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TTTF ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
DORSEY RIDDLES FRANK'S OWN STATEMENT
FINAL PLEA
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the said Mary Phagan, with a
cord placed around her neck.
“To this charge made by the
bill of indictment found by the
Grand Jury of this counly re
cently impaneled Leo M. Frank,
the defendant, files a plea of not
guilty. The charge an made by
the bill of indictment on the on?
hand and his plea of not guilty filed
thereto form the Issue, and you. gen
tlemen of the Jury, have been selected,
chosen and sworn to try the truth -'f
this issue.
“Leo M. Frank, the defendant, com
mences the trial of this issue with
the presumption of innocence in hi*
favor, and this presumption of inno
cence remains with him, to shield him
and protect him, until the State shall
overcome it and remove it by evidence
ofTered to you, in your hearing and
presence, sufficient in Its strength and
character to satisfy your minds be
yond a reasonable doubt of his guilt
of each and every material allegation
made by the bill of Indictment.
“I charge you, gentlemen, that all of
the allegations of this indictment are
material, and it is necessary for the
State to satisfy you of their truth by
evidence that convinces your minds
beyond a reasonable doubt of his gui’.t
before you would be authorized to And
a verdict of guilty.
Must Be More Than
Beyond Mere Doubt.
“You are not compelled to And,
from the evidence, his guilt beyond
any doubt, but beyond a reasonable
doubt, such a doubt ns grows out of
the evidence 1n the case, or for the
want of evidence, such a doubt as a
reasonable and impartial man would
entertain about matters of the high
est importance to himself after all
reasonable efforts to ascertain the
truth This does not mean a fanciful
doubt, ono conjured up by the Jury,
but a reasonable doubt.
"Gentlemen, t bile defendant is
charged with murder. Murder is de
fined to be the unlawful killing of a
human being, in the peace of the
State, by a person of sound memory
and discretion, with malice afore
thought, either express or implied.
“Express malice is that deliberate
intention unlawfully to take away
the life of a fellow-creature which is
manifested by external circumstances
capable of proof.
"Malice shall be implied where no
considerable provocation appears, and
where all of the circumstances of the
killing show an abandoned and ma
lignant heart.
“There is no difference between ex
press and implied malice except in
the mode of arriving at the fact of
Its existence. The legal sense of the
term ‘malice’ Is not confined to par
ticular animosity to the deceased, but
extends to an evil design In general.
The popular idea of mulice In its
cense of revenge, hatred, ill will, has
nothing to do with the subject. It
If an intent to kill a human being in
a case where the law would neither
justify nor in any degree excuse the
intention if the killing should take
place as intended. It is a deliberate
Intent unlawfully to take human life,
whether it springs from hatred, ill
will or revenge, ambition, avarice or
other like passion. A man may form
the Intent to kill, do the killing in
stantly, and regret the deed as soon
as done. Malice must exist at the
time of the killing. It need not have
existed any length of time previously.
Law Presumes Malice
If Homicide si Proven.
“When a homicide is proven, if it
is proven to be the act of the de
fendant, the law presumes malice,
and unless the evidence should relieve
the slayer he may be found guilty
or murder. The presumption of in
nocence is removed by proof of the
killing by the defendant. When the
killing is shown to be the act of the
defendant, it Is then on the defendant
to justify or mitigate the homicide.
The proof to do that may come from
either side, either from the evidence
offers by the State to make out its
case, or from the evidence offered by
the defendant or the defendant’s
statement.
“Gentlemen of the jury, you are
made by law the solo judges of the
credibility of the witnesses and the
seight of the testimony of each and
Attack Character.
“When a defendant has put his
character in issue, the State is al
lowed to attack it by proving that his
genera! reputation is not good, or oy
showing that the witnesses wno have
stated that his character Ik good have
untruly reported it. Hence tne so
licitor General has been allowed to
cross-examine the witnesses for the
defense who were introduced to tes-
tify to his good character. In the
cross-examination of these witnesses
he was allowed to ask th«*m if they
had not heard of various acts of mis
conduct on the defendant’s part.
The Solicitor General had the
right to ask any questions along this
line he pleaded, in order thoroughly lo
sift the witnesses, and to see if any
thing derogatory to the defendant’s
reputation could bo proved bv them.
“The court now wishes to say to
you that, although the Solicitor Gen
eral was allowed to ask the defend
ant's charactei witnesses these ques
tion* as to their having heard of va
rious acts of alleged misconduct on
the defendant's part, the jury is not to
consider this as evidence that the*fle-
fendant has been guilty of any such
misconduct as may have been ind.-
cated in the questions of the Solicitor
MRS. FRANK ARRIVING
AT THE COURTHOUSE
Here is Judge Roan’s complete charge to the jury verbatim:
"Gentlemen of the Jury—This bill of indictment charges Leo
M. Frank with the offense of murder. The charge is that Leo M. ■
Frank, in this county, on the 26th day of April of this year, with
force and arms, did unlawfully and with malice aforethought kill
murder one Mary PhW|~ wltneM ~ ~ f „ r ~ ~ ~
by then and then* choking her, | this testimony as you have heard ii.
in connection with the defendant’s
statement, and arrive at what you
believe to be the truth.
“Gentlemen, the object of all legal
investigation is the discovery of truth.
That is the reason of you being se
lected, Impanneled and sworn in thU
case—to discover what is the truth on
this issue formed on this bill of In
dictment. lx Leo M. Frank guilty?
Are you satisfied of that, beyond a
reasonable doubt from the evidence
in this case? Or is his plea or not
guilty the truth? The rules of evi
dence are framed with a view to this
prominent end—seeking always for
pure sources and the highest evidence.
“Direct evidence is that which ir
mediately points to the question at
issue. Indirect or circumstantial evi
dence is that which only tends to es
tablish the issue by proof of various
facts sustaining, by their consistency,
the hypothesis claimed. To warrant a
conviction on circumstantial evidence
the proven facta must not only be
consistent, with the hypothesis of
guilt, but must exclude every other
reasonable doubt hypothesis pave that
of the guilt of the accused.
Character Issue
Of Importance.
“The defendant has introduced tes
timony ns to his good character. On
this subject I charge you that evi
dence of good character when offered
by the defendant in a criminal case
is always relevant and material, and
should be considered by the jury,
along with all the other evidence in
troduced, as one of the facts of the
case. It should be considered by the
Jury, not merely where the balance of
the testimony in the case makes it
doubtful whether the defendant is
guilty or not, but also where Ruoh evi
dence of good character may of Itself
generate a doubt as to the defend
ant's guilt. Good character is a sub
stantial fact, like any other fact tend
ing to establish the defendant’s inno
cence, and ought to be so regarded by
the jury.
“Like all other facts proved in the
case, it should be weighed and esti
mated by the Jury, for it may render
that doubtful which otherwise Vould
be clear. However, if the guilt of the
accused is plainly proved to the sat
isfaction of the Jury beyond a reason
able doubt, notwithstanding the proof
of good character, it is their duty to
convict. But the Jury may consider
the good character of the defendant,
whether the rest of the testimony
leaves the question of his guilt doubt
ful or not. and if a consideration of
the proof of his good character, con
sidered along with the evidence, cre
ates a reasonable doubt in the minds
of the Jury as to the defendant’s guilt,
then it would be the duty of the jury
to give the defendant the benefit of
the doubt thus raised by his good
character, and to acquit him.
“The word ‘character* as used in
this connection means that general
reputation which he bore among the
people who knew him prior to the
time of the death of Mary Phagan.
Therefore, when the witnesses by
which a defendant seeks to prove his
good character are put upon the
stand, and testify that his character
Is good, the effect of the testimony is
to say that the people who knew
him spoke well of him. and that his
general reputation was otherwise
good.
State Allowed to
The wife of
the defendant
in the Phagan
case has not
missed a
session of the
trial of her
husband.
DEMANDS PRISONED BE
SENT IB GALLOWS AS
MARY PHAGAN’S SLAYER
Refreshed by the week-end recess, Solicitor General Dorsey
returned Monday to the State’s closing argument. By the force of
logic and denunciation of his Anal words to the jury the Solicitor
hopes to obtain a verdict of guilty against Leo M. Frank, charged
with the murder of Mary Phagan.
The day and a half intermis-
son furnished a breathing spell
for the State’s prosecutor. He
came bac kto the battle with new
spirit and with an absence of the
fatigue that compelled him to
stop his stirring argument Sat
urday and ask Judge Roan for
a recess.
Solicitor Dorsey was vociferously
cheered as he entered the courthouse
by a crowd waiting for the trial to
open, and in the courtroom there was
applause as he went to the State’s
table within the railing.
Judge Roan entered the room as
the applause died down while the
deputies were rapping for order. He
announced that if there was any sem
blance of a repetition he would clear
the courtroom. The Judge declared
that a similar occurrence might de
stroy the work of four long weeks
was discovered that Conley oould
write Frank had said nothing It was
only through the work done by th*
detectives and the fact tax* Conley
knew they had learned he couid
write that the negro finally was made
to submit specimens of his handwrit
ing.
“Why did Frank keep silent when
he knew those notes were the key
which would unlock the mystery?’’
Dorsey turned to Fra^.k at this
point and said:
‘You did know that he could write.
You knew that \f it was found out
that the whole mystery would ye
solved. You had notes asking for
loans. You had seen his writing by
which he checked up the boxes of
pencils. Why did ”ou keen silent?
“You saw him at the police station
and even then never mentioned that
he could write.”
“Frank says that after this visit of
Conley's to the Jail, after Conley had
gone to the factory and gone through
and warned the audience to keep i his pantomime at the time, almost ex-
strict order. actly to the minute that he said it
1 Mr l IJorse -’ began his speech in a took, that on this visit to the jail lie
low hoarse voice. j said, ‘I told them if they would get
^ our honor and gentlemen of the j permission of Rosser that I would
Jury he said, I regret the necessity face Conley.’ Now. gentlemen of the
for having to carry this case over into jury Mr R osser was at Tallulah
another week and through anoth« i j Falls that day. Therefore, there was
Sunday. If a recess had been de- I no chance to get his permission that
dared Saturday I might have been day B(lt Mr . RoS ser wasa Tallulah
able to have finished my speech an 1 : Falls that dav> and when he got ba , k
his honor have delivered his ch arge did he allow Frank to face Conley?
and turned the case over to you. The > be dl(J not
circumstances made the present ‘ "'Gentlemen,' you know it is true
course w , lse £; j that never in the historv of the An-
begins to Kiddie glo-Suxon race and in the history of
Frank’s Statement.
“When we closed proceedings Sat
urday, I was giving you a brief analy- J
sis of the statement of the defendant, j
1 am not going into an exhaustive
study of that statement. It is un-
necssary to further burden you with
it. But there are certain language
and statements which merit some
consideration.
“The defendant stated, after his
honor had excluded our evidence, and
excluded it properly, that his wife
visited him at the police station. He
stated that she was there with his
father-in-law and his two brothers-
in-law. He said Pabbi David Marx
was with him and that he consulted
General, or any of them, unless the
alleged witnesses testify to it.
“Furthermore, where a man's char
acter is put in evidence, and in the
course of the investigation any spe
cific act of misconduct is shown, this
does not go before the Jury for the
purpose of showing affirmatively that
his character is bad or that he is
guilty of the offense with which h<
stands charged, but is to be consider
ed by the Jury only in determining
the credibility and the degree of in
formation possessed by those wit
nesses who have testified to his good
character.
“When the defendant has put his
character iu issue, the State is allow
ed to bring witnesses to prove that
his general character is had, and
thereby to disprove the testimony of
those who have stated that it is good.
The Jury is allowed to take this tes
timony, and have the right to con
sider it along with all the other evi
dence introduced on the subject of
the general character of the defend
ant, and it is for the jury finally to
determine from all the evidence
whether his character was good oi
bad.
Good Character May
Create Reasonable Doubt.
“You will, therefore, observe that
this is the rule you will be guided by
in determining the effect to be given
to the evidence on the subject of the
defendant’s character: If. after con
sidering all the evidence pro and con,
on the subject of the defendant’s
character, you believe that prior to
the time of Mary Phagan‘s death he
bore a good reputation among those
who knew him. that his general char
acter was good, you will consider tha
as one of the facts in the case, and i
may be sufficient to create a reason
able doubt of the defendant’s guilt,
if it so impress your minds and con
sciences. after considering it along
with all the other evidence in the
case; and if it does, you should give
the defendant the benefit of the doubt
and acquit him.
“However, though you should be
lieve his general character was good,
still if. after giving due weight to it as
one of the facts in the case, you be
lieve from the evidence ns a whole
that he is guilty beyond a reasonable
doubt, you should be authorized to
convict him.
“If you believe beyond a reason
able doubt from the evidence in this
case that this defendant is guilty of
murder, then you would be authorized
in that event to say ‘We, the jury,
find the defendant guilty.'
“Should you go no further, gentle
men. and say nothing else in your
verdict, the court would have to sen
tence the defendant to the extreme
penalty for murder, to wit: to be
hanged by the neck until he is dead.
But should you see fit to do so, in
the event you arrive at the conclusion
and belief beyond a reasonable doubt
from tlie evidence that this defendant
is guilty, then, gentlemen, you would
be authorized in that event, if you
saw fit to do so, to say: ‘We, the
Jury, find the defendant guilty, and
wo recommend that he be Imprisoned
in the penitentiary fob life.’
“In the event you should make such
a verdict as that, then the Court,
under the law. would huve to sen
tence the defendant to the peniten
tiary for life.
“You have heard the defendant
make his statement. He had the
right to make it under the law. It
is not made under oath and he is not
subject to examination or cross-ex
amination. It is with you as to how
much of it you will believe, or how
little of It. You may go to the ex
tent. if you see fit, of believing it in
preference to the sworn testimony in
the case.
“In the event, gentlemen, you have
a re isonable doubt from the evidence,
or the evidence and the statement
togeth , or either, as to the de-
fendair's guilt as charged, then give
the prisoner the benefit of that doubt
and acquit him; and in the event you
do acquit him the form of vour ver
dict would be: ‘We. the jury, find
the defendant not guilty.’ As honest
Jurors do your utmost to reach the
truth from the evidence and state
ment as you have heard it here, then
let your vercLlct speak it.”
Dr. Marx on the advisability of hav- j After a
ing her to come up to the top floor
and see him surrounded by policemen,
reporters and snapshotters. He
doesn't prove by a living soul that
this statement is true. You must
rely on his own lips for its value.
“If they corM have proved It by Dr.
Marx, why didn’t they do it? You
tell me a loving wife lives who, con
scious of a husband's innocence amid
such circumstances, wouldn't have
braved policemen, snapshotters to
have seen him?
Arnold jumped up.
‘I object,” he said, “to those out
rageous references to his wife. I
have sat here in silence during many
of his unfair remarks, but to bring
in the wife of this man who is on trial
for his life is an outrage on law and
decency and fairness.”
“Let mo see,” said Judge Roan.
“the evidence on which you
speaking, Mr. Dorsey.”
Dorsey Fires Hot
Retort at Arnold.
i the African race has an ignorant,
j filthy negro ever accused a white man
of crime where the white man was in
nocent and the white n.an decline to
face the negro. There never 'ived in
Georgia a lawyer who possessed half
the ability of Rosser who sincerely
believed in tne innocence of his cli
ent who would not have said to this
negro. ‘Face my client.’ You may say
here that you did not know’ what Con
ley’s statement was going to be. but
you could have found out. You couio
have known.”
Rosser Objects
To Being Criticised.
Mr. Rosser was on his feet with an
objection to commenting on counsel.
moment’s wrangling, Mr. Dor-
“Let the galled jade wince,” said
Dorsey, sarcastically.
“He has no right to make any such
statement,” said Arnold. “It is whol
ly uncalled for.”
“I submit the remark,” retorted
Dorsey, “of Mr. Rosser that this is an i
sey insisting that he had a right to
comment on the action of the de
fendant’s counsel, charging the facts
in the record justified him, Judge
Roan sustained the objection.
“But they see the force of it,” con
tinued Dorsey.
“Now, I don’t think that’s fair, your
honor,” said Rosser, Interrupting
again. There was another minute (t
wrangling, both Dorsey and Rosser
speaking at the same time. Judge
Roan again sustained Rosser.
Dorsey turned to the Jury, and
slapping his hand viciously on the
railing, shouted:
“If they don’t see the force of it
you do.”
Rosser objected again.
“I insist, your honor that that \a
entirely proper comment. I ask you,
■ am I out side the record? I have a
‘ 1 right to comment upon their conduct
in declining to cross-examine wit
nesses.”
“You may comment upon the act
of Frank,” interrupted Judge Roan,
“in not facing Conley and upon his
counsel not having given the permis
sion, but it is not proper for you to
comment upon why counsel for the
defense did not do certain things.
Dorsey turned to the jury:
“This man Frank, with Anglo
the B’Nai Brith—according to Lee,
you hung your head and quizzed him
not, but said: If you don’t tell more
about this we’ll both go to hell.’ Then
In your statement to the jury you
tried to make it appear that your own
detective, Scott, had concocted a
scheme against you and lied about
w hat happened.
“The reason Frank didn’t put it up
to Newt Lee was because he knew
Newt Lee was innocent. He knew'
he was guilty and he was only adding
to the dastardly crime of assault on
the virtue of this little girl by trying
to break the neck of this old negro
to save his own reputation and neck.
“Listen to his statement. He is
smart. Listen how he qualifies and
fixes so that when we come back with
rebuttal the technical law will pro
tect him. Old Newt Lee had been
night watchman at that factory only
a few weeks. There had been other
night watchmen before, and the
charges of going into the place for
immoral purposes were during the
time before Newt Lee came. He knew
the detectives had charged that peo
ple had gone in there for Immoral pur
poses but in his statement on the
stand he confined his denial to the
xime Newt Lee was there as nigh’
watchman
No. during the time old Newt Lee
was there there was but one person
for whom your passion burned.” the
Solicitor continued, turning to Frank,
• little Mary Phagan. She never would
go there with you. But if you were
telling the truth, why didn’t you make
a bold and emphatic statement that
none had ever been there. It was
during the summer previous that
Dalton and the others testified of the
immorality there. There was the
chance for impeachment of his state
ment, and yet you tell me that that’s
a good, fair, frank statement.
“Now, another thing, listen to this.
I read from the defendant’s state
ment, ‘Now. in reference to those
spots claimed to be blood spots found
by Barrett. I don’t say they are not
blood. They are near the ladies’
dressing room, and we also have
many accidents near there. Let me
say in tonnection with those acci
dents that not all accidents are re
ported. Only those w'hich incapaci
tate an employee are reported. But
I say it might have been blood. It
also might have been aniline dye or
paint. I have seen girls drop bottles
of this colored matter, but if it had
been fresh blood or fresh paint the
haskoline which was spread over it
would have become pink or red in
stead of remaining white.’
‘‘Why Didn’t They
Bring in a Chemist?’’
“But I ask you if the haskoline
would not have produced the identi
cal result which the witnesses say
was produced? Why didn’t you bring
before the jury a reputable chemist
and a man w’ho would have sustained
you in this contention. If you had
time to bring in experts to attack the
overwhelming evidence of Dr. Roy
Harris, why, in the name of truth and
justice, didn’t you bring in just one
chemist to support your theory of
the blood spots?
“You know the reason. You know
they were blood spots. You know
that you didn’t bring in a chemist be
cause the result of spreading the has
koline over blood w'ould have been
exactly the result that was produced
in the dressing room on the gecond
fionr.”
Dorsey turned toward the jury at
this point and asked:
“Are 3’ou going to take this man’s
unsupported word when his law’vers
are unable to get any reputable chem
ist to come in and stultify himself
by declaring that those spols were
not blood or that the result produced
was not that of spreading haskolinu
over fresh blood?
“This defense can not—they haven’t
got any defense. They circle and flut
ter. but never light. They grab at
j varnish, rat blood and Duffy’s blood,
I but they never knuckle down to show
j that it was not blood. In view' of the
statement of Mell Stanford, who
swept that floor and who says it was
not there Friday: in view of the
statements of Christopher Columbus
Barrett, v ho, despite what they say,
continues to draw his livelihood from
the coffers of the National Pencil
Company; in view of the statements
of a great many others who went
there to see the blood spots, can we
get but cne solution of the matter? I
say you can not
Contends Fallacy in
Defense's Theory.
“Then they fly onto another sub
ject? It is the way they claim Jim
Conley took that body into the base
ment. But, gentlemen of the Jury,
you know, and they know’, that th'a
body wasn’t taken down that scuttle-
hole. It did not show there where
the dust was thick. And then did he
shoot her down the chute of the
Clark Woodenware’s place, w’here the
body w’ould have been concealed bet
ter and longer than where the body
was found'/ Did this negho, who,
they say, robbed this girl—even if he
had taken time to write the notes,
even if he had hit her with a bludgeon.
—do you think, gentlemen of the jury,
that he would have taken the time
to tie a cord around her neck—a cord
seldom found in the basement except
when it was swept there with the
trash, but the proper place for which
was in that metal room on the second
floor, where little Mary Phagan met
her death? If he had done all that —
after he had sent her body down the
chute—why would he have gone dow r n
into the basement and have removed
the body from its safest hiding place
dowrn there at the bottom of the
chute, where the dust, trash and boxes
would have kept it concealed for
weeks at least? Why would he have
removed it out there near the boiler,
where the firemen and everyone else
w’ould have been sure to find it?
“I tell you, gentlemen of the jury,
that body was never sent down that
chute; that body was never sent down
that scuttlehole. It was taken down
into the basement just as Jim Con
ley says it was.
“They fly off onto other things.
Why, on May 1, when Holloway
caught Jim Conley washing his shirt,
he said, ‘This is my negro.’ Fifteen
days later, when the second squad
of Pinkertons came in, can you tell
me, will you tell me, why, if he
shoved her down that hole, that not
until the 15th of May was this bloody
bludgeon found, and more blood than
this girl has ever been shown to
have lost was there?
“Another thing. Frank said in his
statement that this man Quinn came
to him and told him he would like tc
take him back to the metal room,
where, the newspapers said, and where
everybody else said, and knew that
morning, that some blood and som?
hair had been found.
Stresses Fact Frank
Hadn’t Examined Spots.
“Although he had seen this in the
papers, although he had heard from
others in the factory that the spots
and hair had been found, although he
had been all around there, although
the knowledge of the finding of these
spots and hair had torn him to pieces,
although he was so anxious to get
detectives to work on the case that
he had phoned SchilT three times, yet
Quinn had to come and ask him to
come back there to see the spots.
“Tell me. was that the conduct of
ah innocent man anxious to help the
police? But, strange to say, not even
Lemmie Quinn comes to support yqu
in this statement. No one ever saw
Leo M. Frank go back there to exam
ine those spots.
“If there was ever a spot on this
earth that Famk did not want to
see it was the blood spot back there
in the metal room, the spot where
this little girl met her death. If
Frank went down there to the morgue
and the sight of that little girl tore
him to pieces as he tells you it did.
let any honest man on this jury tell
me why It was he wanted to look
upon her dead body again.
“Rogers says lie didn't look at it.
Black says he didn't see him look
at it.”
Attorneys Arnold and Rosser en
tered strenuous objection.
“Rogers did not say that Frank did
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J Tuesday Only!
unfair speech (referring to an aside) (Saxon blood in his veins, a graduate-
is uncalled for. Frank said that his : of Cornell, a man of sense and intelb-
wife would not come to see him be
cause she was afraid of the snap
shotters and the. reporters and that
she did not want to go through this
line of newspaper men every time she
came to see him. 1 tell you. gentle
men, there never lived a true wife
who would not have gone through a
line of snapshotters and reporters in
spite of the contrary advice of a rabbi
or any one else.”
i “Let us see who first found out
Conlev could write. Frank said. *1
was the man who made this discov
ery. I was the means of getting this
information to the police. I have re
ceived too many notes asking for
loans not to know that he can write.
I know that if you will look in the
safe you ■will find some receipts for
watches signed by him. and that if
u will go to the jeweler's you proo-
gence and spirit, refused to see
Conley because his counsel was not
in town. But when his counsel re
turned and he still had the oppor
tunity he dared not let Conley meet
him. It is not necessary to take up
this discussion. Would the weakest
of you when innocent and wrongfully
accused by a man with a black skin
on the charge of murder let Rosser
or any lawyer in the world keep you
from confronting him and nailing the
lie. No lawyer of any age or clime
could prevent me from meeting a
man, be he white or black, who had
wrongfully accused me.”
Pointing his finger at Frank he con
tinued :
“You went in a room and inter
viewed old Newt Lee dow n at the po
lice station at 12 o’clock at night.
What did you do? Did you act like
ably will find other specimens of his an innocent man who was trying
handwriting.'
“But Scott says that no such thing
get at the truth? Oh, no!
‘Instead of going after him and try-
over happened. Why didn’t Fran*, ting to get from him new' light on this
when those notes were found by the case—this man at whom you han
dead girl’s body—why didn't he then pointed an infamous suspicion to save
and there say that that was Conley’s your own nock and to save your rep-
handwriti-g? Up to the tim that it 1 utation on Washington street and in
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