313 Sheet – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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LEO M. FRANK

Harlee Branch stated that he was present when the detectives made Conley reenact what he claimed had taken place. According to Branch, Conley started at 12:17 and took 50 minutes to complete the motions. The state has attacked nearly everyone we have brought into this case, but they did not attack Dr. William Owen. Dr. Owen's experiments demonstrated that Conley could not have gone through those motions in 34 minutes.

Jim Conley declared that he started at four minutes to one o'clock to get the body, and that he and Frank left at 1:30. If we ever pinned the negro down to anything, it was to that, and we have shown that he could not have done all that in 34 minutes.

Away with your filth and your dirty, shameful evidence of perversion; your low street gossip, and come back to the time—the time-element in the case.

I don't believe the little Stover girl ever went into the inner office. She was a sweet, innocent, timid little girl, and she just peeped into the office from the outer one. If Frank was in there, the safe door hid him from her view, or if he was not there, he might have stepped out for just a moment.

Oh, my friend, Dorsey, he stops clocks and he changes schedules, and he even changes a man's whole physical make-up. He's almost changed the course of time in an effort to get Frank convicted.

Oh, I hate to think of little Mary Phagan in this. I hate to think that such a sweet, pure, good little girl as she was, with never a breath of anything wrong whispered against her, should have her memory polluted with such rotten evidence against an innocent man. Mary Phagan entered the factory at approximately 12 minutes after 12. Did you ever stop to think that it was Frank who told them that the girl entered the office when she did? If he had killed her, he would have just slipped her pay envelope back in the safe and declared that he never saw her that day at all, and then no one could have ever explained how she got into that...