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4 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. DETECTIVE SCOTT PROVES QE 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. jr . .. 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? 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