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

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LEO, M. FRANK. 885

Do we know anything about the action of gastric juices on foods in the stomach? Can this man, with his short experience of seven years, this gentleman, splendid though he is, from Michigan, put his opinion against the eminent Secretary of the Georgia Board of Health, Doctor Roy Harris? I tell you, no.

Now, let's briefly review this nervousness proposition. The man displayed nervousness when he talked to old man John Starnes. When Black went out to his house and he sent his wife down to give him nerve, although he was nearly dressed and she wasn't at all, he betrayed his nervousness by the rapidity of his questions and by the form of his questions. But first, before we get to that, he warned old Newt Lee to come back there Saturday at four o'clock. Dutiful old darkey that he was, old Newt walked in, and Frank was then engaged in washing his hands. Jim Conley hadn't come, but he was looking for Conley, and he sent old Newt Lee out, although Newt insisted that he wanted to sleep. Although he might have found a cozy corner on any floor in that factory, with plenty of sacks and cords and other things to make him a pallet, he wanted old man Newt to leave. Why? When Newt said he was sleepy, he wanted him to leave so that he could do just exactly what old Jim Conley told you Frank made his promise to do—he wanted an opportunity to burn that body, so that the City Police of Atlanta wouldn't have the Phagan mystery solved today, and probably it would not even be known that the girl lost her life in that factory.

His anxiety about Gantt going back into that building that afternoon, when he hung his head and said to Gantt that he saw a boy sweeping out a pair of shoes, and Gantt says, "What were they, tan or black?" And, ah, gentlemen, it looked like Providence had foreordained that this old, long-legged Gantt should leave, not only one pair, but two pairs. "What kind were they?" he said; he gave him the name of one color, and then, as Providence would have it, old Gantt said, "Ah, but I've got two pair," and then it...

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