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CONLEY 'M 'M Explains in GIVES NEW EVIDENCE A * Detail Pencil Factory Mysteries ALWAYS FIRST <Q> ® The SUNDAY The Atlanta Georgian fytpa AMERICAN Read for Profit—-GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Results EiAllf/t » Order It NOW. ■» Both Phones Main 8000 VOL. XI. NO. 259. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, JUNE 2,1913. By^S^oUnCo. 2 CENTS i more° Convicts Her Insulter and Regains Husband +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Pretty Atlanta Matron Nips Scandal in Bud •<% - '■ ’’ S<!- Important Developments Looked For, • but Nothing Sensational Made Public—Insists He Has Told All, but Further Confession Is Expected. For hours to-day 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 many things that had not been clear to the officials, but sticking tenaciously to the story he told the MISSOULA, MONT.. June 1.—That he assassinated General Thomas Francip Meagher, former Governor of Montana Territory, soldier, author, orator and statesman, whose death .has always remained one of the mys teries of Montana’ early history, was the astounding confession of Pat Hil ler. alias Frank Diamond, made on whajt he believed was his deathbed at Plains, Mont., 60 miles west of her^ The self-styled ^assassin declared that he got $8,000 for the murder and that the Vigilantes, Montana’s famous volunteer law-enforcing organization, were anxious “to get lid of Meagher.” Diamond, as he has been known for a number of years, was brought to Missoula by Sheriff W. L. Kelley, who feared violence for his prisoner In the Plains jail. Two other murders, for one of which another man was hanged, Diamond lays at his own door. For nearly 50 years the body of General Meagher has lain in the Mis soula River, and despite the general belief that he stepped off a boat near Fort Benton, in the darkness of the night, there have ever since his death teen frequent rumors of foul play. Confesses Three Murders. Diamond’s confession was made in the presence of three citizens of Plains, Jack Thompson, Dr. Colts and Frank Hammum and was kept secret because it was expected the man would die within a few hours. Later he showed signs of improvement and the witnesses to the confession, fear ing that he would not hesitate to kill them, had him brought here. The confession is as follows: I killed Francis Meagher near Cow Island on the Missouri River. Meagher was Governor of Mon tana and the Vigilantes had to get rid of him and Alex Potter gave me $8,000 for the job. I killed him on a steamboat, threw him in the river and swam ashore. I also killed George Mitchell in 1883 and threw him in the Wil lamette River. I also killed Bill Clarke near The Dalles, Oregon, in about ’74; shot him. Big Nose George was hanged in ’82. I should have been hanged instead for the crime, ’but George was a murdering and 'deserved to be hanged; Thomas Irwin is the only man that knows me, and he is a ranch er and lives near Perma. FRANK DIAMOND. Diamond is 67 years of age, is well- known throughout Western Montana and has worked intermittently in the woods and at odd jobs around Mis soula. Told Some of the Details. Talking to some friends after he signed the confession, he said he shot the former Governor first and then threw the bodjl in the river. Supple menting his formal confession he made a detailed statement of his al leged crime, and judging from the minuteness of the detail and his vivid recollection of dates, places and in cidents, his auditors are convinced that he Is telling the truth. His unexpected recovery has terri fied the men to whom Diamond made his confession. They frankly stated they did not rest easy until he was behind the bars. He told them that nothing but the presence of death would have wrenched the story from his lips, which have for almost half a century been silent, and that he would have no hesitancy in taking any man’s life to save his own. The money Dia mond received for murder of Meagh er. he says, was given him by Alex Potter a member of the Vigilantes. TO HEAD KNOXVILLE SCHOOL. KNOXVILLE. TEN N June 1 — Professor W. F. Fleming, of Stone Mountain, Ga., was to-day elected principal of the Knoxville High /School. Girl Shot in Her Own Home Accuses Wealthy Clubman LOS ANGELES, CAL., June 1.— Accused of shooting a young woman under mysterious circumstances, Fred B. Kolb, a wealthy young clubman, is under arrest here to-day. The girl is Miss Irene Nobel, 22 years old. The girl was found by her 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 letter threatening suicide was found in her clothing. Kolb is son of a millionaire who died recently. Girl of 15 Ends Her Life With Shotgun ROYSTON, GA., June 1.—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 w hen 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. Divorcee Demands Alimony of $50,000 NEW YORK, June 1.—Counsel repre senting Mrs. Abigail Hancock Bishop, who secured a divorce from her million aire banker husband, James Cunning ham Bishop, yesterday, held a confer ence to-day to settle the terms of agree ment. Mrs. Bishop demands $50,000 ali mony annually and the custody of her five children. The suit was halted when Justice Goff became convinced that the charges against Mr. Bishop were true. He was accused of stopping at the Hotel Astor with Mrs. J. Temple Gwathmey, beauti ful wife of a former president of the New York Cotton Exchange. Balkans Battle as Envoys Talk Peace Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. ATHENS, GREECE, June 1.— While Balkan peace envoys of the states in the Balkan league were fra ternizing in London and affixing their signatures to a treaty with Turkey, a three-hour artillery duel between Bulgarians and Greeks was being fought at Elevtheron. Bulgarians are said to have opened the conflict by firing on th' Greek cruiser Spetsai. Other clashes are re ported. Millionaire Seeks Thrill Killing Whale SAN FRANCISCO. June 1.—John Borden, young New York millionaire, left San Francisco to-day on a pri vate whaling expedition on his $56,000 new r whaler de luxe, the Adventuress, built especially for this 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. Five Hurt in Wreck Of Veterans’ Train FLORENCE. ALA., " ’ —Carrying several extra cars of Confederate Vet erans returning from the Chattanooga reunion, a Southern Railway passenger train crashed into a Northern Alabama train two miles east of Sheffield Friday afternoon. The injured are: Baggage man R. Y. Darnell, perhaps fatally, and Conductor N. W. Wallace, Engineer Henry Gaut. Fireman Pendjeton Gaines and News Agent Henry Allen slightly hurt. All are Northern Alabama train men. Conductor Short, of the Southern train, is blamed for the wreck, as the Northern had the right of way. Thomasville Commencement. THOMASVILLE.—The graduating exercises of the Thomasville High School were held last night in the Young’s College auditorium. The ad dress to the class was delivered by Superintendent A. G. Miller, of the Waycross public schools. That The Georgian played a con spicuous part in obtaining the latest and most important confession from Jim Conley, the negro sweeper, 1n which he admitted his complicity in the crime, was the declaration of Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford. Chief Lanford, in telling of the cross-examination of Conley on Thursday afternoon 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 uppp Ffafffc:’ - — — AH 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 my brain for some thing else that might be of aid in getting Conley to teii 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 handed the pa per to Conley, 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. Hat, Hose, Kerchiefs Cause Bruin’s Death Dan Carey, General Manager of Parks to-day 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. 3 Suspects Held for Hall County Slaying GAINESVILLE, GA , - « '.—James and Bartow Cantrell, brothers, and S. A. Miller havf* been arrested as suspects in the murder of Arthur Hawkins, near Lula, in the northeastern part of Hall County. They are in jail here. AM have families. Hawkins was shot from his mule while returning home It Is said that there is a woman in the case. Bryan Gloating Over Election Law Victory WASHINGTON, June 1 .—Smiling in his satisfaction over realizing a reform for which he had fought for nearly a quarter of a century, Secretary of State Bryan to-day signed the proclamation of the seventeenth amendment provid ing for the direct election of United States Senators. Three earnest champions of the amendment were at his side—Harry St. George Tucker, of Virginia, who made the first fight for it in the House 22 years ago; Representative Rucker, of Missouri, who piloted the clause to its final passage in the House about a year ago; Senator Borah, of Idaho, who fa thered the amendment in the Senate. Rides Her Pony 30 Miles to Be Married MILWAUKEE, June 1.—Elizabeth Waukechon, a Menominee . Indian maiden, 17 years old, has proved to officials of the Menominee reserva tion that although the Government's laws may dominate the red man the gentler sex is still able to defeat “justice.” , When the Government attempted to take her away from her parents’ fireside to the Indian school, she rode thirty miles on a pony to find and wed her lover, John Waupekau- nee. McReynolds Blocks U.P.Dissolution Plan WASHINGTON. June 1.—Attorne.v 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 to compel the Southern Pacific Railroad to give up I the control of the Central Pacific j Railroad, This ownership, he holds, is In di- ' rect violation of the law. Mrs. Charles Kugler Wins Vindi cation in Charges Against Inspector Maddox. Pretty Mrs. Charles Kugler was a smiling and satisfied victor to-day 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 the 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 again?! 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 she told him of the remark? that Maddox had made to her and declared that h. 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 wap told that there Continued on Page 2, Column 8. Wall Holding Fill On Ivy Gives Way About 100 feet of the big stone wall that holds 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. Participants in Gun Duel Badly Wounded DALTON, GA., June 1.—In a duel with pistols, Dr. L. C. Furr, of Cran dall, and “Whack” Riorden were both badly injured to-day near Cran dall, Murray County. Dr. Furr is reported seriously wounded in the abdomen, and Riorden, shot four times, is said to be dan gerously hurt in the head and back. It is alleged that the trouble arose over Riorden’s sister. Physicians from Dalton have gone to the wounded men. Senate Probers to Visit Coal Fields WASHINGTON, June 1.—Considera tion of plans for the Senate probe of conditions in the strike zone of the West Virginia coal fields was begun to-day by the Senate Committee on Education and Labor. It is expected that the investigation will be begun by a sub-committee, which will visit the strike district and take the testimony of mine owners, strikers and officers of the militia. Waiters in Senate Cafe Get No Tips WASHINGTON, June 1.— Patrons of the Senate Cafe do not have to put on glasses to read on the bill of fare this order made by Manager Lofstrand: “Waiters are forbidden to receive tips." 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 Bert 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 told just where he first claims to have found her and how he and the superintendent ht- 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 finger as the tracer of tragedy. Dorsey Well 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 afiked to be put within the shelter of polUco 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 cred- 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 Frank 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. Conley went over the scene of the crime step by- step on Friday and never wavered in his tale inyolving Frank deeply. Now it is desired to have him ap pear before the very man he so strongly accuses and have him repeat the terrible charges. Some believe that if Conley is alone guilty 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 bo 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 Ca*. In the event that tho 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', hut his most intimate friends say that he has played cards with their 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 and at length. Some of his friends 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 has mentioned the subject to any of the attaches of the jail, except occasion ally to the Sheriff himself. And then it was in an alrrost Impersonal man ner. I do not know who Is guilty," he said, “but whoever he is, ho* should hang.” \ Conley Is Ready to Pay Penalty as Accomplice. “Ye*, sir, I guess .maybe It’s all over with me. I suppose they’re going to hang me or eend 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: “ ' st “P: wait a minute. 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 he’.ped Leo M. Frank dispose of the body of Mary Phagan after the superintendent had killed her, created a profound sensa tion, peered through the bars of his cell in the Fulton Tower and pro nounced his readiness to die for his crime as an accomplice, and in ’he 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 l didn't kill that girl, Mr. Frank, and you know I'm telling the truth to these white folks.’ ” 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 Fran k wrote something ou 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 -a always been taken for grant ed tnat the two notes are the work of one man. The 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 get at the truth In the terrible pend! fac tory mystery—In the minds of many