The most significant information in this recording is that Frank had retained Black as counsel, and that the state's worst suspicion is that they also hired Herbert Haas. Frank had gone to the police department alone, without help or friends, and the next day two detectives were sent to find him. Black claimed to have been watching Frank on Monday and was then taken to the police station. Frank would have sought assistance from friends or a lawyer if he had known the odds against him. The old police gang and their tactics are known to local veteran Sig Montague.
He called Haas, but Haas declined to go to the police station, so he couldn't see Frank. Haas then requested the assistance of a more experienced and knowledgeable person to combat the injustice of the police. When Frank went to the police station and provided his statement, a detective agency hired him to find the murder that had been committed in his factory building. As Frank made his way to police headquarters, Sig gave him advice for the first time ever and urged him to make a statement. Despite being told they didn't want him when he got to the office, he persisted in going.
Frank's self-exposure and subsequent release is the text's most important revelation. He phone Sig Montague and asks for his advice on how to solve the crime. SIG suggests hiring a detective agency. The Pinkertons, who Frank hires, work with the local police department. Scott records Frank's statement and lets him know they work with the neighborhood police. After that, Scott and John Black, who has been arrested and is charged with murder, proceed through the basement of the pencil factory.
The testimony is concluded with a quotation from Sig Montague, who advises Frank to hire a detective agency to solve the crime. One of the most important details in the text is how the Pinkertons tried to frame him for the murder of a Jewish boy from the north in his place of business. The boy is willing to find the murderer despite his inability to defend himself because he is aware of his innocence. He does not believe that his friend who came before him had any intention of doing this, despite their claims that the time slip and shirt were planted although there is no evidence to support this. The shirt was found in a barrel when Black and another person went outside to visit Newt Lee's house on Tuesday morning. Newt insisted that the shirt was his or at least appeared to be his when they brought it back to the police station. Although it is not a legal duel, the newspaper and some other people seem to think it is.
Why old man Lee didn't find the body sooner, how he found it lying on its face, and how he saw it from a location from which he could not have seen it are just a few of the author's unanswered questions about the case.
