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TITE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS
PROSECUTOR DORSEY
SNAPPED IN ACTION
ROSSER AND ARNOLD SMILING
This shows
the Solicitor
in an argument
at the Frank
trial.
Every Change in Chromatic Scale
Rung — All Georgia Types
Seen in Court.
By JAMES B. NEVIN
Now that James Conley has been In the “Bu
dismissed from the Frank trial, now
, . uupj#, Qome
tnat he has stood safely the Are of
Mr. Rosser’s most exhaustive grilling. t,0n
what of him? header!"
If Frank is convicted, Conley sub- It I
aequently will be convicted, no doubt, it no t
of being an accessory after the fact of - .
.. roaming d
Mary Phagan’s murder—and that will .
mean three years, at most, In the ' >e< 1
ItenUentiary. * he wav of
. A , honor of Ji
After that—when the Frank trial, • . -
more or less, hae been forgotten— ov r d
Conley wijl b© at liberty to come back
amongst the people of Atlanta. ™ ”
Not far from Five Points, a little IT,"
a . . . mittea to t
due east along one of the big thor- thA T
oughfares meeting there.
By L. F. WOODRUFF.
Every change in the chromatic
scale has been rung in the Frank
trial. With the single exception of
the skyrocket oratory that will murk
the last stage of the trial, everything
that has ever been doije in the trial
of a criminal case has been enacted
in the fight to fix. on the superintend
ent of the National Pencil Factory the
guilt of tht* murder of Mary Phagan.
There has been comedy. There has
been tragedy. There has been periods
as dull 4s a hookworm victim. There
have been occasions as startling as
the feat of a circus daredevil. There
have been pathos and performances
worthy of a clown. The somber has
been mixed w'ith the gay until the
entire trial seems the work of a fu
turist artist who has had a hard night
w'ith the drinking cups before he
started the painting.
Jim Conley was on the stand some
thing like sixteen hours. His story
was a ragtime composition, with the
weirdest syncopations, and then cam©
L)r. Harris right on his heels and
gave evidence full cf soundness and
learnedness. To the spectators it
seemed that they had just heard
"Alexander’s Ragtime Band” played
and then a Baxh fugue for an encore.
On© Simple, Other Complex.
Conley’s story was as simple in
words as “Old Black Joe,’’ while Dr.
Harris' was as complex as a Wag
nerian overture.
Jim Conley spoke in terms of the
street, of the near-beer saloon, of the
blind allev craD frame. Dr. Harris
spoke in the language of the labora
tory and the library.
Jim Conley could not enunciate a
word of more than one syllable. Di.
Harris was as polysyllabic as the
word "heterogeneous.” And the spec
tators had to gasp after the shift.
Conley’s story, w'hile it was as full
of contradictions as a hive is of bees,
was as easy to understand as a baby’s
“da-da” is to a fond parent. Dr. Har
ris evidence was as loaded with med
ical lore as a physician's library.
And. although it seems impossible,
there is more still to come. Before
the trial has ended practically every
type that Georgia knows will have
been paraded in the courtroom.
Types Seen
Right now
iwyppiip
there is a
negro bootblack who now and then,
when he is on the job, which fre
quently he isn’t, gives me a "shine”
so much to my liking that it brings
me back on other days.
He is a sort of Jim Conley negro—
at least, he has a smattering of edu
cation, an Ingratiating air, and is po
lite. particularly when It pays him to
of inf -rmation, “dem niggers down
on Decatur street, dey ain’t talking
of nothing but Jim Conley. He’s de
most talked about nigger anywhere, 1
i hears him complimented on
a'.l side? I”
'in other words, Jim's a sort of
nero along Decatur street nowadays?’’
said I.
"Yassir, dat’s it—Jim’s a hero. Nig
gers all talking about him. He done,
got de best of de smartest of 'um.
Nobody can’t fooj er nigger like Jim!”
Hero Around “Butt In” Bar.
I presume, too, that something of
the same condition prevails over on
Peters street—particularly in the
neighborhood of the “Butt In’’ bar
over there
You remember the “Butt In" boo-
xorium in Peters street is the one
wherein Conley filled up rather freely
on beer, the morning of the Phagan
murder, also on beer mixed with wine.
The "Butt In”, it also will be re
called, is where Conley obtained a
“double-header” beer—“double-head
ers” being the order of the day always
orYACES OF MEN BATTLING FOR FRAN
REUBEN ARNOLD.
ROAN’S RULING
HEAVY BLOW
TO DEFENSE
pe<rtutors- have Seen
the scholarly defendant whose court
attitude is still an
enigma—as Unsolv-
able as the crime with which he is
charged. There are his loving mother
and hU devdted wife.
Here Is the massive figure of Lu-
ther Rosser, attacking every oppo
nent with a battleax ferocity. Here
is the erudite Arnold, with rapier
thrusts to send in the ae.ath blow
when the enemy i« beaten down by
the more direct assault of his ally.
Here is the young Solicitor, strug
gling against tremendous odds, up
setting tradition by fighting Rosser
burning Ar-
take Mr. Conley’s honest money—the
violent presumption being that Jim
ever had, or ever will have, that kind
of money—even for "double-headers."
Jim has just passed through the
fire. And he got through, his reputa
tion more or less damaged .for truth
fulness, to be sure,
wqth his own weapons,
rold with his own fire.
Here is his learned associate, qu
to grasp a point as a drowning m
is a straw'.
Here are factory girls and busln«
men. Here are the comical figure
Newt Lee and the sinister figure
Jim Conley. Here are the iearr
but not utterly
shattered beyond patching up in such
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If the State is able to sustain its
terrible charge against Prank, it per
haps Is common sense now to let it
proceed to tne corroborating of Con
ley. if It can corroborate him.
To have left Conley's charge neither
contradicted nor corroborated—that
would merely have resulted in its
probable corroroboration in the minds
of the public, if not elsewhere.
The things Conley said to the
Frank jury can not be said and then
forgotten.
It would have been folly to have
ASKED the jury to forget—It would
have been Imposing upon it an im
possible mental t,ask.
Other Charge as Serious.
If it so be that error was com
mitted in not ruling out the story,
a new trial will be granted, on ap
peal, in the event of Frank’s convic
tion—and the trial next time un
doubtedly will proceed without this
nvas
llie snapshot shows Luther Rosser and Reuben
ing at Artist Carter’s sketch of their ••fighting . fae
Georgian. Below, is a small reproduction of the
is declared by their friends to be the best likeness e
of the two attorneys.
A special showing for Friday and
Saturday. Some Lace Oxfords included
in the lot. A splendid range of sizes.
Farmer selling prices $3.50 and $4.00.
Now
hfs direct examination was his decla
ration that while he Was wilting the
murder notes Frank took the pencil
out of his hand and then an Instant
later made him rub out the “s” he
had written as he spelled out "ne-
gros.” Conley said he wrote the note
at first:
"A long tap black negros did tiiffc
by htsself.”
A long argument over the admissi
bility of Conley’s testimony in regard
to Frank’# alleged conduct with worn
en previous to the murder of Mary
Phagan took place after the jury hac
been sent from the courtroom at noon.
Court recessed before the arguments
wore concluded, and the debate w'as
resumed in the afternoon.
Reuben Arn,old cited opinions from
courts in Ktates from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, but his arguments were
unavailing and the decision went
against the .defense. There was a
murmur of applause and a stamping
of feet.
Arnold instantly was on his feet
with a motion for a mistrial, but he
realized at once that the jury was not
present and withdrew’ the motion. He
threatened, however, to make a mo
tion'that the* courtroom be cleared if
Jhirti a demons*rat ion occurred again.
Dr. Harris Recalled.
Dr. Harris was recalled to complete
the testimony which he was giving
when he collapsed on the stand the
Friday before. He repeated his asser
tion as to the time Mary Phagan came
’to "hob"death afte/- eating dinner at
her home in"BellWood Saturday short
ly before'boon.
"I can say w'ith almost absolute
certainty,” he declared, "that this lit
tle gift ' was KTlletl within 30 or 4Q
There is Mincey to come with his
startling story—Mincey, as typical of
the red clay soil of the Franker coun
try as peanuts and watermelons;
Mincey, so typically the country
school teacher that he will have to
carry a rod of hickory and a blue-,
back speller to the stand to feel at
home while he is giving his evidence.
And there will he a lot more.
Tragic as is the trial, it has been
Atlanta's greatest vaudeville show.
$7 Spanish Heel
mother of the slain girl, and of the
officers who visited the scene of the
crime'immediately after police head
quarters was called by the negro
niglifwatcTiman, Newt Lee.
Tell* of Mesh Bag.
Mrs. Coleman testified that Mary
left home with the mesh bag in her
hand. The detectives and policemen
ail testified that they were able to
find rw> tra<> of it either the morning
after the crime or in the search that
had been conducted since then.
“Did you ever see the murdered
girl's mean bag?” Dorsey asked Con
ley, just a** it appeared that he had
finished hts questioning.
“Yes, sah, 1 see it,” Conley replied.
"Where 'was it?”
"It was right on Mr. Frank's desk
when 1 went In there to write the
notes.”-**
“Did-'"you see w’hat became-of it?”
“Yes, .sah; Mr. Frank went and put
it in his safe.’’
Conley left the stand at 11:10
o’clock still sticking to his charge
that Leo Frank killed the Phagan
girl and that, at Frank’s direction, he
(Conley) assisted in the disposal of
the body. -He had been on the stand
fifteen and one-half hours aijd under
the grilling cross-exam(nation of JLu-
ther Rosser for more than thiirteen
hours. A
Practically the qnly addition he
made to his story as it appeared in
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Tennessee Woman
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