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386 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

was that he dared not say, because he couldn’t then say,
that he sew that man also sweeping them out; then it was
that he said “all right, Newt, go up with him and let him
get them,” and lo and behold, the shoes that this man
Frank would have him believe were swept out, both tan
and black were there. Gantt tells you how he acted; Newt
tells you how he jumped. Rogers and Black, honest men
when they went out there after Mr. Starnes had talked to
him, tell you that he was nervous. Why? Why do you say
you were nervous; because of the automobile ride? Because
you looked into the face of this little girl and it was such a
gruesome sight? I tell you, gentlemen of the jury, and
you know it, that this man Frank needed, when he had his
wife go down to the door, somebody to sustain him. I tell
you that this man Frank, when he hed his wife telephone
Darley to meet him at the factory, did it because he wanted
somebody to sustain him. I tell you, gentlemen of the jury,
that, because he sent for Mr. Rosser,—big of reputation and
big of brain, dominating and controlling, so far as he can,
everybody with whom he comes in contact, the reason he
wanted him at the Police Headquarters, and the reason he
wanted Haas, was because his conscience needed somebody
to sustain him,

And this man Darley! We had to go into the enemy’s
camp to get the ammunition, but fortunately, I got on the
job and sent the subpoena, and fortunately Darley didn’t
know that he didn’t have to come, and fortunately he came
and made the affidavit, to which he stood up here as far as
he had to because he couldn’t get around it, in which Dar-
ley says “I noticed his nervousness; I noticed it upstairs, I
noticed it downstairs,’’ when they went to nail up the door.
“When he sat in my lap going down to the Police Headquar-
ters he shook and he trembled like an aspen leaf.” I con-
fronted him with the statement, in which he had said ‘‘eom-
pletely undone.’? He denied it but said ‘almost undone.’
I confronted him with the statement that he had made, and
the affidavit to which he hed sworn, in which he had used

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