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BARE PHAGAN CRIME & Shows How He Carried Body; Accuses Frank EX r R A The Atlanta Georgian Read for Prof it—-GEORGIAN WANT ADS-—Use for Results B ED OM ITI IE , ON VOL. XI. NO. 256. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 30,1913. 2 CENTS r ^ u »° GOUX LEADS E: 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 Mr. FranK would get out a^d help me oat* but it seems that he Is not going to get, out and I have decided to tell the whole truth neuy€. # cviZf *^7/ rr '•iuC* * - - ^ ^ / " C ^ L< - M*- ' oua y &- 4***. W & Asald it jjgrutd *lrt %jjz*d<iy Sworn to and subscribed before ae this ;Li^a ay Of 913 • Rotary Public, FuVton eorgia. 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. ?q “Please Stop My Want Ad” WANTED—Woman for general house work to cook two meals a day. Ap 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 cc Mid ie tjme