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880 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

had been up there, he innocently called Newt up to find out,
he said, if Gantt had gone and Newt said to find out if every-
thing was all right at the factory; and you know that the
reason he called up was to find out if Newt, in making his
ronnds, had discovered the body of this dead girl.

“Would you conviet him on this circumstance or that cir-
eumstance!’? No. But I would weave them all together, and
I would make a rope, no one strand of which sufficiently
strong to send this man to the gallows for this poor girl’s
death, but I would take them all together and I would say,
in conformity with the truth and right, they all make such
@ rope and such a strand and such a cable that it’s impos
sible not only to conceive a reasonable doubt, but to conceive
any doubt at all.

Frank was in jail, Frank had already stated in his affidavit
at police headquarters, which is in evidence, contradicting
this statement and thia chart which they have made, that he
didn’t leave his office between certain hours. Frank didn’t
know that his own detective, Harry Scott, had found thia lit-
tle Monteen Stover,—and I quote her evidence, I quote it
and I submit it shows that she went in that office and went far
enough in that office to see who was in there, and if she
didn’t go far enough in, it’s passing strange that anybody in
that offiee,—Frank himself, could have heard that girl and
could have made his presence mown. Scott, their own Pink-
erton detective, gets the statement from Monteen Stover,
and he visits Leo M. Frank in his cell at the jail, Frank
in order to evade that says, ‘‘to the best of my recollection
T didn’t stir out of the office, but it’s possible that, in order
to answer a call of nature, I may have gone to the toilet,
these are things that a man does unconsciously and can’t
tell how many times nor when he does it.’

T tell you, gentlemen of the jury, that if this man Frank
had remained in his offiee and was in his office when Monteen.
Stover went in there, he would have heard her, he would
have seen her, he would have talked with her, he would have
given her her pay. I tell you, gentlemen of the jury, that if

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