369 Page – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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LEO M. FRANK. 337

Jim says he looked at him like he thought, "I done it." It's the difference between ignorance and education, and these notes that you had that man prepare in your office on this paper that stayed on that floor and on that pad that came from your office, bear the marks of your diction. Starnes and Campbell, with all their ingenuity, couldn't have anticipated that old Jim would get up here and state that "this man looked at me when he ran into that baby, like I done it;" and couldn't have made him say "I locked the door like he done told me;" and couldn't have said "I went on and walked up to Mr. Frank and told him that girl was done dead, he done just like this and said sh-h-h." I could go on with other instances.

And there's your word "chat," "chat," "chat," "chat," four times. I'm going to read it to you; it's here in black and white, and you can't get around it. This girl went down there in that scuttle hole? Listen to this—you didn't want to say that she went back there to see about the metal, but you knew that the ladies' water closet was back there, and you make this poor girl say "I went to make water," "I went to make water, he pushed me down that hole, a long, tall, black negro"— "long, slim, tall, negro, I write while he play with me." And this note says "that long, tall, black negro did it by his self." Make water? Where did she go to make water? Right back there in the same direction that she would have gone to see about the metal. You tell me, except providentially, that that would have crept in here?

You tell me that old Jim Conley, a negro, after he had struck that girl with that big stick—which is a plant as sure as you are living here and as sure as Newt Lee's shirt was a plant—you tell me that negro felt any inducement or necessity for leaving that girl's form anywhere except where he hit her and knocked her down! You tell me that he had the ingenuity—and mark you, Starnes and these other men weren't there then to dictate and map out—you tell me that he would write a note that she went back to make water when there's no place and her usual place was up there on the second floor?