Category: AMERICAN STATE TRIALS VOLUME 10, NINETEEN EIGHTEEN
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Q74 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.a morning. There is detail enough, and he admits that theyare lies. Now, in his third statement, thet of May 28, hechanges the time of writing the letters from Friday to Satur-day. Here are two pages…
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LEO M. FRANK, 216T don’t think that Newt killed the girl, but I believe he dis-covered the body some time before he notified the police,Newt’s a good nigger.Scott said that it took Conley six minutes to write a partof one…
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276 ¥. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.for that statement he put in Frank’s mouth. It so happened,though, that Frank really did not have rich relatives inBrooklyn. His mother testified that his father was in illhealth, and had but moderate means and that…
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LEO M. FRANK. o77and used profanity and worried him to get a confession.Hooper thinks that we have to break down Conley’s testimonyon the stand, but there is no such ruling. You can’t tell whento believe him, he has lied so…
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278 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.that fitted. And Conley changed things every time he hada visit from Dorsey and the detectives. Are you going tohang a man on that? Gentlemen, it’s foolish for me to haveto argue such 8 thing.The man…
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LEO M. FRANK. 219that they told Conley to swear to this and to swear to that,but they made the suggestions, and Conley new whom hehad to please. He knew that when he pleased the detectivesthat the rope knot around his…
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280 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Every word on that chart is taken from the evidence, andit will show you that Frank did not have time to commit theerime charged to him. The state has wriggled a lot in thisaffair; they put…
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LEO M. FRANK. 281Harlee Branch says that he was there when the detectivesmade Conley go through with what he claimed took place, andthat he started then at 12:17, and by Mr. Branch’s figures, ittook Conley 50 minutes to complete the…
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282 X,. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,basement. But Frank couldn’t know that there was hatredenough left in this country against his race to bring such ahideous charge against him, Well, the little girl entered, andshe got her pay and asked about the…
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LEO M. FRANK. 2831:20. Then, Mrs, Selig and Mr, Selig swore on the stand thatthey knew he came in at 1:20.Oh, of course, Dorsey says they are Frank’s parents andwretched liars when they say they saw him come in at…
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284 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.introduced witnesses who swore that the woman and Frankhad gone into the woman’s dressing room when no one wasaround, I brand it a culmination of all lies when this womanwas attacked. Frank had declared her to…
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LEO M. FRANK. 285of the speakers, and but for the masterly effort of my brother,Arnold, I almost wish it had ended with no speaking. Mycondition is such that I can say but little; my voice is huskyand my throat almost…
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986 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,you can find good men and women in all strata of life, andyet the detectives, working with microscopes and with the aidof my friend, Dorsey, excited almost beyond peradventure,found only two to swear against Frank, They…
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LEO M. FRANE. 287of his race, and he was a thief and worse, if there can be, andyet he joined the church. He joined the church and he’s nowa decent, believable man, Well, you remember how brazenlyhe sat here on…
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288 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.course, Dalton left an oozy trail behind him; wherever hewent he did that. You ean still feel it in this court room. Ofcourse, too, Dalton may have gone into the pencil factory thatdey and left his…
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LEO M. FRANE. 289Now, another thing. We didn’t have to put Frank’s character up. If we hadn’t the judge would have told you Frankmust be presumed to have a good character, and that you didnot have the right to ask…
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290 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Mary Wallace, there three daya, and Estelle Wallace, therea week and Carrie Smith, who like Miss Cato, worked therethree years. These are the only ones in the hundreds whohave worked there since 1908 who will say…
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LEO M. FRANE. 201such a scene? I can’t see for the life of me where it indicatesany sign of lascivious lust. Does what Willie Turner saw,taking for granted he saw it, show that Frank was planningto ruin little Mary Phagan?…
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292 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.though he’s a mighty bright man. It is true that some ofthe pay envelopes were left over on Friday, but he didn’tknow whose they were. Helen Ferguson says that on Fridayahe asked for Mary Phagan’s pay…
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LEO M. FRANK. 298birds, while others slumber even through the tempting callof the breakfast bell, Would you hang us for that?Then, they say he hired a lawyer, and they call it suspi-eious—mighty suspicious. They wouldn’t have kicked if hehed hired…
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294 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.arrest, as they say—held without the privilege of seeingfriends, relatives or counsel. It was a deplorable state ofaffairs, What happened!Haas went to the phone and called an older and more ex-Perienced head to battle with this…
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LEO HM. FRANK, 295the Conley story and the Minola McKnight story that arehidden in the still darker recesses of police headquarters?Frank makes his statement and is released. He goes backto the pencil factory, asmming that suspicion has been di-verted from…
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296 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.but T don’t want to. This seems to me the most unkindesteut of alt. They say that that time slip was planted. Theysay the shirt was planted. Gentlemen, is there any evidenceof thie? Let’s see about…
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LEO M. FRANK. 297Here is another suspicious thing. Newt Lee came to thefactory at four o’clock and Frank sent the old man away, Itwas suggested thet he waa afraid the nigger would find thebody, yet when he came back at…
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298 ¥. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Conley proof. None of these niggers ever came up and aaidConley was there and that they were with him. Starnes—and Starnes could find a needle in a haystack, but the Lordonly knows what he’d do in…
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LEO M. FRANK. 299to see him, and he twisted up his features so that she couldn'tNext, they learned Conley could write. Frank told themthat, you know. Well, I don’t mean to be severe, but theytook that negro and they gave…
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300 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Dorsey did, only he gave him several lessons, and they musthave been just sort of finishing touches before he got hisdegree. Well, in the university course they didn’t dare putthe steps in writing, as they had…
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LEO M. FRANK. 301must do—you must make Minola’s husband a perjurer, andthat would be terrible.You know sbout that Minola McKnight affair. It is theDlackest of all. A negro woman locked: up from the solici-tor’s office, not because sho would talk—she’s…
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302 XY. - AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,the benches always stuck it out, but they was ecrewed to thefloor."’ You gentlemen have been practically in that fix, butI feel, nevertheless, that you have been peculiarly kind, andI thank you.THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR…
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LEO M. FRANK. 308‘we arrested Gantt, when we arrested Lee, when we arrestedothers? No, the prejudica came when wo arrested this mau,and never until he waa arrested was there a ory of prejudice.Those gentlemen over there were disappointed when we…