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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, O.A., MONDAY, MAY 26, 1913. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE EXTRA WOODWARD IN DICTOGRAPH NET & & & Mayor’s Conversation With Colyar Is Reported in Detail 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 ber of Solicitor Dorsey's staff would give the reporters information as to what had taken place in the Grand Jury mom, 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 Connally. and Solicitor Do-rsev Is chary about accepting Its supposed admissions without a thorough investigation. The fact that the negro sweeper places 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 has 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 ahe^d as Friday has entered no one s mind in respect to the circumstances of the mystery. The negro also says in his affida vit that Frank muttered: ‘Why ihould I hang?" 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 news of the murder the morning of April -*■ Tne entire affidavit ie exceedingly peculiar. Connally’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. lie had been confined in the Tower since that time. Sent for Detective. Until this morning his tesli- Tru'fj.v had been considered by prac tically everyone connected with the rase as of small value. just before the Grand Jury opened Saturday morning, however, Connally sent for City Detective Black. • Boss I wrote those notes said the negro in reference to the bits of note paper which were found in the bas - rrent of 'he .factory and which had been practically the only clew the po ire heid unearthed which would hear :pon the personality of the murderer. When the negro had finished his statement he was tak®n immediately o the court house. .Samples of h - handwriting bad already b**en secured cr.d thest, It is said, compare favora bly with those in the mysterious notes. Neg ro’« 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 oatlj, 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 I went down to the office he asked me could 1 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. Me 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, but when l 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 I 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 1 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 I 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. 1 never did see him down here, but he could as.O 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. a*nd I asked him not to take out any money for that watchman I owed, for I didn’t ha/e any to spare, and he .told me he wouldn’t, but he would see to me get U no- gome money a little bit later. He told me he had some wealthy people in Brooklyn, and then he held his head up and looked out of the corner of his eyes and said. "Why should 1 hang." and that’s all 1 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 b\i her an automobile but he wouldn't do it i never did see his wife. On Tuesday morning, after the holiday on Satur day. before Mr. Frank got .n jail, he come up the aisle where I 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, Notary Public, Fulton County. Ga. The Indictment. Here is the indictment complete: STATE OF GEORGIA, FULTON COUNTY. PILL or INDICTMENT. The Grand .l : y selected, chosen Continued on Page 21, Column 2. 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. u I DEAD GIRL’S BOG! It has been announced that Leo M. Frank has' been indictei by the Grand Jury for the murder of Marv Phagan. 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. His exploits with the dictograph have created a big sensation in the Phagan case. Jacob Sctiiff Sees Hunt for Stolen Girl Prosperity Ahead Leads to Gypsy Band Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON May s .—Jacob SchlfT | declares that Americans can look for ward to a good sound money market! n the near future, after Congress has disposed of the t.irift bill. He said: ‘ I have made a very careful j study of European money mar kets while abroad, and I think | money is on a more solid basis j than ever. Y\*ith the settlement of Balkan affairs, I find markets j stronger and batter than ever. “We have a good, sound market which will ifnprote surprisingly within the next few month'." i CLEVELAND, May ,/.- Mercer County, Pa., officials to-day began a search which they hoped would re turn to her parents. Katherine Win ters. aged 9. kidnaped from Newcas tle. Ind., early in March. A band of Gypsies with whom she is believed to be is but a few miles from Mercer Rewards aggregating are offered for the return of the child. If you have anything to sell adver tise ■ n The Sunday American. Lar gest circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. 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 1he same room and by the same man who figured in Ihe "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 Ihe door between Colyar"s room. No. 31, and room No. 32, it is apparently made clear that the Mayor was not only after evidence of graft in the police department, but more' directly after evidence on which Chief Beavers could he impeached and discharged. The Mayor has never hesitated to make plain that he 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 lie 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 and 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 beeu double-crossed in the wiping out of the Tenderloin. Colonel Felder's name 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. Jones Attacks Beavers and Charges Police Crookedness The following conversation occurred in room No. 31, at Williams j House No. 2. 34-36 X. Forsyth Street. Atlanta. Ua.. Wednesday evening between 8 and it o’clock, between C. .innes, K. O. Miles and A. S. Colyar: Colyar-s-lt has been very warm to-day. hasn't it? Miles—Yes. It has. 1 asked Mr. Felder if you mentioned Mr. Jones' name to him and he said no. Colyar—He told me Monday night that Mr. Jones was a friend of his and lie thought it an outrage the way they had done him. Miles—You know I asked you this afternoon why you wanted to see Mr. Jones. Colyar—If you don’t want to talk, that’s all right. 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 but what it was a frame-up. Colyar—Tom told me he would "ke to see the gang out. of business. Jones—The record now is (voice very Indistinct just, then). They never grafted me. Wouldn't be any nse for me to give them any money. Miles—You told me you wanted to see Jones. It Is not a question of lack of confidence, as what I told you was true as far as i know, but If he knows anything at all about it. 1 don’t know just what it is. Jones—|I don't know anything. I just told them to go ahead and build them houses and move them across the street. Even some of them went and paid for them. Three or four days before they closed the houses, the Chief of the City of Atlanta that it would never do to close this district and I was surprised one morning by a telephone message from someone at No. 18. that the Chief bad given five or six days notice to get out. I don't remember which, and I never even went to the trouble to go out to this man to ask him what he meant, as I could not figure it out to save my life what he meant. That is all that T know of. I found out what tie was doing. I understand that Jackson was holding conversation with him anywhere from one to three times a day. Colyar Who Is Jackson? Jones - Jackson is the man that owns the biggest house in Atlanta now. and the Chief was there and wanted to know what lie had done about the license of (he hotel, and the Chief . The people owe him $500 a month el.oh. I understand he opened. Colyar Who is John Kagan? Jones— 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 religions 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 lhat was very close to him, I told him that he had better close tiis own mouth. TO BE EXACT, HR OWNS THE EMPIRE HOTBb The man that was running the hotel had an engagement to introduce me to this man. John Dawson (old me lhat he had just had Ihe hotel for three or four months, and that he had cleaned the hotel out, and I looked at him and said, "Vest, 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 I had any thing that would convict Mr. Beavers I would tell It on the public streets. I think he is everything in the world but 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 lie a gambler; 1 run the Hex. and everybody knows It. 1 wouldn't trust Beavers as far as I could throw Colyar—I want to talk to you about Jones Well, we can make It. I will show you something Colyar Well, we can make it. 1 will show you something. Jones—I don t think it is going to As fat as m.v own knowl edge is concerned. I have never been able to- well, l haven't tried to. Continued on Pape 3, Column 6. 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. 8. Colyar, the man who engineered the entire sensation, of coure takes a leading part. The conversation is first princi pally between him and Chief 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 censervatively estimated to have given him an income of $40,000 a year. He is the owner of the Rex SRloon, 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 heeitatecLio'let it be known that he was not in sympathy with the Chief's vice emsade, 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 rcord:, The following statements were mrerheard by me, by using -a xHebo- graph located 1n room 32 of the Williams House No. 2, 84-36 North For syth Street, Atlanta, Ga.; said dictograph being connected with room No. 31 of the said hotel, and I saw Mr. ID, 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 4 o’clock on the afternoon of May 21, 1913. On account of Mr. February having locked the door to room No. 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 tha door. After closing the door and going to the instrument, I was unable to hear what was being said very distinctly on account of the win dows of the said room being open. This 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—I can tell you some things. I am executive secretary (noi.se made sound Indistinct). Miles—Now, just wait a minute. I know (here noise made hearing indistinct). I have got several cashes (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 us. Colyar—Will you bring the Mayor up here—light now? Miles—I think I can bring the Mayor up here right sway. The evi dence is In the (sound indistinct). Colyar—It looks like a frame-.ip on Felder, and they couldn’t detect (sound indistinct). Colyar—You are not a Jew, are you? Miles—No, I am not. I spell my name M-l-l-e-s. Colyar—These sons of a gun down here can frame up anything on Decatur Street. I told Kelder 1 would get the goods and go outside of the county and I would meet you and him at East Lake. Miles—There is no occasion for your leaving town. (/ 0 i yar _But I mean afterwards. I am afraid to stay here. February—If the Mayor and Felder will stay behind us like they said they would Colyar—J would like to have the Mayor’s \fjjo S —But right now he may bo busy. Felder can get—— Mr. Fel der is a good Nov it will take about ten minutes, in any case, but Continued on Pago 3, Column 1.