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tures accounts for the nervousness which he displayed; and
yet we find him going, like a dog to his vomit, a sow to her
wallow, back to view the remains of this poor little innocent
girl. And I ask you, gentlemen of the jury, if you don’t
know that the reason Leo M. Frank went down to that
morgue on Sunday afternoon was to see if he eould scent
anything in the atmosphere indicating that the police sus-
pected Leo M. Frank? He admits his nervousness, he ad-
mits his nervousness in the presence of the officers; the Se-
liga say that he wasn’t nervous, that he wasn’t nervous Sat-
urday night when he telephoned Newt Lee to find out if any-
thing had happened at the factory, that ke wasn't nervous
when he read this Saturday Evening Post.

He wanted to get out of the view of any men who repre-
sented the majesty and dignity of the law, and he went in
behind curtains or any old thing that would hide his counte-
nance from those men.

I come back to the proposition in the bosom of his family,
—notwithstanding he read that Saturday Evening Post out
there in the hall Saturday night, this thing kept welling in
his breast to such an extent that he had to make a play of
being composed and cool, and he went in there and tried to
break up the card game with the laughter that was the
laughter of a guilty conscience. Notwithstanding the fact
that he was able, Sunday, at the dining table and in tho
posom of his family, when he hadn’t discussed this murder,
when Mrs, Selig didn’t know that it was a murder that con-
cerned her, when the whole Selig household were treating
it ag a matter of absolute indifference, if he wasn’t nervous
there, gentlemen of the jury, surely he was, as I am going to
show you, nervous when he came face to face and had to dis-
euss the proposition with the minions of the law.

He was nervous when he went to run the elevator, when
he went to the box to turn on the power, and he says here in
his statement, unsupported by any oath, that he left that box
open because some member of the fire department had come
around and stated that you must leave that box open because

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