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FOREMAN OF FACTORY
ACCUSES NEGOO CONLEY
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strangled Mary Phapan^ when about
half drunk.
“I’ll go further and say that the last
three months that Conley was here I
was suspicious of him and tried to
watch him as closely as possible, for
I placed no dependence in him. He
became indifferent about his work and
shiftless.”
Mrs. White Denies
Identification.
Mrs. J. Arthur White, of 59 Bonnie
^ flrae Avenue, made positive denial to
•the Solicitor General’s office Tuesday
that she ever had made any identi
fication of James Conley, the negio
sweeper at the National Pencil Fac
tory, as published in an afternoon
paper.
“I can not understand why such a
story should have been manufactured
and published.” she said to a reporter.
* *'I was just called by the Solicitor
• General to confirm it, and told him, as
I had told him before, that I never
had Identified the negro.
”1 saw a negro sitting on a box on
the first-floor of the factory as I left
there about 1 o’clock in the after
noon of the murder. I did not get
a good look at his face. I got just
a general, impression of his clothes
and of his size.
“At the police station ten negroes
were brought before me. 1 picked out
one with a green derby and said
that he looked considerably like the
man I had seen. They told me to
look again, and I picked out another
man that I thought looked a little
more like the negro I had seen, but 1
never made any positive identifica
tion; and I told the detectives, In the
first place, that I would not be able
to. They never told me the names
of the men l had picked out, so 1
don’t know whether one of them was
Conley or not.”
The detectives never have placed
much weight on the identification or
Mrs. White, as she said that she could
not be positive. Added to this is the
fact that she saw a negro loitering
around the factory at 1 o’clock, which,
it is thought, he would have been
very unlikely to do had he had any
thing to do with the disappearance of
Mary Phagan, who was in the factory
a few' minutes after 12 o’clock.
State Faces Big Task in
Trial o/ Frank as Slayer
What will ha the defense of Leo M.
Frank when he Is called upon next
month to answer to the charge of
strangling little Man' Phagan?
With the confident announcement
of the police Monday that they had
completed a case against the factory
superintendent that was as conclu
sive as it possibly could be without
the testimony of actual eyewitnesses
of the crime, this question naturally
is being asked to-day oy everyone
who has any interest in the mystery,
and that means practically every per
son in Atlanta.
The people will not get their answer
from Luther Z. Rosser, the close
lipped and able attorney of Frank, un
til the trial actually begins. But even
at this early date, when only the
vaguest of hints have been given iis
to the oourse that will be followed in
the battle to free Frank from all sus
picion, it is patent ■ that there are
many openings offered the defense for
attacks upon the theories of the State.
Burden of Proof on State.
Those who are close to the daily
developments in Atlanta’s baffling
murder mvstery and who venture to
predict the line of defense that will
4be offered are bearing in mind that,
In i he first place, the great burden of
proof is upon the prosecution and not
upon the defense. ....
It is absolutely necessary, due to the
protection with which the law has
hedged everyone under suspicion of-
crime, that the State in some manner,
by some piece of evidence, connect
Frank direqtly with the crime or es
tablish his connection beyond a rea
sonable doubt.
Until tile Slate is able to do this,
Luther Z. Rosser may rest on his
oars if he so desires. Leo Frank is
innocent this moment in the eyes of
the law. His innocence does not need
to be proved It is presumed.
It immediately becomes a question,
therefore, as to whether the State
really has made out a case against
Frank, so far as can be judged from
the evidence in the hands of the pub
lic. Have the detectives by any of
their discoveries connected Frank di
rectly with the crime? Have they as
sembled such a chain of circumstan
tial incidents as to make his guilt
appear certain beyond a reasonable
doubt?
Frank’s Friends Deny Connection.
Those interested in the defense of
Frank answer both questions em
phatically in the negative. Not one
thing has been found, they declare,
that connects Frank directly with the
mysterious strangling. Nor do they
regard the circumstantial evidence se
riously.
The law will not permit Frank's
conviction for the crime merely be
cause the detectives have discovered
that lie had the opportunity. It will
not permit his conviction, if no con
vincing evidence Is found against him.
merelv because he is unable to put his
bands' on another man and say, "This
Is the man you want. He is the
guilty person."
It Is not the Intention of the law to
hang one man simply because no one
else can be found who is the more
likely culprit.
After the State has presented its
reasons for believing in the guilt of
Frank, it is regarded as likely that
the defense will claim first of all that
the State has failed to establish
Frank's connection with the crime
beyond a reasonable doubt. The de
fense will represent that the most the
State has done is to establish that he
had the opportunity to commit the
murder.
Frank never was seen with the girl,
either on the day of the strangling or
V before. It is not known that he ever
' spoke to her except In connection with
, her work- Nothing was found to
point the finger of accusation directly
at Frank, so far as the public has
been informed. None of Frank’s
clothing has been found with blood
stains upon it. No finger prints upon
the girl’s body or her clothes were
identified as ills. None of his per
sona! belonging were found near tin-
girl’s body. Absolutely nothing war
discovered in the search of the de
tectives that fastened the crime on
him.
Own Admission Caused Arrest.
The police possibly would never
even have known that Frank was
the last person to see Mary Phagan,
so far as is known, bad it not been
for his own free admission. He told
the officers the moment he identified
the body that that was the girl he
paid at noon the day before. No one
else knew that Mary Phagan was in
the building at that time, so far as
the evidence reveals. Frank did not
have to tell if he had desired to con
ceal the fact.
The defense, therefore, will be in a
position to ask: "Should not this ad
mission, given freely and voluntarily,
be regarded as an indication of inno
cence rather than as an admission of
guilt, as the detectives have consid
ered it up to this time? Is a guilty
man likely to tell the officers as soon
as he is approached that he saw- the
girl and talked with her, when there
is no need of such an admission?’’
If the State attempts to show that
the murder was committed between
12 and 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon,
as one of the theories contends, the
defense will be able to argue that
there were several other people in the
factory at the time, this fact opening
the way to the argument that if the
crime was committed at this time it
need not have been Frhnk who did it,
and to another argument that Frank
would have been very unlikely to at
tack the girl when he knew there
were other persons in the factory at
the time who might discover him.
May Prove an Alibi.
Should the State seek to prove that
the murder was committed in the
evening, as the affidavits obtained
from Mrs. Mima Fomby indicate may
be done, the defense will be able to
establish a very strong alibi for the
suspected man from the testimony of
seven persons who are said to have
been at Frank's house Saturday even
ing playing a game of cards.
Several of them already have testi
fied before the Coroner’s jury, and all
of them are said to be willing to give
their testimony in court to the effect
that they saw Frank come home that
evening about the time he said in his
statement to the Coroner's jury, and
that he remained home the remainder
of the evening, to the best of their
knowledge.
This will bring It to an Issue of
veracity between Mrs. Mima Fomby
and these seven persons, who are
persons'of reputation and standing in
the community, If. indeed, the testi
mony of Mrs. Fomby is allowed ad
mission, which appears very doubt
ful.
Mrs. Fomby swore in her affidavit
that Frank called her on the telephone
several times between 6:30 and 10:30
o’clock the Saturday night of the
murder, asking her for pefmission to
bring a girl to her place. She testi
fied that she denied his request. It
is between these hours that Frank
has a very well established alibi from
all appearances.
Another Motive Possible.
The defense also Will be in a posi
tion to suggest that there might have
been another motive for the crime
than the one generally accepted. No
physician has stated positively that
he was certain of any conclusions
from his examination of the body
either immediately after the crime or
at the times the body was exhumed.
Added to this fact is the unex
plained circumstance that the girl’s
purse never has been found. It con
tained only the wages she had’ drawn
that day, to be sure, but even this
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small amount might prove an incen
tive to some persons, the defense very
likely will argue. And it is not at
all certain that the robber. If robbery
was the motive, had anv idea that the
amount he would obtain would be so
sipull. /
“Is It probable that Frank would
have taken the trouble to hide the
girl’s purse when it could not have
incriminated In any way any par
ticular persons had It been lying near
her body?” is a question that can be
put to the Jurors in this connection.
The defense also will fight against
the Introduction of muoh of the char
acter testimony that was permitted
to go before the Coroner’s Jury.
Frank’s attorneys will attack the
identification of Frank made by Of
ficer House, of Druid Hills Park, on
the grounds of its utter improbabil
ity.
Will Attack Officer.
They will question the ability of
House to Identify a man he has seen
only once and after a lafine of two
years. They will attack the proba
bilities of a man of Frank’s standing
permitting himself to be seen In com
pany with a girl In short skirts.
They will question the probability
of his admitting his Identity to the
officer and saying. “I am Leo Frank
superintendent of the National Pen
cil Factory.” when his main concern
naturally would have been to keep
his identity secret. Probabilities are
bound to play a large part In the
trial, declare those interested in the
mystery, for it is very much on a se
quence of probabilities that the police
are basing their expectations of con
victing Frank.
Even should the State be able to
prove beyond a doubt that It was
Frank whom the pork guard discov
ered in company with a young girl
two years ago, the defense will still
be able to say that this fact no more
connects Frank with the murder than
it does hundreds of other persons.
The announcement of the detectives
themselves that they do not place Im
plicit confidence in the so-called con
fession of the negro, James Conley,
makes It unlikely that the trial will
have anything to do with his state
ment that he wrote notes at the dic
tation of Frank the day before the
murder.
Sentell May Yet Be Witness. ^
Laying aside the possibility of a
premeditated murder, which no one
bad even suggested up to the time
of the negro’s alleged confession, the
friends of Frank, and those who are
without personal interest as well,
scouted the Idea that Frank, who is
an intelligent and shrewd man. would
take an ignorant negro Into his con
fidence and do everything but tell him
that he was going to commit a mur
der on the next day.
It is rumored that E. L. Sentell may
yet figure in the case again. Sentell
is the man who declared positively
before the Coroner’s Jury that he saw
Mary Phagan shortly before mid
night the night of the murder. Sen
tell knew Mary B’hagan from infancy.
He said that he could not be mis
taken in her identification. He tes
tified that he met her on the street in
company with some man and that
he said, “Hello, Mary,” and that she
replied. ‘‘Hello, Ed."
This testimony would appear quite
conclusive were it not for the state
ments of the physioians that the girl
must have been dead at least six
hours when found. It Is known, how
ever. that some confidence is still be
ing placed in his statements.
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