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Y *«r \ CONLEY GIVES NEW EVIDENCE |Explains in Detail Pencil Factory Mysteries The Atlanta Georgian ! home ALWAYS FIRST The SUNDAY AMERICAN Order It NOW Both Phone* Main 8000 Read for Profit-~~GEORGIAN WAhT ADS— Use for Results VOL. XI. NO. 257. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY. MAY 31,1913. By Copyright, 1906, Th« T » Georgian Co. 2 CENTS *morfP EDITION ROOSEVELT MARQUETT Celonel Rocs, tame of Mllw; there to the e* n.— ) the ... trips irig some of the locally brewed beer, over hi« own protest, according to one of the Colonel's yvltnesses In his libel suit against Editor George A. Newett, of The Ishpeming Iron Ore, which was resumed to-day. The amount the Colonel drank, however, was only a swallow. W. pmelin Roosevelt, a cousin of the former President, was the first I witness. His testimony was short, following the course of previous tes timony as to the Colonel’s use of liquors. He was followed on the stand by William Loeb, Jr., former private secretary to Roosevelt and collector of the port of New York. AM-Day Session. It was expected that the court would hold only a half session to day, but when the session convened Judge Richard Flannagan announced that owing to yesterday’s holiday he felt that the case should be pushed as rapidly as possible and that an afternoon session would be held. William Loeb was questioned by Attorney Pound. '’Extremely moderate” was his characterization of the former Presi dent’s use of intoxicating liquors. Q.—Did you accompany the plain tiff to Speaker Cannon’s birthday dinner? A—Y.es. Q.—What did he drink? I mean in toxicating liquor. A.—He drank a glass of champagne in pledging Speaker Cannon's health. The witness on cross-examination said the Colonel, since he retired from the Presidency, had lunched at hie house and had partaken of cham pagne which was served. Enticed at Milwaukee. Frank T. Yeree, United States mar shal for West Virginia, was the next witness. In reply to questions he said he was the personal secret service guard of Colonel Roosevelt when he was President. Q.—Did you ever see any Indica tions that he was under the influence of liquor? A—I should say not. * Q—In all your acquaintance with the plaintiff, what have you seen him drink? A.—A little sguterne mixed with appolinaris or white rock. Q—How mueh whisky have you seen him drink? A.—-I never saw Colonel Roosevelt take a drink of whisky. Q.—Ever see him drink any beer? A.—Yes, in May, 1903, he was visit ing in Milwaukee and went to a re ception tendered him by the Deutscher Club. He was invited to have some beer and replied that he did not drink beer. They urged him. however, tell ing him it was what made Milwaukee famous. Then he raised the glass to his lips and took a swallow of the beer. That’s the only beer I ever saw him take. Wilson's Guard Testifies. James Sloan, who was Tyree’s re lief as constant secret service com panion of Colonel Roosevelt while President, and now a personal guard to President Wilson, gave testimony similar to other Roosevelt witnesses. William Shauffle, of Cleveland, in 1912 accompanied Colonel Roosevelt on his trip through Ohio. Shauffle traced the Colonel’s movements care fully throughout the trip, denying ern- phatiyally that Roosevelt used aay liquors or wines. Attorney VanBensehotten took the stand to read a deposition by Albert Shaw, editor of The Review of Re views. The deposition said Shaw had konwn Roosevelt since he was Police Commissioner of New York. The two * had been friends, the deposition said, and Mr. Shaw denied that the former President was ovefindulgent in his use of liquors. Wilson the First President to Fail to Honor Soldier Dead WASHINGTON, May 31.—President Wilson, Miss Margaret Wilson and the President’s cousins, Miss Helen Woodrow Jones and Fitzwilliam Me* Master Woodrow, motored to Balti more yesterday. The President did not attend the memorial ceremonies | in Arlington and elsewhere. He is the first President since Hayes to fail to attend the Memorial Day ceremonies. The veterans were dis appointed and distressed. Some ex- I pressed themselves feelingly. Ex-Commander George H. Slay- baugh, of the Potomac Division, said: “We were much disappointed at the President’s failure to attend and re sentment pervades our branch.” General J. D. Blcodgood said: “It is very peculiar to have the President in the city and not have him with us on this occasion. The veterans are much disappointed.” Adjutant General Oldroyd said: This is the first time in the history of our organization a President failed to attend the Memorial Day cere mony.” Secretary Bryan attended, but re fused to make a speech. Girl Shot in Her Own Home Accuses Wealthy Clubman LOS ANGELES, CAL., May 81 — Accused of shooting a young woman under mysterious circumstances, Fred B. Kolb, a wealthy young clubman, is under arrest here te-day. The girl Is Miss Irene Nobel, 22 years old. The girl was found by hep brother lying on the floor in her home, Kolb was at the telephone summoning a physician. At a hospital Miss Nobel said Kolb shot her. She probably will die. A_ letjer threatening suicide was found' In her clothing, Kolb is son of a millionaire who died recently. Convicts Her Insulter and Regains Husband +•+ +t+ •i-*+ +••{« +•+ Pretty Atlanta Matron Nips Scandal in Bud TO END BY Girl of 15 Ends Her Life With Shotgun ROYSTON. GA.. May 31.—Miss Ora Crider, 15-year-old daughter of J. A. Crider, a farmer near here, commit ted suicide by shooting herself with a shotgun while alone at the house. The gun was not loaded when her parents left home. The girl put a shell in the gun, shut herself in a room, placed the gun barrel against her stomach and with a small stick pulled the trigger. Relatives heard the shot and rushed to the house, finding the girl's dead body against the door. No cause for the suicide is known. Millionaire Seeks Thrill Killing Whale SAN FRANCISCO, May 81.—John Borden, young New York millionaire, left San Francisco to-day on a pri vate whaling expedition on his $56,000 new whaler de luxe, the Adventuress, built especially for thi§ cruise. Borden was accompanied by Roy C. Andrews, a member of the National History Museum, an American ex pert on whales. The main quest of the expedition is to secure a specimen of the rare bowhead whale. Tree to-morrow -WITH THE- SUNDAY AMERICAN A beautiful Magazine will be given FREE with every copy of the Sun day American to-morrow. It will contain the opening chapters of JACK LONDON’S NEW STORY " The Scarlet Plague" h. Order Your Paper Now .J, Both Phones Main 8000 That The Georgian played a con spicuous part in obtaining the latest and most Important confession from Jim Conley, the negro sweeper, in which he admitted his complicity in the crime, was the declaration of Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford late Friday afternoon. Chief Labford, in telling of the cross-examination of Conley on Thursday afternoop which resulted in his confession, said that Conley for a long time persisted in maintaining that he knew no more of the crime than that which he had related pre viously. After several hours of futile ques tioning the chief showed him a copy of The Georgian quoting officials of the pencil factory to the effect that they believed Conley the guilty man. It was then that Conley made his startling affidavit fixing the deed upon Frank. All Questions Failed. "All lines of questions had been tried without avail,” said the de tective chief, in relating the incident. "We had put Conley through a rigid third degree, and still he declared that he knew nothing more of the crime. It seemed that all the theories the detective force had so carefully and painstakingly built up were about to be shattered. "I was racking m >' brain for some thing else that might be of aid in getting Conley to tell what we suS' pected he was withholding,” the chief continued. "I happened to remember that in last Wednesday’s Georgian 1 had seen interviews with various fac tory people who declared they thought Conley guilty of the murder, and that he was attempting to place the crime on an innocent man. Georgian's Story Broke Him. “Stepping into an adjoining room, I 'secured a copy of The Georgian containing the interviews. Carrying it back into my office, where the small group of detectives had been for several hours interrogating the man without result, I landed t* 16 PA- per to Copley, remarking: “You can read this, Jim, and see what the peo ple over at the factory think of you.” “He took the paper and in silence the detectives watched him slowly and painfully decipher the statements of Holloway and others at the factory declaring that he, Conley, and not Frank, was the guilty man. "Finally he laid the paper aside, and looked up with the most worried expression on his face he has dis played since his arrest. ’Boss,’ he said, ‘dose people are short bound to hang me if I don’t tell the truf, and I ain’t goin’ to lie to you no longer.’ And the confession as contained in his latest affidavit followed. .. k Tlfe f, «.»'■ % SPENDS DAY WITH DORSEY STUDYING HUGE DIAGRAM OE SCENE GF THE CHIME Important Developments Looked For, but Nothing Sensational Made Public—Insists He Has Told All, but Further Confession Is Expected, For hours Saturday James Conley, negro sweeper, whose sen sational confession accuses Superintendent Leo M. Frank of the murder of Mary Phagan, explained in detail to Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey the dread mysteries of the National Pencil Fac tory on April 26, explaining Vuany things that had not been cluar to the officials, but sticking tenaciously to the story he told the Mrs. Charles Kugler, who won fight to clear her name and wins back estranged husband by convicting her accuser. Wall Holding Fill On Ivy Gives Way About 100 feet of the big stone wall that holcte the fill on the east side of Ivy Street at the corner of Baker Street is caving, and a number of men are busy taking out the dirt of the fill that the wall may be rebuilt. The cost of repairing this fault will be considerable, the fill being about seven feet at this point. The city engineers explain the crumbling of the wall by a broken water main. The wall was built on a fill and when the water main broke the foundation was washed away. However, they assert, the completion of the regrading of this street will be little delayed. Pastor to Preach In Swedish Tongue Two sermons in Swedish, to be de livered by the Rev. A. A. Swanlund to-morrow, will give Atlanta Scandi navians the first opportunity in a long time to listen to religious discourses in their native tongue. Dr. Swanlund is pastor of the Swedish Lutheran Church at Thorpby, Ala. He has just returned from a stay with the Swedish colony at Fruithurst, 73 miles from Atlanta. Dr. Swanlund will preach at the English Lutheran Church at 3:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon. He will speak at 8 o’clock at night at the residence of A. Johnson, No. 96 Cherokee Street. McReynolds Blocks U.P.Dissolution Plan WASHINGTON, May 31.—Attorney General McReynolds to-day expressed his disapproval of the latest plan for the dissolution of the Southern Pa cific merger. He declared that in the near fu ture he will file a suit tq compel the Southern Pacific Railroad to give up the control of the Central Pacific Railroad. This ownership, he holds, is in di rect violation or the law. Mrs. Charles Kugler Wins Vindi cation in Charges Against Inspector Maddox. Pretty Mrs. Charles Kugler was a smiling and satisfied victor Saturday in her court fight which she had de clared she would continue until she had cleared her name and won back her husband. Inspector Henry H Maddox, of tile city sanitary department, the tale of whose insulting remarks to Mrs. Kugler caused her husband to leave her in a rage, was fined $25.75 by Recorder Broyles and was in addi tion given a sound rating by the Re corder. “If you would look after the physi cal cleanliness of the city only and would leave the moral cleanliness In the hands of Chief Beavers, I fancy you and the city both would get along better,” said Recorder Broyles. ”In the future I suggest that you do not make derogatory remarks about women, particularly when you are speaking on hearsay and with such a misty idea of the woman’s identity as you were in this case.” Husband Also Scored. The husband also came in for a grilling through the indignant offices of Detective "Bob” Waggoner, who asked for permission to address the court and then asserted emphatically that a case ought to be made against Kugler for his strange and cruel treatment of his wife. Waggoner said that Mrs. Kugler had told him that her husband flew into a fury and beat her when sin told him of the remarks.’ that Maddox had made to her and declared that he was going to quit her until she was able to clear her name. “There is no reason why you should have suspected this woman of any wrongdoing.” said Recorder Broyles Mrs. Kugler was forgiving and would not consent to any prosecution of her husband. She went from the court room on his arm and was smil ing delightedly as she entered the of fice of Chief Beavers, who proceeded to give the husband a lecture on his conduct. Kugler was told that there Continued on fage 2, Column 8. Special Session of Grand Jury Called Will Reconvene Next Tuesday for Routine Business Only, Declares Foreman Beck. Lewis H. Berk, foreman of the Ful ton County Grand Jury, which has been called to meet in special session at 10 o’clock next Thursday morning, said Saturday afternoon that the Grand Jury positively would not take up either the Phagan case or the Felder-Beavers row. The purpose of the special session, Mr. Beck said, was to appoint certain committee. Mr. Beck went a step fur- there and said the Grand Jury had been called for no other purpose ex cept to appoint these committees, and that no other business would be transacted. Announcement of the special ses sion for next Thursday was made Saturday morning. It was called by the foreman himself. Following the announcement. unfounded rumors were circulated to the effect that the Grand Jury would delve deeper into the Phagan murder and possibly also look into the Felder bribery charges. Hat, Hose, Kerchiefs Cause Bruin's Death Dan Carey, General Manager of Parks, Saturday told of an autopsy on the big Russian brown bear, thought to have come to its death from eating two feet of rubber hose and a straw hat. The rubber hose had been removed from bruin's stomach before he ate the. hat, so most of the blame for his death was placed on the hat. The autopsy proved the hat had been di gested, but in the stomach were found two handkerchiefs and a solid rubber ball about twice the size of an egg. TO HEAD KNOXVILLE SCHOOL. KNOXVILLE, TENN., May 31.— Professor VV. F. Fleming, of Stone Mountain, Ga., was to-day elected principal of the Knoxville High School. city detectives. Conley was taken to the So licitor’s office at that official’s request and put through a se vere cross-examination. With an elaborate diagram, drawn for the Solicitor by Hert Green, a Georgian staff artist, to guide him, the negro traced the va rious scenes in the factory after the slaying of the girl. He to)d Just where he first claims to have found her and how he and the superintendent he accuses attempted to dispose of the body. The drama he enacted in the factory Friday for the detectives he re-enacted for the Solicitor in the little room at the court house with the artist's chart as the stage and his tinge,- as t),e tracer of tragedy. Dorsey Weil Satisfied. The Solicitor was well satisfied with the results obtained In the secret con ference behind closed doors and cer tain points that had been vague to him before were made clear. At Conley’s own request, through William Smith, his counsel, the negro was later transferred to the police station. The negro had been so be sieged by questioners at the county jail that he asked to be put within the shelter of police headquarters, where he had been closely guarded and where none but policemen had been allowed to interrogate him. Conley intimated that he had been threatened at the Jail, but little ered- ance was put in his ramblings. It was plain that he wanted rest. He had told his story so often—each time, it may be noted, in almost the same words—that he was tired. The police agreed that he had answered enough questions from outsiders and he was moved- Police Urge New Test, A determined effort is being made by the police department to bring Frurjt face to face with his accuser. The detectives wish to learn how Conley will go through the ordeal of confronting the man he accuses of directing the disposal of the body of Mary Phagan, and dictating the notes that were found'by her body. ~They desire also to give Frank an opportunity to deny the negro's story as Conley Is repeating it. Frank has been the man of silence in the Tower. He has had nothing to say in regard to the crime to anyone who has sought to talk with him on the sub ject, unless it was to his most Inti mate friends who have visited him in his cell. * He still refuses to have anything to say or to have Conley brought to his .cell, except by the permission of his attorney. Luther Z. Rosser, and in Mr. Rosser's presence. Plan to Ask Rosser. The detectives propose to take the matter up with Attorney Rosser. They will represent that the case has reached a stage where it is nec essary to give Conley’s statements their final test. Coniey went over the scene of the crime step by- step on Friday and never wavered in his tale involving Frank deeply. Now it is desired to have him ap pear before the very man he so stlmgly accuses and have him repeat thft terrible charge.-. Some believe t®> if Conley is alone ^pilty of the crime, this ordeal will be the final straw that will bring about his full confession. If Attorney Rosser agrees to the plan, the negro will be taken at once to the cell of Frank. Conley is still in an unsettled state from his long three-day grilling by the detectives, and is thought to be just in the frame of mind to break down and make a full confession, if he knows any more about the crime than he already has told. Silent Regarding the Cate. In the event that the meeting is arranged, it will be the first time that Frank has broken his silence In re gard to the case. He may have talked of it to members of his own family, but his most intimate friends say that he has played cards with them and conversed freely on the topics of the day as he has read of them in the daily papers, but that he never has discussed the Phagan mystery direct ly ar.d at length. Some of his frtenda have been with him every hour of every day since he has been in the cell at the Tower. They have been most loyal to the imprisoned man. They declare that he never ha* mentioned the subject to any of the attaches of the jail, except occasion ally to the Sheriff himself. And then it was in an almost impersonal man ner. "I do not know who is guilty," he said, “but whoever he is, he should hang.” Conley Is Ready to Pay Penalty as Accomplice. Yes, sir, I guess maybe it’s all over with me. I suppose they're going to hung me or send me to the peniten tiary for life, but I done told the truth. “When the Sheriff puts the rope around’my neck, I’m going to say: " sto Pi "alt a minqte. I know I did wrong. I tried to hide that dead girl s body and I ought to be punished, but before God I didn’t kill her.’ ” Jim Conley, negro sweeper, whose confession that he helped Leo M. Frank dispose of the body of Mary Phagan after the superintendent had killed her, created a profound sensa- ,? ee f r Vl ed though the bars of his cell in the Fulton Tower and pro nounced his readiness to die for his crime as an aceompllce, and in the same breath protested his Innocence of the actual murder. Ready to Face Frank. “I am ready right now," he said, . "to face Mr. Frank. I'll look him right In the eye and I’ll say, ’You know I didn’t kill that girl. Mr. Frank, and you know- I'm telling the truth to these white folks.'” 4 Conley declared again that Frank wrote one note himself. He said he had written the “long, tall black negro message" on single-ruled, white pa per from a tablet.” He asserted that 1 rank wrote something on paper not white, but a shade of green or gray paper that he thought had the letter head of the National Pencil Company factory on it. It has always been taken for grant ed that the two notes are the work of one man. Tha paper of neither cor responds to that described by Conley as the kind Frank used. What does Conley’s assertion signify? Harassed by questioners, bombard ed with hostile queries, importuned and threatened in an effort to gat. gt the truth in the terrible pengK at tor> mystery—in the minds o fac- aany