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LEO M. FRANE,. 865

You know why. Ah, you did know that Conley could
write. You knew it, not only because he wrote the notes for
you, through which you sought to place the responsibility
for this crime on another man, but you knew it because he
checked up the boxes of pencils, and he had written you
numerons notes to get money from you, just like he borrowed
money from those other people in that factory. You knew
thet the most powerful fact that could be brought to light
showing who committed this dastardly crime was to find
who penned the notes placed with the body; and yet, al-
though you saw them, according to your own statement, at
police headquarters and saw them there the very Sunday
morning that the crime was committed, not a word, not a
word, although the notes themselves said that the crime was
done by a negro. It is not necessary to discuss that further.

Frank says, with reference to this visit of Conley to the
factory, after Conley had gone through over yonder and
demonstrated in detail, as told you by Branch, and in the
same length of time and almost to the minute that Conley
himself says it took, too, though Conley only knows the clock
registered four minutes to one and don’t know anything
about the balance of the time, he says, with reference to the
visit of Conley to the jail, when Conley wanted to confront
him, “TI told them if they got the permission, I told them
through my friend Mr. Klein, that if they got the permis-
sion of Mr. Rosser to come, I would speak to them, would
speak to Conley and face him or anything they wanted, if
they got the permission of Mr. Rosser. Mr. Rosser was on
that day up at Talloleh Falls trying a case.’? But Mr. Ros-
ser got back, didn’t he? Mr. Rosser didn’t remain at Tallu-
Jah Falls,

I tell you, gentlemen of the jury, measuring my words aa
I utter them, and if you have sense enough to get out of a
shower of rain you know it’s true, that never in the history
of the Anglo-Saxon race, never in the history of the Afriean
race in America, never in the history of any other race, did
an ignorant, filthy negro, accuse a white man of a crime and

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