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police force of the City of Atlanta, he would have been a lib-
erated man, when he stepped into this Court to swear, or he
would have been spirited out of the State of Georgia so his
damaging evidence eouldn’t have been adduced against this
man.

But yet you say Conley is impeached? You went thor-
oughly into this man Conley’s previous life. You found
out every person for whom he had worked, and yet this
lousy, disreputable negro is unimpeached by any man ex-
eept somebody that’s got a hand in the till of the National
Pencil Company, unimpeached as to general bad character,
except by the hirelings of the National Pencil Company.
And yet you would have this jury, in order to turn this
men loose, over-ride the facts of this case and say that Con-
ley committed this murder, when all you have ever been
able to dig up against him is disorderly conduct in the Po-
lice Court. Is Conley sustained? Abundantly. Our proof
of general bad character, the existence of auch character as
ean reasonably be supposed to cause one to commit an act
like we charge, our proof of general bad character, I say, sus-
tains Jim Conley. Our proof of general bad character as
to laseivionsness not even denied by a single witness, sus-
tains Jim Conley. Your failure to cross-examine and de-
velop the souree of information of these girls put upon the
stand by the State,—these ‘“‘hair-brained fanaties,’? as Mr.
Arnold called them, without rhyme or reason, sustains Jim
Conley. Your failure to cross-examine our character wit-
nesses with reference to this man’s character for lascivious-
ness sustains Jim Conley. His relations with Miss Rebecca
Carson, the lady on the fourth floor, going into the ladies’
dressing room even in broad daylight and during working
hours, as sustained by Miss Kitchens.

His relations with Miss Rebecca Carson, who is shown to
have gone into the ladies’ dressing room, even in broad day-
light and during work hours, by witnesses whose names I
can’t call right now, sustains Jim Conley. Your own wit-
neas, Miss Jackson, who says that this libertine and rake