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truth’ to the detectives?” Rosser shouted.
The attorney apparently sought to create the impression that
the mesh bag story was an afterthought, and that it was manufac
tured by the negro when he heard of the search the detectives
were making for the bag.
On Grill Over Thirteen Hours.
When Rosser turned Conley back to Dorsey for the redirect)
examination, the negro had been under the grill of Rosser's cross
questioning for a total of thirteen houra. His main story of Frank’s
admitting the killing and of the disposal of Mary Phagan’s body
at Frank’s direction was unshaken except by his own admissions
of previous falsehoods. He had been on the stand a total of fifteen
and one-half hours. Of this time the Solicitor had questioned him
only about two hours.
Conley was called from the stand at 11:10 o’clock.
Conley was taken into an anteroom. He removed his coat and
lit a cigarette someone had given him.
‘‘How did you like it?” he was asked.
‘‘I liked it all right,” he replied, grinning.
Sheriff Mangum then interrupted the questioning of the re
porters, saying that under the judge's orders no one could speak
to him.
The next moment Conley picked up a newspaper and became
intently interested in the story of his own testimony.
As soon as court opened Mr.
Rosser asked the judge if he was
ready to hear argument on the
proposition to eliminate parts of Wfre arrested. Were you in the
county Jail then?—A. No, I was in
Conley's testimony. He said he
was prepared to support his mo
tion with authorities.
Judge Rom replied that he would
postpone hla decision until 2 o'clock.
Solcltor Dorsey declared that he
bad witnesses he expects to put on
the stand Wednesday morning to sub
stantiate the part of the negro* testi
mony in dispute. He said:
"I Just want the court to under
stand that I am going to do this."
Judge Roan replied:
•Til give you the benefit of what
ever you bring out."
Conley was then recalled to the
stand for the conclusion of hla cross-
examination.
Questioned About Affidavit.
Rosser’s first question was:
Q. You made this statement Just
Ska I read It, didn't you, Jim?—A. Yes.
Q. It’s ail correct?—A. Yea.
Q. Now, Jim, you signed this state
ment, too, didn't you? (Showing an
other affidavit.)—A. Yes, sir.
Q. You made this one the day after
the on® I Just read? Now, listen,
and see if this Is what you said?
Mr. Rosser read how Jim Conley for
the first time told the story of car
rying the body of Mary Phagan to
the basement. These were the con
cluding words:
•'Th© reason I have not told this
before Is that Mr. Frank said he
would get me out. but It don’t seem
that he Is going to get out and I
have decided to tell the whole truth.
I gave him back the $200. He said
he would fix it all right Monday."
Q. This Is what you swore, isn't It,
Jim?—A. Yes, sir; 1 swore It.
Q. Jim, didn't Miss Carson ask you
on Monday while you were working
A. Just because I was washing my
shirt.
Q. I mean those other times you
headquarters.
Rosser Interrupted:
“The charges are In writing, your
honor. They are the last evidence."
"It's a poor rule that doesn’t work
both ways,” said Dorsey. "Can’t we
exclude this evidence?"
Judge Roan: "You can show where
he was.”
Q. What wer© you arrested for the
first time?—A. I was throwing rocks.
Q. Who arrested you?—A. A po
lice named Edmonds.
Q. The second time?—A. I was
fighting.
Q. A white man or a woman?—A
No, I never had any trouble with
white folks.
Q. Jim, did you try to see Mr.
Frank in Jail?
Rosser objected.
Judge Roan—Don't lead him, Mr.
Dorsey.
Q. Did you ever see Frank after
you went to tho pencil factory?—A.
No,
Q. Why not?
Rosser objected to the question as
Immaterial. Dorsey changed his
question.
Last Saw Frank at Station.
Q. When was the last time you saw
Frank before you saw hirn here?—A.
Over there at the police station.
Q. Did he say anything?—A. No,
he Just smiled and bowed his head.
Q. When you wrote those notes, did
you sit down, and, If so, where?—A.
I was sitting at the desk.
Q. Where was Frank slttingV-A.
At the other desk.
Attorney Rosser objected. "He
went into all that before,'' he said.
Judg© Roan--Did you, Mr. Dorsey?
"No, It Is something I omitted,"
said Dorsey.
Q. What did Frank do when he
around her machine when they were you wrote those notes?
going to get you, you answered that
you hadn’t done nothing?—A. No, sir.
Denies Alarm While Sweeping.
Q. Didn’t she say that Mr. Frank
was innocent and the real murderer
of little Mary Phagan was the man
Mrs. White saw near the steps? You
dropped your broom and quit sweep
ing when she said that?—A. No. sir.
Q. Didn’t you say to Mr. Herbert
Schiff on Monday after the murder
that you were afraid to go out of
the factory' and that you would give
a million dollars to be a white man?
A. I didn’t say Just that, but I told
him If I was a white man I would
go on out.
Q. He told you to get on out asking
you what you h^d to be afraid of^—
A. Something like that.
Q. Jim, you talked with Julia Fuss
on that day and asked her if she
had another extra? You asked her
If she got one to let you see It?—A.
No, sir.
Q. She told you that Mr. Frank was
innocent, didn’t she? And you said
he was Innocent as the angels in
heaven?—A. No, sir; I didn't say that.
Mr. Rosser closed the cross-exam
ination and Solicitor Dorsey began
the redirect examination.
Q. Jim. where were you in prison?
A- Police headquarters.
Q. Were you ever in Jail?—A. Yea.
Q- were you charged with?—
Rosser objected to the question as
leading.
Q. Did Frank touch your pencil
when you were writing?
Rosser objected again, declaring
that the question was leading.
Judge Roan said the question could
be asked without leading.
Q. What, if anything, did Mr. Frank
do when you w'cre writing?—A. He
took the pencil out of my hand and
told me to rule out that "s" on the
"negro.”
Q. What hour was It Friday Frank
came up on the fourth floor and
spoke to you?—A. About 8 o’clock.
Say* Frank Took Girl's Bag.
Q. How far was it from where yod
were Tuesday when he told you to be
a good boy?—A. Almost the same
place.
Q. How far was It from the water
cooler to where her body was drag
ged?—A. I don't know, sir.
Q. How far from the water cooler?
A. I don’t know.
Q Did you ever see Mary Phagan’s
pocketbook or meshbag?—A. Yes,
it was on the desk in Mr. Frank’s
office.
Q. What did he do with It?—A. Ha
put It In the safe.
Q. How long were you in Jail be
fore you wrote for the detectives?—A.
About ten or fifteen days.
Q. How long would It take Frank
to go down and lock that door?—Ac.
About one minute.
Q. Where was Frank standing
when you saw the clock at four min
utes to one?—A. He was standing
near those stair steps.
Q. Describe that scream you heard.
Rosser objected.
"He has gone into that before, your
honor," he said.
The question was sustained. Judge
Roan saying: "The question cannot
be asked because It is reopening a
long cross-examination.”
Q. Jim, who has asked you the
most questions, Mr. Black, Scott,
Starnes and Campbell and myself • r
Mr Rosser?
Tries to Show Court Grilling.
Rosser objected.
Dorsey: “Your honor, he has tried
to bring out the fact that this wit
ness has been grilled. I want to sho w
that altogether he wm not questioned
as long or as much as Mr. Rosser has
questioned him on the stand.
Judge Roan: "You can ask him how
long he was questioned out of court,
and what has gone on here Is pub
lic."
Dorsey put the question again.
Q. How long was the longest you
was ever questioned before you came
here?—A. Mr. Scott came and got
me one day and I herd him tell tho
turnkey It was fifteen minutes to
eleven. It was dark when I got back.
Q. How long was that?—A. I’d
say about three and one-half hours.
Q How long has Mr. Rosser ques
tioned you?
"Your honor, I want to get this
answer in the records," said Dorsey.
Judge Roan: "Do you object?"
looking at Mr. Ros-°r.
“I do," said Rosser.
"I sustain you," said the court.
Dorsey continued the questioning.
Q. Jim. how did you leave the body
in the basement?—A. I left her on her
side.
Lies on Floor to Answer Query.
Q How? (Conley got down on the
floor and lay on his left side, his arms
against his body. After the Illustra
tion he Identified a nhotograph of the
basement and pointed out Just where
he left the body).
Q. Now, Jim, tell the Jury In detail
everything you did after you looked
at the clock at 4 minutes to 1.
Rosser objected. “He has gone into
that, your honor," he said.
"Have you, Mr. Dorsey?" Judge
Roan asked.
"We have not gone into that de
tail,” Dorsey replied. "We want to
show the Jury how long it would have
taken to do the things there and how
long It would have taketa Frank to
get to his home. Mr. Rosser has
brought out this detail to draw his
conclusions."
Judge Roan: "Have you asked
that?"
Dorsey: "Yes."
Judge Roan: "Then I sustain the
objection.”
Dorsey: "That's all right, your hon
or. If you think the State ought not
to ask these questions, it is all right
with me."
Promised Help in Trouble.
Q. What kind of paper were you
talking about when you spoke of
gTeen sheets?—A. That one (Iden
tifying the white note).
Q. What kind of back did it have?
—A. A kind of grayish pad.
Q. What did Frank say about taking
you to Brooklyn?—A. He didn’t He
said he would take me away, and If 1
got Into trouble he would get me out
Q. Did you ever have any conver
sation with Mr. Mlncey?—A. No; 1
saw him at police headquarters.
Q. What did he say?
Rosser objected, and the objection
was sustained.
Q. That night at Jail, did those
newspaper men come on the Inside?—
A. No.
Q. What did they say" Walt a min
ute; I want those two men out. (Two
newspaper reporters. H. W. Ross and
Harllee Branch, of The Atlanta Jour
nal, who were at the press table, re
tired from the courtroom.)—A. 1 can't
remember that.
Q. Did they offer you anything at
all?
Rosser objected, and was sustained.
Conley had answered the question,
though, declaring that nothing was
offered him but a paper.
Q. That day at the factory, were
you nervous or not?—A. No; I was
not.
D«rley Know H® Could Writ®.
Q. What did Mr. Schiff say to you?
—A. They were standing there by
the clock and asked if there was a
crowd at the front door. Mr. Schiff
came in and I said I wish I was a
white man; that 1 would go out from
there. One man said he wished he
had a pistol. Mr. Schiff said: ‘They’ve
got Mr. Frank In Jail. I don’t see that
being white would help."
Q. Did Darley know you could
write?—A. Yes.
Rosser objected. "It la Immate
rial,” said he.
Dorsey: "We want to show that
this man could write; that he was In
Jail several days without writing, and
the detectives, the Pinkertons em
ployed by the factory, knew he could
write.
Q. Could you spell luxury?—A. Yes.
Q. Why?—A. I had to write It sev
eral times. Mr. Frank had me to
write down the names of the differ
ent boxes that pencils were in. and
give them to him, so that be could
ACCUSER OF CONLEY
IS READY TO TESTIFY
W. H. Mincey,
who declares
Conley told
him he had
killed a girl.
J-o-a W-l-s-h-
CONLEY SAYS FRANK TOOK MARY PHAGAN'S MESH BAG
Lies Down on Floor to Show Jury How He Left Girl's Body in
NEGRO’S LONG GRILL ENDS
AFTER 15 HOURS
STORY STILL UNSHAKEN
Washington.’—A.
t-o-n.
Q. What did Mr. Frank say about
your spelling?—A. He laughed.
Q. How do you spell 'C/ ?—A. O-x.
Q. How did you write him notes to
borrow money?—. A. I Just wro.o
them.
Q. Tell me what you wrote?—A.
I Just said: ‘Please let me have fifty
cents.’
Q. When you were standing by
that box talking, could Mr. Darley
hear you?—A. Yes.
Q. Could Mr. Schiff?—A. Yes.
Could that boy?—A. Yes.
The shipping clerk?—A. Yes.
Deplores Newspaper Publicity, but Poses Mer
rily for the Camera Brigade.
W. H. Mincey, the school teacher
and Insurance solicitor who made ai
affidavit that Jim Conley confess3d
to him that he h^d already killed
a girl that day and didn't want to kill
anyone else, was the center of at
traction for the crowd on the outside
of the courthouse Wednesday morn-
in. v
While deploring newspaper public
ity, he readily ngTeed to pose for a
group of newspaper photographers,
assuming many poses, some of which
were rather grotesque. He followed
this with Implicit Instructions to tho
photographer that his picture was
not to be printed in tlie papers.
Efforts to get him to state whether
he had seen Jim Conley since his ar
rest proved futile. Mincey declared he
would not make this statement or an
swer until he had taken the stand.
Mincey was located a* New Salem,
Ga.. near Rising Fawn, in Dade Coun
ty. He is teaching school there, his
work being the preparation of stu
dents to enter the Martha Berry
School at Rome.
“I will not talk of the case and will
not tell my story until I take the
stand,” said Mincey. "If Jim Conley
killed little Mary Phagan, I feel that
It Is my duty to tell of the experience
I had with him that Saturday after
noon. I don’t think this thing should
be discussed in the newspaper?,
though I regard newspapers as a ne-
cissity. These matters should be left
to the court hearings. It is a loss to
me to be here and I trust the case will
soon be over. I think, though, that it
is my duty to tell what I know."
Mincey is a man of small stature
with piercing eyes and a gray mus
tache. He wears a black felt slouch
hat and a dark suit.
Ready to Rebut Mincey Story.
J. W. Boozer, a collector for Patrick
& Thompson, Broad street Jewelers,
from whom Jim Conley purchased a
watch, has been summoned as a wit
ness by the State, but released sub
ject to call. He is ready to give testi
mony to rebut the Mincey affidavit.
When asked what he knew of the case,
Mr. Boozer said:
"On Saturday afternoon on the day
Mary Phagan was murdered, about
4:15 o’clock, I met Conley on Peters
street. I asked him If he had any
money and he said no, that he drew
hla wages on Friday evening and had
spent it. He then asked me If I had
not collected the Installment due from
Frank.”
"Why should you collect from
Frank?" Mr. Boozer was asked.
“We had caused the arrest of Con
ley several times on account of the
failure to pay installments. Frank
agreed that if Conley would sign the
agreement he would deduct the
amount of the Installment from the
pay of the negro each week. To this
Conley assented, and I* had from that
time collected from Frank.”
"That being the case, why did you
ask the negro for the money on the
Saturday mentioned?" was asked.
“I had instructions from Frank that
in case I did not collect the money
before 1:30 on Saturday not to come
until the next week. I had several
accounts due on that date and it was
impossible for me to reach the pencil
factory earlier."
know r when they wer© out.
Attorney Rosser took up the re-
cross-examination:
Q. Jim, you were questioned by Mr.
Dorsey and myself and all the detec
tives, and this morning was the first
time you ever mentioned that mesh
bag.—A. You didn’t ask me.
Q. Do you know what I asked you
yesterday?—A. Yes, sir; I remember
some of the questions.
Q. What?—A. Well, I don’t remem
ber Just exactly.
Q. You don’t remember a single
thing that ha* not been written
down?
Dorsey objected. "He must give the
witness time to answer.” said he.
Q. Jim, haven’t you answered my
questions?—A. Yes, sir
Q. You said this morning that Mr.
Frank promised to get you out on
bond and send you out of town?—A.
Yes. sir
Q. Why dldp’t you tell the detec
tives that when you told them you
were telling all the truth?—A. I did
tell them hep remised to get me out.
Q. Mr, Dorsey saw you seven times.
didn’t he?—A. Yes, sir; I think that’s
right.
Q. Did he take down what you said?
A. He took down something the first
time.
Q How about the next times?—A. 1
disremember.
Q. How long have you kept up with
those boxes?—A. About a year,
Conley Tries Spelling.
Q. And you wrote Mr. Frank re
ports on these boxes?—A. Yes, sir.
Q. Would you know' "luxury" If you
were to see it?—A. No, sir.
Q. How did you write It for Mr.
Frank, then?—A. I can write It.
Q. Can you spell it?—I can try it.
Q. Well let’s hear you spell ‘luxury.’
A. L-u-s-t-r-l-s.
Q. Was that the only kind of pen
cil boxes up there?—A. No, sir. There
was Uncle Remus, Thomas Jefferson,
George Washington and others.
Q. Did you write reports on them ?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Let’s hear you spell ‘Uncle Re
mus.'—A. O-n-e R-i-m-e-s.
Q. Let’s hear you spell ‘Thomas
Jefferson.’—A. T-o-m J-e-i-s-s
Q. Let’s hear you spell 'George
Q.
Q. _
Asked If He Could Write.
Q. When you went into the office
to write those notes, Mr. Frank asked
you ff you could write, didn’t he?—
A. Yes.
Rosser put the question again.
Dorsey objected to the repetition,
and the objection was sustained.
Q. Messrs. Hooper and Dorsey were
with you in the jail together, were
they not?—A. Yes.
Q. How long?—A. Two or three
hours.
Dorsey Wins Ruling.
Q. How long after April 26 was
It you saw this man?—A. About a
month.
Dorsey took the witness again.
Q. I w'ant you to describe that
pocketbook.—A. It was a wlre-ish
looking pocketbook, kind of whitish
looking.
Q. Did you have anything to copy
from when you wrote those words?—
A. I could see the boxes.
Dorsey: “Come down, Jim.”
Ross«er: “Just a minute.”
Q. Jim, tell me how large that
pocketbook was.—A. I can’t say, it
was Kind of folded up.
Q. Give us your best estimate.—A.
It was about like this (Indicating
about 5 inches.)
Conley w'as then excused, having
been on the stand since 9:45 Monday
morning.
Dalton Called to Stand.
C. B. Dalton was called to the
stand.
Dalton is the man Conley declared
w'as In the factory with Frank and
the w'omen on Saturday afternoons
when he watched.
Before questioning Dalton, Solicitor
Dorsey obtained consent to tender the
notes found by the side of the dead
girl and a photograph of the base
ment as evidence.
Dalton came in and took the chair.
He is a man of about 35 years of age
rather rough in appearance. He has
brow'n hair and overhanging brows
and thin, tightly compressed lips. So
licitor Dorsey recalled him before
putting any questions*, and Mrs. Ar
thur White was called. Dorsey stated
that he would call Dalton later. Dor
sey questioned Mrs. White. He had
Jim Conley brought back into the
room.
Q. Mrs. White, look at this man
right good. Do you know w'ho he Is?
—A. No.
Q. Did you ever see him before?—
A. Yes.
Q. Where?—A. At police headquar
ters.
Q. Does he compare in general size
to the man you saw' In the National
Penqil Factory April 26? ("Put on
your hat, Jim," said Dorsey to Con
ley.)—A. He looks more like him
than any man I have seen.
Q. At the time you saw him at the
police station did you identify him?—
A. I did not.
Rosser objected.
Q. What did you say?
Rosser: ‘T object. I wasn’t there.”
Dorsey: "Your representative. Mr.
Scott, was there."
Rosser: “I move to rule that out."
A. I said he looked more like the
one than any man I have seen.
Rosser: "I move to rule it all
out.”
Dorsey: "We expect to show' by
this witness that this was the man.
We want to show' how he was dressed,
his facial expression, etc., and we sub
mit that it la material."
Judg© Roan overruled the objec
tion.
Q. Describe the man you saw.—A.
He was about th© size of the one Just
brought before me whom I have been
told is Jim Conley. He was In a
dark place and I took him to be
black. He had on dark clothes and
I don't know whether h® had on a
hat or not.
Q. Wade Campbell is your brother,
and Arthur White your husband,
aren’t they?—A. Yea
Q. When did you tell them you
saw a negro sitting in that hall?
Rosser objected.
Laughing Spectators Ousted.
The odd situation of the attorneys
for the defense being in possession of
the official court records was relieved
when Mr. Arnold consented to them
being read.
Mr. Rosser, however, found it first
in his copy of the testimony of Scott.
Rosser—You were right. Harry
Scott did say Mrs. White told Frank
.Ilf)
ns nrtlU
Jim Conley was the same cool, un
afraid negro when he returned to the
stand Wednesday morning in the trial
of Leo Frank after almost two whole
days under the cross-examination of
Luther Rosser. He had passed through
fire and didn’t seem to mind It. He
had no fear of anything that was yet
to come.
Mr. Rosser might threaten him or
might joke with him; It was all the
same to the negro. He had tried both
and had established but one thing—
that Conley is a liar, and Conley ad
mits that.
Arnold might describe him as "that
miserable wretch In the witness
chair;’’ he could gaze calmly out th$
window* as he had done before. He
didn’t quite understand all those
names they were calling him, any
way.
If, in all the time that Conley was
under the raking fire of Rosser's
cross-examination, he was disturbed
in the slightest degree, it was when
he w r as being asked about that mys
terious affidavit of William H. Min
cey.
The declaration of Mincey that
Conley had boasted the afternoon of
April 26 of killing a girl was sinister
and held in it the possibility that
Rosser would finish by blazing forth
with a direct charge of murder
against the negro. Conley moved un
easily in his seat. He refused to meet
the eye of his inquisitor. He fidgeted
with his hands, but with his lips he
framed a denial of every damning
charge contained in the document.
The ordeai soon was over. Conley
regained his composure, and when
court adjourned a few minutes later
a grin of triumph cleft his black face
almost in twain.
Attorney Sees Conley.
Conley’s attorney, William M.
Smith, provided him with supper and
breakfast at the jail and talked for
some time with the State’s star wit
ness. He had been prevented from
holding any sort of a conference with
his client the night before, and pro
tested at this procedure at the ciose
of court Tuesday night. Judge Roan
extended him the privilege of seeing
Conley. Reuben Arnold asked that
an exception b^entered in the record.
Conley slept between nine and ten
hours and arose much refreshed.
"I’se telling the truth now,” he said
to a newspaper man who encoun
tered him outside the jail. "That
Mr. Rosser ain’t got no chance to get
me mixed up because I’m telling just
what happened.”
Frank occupied his usual cell on the
second floor of the Tower. He was
joined by his wife and mother as soon
as he arrived at the courthouse.
Ro*sor Reads Affidavits.
Rosser asked Dorsey for the orig
inal of Conley’s third affidavit. The
Solicitor advised Mr. Rosser that the
original had never been .signed. Ros
ser took a copy of the affidavit,’ which
the Solicitor said was identical with
the original, and read it to Conley.
It w'as a signed statement from the
negro, in which he admitted the other
two affidavits contained lies and the
one which the detectives said was the
last word in the great mystery.
The reading consumed nearly fif
teen minutes, Rosser enunciating
clearly and slowly, emphasizing every
statement that differed with Conley’s
evidence on the stand.
Freely Admits He Lied.
All of Rosser’s qutz Tuesday had
only the one possible effect—that of
casting suspicion in the minds of the
jury of the story that Conley now
is telling. He spread his lies with
a lavish hand in that first affidavit
he made to the detectives.
He freely admitted this and rather
gloried in his prowess as a first-class
liar. He lied in his second affidavit,
although . maintained that this was
a step nearer the truth. And in his
third affidavit, which he and the de
tectives had joined In proclaiming
"the whole truth,” there were still lit
tle discrepancies and deviations from
the straight path of veracity.
But this tale that he was unfolding
to the Jury, this was the pure, un
alloyed, gospel truth. He had raised
his right hand and sworn that he was
going to tell the whole truth and
nothing but the truth. Mr. Rosser
was most unkind to throw over it a
shadow of suspicion.
And the lawyer labored in vain to
shake the negro's story as it had
gone before the jury. Rosser mid
way in the Tuesday forenoon session
abandoned his line of interrogation in
regard to statements that Conley had
made to the police and detectives and
began questioning Conley directly on
the crime.
Questioned Closely on Time.
He questioned him most closely In
regard to the time in an effort to show
conclusively to the jury that Frank
and Conley did not have the oppor
tunity to accomplish all which the ne
gro narrated before Frank left the
factory for luncheon at his home^No.
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68 East Georgia avenue, at which
place he arrived by 1:30 o'clock, ac
cording to the State's own witnesses.
Conley testified, under Rosser’s
cross-examination, that he went to
the rear of the factory at Frank’s di
rection and there found the body of
the slain girl. He said that he yelled
to Frank that the girl was dead and
that Frank told him to bring her to
the front of the factory.
Conley said that he did not know
how’ he wa > going to carry the girl
and he asked Frank. Frank, he said,
yelled back something about getting
some crocus bagging, but he did not
quite understand him and walked to
the front of the factory so that he
could hear the superintendent better.
Ho noticed the clock at this moment.
I* was four minutes of 1 o’clock.
With this time as a starting point,
Rosser began to quiz the negro close
ly as to how long It took him to ac
complish each part of the remainder
of the afternoon’s events.
It was plain that the negro’s esti
mates did not coincide with what the
lawyer thought they should be.
Defense’s Views Evidently Differ.
"How long did it take you from
the time that you came forward and
looked at the clock until you had
taken the body down to the cellar and
"as back again on the second floor,
and Frank went to wash his hands?”
asked Rosser.
Conley thought it was only four or
five minutes. It 'evidently was the
opinion of the defense that it s.iouid
have been nearer twenty minutes, as
it Included rolling the body of the
girl into the cloth from the cotton
box, carrying it to th'e elevator, ihe
wait while Conley says Frank went
into the office after the key, the trip
down the elevator, the carrying of
the body to the rear of the basement,
the disposal of the cloth and the re
turn to the second floor.
Rosser asked how long It took
Frank to wash his hahds. Conley re
plied that it was only a minute or
two. Rosser then inquired how long
Frank had Conley In the closet while
the two women were in his office.
Conley said it was eight or ten min
utes. This incident, if it is as Conley
represented it, would have brought
the time up to 1:12 or 1:15.
Rosser then asked how long It took
Conley to write the four notes, two
of which were found by the girl’s
dead body.
Wrote Notes in a Hurry,
"You couldn’t have written those
four notes inside of ten minutes to
save your soul, could you. Jim?" Ros
ser inquired.
"Yas, sah; I think I wrot© > m In
about a minute and a half,” replied
the negro.
"You’re some rapid writer,” retorted
Rosser after he had called attention
to the laborious scrawl.
Rosser then questioned Conley as to
the time of each part of his conver
sation with Frank while he was in
the office that afternoon. He asked
him about Frank giving him the cig
arettes with the money In the box,
about Frank giving him the $200 roll
of bills and the attendant conversa
tion, about the conversation in respect
to Conley’s watch and to Frank’s
wealthy folks in Brooklyn.
While he did not make the actual
computation of time, he impressed
strongly on the minds of the jury that
it would have been impossible for all
this to have occurred in connection
with the undisputed fact that Frank
arrived home at or before 1:30 that
afternoon.
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