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whether it’s fair or not,—that’s a fair statement?’ And
Albert says, ‘‘I don’t know whether it’s fair or not, but I
know I saw Leo M. Frank come in there some time between
one and two o’clock Saturday, April 26th, and I know he
didn’t stay but about ten minutes and left to go to town.”
And he tells you the way in which he left, and Frank in his
statement saye that, while he didn’t get on that car, he
went in such a direetion as Albert McKnight might have
naturally supposed he went down there. ‘‘Minola she went
in there but stayed only a minute or two in the dining
room, I never looked at the elock.”’ ‘‘You don’t know ex-
actly what time!’’ ‘No, but I know it was obliged to have
been something after one when Mr. Frank esme there and
he came in and went before the sideboard and then went
back to town.’? And he says “I don’t know exactly
whether he did or not because I have never been in the
house no further than the cook room.”” Then he saya ‘Who
did you tell?’ ‘‘I told Mr. Craven.’? ‘*Who is Craven!”
“He is the boss at the plow department at the Beck &
Gregg Hardware Company;”’ and that’s the way the de-
tectives got hold of it, and try all you will to break old
Albert down, I submit to you, gentlemen, that he has told
the absolute truth and stands unimpeached.
August 35.

Mr. Dorsey: T regretted more than you the necessity for
your being carried over another week or, rather, another
Sunday. I was even more exhausted than I anticipated,
and this morning my throat and voice are in such shape
that I fear I will not be able to do the case the justice it
demands. I thought myself, had we not had the adjourn-
ment that I might have been able to finish my speech and
His Honor charge you Seturday afternoon, but I am sure
such would not have been the case.

‘When we closed on Saturday, I was just completing a
brief analysis of the statement made by this defendant.
I’m not going into any exhaustive analysis of that state-
ment, because it is not necessary to further inconvenience