0668 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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spoke to the boys who were there in the office about the
happenings of that morning, of course, more or less length.
Then Mr. Quinn said he would like to take me back to the metal
department on the office floor where the newspapers that
morning had said that Mr. Barrett of the metal department had
claimed he had found blood spots, and where he had found
some hair. Mr. Quinn first took me to the little lathe back
in the metal department, and explained to me that Mr. Barrett
had told him just the same as he said here, that those strands
of hair were so few in number that he didn't see them until
he turned the handle end they wound around his fingers, and
moreover that the position of the handle of the tool which
that handle actuates on that tool, that small lathe, was in
the same relative position to the work in the lathe as when
they left it on Friday evening previous to that Monday. They
then took me over to the place in front of the dressing room
where it was claimed the blood spots were found. Now, I ex-
amined those spots, I didn't examine them standing up. I
didn't depend on the light from the window, but I stooped
right down to those spots, and I took a strong electric flash
lamp that we had around there and looked at them and examined
them carefully, and I made a certain conclusion after that ex-
amination. Now, gentlemen, if there is any one thing in and
about a factory, after my seven years of practical experience
in factories, that I do know, it is the care and condition of
factory floors. Now, take that metal plant for instance,
that plant, as you know, is a place where we reform and
shape and spin sheet brass, and, of course, of necessity, we
use a great deal of lubricant there; now, the lubricant that
is used on this eyelet machine, these large machines that
form of lubricant which is known as Stekolene compounds; now,
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