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GRAND JURY INDICTS LEO M. FRANK EXTRA The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WAhT ADS---Use for Results VOL. XL NO. 231. ATLANTA, (JA., SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1913. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE F ^° HOME EDITION WOODWARD DICTOGRAPH NET With WRITING NOTES FOUND 01 Tt was announced Saturday noon that Leo M. Frank had been Indicted by the Grand Jury for the murder of Mary I'hagan. The authorities are of the opinion that they have a very strong ease against Frank and Lee, and sufficient evidence to convict Frank of the murder. Rumors about the Grand Jury room were definite to the effect that evidence produced ^ against Frank convinced the en tire jury that the case against Frank was very strong. Of course the proceedings of the Grand Jury are secret and no mem ber of the Grand Jury nor any mem- ; her of Solicitor Dorsey’s staff would , five the reporters information as to what had taken place in the Grand Jury room, or what evidence had been disclosed against Frank or Lee. That the authorities have very im portant evidence that has not yet been disclosed to the public is certain. The Georgian has maintained this from the beginning of the investiga tion. The jury adjourned until Friday without indicting Lee. Several most peculiar features mark the affidavit of James Connelly, and Solicitor Doraey is chary about accepting its supposed admissions without a thorough investigation. The fact that the negro sweeper place# the date as the Friday before the, murder that Frank asked him for specimens of his handwriting forms the first mystifying phase of the con fession. No theory that has placed the re sponsibility of the crime, upon Frank hsus held that he planned it deliber ately a day before it was committed. The unanimous theory of those who have believed Frank guilty, is that he did it on the necessity of the moment to prevent the girl revealing the at tack which is supposed to have pre ceded the killing. The belief that the killing was planned as far ahead as Friday has entered no one's mind in respect to *Mhe circumstances of the mystery. The negro also says in his affida vit that Frank muttered: “Why should I hang 0 *' a very significant question if it could be regarded as likely to be made by a guilty person, but a. question which appears entire ly outside the realm of probabilities, •in view of the careful watch Frank has kept on his tongue ever since the city was shocked by the new# of the murder the morning of April 27. The entire affidavit ie exceedingly peculiar. <’onnally's testimony came as a sur prise. Few persons knew of the weighty evidence which was being carried before the Grand Jury when the negro sweeper was taken before that tribunal except the prosecution. Connally was arrested on suspicion the morning following the murder. He had been confined in the Tower since that time. Sent for Detective. Until Saturday morning his testi mony had been considered by prac tically everyone connected with the case as of small value. Just before the Grand Jury opened Saturday morning, however. Connally sent for City Detective Black. “Boas, I wrote those note#." said the negro in reference to the bits of note paper which were found in the base ment of the factory and which had been practically the only clew the po lice had unearthed which would bear upon the personality of the murderer. When the negro had finished his statement he was taken immediately to the court house. Samples of his j handwriting had already been secured , and these, it is said, compare favora bly with those in the mysterious notes. Negro's Affidavit. Here is Connally’s (or Conley’s) affidavit: STATE OF GEORGIA— County of Fulton. Personally appeared before the un dersigned, a notary public in and for the above State and county, James Connally, who, being sworn on oath, says: On Friday evening before the holi day. about four minutes to 1 o’clock, Mr. Frank come up the aisle and ask ed me to come to his office. That was the aisle on the fourth floor, where 1 was working, and when T went doxyn to the office he asked me could I write and I told him yes I could write a little bit, and he give me a scratch pad and told me what to put on it, and told me to put on there. "Dear Mother, a long tall black negro did this by himself,’’ and he told me to write it two or three times on there. I wrote it on a white scratch pad, single ruled. He went to his desk and pulled out another scratch pad. a brown looking scratch pad, and looked at my writing and wrote on that himself, hut when 1 went to his office he asked me if I wanted a cigar ette, and I told him yes, but they didn't allow any smoking in the fac tory, and he pulled out a box of ci garette that cost 15 cents a box, and in that box he had $2.50—two paper dollars and two quarters—and 1 taken one of the cigarettes and handed him the box back, and he told me that was all right I could keep the box, and I told him he had some money in the box. and he said that was all right I was welcome to that for I was a good working negro around there, and then he asked me where was Gordon Bailey (Snowball they call him), and I told him he was on the elevator, and he asked me if 1 knew the night watchman, and I told him no, sir. I didn't know him. and he asked me if I ever saw him in the basement, and I told him no, sir. I never did see him down there, but he could ask the fire man and maybe he could tell him more about that than 1 could, and then Mr. Frank was laughing and jollying and going on in the office, and I asked him not to take out any money for that watchman 1 owed, for I didn’t have any to spare, and he told me he wouldn’t, but he would see to me getting some money a little bit later. He told me he had some wealthy ] eople in Brooklyn, and then he held his head up and looked out of the corner of his eyes and said, "Why should I hang." and that’s all I re member him saying to me. When I asked him not to take out any money for the watch he said you ought not to buy any watch, for that big fat wife of mine wants me to buy her an automobile but he wouldn’t do it; 1 never did see his wife. On Tuesday morning, after the holiday on Satur day, before Mr. Frank got in jail, he come up the aisle where T was sweep ing and held his head over to me and whispered to me to be a good boy, and that was all he said to me. (Signed) JAMES CONLEY. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of May. 1913. G. C. FEBRUARY. Notry Public, Fulton County. Georgia. The Indictment. Here is the indictment complete: STATE OF GEORGIA, FULTON COUNTY. RILL OF INDICTMENT. The Grand Jury selected, chosen A S. COLYAR, who figures in the dictograph sensation. • Records show he has been confined in two insane asylums and numerous prisons. His operations are alleged to extend from New York to Mexico. He is a member of a prominent Ten nessee family. ** ** 3£§ '$9IW His exploits with the dictograph have created a big sensation in the Phagan case. j’f' Jpi * \\ . Continued on Page 2. Column 2. SENSATIONAL EFFORT TO OBTAIN REAL INSIDE GRAFT EVIDENCE Sensational dictograph conversations, in which Mayor James G. Woodward, Charles C. Jones, former Tenderloin proprietor and present owner of the Rex saloon ; E. O. Miles, a private de tective, A. S. Colyar, accuser of Colonel T. B. Felder, and Chief Lanford's clerk, February, all figure, are made public by The Atlanta Georgian to-day. The conversations, all reported by a dictograph installed in the Williams House, in the same room and by the same man who figured in the “trapping” of Felder, tend to throw new and startling light on the alleged plot to "get" Chief of Police James L. Beavers, who wiped out the Tenderloin, and Chief of De tectives Lanford. As reported by George M. Gentry, who took down the con versation as it trickled over the thin spun wires through the door between Colyar's room, No. 81, and room No. 82, it is apparently made clear that the Mayor was not only after evidence of graft in the police department, hut more directly after evidence on which Chief Beavers could he impeached and discharged. The Mayor has never hesitated to make plain that lie was not in sym pathy with the chief's attitude. The conversation in which the Mayor figured seems to show that he promised protection to the man who would get the evi dence if he should get in trouble doing it, and that he gave as surances the work would be well paid for. The Mayor was present at the conference with February, Colyar ani^Miles. The entire dictograph conversation in which he figured is given elsewhere. Far more sensational is the conversation in which Jones, Miles and Colyar took part. Jones viciously attacked the police department, charging graft and crookedness; accused Marion Jackson, Men and Religion Forward Movement leader, of being the beneficiary 'of vice, and said he had been double-crossed in the wiping out of the Tenderloin. Colonel Felder's nsme is mentioned time and again in the conversation of the three, and more than one reference is made to,the alleged offer of $1,000 for evidence. M’CARTY KNOCKED OUT BY PELKY IN ONE ROUND CALGARY, ALBERTA, May 24.— Luther McCarty, white heavyweight champion of the world, was knocked out in the fir9t round here this after noon by Arthur Pelky. The outcome of the bout was toe biggest surprise since James .1. Jef fries defaeted Bob Fitzsimmons fo the heavyweight championship. The men had just reached the cen- several stiff blows to McCarty’s jaw and body. The big heavyweight tot tered and then fell to the canvas. McCarty was a 2 to 1 favorite. Italian Lotteries Attacked. ROME, May 24 -Although the sys tem yields an income of $20,000,000 annually to the Government in taxes a strong attempt is being mad* 1 by the Senate to break up lotteries. Of six bills introduced to establish Jones Attacks Beavers and Charges Police Crookedness The following conversation Occurred in room No. .‘il. at Williams House So. 2. 84-36 N. Forsyth Street, Atlanta, (la., Wednesday evening, between 8 and !) o'clock, between C. C. Jones, F,. O. Miles arid A. S. Colyar: Colyar—It has been very warm to-day, hasn’t it? Miles— Yes, it has. I asked Mr. Felder if you mentioned Mr. .lories’ name to him and he said no. Colyar—He told me Monday night that Mr. Jones was a friend of his and he thought It an outrage the way they had done him. Miles—You know I asked you this afternoon why you wanted lo see Mr. Jones. Colyar—If you don’t want to talk, that’s all right. f (f Jones—In what way? • Colyar Tom told me they did you pretty dirty down here at the station house. Jones—Yes. They closed up the houses 1 had. I had a lot of prop erty. Colyar—He told me they framed up on you. Jones—There Is no doubt hut what it was a frame-up. Colyar- Tom told me he would like to see the gang out of business. Jones-The record now is (voice very Indistinct Just then l. They never grafted me. Wouldn’t be any use for me to give them any money. Miles- You told me you wanted to see Jones. It is not a ipiestion of lack of confidence, as what I told you was true as far as I know, hut if he knows anything at all about it, I don’t know just what It Is. Jones- I don’l know anything. I Just told them to go ahead and build them houses and move them across the street. Even some of them 1 went and paid for them. Three or four days before they closed the bouses, the Chief of the City of Atlanta that ft would never do to dose this district and I was surprised one morning by a lelephone message from someone at No. 18, thRt the Chief had given five or si* days notice to get out. I don’t remember which, and I never even w'ent to the trouble to go oul to this man to ask him what he meant, as I could not figure it oul to save m.v life what he meant. That is all that I know of. I found out what he was doing. I understand that Jackson was holding conversation with him anywhere from one to three times a day. Colyar Who 1s Jackson? Jones—Jackson is the man that owns the liiggest bouse in Atlanta now. and the Chief was iliere ami wanted to know what he had done about the license of the hotel, and the Chief The people owe him $oO(» a month ei.eh. I understand he opened. Colyar Who is John Eagan? .Tones—He is one of them Jackson crowd. Colyar-—They certainly must have some kind of a pull. Jones—They got something, I don’t know what It is. Colyar—What does Jackson do? Jones—Jackson runs them religious bulletins. I know them to be the fact, for he owns this place and on one occasion after he told some one I made a remark to a man that was very dose to him, I told him that he had better close his own mouth. TO BE EXACT, HE OWNS THE EMPIRE HOTEI,. The man that was running the hotel had an engagement to introduce me to this man John Dawson told me that he had just had the hotel for three or four months, and that he had cleaned the hotel out, and I looked at him and said, ’ Yest. you cleaned it out, no doubt of that, but run it different from what other people run it. The man went to one room and the woman to the other, with a door opening between It.” So I will be frank with you, if 1 had any thing that would convict Mr. Reavers 1 would tell it on the public streets. I think he is everything In the world hut a man. I will be frank with you about that. If he takes my dollar and then goes to the other fellow and takes his dollar, he would tell me to go to hell, but, of course, I used to be a gambler. I run the Res, and everybody knows it. 1 wouldn't trust Beavers as far as 1 could throw Colyar—I want to talk to you about Jones—Well, we can make it. 1 will show you something. Colyar—Well, we can make it. I will show you something Jones—1 don't think it is going to— As far as my own knowl edge is concerned. 1 have never been able to- well, 1 haven t tried to. Dictograph Conversations in Which Mayor Took Part Here is the entire dictograph conversation in which Mayor .James G. Woodward took a part as it was reported to the police. A copy is in the police files today. A. S. Colyar. the man who engineered the entire sensation, of coure takes a leading part. The conversation is first princi pally between him and GRief Lanford s clerk, February and E. 0. Miles, a private investigator, and a friend of Charles C. Jones, who comes later into the conversation. Jones owned a number of houses in the restricted district closed up by Chief Beavers, which were censervativeiy estimated to have given him an income of $40,000 a year. He is the owner of the Rex saloon, and is by no means poverty stricken, despite the huge dent Chief Beavers' reform made in his roll. Mayor James G. Woodward, who has never hesitated to let it be known that he was not in sympathy with the Chief's vice crusade, comes into the conversation later and is reported in full. The conversation took place on Wednesday afternoon in Colyar's room—the same room where Felder was trapped, and was taken down by George M. Gentry, a nephew of the president of the Southern Bell Telephone Company. Here is a copy of the reord:, uw of the ring when Pelky landed new lotteries, all but two were killed. Continued on Page 3, Column 0. The following statements were overheard hy me, by using a dicto graph located in room 32 of the Williams House No. 2, 34-3fi North For syth Street, Atlanta, Ga.; said dictograph heing connected with room No. 31 of the said hotel, and I saw Mr. E. O. Miles, whom I am per sonally acquainted with; Mr. G. C. February, whom I have known for several years, and Mr. A. S. Colyar, with whom I have only been ac quainted for a short time, enter room No. 31 of said hotel at about 1. o’clock on the afternoon of May 21, 1913. On account of Mr. February having locked the door to room So. 32. I was delayed in getting In, after having witnessed the three parties above mentioned enter room No. 31 of said hotel. In the emergency. I used the key to my front door, which, with a little difficulty, opened the door. After doling the door and going to the instrument, I was unable to hear what was being aaid very distinctly on account of the win dows of the aaid room being open. Thi# necessitated another delay to close them, and after returning to my instrument I was able to hear the following. Several dashes indicate that the voice Just at that point be came inaudible: Colyar—1 can tell you aome things. 1 am executive secretary (noise made sound indistinct). Miles—Now. just wait a minute. I know (here noise made hearing indistinct). 1 have got several cases (sound indistinct). Colyar—(Question Incoherent). Miles—I am satisfied you ought, but you know when they go into It they are going to put up a howl. Colyar—(Conversation too low to catch ) Miles—The Mayor will give us absolute assurance that he will pro tect ur. Colyar—Will you bring the Mayor up here—right now ? Miles—I think I can bring the Mayor up here right away. The evi dence la In the (sound indistinct). Colyar—It looks like a frame-up on Felder, and they couldn’t detect isound indistinct). Colyar—You are not a Jew. are you? Mllea—No, I am not. 1 spell my name M-i-l-e-s Colyar—These sons of a gun down here can frame up anything on Decatur Street, I told Felder I would get the goods and go outside of the county and 1 would meet you and him at East ],ake. Miles There is no occasion for your leaving town. Colyar—But I mean afterwards. I am afraid to stay here. February—If the Mayor and Felder will stay behind ua like they said they would Colyar—I would like to have the Mayor’s Miles—But right now he may be busy. Felder can get Mr. Fel der is a good Now, it will take about ten minutes, in any case, but Centiaaied on Page 3, Column 1, A