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liUi ATliAWl’A UC/Urnii AON AJNU JNJJ.WB, Swears Frank Told Him Girl Had Hit Her Head Against Something. The Georgian in its second Extra published exclusively the first REAL confession of James Conley, the ne gro sweeper at the National Pencil Factory, regarding the part he played in the Mary Phagan mystery. The Georgian has dealt in no hap hazard guesses as to the negro Con ley’s testimony to the police and in giving prominence to his statements desires to say that it must not be taken as final until it is examined at the trial of Frank. Atlanta. Ga., April 29. 1913. On Saturday, April 26, 1913, when I come back to the pencil factory with Mr. Frank 1 waited for him downstairs like he told me, and when he whistled for me I went up stairs? and he asked me If I wanted to make some money right quick, and I told him yes, sir, and he told me that he had picked up a girl back there and had let her fall, and that her head hit against something— he didnt’ know’ what it was—and for me to move her and I hollered and told him the girl was dead. And he told me to pick her up and bring her to the elevator, and 1 told him 1 didnt have nothing to pick her U&, with, and he told me to go and look by the cotton box there and get a piece of cloth and I got a big wide piece of cloth and come back there to the men's toilet, where she was, and tied her, and 1 taken her and brought her up there to a little dress ing room, carrying her on my right shoulder, and she got too heavy for me and she lipped off my shoulder and fell or. the floor right there at the dressing room and 1 hollered for Mr. Frank to come there and help me; that she was too heavy for me, and Mr. Frank come down there and told me to “pick her up, dam fool,” and he run down there to me and he was excited, and he picked her up by the feet. Her feet and head were sticking out of the cloth, and by him being so nervous he let her feet fall, and then we brought her onto the elevator, Mr. Frank carrying her by the feet and me by the shoulder, and we brought her to the eelvator, and then Mr. Frank says, “Wait, let me ge t the key," and he went into the office and come back and unlocked the tlevator door and started the elevator down. Says Frank Stood Guard. Mr. Frank turned It on himself, and •we wekt on down to the basement and Mr. Frank helped me take It off the elevator and he told me to take it back there to the sawdust pile and I picked it up and put it on my shoulder again, and Mr. Frank he went up the ladder and watched the trapdoor to see if anybody was com ing, and 1 taken her back there and this ii the cloth from around her and taken her hat and shoe w hich 1 picked up upstairs right where her body was lying and brought them down and untied the cloth and brought them back and throwed them on the trashl pile in front of the furnace and Mr. Frank was standing at the trapdoor at the head of the ladder. He didnt tell me where to put the things. I laid her body down with her head toward the elevator, lying on her stomach and the left side of her face was on the ground the right side of her face was up and both arms were laying down with her body by the side of her body. Mr. Frank Joined me back on the first floor. I stepped on the elevator and he stepped on the elevator when it got to where he was, and he said, “Gee, that was a tiresome Job,” and I told him his Job was not as tiresome as mine was, because I had to tote it all the way from where she was lying to the dressing room and in the basement from the elevator to where I left her. Frank Waihid Hands, He Assert*. Then Mr. Frank hops off the ele vator before it gets even with the second floor and he makes a stumble and he hits the floor and catches with both hands and he went around to the sink to wash his hands and I went and cut oft the motor and I stood and waited for Mr. Frank to come from around there washing his hands and then we went on into the office and Mr. Frank, he couldnt hard ly keep still. He was all the time moving about from one office to the other. Then he come back in to the stenographer’s office and come back and told me, “Hero comes Emma Clark and Corinthia Hall.” I understood him to say, and he come back and told me to come here and he opened the wardrobe and told me to get in there, and I was so slow about going he told me to hurry up, damn it and Mr. Frank, whoever that was come into the office, they didn't stay so very long till Mr. Frajrk was gone about seven' or eight minutes, and I was still In The Georgian-Ainerican Pony Contest VOTE COUPON Hearst’s Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian PONY CONTEST VOTE COUPON. FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1913 5 VOTES NOT GOOD AFTER JUNE 14, 1913. Vote for Address CARRIERS’ AND AGENTS’ BALLOT. Hearst’s Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian Pony Contest Vote Coupon, Friday, May 30, 1913. 5 %/nTFQ not good after I JUNE 14, 1913. Vote for Address 8CHOOL BOYS’AND GIRLS’ BALLOT. FACSIMILE OF CONCLUDING PORTION OF NEGRO CONLEY’S SENSATIONAL AFFIDAVIT, SHOWING HIS SIGNATURE the w’ardrobe and he never had come to let me out, and Mr, Frank come back and 1 said: “Goodness alive, you kept me in there a mighty long time.” and he said: “Yes, I see I did; you are sweating.” An^ then me i and Mr. Frank s«t down in a chair. Mr. Frank then took out a cigarette and he give me the box and asked me did I want to smoke, and I told him, “Yes. sir,” and I taken the box and taken out a cigarette and he handed me a box of matches und 1 handed him the matches back, and I handed him the clga l et t »• Imx >i lid he tohl me that was all right 1 could keep that, and that 1 told him he had some money in It and he tola me that was all right I could keep that. Mr. Frank then asked me to write a few lines on that paper, a white scratchpad he had there and he told me what to put on there and I asked him what he was going to do with it and he told me to just go ahead and write, and then after I got through writing Mr. Frank looked at it and said It was all right, and Mr. Frank looked up at the top of the house and said, "Why should I hang? I have wealthy people in Brooklyn,” und I asked him what about me and he told me that was all right about me, for me to keep my mouth shut and he would make everything all right. And then I asked him where was the money he said he was go ing to give me, and Mr. Frank said, “Here is $200,” and he handed me a big roll of green back money and I didn’t count it. I stood there a little while looking at it in my hand and I told Mr. Frank not to take out another dollar fer that W’atch man I owed, and he said he wouldn’t—and the rest is Just like I told it before. The reason T have not told this before is I thought Mr. Frank would get out and help me out, but It seems that he Is pot going to get out, and T have decided to tell the whole truth about the matter. While I was looking at the money in my hand, Mr. Frank said: "Let me have that and I will make it all right with you Monday If I live and nothing hap pens.” And he took the money back, and I asked him if that was the way he done and he said he would give it back Monday. JAMES CONLEY Sworn to and subscribed before me the 29th dAy of May, 1913. G. C. FEBUARY, Notary Public, Fulton C6unty, Go. If the latest confession of James Conley is true, then Leo M. Frank killed Mary Phagun, and the killing was apparently accidental. Conley swears Frank told him he had picked up a girl and let her fall, and that her head hit something. When the body of Mary Phagan w'as found there were deep wounds and abrasions on the skull. Conley does not say specifically whether it was all an accident. Conley says when he reached the girl she wan dead. In his confession Conley admits he himself tied a cloth about the dead girl’s head, so he could carry her to the basement at Frank’s direction. The police theory has been that the | murderer of Mary Phagan accidental- ] ly knocked her against a piece of ma- i ohinery, then became frightened and j finished the job by strangling her | with a rope. Conley makes no men tion of a rope. From his story, there fore, it wpuld appear that the deep I furrows in the dead girl’s flesh giv- | ing credence to the theory of strangu lation were produced by the cloth which the negro himself tied about the girl’s body. Conley insists the girl was dead when he first saw her. Turning the Suspicion. Frank superintended the carrying of the girl’s body to the cellar, Con ley swore, displaying great nervous ness. Then, when the body had been JM LONDONS ST>J Gsnakrf Sjiar/Mve/ The SCARLEPPIAGUI FREE MAGAZINE GIVEK WITH NEXT EMR deposited on a trash pile, Frank took the negro back upstairs and laid plans for throwing suspicion on the negro. At Frank’s direction, Conley says, he wrote the notes presumed to have been found with the «hocly of Mary Phagan. Frank took the notes, gave the negro a cigarette, remarked, "Why should 1 hang?’’ and told him he (Frank) would see that everything would come out all right for him (Conley.) Frank then gave the negro a roll of bills, which he said was $200. In a few' minutes he took them back, promising to make it all right the fol lowing Monday morning. Whether the killing was premedita ted murder, or murder after Frank had unintentionally injured Mary Phagan, or accident pure and simple, remains to be determined. "Betrayed Himself.” If Conley’s confession is true, Leo M. Frank killed Mary Phagan by ac cident, and in nervous, half-crazed efforts to dispose of the body laid himself liable to the very charge of murder he sought to avoid. He knew he was alone In the fac tory with the girl, that sensational reports would follow discovery of the body and feared his stoj-y of an acci dental killing would be discounted. Therefore, he bribed the negro to help him dispose of the body—fear ful lest the groundless charge of murder be made against him. Frank told Conley—so the • negro Hays—that he picked the girl up and let her fall, her head hitting some thing hard. The girl was dead. Con ley says, when he first saw’ her. and In an effort to facilitate removal of the body he, Conley, tied a stout cloth around the head. It was this cloth, tightly drawn over the dead girl’s features, which gave rise to the theory of strangulation. Examination disclosed a fractured skull, caused by contact with a heavy substance. This wound un doubtedly followed the dropping of the girl’s body against “something hard." Frank’s statements to Conley while the giiTj^Aifeless body was not yet cold throw wo light on the dramatic scene ending in Mary Phagan’s death. Whether they .were on inti mate terms and he was fondling her, or w’hether they were struggling when he “picked her up,” Is still a mystery —a mystery made all the more deeper by the absence of any details per taining thereto in the negro’s nar rative. Wesleyan Warns of Social Dissipation MIDDLETOWN, CONN.. May 30. “Undue attention, not to athletics, but to society, Is responsible for the most serious dissipation of student energies to-day and for the majority of the failures in college work.” says the Wesleyan University Bulletin. “The multiplication of social func tions and their Increasing expense during recent years Is becoming a serious problem In student life," it adds. 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A - r- “V ^ vi C*/ ris /'u » ' - v j rp ^ diJL AUxy fu. cLy-ydi -/U /As&id X iVTrwkl alnrt Jjh Jf-zuzA? / ?2f Sworn this i to and subscribed before joe Rotary Public, Fulton CcumJgBfp'Georgia. r READY TO HOT DRAMATIC SCENE AT FACTORY AS CONLEY RE-ENACTS CRIME E 5<1jan\in Clothe*. Dorsey Ready to Act if Negro Sticks to Latest Story Ac cusing Frank. Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey announced that if Conley persisted In his story he would take steps to have him indicted as an accessory after the fact and bring him to trial on this charge. Conley was Friday afternoon re moved to the Tower, on an order signed by Judge Roan. Conley’s startling tale came late Thursday afternoon after he had been under a merciless sweating for near ly three hours. Noting the signs of weakening. Detective Harry Scott and Chief Lanford shot question after question at him in rapid succession. Conley hesitated and then told the men who surrounded him that he had seen Mary Phagan on the day of the crime, but that she was (lead when he saw* her. When it became evident that the most im portant disclosures of the long in vestigation were to be made, G. C. February, secretary to Chief Lanford, was called In and took the negro’s statement. Sticks to Note Story. Conley stuck to his story that Frank had him write the notes that were found by the girl’s body and the detectives believe that there cun be no doubt of this now. He said that after the notes were written Frank took his arm and led him to the body. Frank’s hand was shaking, the negro declared. To gether. they raised the limp form from tha- v floor. Conley' told the de tectives,! and took it ifito the base ment. Offering no explanation of the tragedy which had occurred, Frank ordered Conley to leave the build ing, according to tne statement. Conley explained his long silence by saying that he thought Frank had plenty of money and that he would be able to get both of them free within a short time. Chief Lanford and Detective Scott both declared after the third degree that they were confident that the ne gro at last w'as telling the truth. If b*» has Any further knowledge of the crime, they said they would get it out of him Friday w’hen they put him through another grilling. Admission of Conley’s statements into a court of Justice is certain to be fought most bitterly. The fact that Conley has been discovered in a tan gle of lies w’hich he has been telling ever since his arrest three weeks ago is expected by the defense to go a long ways in shutting the doors against his affidavits. In addition to the maze of con flicting stories in which he has been involved, Conley has signed three sep arate statements, no two of which agree in some essential points. His first affidavit swore tnat he was not at the factory on the day Mary Phagan was murdered. His second affidavit swore that he was at the factory' on the Saturday the girl was brutally slain, but that he left immediately after he had writ ten the notes at the direction of Frank. He saw Mary Phagan neither alive nor dead, according to this doc ument. His third affidavit, or statement, re pudiated both of the other statements in many of their details, and declared that he did not leave the factory at the time stated in the other affidavits, but, instead, assisted Frank to carry the little girl’s body to the basement, here it was found by Newt Lee Sun day morning. The fact that the negro has altered his statement in some important par- icular every succeeding time that he has been questioned has not served to throw suspicion on the negro in the eyes of the detective. Negro, Step by Step, Shows Detectives Part He Says He Had in Slaying. Continued From Page 1. have Beautiful Bedding 3c each. Atlanta Floral Co., 555 L. Fair hired. tective Harry Scott, of the | Pinker tons, and City Detectives Coker and Campbell. “Where did you first see Frank when he whistled to you twice?” Con ley was asked as soon as he had reached the second floor. Details Every Move. “Right here,” he replied the negro, pointing to the top of the steps. From this point the negro went on detailing every mQvement and every fragment of conversation that he remembered until he left the build ing. "He asked me if I wanted to make some money right quick and I told him I did,” said Conley. "Then he said he* had picked up a girl back there who had hit her head against something and he wanted me to bring her body to the elevator." The negro at this point walked back toward the rear of the second floor, all of the officers following him. He pointed out to the officers the ex act point where he had found the body, lying partly doubled up near the men’s toilet. “When I got back here, I got scared and hollered to Mr. Frank and said that the girl was dead,” the negro continued. “He was standing in that doorway right there. He told me to get a sack and put her body in that.” The dozen men in the party, gripped by the realistic reproduction of the tragedy, followed Conley as he walked to a cotton box in the middle of the second floor and picked out a sack of cotton bagging. Tells of Seeing Cord. “This is Jus’ like that I got that day except that this has got a little more cotton in it and the other one was slit/’ said the negro, holding the bagging up for the inspection of the officers. "I went back and raised her up and slipped the bagging under her like this,” said the negro, illustrating. “Then I raised her head and should ers and pulled the bagging up so that I could put it over my should er.” Here the negro told for the first time of seeing the cord which w'as used in the strangling of the little girl. “The cord was lying right there, said Conley. “It was right by the body, but I didn’t notice that it was around her neck. I didn’t think that it might have been used to strangle her.” Conley then pointed out the spot where he said that the girl’s weight oecame too heavy for him and he called on Frank to help him. Frank, he said, came cursing from the door way. He picked up her feet,” said Con ley, “and I carried her shoulders. Just when w'e got by this window Frank was so nervous that he dropped the girl and her feet dragged on the floor." It was at this place that a splotch of blood was found by the detectives. Conley then walked toward the ele vator, talking all the time of what was occurring on that other time he had made the same trip through the building. The negro appeared to be telling a straightforward story and was ready with an answer whenever any of the officers asked him a ques tion. As Conley and the detectives reach ed the elevator, the negro said that he waited there while Frank went into the office to get the key to the eleva tor door. He described the manner in which the body was carried into the elevator and dropped on the elevator floor. Frank ran the elevator down to the basement, according to Conley, while he (Conley) ran it on the return upstairs. Conley went down on the elevator just as he had done before, the officers with him. ”1 took her body out of the eleva tor,” said Conley, "and Mr. Frank helped me. He told me to take the body up to the trash pile in front of the furnace. I put tne girl on my shoulders again and walked up there with her and dropped her right there, w pointing to a point only a few feet to the left of the furnace. “I pulled the bagging out from un der her and threw it there on the pile of trash in front of the furnace. Mr. Frank he waited there at the trap door to ?ee if anyone was coming. Seiore that l went back upstairs and got her hat and shoes and brought them down in the basement.” “Show us the way you left the girl's body,” commanded Chief Beav- Conley promptly lay down in the identical spot where Newt Lee found the body of the girl. He lay with the left side of his face on the ground, his right arm slightly under him and the left arm stretched by his side. His feet pointed toward the rear door of the basement where the staple was pulled. Negro Never Hesitates. "You can’t help but believe him,” muttered Detective Harry Scott, as the negro went through the terrible tragedy movement by movement without faltering for an instant or hesitating as though he were not sure of his ground. Conley appeared perfectly composed as though he were reciting an every day occurrence, but his earnest and apparently truthful bearing gave his dramatic story, told in a matter of fact way, a convincing power that evidently had its effect on every one who was listening to his recital. Negro Ran Elevatcr Up. “Did you ever find that piece of cotton bagging?” Chief Beavers in quired of E. F. Holloway, the day watchman. “No, I never did,” Holloway re plied, his answer leading to the pre sumption that the bagging subse quently had been burned. After showing the detectives where he had disposed of the body, Conley retraced his steps toward the eleva tor. “Frank climbed up this ladder,” he said, “and I ran the elevator back up. He met me on the first floor and got in the elevator with me and rode with me up to the second floor.” Conley ran the elevator back up as he had done the day of the trage dy. Chief Beavers and several of the detectives rode up with him. Chief Lanford climbed up the ladder as Frank w r as represented as doing. Con- 1^ said that • Frank was nervous and rushed off the elevator before it had come to a stop, stumbling in his haste. Illustrates Fall. Having the elevator stopped about a foot and a half below the landing, Conley illustrated the fall of Frank, who in his hurry to get out of the elevator* stumbled and fell on nis hands, the negro says. Getting up from the floor, Conley led the officers to the sink where the negro claims Frank washed his hands. Conley says he waited for Frank by a post near the elevator landing. When Frank came from washing his hands, Conley said, he led him (Conley) into the office and had him sit down. Conlev said Frank kept twisting about in his chair, wringing his hands, and “act ing lak white folks does when they is scared, turned red in the face, and kept looking around.” Conley said Frank next walked out of the room and got a box of matches, stopped in the door and fooled with a cigarette box. He says Frank then looked out the glass door and said: “Oh, God here comes Emma Clark and Corinthia Hall,” and quickly pushed him in the closet at the side of the door, closing, the closet door. Put Him in Cloaet. The officers put Conley in the clos et. It easilv held him. Conley said he could not tell whether or not the rirls entered the room. He heard one of them ask, "Are you all alone, Mr. Reproduces Conversa tion H e Declares Took Place as Frank Directed Removal. Frank?” and Frank answered, .“Yes, I am alone.” ' Pretty soon Frank came and let Conley out, Conley says, and had him sit down at Frank’s desk. Conley says Frank got some paper from a drawer and told him to write a note. The officers had Conley sit dow r n and write w’hat he claims Frank dictated to him. Conley readily wrote, “Dear mother a long tall black negro did this by hissleb he told me if I would lay down he would love me play like the night wich did this by hisselb.” How About Me? Conley says he asked Frank what he was going to do with the note. Frank replied that he was going to put it in a letter and send it to his mother in Brooklyn, that he had wealthy people there. Conley says Frank then clasped his hands, looked at the ceiling and exclamed, “Why should I hang?” "I asked him,” Conley told the of ficers, “what about me?” Frank says, “Don’t you worry, you an good boy and you will be all righ The negro stated that Frank tl handed him a roll of greenbf money and said it was $200. Con says he did not count it, and th Frank suddenly grabbed it away fro him, telling him that his people i Brooklyn would send him plenty o money and he would give Conley plenty of money later. Frank next took a cigarette, Con ley declared, and then asked him to have one, handing him the box. Con ley says he saw a little money in the box and was afraid to let Frank see it, for fear he would take it away from him. Conley next illustrated the man ner in which he says Frank walked to the stairs with him. The negro says Frank placed his arms around his shoulders and w’alked to tbe stairs with him. a»nd watched him de scend. Then Frank ran about five steps down and looked to see if Con ley % went on out. Of His Free Will. While in the superintendent’s of fice Conley stated that he was making this confession of fiis own free will and accord; that the officers had nev er in any way mistreated him or cursed him or struck him, and that they had not offered him any reward in order to induce him to tell what he knew. He explained his delay in making his confession by saying that he had been hoping to receive a large sum of money from Frank’s people. 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