Category: AMERICAN STATE TRIALS VOLUME 10, NINETEEN EIGHTEEN
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804 XY, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Honor will charge you that you should not convict this manunless you think he is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.A great many jurors, gentlemen, and the people generallyget an idea that there is aomething mysterious and…
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LEO M. FRANE. 305evidence as upon direct evidence. Eminent authority showsthat in many cases circumstantial evidence is more certainthan direct evidence. Conviction ean be established better bya large number of witnesses giving cirenmstantial evidenceand ineidents pointing to guilt than by…
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306 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.good character. It is presumed—had he not put his characterin issue, it would have been presumed—and the State wouldhave been absolutely helpless—that this man was as good aman as lived in the City of Atlanta. It’s…
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LEO M. FRANE. 307ease and I know the conscience that abides in the breast ofhonest, courageous men.Now, the book says that if a man has good character, never-theless it will not hinder conviction, if the guilt of thedefendant is plainly…
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308 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.‘We did exercise that right in the examination of one wit-ness, but knowing that we couldn’t put specific instances inunleas they drew it out, I didn’t want even to do this man theinjustice, so we suspended,…
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LEO M. FRANK. 309dice and passion to come up here and swear that that man’scharacter is bad and it not be true? I tell you it can’t bedone, and you know it.Ah, but, on the other hand, Doctor Marx, Doctor…
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310 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.he have going up into those dressing rooms! ‘You tell me togo up there to the girls’ dressing room, shove open the doorand walk in is a part of his duty, when he has foreladies toatop…
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LEO M. PRANE. 311law, they bad the right to go into that character, and you sawthat on cross-examination they dared not do it. I have herean authority that puts it right squarely, that ‘whenever anyone hes evidence (83 Ga., 581)…
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312 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.appeared on the outside as a whited sepulcher, who was a5rotten on the inside as it was possible to be.So he has got no good character, I submit, never had it; hehas got a reputation—that’s what…
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LEO HM. FRANK. 313culminated in sending him to prison for three long years.He’s the man who led the aesthetic movement; he was &scholar, a literary man, cool, calm and cultured, and as I say,his cross examination is a thing to…
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314 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.ageous endugh to let that man who had taken that poor girl’slife to save his reputation as the pastor of his flock, go, and itis an illustration that will encourage and stimulate everyright-thinking man to do…
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LEO M. FRANK. 315to read you a definition that an old darkey gave of an alibi,which I think illustrates the idea. Rastus asked his compan-ion, ‘“What’s this here alibi you hear so much talk aboutt’’And old Sam says, ‘An alibi…
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316 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS. 1‘waiting for her companions, this daughter of an employee ofMontag comes into this presence and tells you the unreason-able, absurd story, the stery that’s in contradiction to thestory made by Frank, which has been introduced…
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LEO M. FRANE. 317the murder of this girl on Saturday, he forgot to get the raincoat that old Jim saw him have. Miss Mattie Smith leavesbuilding, you say, at 9:20 A.M. She said—or Frank says—at9:15. You have it on this…
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318 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Mr. Dorsey. No, they didn’t sea him there, I doubt if anybodyelse saw him there either,Mr, Arnold. If a erowd of people here laugh every time we sayanything, how are we to hear the Court? He…
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LEO M. FRANE. 319is that they had only cob-webs, cob-webs, weak and flimsy cir-cumstances against those men, and the circumstances wereinconsistent with the theory of guilt and consistent with someother hypothesis.But as to this man, you have got cables, strong,…
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320 &. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.til that time—‘‘I didn’t stay there very often on Saturdayafternoon ;’? Miss Fleming didn’t stay there all afternoon.Now, gentlemen, I submit this man made that financial sheetSaturday morning. He could have fixed up that financialsheet Saturday…
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LEO M. FRANK. 821But whether or not he made out that financial sheet, I’tell you something that he did do Saturday afternoon, whenhe was waiting up there for old Jim to come back to burn thatbody, I'll tell you something…
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322 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.fair men, courageous men, trae Georgians, seeking to do yourduty, that that phrase, penned by that man to his uncle onSaturday afternoon, didn’t come from a conscience that wasits own accuser? ‘‘It is too short a…
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LEO M. FRANK. 323of a store employing two or three people, and we don’t nowhow many more; and if the uncle wasn’t in Brooklyn, he was80 near thereto that even Frank himself thought he was at thevery moment he claimed…
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324 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.he said all right. He didn't want him to run anywhere else,because he wanted him to work hand in glove with thesemen, and he wanted to know what they did and what theysaid and whet they…
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LEO M. FRANK. 325a whole raft of other stuff that Schiff, as willing as he was,as anxious as he was, couldn’t stultify himself to such an ex-tent as to tell you that Frank did that work Saturday morn-ing. But if…
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326 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Frank, ‘‘Tuesday morning?’’ ‘‘I saw him Tuesday morn-ing’’—he was up there on the fourth floor efter the murder,on Tuesday, ‘sometime between nine and eleven o’elock.”” Isaid, “‘between nine and eleven, somewhere along there!’?‘Sometime between nine and…
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LEO M. FRANK, 327about Jim Conley reading the newspapers. Well, if Jimhad committed that erime and he hadn’t felt that he hadthe power and influence of Leo Frank back of him to pro-tect him, he never would have gone back…
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328 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.time Tuesday!’’ ‘‘I couldn’t tell you, I guess it was betweeneight and nine o’clock.”’ The other one saw him somewherebetween nine and eleven or eleven thirty. This lady, theirwitness, saya that he was up there between…
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LEO MW. FRANE, 329facts are too firmly and too deeply rooted. Oh, yes, saysMra. Small, I saw Frank up there on that fourth floor be-tween eight and nine o'clock Tuesday morning, and the otherlady saw him up there between nine…
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8380 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,let able counsel and the glamour that surrounds wealth andinfluence, deter you. I honor—but I honor the way theywent after Minola McKnight. I don’t know whether they‘want me to apologize for them or not, but if…
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LEO M. FRANE. 331as I am that I was elected to the position by the people ofthis community, to the offies of Solicitor General, but I havenever yet seen the man that I would ‘take as my model orpattern; I…
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332 XY, ‘AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.0. K.'d the ticket and I went on with my work.” So Frank‘was up there Tuesday morning.“Now, speaking about Mra, Carson, how far towards theelevator did Mrs, Carson go with Frankt A.—‘‘Mrs. Car-son wasn’t up there,…
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LEO M. FRANK. 333seen that blood,—that blood that at first wasn’t blood, it waspaint, and then wasn’t paint but was cat’s blood or bloodfrom somebody that was injured, and then wasn’t freshblood but was stale blood—too many of them had…