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

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352 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

In the dressing room at a time when no reward is shown to have been offered—and indeed, when you know that no reward was offered because no executive of this state or of this city offered any reward during Sunday or as early as 7 or 8 o'clock Monday morning—I say to you that this man Barrett stands as an oasis in a mighty desert, standing up for truth and right and telling it, though his own job is at stake, and you know it. And you may fling your charges of perjury just as far as you want to, but I tell you right now, gentlemen, that Barrett, when he swore that he found blood there at the place where Conley said he dropped the body, told the truth; and when he said he found that hair on that machine, I tell you Barrett told the truth. If there be a man in this town that rightly deserves and who ought to receive the rewards, if there are any, it's this poor employee of the National Pencil Company, who had the manhood and the courage to tell the truth. I hope if there be such a thing as a reward to be given to anybody, that this man Barrett gets it. But not a single thing did Barrett swear to that either didn't occur before any rewards were offered, or that weren't substantiated by four and five of the most reputable witnesses that could be found. And Barrett didn't make his discoveries on May 15th, either; Barrett made them Monday morning, April 8th, and they haven't any resemblance to a plant. They come so clean and so natural that the most warped and the most biased must recognize the fact that Barrett has told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

But you can wipe Barrett out of this case and still you have got an abundance of firm ground upon which to stand. Barrett isn’t shown to have lied, dodged, or equivocated. Mrs. Jefferson—and I’m only going to give you a few of the people that saw blood there—Mrs. Jefferson saw a dark red spot about as large as a fan, and in her opinion, it was blood, and it was blood. Mr. Stanford says he saw the blood at the dressing room on Monday, dark spots that looked exactly like blood, and this white stuff, haskoline, had been...

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