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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
DETECTIVE SCOTT PROVES
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RED BANDANNA, A JACKKNIFE AND
PLENNIE MINOR PRESERVE ORDER
Continued From Page 2.
us not to give the reports to the po-
‘ . lice, but merely to report to him flrft.**
• Q. Didn’t you testify before the
- Coroner's Inquest everything yap
know?—A. Yes; but not In detail.
Q. Did you say before the Coroner
- that Frank said that Gantt was fa
it.',. miliar with Mary Phagan?—A. i
• don’t know.
Q. Why didn’t you give it to me n
your report?—A. Either I didn't think
'***«"‘ Gantt was a suspect or it was an
V **'* oversight.
Q. Well, why didn’t you tell the
Coroner about what Frank said about
^ Gantt and Mary Phagan? Gantt was
t— * a suspect then, wasn’t he?—A. It
- must have been an oversight, if I
N* didn’t do it.
V Q. Isn’t it true when at the inquest
that you did not say one word about
¥* Frank holding his head down when
R •* *
•**» you and Black interrupted his Inter
im view with Newt Dee?—A. I don’t re-
iT 7 * call. I haven’t read the minutes.
™ Admits Working for Frank.
Q. You have stated here you wer *
working in the interest of Frank, tha
defendant?—A. Yes
Q. You stated there that you were
employed by the National Pencil Com
pany—A. Yes; Frank was the man I
talked to. He had to see Mr. Montag
before he could employ me.
Q. Didn’t you say oefore the Coro
ner’s jury that ail you could find out
about the conversation between FranK
and Lee was from Lee?—A. Yes.
Q. You didn’t say a word about
overhearing Lee and Frank in their
conversation, and of Frank hanging
his head, did you?—A. No; I have re
freshed my memory since then.
Scott Gets Angry.
Q. Wasn’t you asked then to tell it
‘ |all?—A. Yes; but a man would be a
V fine fUiw who couldn’t refresh his
• ‘memory. Do you think a man can re-
i member verbatim everythin** said a
’year ago?
Q. Hold on; don’t lose your temper.
—A. I’m not losing my temper.
. Q. Now, you didn’t say anythin?
I ^before the Coroner about Frank say
ing that Gantt was intimate with
<*Mary Phagan?—A. No.
f 1 . Q. You haven’t got the word Intl-
*^rnate in your notes here. (Rosser had
obtained Scott’s notes from him.)—A.
Well, I’ve got my own system about
taking notes which may be different
from yours. 1 don’t write out tht
whole story. Keith r was I cross-
i questioned before the Coroner.
Q. You didn’t say anything a »out
Mr. Frank being nervous before tha
r Coroner?—A. I said I wasn’t cross-
questioned.
Q. You detailed your statement to
ten pages before the Coroner and you
didn’t refer to that?—A. Yea
Q. When you detailed the statement
about the conversation between Lee
and Frank you didn’t say anything
about his being nervous?—A. I said
he hung his head.
Works With Police.
Q. You didn't say anything about
his crossing and recrossing his legs'
—A. I don’t think the Coroner asked
me.
Q. You didn't ray anything about
his putting his hand before his face?
—A. No.
Q. You are a trained detective—
trained to observe things—and you
didn’t bring out these facts?—A. I
have too much sense to tell everything
I know at a preliminary hearing.
Q. Weren t you telling all you knew”
—A. In a general way. I am not fool
enough to go into detail with a rine-
tooth comb at a Coroner’s inquest.
Houser; ‘Your honor, this witness
is provoking me.”
Dorwy; “I submit, your honor, that
he has a right to answer the ques
tion.”
Judge Roan; “Don’t argue with the
attorney. Mr. Scott.”
Rosser:
Q. Let’s go back. You work with
the police, don’t you?—A. Yes.
Q. You never work against them.
You just get in the road with them?—
A. Yes.
Q. You will work against your
client with the police, won’t you?-—
A. Sometimes.
Q. You testified about the blood
spots, but nothing about the white
stuff over it?—A. Yes, I think that’s
right.
Q. That conversation you said
about Frank, are you sure that state
ment didn’t come from Darley?—A.
Yes. I am quite sure Frank dictated
them in his office.
Mental Notes.
Q. *Ynu are sure you didn’t take
these notes during your inspection of
the factory?—A. Yes. I only took
mental notes and wrote when we got
back to the factory.
Q. You are not positive on
that point?—Yes. because It was so
dark I could not see In the factory.
Scott Corrects Report.
Q. Mr. Scott, you say now that Mr
Frank told you when the little girl
asked Viim if the metal had com#. Mr.
Frank replied, “I don't know?”—A.
Yea.
Q. Didn't you swear before the Cor
oner that he said. “No?”—A. Yes. I
have said about half and half all the
time.
Q. Didn’t you say in a report to me
he said. “No?”—A. Yes.
Q. Did you mean I don’t know?
Don’t you know that the meanings of
the words are quite different?—A. It
was Just a grammatical error. J no v
swear positively he said, “1 don't
know'.”
Q You say now Mr. Frank told you
Plennie Minor,
chief deputy
sheriff, who is
depended upon
to uphold
the majesty
of the law
and dignity
of the court
at the Frank
trial. He does.
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lw:
He Raps With the Barlow Blade
and Waves the Oriflamed
Kerchief Judiciously.
Plennie Minor, chief deputy sheriff,
has a man’s slsed Job on his hands
and he handles it with the aid of a
red bandanna handkerchief and a
pocketknife.
More formidable armament has
been invented, but the oriflammed
kerchief and the barlow blade are all
that Plennie Miner requires to per
form a duty that many would deem
arduous, all of which shows that the
deputy' sheriff is a man of resource
and ability.
It is his job to keep order in Judge
Roan’s courtroom, while Leo Frank is
being tried as the slayer of Mary
Phagan* It’s a real Job, when it is
considered that during each day at
least two thousand persons attend
the irial or try to and each one looks
to Plennie Minor, to see to their per
sonal accommodation.
Everything is Up to Him.
Minor is a. public officer, ergo a
public servant, and the public experts
him therefore to attend to all its
wants from a seat beneath an elec
tric fan to a drink of ice water.
In tne old days berore Democratic
simplicity and grape juice became
popular in the public mind, Minor
would have been equipped with a
periwig and a mace. These things
were supposed to impress on every
one the majesty of the law.
A red bandanna can never rank with
a periwig as an emblem of authority.
A pocketknife is hardly in the mace's
class.
But Minor keeps the law’s su
premacy as firmly fixed as the rock
of Gibraltar, which shows there Is
considerably more to him than the
bandanna and the knife.
When he wipes his rather high
brow with the bandanna, spectators at
the Frank trial turn toward him w'ith
respect. When he raps on a chair leg
with his knife. h*tlf ^ie courtroom is
as quiet a» a drum with a hole in it.
And if the bandana and the knife
are not performing their duties effi
caciously. Minor has other resources.
If the spectators wish to titter or to
squirm. Minor makes an oration aft
er he has flourished the bandanna and
played the long roll with the knife.
He tells the spectators that a court
room is no place for merry quip, that
laughing is entirely as out of place at
a murder trial as orange blossoms arc
at a funeral, and he’ll be gosh dinged
—or words to that effect—if he will
have it.
His methods are thorough. They
get results. This is proved by the
fact that he is called on to officiate
at every hearing in which the pijfdic
interest is great.
he left the factory about 1:10?—A.
Yes.
Q You told rqe in this report (he
had Scott to Identify the report) that
he told you he left the factory at 1
o’clock?—A. Yea It was simply an
error in that report to you.
Q. How many mistakes are there in
this report?—A. Very few. They are
errors of the stenographer I over
looked.
Q. Mr. Scott, Mr. Black and the po
lice always knew the contents of these
reports before vou made them to me,
or Mr. Haas or the owners of the pen-
cil factory?—A. Yes.
Scott Ends Testimony.
Dorsey on redirect examination:
Q. When did you report the finding
of club to the police?—A. I saw it in
a report of May 15.
Q. Do you swear what day it was
reported to the police?—A. No.
Q. About the police—do you follow
the facts, or the theory?—A. I don’t
quite understand.
Q. Report in full to the Jury what
you mean by working with the po
lice?—A. Mr. Black and I w’orked in
partnership and reported to the police
Q. Detail on this chart the course
of your Inspection of the factory with
Frank and Darley?—A. We went from
the office to the machine room, where
the hair was found; saw the blood
stains, w'ent down to the basement
and were shown w’here the body was
found. We saw where the slipper
was found.
"That’s all. Call Miss Monteen Sto
ver.”
Monteen Stover on Stand.
Judge Roan said: "Mr. Sheriff, take
the Jury out for a few minutes and let
them get a little fresh air.”
Solicitor Dorsey began questioning
Monteen Stover. She obviously was
somewhat overawed, but fairly well
composed.
She appeared about the same age
as Grace Hix, and, like her, had very
light hair. She was dressed in a
tan cotton dress with a skirt well
above her ankles. She appeared 16
or 17 year of age.
Q. What is your name?—A. Mon
teen Stover.
Q. Where do you work now?—A.
Nowhere.
Q. Where were you working April
26?—A. The day Mary' Phagan was
killed?
“Yes,” said Dorsey. *
A. Nowhere.
Q. Did you ever work for the pen
cil factory?—A. Yes.
Q. When did you quit?—A. Monday
before Mary Phagan was killed.
Q. Did you go to the factory on the
Saturday before Mary' Phagan was
killed?—A. Yes sir.
Q. What time?—A. 12:05 o'clock.
Q. How long did you stay?—A. Five
minutes.
Q. What did you go for?—A. To get
my pay.
Q. What floor did you go on?—A.
The second.
Q. To where?—A. To Mr. Frank's
office.
Q. Did you see Mr. Frank?—A. No.
Q. Did y r ou see anyone?—A. No.
Q. Did you notice the door in the
rear that loads to the women’s dress,
ing room?—A. Yes.
Q. Was it opened or closed?—A. It
was closed.
Q. Had you ever noticed it before?
—A. Yes.
Q. Wasn’t usually opened or closed?
—A. Sometimes opened and some
times shut.
Q. Did you notice the clock?—A.
Yes.
Q. What time was it?—A. 12:05
o’clock when I entered and 12:10 when
I left.
Stayed Five Minutes.
Q. What did you have on—what
kind of shoes?—A. Tennis.
Q. Did you look at the clock when
you went in?—A. Yes. I walked up
to it. It was 12:05.
Q. What time was it when you
left?—A. 12:10.
Q. Was there any hat or coat or
gentleman's apparel in the office?—
A. No.
Q. Had you ever noticed the door
before?—A. Yea.
Q What was the condition of that
door?—A. Sometimes closed and
sometimes opened.
Q. Your honor, may I repeat this
witness’ memory on this point from
an affidavit she made?
Rosser—1 object, your honor. He
can’t show her that.
Judge Roan—Did she read the
statement before signing it?
Dorsey—It was read to her.
Rosser—It might have been
changed.
Dorsey—I won’t press the matter
right now. I will cits some authority
on it in a little while.
Mr. Rosser began the cross-exam
ination.
Q. Miss Monteen, where did you
start from to go to the factory?—A.
From home.
Q. What time?—A. I don't know.
Q. Did Mr. Frank have one or two
offices at the factory?—A. He had
two offices.
Q. Did you notice the safe in the
office?—A. No, sir.
Q. You Just walked in, turned
around and walked out?—A. Yes.
Q. Did you see any person?—A. No,
sir.
Q. Did you notice the desk in the
office? Did you notice a wardrobe?
A. No.
Q. What did you do?—A I walked in
the front office, saw no one. and went
and sat down on the bench near the
stairs.
Q. Then you got up and went
home?—A. No, I went back into the
office, looked around and seeing no
one, left the building.
Q. You went straight home?—A.
Yes.
Q. The factory was still in quiet
•Siren you were there?—A. Yes.
Q. That door to the metal room—
you had worked in metal department,
and you sometimes saw the door
open and sometimes closed?—A. Yes,
sir.
Reads Affidavit.
Q. How many times has Solicitor
Dorsey talked to you about this cas3?
—A. Once. I went down to his office
and made an affidavit.
Q. No matter what an affidavit
might say, you know you sometimes
saw that door open and sometimes
closed?—A. Yes.
Q. If you made such an affidavit,
you were mistaken?—A. I don’t know.
I sometimes got there first and it was
closed. Then I have passed it and
seen it open.
Q. You do know that you saw it
both open and closed?—A. Yes.
Judge here ruled that the Stover
girl could look at the affidavit to re
fresh her memory.
Solicitor Dorsey handed it to the
witness and she slowly read it.
Door Open and Closed.
iThen Dorsey questioned the wit
ness:
Q. Having refreshed your memory,
Miss Monteen, state whether that
back door usually was open or closed?
A. Sometimes it was open and some
times it was closed.
Q. When the factory was not run
ning, was it open or closed?—A.
Closed.
Q. All the time?
Attorney Rosser objected: “You are
leading the witness.”
The objection was sustained.
Q. What door are you referring to?
A. The door right back from Mr.
Frank’s office.
Rosser then took the witness on tha
recross-examlnation.
Q. Was Mr. Dorsey present when
you heard that affidavit read?—A. No.
Lawyers Clash Again.
“Your honor, Mr. Dorsey said it
was read to her,” said Mr. Rosser.
“How did he know?”
“She said it was read to her,” re
torted Dorsey.
“No, she didn’t,” said Rosser.
“I call for a reading of the reo-
ords,” said Dorsey.
“It is riot of enough importance,*•
returned Rosser.
Then Monteen Stover was excused,
and R. P. Barrett, a machinist at the
National Pencil Factory, who found
the hair on the lathing machine, was
called to the stand.
Solicitor Dorsey questioned him.
Q. What is your business?—A. Ma
chinist at the National Pencil Com
pany.
Found Blood Spot.
Q. What did you see near the water
cooler in Mary Phagan’s dressing
room?—A. A peculiar spot I have
never seen there before.
Q. Were you in the factory Satur
day?—A. Yes.
Q. Was it there then?—A. No.
Q. How large was it?—A. About 5
or 6 inches in diameter with lots of
little dots around it.
Q. Was there anything else?—A.
Yes; some white substance smeared
over it by the side of the big spot
that was not covered up.
Q. What was it?—A. Blood.
Q. What did it look like that had
been used in putting the white stuff
on it?—A. A broom.
Q. Did you see the broom?—A. Yes;
one was nearby.
Q. Was anything on the broom?—
Yes, lots of dirt.
Found Hair on Lathe.
Q. Did you find any hair there?—
A. Yes, on the bench lathe.
Q. Describe to the jury how the
lathe was shaped.—A. It was “L”
shaped and made of iron.
Q. Did anyone else see this hair?—
A. Yes, L. Stanford and Magnolia
Kennedy.
Q. Did Magnolia Kennedy identify
the hair?
Rosser objected: “It would be only
hearsay. Only the God of the Uni-
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