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JIM CONLEY, THE EBONY
CHEVALIER OF GRIME, IS
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By JAMES
Now that James Conley has been
dismissed from the Frank trial, now
that he has stood safely the Are of
Mr. Rosser’s most exhaustive grilling,
what of him?
If Frank is convicted, Colney sub
sequently will be convicted, no doubt,
of being an accessory after the fact of
Mary Phagan’s murder—and that will
mean three years, at most, in the
penitentiary.
After that—when the Frank trial,
more or less, has been forgotten—
Conley will be at liberty to come back
amongst the people of Atlanta.
Not far from Five Points, a little
due east along one of the big thor
oughfares meeting there, there is a
negro bootblack who now and then,
when he Is oy 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
be.
Quite without previous design, I
stopped at this negro’s stand Wednes
day afternoon, and it was not long
before he mentioned the famous trial.
He having started the conversation, 1
asked him a few questions—and his
replies, given herein In part, rather
set me to thinking.
“Complimented on All Sides.”
“George,” I said—not that I know
his name is George, but that it so
happens I address negroes unknown
of name that way—“what do your
friends down on Decatur street think
of Jim Conley’s story over yopder in
the big court? Rather clever, negro,
Jim, eh?” said 1 to this bootblack.
"Well, boss, dat Mr. Rosser ain’t
made nothing on Jim ylt, is he?” re
plied George.
I ventured the opinion that Mr. Ros
ser failed, at least, to make Jim out
so many different kinds of a liar that
his story might not stick in spots.
"Well, boss,” continued my bureau
of Information, "dem niggers down
on Decatur street, dey ain’t talking
of nothing but Jim Conley. He’s de
most talked about nigger anywhere, I
guess. I hears him complimented on
all sides!”
"In qther words, Jim's a sort of
hero along Decatur street nowadays?”
said I.
“Yasslr, 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 fool er nigger like Jim!”
Hero Around “But 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-
zorium 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
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in the “Butt In;" there being, per
haps, some subtly humorous connec
tion between “Butt In” and “double-
header!”
It !s Not Improbable.
It is not improbable that many'a
foaming “double-header” has been
doumped into dusky citizens along
the way of the “Butt In” of late—in
honor of Jim, and the way he “done
got de best of de smartest of um.
over dar In de big court!”
If Jim Conley ever gets* back to De
catur street, and hereafter he be per
mitted to tread the primrose way >f
the “Butt In” bar over on Peters, in
all probability the drinks will not
cost him anything for man/ days.
The proprietor of the “Butt J.n”
doubtless, right now would scorn to
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 pas»eed through the
fire. And he got through, his reputa
tion more or less damaged for truth
fulness, to be sure, but not utterly
shattered beyond patching up In such
wise that It might be worked one
more time, at least, if necessary.
“Of Such Is Negro's Heaven.”
True, Conley already had been in
jail seven times that he admits of,
and several times more that he can
not recall precisely, and that had
served to make him something of a
hero in darkest Darktown;. but Jim’s
involuntary residence in durance vile
heretofore has been in police circles
and mere county chaingangs exclu
sively. So that didn’t make him a
particularly big hero—albeit it made
him a hero not altogether to be
sneezed at!
Now. however, Jim has been in "de
big court," tangled all up in a mtir-
der case, suspected by some of being
a principal to the murder, indeed,
but cleverly side-stepping that too
deadly peril—and his name has been
In all the newspapers hundreds of
times, and his picture dozens of
times, and before he gets through with
it. he will be decorated by the State’s
majesty, in stripes—but the latter not
so long that it will seriously incon
venience anybody, particularly Jim'
All In all, Jim’s real hero in darkest
Darktown, at last—a real ebony
chevalier of crime—and those breth
ren who frequent the “Butt Ins” and
the "Butt Outs,” and booze dispen
saries of like persuasion, will bow
down and worship Jim—for In their
philosophy of such as Jim is the De
catur street "kingdom of heaven.”
Ruling Generally Approved.
The general impression seems to be
that Judge Roan did the right thing
in permitting the Conley story to go
to the jury in Its entirety, inasmuch
as it had gone in deadly part, any
way.
Perhaps the evidence fixing upon
Leo Frank another crime than the
one he stands charged with under
the present indictment was, primarily,
inadmissible, but there was no way
to relieve the jury of the charge Con
ley made, and it would have been
hardly fair either to the jury, the
court and even to the defendant, r o
cut the story off there.
If the State Is able to sustain its
terrible charge against Frank, it per
haps is common sense now to let it
proceed t othe corroborating of Con-
I ley, if it can corroborate him.
To have left Conley’s charge neither
contradicted nor corroborated—that
would merely haee 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 task.
Other Charge as Serious.
If it so be that error was com
mitted in not Tuling 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
particular evidence in.
The State can, if It fails to sustain
eventually its charge of murder, still
move against Frank, i< it so elects,
in the other direction—which crime,
under the Code, is quite as serious
as murder.
One may feel the injustice of fling
ing at Frank, while on trial for mur
der, another capital charge—still,
since the additional charge was ad
mitted, with protest, as an original
proposition few people will contend
strenuously that the tSate should not
be permitted to proceed t the con
clusion of a line of evidence begun
without protest.
I have heard Judge Roan’s ruling
discussed about town last night, and
to-day, and I heard few who find
fault in it.
Indeed, as matter of simple justice
t j Frank, no less than to the State—
and P will not do to forget that the
State has large rights at stake in
this matter—it seems common sense
and elementary justice that the State,
having made its awful charge, be re
quired either to corroborate it or not.
That apepais to b® the public at
titude in tba ma r,
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Stores Belonging to Foreigners
Burned by Rebels—Women
and Girls Attacked.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 7.—M. A
Leach, a business man of San Fran
cisco. told Secretary of State Bryan
to-day a thrilling stc^y of the sack
ing of the city of Durango by Revo
lutionists on June 18. which he wit
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and German, French and American
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Scores of Mexicans were shot down
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Roger Palmer, an Englishman, em
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Carlos Bombrandls. mining man,
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ers had assembled for protection.
H. W. Stepp, an American civil
engineer, was shot through the leg
because he failed to deliver 500 pesos
he did not have.
Leach say* a number of women
sought safety in the archbishop’s pal
ace but the bishop was taken pris
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million pesos. Hundreds of women
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Washington society hopes the wed
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It may be stated Miss Wilson will not
have thirteen bridesmaids.
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