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4 FRANK GLAD BURNS IS WORKING ON HIS CASE Newsboy Declares That His Story on Witness Stand Was Result ' 1 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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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 girls can’'t love,” was the answer of Sydney Henlein, a wealthy manufac turer, to. a breach of promise suit brought by Lavina Mason, an actress, She asks $lOO,OOO damages, " $2.95 < % F=n, American Thin Model 20, Watch $2:25 . = - y N Special Closing-out Sale of Amorican made watches. Send swr name and /. Roe m address and we will send you by parcel post or express C. 0. D. $2 95 this 3 - 4,' -, gy s legant thin model 18 size for gents, 16 size for boys, open face, soolid nickel N . Z o> 5 A A Jleilver acrew back and bezel case, dust proof, with lever movement, jew -3 oy . s b2O sled ax pansion balanee, hard enamel dial, stem wind and rudlmnt, a e 5 g correct timekeeper, oqual to & $l5 00 wateh, case and weorks guaranteed Selid e 5 ;U“ylnu mufl:h ATPON(‘I’. This sale for a short hm:d:nly. W - efaction guaranteed. Paiy your postman or expressman. ress Nicket Stiver Diamend Jewsiry Ce., K 51, 188 W, Madison St., Chicage, s 'LIGHT BREAKING, ASSERTS PRISONER ' “Can’t Fool All the People All the . ' . 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,