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THK ATLANTA (JKOKCIAN AM) NEWS.
FIGHTING FACES OF THE TWO MEN WHO ARE ~
BATTLING TO SAVE LIFE OF LEO M. FRANK
LFTIIKU Z. ROSSER.
REUBEN ARNOLD:
"Negro Cool as He Starts the
Second Day of Rosser $ Gru
elling Questioning.
Continued From Page 1.
given a cold iliower bath before hr
retired and arose Tuesday morning to
don a brand-new suit of underclothes
which had been provided for him by
his attorney. He ate another hearty
mea] and went to the courthouse well
prepared to withstand the grueling
examination that was in store for
him,
Frank and Conley did net meet
after they left the courtroom Tuesday
night. Conley was taken to the third
floor of the Tow’er, and Frank occu
pied his cell on the second floor.
Frank was brought to the courthouse
Tuesday morning by Sheriff Mangum
Despite the testimony of Monday,
Frank, his wife and his mother seem
ed unusually cheerful. They came
into the courtroom before any of the
lawyers and chatted and Inughed
quite naturally and unaffectedly for
several minutes before court con
vened.
Rotter’s Grilling Fierce.
The determined onslaught against
Jim Conley, his string of affidavit.*
and the story' he told before the Frank
Jury had its real beginning Monday
afternoon.
Luther Rosser, starting with the
avowed purpose of breaking down the
negro’s story and forcing from the
negro’s lips a story more incriiiiinat-
ing to himself than any he had ut
tered, went deeply Into Conley's past
history, his home life, his prison rec
ord and everything that dtrectly or
remotely might have a bearing on the
solution of the murder mystery.
Before taking up the events of the
day that Mary Phagan was murdered,
the attorney made Conley admit that
he had been in jail .seven times. The
negro did not seem particularly loath
to make this admission, hut was in
clined at first to let it go into the
record that he had been behind the
bars “five or six times.
Rosser, however, seemed to have
about as thorough an acquaintance
with these circumstances of Conley’s
life as did Conley himself, and he re
freshed the negro’s memory until Con
ley was willing to agree that it prob
ably was seven times.
Ro*aer’» Methods Attacked.
Rosser’s manner of examination
provoked recurrent wrangles among
the attorneys all the afternoon. He
was unmolested so long as he main
tained his kindly, ingratiating atti
tude toward the negro, which he man
ifested several times by the remark:
"Jim and I are the best of friends;
we’re going to get along fine.”
As he departed from the inconse
quential incidents of Conley’s career
and began fo touch on the vital is
sues of the trial, the attorney’s be
nign manner vanished and his ques
tlons were rasped out In such rapid
succession that many times the negro
did not have time to complete his an
swer to one of them before Rosser
had asked another.
Hooper protested vigorously and
often against this.
The Solicitor protested as strongly
against the method which he declared
Rosser was employing to impeach the
witness. He assfrted that the Affida
vits concerning which he said Ros
ser was questioning Conley should he
read to the witness instead of Con
ley being ^sked about them with no
reference being made to their word
ing.
Protests of Little Avail.
The protests .were of little avail.
The objections, for the most part,
were overruled, and the cross-exam
ination proceeded along the same line.
At one point late in the afternoon.
Dorsey threw a law' hook down on
the table with an expression of dis
gust when he failed to get a favora
ble ruling from Judge Roan.
Rosser began his interrogation in
the afternoon by asking Conley In re
gard to the times he said he had
watched at the street door of the fac
tory when Frank had women upstairs
in his office.
Conley said that the first time he
remembered doing this w'as on
Thanksgiving. The law yer then pro
ceeded to Ask Conley about all of the
times he had performed this office
for Frank and couples, who, he said,
made the factory a rendezvous. Ros
ser made the negro give dates, the
evident purpose being to show' later
in the trial that Frank was not at
the factory at the times mentioned
In the negro's testimony.
Dalton May Take Stand.
Conley related that he was given
extra money each time that he
W’atched at the door. Rosser forced
him to tell the amount that h e re
ceived on each occasion.
The names of Miss Daisy Hopkins
and i\ Mr. Dalton figured frequently
In the negro’s stories of the clan
destine visits of couples to the fac
tory. It was said that Dalton later
^would take the stand and corroborate
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he could not remember much In re
gard to her appearance.
Rosser tested Conley’s familiarity
with various parts of the factory and
questioned /him in great detail in re
spect to his knowledge of the ar
rangement of Frank’s office, the outer
office and all the rooms on the second
floor.
It was when Rosser began ques
tioning the negro about his many
statement* to the detectives that his
manner began to arouse the objec
tions of the attorneys for the prose
cution.
Admits That He Lied.
“You told Harry Scott that you
got up at 9:80 Saturday morning,
didn't you?” asked Rosser.
“I guess 1 did, sah,” the negro ad
mitted.
“Well, it wasn’t so, was it?”
“No, it wasn’t so.”
“What time did you get up?"
“About 6 o’clock."
“When you were telling Scott this
lie, you looked him right in his face,
didn't you?”
“No, I kinda hung my head.
Rosser continued along this line,
bringing out the differences between
the stories he told the detectives and
the testimony he gave on the stand
in the forenoon. He called the ne
gro’s attention to his account of vis
iting numerous saloons Saturday
morning. Conley admitted that much
of this was false.
"I told Mr. Scott and Mr. Black
just part of the truth," Conley ex
plained, "so that Mr. Frank would
get scared and send some one down to
get me out.”
Many Discrepancies To Be
Bridged in Conley’s Stories
California Hop Riots
End; Strikers Quiet
WHEATLAND, CAL., Aug. 5.—In
dications were that the rioting of
hop pickers, who are on strike about
here had ended to-day. Six com
panies of California troops were on
duty in the strike section, where
Sunday night four men. including
District Attorney E. T. Maxwell,
were killed.
The strikers were making no dem
onstration to-day. and it was said
that all of the Industrial Workers of
the World, vvho were leading the
strike, had departed.
TWO DYING IN HOTEL FIRE.
HARRISBURG. PA.. Aug. 5.—The
Blue Mountain House, the famous
hotel at Penmar. burned to-day. B.
F. Metzgar and Malcolm Frank, both
of Norfolk. Va., went* fatally burned.
FATE ACCOMMODATES HIM.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5.—Edward
Schmidt, an aged capitalist, tried to
hang himsvlf at his home here. The
-TPLf'/biAkc, he fractured his skull and
The defense of Leo Frank will
bring out vividly before the jury
Tuesday that the striking feature of
Jim Conley’s dramatic recital on the
stand Monday was that it differed
not only from the first two affidavits
signed by the negro which he later
repudiated in large part, but it also
conflicted in several particulars with
the last sensational affidavit in which
he charged Leo Frank with the kill
ing of the girl and related that he
(Conley) disposed of the body and
wrote the note* that were found at
its side at Frank’s direction.
As a conspicuous example. Conley
in his narrative before the jury Mon
day told for the first time of hearing
the Phagan girl scream after she had
gone to Frank’s office and. according
to his story, walked with the super
intendent to the rear of the factory.
He said nothing of this in his flr^t
two affidavits. Neither did he men
tion it in his third sworn statement.
On the contrary, he denied to the
detectives at that time that he had
hoard any sound indicating that a
crime had been committed. To a
reporter for The Georgian who saw
him after he had made the third
affidavit ho made the same firm de
nial.
He even denied that he had seen
the little girl enter the. factory. That
he was on the first Aoor and saw
Mary Phagan when she went upstair?
whs not known until The Georgian
published an exclusive story to that
effect following the talk that Solici
tor Dorsey and Frank Hooper had
with the negro in tlie commissioners'
room at the police station weeks after
the third affidavit.
Find Many Discrepancies.
There are probablv a score of other
discrepancies that appear in his tale
before the Jury and ttfe stories con
tained in his string of affidavits.
The affidavits leave one with the
information that Conley arose be
tween 9 and 9:30 o’clock the day that
Mary Phagan was killed. The negro
told this, he said, by a large clock
he could see by looking out of his
window as he was dressing
By this same clock, he informed the
jury Monday that it was not 9 or
9:30, hut 6 o’clock when he got out
of bed Saturday. April 26.
Although the third affidavit is cu
riously silent in respect to times, the
other affidavits and the stories he
4au1 i**4s*> and reporter* Lgd it
that he left home at about 10 o'clock
Saturday forenoon.
Instead, it was 7 o’clock In. the
morning when he started for the pen
cil factory, he testified Monday. .He
added the explanation, never before
given, that Frank had told him to be
at the factory at-about 8 o’clock Sat
urday morning.
He said Monday that he arrived at
the factory at 8:30 Saturday morn
ing.
Previously he had said that he di1
not get there until about 11 o’clock,
after he had met Frank at Nelson
and Forsyth streets and followed
Frank to the factory at the superin
tendent’s request.
Changes Story to Fit.
In order that his new story should
have sequence it was necessary for
Conley to make other changes. He
could not have spent all the time on
Peters street of which he told if the
new story was to hold water. He
made changes in the time here.
And, instead of meeting Frank ac
cidentally at Nelson and Forsyth
streets, he met him by appointment
and returned w'ith him to the fac
tory.
He told nothing in any of his affi
davits oY Frank’s alleged appoint
ments %vith women in his office,
nothing that would lead to the sus
picion that Frank had been intimate
or had sought to be intimate with
any of the girls or women in his em
ploy.
There are still some things to ex
plain. still some discrepancies to be
eliminated with the story as smooth
as it is
Conley still insists that he over
heard N. V. Darley and Miss Mattie
Smith conversing in front of the fac
tory after he had returned with Frank
from. Montag Brothers. This was 11
o’clock or after.
Quinn’s Statement Conflicts.
But Darley swore under oath last
week that he and Miss Smith Heft
the factory at or before 9:40.
Conley, in telling of the persons
that visited the factory the day that
Mary Phagan was hilled, mentioned
Lemmie Quinn, but he declared thrt
Ouinn came into the factory before
either Monteen Stover or Mary Pha
gan entered.
Quinn and Frank have agreed that
he visited Fra. k’s office at about'
12:20, which was after the Stover an 1
Phagan girls had gone upstairs and
the Stover girl had returned bo tn.*
street. ^ a V*
Quinn has not yet Seen called as a
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OUT TOO NEGRO
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Citizens in Highland Avenue Zone
Aroused by Attempt Made on
Little White Girl.
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Policemen Tuesday continued the
search made by several hundred resi
dents of Highland avenue, Randolph
and surrounding streets for London
Green, 45 years old. a negro, who had
attacked a little 11-year-old white
girl about 8 o’clock Monday morning.
The negro lives at No. 16 Lumpkin,
street. The little girl was passing
the house and the negro called to her
and asked her if she wanted some
flowers. The child walked in and the
negro grabbed her, but she succeeded
in breaking away.
The negro left and has not return
ed. A sister, who .claimed she lived
on Peters street, and her husband
went to the house about 8 o’clock
Monday' night. They were arrested.
A rumor spread that the negro had
been captured, and in less than five
minutes there were perhaps 300 an
gry white men at the corner.*
The prisoners convinced the offi
cers that they knew’ nothing of the
w’hereabouts of the negro sought and
were released. Chief Beavers and
Captain Poole responded to a hurry-
call when the crowd grew threaten
ing.
McNaughton to Ask
Pardon on Thursday
SAVANNAH. Aug. 5.—The petition
for pardon for Dr. W. J. McNaughton
in Chatham County Jail under death
sentence for the murder several years
ago of Fred Flanders, in Emanuel
County, will be presented to the State
Prison Commission in Atlanta on
Thursday.
The Rev John S. Wilder, who ha?
been a staunch friend of the con
demned man through his several trials
and commutations, will accompany
counsel for the defense and perhaes
make a pie* in behalf of the con-
lit-jnneti man, ,
Bulgarians’ Enemies
Demand Early Peace
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BUCHAREST. ROUMANTa, Aug
5,—When the Balkan peace negotia
tions tvere resumed to-day the Rou
manian and Greek delegates served
notic that unless the preliminary
treaty is signed by Thursday hostili
ties will be resumed.
It is understood that the plenipo
tentiaries are agreed on the princi
pal points at issue and peace is ex
pected soon.
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Sinister as a cloud, as raven as a
night unaided by moon, planet or
satellite. Jim Conley’ i« to-day. the
most talked-of man in Georgia.
His black akin has not been whit
ened by the emancipation proclama
tion. The record of his race for re
garding an oath as it regards a drink
of gin. something to be swallowed,
remains unattacked.
But Georgia is* to-day listening to
the words of Jim Conley with breath
less interest. His every syllable has
ten .thousand of eager interpreters.
His facial expression is watched as
keenly as he answers the questions of
Luther Rosser as would be the physi
ognomy of the President of the L T nited
States be watched as he signed a
declaration of war against Japan.
Jim Conley, has upset traditions of
the South, even as the Phagan case
ha« upset traditions that have lived
for years through the length and
breadth of the country.
The South Listens.
A white man is on trial. His life
hangs on the words of a negro. And
the South listens to the negro’s words.
Had Jim Conley happened to be
a negro of the new type, now so fre-
quently seen in Dixie, a negro with
education enough to halt his racial
tendency to lying under Are; had he
happened to be a negro of the old
type, the type the South best loves
and venerates, the Id slave that fc
faithful to the family* he Belonged to
as a dog is to his master, tradition
would still exist.
But Conley has wrecked tradition.
He is a negro of the .type that the
South has been trying since recon
struction to destroy, the meagerly
educated, shiftless, gin-guzzling, half-
anthropoid black that any nation
could well be rid of.
But they are listening to Conley.
The South has not thus suddenly for
gotten the fact that negro evidence
is as slight as tissue paper. Th*
South'has not forgotteji that when
white man's word is brought in com
bat against negro’s word, there is no
question as to the w-inner.
Topsy Turvy Case.
Here’s the answer. The entire Pha
gan case has been as topsy turvy as
the greatest creation of a Coney
Island artist.
“White people believing a negro!”
•you say and laugh.
. Why shouldn’t they, when a little
factory girl can go into the innermost
circles of the life of Peachtree street
or Pace’s Ferry Road?
She’s there. Mary Phagan alive
could have approached thes*e mansions
of Atlanta’s aristocracy an hundred
times in her plain little calico dress,
and each time she would have been
told to go to the back door.
But Mary Phagan, dead, is to-day
in every home in Atlanta, as there as
lares et penates set up. be those
household gods, simply a family Bible
or the gem-encrusted wedding crown
which the w-lfe of the household wore
w’hen society fought to witness her
wedding and hoi polloi struggled to
catch a glimpse of her beauty as she
w’alked through the church chancel.
A Theme for a Sermon.
Mary Phagan in her lifetime never
made much more than $5 a week. The
laws of labor made that amount her
position. Twenty-five cents taken
from her salary would have probably
caused the absence from the family
By L. F. WOODRUFF.
table of the cabbage and biscuit that
are playing such an important part
in these cases.
Now the State of Georgia is paying
out hundreds, yes, thousands of dol
lars tb discover and punish her slay
er. The Frank family is expending
•as much or moqe to prove* to the
world that.he is guiltless of the
crime.
A sermon could be written on the
subject.
Mary Phagan. alive, was a pro
toplasm in the life of Atlanta, dead
she stands out in a bas relief that is
as striking as the great torch which
the Goddess of Liberty holds aloft in
New York Harbor.
Her name will always be remem
bered.
In noted criminal cases. It has al
ways been the defendant for whom
th6 trial w’as named. The word
“Thaw” will be remembered when the
name of Stanford White has passed
into oblivion, and Stanford White
more with one stroke of a pen than
Harry Thaw accomplished in his en
tire .-life.
A Tragic Shaft.
There are few* people who can re
call to-day the name of Caesar Young,
but there are few that forget the
nam; of Nan Patterson.
Caleb Powers was charged with
killing a Governor of Kentucky. The
average man would have to seek ref
erences to remember his name.
But Mary Phagan died, and the
case remains the Phagan case.
Frank’s name will be carried with It
a few years, and then will be for
gotten.
The little factory girl will be re
membered as long as law’ exists in
Atlanta.
It is an aw ful shaft, to erect. But
it is more enduring than marble; it
means more than man’s words have
ever expressed.
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at
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Women’s Fi oe Shoes
(Pumps and Oxfords)
.65
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(Values up to $6.00)
We sell only fine shoes.
When they’re given to you at great reductions like
these, it is indeed worth your while to give us a morning
call.
We close at 1 o’clock on Wednesdays. We do not wish to
miss a visit from any of onr patrons because of the half day.
So we’re offering the special inducement of one lot of 257
fine shoes, including the best makes, with values from $3.50
to $6.00, at $1.85 the pair.
Pumps, button oxfords, ties and ankle strap pumps. All
leathers. ■*
$1-65
Special midsummer reductions throughout the store.
We close Wednesdays at 1 o’clock.
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36 Whitehall Street.
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