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Testimony at Early Session of Phagan
Rogers Tells What Police Found at the
Frank’s Stenographer and Girl
Employee of Pencil Company
Also on- Stand.
Following is the testimony of the
early witnesses at the Phagan inpuest
today:
W. W. Rogers was the first wit
ness. He lives at 104 McDonough
Road, and operates an automobile
for himself. He said he took a party
of officers to the National Pencil
plant at five minutes past 3 o'clock
Sunday morning. April 27.
He corroborated statements of of
ficers regarding the finding of Mary
Phagan’s body and the notes beside
it, and o€ the body being face down
ward.
Q. Who telephoned Frank of the
murder?—A. Starnes called him and
asked him to come to the" factory.
Q. How long were you in front of
<be pUuit before you were let in?—
7 .A- Two or three minutes.
Q. Did you hear him coming?—A.
W'e saw him coining down the steps
with a lantern.
Q. What did he say?—A. She's in
the basement, white folks.
Q. Was he excited?—A- No, he an
swered questions coolly.
Q. What did he say when you went
downstairs?—A. He thought at first
it was something the boys had placed
there to frighten him.
Q. How did he say he found the
body?—A. On her face.
Q. How did you find it?—A. On
her face.
Q. Do you remember any other
questions asked him?—A. Yes, but he
talked in a straight way.
Q. Who went back upstairs with
Lee and Anderson after Lee had been
placed under arrest?—A. No one
else.
Q. Where did they go?—A. Into of
fice, where Anderson attempted to
get Frank over the phone.
Lee Was Not Excited.
Q/Was Lee excited then?—A. No.
Q. What else did you find?—A. We
looked all over the place for her hat and
shoe. Then Sergeant Brown and myself
walked out the back door and down the
alley. When we came back I went
out on McDonough Road in my ma-
rhine and got Miss Grace Hicks, who,
. I knew, worked at the pencil factory.
1 brought*her to town about 5:30 >r
5:45. She told 119 who the girl was.
Q. Did you ever get in touch with
Frank while in the office?—A. After
1 got back with the young lady Mr.
Starnes called Frank again and got
him. That was a little after 6. It
took abqut five minutes for me to go
j it to his house.
V Q- Who answered the door?—A.
Airs. Frank.
Q. Was Frank there?—A. He was
Standing in the hall behind the curtains.
He was dressed, with the exception of
collar, coat and hat. He asked Black
what was the matter and Black d.l
not answer, but told him he had ber-
ter put on his clothes and go to town
r with us. Frank was hoarse and Black
suggested that a drink might do him
'good. Mrs. Frank’went upstairs .0
see if there was any whisky In the
house, but did not find any.
Says Frank Was Nervous.
Q. Was he well groomed?—A. Yes:
T noticed particularly that he had on
a clean white pleated-bosom shirt.
He was nervous, and moved about
very nervously.
Q. How do you know he was nerv
ous?—A. By the questions he asked.
He asked if anything had happened
at the factory and when Black did
not reply he asked if the watchman
had found anything unusual. Black
did not answer them, and he asked
If the watchman had called him, and
when we did not answer he said that
he dreamed the night watchman
called him about daybreak. He struck
me as being highly nervous.
Q. What did you talk about on the
way. to town?—A. Black asked him
ff he knew Mary Phagan and he
asked if she worked at the factory.
Said he did not know whether he
knew her or not.
Q. Where did you go?—A. To the
undertaking establishment.
Q. Did Frank see the body?—A.
No.
Q. Where did he go?—A. When we
went Into the room the undertaker
turned the child’s head and Frank
sidestepped into a toilet.
Q. Was Frank trembling?—A. I
did not notice that he was.
Q. What questions, yrere asked?—
A. He asked us thejgirl’s name and
we told him Mary Phagan and asked
If he knew her. He said he would
have to look on the payroll to find
out. We went around to the factory.
He opened the safe and got out his
Q. Who was in the factory?—A.
F Twcra 1 officers and Mr. Darley. the
you just when. The stenographer
and office boy left at 12 o'clock and
she came in here—let’s see. 1 can
tell you the exact time—It was 10
minutes past 12. I paid her $1.30.”
Frank looked nervous and asked If
anyone had found the envelope; that
It must be around “there somewhere.'’
Q. Did you take Frank into the
basement?—A. Yes, we went down.
Frank ran the elevator
Q. Did he say anything about the
negro running the elevator?-—A. Yes.
he was asked if the negro ever ran it,
and he said no.
Q. Had you noticed the elevator be
fore?—A. No, except when we first
went into the basement.
<4. Where was it?—A. Above us.
“Bools*’ Rogers, former county policeman who drove the police
to the Pencil Factory when the first news of the Phagan slaying
reached headquarters.
f*veral officers and Mr. Darley, the
'foreman, went in Just ahead of us.
Tells When She Was Paid.
What did Frank do?—A. He
Q.
looked in his books, ran his finger
down a column and said: “Yes, she
was here.” Then he said: “Yes, she
was paid off yesterday. • I can tell
Q. Did you inspect the shaft then?
—A. Yes.
Q. Did you see anything?—A. No,
but I did not have a flashlight.
Q. Was anything found there later?
—A. Yes, a parasol.
Q. Did you make a close inspec
tion when Frank went into the base
ment?—A. No, we just took a casual
look around,
Q. When did you see parasol, hat
and shoe?—A. I did not see them un
til nearly 7 o’clock. The officers had
them upstairs.
Frank Inspected Building.
Q. Did Frank inspect rest of the
building?—A. Yes, and Chief Lanford
and Frank, with several officers, went
to the other floors and left the ne
gro with me.
Q. Did Frank come back into the
office?—A. Yes, he came in twice
while I was there with the negro. He
spoke to Lee once, shook his head
and said “Too bad,”
Q. Did you notice the clock?—A.
Yes. Frank and Darley were out
there by the clock, and Frank said “I
guess 1 had better change the clock.”
He opened It, took out the slip and
placed It by the clock while he went
Into the office to get another slip. He
then called to one of us and I held
the lever up and found a pencil stick
ing in hole. Frank asked Lee what
the pencil was doing there. Lee said
he put It there so he could be sure
of hitting his number. Then Frank
locked the box with a key. He had
opened it with a key.
Q. What was done with th« slip
taken out?—A. Prank dared It and
took it Into his office.
L. A. Quinn, foreman of the depart
ment of the pencil factory in which
Mary Phagan. worked, testified as fol
lows:
Q. What is your business?—A. Ma
chinist. «
Q. Did you know Mary Phagan?—
A. Yes.
Q. What is your department?—A.
Metal department.
Q. What department was she In?—
A. Same.
Q. When did you see Mary Pha
gan last?—A. The Monday before the
murder.
Q. Do you know her associates?—
A. I know some who talked with her—
girls.
Q. Any boys in*that department?—
A. Henry Smith and John Ramey.
Q. Were they thrown together?—
A. All were working In the same room.
Q. When did you leave the factory?
—A. Friday.
Q. When were you to return?—A.
Monday morning.
Q. What time did you arise Satur
day morning?—A. 7 a. m.
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(4. What date did he pul on the
slip?—A. 1 think It was April 26; I’m
not sure.
Rogers said he looked at the slip
and the first punch was at 6:30 and
last at 2:30. There were no misses,
he saM.
Q. Where was the slip taken?—A.
Frank took it into the office and put
It on file.
Q. Did Chief Lanford take it
away?—A. Not then; he may have
got it later in the day.
Q. Are you sure there were no
misses on the slip?—A. 1 would have
noticed if there were.
Q. Did Darley and Frank have any
conversation while on the way to the
station house after that?—A. Not
that I remember. I was driving the
car and Frank was seated in Dar
ley’s lap.
Q. Was Frank still nervous?—A.
Yes. He still wanted a cup of cof
fee. He had been anxious all morn
ing to get a cup of coffee. Several
times he had asked Chief Lanford
if he could spare him to go and get
a cup of coffee.
Frank Wrote Nervously.
Q. What was done at the station
house?—A. When we got there the
officers were having Newt Lee write
for them.
Q. Did he look nervous?—A. No, he
was writing what they told him.
Q. Did they have Frank write?—A.
Yes.
Q. Was he nprvous?—A. Yes, his
hand was shaking.
Rogers was excused and Lemmie
Quinn, foreman of the metal depart
ment, was called.
Quinn, Foreman Over Slain
Girl, Tells of Seeing Frank
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Dealer.'
Q. Where did you go?—A. My wife
and I went uptown and had baby’s
picture made. We left home at 9:30
and got to the photographer's at 10
We then came down Whitehall and
stopped in the Globe Clothing store
and talked to friends, and then came
on down Whitehall Street and stoppid
at a meat market. We were there
about five minutes. Then we went to
a soda fountain and then home. We
reached home at 11:15 and left again
at 11:45, and I went to a meat mar
ket. I went from there to a soda
fountain at Benjamin's Pharmacy and
bought two cigars. It was a few m j-
ments after 12 then. Then I went . i
the National Pencil Company.
Q. What did you go for?—A. To
speak to Mr. Shiff.
Q. Did you see Mary Phagan?—A.
No.
Q. What time was It when you went
to the factory?—A. About 12:20.
Q. Are you sure It was not after 12
when you left your home?—A. Tea.
Q. How long were you at the meat
market?—About ten minutes.
Q. What part of the factory did
you go to?—A. To the office.
y. Who was there?—A. Mr. Frank.
Anyone pipe?—A. No.
Spoke to Frank.
Q. What did you say?—A. Good
morning, Mr. Frank.
Q. How long were you In there?—
A. About two minutes.
Q. Do you know the exact time?—
A. It was between 12:16 and 12:30.
Q. Could It have been as late a.v
12:30?—A. No.
Q. How do you know?—A. I was
at another place, at 12:30.
Q. Where did you go then?—A.
Outside the factory.
Q. Whom did you meet?—A Mr.
Malsby.
Cj. What did he say?—A. He said
that the girls—meaning Mrs. Free
man and Miss Corlnthia Hall—were
>n the restaurant.
Q. What restaurant did he mean?—
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Miss CorintIda Hall, ol
piovees at the National!
Tory, was a witness. Sh^
Kirkwood, at 19 Weathei
and has worked at the f^
three years. She knew Mar
Miss Hall was at the f|
11:45 Saturday, April 26.
to get another girl’s coat,
to 'he fourth floor and *1 1
the office and asked Mr. Prai^
could go to the fourth floor,
accompanied by a young woman]
had recently married and whoso'
they were after. They saW a wop
on the fourth floor. It was May ^
reft. They also saw a young woman
stenographer in Frank’s office, and
Arthur White’s wife in the office.
White was on the fourth floor with
Harry Denham and Miss Barrett.
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