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PAGE TWO
“Leo Frank Wrote His Own
Alibi.”
(continued from page one.)
chart is based on testimony of both State
and defense witnesses.”
In other words, the Times tells its million
readers that the chart, prepared by Leo
Frank, is proved to be correct, both by the
State and by the defense; and that the chart,
sworn to by all the witnesses, shows that it
was “a physical impossibility for him to
have killed Mary Phagan.”
Published after Frank’s execution, and
scattered throughout the Union, this chart
proves that the Jews mean to keep up their
fight against the courts, and the people of
Georgia.
That's all right: WE ACCEPT THE
CHALLENGE!
Leo Frank was put to death, in obedi
ence to legal sentence, after his just convic
tion had been sustained by the highest
courts.
H c couldn't allow rich Jews to reverse
our Supreme Courts.
We couldn’t allow them to stubstitute
Talmudic teaching, for the Penal Code of
Georgia.
Let us consider this chart which, the
Times declares, was proved by the witnesses
on both sides.
The importance of the Time Schedule
commences at 12:02 p. in.
‘‘Miss Hattie Hall leaves factory office.”
Yes, she punched the time-clock, and went
away at that hour.
“12:05 to 12:10 p. m. Miss Montine
Stover at factory.”
This statement, as to Monteen Stover’s
visit to Frank's office, carries with it the
inevitable inference that Frank was there at
the time.
Otherwise, the reference to Monteen has
no meaning, favorable to Frank.
He virtually said, in this Time Schedule—•
“I was in my office when Hattie Hall left, at
12:02; in my office when Monteen Stover
came, 12:05 to 12:10; and in my office when
Lemmie Quinn came, 12:20 to 12:22; and in
my office when Mrs. White saw me at 12:30:
therefore, I account for myself at the time
the crime was committed, and demonstrate
that / could not have been the perpetrator.
I prove the physical impossibility of my
guilt, by showing where 1 was, and who
was with me, when Mary Phagan was
killed.”
The New 1 ork Times not only accepts
this story, and this Time Schedule, as true,
but tells its million readers that the wit
nesses, both for the State and the accused,
established, its correctness.
What will be your opinion of the respect
able editors of The Times, when I tell you
that the Time Schedule. made out by Leo
Frank. IS A MOST AUDACIOUS FAB
RICATION?
Frank was in his office when Hattie Hall
left, at 12:02, and he was there when Mary
Phagan came, at about 12:04; but he was not
there, when Monteen Stover arrived, at
12:05!
WHERE IFAN HE?
That was the great question of the case.
On page 26 of the Brief of Evidence—
agreed on by the lawyers of both sides, and
sanctioned by Judge Roan— you will find
the testimony which convicted Leo Frank.
It is the evidence of the white girl, Miss
Stover, who swore that she went to Frank’s
office, at 12 :05, to get her wages, and looked
for Frank in both his offices, the inner and
the outer.
She couldn't find him!
She lingered around for five minutes, by
Ji is clock —for she wanted her money: but
she neither saw nor heard Leo Frank, or
ftlary Phagan, • < . . - ...
THE JEFFERSONIAN
Where were they?
Back in the metal room, 150 feet away,
behind the closed door!
Miss Stover went home, and told her
mother that she had been unable to get her
money, because everybody seemed to be
gone.
On the following Saturday, May 3rd, the
mother of Miss Stover went to the factory,
to get her daughter’s pay-envelope.
A detective asked her who she was, and
what she wanted.
She expalined that her daughter had failed
to get her pay-envelope the Saturday be
fore, and she had therefore come for it, this
next pay-day.
Naturally, the detective asked:
“What time was your daughter here, last
Saturday, and why didn’t she get her
money?’”
The mother, of course, answered that her
daughter did not get her money, because she
failed to find Leo Frank', and the time was
given to the detective, as Monteen had given
it to her mother.
This completed the case!
The doomed murderer, not knowing that
the Stover girl had been there, had already
stated, repeatedly, that he was not out of
his office a single minute, between midday
and 12:50.
He had positively and repeatedly said that
he was continuously in his office, from 12:02
to 12:30.
And he had repeatedly said that Mary
Phagan came into his office at from 12:05 to
12:10.
He was irrevocably committed to all this,
before he learned, during the week, after
May 3rd, what Monteen Stover's mother had
told the detective.
Then it was that he changed the time on
Mary Phagan, placing her visit, after Mon
teen's.
And then it was, that he made the de
spairing and futile attempt to place Lemmie
Quinn in the office at the factory, in the
afternoon, when Lemmie'g visit was so easily
shown to have taken place in the forenoon.
This you will see, presently.
Page 22 of the official record shows that
Frank never mentioned Monteen Stover at
all; and that he mentioned no one besides
Mary Phagan as coming to his office, after
Hattie Hall left.
He told Harry Scott that Mary came into
his office at 12:i0.
On the same day, Monday. April 28th,
Frank made a statement to Chief Lanford,
and this statement was taken down in writ
ing.
He said nothing of Monteen Stover!
What he did say, I will give you, in his
own words, copied from page 243 of the
official Brief:
“Saturday, April 26th, was a holiday, and
the factory was shut down. There were sev
eral people who came in during the morn
ing; ,
“The office boy, and the stenographer
(Hattie Hall) were in the office with me
until noon. They left at 12, or a little
after.
“We have a day watchman there: he left
shortly before 12 o’clock.
“After the office boy and the stenogra
pher left, THIS LITTLE GIRL, MARY
PHAGAN, CAME IN, but at the time I
didn’t know that was her name.
“She came in between 12:05 and 12:10,
may be 12:07, to get her pay-envelope. I
paid her, and she went out of the office. My
impression was that she just walked away.”
Not a word about Monteen! Why not?
Because Frank did not, then, know that
Monteen had followed so closely on the
heels of Mary, and that the one girl was
waiting in Frank’s office, while he was as
saulting the other, behind the closed door
of the metal room! . .
Let us now examine the testimony, giveii
under oath, by Frank, at the Coroner’s In
quest :
On pages 370 and those following, Frank
was questioned as to the persons who came
to his office, Saturday, April 26th, and he
gave the names of all, from the early morn
ing, until the night watchman came on duty,
at 6 in the evening.
He never mentioned Monteen Stover!
The question asked him was:
“Now, can you tell me again everybody
who was in the factory that morning, just
from start to finish? Name each person
that was in the office, name by name, until
you left to go to lunch.”
In answer to this, Frank named Hollo
way, the day watchman; Alonzo Mann, the
office boy; Mr. Parley, and Wade Campbell,
and Mr. Fullerton; Miss Hattie Hall, Mrs.
White, Mary Phagan, Lem Quinn, Mattie
Smith, Arthur White, Harry Denham, Newt
Lee, and J. M. Gantt.
Not a word about seeing Monteen Sover,
because •he did not see her, and did not
know she had been there, while he was with
Mary Phagan.
On page 35 of the Minutes of the Coro
ner's Inquest, will be found Frank's other
sworn statement of the several persons who
came to his office on that Saturday, and
Monteen Stover’s name does not appear.
And it is in that statement of May sth,
that he first claimed to have seen Lemmie
Quinn in his office, after Mary Phagan
came.
On page 45, Frank was asked—
“ How long -were you in the office after she
left?”
Answer: “Well, after she left—l can tell
you something now that I haven’t mentioned
before, because it slipped my mind.
“At about twelve, within five or ten min
utes after'this little girl left, Lemmie Quinn
came in.”
The Coroner was naturally suspicious of
this new story, which Frank had never told
to anyone, during those fearful days follow
ing the tragedy of April 26th.
Here were eight days, passed and gone,
before Frank could remember a visit from
Quinn —immensely important, if true as to
time.
The Coroner asked in surprise:
“You say that is the first time you thought
of that?”
Answer: “I have thought of that inci
dent, but couldn’t exactly place the time in
the morning!”
Great Heavens! Couldn’t remember
whether Quinn came after Mary, or before?
Quinn had not come on business, did not
take a chair, did not do anything; just said
“Good morning.”
Listen to this fateful record, and see how
the doomed man catches himself, even as to
Quinn:
Question: “Now, let us go over what
Quinn said, again, please, and make it, just
as near as you can, word for word, as you
remember it.”
Answer: “He said to me, ‘Good morn
ing,’ and I said, ‘Good morning.’ ”
Yet on page 33, Frank had already testi
fied to having heard the whistle blow for
noon!
“I heard the whistle blow, and I know
they (Hattie Hall.and the boy) left just a
minute or two afterwards” —that is, afteJt
12 o’clock.
Why, then, at 12:25, nearly half an hour*
after the whistles had announced to all At
lanta, that the morning had passed, were
these two men hailing each other, as though
it w 7 as still morning?
“Good morning!” says Lemmie Quinn!
“Good morning!” said Leo Frank.
And they did say it, and it was morning,
when they said it, as I will prove to you,
after a while. ' ' r r 1
