Category: AMERICAN STATE TRIALS VOLUME 10, NINETEEN EIGHTEEN
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244 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.A seratch pad that Conley wrote on; an ordinary white aerateha.PeThe following affidavit executed by Minola McKnight:Saturday morning, April 26th, Mr. Frank left home about eight.Albert, my husband, got there about a quarter after one, and…
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LEO M. FRANE. 245house. I had also bought a pint of rye and some pan seusege.I remained at home all Saturday night, and at 12 o'clocknoon, Sunday, walked up on Mitchell Street and got a eigarette,remaining there until 12:45 p.…
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246 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.and I have made up my mind to tell the whole trath, without thepromise of any reward or from foree or fear of punishment inany Way.I got up Saturday morning, April 26th, between 9 and half-past…
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LEO M. FRANE. 247write?” I said, “Yes, sir, I can write a little bit,” and then he giveme a pencil that he got off the top of his desk, and told me to pnton there, “dear mother, a long tall…
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248 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.laughed and said, “Good iuck has done strnck me,” and I bought aten-cent double-header and then went back to Peters Street, andhadn’t none of the boys got there that I ran with and I walks upthere…
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LEO M. FRANE, 249and when he whistled for me I went upstairs, and he asked me if Iwanted to make some money right quick, and I told him, “Yes, sir,”and he told me that he had picked up a girl…
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250 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Frank looked at it and said it was all right, and Mr, Frank Jooke¢up at the top of the house and said, “Why should I hang, I havewealthy people in Brooklyn”; I asked him what about…
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LEO M. FRANE. 251THE SPEECHES TO THE JURY.MR, HOOPER FOR THE STATE.August 21,Mr. Hooper. Gentlemen of the Jury: The object of thistrial, as well as all other trials, is the ascertainment of truthand the attainment of justice. In the beginning,…
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252 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.which is required by us, the prosecution. We are not lookingfor blood indiscriminately. We are only seeking the slayerof Mary Phagan, and in seeking him, I try as much as possi-ble to feel as though I…
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LEO M. FRANK. 253But the defense, on the other hand, were allowed to let downthe bars and walk in,That peneil factory was a great place for a man without8 conscience. It was a great place for Frank, his handsomeassistant, Mr.…
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254 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.toward his victim is in the tall, good-natured Jim Gantt,friend of Mary. He asks Gantt: ‘‘You’re pretty thick withMary, aren’t yout’? Tt shows that he knew her and that hehad his eye on her, What next!…
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LEO M. FRANK. 255Truth is stronger than all the brains and ingenuity that canbe collected in this whole town—this state, the world. Howthey did hate to give up the fight. They lost, and with theloss went the loss of their…
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256 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.day, and he knew the hour. On the previous afternoon littleHelen Ferguson, Mary’s chum, had called for Mary’s pay,and Frank had teld her that Mary should come and get herown pay, breaking a rule of the…
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LEO Hl. FRANE. 257negro. He said it sounded as if a laugh was broken off intoashriek, He heard it break through the stillness of thehushed building. It was uncanny, but he sat faithfully on.He was under orders. He was to…
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258 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Now, which is the more probable—that Jim heard this ex-pression, or that he imagined the story? Did Jim knowFrank had relatives in Brooklynf. Did Jim know there wassuch a thing as Brooklyn? Did he know they…
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LEO M. PRANK. 269was expecting Jim Conley, and he also knew that Newt Leewas coming. Aye, there was the rub! He expected themboth, and it depended upon which one arrived first aa to howthings would go. If Jim got there…
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260 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,who was going to pay a dollar or so. He didn’t think thatGantt stole that paltry dollar. He expected him to ask whereMary Phagan was, That, gentlemen of the jury, is why hejumped back when he…
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LEO M. FRANK. 261details in this respect. You remember the evidence abouthonest old Newt Lee’s finding the body. That’s all we needto know zbout him. No suspicion attaches to Newt. Henotified the police, and tried to notify Frank. The policecame…
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262 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.with a lot of things piled on top of it, he found a bloody shirt!How did it get there? Newt Lee accounts for his time Sun-day. No suspicion attaches to Newt Lee. He is a free…
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LEO M. FRANK. 263He is the man ebout whom it appeared that the whole fightwould center. If he could convince you that Jim confessedthe murder to him, that would let Frank out! Yet where isMincey? Gentlemen, this has been a…
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264 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.There are fellows like that street car man, Kendley, the onewho villified this defendant here and eried for him to belynched, and shouted that he was guilty until he made him-self a nuisance on the cars…
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LEO M. FRANK. 265who have worked there in the plant three or four years, havebeen induced to come up here and swear that Frank has nota good character, but the decent employees down there havesworn to his good character. Look…
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266 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.degree methods of the police and detectives in words thatburned.Well, they used those methods with Jim Conley. Myfriend, Hooper, said nothing held Conley to tlie witness chairhere but the truth, but I tell you that the…
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LEO HW. FRANE. 287man—it’s the crime of a cannibal, a man-eater. Hooper ishard-pressed and wants to get up a plot—he sees he has toget up something, He forms his plot from Jim Conley’sstory.They say that on Friday, Frank knew he…
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268 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.never said a word about Mary’s envelope. There's your con-spiracy, with Jim Conley’s story as its foundation. It’s toothin. It’s preposterous.Then my friend Hooper says Frank discharged Gantt be-cause he saw Gantt talking to Mary Phagan.…
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LEO M. FRANK. 269on. Everything brought against Frank was some act he didopenly and in broad daylight, and an act against which nokick was made.The trouble with Hooper is that be secs a bear in everybush. He sees a plot…
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270 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.all chips but one were not blood. Dorsey’s own doctors haveput him where he can’t wriggle—his own evidence hampershim! They found blood spots on a certain spot and then haddim adapt his story accordingly. They had…
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LEO M. FRANK. 271 ‘stance, this Dalton, who says openly that he went into thebasement with Daisy. I don’t believe he ever did, but, insuch a case, he slipped in, There are some fallen women whoean tell the truth. They…
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272 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.they planted it, but it does look suspicious. Don’t ask uaabout a planted shirt, Ask Scott and Black.‘The first thing that points to Conley’s guilt is his originaldenial that he could write. Why did he deny…
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LEO M, FRANE, 273had to tell 2 Lie and put upon someone the burden of instruct-ing him to write them. The first statement about them wasa blunt lie—a lie in its incipiency. He said he wrote thenotes on Friday. This…