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

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324 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

He said all right. He didn't want him to run anywhere else because he wanted him to work hand in glove with these men, and he wanted to know what they did, what they said, and what they thought. But Haas—and he's nobody's fool—when he saw that they were getting hot on the trail, opened up the conversation with the suggestion that "now you let us have what you get, first," and if Scott had fallen for that suggestion, then there would have been something else. You know it. You tell me that letter and that telegram are not significant? I tell you that this evidence shows, notwithstanding what "Joe Darter" Schiff swore, when he saw the necessity to meet this evidence of Miss Fleming, which Mr. Arnold tried so hard, because he saw the force of it, to turn into another channel, that Frank didn't fix that financial sheet Saturday morning. I say that, with the stenographer gone and Frank behind (and Schiff had never done such a thing before, he had always stuck to him in getting it up before), that what Gantt told you is the truth.

This man, expert, brilliant—talk about this expert accountant, Joel Hunter! Why, he isn't near as smart as this man Frank, to begin with, and besides, the idea of his going up there and taking up those things and trying to institute a comparison as to how long it would take him, even if he had the capacity of Frank—he hasn't got it—to go up there and do those things—why, it's worse than ridiculous.

And Frank himself wasn't satisfied with all this showing about what he had done; he got up on the stand—he saw the weakness of his case, and he's as smart as either one of his lawyers, too, let me tell you, and I'll bet you he wrote that statement, too; they may have read it, but he wrote it. Frank realized that he must go over and beyond what the evidence was, and through his statement, he sought to lug into this case something that they didn't have any evidence for. Why! Because he knew in his heart that all this talk about the length of time it took to fix that financial sheet was mere bunkum. Then he seeks to put in here through that statement—and if we hadn't stopped him, he would have done it—