Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

PHAGAN & Shows How He Carried Accuses ALWAYS FIRST The SUNDAY AMERICAN Order It NOW Both Phone* Main 8000 The Georgian Atlanta Read for Profit—-GEORGIAN WANT ADS-—Use for Results VOL. XI. XO. 256. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 31,1913. Copyright, 1906. By Th® Georgian Co. 2 CENTS PAT NO M< 'RK EXTRA' 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 Jn Jo 0 _ - ' C&f -<-«* fidsye tJl&f-cuuAl J cuu Cf <J\ <lJJc <o<r£^ty!VLa 9- &JL 'Z&i, ^ ''C/ZLQ /fiJL sOCeiy dioryiH <*-***( -/r£ A/OAsd -f\n /J/TTUsCtt V* c? a/vfec^ rUrfrt, jrlirt yj/a-nd&y 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« Sworn to and subscribed before »e -this 0- 7 -day of ;tfe5fu_J913- Rotary Public, fuVtoTi CouTiig^T-Teorgia. 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