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ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1913.
NO. 66.
Won’t Ask That Nomination for
Postmaster at Gainesville
Be Withdrawn in Favor of
A, S, Hardy
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON. May 8.—Mrs. H. W.
J. Ham, widow of the late “Snolygos-
ter” Ham. was nominated late yester
day afternoon for postmaster at Gaines
ville, vice Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet,
whose term ol> office expired on Decem
ber 8, 191^
Mrs. Ham will assume the duties of
her office immediately following her con
firmation by the senate. The Georgia
senators will urge her confirmation at
an early date, notwithstanding the pro
test of rMs. Longstreet, who made a
determined effort to be reappointed. The
alary of the office i $2,600 per year.
Although Mrs. Ham was not the
choice of Congressman Thomas M. Bell,
whose home is at Gainesville, he will
not protest her confirmation, nor will
he endeavor to have the nomination
withdlrawn, unless he is given assur
ance that his recommendation will be
respected. Mr. Bell has certified to the
postoffice department the name of Al
bert S. Hardy, editor of the Gainesville
News, for the position, but Postmaster
General Burleson declined to name him.
Notwithstanding his declination to op
pose the cotiflrmation of Mrs. Ham, Con
gressman Bell is far from pleased with
failure of the postoffice department and
the president to accept his recommen
dation. He feels that he should have
been allowed to control the postoffice in
his own town, and declares that the
disregard of the administration of his
wishes raises an issue in Georgia which
will not down. He may issue a formal
statement about the matter.
That Mrs. Longstreet would not be re
appointed and that Mr. Hardy would
noVbe named have been known for sev
eral weeks, but Mrs. Ham’s nomina
tion yesterday came so unexpectedly
,that it created much surprise. No one
"was more startled than was Congress
man Bell, who had reason to believe
that the matter would be held open for
a few days longer. That the nomination
yesterday was due to an inadvertence,
it was learned this morning.
SETTLES A QUESTION.
When Mr. Bell became convinced a
few days ago that Postmaster General
Burleson intended to disregard his rec
ommendation of Mr. Hardy, the con
gressman wrote a letter to the presi
dent, requesting that no appointment
be made until he could present his side
of the case. Mr. Wilson acquiesced and
Mr. Bell was to have seen him this
morning at 10:30 about the postofflce.
In the meantime, Postmaster General
Burleson sent Mrs. Ham’s name to the
president along with about 160 other
pt>sioffices. Tn the excitement and con
fusion yesterday incident to Mr. Wil
son’s visit to the capitol, the Gaines
ville office became sandwiched in with
a lot of others, and thus the nomina
tion was made inadvertently.
The* president wrote Mr. Bell a let
ter, attributing the nomination on yes
terday to an inadvertence and express
ing his personal regret. It is believed
that he would withdraw the nomina
tion out of courtesy to the Georgia
congressmen, if he were requested to
do so, and give Mr. Bell a hearing. But
it is regarded as certain that he would
then send in Mrs. Ham’s name a second
time.
The nomination of Mrs. Ham settles
one of the most vexing patronage prob
lems in Georgia. The failure of the
president to respect Mr. Bell’s nomina
tion of Mr. Hardy is in no words a
personal reflection on the congressman
nor does it mean that he is “in bad”
with the administration. The Gainesville
situation was peculiar. Colonel Ed.
Brown, of Atlanta, who was reared in
Gainesville, has accepted entire respon
sibility for the rejection of Mr. Hardy
' as postmaster at Gainesville.
The objections to Mr. Hardy were due
to his activity against President Wil
son in the presidential primary in Geor
gia. His alleged political methods were
objectionable to the Wilsoq leaders and
when they were called to the attention
of the postofflcq department it was de
termined that Mr. Hardy should not be
rewarded with an office under the pres
ident whom he had opposed with such
vigor.
CIVIL SERVICE ORDER
Democratic Leader Underwood
Confers With President Wil-
'son and Then Makes An
nouncement of Plans
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 8.—Currency leg
islation will be taken up by the house
about June 1. This announcement was
made today by- Representative Under
wood, after a conference at the White
A-ouse with President Wilson who urged
that banking reforms be considered at
the present session and laws be enacted
if possible.
Mr. Underwood was accompanied by
Representative A. Mitchell Palmer of
Pennsylvania, chairman of the house
caucus, but the Democratic leader spoke
for the conference.
"We came up to find out what the
house should do,’’ he said, “while the
senate is considering the, tariff bill. The
president is disposed to want currency
legislation at this session, so I think
the house will take a recess of about
three weeks during which the banking
and currency committee will be organ
ized and we all will be ready for work
June 1.”
Mr. Underwood said he expected the
president to send soon a special mes
sage to congress urging currency re
form. The president talked over with his
visitors a draft of the Owen-Glass bill
which he has before him;- and which, it
is understood, will represent te admin
istration’s views when launched in the
house and senate.
Mr. Wilson went over in some detail
some of the currency proposals, but
neither Mr. Underwood nor Mr. Palmer
were willing to make known his views.
The president’s idea is t have cur
rency legislation at once, if there is .a
common agreement among Democrats
as to the'^fnethod of monetary revision,
but it is also understood that if by the
time the tariff bill has passed the sen
ate there has not been a complete agree
ment, the wnole subject will be deferred
until the regular ssslon in December.
Mr. Wilson’s idea, however, is that
the house should begin to study and
debate the subject so that it may be
prepared for prompt action should the
senate dispose of the tariff bill expe
ditiously. Th e president has been toiu
that Democratic senators are united In
support of the tariff bill and to bring
up the currency question now will not
interfere with the attention given to the
tariff.
A LITTLE SPADING MAKES THE YARD LARGER
S&L
Ship Officer I.eaps
Into Mid-Ocean and
Saves Life of Man
NEW
Blair Jumped overboard in mid ocean
from thd steamer Majestic on Tuesday
last and rescued W. Keown, a coal
passer, who had attempted suicide.
Keown apparently regretted his act as
soon as he hit the water and began
struggling. Blair promptly sprang
after him and held him up until both
were picked up by„ a boat.
ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS
ASSOCIATION MEETS
Were Willing for Fourth-Class
Postmasters to Go Under
Service-Object to Exams
President Homer Folks Deliv
ers Opening Address to
Delegates in Washington
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 8.—After at
tending numerous committee and divi
sion meetings, delegates to the ninth
annual meeting of the National Asso
ciation for the Study and Prevention of
Tuberculosis gathered today to listen
to an opening address by President Ho
mer Folks, and the report of the execu
tive* secretary, Dr. Livingston Farran.
Preliminary business of the convention
then was on the program for considera
tion.
Later in the day meetings of the clin
ical, sociological and pathological sec
tions were scheduled and at night a
conference of the advisory council.
Physicians and others enlisted in the
crusade against the white plague are
present from all sections of the United
States.
FIRMER SHOT TO DEATH;
FLED FROM CALABOOSE
Member of Posse Claims That
Killing Was an Acci
dent
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 8.—Republican
senators today began to look into Post
master General Burleson’s plan to re
quire 50,000 fourth class postmasters cov
ered into the civil service by former
Presidents Roosevelt and Taft to pass
competitive examinations or lose their
jobs. Some of the senators who have
looked into Mr. Burleson’s plan and
have read President Wilson’s executive
order requiring such examinations, are
not certain that persons already in the
service can be made to stand a compet
itive test to retain the positions they now
hold.
Wholesale opposition to the confirma
tion of persons who may be chosen in
such examinations to succeed those now.
in office probably will not be resorted
hut the Republicans will endeavor to
convince the country that the order Is
entirely political.
ALABAMA PLANS FIGHT
ON FOES OF COTTON
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MONTGOMERY. Ala., May 8.—Warn
ings against the boll weevil, caterpillar
and boll worm have gone out from the
state department of agriculture. The
mild winter- will cause them to appear
earlier than usual and farmers have been
advised that now is the time to pre
pare for a campaign against them.
"Our winter was the mildest In many
years,” said Reuben F. Kolb, state com
missioner of agriculture, yesterday, "and
it was not cold enough to kill insects.
-• Boll weevils, caterpillars and boll worms
...ill (Kaw un in a. vurv Khxxrt tlma.”
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SIX WITNESSES ARE E
Lemmie Quinn, the Factory Foreman, Was Put Through a
Grilling Examination, but He Steadily Maintained That He
Visited the Factory Shortly After the Time Mary Phagan
Is-Supposed to Have Left With Her Pay Envelope
TO CONFER ON JAP LAIN
Secretary of State Returns
From California-Other Busi
ness Prevents Conference
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 8.—With Score-
tary Bryan’s return today from Cali
fornia, where he went as President Wil
son’s personal representative to confer
with Governor Johnson over the anti
alien land laws which the Japanese
government construes as offensive, the
diplomatic stage of the negotiations be
tween Japan and the United States over
the question actually was reached.
Secretary Bryan’s first intention upon
his return was to confer with President
Wilson to make a first-hand report of
the situation as he found it in Cali
fornia.
When Secretary Bryan got to his
desk, however, he found such an accu
mulation of routine business that he
was unable to confer with President
Wilson, as he had expected, and the
Japanese question was not taken up be
fore the secretary left for Baltimore,
where tonight ho is to be the guest
of Charles H. Grasty, of the Baltimore
Sun.
Tomorrow night Mr. Bryan will at
tend a banquet in New York to the vis
iting international commission arrang
ing for the centenary celebration of the
treaty of Ghent.
The Japanese embassy bad- been with
holding its formal diplomatic protests
on the Webb bill for the secretary’s re
turn ,and it is now believed to be that
government’s plan to withhold it still
longer until inyuiry can be made of the
United States as to just what this gov
ernment proposes to do if Governor
Johnson signs the bill and It becomes
a law.
Under such a plan of action, the pro
test probably will not be delivered to
day.
Presentation if the protest will open
the formal diplomatic negotiations,
which may lead to a test in the su
preme court as to whether such a law
is in contravention of the treaty with
Japan. The negotiations also may lead
to a proposal of arbitration at The
Hague tribunal or a determination of
the anthropological status of the Jap
anese race to settle whether they are
eligible to citizenship in the United
States.
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President Names John Purroy
Mitchel, Tammany’s Enemy,
N, Y, Port Collector
HY RACPH ■feStlTII.
WASHINGTON, May 8.—President Wil
son’s action In nominating John Purroy
Mitchel as collector of port at New
York is highly significant to the country
at large because it determines the atti
tude of the president, as such and as
leader of the party, toward Tammany
Hall and its works.
As may be inferred the attitude is one
of unyielding opposition. The president
will not recognize the powers that rule
the party in New York. If Tammany, now
cut off from state patronage by Govern
or Sulzer, has any expectation of getting
nourishment through federal patronage,
it may as well close up shop. Mr. Wilson
is unalterably against Tammany and it is
to assume that he is against it for the
identical reasons that he is against the
Smith-Nugent combination in New Jer
sey.
The situation is full of possibilities. If
there ensues open hostilities, there will
come a fight far more absorbing than
that which President Cleveland waged
with the Tammany machine, for Mr. Wil
son has the art of fighting down to an
exact science, which Is an accomplish
ment that Cleveland lacked, although
there was no question of his courage or
his determination.
Whether by design or otherwise pres
ident’s action in this instance, brings him
to the side of Governor Sulzer in his di
verting and spectacular foray against the
Fourteenth street power. It has been
common report for several days that
Sulzer had appealed to Washington for
moral support, if nothing else. Whether
his appeal carried any weight or not,
has not been disclosed; the probabili
ties are that the president would have
done as he has, irrespective of the situ
ation at Albany.
TRAIN OF MEXICANS
IS BLOWN TO ATOMS
LEE YIELDS PATRONAGE
OF ROME TO MRS. WILSON
J, P, Bowie Will Be Named
Postmaster for Rome, Mrs,
Wilson’s Girlhood Home
BY' 1
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
SOPERTON, Ga., May 8.—W. L. Rad
ney, a farmer, who was convicted of
brglarizing a meat market here Wed
nesday night, was shot to death Thurs
day morning by a member of a posse,
who claims that the killing was an ac
cident. Radney is alleged to have been
killed by a shot from a gun in the
hands of Lee Keen, of the posse.
The posse, which was formed to re
arrest Radney, consisted of Mayor La
mar Holmes, Lee Keen, J. w. Mart and
Town Marshal Wade. Radney was
found about four miles from town.
TRAVELERS FLAG
TRAIN ON EDGE
OF FIERY TRESTLE
ENGLISH OPPOSE ROAD
BY GOVERNMENT IN ALASKA
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 8.—Opposition to
government aid for Alaskan railways was
expressed today to the senate territories
committee by O. L. Dickinson, manager
for Close brothers and other English de
benture holders of an existing route from
Skagway to the interior. He declared
that the companies in which his princi
pals were intersted would ope na water
and rail route to Fairbanks on June 1. A
government line, lie said, would send
them into bankruptcy.
Under cross-examination Mr. Dickinson
declared he was not prompted to his at
titude by the fact that Close brothers
were partners with the Guggenheim-Mor-
gan syndicate in the Copper River rail-
riud.
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
COLUMBUS, Ga.. May 8.—One Atlan
ta man and two Columbus men prevent
ed a serious wreck on the A., B. & A.
by the discovery of a burning trestle
and flagging the train just before it
reached the scene yesterday, according
to reports reaching the city from Tal-
botton, Ga.
According to information received, E.
E. Lord and Charles Barr, of Columbus,
and a Mr. Parsons, of Atlanta, all trav
eling men, were in an auto out be
yond Talbotton and reached what is
known as “Big Liza’’ trestle over a
creek, when they discovered it on fire,
burning in six different places, which
clearly indicated firebugs.
The through passenger train was due
at this point in a half hour of the
time, which would have given the tres
tle just about time to burn to the wa
ter’s edge. The men succeeded in put
ting out the flames and waived the
train, that an examination might be
made before it passed over. The mat
ter has been reported and detectives are
on the scene investigating with a view
of locating the guilty party or par
ties.
Most of 250 Federal Soldiers
Aboard Train Killed When
Dynamite Was Used
vFy Associated J*i€»e.)
NOGALES, Ariz., May 8.—A troop
train bearing 250 federal soldiers was
destroyed with dynamite and most of
the passengers killed, said an official
stat e report rcceilved here today. The
disaster occurred near the Sonora-Coa-
huila state line.
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&ALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, May 8.—Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson will name the postmaster at
Rome, and her choice will be J. P.
Bowie, the friend of her childhood. Con
gressman Gordon Lee today yielded
gracefully his prerogative in the prem
ises and agreed that the wife of the
president should control the Rome post
offlce.
President 'Wilson sent for Mr. Lee
this morning, and when he saw the
congressman, told him that Mrs. Wilson
wished, to name the postmaster at
Rome, if he had no objection.
“Mr. President, it is my distinguish
ed pleasure to acquiesce in the desire of
Mrs. Wilson and I gladly yield in her
favor,” said Mr. Lee. “I will indorse
whoever she may select and join with
the Georgia senators in urging a speedy
confirmation of the nomination.”
President "Wilson then told Mr. Lee
that it was the wish of Mrs. Wilson to
have J. P. Bowie named for the office.
The congressman said the selection was
entirely agreeable to him.
While in conference with the presi
dent, Mr. Lee produced a letter from
Mr. John M. Vandiver, who was one of
the applicants for the postofflce, in which
Mr. Vandiver declared that he would
willingly yield to the wishes of Mrs. Wil
son if she desired to name the Rome
postmaster, and would withdraw his ap
plication in favor of Mr. Bowie.
The Rome postoffice is the fattest fed
eral plum in the Seventh congressional
district and in yielding the patronage
to Mrs. Wilson, Congressman Lee gave
up the control of the most desirable
appointment at his disposal.
Mr. Bowie, who will be named by the
president on the recommendation of Mrs.
Wilson, is a life long resident of the
city. He has been engaged in the man
ufacture of stoves. He was the friend
of Mrs. Wilson’s father and mother, and
when in Washington recently he was en
tertained by Mrs. Wilson at the White
House.
The coroner's inquest into the mysterious murder of Mary Phagan
adjourned at 12:55 o’clock.Thursday to meet again at 2:30. At the hour
of adjournment, six witnesses had testified. They were “Boots” Rogers,
former county policeman; Lemmie Quinn, foreman of the pencil factory;
Miss Corinthia Hall, an employe of the factory; Miss Hattie Hall, steno
grapher; J. L. Watkins and Miss Daisy Jones. L. M. Frank and Ne^rt
Lee, the negro night watchman, were both present at headquarters dur
ing the morning session, but neither had been recalled to the stand when
recess was ordered) Both are expected to testify during the afternoon,
when an effort will be made to conclude the inquest and return a verdict.
Though put through a searching examination by the coroner in an
effort to break down his statement that he had visited the factory on
the day of the tragedy shortly after noon just after Mary Phagan is
supposed to have received her pay envelope and left. Quinn stuck to
his story. He declared that he had recalled his visit to Mr. Frank,
and that Mr. Frank told him he was going to communicat- the fact
to his lawyers.
“Boots” Rogers testified that Mr. Frank had changed the tape in
the time clock while the officers were in the factory Sunday morning
after the body of Mary Phagan had been found, and that he stated at
the time that the sheet he took from the clock seeded to be correct.
Rogers also described Mr. Frank’s manner wnhen the officers went to his
home in an automobile to take him to the factory Sunday morning.
Miss Corinthia Hall, an employe in the factory, testified that Mr.
Frank’s treatment of the girls in the factory was unimpeachable. She
also testified that she had met Lemmie Quinn at a restaurant near the
factory near the noon hour Saturday, her statement being confirmatory 1
of his visit to the factory on the fatal day. J. L. Watkins testified
that he had mistaken Miss Daisy Jones for Mary Phagan when he
thought he saw Mary on the streeet near her home on Saturday after
noon about 5 o’clock. .Miss Jones’ testimony was also in this connec
tion.
NEW WITNESSES CALLED.
Following a conference between Solicitor General Dorsey, Assistant
Solicitor General Stephens and Chief of Detectives Lanford, just after
the inquest recessed for lunch, it was learned that Leo M. Frank and
Newt Lee would be recalled at the afternoon session a,nd that there
would he the following new witnesses: Miss Alice Wood, of 8 Corput
street; Miss Nellie Pitts, of 9 Oliver treet, and Mrs. C. D. Dunnegan, of
165 West Fourteenth street.
ROGERS DESCRIBES MR. FRANK’S
MANNER WHEN TOLD OF TRAGEDY
“Uncle Joe’s” Card
Table Auctioned on
His 77th Birthday
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 8.—The card
table of former Speaker Cannon, .around
which many notable statesmen have
met *in games of chance and skill, yes
terday went under the auctioneer’s
hammer for $16, and the gas lamp
which shed its rays upon those who
sat around the board brought $1.26.
The sale was attended by about 200
persons, many of them women, the
wives of men prominent in official life,
who sought articles as souvenirs. The
house which the veteran legislator oc
cupied during his long residence here
is being renovated and will be used
as a boarding house. *
TARIFF BILL DELAYED
BY REPUBLICAN TRICK
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 8.—Delayed in
its passage last night by a parlia
mentary technicality, the Underwood
tariff bill was engrossed today for pre
sentation to the house at its hour of
! meeting 2 p. m.
Because of the Democratic insistence
; on a point of order against the Repub-
i lican motion to recommit the bill to
the ways and means committee with a
view to forcing a tariff commission
: provision, the reading of the bill in its
engrossed form was made necessary.
The parliamentary statisticians of
both the majority and the minority
prepared today for the final fray over
the point of order, but the result, in
view of the large Democratic majority
in the house, was a foregone conclu
sion. Meantime the Democratic lead
ers in the senate were preparing for
consideration of the bill there.
There is talk among the bouse lead
ers of taking a recess of about thirty
days during the senate consideration of
the tariff.
While there have been individual con
ferences on the bill, the fact that the
president has not yet communicated hig
views regarding the question of cur
rency legislation at this or the regular
session of congress has precluded any
formal consideration so far as to what
the house shall do when it disposes of
the tariff.
“Boots” Rogers, formerly a county po
liceman, was the first witness. Mr. Rog
ers said that he lived at 100 McDonough
road. He was at the police station at
3 o’clock on the morning of April 27, he
said, when a call came from the factory
of the National Pencil company. The offi
cers responded to the call in his automo
bile, he declared. Those who went with
him were Police Sergeants Brown and
Dobbs, Call Officer Anderson and Britt
Craig, a newspaper reporter.
Mr. Craig was th© first person to en
ter the basement, the witness said. He
(Mr. Rogers) entered second; Dobbs
and Newt Lee, the negro night watch
man, bringing up th© rear. All saw th©
body about the same time, Mr. Rogers
said.
The witness said that the girl's body
was lying fac© down, with th© hands
folded beneath the body*. The body
was turned over by Police Sergeant
Dobbs, he caid.
Rogers continued that they found ttvo
notes near the body. The first note,
found by Sergeant obbs, was on white
scratch paper and on a tablet lying face
down. The sheet with the note on it
was detached and fell off when the tab
let was picked up. It was lying about
a foot from the body's right shoulder.
Another note was found later, written on
a yellow order blank of the factory, ly
ing about a foot from the feet of the
body. Rogers wasn’t sure whether he or
Sergeant Dobbs noticed that first. He
didn’t notice a sharpened pencil nearby.
There were a number of stubs, but none
sharpened that he saw.
Asked “Who telephoned Mr. Frank that
the girl was dead?” he said no one did as
nearly as he remembered—that Detective
Starnes telephoned Mr. Frank later in
the morning to come down to the factory.
About two or three minutes after the
first officers arrived with him, said Rog
ers, they were admitted to the factory,
They saw the negro night watchman,
Newt Lee, through the glass door, com
ing down the stairs with his lantern.
“She’s down in the basement—she’s
down in the basement,” Rogers said the
negro told them first. He showed them
the way down, indicating the trap door
and the ladder. Britt Craig, a newspa
per man, went first, and was followed
by the witness, then by Sergeant Dobbs
of the police, and last by the negro.
Everything was *n gloom, though a
gas jet was burning dimly at the foot
of the ladder.
NEGRO WASN’T EXCITED.
“Look out, white folks, you’ll step
on her,” the witness said the negro ex
claimed when they started toward the
rear of the basement. The negro took
the lead then, with his lantern, and led
them to the body. The negro’s manner
was as cool as that of a man would
be uhder the circumstances, said the
witness. The negro wasn’t excited. “He
was being questioned by all of us,” said
the witness. He answered questions
promptly.
“How did you happen to. find the
body?” the witness said was one of the
questions put to the negro. He repeat
ed the negro’s answer—of how he was
making his rounds, and entered the
basement, and by the dim rays of his
lantern noticed a suspicious looking
object on the ground near the back.
“Somebody’s put that there to try to
scare me,” the negro said he remarked
to himself, going over to see closer. The
body was revealed, and he hurried back
upstairs to telephone to the police.
BODY FOUND FACE DOWN
The witness said that Sergeant Dobbs
asked the ne,gro how the body was lying
when he found it. The negro’s answer
wag “on its face.” “Did you turn it
over?” the negro was asked; and an
swered “no sir, I didn’t touch it.”
This point of the evidence was in con
flict with previous testimony by the ne
gro himself, who swore at the inquest
that when he found the body it was lying
on its back face up, with its head to
ward the back door—exactly the reverse
of the position in which the officers found
it.
Rogers, the witness, said that the
body was lying on its f;ace, hand folded
beneath it, when he and the officers first
saw it. The negro stuck to the same
story while answering all the questions,
said the witness. After about ten min
utes Sergeant Dobbs ordered that the
negro he held under arrest. The negro ^
was taken upstairs tyy Call Officer An
derson. The rest of them looked around
for the girl’s left shoe, which was misB-
ing from the body.
Officer Anderson and the negro went
upstairs first alone. Twenty or thirty
minutes later the witness went up and
found the officer and the negro sitting
in the office. Anderson was trying to
telephone to some of “the factory
folks,” said tho witness. The negro
was sitting nearby in silence. Some
one suggested that the officer telephone
to Mr. Frank, the superintendent, at
his home. Anderson tried to get Mr.
Frank’s number. There was no answer,
Anderson talked to the operator, and
told her something very serious had
happened and that the call was urgent!
and Anderson said he heard the per*,
sistent ringing that followed.
IDENTIFIED AS MARY PHAGAN.
While he and Serge and Dobbs had
been moving about downstairs, looking
for the girl’s shoes, said Rogers, they
found the staple on the back dooi*
pulled, and pushed the door back and
went out into the alley, searching it to
Hunter street for some clue. Rogers
then went away to find some one to
identify the body, said he. The shoo
was found by somebody else later. Ho
went to 100 McDonough road, said he,
to get Miss Grace Hix, a relative of
his own, whom he knew to be employed
in the fatcory. He brought Miss Hi*
back with him In the automobile, and
she Identified the body as that of Mary*
Phagan. Miss Hix sought first to tele
phone to Mary’s mother, Mrs. J. W.
Coleman, but there was no phone in the
Coleman home, so she telephoned in
stead to the home of another girl. Miss
Ferguson, and got Mrs. Ferguson, and
asked her to go over and break the
news to Mrs. Coleman.
MR. FRANK NOTIFIED.
Mr. Rogers said that Detective
Starnes, who had been summoned to
the fatcory, called Mr. Frank over the
telephone shortly after 6 o’clock. The
witness said that he drove Detective
Black to Mr. Frank’s home, and that
Mrs. Frank, wearing a heavy bathrobe,
came to the door. He said that Mr.
Frank stood In the hall, fully dressed
except his collar and tie.
The witness said that ^r. Frank ap
peared nervous and excited and asked
whether the night watchman had re
ported to the police that something had
happened at the factory. Mr. Rogers
said that neither he nor Mr. Black an
swered.
The witness said that Mr. Frank re
marked that a drink of whiskey would
do him good and that Mrs. Frank said
there was none in the house, but in
sisted that Mr. Frank get some break
fast before going out. However* they
hurried to the undertaking establish
ment, the witness said.
Mr. Rogers said that on the way to
the undertaker’s establishment, Mr.
Frank remarked that he had dreamed
he had heard his telephone ring about
daybreak. Detective Black asked Mr.
Frank whether he knew Mary Phagan,
the witness said, Mr. Frank replying
that he didn’t know whether he did or
The witness said that Mr. Frank did
not go into the room in which the Pha
gan child’s body lay.
Mr Frank remarked, the witness said,
that he could refer to his payroll and see
whether Mary Phagan worked at the pen
cil factory. „ ' ... '
“Was Mr. Frank steady or trembling,
at the undertaking establishment?” was
aske*l Mr. Rogers.
“I couldn’t say,” he answered.
Mr Frank suggested that they go to.
the factory, the witness said. At the
factory, the witness said, they found a
number of detectives and policemen and
Mr. Darley, an official of the factory,
who had been summoned. They went up- |
stairs, the witness said, to the office and
Mr Frank refered to.the payroll, saying,
that Mary Phagan worked there and
that she had been paid $1.20 the day be
fore, stiortly after 12 o’clock.