426 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

394 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

Jim Conley. Daisy Hopkins’ awful reputation and the
atatement of Jim, that he had seen her go into that factory
with Dalton, and down that scuttle hole to the place where
that cot is shown to have been, sustains Jim Conley. The
blood on the second floor, testified to by numerous wit-
nesses, sustains Jim Conley. The appearance of the blood,
the physical conditions of the floor when the blood was
found Monday morning, sustains Jim Conley. The testi-
mony of Holloway, which he gave in the affidavit before he
appreciated the importance, coupled with the atatement of
Boots Rogers that that elevator box was unlocked, sustains
Jim Conley. Ivey Jones, the man who says he met him in
elose proximity to the pencil factory on the day this mur-
der was committed, the time he says he left that place, sus-
tains Jim Conley. Albert McKnight, who testified as to the
length of time that this man Frank remained at home, and
the fact that he hurried back to the factory, sustains Jim
Conley. The repudiated affidavit, made to the police, in
the presence of Craven and Pickett, of Minola McKnight,
the affidavit which George Gordon, the lawyer, with the
knowledge that he could get 2 habeas corpus and take her
within thirty minutes out of the eustody of the police, but
which he sat there and allowed her to make, austains Jim
Conley. The use of that cord, found in abundance, te choke
this girl to death, sustains Jim Conley. The existence of
the notes alone sustains Jim Conley, because no negro ever
in the history of the race, after having perpetrated rape or
robbery, ever wrote a note to cover up the crime. The note
paper on which it is written, paper found in abundance on
the office floor and near the office of this man Frank, sus
tains Jim Conley. The diction of the notes, ‘this negro did
this,” and old Jim throughout his statement says ‘I done,’”
sustains Jim Conley.

Mr, Rosser, I have looked the record up, and Jim Conley sa;
“T did it,” time and time again. Ho said “I disremember whether
did or didn’t,” he says “I did it"—

Mr. Dorsey. They would have to prove that record before I
would believe it.