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LEO M. FRANK. 381

this man Frank had stepped out of his office to answer a call
of nature, that he would have remembered it, and if he
wouldn’t have remembered it, at least he wouldn’t have
stated so repeatedly and unqualifiedly that he never left his
office, and only on the stand here, when he faces an honest
jury, charged with the murder, and circumstances banked
‘up against him, does he offer the flimsy excuse that these are
things that people do unconsciously and without any recol-
leetion. But this man Seott, in company with Black, after
they found that little Monteen Stover had been there at
exactly the time that old Jim Conley says that that man
with this poor little unfortunate girl had gone to the rear,
and on May 8rd, the very time that Monteen Stover told them
that she had ‘been up there, at that time this Pinkerton de-
tective, Scott, aa honest and honorable a man as ever lived,
the man who said he was going hand in hand with the police
department of the City of Atlanta and who did, notwith-
standing the fact that some of the others undertook to leap
with the hare and ron with the hounds, stood straight up by
the city detectives and by the State officials and by the truth,
put these questions, on May 3rd, to Leo M. Frank: saya he
to Frank: .

“From the time you got to the factory from Montag
Brothers, until you went to the fourth floor to see White and
Denham, were you inside your office the entire time’? An-
swer: “TI was.’”? Again, says Scott—and Mr. Scott, in jail,
when Frank didn’t know the importance of the proposition
becanse he didn’t know that little Monteen Stover had said
that she went up there and saw nobody in his office—Scott
came at him from another different angle: ‘‘From the time
you eame from Montag Brothers, until Mary Phagan came,
were you in your officet’”’ and Frank said ‘‘yes.’? ‘From
twelve o’clock,’’ says Seott, ‘“‘until Mary Phagan entered
your office and thereafter until 12:50, when you went up-
stairs to get Mre. White out of the building, were you in
your offce?’’? Answer: ‘‘Yes.’? ‘Then,’ says Scott, ‘‘from
twelve to twelve-thirty, every minute during thst half hour,

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