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BAYLOR, Division Passnger Agent, 1 Peachtree Street,Atlanta. Write for lllurtrstrd booklet on "The Lend of the Sky.” Specially reduced fares for •iimmer Liberal stoo overs. Besides America's most THiC ATLANTA UJiUKUiAN AND NKVVSi THIRD CHAPTER IN PHAGAN MYSTERY j^WWWWWWW Pre-Inventory Sales at RICH & BROS. CO. Arrests of Suspects in the Factory Slaying. Sensation as Leo Frank, Manager Was Taken Into Custody. chapter m. Everything that occurred, trivial or important, during those first few da>s after the body of little Mary Phagaa was discovered in the pencil factory basement took on a dramatic aspect. The people were keyed to so high a pitch by the revolting crime that for a time it seemed to require only a spark to fire them to violent deeds. Let a strange person so much as appear at the police station to confer with Chief of Detectives Lanford and wild rumors spread about the whole city like magic. Let one of the de tectives drop a careless remark and in a flash everyone mysteriously under stood that a complete confession had been made to the police by the mur derer. So it was a sinister reception that the first catch in the detectives’ drag net received from the group of angry men when he was hurried to police headquarters Sunday night of the day after the factory girl had been slain. All through the day crowds had hung about the police station, some of them merely morbidly curious, others having the mistaken impression that they were going to help the authori ties in some manner. Since Newt Lee had been taken into custody in the morning, there had been no arrest, but now with the end of the day came the intelligence that the murderer of Mary Phagan had been captured and was being brought to a cell at the po lice station. Smiles Defiant at Crowd. Eagerly the crowd awaited to learn the man's identity. On each side jt the doors they lined themselves as he was walked, defiantly, toward then between two detectives. A smile curled his lips when he heard their sullen mutterings. “I know that guy; it’s Art Mul linax,” came in a hoarse whisper from a roughly dressed youth. The group of men and boys closed in behind the detectives and their captive, but officers barred their en trance to the police station. To Ohi^f Lanford, Mullinax repeated his denial of the crime which he had made pre viously to the detectives when they placed him under arrest. “It’s a horrible mistake,’’ be cried, dropping the bravado he had dis played before the crowd. “I don’t even know Mary Phagan, except by sight, and the only time I can remember of seeing her was at a Christmas enter tainment.’’ Despite his protestations of inno cence. he was placed in solitary con finement and instructions were given that no one be permitted to see him or communicate with him. Sentell, the grocery clerk, insisted that Mullinax was the man he saw with Mary Pha gan Saturday night at midnight, and he was so positive in his identifica tion that there appeared to be little doubt of the circumstance. Sentell Was Positive. Sentell declared that he had known Mullinax for some time by sight and had met him frequently at the car barns, where both of them had worked at one time. He was certain he could not be mistaken. If it were possible, be was even more osltive in hi. identification of Mary, for he had spoken to her, calling her by name, and she had replied, calling him Ed. Monday’s dawn found the detectives working feverishly on the hundred- anri-one clews that had been present ed to them. They had Mullinax in ;i cell, but they were confused by the maze of rumors ,which confronted them and which pointed the finger of suspicion at other persons as strongly as at Mullinax. Early in the morning two of the detectives left the station. Chief Lanford was silent and no one else could be persuaded to tell of their mission. The newspaper men, how ever. jumped to an immediate con clusion and the next editions carried a story that search was being made for a discharged employee of the fac tory who was known to have been acquainted with the murdered girl. A little later Chief Lanford admit ted that it was J. M. Gantt, Mary’s childhood playmate in Marietta and until three weeks before timekeeper at the pencil factory, who was the object of the search. He was known to have been at the factory the night before. His sister Mrs. F. C. Terrell, of No. 284 East Linden avenue, gave a strangely inaccurate account of his recent whereabouts. Another Arrest Made. She declared to the detectives and to Georgian reporters that Gantt had not been home for three weeks and that she understood he was cn h!s way to California, when it was known that such was not the case. Adding to the suspicion against him. he made the unfortunate move of leaving town at the very time the search was started for him, giving the impression that he was taking to flight. As it happened, he went only to Marietta and he was arrested as he stepped from a car there. He in dignantly denied that he had any idea of flight. He did not have any idea that the officers were after him. he declared. His $torv was that he went to Marietta to buy a crop and that he had no.ified his mother several days before that he was coming over Mon day morning. A warrant charging that he was suspected of the murder of Mary Phagan was lodged against him and he was returned to Atlanta to be placed in a cell. To adH to the confusion and doubt and mystery of the crime, just at the moment when the detect Ives were positive that they had the criminal in Mullinax or Gantt, local handwriting experts fame out with the declaration that the writing of the notes found by the boss of the Phagan girl un mistakably was that of the negro Newt Lee. One of them qualified as an ex pert of more than twenty years’ ex perience. He said that he was in the banking business and had made a special study of handwriting. After a careful examination of the notes and a comparison with the handwrit ing of Lee, he was as positive as he could he that the notes and the test writing were by the same hand. Suspicion Turns to Another. Tuesday started with the detectives and the public divided in opinion as to whether Lee, Gantt or Mullinax was the'guilty man. It was not long before they were allowed to conjec ture as to a fourth suspect. The day’s developments came thick and fast, crowding on each other’s heels. While the excited public was con demning each of the three prisoners TWO EARLY FIGURES IN PHAGAN MYSTERY ARTHUR MULLINAX. to the gallows, the most startling rumor of all was taking form. It was that a high official of the National Pencil Company was sus pected of the brutal crime and that an arrest would take place within a short time. Through mysterious sources it became known that the po lice did not place much dependence on the seemingly positive indentiflea- tons that had been made of both Gnntt and Mullinax. It was learned at the same time that the theory that the little girl had been lured to the factory at night was being abandoned and that in its place the detectives were adopting the theory that she never left the factory after she entered it at noon to get her pay. They did not believe any of of the stores that Mary Phagan had been seen on the street Saturday night. This threw the suspicion on some one inside the factory. Shortly be fore noon Tuesday an automobile containing Detective Harry Scott, of the Pinkerton agency, which had been engaged by the pencil company, and Detective John Black, shot away from the police station and up to the pencil factory. Within ten mintutes it had returned. With Scott and Black was Leo M. Frank. Arrest Creates Sensation. It was given out at first that Frank was not under arrest, but from that time to this he has-not known an in stant of actual freedom. This move of the detectives created a sensa tion. Public indignation, ready to vent itself on the newest object at hand, mounted to menacing heights even though nothing was known against Frank except that he freely admitted being in the factory at the time the Phagan girl came for her o’clock and desired to enter the fac tory. Actions Were Unusual. He called Newt Lee in the even ing. something he never had done before during Leo’s employment. There was no answer when Lee called his house early Sunday morn ing after finding the body and calling the police. There was no answer when Call of ficer Anderson attempted to get him on the telephone when the four po licemen were in the factory early that morning. He acted in a highly suspicious manner when the officers came to his house Sunday morning to take him to the police station for questioning. All the time that the storm of ac cusation and bitterness was rising against the young factory superin tendent. his attorney, Luther Z. Ros ser. kept silence, except to say that Frank in the end would be found en- tirely innocent. Convinced <>f his client’s innocence. Rosser worked quietly and faithfully in his behalf. Only once In the early days of the tragedy was he provoked to a show of his bulldog fighting qualities. This was when he reached the police sta tion after Frank's arrest and was re fused the privilege of seeing Frink. “We’ll see whether they can stop me from conferring with my own client.” he shouted. A few minutes later he was in conversation with Frank. From Frank’s arrest until the next day, when the inquest was to begin, a dozen detectives were searching the factory rigidly frorr top to bottom for evidence. Practically ever-- employee of the plant was quizzed and detec tives were sent about the city run ning down fresh Lads that came in to the possession of the department. On the eve of the inquest came the tragic funeral services of the money and that the detectives inter preted some of his actions after the crime as highly suspicious. His many friends rushed immediate ly to his defense. They’proclaimed his arrest as a ridiculous blunder on the part of the police. They pointed to his career and to his reputation as the most potent indication that he would not descend to the fiendish deed that ended the innocent life of Mary Pha gan. Rut the detectives said: He was the last one known tp have seen Mary Phagan alive. He was nervous and excited when Lee came to the factory at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon. He was nervous and apparently fearful when Gantt came there at 6 young victim. The minister’s prayer was as a stern, imperative invocation to the six men on the Coroner’s Jury as well as a fervent plea to the Al mighty. "May God bring the man guilty of this terrible crime to justice,” he im plored, standing with closed eyes be fore the little white casket in the Marietta church where Mary, when a toddling child, had attended Sunday school. Children who had played with h r about her home in Marietta sur rounded the grave and saw the body lowered into the earth. As the casket disappeared from sight the grief- stricken mother swooned The whole grewsome story of the finding of the body was repeated at the inquest, which began next day, but nothing was told which \youid throw' any further light on the iden tity of the guilty person. Newt Lee told In his Ignorant fashion of every move he had made during the fatal day and of his movements in the fac tory that night. His story had every appearance pt truthfulness. Coroner Donehoo was not able to trip him or catch him in any misstatements. He declared that he had no knowledge that the body was In the building until he went into the dark basement shortly before 3 o’clock that morning and saw the huddled form in the dim light of his lantern. The officers who visited the factory that morning told their stories. Sev eral of them were of the opinion that Lee knew much more than he had told and their testimony reflected this opinion, but the Inquisition of the ne gro failed to elicit any admissions. Conley Enters the Case. Interest was centered In the testi mony of Frank, which, it was thought, would be given when the jury re sumed its session Thursday. Tha jurors, however, met and immediately adjourned until the following Monday, and another event took place which W’as thought to be of little conse quence at the time, but which later assumed a vital bearing on the case. PT. PT Holloway day watchman at the factory, walking through the building early Thursday afternoon came upon the negro sweeper. Jim Conley. Conley was washing a shirt and appeared strangely embarrassed when caught in the act by Holloway The negro explained that he was washing the shirt in preparation for the inquest to w'hich he had been summoned. Holloway notified the detectives of the suspicious circum stance and Conley was placed under arrest. That night the first formal charge was lodged against Frank and Lee. They were transferred from the police station to the Tower under commitments in which it was stated that they were suspected of the mur der of Mary Phagan. Apparently unafraid of the terrible charge that had been made against him, FTank appeared at the resump tion of the inquest the next Monday seemingly the most unconcerned per son in the whole assemblage. Only when he was forced to pass through TAKE A TRIP BY RAIL AND SHIP Through trains, large, easy and well-ventilated coaches, parlor and sleeping cars, via Central of Georgia Railway to the port of Savannah, Ga., thence a joyous sea voyage on large pa atial ships to the big cities and cool summer resorts in the East. ROUNQ-TRIP FARES FROM ATLANTA Including meals and berth on 6hlp New York. $38.25 Baltimore $29.25 Boston 42.25 Philadelphia.. 34.05 Proportionately low fares from other points. For all details, berth reservations, etc., ask the nearest Ticket Agent Warren H. Foqu. District Passenger Agent, Cor. Peachtree and Marietta Sts.. Atlanta, Ga. visit to the factory. He recalled giv ing her the pay envelope. He said that she left his office and that he heard her talking with another girl, he thought, and then heard their foot steps dying away. He denied that he sent her to the rear of the factory to » if an expected shipment of metal had come. No Incriminating Admission. Every person in the crowded and stuffy iittle room hung on to each word of his testimony as it came clearly from his lips, but if anyone was ex pecting an incriminating admission he was disappointed, for It did not come. Instead, the witness-defendant told most remarkable and impressive story of his actions on the day of the crime, a story which since has been most etrongly corroborated by the testimony of other persons. Startling incidents followed in close succession until the next inquest hearing on Thursday of the same week. Paul P. Bowen, a former At lanta boy. was arrested in Houston, Tex., on the .-nisplcion of having fled there after the crime, and a day later the Pinkertons were trailing a Greek from Atlanta to Anniston. Ala., where he was supposed to have taken refuge after killing the girl. Bowen was arrested on the strength of a story that a woman had heard him muttering wildly In his room in a Houston hotel. "Why did I do It? Why did I do it?” she declared .she heard him cry. Clip pings telling of the murder were found In his trunk, but It was found that he had not been in Atlanta for a year. The clew in Anniston was discovered to be as worthless and the Pinkertons abandoned their theory that a Greek had anything to do with the crime. (To Be Continued To-morrow.) dS i An Amazing Clearaway [of Long Silk Gloves at — — — . to * You will find this identical silk 3J glove in other local stores. They use it as a “leader” to draw trade. One day one store 55 advertises it at a certain price; another day a different store has another price. The result is, the glove ■jg has no staple price at all. Since wc don’t care to make a football of our merchandise, we shall discontinue handling ag this glove. Our price for to-morrow, therefore, is 39c. 3g Understand, please, that 39c in no wise represents the "3 value of this glove. It has been advertised plsewhere as an 89c and q* value; it is well worth 75c. Made of pure thread tricot silk— firm, wear-resisting and elastic. Full faahloned; finely finished jg Double tipped fingers. All sizes in black. white, tan, lavender and navy. Selling starts at 8:30 3 (Main Floor, Left BETTER SERVICE 1 At | LOWER | RATES The Kind of Economy That Pays A Phone in Your Home for 81 Cents a Day ATLANTA TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. 15c Sale of Wash Trimming stocks in anticipation of Inventory—just six short shopping days away. That’s the reason these miles of fresh, crisp wash goods are offered, close to half price. Scan the list—it in cludes fashion’s favored fabrics all at 15c. 35c Bulgarian Voile—sheer, gracious and attractive. 40 inches. $1 Bedford Cords—the real French weave. A few odd colors 25c Natural Linen—approved weight and texture; pure flax 25c Yama Yama Crepe—soft, cool and crinkly. 40 Inches wide. / 25c Ginghams—Whyllaw’s famous imported Scotch ginghams l 25c Poplins—this popular fabric In all the desirable colors. 25c Tosca Crepes—fancy stripes and solid colors. / 25c White Crepe—cool and crinkly, in great demand. 25c White Piques—welts and dot designs, etc 25c White Voiles—all white or with colored stripes. (Ready at 8:30. Wash Goods—Left Aisle, Main Floor) Clearing 25c & 50c Jewelry at Bunching odd lots at this little price to avoid invoic ing them. You will find— 50c and 25c gold plated and gold front bar and \ beauty pins \ 50c and 00c Sterling silver belt and sash pins. 50c and 25c pretty jet brooches. 50c and 25c ocean pearl sash pins. 39c and 25c gold plated and enamel euff links. 50c auibc-r bar and brooch pins. 50c gold top engraved tie clasps. 50c sterling silver rings set with brilliants. / (Main Floor, Center Aisle) : A 3c Lace Sale % It includes oddments of dg embroideries, chiefly in in- 5 sertings and edges and in- Sg sertings from broken sets in 3* various kinds of laces. 1 to !g 21/ 2 inches wide. Also some eg 3-inch bands in Notting- 5 ham, Vais and Oriental ^g laces. Former prices 5c, >5 714c and 10c. To-morrow at ■1 3c. (Main Floor, Right) r ^ Half Price Sale of Table Linens Continues. V J WNWffl/WWWW M - Rich $12.50 Embr’d Robes at $3.75 Just nine (9) in all—sur vivors of the scores we had earlier in the season. For mer prices were $12.50 $18.50. There is one natural en; the others are white crepe, voiles and lingeries embroidered in colors. Flouncings and bands to match—make the robe to' suit your fancy. Naturally 1 tlie robes show some signs 1 of handling. Just nine—not; to be invoiced, which ex-; plains the $3.75 price. (Main Floor, Right); & Bros. Co. W**”WVf USE GEORGIAN WANT AOS FOR RESULTS. J. M. GANTT. the narrow lane out into the Jam of humanity that filled the station house corridors did he display the slightest trace of nervousness. Looking straight ahead ir> an evident endeavor to avoid the sinister glances of the crowd, he hurried into the Commissioners’ room with Chief La-nford’s hand on his arm. Once inside the room, his face as sumed an expression of relief and he wa ked to the stand with an air of confidence. H* answered the ques tions shot at him without hesitation His utterance was distinct and his voice unfaltering. He appeared abso lutely sure of himself and sure of his story. He related freely Mary Phagan’e