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

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LEO M. FRANK. 855

Consider that scuttle hole. Don't you know that Frank would have rushed to get his detective, Scott, to put the police in charge of the information that blood had been found there? But long after Jim Conley had been arrested, after this man Holloway had arrested him, after Holloway had said that Jim was "his nigger," realizing the desperation of the situation and that something had to be forthcoming to bolster up the charge that Conley did it, then it was—and not until then—that this man McWorth, after he had gone looking through the factory for a whole day, at about 3:30 o'clock, saw seven large stains and found the envelope and stick right there in the corner.

Now, he found too much, didn't he? Wasn't that a little too much? Is there a man on this jury that believes that all these officers, looking as they did through that factory, going down in this basement through that very scuttle hole, would have overlooked seven large stains which were not found there until May 15th? Scott said, "I looked there just after the murder, made a search at the scuttle hole, didn't see blood spots there." Starnes says the same, Rosser says the same, and these men, Mel Stanford and Darley, both say they had been cleaning up that very area on May 3rd, and yet the men who cleaned up and all these men never saw them and never even found the envelope or the stick. Why, it's just in keeping with that plant of the shirt at Newt Lee's house. I don't care how much you mix this man Black. Boots Rogers says, Darley says, that Sunday morning, when suspicion pointed towards this man Newt Lee, that this man Frank, the brilliant Cornell graduate and the man who was so capable at making figures that certain parts of his work have never been fixed since he left that factory, when he knew a girl had been murdered downstairs, when he knew that suspicion pointed towards Newt Lee, took that slip out of the clock and stood there, looked at it, and told those men, in answer to a question, if Newt Lee would have had time to have left and gone.