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FRANK TELLS HIS
STORY ON STAND AT
PHAGAN CASE INQUEST
* Continued From Peg# One.
requested that Lee be taken from the room.
Frank took his stand at 2:50 o'clock. He whk*hworn by
Coroner Donehoo. Ilis testimony follows:
What is your name? A. Leo M. Frank,
m. Where do you live? A. No. 68 East Georgia Avenue.
What connection have you with the National Pencil Com
pany? A. General superntendent.
Q. How long have you been with them. A ftftioe August,
1908.
What was your business prior to that time? A. I was
abroad buying mcahinery for the National Pencil Company.
Q. Where did you live before coming to Atlanta? At 152
Underhill Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Q. Who were you with then? Immediately prior to coining
to Atlanta, 1 was with the National Meter Company.
Q. W T hat time did you come to Atlanta? A. I came to
Atlanta at once and talked with the men who were getting up
a pencil factory.
Q. What did you do next? A. I went back to New York
and left New York the first, week of November 1907 to go abroad.
Q. How long did you remain abroad? A. Until August 1908.
Q. What is your exact business w ith the National Pencil Com
pany? A. Looking after the purchasing of material and the in
spection of factory cost.
TELLS OF ACTIONS SATURDAY MORNING.
Q. What time did you get up Saturday morning. April 26?
A. dust after 7 o'clock.
Q. Are you married? Yes.
(^. Have you ever been married before? No.
y. Who lives with you besides your wife? My fatheriu law
and mother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Selig.
Q. Have you servants around the place? A. One.
( x >. What is her name? A. Her first name is Minoia. She
is a colored woman.
(j What time does she get there? A. About 6:30.
< x > Was she there when you got up? A. Yes.
ty What time did you leave the house? A. Around 8 o’clock,
y. Whom did you see before you left the house? My wife
and the servant.
<y Did you see Mr. or Mrs.
Selig. A. 1 did not see Mrs. Se
lig. 1 am not sure whethtr 1 saw
M r .Selig or not.
q How did you come to town?
A. On the car.
Q. Which line? A. 1 have the
« hoice of two lines 1 do not remem
ber the one I took.
Q. What lines are there? A The
Washington Street and the Georgia
Avenue lines. I don’t recall which
one I used.
Q. Did you talk to any one on the
car? A. I don’t remember.
q What time did you arrive at
the factory? A. About 8:25.
Q Who was at the factofy? A.
Hoil!way, the day watchman, and the
office boy, whose name is Alonzo
Mann.
Q Was the front door locked? A.
No.
Q. Where was Holliw&y? A. By
the time clock on the second floor,
his usual place.
Q. Were Holliway and the office
boy the only persons there? A. From
all 1 remember.
Q. Do you remember that any one
ur; back about the machinery? A.
1 don't know of any one being there.
Tells of Employes’ Arrival.
Q How long aner you arrived
was it before others came in? A. I
don't know exactly, but think it was
about half an. hour. Several persons
came in for pay envelopes. One man
came In for his son's envelope and
another for his step-son's envelope.
One was Jimmy Graham's father.
Q. Was it a hair or a whole holi
day? A. It Memorial Day and
the factory force had been granted a
whole holiday. The office force was
to report, for the handling of orders.
Q Did any girla come in for their
pay envelopes" A. Nettie Smith got
hers and her sister’s.
Did you wait on them" A. Yes.
Q Were there any others in the
office at the time? A. I don’t remem
ber
Q, Was there a clerk in the of
fice? A. The place of the clerk is
vacant, but it was being taken by one
of the salesmen. Herbert Sehiff I
do not remember whether or not lie
was at the office at the time 1 paid
Nettie Smith.
q. Was Sehiff in the office at the
time you paid these envelopes? A.
No. sir.
Q Who occupies the outer office?
V. The stenographer
Q. Was there any one in the outer
office at the time? A. I don’t know.
stenographer?
A.
A.
A. I lalked several minutes with
Darley and Campbell
Q. Did you do anything ai all on
the financial sheet? A. No.
Delves Into Business Details.
Coroner Donehoo here questioned
Frank at length on each detail of
his work in the office at the factory
during the forenoon of Saturday,
April 26. and as to tlie manner the
financial sheets and cost sheets of the
company were made up.
Coroner Donehoo asked:
"Did you make out the financial
sheets Saturday?” A. Yes.
Q In your own handwriting? A.
Yes
Q When did you make it out? A.
Saturday afternoon.
Q. What date would that sheet
bear? A. Thursday.
Q. Why didn’t you make it out
Thursday? A. Didn’t know the pay
roll.
Q. Why didn’t you make out the
financial sheet in the' morning? A.
There were too many other things to
be done.
Q mow many orders were there
on April 26? A. 1 think about
eleven.
Q. Did you go to Montag Broth
ers' Saturday? A. Yes.
Q. How long were you there?
I’ntil about 11 o’clock.
Denies Drinking With Darley.
Q. Did any one go with you?
No.
Q Didn’t Mr Darley go down to
Orulkshank's and have a drink with
you? A. No.
Q. Who was at the office when
you returned? A. Miss Hall, the
stenographer, and the office boy.
Q. How old is the office boy? A.
About 15 or 16
Coroner Donehoo asked Frank
Q. After Mary Phagun left Satur
day. did any one come into the of
fice? A. Yes, there was one person*
whom I have not mentioned up to
this time. In fact. I did nyt remem
ber it until I had thought over the
matter considerably. 1 knew that he
had been in the office, but could not
recall until a day or two ago the exact
time.
Visited by Lemmis Quinn.
Q. Who was this? A Lemmie
Quinn.
Q. Is this the first occasion you
have thought of it? A. No, 1 have
thought of it several times.
Q. What did he do? A. He came
into the office and said: "Good morn
ing. ' He said: "You spc you can’t
keep me away from the factory even
on holida.Ns." 1 merely said: Yes,'’
or something like that. He said he
saw 1 was quite busy, or that he
wouldn’t detain me or something like
that. Then he went out.
•q What were you doing at the
time he came in? A. Transcribing
orders.
Q. What time was he there? A
About 12:25.
Q How long after the girl had
been there? A. Nearly fifteen min
utes.
Q Where did Quinn go? A. He
went out of the office and 1 heard
Q. Who is tlie* stenographer? A. j his footsteps die away.
Miss Kubanks | Q You do not know whether he
q. Do you know her given name? wen* out of the building or not? A.
A. No. J No.
Describes Morning’s Work. Frank said
Q. How long after you went there
before some one else connected with
the place came in? A. About half
an hour.
Q. Who was it that came in? A.
Mr. Darley, Wade Campbell and sev
eral other?.
Q. Can you tell us what you did
during the morning? A. Went over
the mail and took up \arious matters
with the managers and made up some
orders. - f
Q Then what did you do? A
Went to the manager's office
Q. What time was that? A. About
10 o'clock.
Q Did anv one go with you? A.
X
that he was busy in
the office until the time that Mis?
Hall, the stenographer, and the office
boy left at 12 o’clock, with the ex
ception of the time that lie went to
Montag Bros, and obtained some or
ders I'pon his return he said that
he handed the orders to Miss Hall,
who sert out postcard acknowledg
ments of the orders and returned the
orders to him.
Phagan Girl Came In.
Frank was positive that Miss Hall
and Alonzo Mann 'eft the office a 1]
o'clock, as he heard a whistle b ow
at that time. Frank was then inter
rogated as to the time Mary Pnagan
came after her money.
Q. Din any one else come in after
Q. What did you do before this?! Miss Hall and Alonzo Mann left?—A
About 12.10 the little girl who was
killed came in.
Q. Was any one with her when
aha came In?—A. No.
Q. Did you hear her talk to any one,
as she came In?—A. No.
Q. How did she announce nerself?
—A. I think she asked for her pay.
Q. How did you get her pay en
velope? A 1 asked her what her
number was.
Q. Do you remember h°r number?
—A. No.
Q. Have you looked up her number
since her death? A. V>s, but I don’t
remember what it wan.
Q. Did ahe say anything else?—A.
Yes. as she was going out she stopped,
turned and asked me if the metal had
come.
Q Did you check the pay roll after
paying her?—No. We never do that
Q. Where was ahe whf?n she aaked
about the metal?—A. She was in the
outer office near the door
Q. Did she call back a? an after
thought? A. It seemed like an aft
erthought.
Q. What was the amount of her
envelope? A. One dollar twenty, I
think.
Q. How was It made up" A
She had worked part of the Friday,
pert of the Saturday and part of tIn-
Monday previous.
Q Do you remember how the pay
was given her? A. i do not remem
ber the denominations, as the en
velope* were sealed.
Heard Steps Dis Away.
When she came in to get her pay,
that disturbed your 1 work, did it not?
A. Yes, for h minute or two.
Q. Where did she go when she left
the office? A. I h**ard her footstep?
dying away.
Q Did you know her name? A
No, but her face was familiar.
Q How was she dressed? A i
don't remember.
Q. Was her dress light or dark? A.
What i naw* of it I think it was light.
Q. Did she wear a hat? A I don’t
remember, but think she did.
Q Was it straw? A. I couldn't
sa v.
Q. What did she do with the mon
ey? A. I don’t know.
Q Did you notice whether she had
a parasol or not? A. 1 don’t remem
ber peeing one.
Q. What time did she come in? A.
I don’t know exactly; It was 12.10 or
12:15.
Q How long did it take you to
pay her? A. Two minutes
Q. How did you identify her? A.
Just tc/»k her number.
Q. Was her name on the envelope?
A. I don’t remember,'but it should
have been.
S*id Ha Heard Girl’s Voice.
Q. >j\6 any one else come in be
tween 12 and 12:15? A. No, but as
eh# went out I heard a girl’s voice
as Mary was walking down the steps.
I don't know what was said. I just
heard a girl’s voice talking.
Q. Don’t you remember that you
made an entry on the pay roll after
paying her? A. No.
Q. Had the metal of which Alary
Phagan spoke come at that time? A
I don’t think it hag come yet.
Q. How does it get to the factory?
A On a dray.
Q. How do you know when it
comes in? A. The chief clerk c hecks
it in.
Denies Sending Girl Back.
Q. Do you know off-hand when
that metal comes In? A. Yes. and 1
in this instance particularly, because*
w e were short.
Q. You are sure you didn't send
the little girl back to see whether it
had come in, are you? A. 1 did not.
Q. Did you ask Sehiff about it?
A. No, because 1 would know about
It.
Q. How do you fix the time that
ahe came in as 12:10 or 12:15? A.
Because the other people left at 12
and I judged it to be ten or fifteen
minutes later when she came in.
Q. Were yon out of the office
from the time the whistles blew at
12 until the time that Mary came in?
A. No.
Q. Were you out of the office from
the time Mary left until the time
Quinn came in? A. No.
Q. Was Quinn foreman of the tip
ping plan?. A. Yes.
Thinks He Left Plant.
Q. Did Mary work under him? A.
Yes.
Q How was Quinn dre>«ed? A. I
don’t remember.
Q. Had he been working Saturday?
A. No.
Q. Did he have on overalls? A. No,
he was dressed up.
Q. Had he been working all the
week until Saturday? A. Yes.
Q. What on? A. Fixing machinery
and the like. There was some metal
that he could work on.
Q. Did lie go down stairs when he
left your office? A. I don’t know but
I think he went out. 1 heard his
footsteps die away.
Q. How old is Quinn? A. He is 25
or SO.
Q. How long has he been with the
National Pencil Company? A. Three
or four years.
Q. Is he married? - A Yes.
Q. What time wav it when he left?
A. About J2:25.
Q. What were you working on when
Quinn left? A. Getting ready to go to
work on the financial sheet.
Q. Do you remember what papers
you got together? A. One of them
was n production sheet.
Q. How much Is there of that? A
It is a big sheet 14x30 inches and
shows the whole week’s production.
Q. Anything else? A. I looked over
it for some time to see if it was cor
rect.
Q. You hadn't left the building
sinc e Miee Hall left about 12 o'clock?
A. No. About 1 o'clock 1 got read'
to go home and found Arthur White
and Harry Denham and Mrs. White
up stairs. Hold them that I was go
ing home to lunch and they said they
would stay and finish work. Mrs.
White salci she wanted to go. 1 aft
erward went down, put on my coat
and went out.
When Did Watchman Leave?
Q What time did the day watch
man go? A. I don’t know exactly.
Q When you went upstairs how
long did you stay? A. About two
minutes
q. When you came back what did
you do? A. Put on my coat, locked
the door and went out.
Q Did you lock any other door ex
cept your office door? A No.
Q. What time did you !oa\e th*>
building" A. A trifie after 1 o'clock.
Q. Doesn't the day watchman sta>
on duty until the night watchman
comes on? A Ye?. usually, but Sat.
urday was a holiday. I work nearly
every Saturday, anvhow. and 1
thought my being there was sulfi-
clent.
Q. Do you know Walter Pride"
A. Yes. he Is the oldest employee of
the pencil company.
Q Who pays him off? A. Mr.
Sehiff
Q What time does he usually
’save on Saturday? A. He usually
does extra work on Saturday cleaning
up in the gluing department.
Q What did Waiter Pride do Sr.t-
urday? A. Nothing that 1 know* of.
Q Did you see him" A. No.
Q. Does he get extra pay for do-
Hugh Dorsey, Solicitor General, on left, and Judge W.
D. Ellis. The former is hard at work on the Phagan case. The
latter has charged the Grand Jury to probe the slaying thor
oughly.
JURY TO PHOBE
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Coroner 9 s Jury Likely
to Hold Both Prisoners
in the following story will be
found the developments in the Pha
gan case up to the time the inquest
was resumed Monday afternoon:
It is said, but without authority,
that a great deal of very important
evidence lias been accumulated, but
that it will not lie presented at tlie
(’oroner's inquest. Instead, it will
go directly into the hands of So
licitor Dorsey, who, as the chief
prosecuting officer of Fulton County,
is really in charge of the case now,
although it has never been the duty
of a prosecuting officer to interfere
with the functions of the Coroner.
May Hold Both Leo and Frank.
It seems probable that both Frank
and Lee will be held for the Grand
Jury. The testimony brought out at
the Coroner's inquest will be turned
over to Solicitor Dorsey, who wt'.!
study it carefully and make such fur
ther investigations as he may deem
necessary, using the detective force of
the city for that purpose.
Judgf* Ellis of the Superior Court on
Monday instructed the May Grand
Jury to investigate the mystery in a
thorough manner. It is not likely,
however, that the Grand Jury will
lake up the case for several days. The
matter of nresonting evidence on
which indictments may 1 found is in
the hands of Solicitor Dorsey. He
ha» charge of the Grand Jury, and it
is he who presents the evidence and
who frames the indictments, and it
may take him several days to
strengthen lain links in the chain
of evidence, so that when indictments
are brought they will be found to be
legally correct and will leave no op
portunity for the lawyers engaged by
the accused to make objections ir
court.
It is tlie intention of Solicitor Dor
sey to keep secret all evidence in his
possession until the matter has been
passed upon by the Grand Jury, in
dictments found and the case brought
to trial.
Frank Maintains His Innocence.
Everything depends upon w'hat
transpires at the Coroner's Inquest.
Frank’s testimony may make neces
sary an entirely new deal of the cards.
He villi maintains his innocence, and
Lawyer Rosser, his counsel, declares
that there is no evidence by which to
connect him with the case.
Coroner Donehoo will hold a con
ference with Chief of Detectives I,an-
ford and Solicitor Dorsey before the
inquest to decide upon the witnesses
who wil] be asked to testify.
In addition to Lee and Frank, the
detectives will have on hand persons
they have been interrogating since the
inquest adjourned last Thursday. Sev
eral of these are said to have made
disclosures of ^reat importance.
Dorsey's Action Misconstrued.
There seems to be a misapprehen
sion in the public rnind about the at
titude of Solicitor Dorsey. Rumors on
the streets and gossip in newspapers
that he "has taken the Phagan case
out of the hands of the police and out
of the control of the Coroner” is not
true, for the very simple reason that
Mr. Dor.«ey is the chief* prosecuting
officer of Fulton County, superior to
the police, the detectives and the Cor
oner. He may act with them or inde
pendently of them. As Solicitor he is
the most important official in the
county government, more powerful
than the Mayor or the Police Com
mission.
The Phagan case is in the hands of
Mr. Dorsey now, as it has been from
the beginning.
The function of the Coroner’s office
is simply to gather testimony and evi
dence thatds turned over to the So
licitor for him to act upon.
Statement by Solicitor.
Solicitor Dorsey made this state
ment :
"Mr. Scott, of the Pinkertons, has
given to this office valuable informa
tion. The policy of the Pinkertons is
to establish the truth. They recog
nize that this office will receive from
them to that end any information
they have, but under no circum
stances do they expect to get any in
formation we have gathered from
other sources."
ing this work? A. I think he gets a
round sum of so much per week.
Q. Did you excuse him Saturday?
A No, 1 haven’t seen him for two
weeks.
Q. is the front door usually locked
or open when Walter is there? A.
It is generally open.
Q. Then any one could go in there
at any time and you would not know
it? A. Yes.
Q. Has it ever been true that you
were alone there before" A. Yes.
Q. Where dirt you go after leav
ing the building? A. I'p Forsyth
Street to Alabama. 1 think it was a
Washington Street car.
q. Do you remember any one on
the car" A. No.
Q Whore did you get off the car?
A. Georgia Avenue and Washington
Street.
"Straight Horn*.”
Q. Where did you go then? A.
Straight home.
Q. Whom did you .«ee at your
home? V My mother-in-law and
wife were gqjng to the matinee of
the grand opera and had eaten their
lunch. My father-in-law and myself
ate lunch together.
Q. Who served the lunch? A. The
servant.
Q What did you do after eating?
A. Lit a cigarette and lay down to
take a nap.
Q. Who was there at the time? A.
My falher-in-law went down to the
back yard to loo!: at the chickens.
Q. Did he come back before you
woke up? A. No. 1 got up and left
before he came back.
Q How long were you asleep? A.
Only a short time. I hardly went to
sleep at all.
Q. What time did you leave home?
A. It must have been about 10 min
utes of 2 o’clock.
Q. Did you see any one when you
left the house? A. Yes. I saw Je
rome Michael and his mother and
walked up to Glenn street and spoke
to them
Q Did any car pass you going to
town ? A. N o.
Q. What car did you catch—at
what time? A. It must have been
the 2 o'clock car.
Q Did you know any one on the
car? A. Yes*, a cousin of my wife’s.
Mr. Loeb.
Q Where did you leave the car?
A. The streets were blocked on ac
count of tiie parade and I got off at
Hunter Street adn walked.
Q. I.id you speak to an\ one on
Hunter Street. A. No. I walked down
to Whitehall Street and saw the pa
rade
Met an Employe.
Q Where did you go then? A.
Down Whitehall Street toward Brown
A- Allen's.
Q Did you meet any on- you
knew? A. Yes. in front of Rich’s F
met one of our foreladles. Miss Re- |
becca i’arson.
Q Did she go with you? A No.
she was with some one and I merely
spoke to her. I went on down to the
corner of Whitehall and Alabama and
bought some cigars and a package of
cigarettes.
Q. Do you smoke cigars or cigar
ettes? A. Sometimes cigars and
sometimes cigarettes.
Q. Where did you go next? A. To
the factory.
Q. Where did you cross Forsyth
Street? A. I don't remember.
Q. Did you unlock the door? A.
Yes.
Q. What time was it? A. 1 don't
know exactly, but about 3 o’clock.
Q. What did you do then? A.
Went up to see about the two men I
had locked in. They were fixing to
go home. I told them 1 was back
and then went to the office. A few
minutes later I heard the bell on the
clock ring and these boys came in.
White borrowed $2 from me. and I
remember I joked him about needing
money so soon after pay day and he
replied that his wife had robbed him
that morning.
Q. How did* you know it was
White’s w ife when you went upstairs
before leaving for lunch? A. Earlier
in the day t-he was in the office and
told me that she was White’s wife
and wanted to se White. I told her
to go upstairs and see him.
Q- I thought you said there were
no outsiders there? A. That’s right—
it is true that she was there.
Q. How long does it take to make
the financial statement? A. About
an hour and a half. It took longer
on Saturday or account of Thurs
day’s entries not having been made.
Council Ignores New
Woodward Charges
No Official Attention Will be Paid to
Fire Alarm Accusations—Mayor
Threatens Court.
Council will approve th® report of
the investigating committee exoner
ating all city officials of charges cf
graft, it was declared Maudsv. B.uh
committees wgre in session up to 3
o’clock drafting the reports, and a'i
the members were agreed. The re
ports will be read Monday afternoon.
Mayor Woodward’s new bitter crit-
iesms of excess charges on the n* w
fire alarm system will pass without
forma! official attention from Council.
Mayo: Woodward himself said he ex
pected no action from Council.
"The only way 1 have of making
effet.fivo fight is to refuse to **gn th*
check for the first payment on he
system and a*r the matter in cour\"
hr said. "I don't expect to get any
real action from Council on these
graft charges. They can't afford t:*
condemn anyone. '
He said he did not know \ et wheth
er he would take his fire alar n
charges into court.
Judge W. D. Ellis, of the Superior
Court, delivered the following ad
dress to the new Grand Jury, and
touched upon the Phagan case:
‘‘Under our system of judicial pro
cedure, we have in the Superior
Court of this county six termr, each
year. Grand juries are drawn and
impaneled at each term, but the du
ties of making investigations into
matters of a general nature, such as
the inspection of the offices, the
books, papers and records of the
Clerk of the Superior Court, o^ the
Ordinary and cf the County Treas
urer, the duty of examination of pub
lic buildings and their condition, the
examinations of the lists of voters,
and the examination of convict
camps, the inspection of the jail and
such* oilier matters concerning the
public welfare, the peace and good
order of the county at large, are re
quired at the March and September
terms.
"While such matters are looked
after by the grand jurie of the
terms named, yet you are not pro
hibited from inquiring into such mat
ters if you deem it necessary, or if
brought to your attention by the
court or the Solicitor General.
Cites Violation of Liquor Law.
"You are impaneled at this the
May term specially to inquire into
and take action upon cases of viola
tion of the penal code. While you
are to consider all violations of the
law*, and bring to trial by presentment
or indictment all who are probably
guilty of crime, I will call your spe
cial attention to some matters.
"Look to the violation of the law
against the sale of intoxicating liq
uors. Find true bills against all
who conduct clubs, which are run
for the purpose of selling liquor. Un
der the law. locker clubs can be oper
ated, but if a club is organized or
maintained for the purpose of mak
ing money by the sal 1 of intoxicating
liquors, those who operate or main
tain it are violators of the law.
"If a locker club, organized for so
cial pleasure, is conducted as such an
organization, it is permitted that the
members may keep liquor as a part ( f
the social establishment; but if the
sale of intoxicating liquor is the pur
pose and the social feature only .an
excuse for the organization or opera
tion. then those who run such an al
leged club are guilty and should be
brought to trial.
Defines Tippling Houses.
"I want again to call your special
attention to keeping open tippling
houses on the Sabbath clay. Every
club, no matter how* well organized
and operated w ithin the law*, ie a tip
pling house if the members are per
mitted to assemble there Qn Sunday
and drink intoxicating liquors. Even
a private citizen would be guilty of
keeping a tippling house on the Sab
bath day if he allows his friends and
neighbors to assemble in his parlor
and drink intoxicating liquors on
Sunday, and this would be true even
if he furnished the liquor free or al
lowed those who assemble to bring it
with them. I charge you to look
closely into this matter.
"I wish to invite your careful at
tention to the law against carrying
concealed weapons. No man, und^r
the law, has a right to carry a con
cealed weapon. Officers of the law
may openly carry them and private
persons may carry them openly by
obtaining a license, but nobody has a
right to carry a deadly weapon con
cealed. This is a free country, and
life and person ought to be safe in It.
"Good people do not go armed, but
the vicious and desperate do go armed.
The good citizen is certainly as cour
ageous as the bad. and he is entitled
to walk in the pathways of life with
out being at the disadvantage of be
ing shot down by some cowardly vil
lain who walks about armed and
equipped for slaughter.
Law Bars “Gun Toters.”
"If all men are to have an equal
showing, all ought to be allowed to go
armed or all ought to be compelled
to go about unarmed. The law has
decided which equality shall exist,
and it declares that no man shall go
about with concealed weapons and
none shall carry pistols even openly
unless he shows some reason for It
and publicly procures a license.
"It is claimed that public houses of
prostitution have been abated in lhi c
county. Of course, it is desirable
that prostitution should cease, but
the abatement of the evil of lewd
houses in known localities makes it
most probable that assignation houses
will spring up. and that the illicit
intercourse will be shifted from
known localities to dark and secret
places.
"A thousand such cases are not in
the aggregate so revolting as one case
of seduction of a virtuous girl or the
rape and murder of little Mary Pna
gan. 1 charge you to look carefully
and deliberately into all these mat
ters, and especially to investigate sus
pected places of assignation or houses
or places run for the purpose of pros
titution under the name of rooming
houses.
“The Mary Phagan case calls
for your immediate and vigorous
attention. The power of the
State is behind you. What ap
pears to be awful crime has
been committed and the welfare
of the community, the good name
of Atlanta, public justice and the
majesty of the law demand at
the hands of this Grand Jury and
of all officers of the lav/ the most
searching 'nvestigation and the
prompt b’-'nging to trial of the
guilty party.
"This \y. 3 good community. There
are thousands of intelligent and law-
abiding people, a vast majority of
our people are good and virtuous, but,
like all other communities, there are
bad people in it. The reputation and
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PIKEVILLE. KY., May 5.—The
story of how a 16-year-old girl, in
an effort to end the moonshining ca
reer of her two brothers, caused two
deaths and the serious wounding of
another man, was told in official dis
patches to the Government authori
ties to-day.
The girl, Ardelia Hall, went, to
Deputy United States Marshal Mark
Porter, in Pikeville, Ky., and told him
w'here her brothers were running a
moonshine w r hisky still at Blue
Notch, in the mountains, and offered
to lead a party of officers to the spot.
Porter swore in John tsloan, of
Pikeville, and Marion Ramey, of Elk-
horn City, Ky., as deputies and, led
by the girl, went to the still.
They were destroying the apparatus
when fired on from ambush by Solo-
man Hall, Dave Hall and Tom Rid
dle, a negro.
Sloan and Ramey fell dead and
Porter was seriously wounded. Por
ter returned the fire, using Sloan’s re
volver, until he became unconscious.
The moonshiners seized the girl
and were dragging her toward the
Virginia State line when she broke
away and. catching Porter’s horse,
rode* into Elkhorn City and spread the
alarm.
A posse is searching the moun
tains for the moonshiner 5 , and a bat
tle is expected if they are overtaken.
progress of Atlanta attracts to it
large numbers of people from all
parts of tne country, and some of
the worst people from other places
come here and add themselves to the
bad element of our county. Let the
Grand Jury get after the bad element.
You indict all violators of the law
in Fulton County and the court will
see that speedy trials will follow* and
that certain punishment will be in
flicted on the guilty.
Should Not Exploit Crime.
"I do not sympathize with the com
mon cry that humanity is* all bad. I
do not believe that the tendency of
humanity is for the bad. I believe
that it is unfair to cry out in a sort
of wail of despair because (rime is
committed. I doubt if the holding out
to public view of all the frailties of
the human tide is conducive to the
public good.
"There Is no perfect community
anywhere, and probably never will be
upon the face of this world of ours;
but in trying to elevate and promote
good citizenship, in trying to suppress
crime and disorder, we should tic' be
led into the error of bringing reproach
upon the people of one of the best
communities in the world by exploit-
ing the mi5*deeds of a few.
"Let us rather contend for reaching
to the high level of honesty and virtue
and at the same time ferret out and
punish the guilty who are upon us.
and who, by their conduct, violate the
laws which condemn the vicious and
which give praise to and provide for
the well-being and safety of the good
Recalls Oath of Secrecy.
"I want to remind you of your duty
as to matters which occur in the
Grand Jury room. Your oath is to
keep secret the State’s counsel, your
j fellows’ and your own, unless called
, on to give evidence thereof in a court
of justice.
"The object of the law is to allow*
the utmost freedom in the Grand Jury
room, in making honest and fair in
vestigations. It i.« bad faith, and a
violation of his oath, for a grand juror
to tell what transpires in their delib
erations. but it is not an uncommon
thing for the general public to be in
formed of things that transpire during'
the investigation of alleged crimes.
"Look to this, and if there is a vio
lation of it. you should investigate,
find out who has betrayed tbe confi
dent e reposed, and report to the court
the offending person.”
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Bequeathing the bulk of her estate,
amounting from $115,000 to $120,000,
to Mercer University, the will of the
late Mrs. Barbara G. Dodd, who died
here April 30, was filed for probate in
the Fulton County Court of Ordinar
Monday.
To the Grady Memorial Hospital
Mrs, Dodd bequeathed the proceeds of
a $2,000 fur. 1 for the piaintenance *f
the infants’ ward at the hospital. This
amount was left in trust with the
Central Bank and Trust Corporation,
together with a like amount for ,; io
Georgia Baptist Orphanage at Hap:-
ville.
A sum of $1,500 was left n trust,
for the maintenance of her grave, any
excess in its earnings to go io M<i -
cer.
Airs. Fannie T. Ackerman, of New
York, sister of Mrs. Dodd, receives
$5,000 outright, while her brother,
Henry E. Dibble, of Campbell County,
was left the earnings of $5,000 place 1
in trust with C. E. Currier, executor
of the estate. Barbara E. Dibble, i
niece, living in Montgomery, receives
$2,000 and a handsome marquis ring
set with nine diamonds.
All her other jewelry is to be sold
by the Central Bank and Trust Cor*
poration, the proceeds to go to ▼ h
Home for Old Women in At; , < a.
This will amount to several thousand
dollars.
The remainder of the Dodd estate is
bequeathed to Mercer LFniv>.Tsi;.v t
which, it is estimated, will comprise
an immediate donation of practically
$100,000. At the death of her broth-r
an additional $5,000 will go to the
Baptist college, it having been made
residuary beneficiary.
Mrs. Dodd was the widow of Philip
Dodd, a wealthy wholesale grocer o*
Atlanta, reputed as a man of great
wealth. She had but tiie two near rel
atives. None of their children, except
the niece in Montgomery, was named
as beneficiary in th:* will. It is said
that in 1009 Mrs. Dodd destroyed a
will by which she had bequeathed
most of her property to relatives.
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