by Scott, Campbell, Rosser, Starnes and {
don’t know how many others; and then you say that these
things weren’t a part and parcel of the same scheme that
eaused this man to have Conley write those notes planted
by the body to draw attention away from him. Gentlemen,
you can’t get away from the fact that blood was there, you
ean't do it; now, can you? Just as honest men, now, honest
men can you get away from that? If human testimony is
to be Believed, you’ve got to recognize the fact that blood
was on the second floor, and that there was no blood at the
seuttle hole; that the shirt and the club and the spots were
plants.

“She had left the plant five minutes when Lemmie Quinn,
the foreman of that plant, came in and told me I eouldn’t
Keep him away from the factory even though it was a holi-
day, at which time I smiled and kept on working.’”? Smiled
and kept on working! ‘I wanted to know when they would

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