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LEO M. FRANE, 393

came, when these girls were in there reclining and lounging
after they had finished their piece work, and tells of the sar-
donic grin that lit his countenance, sustains Jim Conley.
Miss Kitchens, the lady from the fourth floor, that, in spite
of the repeated assertion made by Mr. Arnold, you didn’t
produce, and her account of this man’s conduct when he
came in there on these girls, whom he should have protected
and when he should have been the last man to go in that
room, sustains Jim Conley; and Miss Jackson's assertion
that she heard of three or four other instances and that
complaint was made to the foreladies in charge, sustains
Jim Conley. Darley and Mattie Smith, as to what they did
even on the morning of Saturday, April 26th, even going
into the minutest details, sustain Jim Conley. MeCrary,
the old negro that you praised so highly, the man that keeps
his till filled by money paid by the National Pencil Com-
pany, as to where he put his stack of hay and the time of
day he drew his pay, sustains Jim Conley. Monteen Stover,
as to the easy-walking shoeg she wore when she went up
into this man’s Frank’s room, at the very minute he waa
back there in the metal department with this poor little
unfortunate girl, sustains Jim Conley. Monteen Stover,
when she tells you that she found nobody in that office, sus-
tains Jim Conley, when he says that he heard littl Mary
Phagan go into the office, heard the footsteps of the two
as they went to the rear, he heard the scream and he ssw
the dead body because Monteen says there was nobody in
the office, and Jim says she went up immediately after Mary
had gone to the rear. Lemmie Quinn, your own dear Lem-
mie,—es to the time he went up and went down into the
streets with the evidence of Mrs, Freeman and Hall, sus-
tains Jim Conley. Frank’s statement that he would con-
sult his attorneys about Quinn's statement that he had vis-
ited him in his office sustains Jim Conley. Dalton, sus-
tained as to his life for the last ten years, here in this com-
munity and in DeKaib, when he stated that he had seen
Jim watching before on Saturdays and holidays, sustains

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