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LEO M. FRANE. 387

the language, ‘Completely unstrung,”’ and now he changed
it in your presence and said ‘‘almost completely unstrung.””

You tell me that this man that called for breakfast at
home, as Durant called for bromo selizer in San Francisco,
this man who called for coffee at the factory, as Durant
ealled for bromo eelizer in San Francisco, you tell me that
this man Frank, the defendant in this ease, explains his
nervousnesa by reason of the automobile ride, the view of
the body,—as this man Durant, in San Francisco tried to
explain his condition by the inhalation of gas,—you tell me,
gentlemen of the jury, that these explanations are going to
wipe out the nervousness that you know could have been
produced by but one cause, and that is, the consciousness
of an infamous crime that had been committed?

Old Newt Lee says that when he went back there that
afternoon he found that inside door locked,—a thing that
never had been found before he got there at four o’clock, a
thing that he never had found. Old Newt Lee says that
Frank came out of his office and met him out there by the
desk, the place where he always went and said ‘‘All right,
Mr. Frank,” and that Frank had always called him in and
given him his instructions. But Newt Lee says that night,
when he went into the cellar, he found the light, that had
always burned brightly tured back so that it was burning
just about like a lightning bug. You tell me that old Jim
Conley felt the necessity to have turned that light down?
I tell you that that light was turned down, gentlemen, by
that man, Leo M. Frank, after he went down there Satur-
day afternoon, when he discovered that Conley wasn’t com-
ing back to burn the body, to place the notes by the body,
that Conley had written, and he turned it down in the hope
that the body wouldn’t be discovered by Newt Lee during
that night.

Monday evening, Harry Scott is sent for, the Pinkerton
man—and it didn’t require any affidavit to hold old Scott
down to the truth, though after my experience with that
man Darley, I almost trembled in my boots for fear this

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