The Washington times., 1915-03-07

This Is the sheet that took out on
Sunday morning. l looked at The clock
to see what time 1t was, and | laid
the sheet against the dial of the clock,
the glass face of the clock, and wrote
down there the time which the clock
then registered. | told them the sheet
was just like you see it there, and
brought it to the office and
Chief Lanford put 1t In his pocket.
then went into the otfice and got an
other time slip and dated 1t April Is,
similar to this one taken out. and put
1t back into the clock to be used by
the night watchman that night and by
the help when they came to work on
Monday morning.
After taking this slip out Mr.. Darley
and myself casually looked over the
slip to see II there were any errors, and
We noticed over there ION the edge on
which the successive numbers were ar
ranged that no successive numbers had
been skipped. that Is, the numbers are
arranged successvely-one. two. three.
and so on---and the time was stamped
nlongsid each one, and there was no
single line skipped. but we didn't notice
the actual time shown by the punches.
We only noticed that the successive
punches were made at the time which
the punches themselves showed.
The solicitor made much OF tho
fact that Frank at frst said he saw
no error in the punches ard later
discovered three "skips'' in the rec
ord punched by the night watch
man, Newt Lee. 1t was construed
as an effort on the part of Frank to
direct suspicion toward the negro
watchman. This charge was the oc-
casion for Franks long explanation.
ADMITS SIGHT OF BODY
UNNERVED HIM.
Now, gentlemen. have heard a
great deal, and so have you, in this
trial about nervousness. about how
nervous was that morning. Gentle
men. I was nervous; I was very ner-
vous; was completely unstrung. I
will admit K. Imagine me being
awakened out of sound sleep. rushed d
away on morning run in an automo-
bile driven at top speed, without any
food or breakfast, rushing into dark
passageway. coming into darkened
room. and then suddenly an electric
light is flashed on and ] see the sight
that was presented by that poor little
child.
Why, it was sight that was
enough to drive man to distraction:
that was sight that would have
| made stone melt. And then it II
, suspicious because a man who is of
| ordinary flesh and blood should show
! signs of nervousness.
| Just imagine that little girl who in
| the first blush of young wOmanhood.
! had had her life so cruelty snuffed out.
| Might not man be nervous who
, looked on such a sight? OF course
was nervous. Any man would have
| been nervous IL he had been a man.
! From the factory that morning we
went with the officers to the police
! station. MIR. Darley and 1 went up to
Chief Lanford's office. where l sat and
| talked and answered every one OF
| their questions freely and frankly and
discussed the matter in general with
| them trying to aid and help them In
! az : way | could. 1t seemed that the
! y.otes were not readily accessible
! there at the police station. and as
| they wanted me to see them, / told
them on leaving there that | would
come back that afternoon, which did
| on leaving there that morning Nj,
| Darley and myself went over TO IN
! undertaker's, inasmuch as Mr.. Darley
had not seen the body OF the little
girl. When We went into the estab'
! lishment they told US somebody was
busy with the body az that time and