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364 . AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

her husband, who wouldn’t have gone to him through snap-
shotters, reporters and over the advice of any Rabbi under
the sun. And you know it. Frank says in his statement,
with reference to these notes written by Conley, “I said I
know he can write.’ How long did it take him to say it, if
he ever said it. ‘‘I received many notes from him asking me
to loan him money, I have received too many notes from him
not to know that he can write.”’ In other words, saya Frank,
in his statement, I have received notes signed with his name,
purporting to have been written by him, and he says they
were written by a pencil. Frank says he said ‘‘I told them
if you will look in the drawer in the safe yon will flnd the
eard of a jeweler from whom Conley bought a watch on the
installment plan.’? He corroborates Conley there, with refer-
ence to the watch incident and what occurred there in his
office when Conley told him not to take any more money out.
“‘Now, perhaps if you go to that jeweler you may find some
sort of receipt that Conley had to give and be able to prove
that Conley can write.” Scott says that no such thing ever
happened. But if Frank knew so well that this man Conley
could write, in the name of fairness why didn’t Frank, when
he saw those notes at the polices station, found beside this
dead body, then and there say ‘‘this is the writing of James
Conley?’’ Why didn’t he do it? Scott denies that any such
thing happened, or that they came into possession of any in-
formation from Frank that led to knowledge on their part
that this man Conley could write. And up to the time that
they discovered this man Conley could write, this man
had kept his month sealed and it was only the knowledge on
the part of the detectives and the knowledge on the part of
Conley that the detectives knew he was lying about his ability
to write, that forced him to make the first admission that he
was connected with this crime. He says he knew that Con-
ley could write. Why, then, did he kesp his mouth shut
until the detectives discovered it, when he knew that the
notes found beside that poor girl’s body was the one key that
. waa going to unlock the Phagan mystery?

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