The Washington times., 1915-03-14

In San Francisco, you tell me that this
man Frank, the defendant in this case,
explains his nervousness by reason of
the automobile ride, the view of the
.body-as this man Durant, In San
Francisco tried to explain his cond-
tion by the inhalation of gas-you tell
me, gentlemen of the jury, that these
explanations are going to wipe out the
nervousness that you know could have
been produced by but one cause, and
that Is, the Consciousness of an if1-
famous crime that had been comm tted7
Old Newt Lee says that when he went
back there that afternoon he found that
inside door locked-a thing that never
had been found before he got there at 4
O'Clock. thing that he never had
found. Old Newt Lee says that Frank
came out of his office and met him out
there by the desk, the place where he
always went and said, "All right, Mr..
Frank" and that Frank had always
called him in and given him his in
structions. But Newt Lee says that
night, when he went into the cellar, he
found the light, that had always burned
brightly, turned back so that 1t was
burning just about IKE lightning bug.
You tell me that old Jim Conley felt
the necessity to have. turned that light
down? l tell you that that light was
turned down.. gentlemen, by that man,
Leo M. Frank, after he went down there
Saturday afternoon, when he discovered
that Conley wasn't coming back to burn
the body, to place the notes by the body,
that Conley had written, and he turned
IL down in the hope that the body
wouldn't be discovered by Newt Leo
during that night, {
Monday evening, Harry Scott is
sent for, the Plnkerton man-aud 1t .
didn't require any affidavit to hold
old Scott down to the truth though
after my experience with that man
Darley. almost trembled In my boots
for fear this man Scott, one Of. the
most material witnesses, although the
detective OF this defendants company.
might also throw me down. Scott
says this man Frank, when he went
there Monday afternoon, after he had
anxiously phoned Schiff to see old
man Sig Montag and get Sig Mon.
tags permission-had phoned him
three times-Scott says that he ::
squirmed In his chair continually;
crossed and uncrossed his legs,
rubbed his face with his hand, sighed.
twisted and drew long deep breaths.
WENT THOROUGHLY
INTO CONLEY'S LIFE. %, ~, -.
After going to the station. Tuesday
morning. just before his arrest-if he
ever was 'arrested-just before bis de- =,
tention, at another time altogether
from the time that Darley speaks of
-Darley, the man for whom he sent.
barley. the man who is next to him
In power. Darley, the man that he
wanted to sustain his nerve-Scott
your own detective, says that he was
nervous and pale, and that when he
saw him at the factory, his eyes were
large and glarinE.
Tuesday morning, Waggoner, sent
up there to watch him from across
the street, says before the officers
came to get him, he could see Frank
pacing his office inside, through the
windows, and that he came to the Of
fee window and looked out at him
twelve times in thirty minutes-that
he was agitated and nervous on the
way down to the station.
And this man Dalton, did we sus-
tain him? BY more witnesses by far
than you brought here to impeach
him. and by witnesses Of this COM
munity: witnesses that you couldn't
impeach to save your life. Did we
sustain him? We not only sustained
him by proof OF. general good char
acter. but We sustained him by the
evidence OF this man, c. T. Maynard
an unimpeached and unimpeachahle
witness. who tells you. not when Newt
Lee was there. during the three weeks
that Newt Lee was there, but that on a
Saturday afternoon in June or July.
1912, he saw with his own eyes this
man Dalton go into that pencil factory
with a woman. Corroboration of Con. ..
ley? OF course, it's confederation.
You went thoroughly into this man
Conley's previous life. You found out
every person for whom he had worked
and yet this lousy. disreputable negro
Is unimpeached by any man except
somebody that's got hand in the till
OF the National Pencil Company, un-
impeached as to general bad char
acter, except by the hirelings of the
National Pencil Company. And yet
you would have this jury. in order to
turn this man loose, override the
facts of this case and say that Conley
committed this murder. when all you
have ever been able to dig up against
him Is disorderly conduct in the Police
Court