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LEO M. FRANK, 397

sign for money they got, notwithstanding the fect that you
say that you kept a book for express and kerosene and every
other conceivable purpose for which money was appropri-
ated, you fail and refuse, because you can’t, produce the
signature of White, or the entry in any book made by Frank
showing that this man White ever got that money, except
the entry made by this man Schiff some time during the
week thereafter.

T tell you, gentlemen of the jury, that the reason that
Frank didn’t enter up, or didn’t take the receipt from White
about the payment of that money, was because his mind and
conscience were on the crime that he had committed. This
expert in bookkeeping, thie Cornell graduate, this man who
checks and re-checks the cash, you tell me that if things were
normal that he would have given out to that man White this
$2.00 and not have taken a receipt, or not have made an
entry himself on some book, going to show it! I tell you
there’a only one reason why he didn’t do it. He is sustained
by the evidence in this case and the statement of Frank that
he had relatives in Brooklyn. The time that Frank says that
he left that factory sustains old Jim.

When old Jim Conley was on the stand, Mr. Rosser put
him through a good deal of questioning with reference to
some fellow by the name of Mineey. Where is Mincey?
Echo answers ‘‘Where?’’? Either Mincey was a myth, or
Mincey was such a diabolical perjurer that this man knew
that it would nauseate the stomach of a decent jury to have
him produced. Where is Mincey? And if you weren’t going
to produce Mincey, why did you parade it here before this
jury? The absence of Mincey is a powerful feet that goes
to sustain Jim Conley, because if Mineey could have con-
tradicted Jim Conley, or could have successfully fastened an
admission on old Jim that he was connected in any way with
this crime, depend upon it, you would have produced him if
you had to comb the State of Georgia with a fine-tooth comb,
from Rabun Gap to Tybee Light.

Gentlemen, every act of that defendant proclaims him

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