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DETECTIVE BURNS IS
Solicitor Dorsey Monday will continue the presentation of
affidavits bearing on the tactics of agents for the defense in the
Frank case on the resumption of the hearing of the extraordinary
motion for a new trial, whiech Saturday was marked by a particu
larly severe and searching examination of Deteetive W. J. Burns
by Solicitor Dorsey. i - :
Burns 'was on the stand slightly more than an hour in the
courtroom of Judge Hill in the Thrower Building. He was ques
tioned at length by the Solicitor on the details of his work on the
Phagan murder mystery, the terms of his contraet, the identity of
Lig ¢lients, the results -of his inves
tigation, the methods that had been
employed or sanctioned by him in ob
taining evidence, and ail else that
could throw light on the worth of the
detective's conclusions as to the mur
derer of Mary Phagan. ¢
An outgrowth of the fight of the
defense to obtain a new trial is ex
pected to make its appearance this
week, when the Solicitor has intimat
ed he will ask the Grand Jury for
indictments against certain of the
agents for the defense whomx he al
ready has accused of improper and il
legal ¢onduct in procuring affidavits,
and against witnesses who he con
tends have ghTfted their testimony
under questionable influence.
Burns’ Aides Summoned,
He was asked Saturday night about
the probdbility of indictments being
asked Monday, when the w Grand
Jury will be organized. %u!d it
was doubtful if there would oppor
tunity to present this matter at once,
because o; his time being occupied in
arguing against the motion for a new
trial, ~
Subpenas were issues Saturday for
Dan 8. Leéhdn, chief aide of Buros in
the Pbagan Investigation; George
Wrenn, who is said to have assisted
in obtaining the Annie Maude Carter
letters: Jimmy Wrenn, a worker for
(', W. Burke, special agent for the de
fense, and Lynn, chauffeur for Burke.
They were summoned to appear at
the hearing Monday. >
J. E. Duffey, a witness at the Frank
trial, who later repudiated his testi
mony at the solicitation of agents for
the defense, is under arrest, and
eitlrer will appear in court to be ex
_amined by® the Solicitor or will make
an affidavit to be used in the hearing.
Duffey denied at the trial that his
finger had hled over the place where
the supposed blood spots on the sec
ond floor were found. Lee, another
employee, had testified that Duffey’s
finger had bled freely at about this
place. In his affidavit for the de
fense, Duffey went back on his irial
téstimony by the declaration that
blood had dripped in a considerable
amount at this place, and that Dor
\sey had overpersuaded him to say it
had not.
Kubanks, said to be in the employ
of the Burns agency, is being sought
by the Soticitor to explain what part
he had, if any, in the changing of
Duffey’'s testimony, Others who may
be called to testify or make deposi
tions are Carlton . Tedder, attached
to the law office of W. M. Smith; Ar
thur Thurman, lawyer for C. R, Rags
dale, the affidavit-making preacher,
and R. I. Barber, who made an affi
davit supporting Ragsdale. Barber,
the State believes, has disappeared,
Burns Leaves City. :
Detective Burns, none the worse for
Lis exciting experience at Marfetta on
Saturday night, when he was threat
ened by a mob of several hundred
persons, or for his thorough grilling
at the hands of the Solicitor, left At
lanta Saturday afternoon for Okla-
Loma City, where he is to testify in a
Glovernment suit that had its begin
ring about 1905, when Burns was in
the Government service. '
Dorsey asked Burns what part he
had taken in obtaining the affidavit
! v m C. B, Ragsdale, in which the
minister had sworn to hearing a ne
gro, whom another man identified as
Conley, confess ghat he was the slayer
of Mary Phagan “agsdale afterward
repudiated this affidavit and said he
had, been given $2OO for making it.
Burns said that he had nothing to
do with it, but that he thought the
affidavit had been taken in good faith
by the attorneys for the defense. He
testified that Dan Lehon told him
there was a minister who related this
sort of a story, but that he was not
much, impressed by it, because of the
length or time that it had been Kkept
a secret, He advised that the record
of the minister be looked up. This
was done, and prominent ministers
testified to Ragsdale's good charac
ter.
Burns told the court that he still
refused to have anything to do with
the man, but instructed Lehon to' take
him over to the lawyers for the d -
fense so that they might take his af
fidavit if they deemed it worthy of
belief,
Letters Not Found by Burns. *
Dorsey brought out that Burns did
not unearth the Annie Maude Carter
letters, said to have been written to
her by Jim Conley. (. W. Burke, ac
cording to Burns, brought them to
him, and George Wernn, an inmate of
the Tower, made the first interpreta
tions of the scrawls,
_“Well, Mr. Burns, you have been
here from 60 to %0 days, and if you
ure not responsible for any of these
things that have been turned up re
cently, what have you accomplished in
our sxu to Atlanta?” inquired the
‘ofld! . .
Burns replied that he had gone
thoroughly ‘through the briefs of evi
dence and the exhibits, had talked
with important witnesses, had sev
eral times visited the pencil factory
where the murder was vommit':ed and
d vh&ed the garments of the slain
:i‘rl in the Solicitor's office, He sald
that his had been suflicient to con
vince him that the murderer was none
other than Jim Conley. |
Dorsey inquired into the detettive's
ability to determine by a few hours'
conversation with Frank that he was
not a pervert and to determine with-
THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS
ont ever having seen the negro Con
ley that he was 4 degenerate of the
lowest fype. Burns replied that he
had had a widg experience with crim
inals of all types, had studied human
nature and had come to recognize
with comparative ease the character
istics that mark & perverted type of
being. Explaining his assertion about
Conley, he said that he knew Conley
to be a pervert from a careful perusal
of the letters he wrote to the Carter
negress.
Says Letters Brand Conley
Comparing them with the' “murder
notes” that were found by the body of
the Phagan girl, he said that the let
ters and the words were virtually
identical where they occurred in both
notes.. He declared that the murder
notes, considered in conjunction with
the other circumstances of the crime,
made it plain to him that Conley was
the murderer. He held that Conley's
assertion that he could write but lit
tie was refuted by the lengthy aad
frequent letters he wrote to Annie
Maude Carter, apd that the Solicitor
was refuted in his argument that the
murder notes, because of the pres
ence of the words “negro” and “did”
must have been dictated by a white
person. The lefters,to the Carter
woman, he said, contained these same
words spelled the same way. °
Burns, ynder the fire of questions
by the Sealicitor, admitted that he
had turned over all his evidence to
the lawyers for the defense and that
he had now in his possession no par
ticle of documentary or physical evi
dence pointing toward the murderer
of the -Phagan girl which had not
already been reported .to his clients
Herbert and Leonard Haas.-
The detective denied that he had
paid Ragsdale,” Annie Maude Carter,
Aaron Allen, or any of the other wit
nesses for the defense. He was as
positive in his assertions that no one
employed by his agency had bribed
or attempted to bribe any witnesses.
He expressed his belief that none of
the affidavits had qeen bought.
He admitteqd freely, that he had ad
vised that the Carter wc:"nan be sent
out of town, It was nécessary, he
explained, because all of the wit
nesses for the defense were being
“hamboozled and brow-beaten” by
the detectives and. others donnected
with the prosecutiom bf Frank.
Dorsey Furnishes Address.
Burns hesitated to teil where the
Carter woman had been sent, but.
when, compelled to do so by Judge
Hill, Yestified that she was in New
Orleans. He did not know the ad
dress, 'but this deficiency Dorsey sup
plied for him, saying that his own
agents had located her at No. 314
Lower line.
Burns asserted enuglativally that
there were neo strings to the. terms
of his contract. He had been paid
some money on his contract and
there was some due, he- said. He
was not to get any more in the event
that Frank was liberated.
He explained his failure to inter
view many of the witnesses for the
State on the ground that so many
obstacles had been put in his path
that he recognized that it would he
useless, He had not seen Conley, he
said, because of the conditions -im
posed by Smith, the negro's lawyer,
who insisted on being present when
the interview took place.
Rogers Now a Burns Man.
It came out in the course of the
examination that W. W. (“Boots™)
Rogers, who testified for the State at
the trial of Frank, and Detectives
Whitfield and McWorth, formerly o§
the Pinkertons, all are now in the
employ of the Burns agency.
Throughout the questioning it was
apparent that the Solicitor had kept
a vigilant eye on every ~move of
Burns and of his operatives. He ap
peared to have information of prac
tically every witness Burns had seen
on his trips to New York, (g\lcng')
and other cities- and of those he had
seen and missed in Atlanta. Among
the State’s witnesses that Burns had
neglected to see, Dorsey instanced
Newt Lee, John Starnes John Black,
Conley and Dr. Claude A. Smith.
Burnsg, under the cross-examina
tion of Atterney Reuben R. Arnold,
of counsel for the defense, declared
Conley as fiendish a pervert as any
criminal he ever had encountered. He
said that he never had been in a case
where prejudice had made it so aif
ficult to obtain the truth.
Sues to Secure Old
‘Reward for Slayer
LEXINGTON, April 30.-—-Suit. has
been filed here by former Sheriff Dauiel
Scott elaiming the reward offered by
the State for the c‘fmn of “King"”
McNamara, slayer of Jacon Keller here
fifteen years ago. McNamara had
evaded arrest through political influence,
and it is said he was betrated by a
woma! :
The‘fi 000 has been in bank here since
the murder, ’
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BEACHEY FLIES AT ELBERTON,
E“.BERTON. May 2.—Ten thousand
persons saw Lincoln Beachey make
two flights here to-day at 11 and 3
ol'vlock. He circgled the city both
times,
GRILLED BY DORSEY
Prisoner Charges a
‘Frame-up’ as Death
Sentence Is Passed
GREENSBORO, N. €., May 4.—
“My wife will be a widow and my
little son an orphan because twelve
men failed to give me the benefit of
the doubt,” charged Paul Conwell, in
a dramalic speecn just before he was
sentenced by Judge H. P. Lane, of the
Superior Court, tggdie.on July 1¢ for
the murder of J.“I. Taylor, a West
Lee street merchant, whose dead
body, pierced with bullets, was found
on the floor of his little store one
morning last September. The evi
dence was purely circumstantial.
Conwell declared one of the jurors
has slept half the time during the
trial and that the whole affair was a
“frame-up.” He declared he was in
nocent of the crime and had no
knowledge whatever of it. The pris
oner was,carried to Raleigh to-day.
His case will be carried to the Su
preme Court.
E. Lee Worsham
.
Is Head of National
.
Conservation Body
E. Lee Worsham, State Entomolo
gist, is president of the National Con
servation ~Congress, having been
eleeted at the meeting of the execu
tive commitiee of that organization
in Chicago Saturday. He succeeds
Charles Lathrop Pack, of Cleveland
and Lakewood, N. J.. a capitalist and
scientific forester.
The Nationa' Conservation Con
gress is a powerful body, organized
five years ago by a consolidation of
societies and associations through
out the nation, whose purpose is to
promote the conservation of natural
resources, of human life, and the pro
motion of business efficiency,
Among its members are the fore
most public and business men of the
country. Mr. Worsham has been one
of its leading members from the first.
Caillaux Fires at
aillaux F -
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Sky in Dtel ‘and
.
Avenges His Honor
PARIS; May 4—A bloodless duel
was fought at the Parc des Princes
this afternoon between Joseph Cail
laux, former French Minister of Fi
nance, and his political rival, M.
D’Aillieres.
Following the decision of thelr sec
onds that they must meéet on the field
of honor, the men faced each other
with pistols at 25 paces. Caillaux,
who fired first, pointed the muzzle of
his pistol to the sky; D'Aillteres fired
intp the ground. Then General Dal
stein, .formerly military governor of
Paris, who acted as master of cere
monies, declared honor satisfied.
Russ Princess Says
ST. PETERSBURG, May L —(ireat
consternation prevails among the mem
bers of the royal family concerning the
unfavorable marriage of the beautiful
young Princess Irene Alexandroyna of
Russia, the husband being Prince Yous
souhoff.
The youthful bride has written de
spairing letters to her parents telling
of brutal ireatment. She said her hus
band even went so far as to strike her
in a fit of rage. She says he is subject
to these fits, and when in them is a
veritable madman. The Princess is said
to want a divorce.
Recalled as Mayor;
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Re-ElectedinTacoma
TACOMA, WASH., May 4.-—-A V.
Fawecett, twice Mayor of Tacoma and
recalled from that office three yebars
ago, was placed in the Mayor's chair
a third time.
Mayor-elect Fawcett is 69 years old
over the?!ev C. -F. W, Stoever.
al-‘s.wcet ‘s majority was about 1,800
ahd is a Civik War veteran.
CHESANING, MICH., April 30.»[—‘21‘he
village council, which nfpolnled as mar
shal Miss Blanche Ingalls, has re%relte.d
it. Miss Ingalls presented her bill at
the first council meeting for sixteen
days at $2 a day. The Aldermen cut
it to §l2. She says she will sue.
.
Pickles and Ice Cream
. .
Diet Cause of Lawsuit
CLEVELAND, OHIO, April 30.—
Mrs. William Jones complained that
her husband brought home nothing
but pickles and ice cream. The court
ordered him to bring home a better
diet.
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Fine for Mosquitoes
Found at Assouan
WASHINGTON, April 30.—S8ir Wil
liam Willicks, bailder of Assouan
dam, told Congressmen that twelve
shillings fime is imposed there for
each mosquito found. 4
TRIBBLE DENIES
NAVAL CRITIGISM
Georgia Congressman Refutes
Remarks Acgredited to Him.
by an Atlanta Paper. :
WASHINGTON, May 4.—-In a
statement to-day Representative S. J.
Triuble, of Géorgia, denled that ininis
speech in the House Saturday he crit
icised the appointment of Episcopal
or Cathelie clergymen as chaplaing in
the United States Navy. He denied
also that he is a “little navy” mian,
this being one of the terms used in
an article in an Atlanta paper of
Sunday. 3 ;
*“] have always been in favor of an
adequate navy,” said Mr, Tribble to
day, “and shall vote for two ba'ttla
ships this yéar.” e
Mr. Tribble's statement in reply to
the Atlanta paper’s article is as fol
lows: 4
“I did net object to fincrease of
chaplains, if the department wonld
require them to serve on ships, where
the law contemplated they should, be.
“I did not argue the question of un
equal division of chaplains. I did not
say anything about Episcopalians
having too many chaplains,
' “I objected to chaplains for navy
yvards, and I objected -to chaplains
having authority to dictate to the sea
men that they should participate in
ceremonies if they objected to doing
so, and quoted the Constitution, which
reads as follows:
“*All men have the natural and iq};
alienable right to worship. God, eac
according to the dictates of his own
conscience, and no human authority
should in any case contrn! or inter
fere with such right of conscience,””
.
12 Dead in Storms
: In Central West
ST. LOUIS, May bs.—Twelve per
sons were killed and property damage
estimated at several .million dollars
was caused by gales and floods which
swept five Central Western Stares
Sunday night and yesterday, accord
ing to advices recei¥ed here to-day.
In Oklahoma three were Killed,
in lowa two, in Hlineis two, in Texas
two and in Kansas t!llge. Hailstones
in many localities dly damaged
fruit trees.
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One Dead, 4 Dying |,
In Trolley Collision
DETROIT, MICH,, May 5.—A mo
torman was killed, four passengers
were fatally injured and twenty-two
others were seriously hurt in a street
car collision here early to-day.
A car, crowded with automobile
workers, . jumped . the track and
crashed into another. Both cars were
demolished. Peolice worked for over
an hour extricating the injured from
the debris.
Sayre to Tour West
For Williams Fund
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mav §.—Fran
cis B. Bayre, son-in-law of President
Wilson, will leave here soon for an
extended trip in the West to lay be
fore the Western Alumni Association
of Williams plans for raising the $2,-
000,000 endowment fund.
Marconi Is Slated
As Italian Senator
ROME, May s.—lt 1s rearned that
King Vietor Emmanuel will nominate
William Marconi a Senator at an early
date. Marconi has reached the age
of 40 years, which makes him eligible,
Clocks in Cleveland
CLEVELAND, May s.—Cleveland
ers have moved their clocks forward
one hour in compliance with the ordi
nance recently passed by the City
Council adopting Bastern time tor the
city. e
Talk Nicely to Cc
alk Nicely to Cows
To Get More Milk
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VERONA, N. J, May s.—~Employees
of a dairy company here have been
instructed not to use harsh language
in addressing the cows.
The company officials Lelleve that
Bossy will give more and better milk
i treated gently.
JUDGE NEWMAN AT SOLUMBUS.
COLUMBUS, GA., May 3.—The Fed
eral Court for the western division of
the Northern District of Georfh fs in
session here with Judge Willlam 7.
Newman, Atlanta, presiding. Only cases
of illicit distiling are being tried.