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On page 13, official Brief, you will find
that, on Sunday morning,’April 27th, Frank
said to W. W. Bogers:
“My stenographer left about 12 o’clock,
and a few minutes after she left, the office
boy lefthand Mary Phagan came in, and
got her money and left.”
Not a word about Monteen Stover!
On Sunday, and on Monday, Frank talked
to the officers, talked to his own detective,
Harry Scott, talked to reporters, talked to
Newt Lee, talked to employees at the fac
tory, talked to his superior and manager,
Sig Montag; talked to Harley, the Superin
tendent of a branch of the pencil factory—
and not one word did he say to any of them
about Monteen Stover, or about any after
noon pop-call by Lemmie Quinn.
The pop-call of Lemmie came into the
case, for the first time, after Frank got wind
of what Monteen Stover would swear; and
then it was that he changed the time of
Marys arrival, and placed it “at from 12:10
to 12:15,’ to avoid the collision with Mon
teen,
Now, let us take up Lemmie, and see what
we are to think of himT To the Coroner’s
jury, Frank had sworn, after remembering
Quinns forgotten visit, that “he was up
there at 12:25.”
In the Time Schedule, Lemmie’s pop-call
is put at 12:20 to 12:22, two minutes being
sufficient for a man to roll in, say “Good
morning;” and then say, “I see you’re busy;”
and then. “Good-bye,” and roll out.
According to Frank’s statement, under
oath, that is what occurred; and as the time
clock was outside Frank’s offices, Lemmie
must have called Time! as he passed in and
out.
Frank knew when Hattie left, by the noon
whistle: he could accurately place Mary’s
arrival, at a few minutes afterwards; but as
he was sitting at his desk, writing (so he
said), when Quinn came in, how could he
get the time down to such a gnat-heel fine
ness, as a 12:20 come, and a 12:22 go?
The time of Mrs. White’s second arrival is
correctly stated, because she came up the
stairs, looked at the clock, and swore to the
time, just as Hattie Hall, and Monteen
Stover had done.
Each of these ladies fixed the time, by
Frank's own clock.
Now, the question in the case was this —
UVzcrc were Mary Phagan and Leo Frank,
during the time that Monteen was there?
It was as necessary to account for Mary,
as it was to account for Frank, yet Frank’s
lawyers made no effort to account for her.
Bear in mind, that Mary was last seen,
a few minutes after the noon hour, and
almost at the factory door.
She had to go after her $1.20, in person,
on Saturday, because she needed it, to buy
some little adornment, perhaps, for the Sun
day school Bible contest, which she was to
take part in, next day.
She had ironed out the white dress that
she meant to wear, and had left it on the
bed, at home, against her return.
At any rate, she said she was going to get
her money, Frank having refused to let
Helen Ferguson take it to her, the evening
before, although Helen had several times
drawn Mary’s pay-envelope.
The State’s witnesses traced the girl to
within a couple of minutes’ walk of the fac
tory —and then she was lost.
That night, her stiffened body, with the
blood on the auburn hair “very dry,” was
found in Frank's place of business.
Legally, the corpse was in his possession!
i How came it to be?
Law and Reason sternly asked him that
question:
How came this dead girl in your house?
) He had to answer, and he did:
He said to the Law, on Monday morning,
that “this little girl came at from 12:05 to
THE JEFFERSONIAN
12:10, maybe 12:07, to get her pay ... I
paid her, and she left.”
Left what? - : ■' •
She did not leave his house!
Then, if he didn’t kill her, who did, and
where, when, and how?
His lawyers never did seem to realize the
imperative necessity of presenting to the
jury some theory, and some evidence, as to
what became of the girl, AFTER THE
NOON HOUR.
But let us get back to Lemmie Quinn, and
his “Good morning” pop-call, at 12:20—•
12:22.
His testimony commences on page 106 of
the Brief:
He said he was foreman of the metal de
partment.
“I went to the factory on April 26th to
see Mr. Schiff. He was not there. Often
go to the factory on Saturdays and holidays.
Street doors were open when I got there.
Did not see Mary Phagan, or Monteen
Stover, or Jim Conley. Office door of
Frank was open.
“The time I reached Mr. Frank’s office was
about 12:20.”
On cross-examination, Quinn denied tell
ing the officers that he was not at the fac
tory Saturday. Admitted that he did not
tell them he was there. “I told Chief Lan
ford, and told Mr. Frank.”
"“I was in the office, and saw Mr. Frank
between 21:20 and 12:25.
“At the time I told you (the Solicitor)
that I was there between 12:00 and 12:25, I
had reckoned the time down, as I have now.
“I told you in the detective’s office that I
reckoned the time of my being in the fac
tory, from the time that I left home and the
destination I went to; and I said, I could
not remember the stop at Wolfsheimer's,
which took ten or fifteen minutes, and that
is why I reckoned it so positively.
“I left home, I know, at about a quarter to
12. I looked at my watch. It takes 12 or
15 minutes to walk to the factory. I. got to
Wolfsheimer’s pretty close to 12 o’clock. I
was there 10 or 15 minutes.”
You will notice that the witness admits he
left at 11:45 by his watch; and that he
could have reached the factory by 12; and,
when he made his statement to the Solicitor,
he had forgotten that convenient stop, of 10
or 15 minutes, at Wolfsheimer's.
This was suspicious enough, heaven knows,
especially with a witness who did not pre
tend to be going by the clock, but by his
legs.
With a watch in his pocket, and Frank’s
clock before him as he went up stairs, be
reckoned the time by the distance he walked!
But the Solicitor drew out of Lemmie an
admission which prostrated him—on that
question of leg-time.
He said: “Z had been up to the factory
BEFORE I met Mrs. Freeman and Miss
Hall, at the Busy Bee."
Oh well, in that case, we, will abandon
Lemmie’s noble efforts to tell the time of
day by his legs, and we •will endeavor to
fix it on something less prone to wander and
wobble.
Let us see whether we can fix the time
of Lemmie’s “Good morning” pop-call, by
Leo Frank's own clock.
Bear in mind, that the two ladies referred
to by Quinn, were Frank's employees, as
Quinn himself was, and that Rosser and
Arnold put them on the stand as witnesses
for Frank.
The time of their visit to Frank’s office, on
Saturday morning, will fix the time of
Quinn's, because Quinn swore his call at the
office was before he met them at the Busy
Bee restaurant. _
Let us now look into the record, to find
the time when these two white ladies were
in Frank’s office that fateful morning.
First, we will take Frank’s day -watchman,
E. F. Holloway, who had told the Solicitor
that he locked the elevator box on Satur
day, when he left tiie factory.
It was his duty, and his invariable custom,
to do this; and he macle affidavit to iris inn
ing done it that Saturday: he also swor' it
at the inquest.
The Solicitor expected to confirm, by Hol
loway, the statement of Conley, that Frank
bad to get the key. and unlock the elevator,
when the negro and the Jew took the girl’s
body to the basement in the elevator.
But Holloway entrapped the Solicitor. He
testified that he left the elevator box un
locked', and he explained li;s astounding
change of evidence, by saying that he had
sawed a plank, for the two carpenters—
Denham and White —that Saturday morn
ing, but had forgotten it; and when his
memory resurrected the incident of the
plank-'Sawing, he recollected that he had left
the elevator unlocked.
However, Holloway swore to the follow
ing vita! fact, on cross-examination by
Rosser:
“I met Miss Corinthia, Hall and Miss
Emma Clark (Freeman) coming toward the
factory, as I was leaving. Miss Clark asked
me if anybody was there, and I said, ‘Yes,
Mr. Frank will let you in.’”
At what tefne was Holloway leavina?
At 11:45, for he had already testified:
“I am day watchman at the factory. I
was there, on April 26th, from 6:30 a. m.
till 11:45.”
(Page 29 of the Brief.)
He was going by Frank’s clock, of course,
for he, like the other employees, had to
punch his time.
It is a most extraordinary illustration of
the stupidity, or bewilderment, of Frank’s
lawyers, that they put. up. as witnesses for
the defense, the two ladies who had already
been designated by Holloway as the de
stroyers of the Lemmie Quinn alibi.
These lawyers knew that it was necessary
to locate Quinn's visit in the afternoon: it
was their duty to have learned from Quinn
whether he knew of the visit of the two
white ladies: and as he did know of it—on
account of the conversation at the Busy Bee
—Rosser was incredibly obtuse, if he did not
recognize the danger-signal in Holloway's
statement, that ho met those ladies coming
to the factory, as he left at 11:45.
To put those witnesses up, without having
previously sifted them, thoroughly, as to all
they knew, and might possibly tell, shows
that Rosser was never cut out for a first
class criminal lawyer.
The blundering ass put them up: and the
Solicitor, who had noted what Holloway
said about the time of their visit, walked
right in on the poor, little alibi, and mashed
its poor little life out.
On page 103 of the Brief, is the evidence
of Miss Corinthia Hall:
“I am forelady in the finishing depart
ment of the factory. I was at the factory
on April ,26. I got there about 25 minutes
to 12.
“I had come on the car, and reached town
about 11:30, and it took me about five min
utes to reach the factory.”
This would be about 11 :45, corroborating
Holloway, who went by Frank's dock.
“Mrs. Emma Clark Freeman was with
me. We went there after her coat. We
went up to the fourth floor to get the cn<
and then came down and went into Mr.
Frank’s office.”
Mrs. Freman asked the use of the tele
phone, to call up her husband. Frank and
Hattie Hall were in the office. He was writ
ing.
“Ztf was about 15 minutes to 12 when we
left the factory."
(“Good morning,” Mr. Quinn!)
“We met Holloway as he came out of the
factory, and we went in.
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