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VOL. XI. XO. 256.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 31,1913.
Copyright, 1906.
By Th® Georgian Co.
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FACSIMILE OF CONCLUDING PORTION OF NEGRO CONLEY’S
SENSATIONAL AFFIDAVIT, SHOWING HIS SIGNATURE
IFrench Driver Does the 500 Miles
at Average of 76.59
Per Hour.
The reason I have not told tTiis beforeI thought
Hr. Frank would get out and “help me out* but it seems that he ts
not going to geir out and. I have decided to tell the Whole truth
about thiS^j^itter^ cut
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Injured in Race.
JACK TOWER, driver of the
Mason; leg broken when car over
turned.
LEE GUNNING, mechanician
of the Mason; seriously crushed.
MOTOR SPEEDWAY, INDIANAP
OLIS, May 30.—Jules Goux, of Fnace
to-day wrested the motorspeed cham
pionship from America, winning the
600-mile free for all automobile race
on the motor speedway here. Goux
drove a Peugeot car.
His time was 6:31:43:45, an average
of 76:59 miles an hour, a trifle slower
than last year’s mark.
Spencer Wishart In a Mercer car
finished second. His time was 6:45:06,
Merz in a stutz came third, al-
I though his car was 'afire throughout
| the last lap.
Merz in a Stutz finished third. His
l car caught fire on the last lap and he
[drove desperately to the finish. The
Imaehlne was blazing when he crossed
(the tape. Guyot, in a Sunbeam, fin
ished fourth.
The victory of C oux was a runaway
[after the first 100 miles. In addition
'to the 330,000 first prize and about
$10,000 offered by accessory makers,
the winner was also awarded the
LRrmy Trophy, for the first 200 miles:
*the Pres-to-Lite Trophy for 300 miles
and the $10,000 Wheeler and Schebler
Trophy for 400 miles.
Goux set a new speedway and
world’s record for 500 miles for cars
this size. In addition he proved to
be the first man to win the race by
driving the full 500 miles without the
assistance of a relief driver. His vic-
lory was clear-cut and due to his
Imnderfully cool, heady driving from
Itart to finish.
Race Is Spectacular.
1 The race was spectacular in the ex-
L>me despite the fact that no driver
yas killed In acldents. Several ac-
|cidents happened and the hospital
corps was kept busy with moner in
juries.
On the seventy-ninth lap “Wild
|Bob” Burman who had been setting
in eighty-two mile an hour clip was
’put out of the race temporarily by a
leak in the gasoline tank. The Keeton
was stopped at the pit and the car re
paired. Hughie Hughes relief driver
took "Wild Bob’s’’ place when the
car whirled out again.
Burman had been driving at the
rate of eighty-two miles an hour The
excitement, the continual hard luck
that he encountered and the strain of
driving in the face of the torridity of
the atmosphere had weakened him so
that he was unfit to go on with the
race.
‘ Caleb Bragg in a Mercer came to
frlef at the north end of the course
rhen the steering knuckle of the car
jroke. The machine plunged toward
[he edge of the course where a num-
of spectators stood. Bragg Jam-
ned on the brakes and stopped the
Car.
Ander*on In 8«eond Place.
The standing at the four hundredth
|mile was: Goux first; Anderson sec-
The first bad accident of the race
fame when Jack Tower, in his Amerf-
an car, the Mason, smashed on a
Mason suffered a broken leg,
Vdie his mechanic was seriously hurt.
Ralph DePaJma, the hard-luck
Jl iver of the speedway course, was
forced out of the race in the eight-
enth by cylinder trouble. He got
Continued on Page 2, Column 6«
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AGAINST S
Negro Describes in Affidavit How He
Helped to Carry the Body to the
Basement; Factory Superintendent
Ran the Elevator Down, He Says.
DRAMATIC SCENE AT FACTORY
AS CONLEY RE-ENACTS CRIME
“I don’t know who is guilty, but I do know that the man who
murdered Mary Phagan ought to be hanged.”
Leo M. Prank made this statement to Sheriff C. W. Mangum,
when he made his tour of the prison Friday. Mangum said this
was the only statement or reference to the crime Frank had made
since he had bee nin the Tower. He said Frank looked him
squarely in the eye and talked like an innocent man.
Entire satisfaction with the present status of the Phagan case
was expressed by Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford this aft
ernoon.
”1 am thoroughly content with the results of our work,” said
Lanford. ‘‘It is now a question for the jury to decide as to whether
Leo M. Frank or Jim committed the killing.”
Half-Breed Negro
Arrested in Search
For Stevens Slayer
Dan Walker, a half-breed negrn,
was taken Into custody late Friday
afternoon, in connection with the
hunt for the slayer of Mrs. Sallie
C. Stevens and her daughter, Nellie,
on the McDonough Road.
Walkers arrest was caused as a re
sult of the reported connection of a
half-breed negro with the case. The
prisoner denies that he was in any
manner implicated in the crime, or
even knew* about it until his arrest.
The police are inclined to believe his
story, but will hold him for further
investigation.
WORLD’S OLDEST SALESMAN.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 30—Mor«
than 80 year? of age, 63 of which
have been spent in the employ of
one firm, N. W. Flaisig, a needle
salesman, has just signed a contract
to continue with the house 25 years
longer.
“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?
Negro, Step by Step,
Sho 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.
Conley repeated his story late Fri
day afternoon at the county jail, to
which he had been removed from po
lice headquarters.
Conley insisted that Frank told him
Friday, April 25. to come to the fac
tory Saturday, that he met him the
next morning and brought him to the
plant. The tragedy followed. The
negro’s Insistence on the statement
that Frank arranged the day before
to have him at the factory on Satur
day raises once more the question
whether the crime was premeditated.
Conley, after he was committed to
the Tower told a Georgian reporter
of repeated' efforts on the part of the
detectives to have him confront
Frank with his statement. On each
occasion, said Conley, Frank turned
his back and went to the rear of his
ceil without speaking.
Show How Body Laid.
Later in the basement he lay down
again to show the detectives Just how
the body was dropped to the ground
as though it had been a sack ot salt
The negro lay on his face. His right
arm was curled i*u 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 *.et
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.
Repr<iduces Conversa-
tion 11 e Declares
Took Place a.s Frank
Directed Removal.
Beavers when he stepped from the
car. Many of the employees, at lei
sure during the noon hour, were 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 Lanforo and Chief Beavers,
with the negro, arrived a few minutes
later.
Rome of the employees, curious to
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 SchlfF 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 mortient 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 he 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
J
remembered until he left the build-'
ing.
“He asked me if I wanted to make
some money right quick and I told
him 1 did,” said Conley. “Then he
j 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 silt,” 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
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 we got by this window Frank
was so nervous that he dropped the
Continued on Page 2, Column 4.
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.
The Georgian has dealt in no haphazard guesses as to the negro
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 Mr. Frank 1 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 qHtck,
and I told Lim yes, sir, and lie told me that he had picked up
a girl hack 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 I told him I 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 1 got a big wide piece of cloth
and come back there to the men’s toilet, where she was, and
tied her, and I 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 I 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. Iler 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 r .
Mr. Frank carrying her by the feet and me by the shoulder,
and we brought her to the elevator, and then Mr. Frank says,
‘‘Wait, let me get the key,” 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
the basement and Mr. Frank helped me take it off the ele
vator and he told me to take it hack 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 coming, and I taken her back there and taken
the cloth from around her and taken her hat and shoe wfnch
I 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 trashpile in front of the furJ
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 tow’ard 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. 1 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 WASHED HAN^tm^AM&El
Then Mr. Frank hops
with the second floor a
floor and catches with
sink to wash his hands
stood and waited for
washing his hands anc
Mr. Frank, he couldn’t 1