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FRANK GLAD BURNS IS WORKING ON HIS CASE
Newsboy Declares That His Story
on Witness Stand Was Result
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of “Police Frame-up.
Following the sensational af
fidavit of George Epps, a 15
year-old unewsboy, repudiating
the testimony he gave against
Leo M. Frank and charging a
' police frame-up, the Frank case
took another startling turn late
Wednesday when a new witness
against Jim Conley appeared in
l.aGirange, Ga.
This new witness tells a story
that is somewhat proplematical
in its bearing, but may be of
ereater value to the defense.
The story, told by I£d Ross, a negro,
to Gus Reed, a bailiff, and E. B. Ed
mondson, a constable, in LaGrange
deciares that Conley came into Reed's
boarding house on the afternoon of
the murder and washed blood from
his hands, o
“Ross says Yhat Conley came into
the house, and as he washed his
hands, remarked that he had had
some trouble at the factory,” said
Reed over the long-distance telephone
Wednesday He said that Ross
seemed to be a hardworking, truth
fu, negro, and said that he hadn't
told the story previously because he
did not want to be mixed up in the
case, and had not been asked about
It by anybody
Reed and Edmondson alrcady have
comynunicated with Frank's lawyers
and were to have been in Atlania
Monday, but weré held up by the
press of court business, Reed said h
would probably come to Atlanta
Thursday.
Next to the accusations made
against Roy Craven by Albert Mc-
Knight, the Epps charges are the
ugliest of those made since the ending
of the famous Frank trial. The lad
declares in his aflidavit that Black
suggested the larger part of his testi
mony and forced him to swear to it
on the stand.
Probably the most hurtful of the
Epps testimony was that Mary Pha
gan had told him that Frank had
acted "suspiciously” toward her, that
he had walked down stairs ahead ot
her and waited for her at the door
where he winked at her and endeav
ored to attract her attention, and that
she was afraid of him,
All False, He Says.
All of this was false and perjured
testimony, Epp declares in his new
statement and was concocted out of
nothing by Detective Black.
Other developments in the Phagan
case Wednesday were the request by
Solicitor Dorsey for the resentencing
of Frank, the positive declration by
members of Frank's counsel that
there would be no effort to have
Judge Hill pronounce a sentence of
life imprisonment instead of the
death sentence, and the signing of
the habeas corpus papers, v\ihmh will
bring Frank before Judge Hill
SAVED LIFE WITH LYE.
Lye taken from tLa plastering in
her room saved the life of Mrs. Al
tert Smith Thursday after she hail
swallowed poison in mistake for a
prescribed tonic.
Mrs. Smith returned to her home at
No. 40 Eellwood avenue after a long
walk with her husband. In the dark
she took a bottle of potassium chlo
rate by mistake and swallowed
enough to imperil her life. Antidotes
failed to give material ald, and Dr.
Simon Katzoff was summoned,
With part of the lye from a piece
chipped out of the wall of the room he
suce ~ded in bringing ber out of dan
ger after many hours' work, :
JAP PREMIER RESIGNS.
TOKIIO, March 5-—The Japanese
Premier to-day placed hls resigna
tion in the hands of the Mikado. The
action followed a special audience
with the Emperor in which the Pre
mier said he could not retain his
office because the Houes of Peers had
reduced the naval estimates. The
Mikado has not accepted the resigna
tion,
Prince Tokugawa, President of the
House of Peers, is mentioned as a
likely successor.
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announcement has been made. Miss Elliott and Wilding have
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come quite expert with the racquet.
Dining Your Blonde
Friend Once No Crime
JERSEY CITY, N. J., March 5.—
“Because a husband falls from the
narrow path once by taking his
‘blonde friend' out to dine doesn't
make him bad,” déclared Judge Grif
fifth, hearing testimony in Mrs
George Wilson's suit for divorce,
WEDS AND LEAVES.
ASHEVILLE, N. (', March 54 Pre
tending to be a minister of the Prim
itive Baptist Church, John S. Haynes,
it is alleged, preached three sermons
at the church at Barnard Station,
married Matilda Roberts, promised to
take her on a tour of the Southern
States, and deserted her in Ashe
ville after less than a week of mar
ried life,
The wife was left without a cent to
pay her way back home. She is in
the care of the Associated Charities,
while the police are searching for the
alleged preacher.
NO WOMEN VOTED.
ELGIN, ILL., Marech 5.—A count to
day of the votes cast in the town elec
tion of Plato Center, near here, yvester.
day showed that not one woman took
advantage of her right to vote.
Although there was a not fight on the
section of highway board members, the
women refused to take any interest in
the election,
ALCOHOL KILLS CHILD.
CHICAGO, Mareh 5—A junk man,
driving down an alley, tossed away a
bottle containing wood alcohol. Three
year-old Marjorie Borre found the bot
g:i drank some of the fluid, and died
ofe a physielan could be called.
RUTHERFORD, N. J., March 5.—
Peter Farley and Edward Clark, the
crew of a troliey car, stuck to the car
for two days while it was snowbound.
PRESIDENT ASKS REPEAL.
WASHINGTON, March s.—Declar
ing that the exemption of American
coastwise shitping from the payment
of Panama Canal tolls was based
upon a “mistaken economic policy”
and was "“in contravention of our
treaty with Great Britain,” President
Wilson to-day asked Congress to re
peal the Adamson act containing the
exemption clause. The appeal was
made in person by the President, who
appeared before the Senate and
House of Representatives in joint
session '
The President declared that all the
world powers were unanimous in
judgment that the exemption was in
violation of our treaty obligations.
SAYS THEY “CAN'T LOVE.
NEW YORK, March (5. —“Chorus
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'LIGHT BREAKING,
ASSERTS PRISONER
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“Can’t Fool All the People All the
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Time,” He Says Regarding
Developments.
“‘You can't fool all the people all
the time,' ” quoted Frank, commenting
Thursday on the latest developments
in his case. And he is sure that Wil
liam J. Burns, who has announced
that he is in the case to the finish, will
¢ his part toward the enlightenment
of the people of Georgia. He was
confident Burns will get the truth.
Frank also found a source of grati
fication in the statement by John
Black, city detective, who was prom
ising to black somebody's eyes un
le the accusations of a frame-up
ceased to be hurled at him.
“YWhen yvou are in a shooting gal
lery,” said Frank, “and hit the bull's
eve, you know what happens—the beil
rings. John Black's roar of defianc3
this morning sounds to Ine like the
ringing of a bell.
“Light Is Breaking,” He Says.
“He says he's ‘tired of these accu
gations. 1 have no doubt of it. He's
mighty tired; but not as tired as he's
going to be.
“The light is breaking. I can see a
clearing glow even in the direction cf
Decatur street, over the police station,
It has been my experience of life that
a mar doesn’'t make a fuss untii he is
hurt, John Black is making a fuss.
u can draw your own conciusions.”
Frank declined to comment on the
statement of George W, Epps that nis
son’s recent affidavit, retracting his
testimony of the trial, was false.
“I do .ot care to take issue with
parental aquthority over a young boy,”
he said. “After all, wue bey is only a
child. But you know fiwc¢ the work
ings of conscience are very marked in
children, more so, it seems, than after
the children grow up.
“That is where this great mass cof
testimony is coming from now—tha
conscience. Nina Formby's con
science, Albert McKnight’s conscienca,
George Epps’ conscience—they are at
work.
“The human conscience is a wgn
derful thing. 1 should say it was a
spark of the divine, implanted in the
human breast to raise man above the
brutal doctrine that might makes
right. But for conscience th: stronger
‘would dominate the weaker, and the
weake. would submit without a strug
gle.
“Whenever vou find the weaker
man or class rising against an oppres.-
sion to which it would be e.sier to
‘submit, you will find conscience us
the spur. It always has been so. The
repudiation of all this testimony at
the trial is the voice of conscience lift
ed against the work of fear and op
pression.”
Thirks Burns May Be Here.
Frank was not at all certain that
Detective Burns had gone to New
York, as stated.
“He is a shrewd workman, I am
told,” said Frank. “It might be that
he is running a trolley car somewhere
in Atlanta. It seems that his methods
are not at all public when he is on a
case, 1 am very glad to know that
he is on this one to the finish. There
can be but one finish—a triumphant
vindication for me.”
~ Leonard Haas, of counsel for Leo
M. Frank, said Thursday that in spita
of threats from accused officers, tg
‘defense would go right ahead trying
to show that testimony against the
‘convicted man was manufactured, and
expected to furnisn more proof before
the extraordinary motion ror a new
trial was filed with Judge Ben Hill,
APPEALS FOR WOMEN JURY.
WATTS, CAL., March s.—On the
fact that the court permitted one of
the jurywomen to leave the court
room to nurse her child, W. W. Coats,
principal of the Watts public schoois,
will base his appeal from a verdict of
guilty brought by twelve women ju
rors when he was charged with riding
his bicycle upon the sidewalk.
The women jurors declared Coats
was guilty, but recommended that the
court extend mercy to him. The judge
fined Coats $3.
CLEVELAND HAS MEASLES.
EXETER, N. H, Maren s.—Rich
ard Cleveland, son of the late former
President of the United States, is ona
of the eight Phillips- Exeter students
confined to their rooms with measles,
The cases developed soon after the
boys returned from the school games
at Boston last Saturday,