361 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 329The facts are too firmly and too deeply rooted. Oh, yes, says Mrs. Small, I saw Frank up there on that fourth floor between eight and nine o'clock Tuesday morning, and…
359 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 327Let's talk about Jim Conley reading the newspapers. If Jim had committed that crime and he hadn't felt that he had the power and influence of Leo Frank behind him to…
362 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:8380 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,Let not able counsel and the glamour that surrounds wealth and influence deter you. I honor the way they went after Minola McKnight. I don't know whether they want me…
355 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 323Frank was associated with a store employing two or three people, and we don't know how many more. If his uncle wasn't in Brooklyn, he was so near there that even…
357 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 325Schiff, as willing and anxious as he was, couldn't stultify himself to such an extent as to tell you that Frank did that work on Saturday morning. But if he did…
356 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows: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…
358 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:326 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Frank: "Tuesday morning?" "I saw him Tuesday morning"—he was up there on the fourth floor after the murder, on Tuesday, sometime between nine and eleven o'clock." I said, "Between nine…
352 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:320 & AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Until that time—"I didn't stay there very often on Saturday afternoon;" Miss Fleming didn't stay there all afternoon. Now, gentlemen, I submit that this man made that financial sheet Saturday…
351 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 319The argument against those men was that they had only cobwebs, weak and flimsy circumstances, and these circumstances were inconsistent with the theory of guilt and consistent with some other hypothesis.But…
354 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:322 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Fair men, courageous men, true Georgians, seeking to do your duty, consider this: that phrase, penned by that man to his uncle on Saturday afternoon, didn't come from a conscience…
350 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:318 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Mr. Dorsey: No, they didn't see him there. I doubt if anybody else saw him there either.Mr. Arnold: If a crowd of people here laugh every time we say anything,…
353 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 821But whether or not he made out that financial sheet, I'll tell you something that he did do on Saturday afternoon, when he was waiting up there for old Jim to…
348 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:316 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.While waiting for her companions, this daughter of an employee of Montag comes into this presence and tells you an unreasonable, absurd story. It's a story that contradicts the one…
345 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 313The case culminated in sending him to prison for three long years. He was the man who led the aesthetic movement; he was a scholar, a literary man, cool, calm, and…
346 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:314 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.It is courageous enough to let that man who had taken that poor girl's life to save his reputation as the pastor of his flock go, and it is an…
349 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 317On the day of the murder of this girl on Saturday, he forgot to get the raincoat that old Jim saw him have. Miss Mattie Smith leaves the building, you say,…
347 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 315I want to read you a definition that an old darkey gave of an alibi, which I think illustrates the idea. Rastus asked his companion, "What's this here alibi you hear…
343 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 311According to the law, they had the right to delve into that character, and you saw that on cross-examination they dared not do it. I have here an authority that puts…
341 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 309Is it possible for someone to have the audacity and passion to come up here and swear that that man's character is bad if it is not true? I tell you…
342 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:310 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.He says, "You tell me to go up there to the girls' dressing room, shove open the door and walk in as a part of his duty, when he has…
344 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:312 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.He appeared on the outside as a whited sepulcher, but was as rotten on the inside as it was possible to be.So, he has no good character, I submit, and…
340 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:308 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS."We did exercise that right in the examination of one witness, but knowing that we couldn't put specific instances in unless they drew it out, I didn't want even to…
339 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 307I am at ease, and I know the conscience that abides in the breast of honest, courageous men.Now, the book says that if a man has good character, nevertheless it will…
335 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 308Did we hear cries of prejudice when we arrested Gantt, when we arrested Lee, when we arrested others? No, the prejudice came when we arrested this man, and never until he…
336 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:804 XY, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The Honorable Judge will charge you that you should not convict this man unless you think he is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.A great many jurors, gentlemen, and the people…
338 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:306 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The defendant is presumed to have a good character. Had he not put his character in issue, it would have been presumed, and the State would have been absolutely helpless…
337 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANE. 305Circumstantial evidence can be as reliable as direct evidence. Eminent authorities have shown that in many cases, circumstantial evidence is more certain than direct evidence. A conviction can be established more…
330 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:298 AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Conley's Proof.None of these individuals ever came forward and said Conley was there and that they were with him. Starnes—and Starnes could find a needle in a haystack, but the Lord…
333 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 301You must do what you must do—you must make Minola's husband a perjurer, and that would be terrible.You know about that Minola McKnight affair. It is the blackest of all. A…
334 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:302 XY. - AMERICAN STATE TRIALS"The benches always stuck it out, but they were screwed to the floor." You gentlemen have been practically in that fix, but I feel, nevertheless, that you have been…