Category: AMERICAN STATE TRIALS VOLUME 10, NINETEEN EIGHTEEN
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334 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.no slush fund back of this case. Now, let’s pass on here alittle bit.They tried mighty hard to break down this man AlbertMcKnight with Minola—and I believe 1711 leave that for alittle later and come now…
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LEO WM. FRANE. 335that it’s foolish. You say it’s foolish. It’s ridiculous. Itwas a silly piece of business, it was a great folly; but murderwill out, and Providence directs things in a mysterious way,and not only that, as Judge Bleckley…
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336 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.actly four times, as I'll show you when I come to read thisstatement by Leo M. Frank, for he chatted, and he chatted,and he chatted, and he chatted, according to his own state-ment, This letter that…
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LEO M. FRANK. 337Jim says looked at him like he thought “‘I done it.'?It’s the difference between ignorance and education, andthese notes that you had that man prepare in your office onthis paper that stayed on that floor and on…
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338 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.T tell you, gentlemen of the jury, that a smarter man thanStarnes, or a smarter man than Campbell, a smarter manthan Black, a smarter man than Rosser, in the person of LeoM. Frank, felt impelled to…
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LEO M. FRANE. 339man who has conjured it up simply to acquit a friend, or aman that has been the friend of a friend; let it be the doubtof an honest, conscientious, upright juror, the noblest workof Almighty God.Now this…
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340 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.stance or that one, but upon all, taken together and boundtogether, which make a cable as strong as it ia possible forthe ingenuity of man to weave around anybody.Now, listen at this statement and let’s analyze…
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LEO M. FRANE. 341‘be put by the dead bedy, and was willing to help this mantake the body from the second floor, where the blood wasfound, into the basement and keep his month shut and toprotect him, until the combined…
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342 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.this pretty, attractive little girl, twelve months, and a manof your brilliant parts didn’t even know her, and do you tellme that you had made up the pay-roll with Schiff fifty-twotimes during the year that Mary…
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LEO M. FRANE. 343ner has lied? Dewey Hewell has lied? That Gantt has liedtThat Mise Ruth Robinson has lied? And even Frank, in hisstatement, admits that he knew Mary well enough to knowthat Gantt was familiar with her, because Chief…
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344 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,in the way of the consummation of your diabolical and evilplans.And yon sey that you and Schiff made up the pay-roll Fri-day, and I wouldn’t be st all surprised that, after little Maryhad gone and while…
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LEO M. FRANE. 345issue and torn down, who refnsed.to go into specific instanceson cross-examination, if he didn’t contemplate this littlegirl’s ruin and damnation it was becanse he was infatuatedwith her and didn’t have the power to control that ungovern-able passion.…
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346 X,. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.back from the factory. Again he says, ‘‘but I know therewas several of them and I went on chatting with Mr. Mon-tag.’ I told you I was going to read you this, and I just‘wanted you…
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LEO M. FRANE. 347Another place he says ‘‘I chatted with them:’’ ‘Entering,I found quite a number of people, among them Darley,’ete. “I chatted with them s few minutes,’’—using thesame words Jim said he used with reference to this girl:‘*Miss Hall…
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348 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.‘White out of the building, in order that he might call JimConley, if Jim had seen, and his esying that he had seenwould have given him away; then it was that he wanted toget her out…
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LEO M. FRANE. 349like you, would have stormed the jail or done anything.It onghtn’t to be, because that thing ought to be left to bethreshed out before an upright Court and an honest jury.But this man Frank knew,—he didn’t expect…
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350 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.you are born, that man is not like other men. He saw thisgirl, he coveted her; others without her stamina and hercharacter had yielded to his lust, but she denied him, andwhen she did, not being…
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LEO M. FRANE. 351spattered towards the dressing room; you know it wasblood because Starnes says he saw it was blood and he sawthat the haskoline had been put over it,—and I’m going toread you this man’s statement, too, unless I…
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352 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.ing room at a time when no reward is shown to have beenoffered and indeed, when you know that no reward was of-fered beesuse no executive of this State or of this city of-fered any reward…
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LEO M, FRANE. 353emeared over it. ‘‘It was not there Friday, I know,”’ saidMel Stanford, ‘‘because I swept the floor Friday at thatplace. The white substance appeared to have been sweptover with a coarse broom; we have such a broom,…
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354 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.not go back on the affidavit which he had signed, though hedid modify his statements.All right; I’m not going to call over all these other peo-ple-—Mrs. Small and others,—though Mrs. Carson deniedit, she went there—who claimed…
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LEO M. FRANK. 855that scuttle hole, and don’t you know that Frank wouldhave rushed to get his detective Scott to put the police incharge of the information that blood had been found here?But Jong after Jim Conley had been arrested,…
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356 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.home after he killed that girl and ehanged his clothing,that old Newt didn’t have the time.Why did he say it then? Beeause he knew that Lanfordand Black and the other detectives who were there wouldhave examined…
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LEO M. FRANE. 357planted that shirt sometime Monday, at whose instance andsuggestion we don’t know.And that club business: Doctor Harris says that thatwound could not have been done with that club, and Doc-tor Hurt says it could not have been…
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358 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.have lunch, { got my house and Minola answered the phoneand she answered me back that she would have lunch im-mediately and for me to come right away. I then gatheredmy papers together and went upstairs…
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LEO M. FRANK. 359they didn’t keep it shut all the time, said Albert. “Andyou know he didn’t eat anything in that dining room?’’“Yes, I know he didn’t eat.’”And this is the tale that had been told Craven by thehusband of…
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360 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.to run their business; I’ve got as much as I can say graceover to attend to my own business. And you go out there,now, and bring in Julius Fisher and a photographer, and.all these people, and…
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LEO M. FRANK. 361you know you can’t see from the kitchen into the diningroom, you know that, don’t youl” ‘‘Yes sir, you certainlyean see;’’ and the very evidence of the photographs andJulius Fischer and others who came here, after that…
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362 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.whether it’s fair or not,—that’s a fair statement?’ AndAlbert says, ‘‘I don’t know whether it’s fair or not, but Iknow I saw Leo M. Frank come in there some time betweenone and two o’clock Saturday, April…
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LEO M. FRANK, 363you and I haven’t the physical strength, but there is cer-tain language and certain statements and assertions made inthis statement by this defendant which merit some considera-tion. This defendant stated to you, after His Honor had ex-eluded…