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8 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, ’ s i - A—— < — > —_——————— .- 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 - . . 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; ) 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. . . 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. g - 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 —— - 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.