MISS JULIA FUSS, Sworn In For The State, 64th To Testify

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MISS JULIA FUSS, sworn for the Defendant.

I work on the fourth floor of the pencil factory. I have never known

anything wrong or immoral to be going on in Mr. Frank's office. I talked

with Jim Conley Wednesday morning after the murder. He was sweeping

around there and asked me to see the newspaper. As he read it he kinder grinned. He told me he believed Mr. Frank was just as innocent

as the angels from Heaven. I know his general character. He was never

known to tell the truth. I would not believe him on oath.

CROSS EXAMINATION.

I saw the dark red spots by the water cooler in the metal room where

they had chipped up something. Something white was dropped all over

it. The spots did not look like they had been smeared over. Looked like

a plain drop of blood. I think it was paint because there was paint used

there all the time. They asked me soon after the murder about the general

character of Frank. They asked me if I knew anything against his

character and I told them no. They generally spoke well of him. They

always spoke good of him. I have always heard him spoken of in the

highest terms. I have never heard him accused of any act of immorality

or familiarity with the girls in the factory. Jim Conley got two papers

from me on Tuesday and Wednesday. I bought them. Jim always

seemed to be kind of nervous or half drunk or something. He did not

arouse my suspicions until after he began to read the papers and grin

about them and comment on them. I didn't see Mr. Frank speak to Conley

on Tuesday. Conley was not there. I am sure of that. Mr. Frank

came up there twice, once at 9 and again in 15 or 20 minutes. He came

around to see if everything was in good working order. He spoke to Miss

Carson and Mr. Darley and to a little boy. And then went on down stairs.

He came back in about fifteen or twenty minutes to see if everything was

going on alright. He spoke to Miss Carson again about the work. He

always came upstairs to see if everything was going on all right.