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

688 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

Dlackmail was not committed either through accusation or
demand. Candler admits she’s been to his office a number
of times. Have you any realization just how busy a man the
Mayor of Atlanta, with all the huge business interesta of
Asa G. Candler ist Isn’t it aignificant that she is given 20
much of his time for interviews in his office? You think that
little point over. when you get in the jury room. I haven't
time to go more fully inte it now.

Remember, if there is any reasonable doubt in your minds
as to her guilt, you: have got to turn her loose, if you are
‘brave men and observe your oaths. Suspicion of her guilt
is not enough. There must be no shadow of a doubt.

Suppose this thing had happened to me in my offiee and I
was an innocent as Candler says he ist Would I have called
my son, agents, lawyers, ete, if nothing had happened?
‘Would any reasonable manf If nothing had happened in
that office except what Mr. Candler says did happen, why all
the excitement? Mr, Candler didn’t eay what he talked
about during that seven minutes she was in his office, did heft
He can’t remember what it was about, except that ‘they
talked about the Red Cross.’’ It seems to me that if I talked
for seven minutes about the Red Cross I could remember a
little of what I said. What was all this excitement about?
It looks mighty strange, this ‘tempest in a teapot,’? if noth-
ing bad happened. Then Mr. Candler tells his stenographer
that he is expecting a woman at his office, He never suspects
anything until she says there is a man at the window. Then
he runs to get Forrest Adair,

And Rube Arnold comes in. You can bet there’s a leg to
be pulled. Oh, Forrest will mourn when he goes to Candler’s
funeral; $100,000 a year he geta as fees from Candler, he
says, And neither Forrest nor Rube work for nothing. For-
rest Adair is the smartest man in Atlanta. X mean it, He
knows what side his bread is butiered on. He admits he was
looking out for Candler. Candler says, ‘See if you can’t get
her.’’ So Forrest leads her into a trap. He swore he did it
to develop a suspected scheme. See, he didn’t say there was