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VOL. XI. NO. 256. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 30,1913. 2 CENTS r ^ u »°
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95-MILE
CLIP SET
French Driver Captures 200-Mile
Trophy—“Wild Bob” Burman
Furnishes Thrills.
TWO INJURED AS MASON
CAR IS OVERTURNED
Terrific'Pace Forces Many Hope-
\ lessly Out of the Running.
New Records Set.
Injured in Race.
JACK TOWER, driver of the
Mason; leg broken when car over
turned.
LEE GUNNING, mechanician
of the Mason; seriously crushed.
Autos Out of Race.
Car, Driver.
Mercer DePalma
Stutr Don Herr
Isotta Grant
Mason Tower
FACSIMILE OF CONCLUDING PORTION OF NEGRO CONLEY’S
SENSATIONAL AFFIDAVIT, SHOWING HIS SIGNATURE
The reason I have not told this before'is I thought
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not going to get, out and I have decided to tell the whole truth
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AGAINST S
MOTOR SPEEDWAY, 1NDIANAP-
)LIS, May 30.—Forcing the average
ime up to 88 miles an hour, "Wild
Sob” Burman this afternoon gave the
nost reckless exhibition of driving
ver seen on the motor speedway
lere.
Seventy-miles behind the leader,
Surman, who had been forced out of
he race, re-entered and endeavored
o make up the logs. Getting every
unce of power out of his big Keeton,
ie circled the track at a speed that
,i8de the pace of the other racers
eem safe by comparison.
Round and round the big saucer he
ore withput slackening for the turns
r pausing for the other hazards of
|A course. One lap was made at an
verage rate of 95 miles.
* Pace Too Much for Goux.
Goux, leading the race, tried to meet
he pace of the fearless American. For
ne lap he let his car out at its top-
nost speed. On the next lap he
topped at his pit to replace two tires,
lurman, grim and determined, paid
io attention. His big ear shot ahead
n the effort to regain hts place after
ti> great handicap.
At 250 miles, with the race half
wer. Goux led by six miles. At the
60-mile mark his time was 3:20:5.75.
At 260 miles the order was: Goux,
n a Peugot, first, Anderson, in a
itutz, second; Mulford, in a Mer
ges, third; Merz, in a Stutz, fourth;
yishart, in a Mercer, fifth; Guyot, in
l Sunbeam, sixth; Tetzlaff, in an
sotta, seventh; Wilcox, in a Fox,
ighth. Th’e time was a fraction bet-
er than 78 miles an hour for the dis-
anee.
The terrific pace which the French-
nan is setting is making many dizzy
nd is causing car after car to drop
rom the race. Bob Burman, who led
dth a new speedway record for 100
nlles, was among those who fell oy
he wayside, but Burman repaired his
ar and got back in the contest many
aps back of the leader.
The first bad accident of the race
ame when Jack Tower, in his Ameri-
an car, the Mason, smashed on a
urn. Mason suffered a broken leg,
chile his mechanic was seriously hur:.
Ralph DePalma, the hard-luck
[river of the speedway course, was
orced out of the race in the eight
eenth by cylinder trouble. He got
Continued on Page 2. Column 6.
Hilton Wins British
Amateur Golf Title
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ST. ANDREWS. SCOTLAND. May
30.—Henry H. Hilton, the famed Eng
lish era k golfer of the Royal Liver
pool Golf Club, to-day won the ama
teur golf championship of Great Brit
ain easily, defeating Harris, of Acton.
This match was at &6 holes.
Yesterday Hilton was forced to go
19 holes to defeat W. Heinrich
Schmidt, the young player from Wor
cester, Mass.
Congressman Talks
To Rural Carriers
SAVANNAH. GA., May 30.—Rural
free delivery mail carriers of the First
Congressional District, In annual
convention here to-day, were addresed
by Congressman Charles G. Edwards.
President George DeBrossi made an
address on organization of postoffice
inspectors; W. D. Kahn answered a
number of questions regarding the
service, and M. S. Appleton spoke on
the parcel post system.
Mrs. Pankhurst Once
More Gains Freedom
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 30.—Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst was this afternoon released
from Holloway jail. She had gone on
a hunger strike since she was re
arrested.
The suffragette leader was removed
to the home of a friend in an ambu
lance.
Friedmann’s ‘Cure’
Barred in New York
NEW YORK, May 30.—Dr. Fred
erick F. Friedmann, the German dis
coverer of turtle vaccine for tubercu
losis, has been barred from inoculat
ing persons' in this city, by a resolu
tion of the Board of Health.
In addition, the board amended the
sanitary code to make turtle vaccine
come within its prohibitory - scope. The
board holds that use of the vaccine Is
dangerous.
$50,000 Hotel of
Ex-Atlantan Burns
MOBILE. ALA., May 30.—The Hy-
geia Hotel and five cottages at Citro-
nelle, Ala., 35 miles from Mobile, a
tourist resort, burned to-day, with a
loss of $50,000. All guests escaped.
The loss is partly covered by insur
ance. The property was owned by R.
R. Moyers, formerly of Atlanta, who
had just spent a large sum for Im
provements.
47 Indictments in
Vice War at Macon
MACON, GA., May 30.—Eleven
more women, a total of 33, of the re
stricted district have been Indicted
by the Grand Jury for operating dis
orderly houses. Fourteen Macon men,
more than half of them prominent in
business and society, have also been
indicted for renting the houses.
A special term of the Superior Court
will be held in June to try these cases.
THE WEATHER.
forecast for Atlanta and
orgia—Generally fair Fri
ll and Saturday.
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My Want Ad”
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ply 200 Angler Ave. 5-28-46
This little “WANT AD” was placed in The
Georgian Thursday afternoon. Before noon
Friday it was ordered discontinued. More
than 20 applicants for the place had called.
Have you a vacancy?
Do you want anything?
V
DRAMATIC SCENE AT FACTORY
AS CONLEY RE-ENACTS CRIME
Negro, Step by Step,
S li o w s Detectives
Part He Says He Had
in Slaying.
As a sensational climax to the con
fession of his part in the Mary Pha-
gan tragedy, Jim Conley, negro
sweeper, was taken to the National
Pencil Factory Friday afternoon,
where he enacted by movement every
detail of the events that took place in
the building of mystery after the
death of the little girl.
With the detectives noting every
sentence that fell from the ready lips,
of the negro, Conley started from
the exact point at the top of the
stairs on the second floor where he
says Leo Frank met him, and went
through the grim drama with a real
ism that convinced all who listened
and watched that he -at last was tell
ing the whole truth.
He reproduced the conversations
that passed between him and Frank.
He lay down full length at the rear of
the metal room to show precisely
how the body of the little girl lay
when he first saw it. He lay partly
on his face, with his right leg slight
ly drawn up, to portray the position
of the dead girl when he first saw
her as he was led to the rear of the
building, as he says, by Leo Frank.
Show'How Body Laid.
Later in the basement he lay down
again to shpw the detectives just how
the body was dropped to the ground
as though it had been a sack of salt
The negro lay on his face. His ri^ht
arm was curled up under his body.
The left arm was partly under his
body, but straight. His feet pointed
toward the rear door and his head to
ward the front of the building.
The announcement that this spec
tacular reproduction of the crime was
to take place was made.at the end of
another third degree session in the of
fice of Chief Lanford. The negro was
put in Chief Beavers' automobile. All
the curtains were drawn and the ut
most secrecy was ‘maintained. Only
those in authority in the factory were
aware that the tragedy was to be re
enacted, step by step.
Conley was handcuffed to Chief
Beavers when he stepped from the
car. Many of the employees, at lei
sure during the noon hour, %ere con
gregated at the foot of the stairs
on the first floor when the strange
procession filed up the stairs. The
city detectives had come on foot.
Chief Lanford and Chief Beavers,
with the negro, arrived a few minutes
later.
Some of the employees, curious to
HOW CONLEY
FOUND BODY
OF DEAD GIRL
He (Frank), told me
that he had picked up
a girl back there and
had let her fall and
that her head hit
against something—
he didn’t know what
it was—and for me to
move her and I hol
lered and told him the
girl was dead.
learn the latest development in the
mystery, attempted to follow. They
were turned back with orders not to
come inside and the doors were barred
against them. Guided by the negro,
Herbert SchifT and E. F. Holloway,
the party of detectives and newspa
per men started on the tour which
was to reproduce the tragedy, detail
by detail, from the moment Conley
declares that he met Frank at the
top of the stairs until the two re
turned to Frank’s office where Conley
again wrote the notes, as at Frank’s
dictation, and repeated the conversa
tion that h© swears took place be
tween them.
Besides Chief Beavers and Chief
Lanford, there were in the party De
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 movement and every
fragment of conversation that he
Reproduces Conversa
tion 11 e Decla res
Took Place as Frank
Directed Removal.
Results and score by innings
of all morning games played
to-day in the American, Na
tional and International
Leagues and American Asso
ciation will be found on the
Sporting Pages,
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
g$t 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 1 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 was
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
became too heavy for him and he
called on Frank to help him. Frank,
he said, came cursing from the door
way.
Story Appears Straight.
"He picked up her feet,” said Con
ley, “and I carried her shoulders. Just
when we got by this window Frank
was so nervous that he dropped the
Continued on Page 2, Column 4.
Negro Describes in Affidavit How He
Helped to Carry the Body to the
Basement; Factory Superintendent
Ran the Elevator Down, He Says.
The Georgian in its second Extra published exclusively the
first REAL confession of James Conley, the negro sweeper at the
National Pencil Factory, regarding the part he played in the Mary
Phagan mystery.
Conley’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 Air. Frank I waited for him downstairs
like he told me, and when he whistled for me I went upstairs
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 didn’t 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 ele
vator, and 1 told him 1 didn’t have nothing to pick her up
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
dressing room, carrying her on my right shoulder, and she got
too heavy for me and she slipped off my shoulder and fell on
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 hy the feet and me by the shoulder,
and we brought her to the elevator, and then Mr. Frank says,
“Wait, let me get the kej%” and he went into the office and
come back and unlocked the elevator door and started the ele
vator down.
SAYS FRANK STOOD GUARD.
Mr. Frank turned it on himself, and we went on down to
the basement and Mr. Frank helped me take it off the ele
vator 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 Air.
Frank he went up the ladder and watched the trapdoor to see
if anybody was'eoming, and I taken her back there and taken
the cloth from around her and taken her hat and shoe which
I picked up upstairs right where her body was lying and
brought them down and untied the cloth and brought them
back and th rowed them on the trashpile ip front of the fur
nace and Mr. Frank was standing at the trapdoor at the head
of the ladder.
He didn’t 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. Air. 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 1 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 WASHED HANDS. HE ASSERTS.
Then Mr. Frank hops off the elevator 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 off the motor and I
stood and waited for Mr. Frank to come from around there
washing his hands and tdien we went on into the office
Air. Frank, he couldn’t hjk-dly keep still. He was all the
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