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2 n ITEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. GA„ SUNDAY. AUGUST 10. 1010. VISITS OF GIRLS TO FRANK’S FACTORY REVEALED JZOa&T -&rsc or 7 r jj?y Continued From Pago 1. the defense, taking him on cros*-ex- amlnation, bridled bis glibness wiyi many searching questions. At first the negro was sullen under the exam ination “I disremember.” was his usual re sponse to the lawyers’ inquiries Later he was forced from that de fense. and admitted that In sdm** of the details he had been mistaken. Then he said he lied. Conley had told In detail the cir cumstances of the day. and of his every movement. Later. Lawyer Ros ier got him to say that he lied about the time he got lip. about the time he left homo, about the time ho Mrs* went to the factory, about the time he bought a flask of whisky, about tin- time he firf»t met Frank, about the time Frank stayed away from th** office, about the time various persona left the factory building, about the previous affidavits he had made in criminating Frank, and about a num ber of details that had come out. He Explains His Falsehoods. “Why didn’t you tell the whole truth In your last affidavit. Jim?" asked Mr. Rowser "You "aid th.*n that It was the whole truth." "I didn’t want to tel! It all at once," replied the negro. That was his explanation of the many falsehoods that he didn’t want to tell all he knew at once. The very evident attempt of the defence was to establish with th* Jury the fact that the negro was not to be believed In the main when he admittedly had lied In the details. The negro came on the stand early Monday morning, and during the morning and the early afternoon he told a direct story, with little ques tioning. Then the defense took him The crow-examination started early, without apparent point, almost with irrelevancy. Rosser questioned him about his daily actions in the fac tory. about little Incidents and con versations that the negro found u hard to remember Then, gradually, almost imperceptibly, the force of the lawyer’s questions was heightened, until they drifted into a savagencss that wan powerless, however. to shake the sensational story of the negro Heat Is Intense in Court. The week was a period of acute physical suffering The heat In the courtroom was Intense, and the men tal strain which spectators and prin cipals alike underwent was terrific Dramatic indeed was the sitory of the negro and of other witnesses. More dramatic, however, was the subtle battle of wits between the lawyers and the witness, and among the iw- vers over the witness and his words. Everybody hung breathless on th* course of the trial at tim* s. The strain told. Conley bore up because he was supported by dost s of strychnine. Others, without this exhiliratlon. suffered. Dr. Harris, testifying, collapsed on the witness s' Ifni l • nk wife, who was calm and unshaken during the first days of the trial, gave way to the strain when th** ex amination of Conley was at its heigh*, and succumbed to a flt of racking sobs. Reuben Arnold, lawyer for the defense, wau overcome by a faint spell, and was forced to ask Judge Roan's permission to argue from his seat. Jurors strained and twisted in their seat* exhausted by the de mands on mind and body. Even the spectators, always eager, always pushing into the courtroom long before the time for the begin ning of the trial, were moved. When, after a long period of consideration. Judge Roan denied the request of the defense to eliminate a great part of Conley’s testimony, a number of the spectators applauded. Court officials, ment’onlng this, declared their opin ion that it was due largely to the mental excitation under which many of the watchers labored The applaue«e was startling, and rc- vealed the temper of the public as unfriendly to Frank. When it came, the Jury was not in the courtroom, having withdrawn during the argu ment of lawyers over the admissi bility of Conley’s evidence. In spite of tile fact that the jurors were ab sent. however. Lawyer Arnold threat ened to move for a mistrial, fearing the effect of the applause on their mental state in event they heard it in the next room. During tho hubbub, in fact, he made the motion, but later withdrew it. Tells of Girl’s Visits. The testimony to which the defend objected was drawn from the negro. In the State’s attempt to prove Frank a moral degenerate. Conley told of the visits of girls and women to the factory, and of Frank's association with them in an unusual manner. He named C R. Dalton as a man w ho was with Frank oh several escapades 'n tiie factory. Over this testimony there was* a heated light, th** defense arguing for Its inadmissibility, the State sustain ing it ns legal. "Tin* testimony is admissible be cause it indicates the very purpose, motive and intent the defendant had In getting that poor little girl into the metal room It is admissible as indicating a general practice of course of conduct,” said Solicitor Dorsey. "The Importance of this evidence, dis gusting and abhorrent thought *t may be. is going to be mad** more manifest as the ease proceed*?.’’ The Solicitor promised then th it witnesses would be called to substan tiate what Conley charged regarding Frank’s conduct prior to the day of the killing Mrs. Frank Overcome. When the charges were made of practices by Frank, the prisoners wife was overcome. She hung her head, her face flushed, and, unable longer the endure the situation, she left the courtroom. She walked out with eyes averted, and returned later with the traces on her face of a ter rific struggle to be calm. Her eyes were red and her face puffed and swollen, is if she hail Just braved a ‘form of tears and sobbing. She re- t sumed her seat, and remained immov able. almost with eyes unblinking, t during the remainder of the day's I session. The prisoner’s mother, also, was perturbed She moved restlessh in her seat at Conley's testimony, and then rose from her chair. She moved across the courtroom as if unable to control herself, arid then returned to take her seat near her son. All the testimony to whieh the de fense objected had to do with a neriod befor.- ’he day of the muder Conley had said that he often watched at the door while Frank had girls- in his of fice. To this the defense objected, also Reuben Arnold argued that it was inadmissible because irrelevant and But Jurors' Wives Are Peeresses Also •By L. F. WOODRUFF ASKS EAR LI SSII FOR TREE Dentist Loses Mine Suit After 14 Years Referee’s Finding in Old Case Over ruled by Court in Favor of Millionaire. E LEVEN widows were made in , Atlanta in a day without the assistance of the Grim Reaper, a trip to Reno, pallbearers or affinity stories in the newspa pers. And there Is but one drop of consolation in their cup. When they were made widows they auto matically became peeresses, for which privilege many American girls have caused their fathers large sums of good American money and themselves heartache and their pictures to be printed between the story of the rabbit that chased the boa constrictor and the life narra tive of Sophie, the Shop Girl, who in a night became a stage star. They also had the satisfaction of having their husbands officially proclaimed good men and true, which they may have questioned when the pay envelope was brought home with $10 missing and unac counted for. Just as all wives have questioned. They’ll Be Brides Again. If there is any balm in It, the widows know that It will not be long before they can doff their weeds and once more don their bridal gowns. Their husbands will return to them Just as soon as they have decided whether or not Leo Frank is guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan. For It is due to the fact that their husbands are Jurors that Atlanta had eleven widows made in a day, that eleven peeresses were added to Atlanta’s list and that eleven wives had the glory of hearing their hus bands called "good" without sus pecting there was hidden meaning in the compliment. The peerage and the official com pliment as to character and $2 a day are the emoluments of a juror of Georgia. A Juror in the Frank case gets a little more. He gets his keep, a place to sleep, and a deputy sheriff to keep him out of trouble, read his letters, inspect his laundry and keep him company during all his waking hours. Scant Solace for Widows. The emoluments are considerable, but how about the widows? Men must work and women must weep to the tuneful accompani ment of the doleful mourning of the harbor bar is the first thought. Rut there is some solace in the lot of the eleven Frank case widows. Not every woman can know the thrill of widowhood and at the same time have absolute assurance that she is not going to remain in single blessedness the rest of her life. And then there’s no disputing the fact that they are peeresses. A Juror is given his coronet when he takes his oath of office. Of course, in a criminal case he is usually paid the doubtful compliment of being termed the peer of a saf: cracker, a short change artist, a blind tiger operator, or a gentle man skilled in the art of getting good money on had paper, but Just the same the juror is a peer. And just the same Mrs. Juror is a peeress. Only One Sinai© Juror. In the rapid selection of the Frank jury, it was remarkable that but one single man was selected to decide a mystery that has puzzled the master minds of the Atlanta detective bureau for more than three months. The State probably wanted married men, who would sympathize with the mother robbed of a daughter’s life. The defense probably wanted married m^n who would sympathize with the wife of the accused and his mother Sin gle men are supposed to be as laoklng in the natural supply of the milk of human kindness as a laugh ing hyena. The single man on the jury looks like he s married. Prob ably that’s why he was accepted by both sides. And when they held up their right hands and swore to "well and truly try, etc." without objection to the split infinitive, the eleven "good men and true" were as com pletely divorced as if the Jmlge had ordered them to pay alimotiy and had forbidden another marriage in a year’s time. The divorce pro tern, has been absolute. The widow’s cannot speak with their husbands. Nobody else can for that matter except a court attache. Deputy Reads All Mail. Writing them is practically pro hibited. Every letter mailed a juror has to be read by a deputy sheriff and properly censored by him before it reaches the eyes of the trial man. And what wife would like to call her beloved "snooky" and have a deputy sheriff first assimilate the tenderness of the term? What wife would like to write fox $8.67 to pay the butcher bill and have a deputy sheriff become thus acquainted with the condition of the family larder and the connubial purse? She may kiss the clean collar when she sends it to him every day. but what assurance has she that he will not think that the Chinaman has bungled In his work? She may send him a pair of freshly darned socks, but how does she know that the deputy will not see a mysterious message in the needle work and appropriate the hosiery to his own pedal purposes? No, there are eleven new widows in Atlanta, but there Is no doubt but there are eleven new’ peeresses. The only trouble is, no one can marry any of them for their titles. Owner of Ash Which Imperils Pas sengers Calmly Smokes Pipe as He Awaits Company’s Offer. Immaterial, and that it was a viola tion of the general principle In law that because a man committed a crime before, that crime can not be introduced to show that he had done a different thing of w’hlch he might be accused. Defense Shows Anxiety. But the testimony was admitted, and the defense's lawyers retired, something of anxiety plain on their faces. The victory for the State was significant. Conley was called from the stand Wednesday afternoon. He had been in the witness chair for fifteen and one-half hours, during which time he was in the hands of the Solicitor only two hours. The other time had been torture to him. However, wearied as he was on the vtand. he showed plainly that his bai- anee was restored when he cam* down. He was even cheerful and laughed when he pulled off his coat In the ante-rcom. He begged for a cigarette and a newspaper. Dr. H F. Harris follow ed Conley on the stand for the State. He reiter ated testimony formerly given that Mary Phagan had been killed within an hour after she had eaten dinner Of this, he said, he was practically certain, because of th*' evidence borne by undigested bits of eabbage and bread in the girl’s stomach. Dr Harris was minutely examined b\ R 'uben Arnold, for the defens \ who revealed considerable knowledge of the materia medica. However, the testimony he gave was unshaken by the inquisition Admits Visiting Factory. C. R. Dalton followed Dr Harris His testimony was to a large extent corroborative of Conley’s. He had visited the factory in company with girls, he admitted. while Conley watched at the door, and from his testimony the story of immoral prac tices In the factory was drawn. He told of visits to the plant w ith a young woman named Daisy Hopkins. Detective Rosser took the stand after Dalton, and with his testimony the case of the State w as closed, after a formidable chain of circumstantial evidence had been woven about the prisoner. Witnesses introduced by the State when court opened Friday, and those who followed Friday and Saturday revealed little of direct contradiction or refutation to the case which the State made out. Resigns One Place; Then Loses Other Mayor Quits Office to Become Col lector of Port, but Suffers From Curtailment. PORT HURON. MICH.. Aug. 9.— The order of Secretary McAdoo abol ishing the office of collector of cus toms at this port has thrown for mer Mayor John J. Bell out into the cold. When Mr. Bell received his appoint ment a few years ago he resigned as the city’s chief executive, and Com missioner Dixon was chosen as his successor. Then Mr. Bell appointed William R. Chadwick as his deputy. Now the order from Washington puts Mr. Chadwick in charge of the local part. Mr. Bell finds he has re signed himself out of one job and ap pointed himself out of another. Thief Since Child; Boasts of 500 Crimes Boy Declares That He Is Beyond Reformation, and Welcomes the Gallows. CHICAGO. Aug. 9.—Walter Novak. 20, arrested with four companions aftter they had fatally wounded Pa trolman Samuel W. Sowers and beat en Patrolman Frank Walpole, ad mitted having taken part in more than thirty robberies in two months and boasted of hie career "1 was bora a thief, and I’ve been a thief ever since.” said Novak. "I don’t care whether I go to the gal lows I started when I was nine stealing pennies. I have been put in all kinds of institutions to reform me. but they only made me worse. I don’t want any member of my family to come and see me. If they come. I will kick them out "I suppose I have committed more than 500 robberies. ' $640 Average Income Of American Farmer Government Report Declares There Are Many Who Make far Smaller Sum. WASHINGTON. Aug. 9.—Farming is not the most profitable business in the world, railroad press agents to the contrary notwithstanding, accord ing to a bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. For the first time in the history of farming in the United States the de partment has managed to get accu rate data on the subject. It reports that the average income of the American farmer is $640.40 a year. "It is reasonable to Infer," says the department, "that at least half of the farmers in this country have even smaller Incomes." Feudist's Daughter Shouts at Conviction Woman Obtains Practically All the Evidence Produced in Court Against Slayers. PITTSBURG. Aug. 9.—"Look out for the tree." warns every conscien tious street car conductor as his crowded car approaches the corner of Hillman Avenue and Cemetery Lane, on the West View line. There an ash tree grows within nine inches of the running board. Meanwhile old Gottlieb Eitinger. who owns the tree, which grows just outside his fence, smokes and smiles on his doorstep. Awaits Money From Tree. "One funny old tree, ain’t it?" chuckles Gottlieb frequently, as he chuckled again to-day. "You can’t kill him, ana maybe some day he bring me money—and maybe not. I don’t know." Growing so clo^e to the railway track that passengers standing on the running boards of passing street cars are sometimes unable to escape being bumped, the tree is scored as a nui sance by all the car men on the route. But whether the Pittsburg Railways Company ever will succeed in remov ing the tree remains to be seen. " ‘How much will you take for that tree?’ asked the head man of the car company, who was in my place three years ago," explained Gottlieb. "’Five hundred dollars,’ speaks up my wife, who was here then. Well, the man just looked and said nothing. Then he went away and he never came back or sent any word. Maybe he thouxht the wife’s price too steep; I don’t know. But the tree, he still stands, and 1 won’t chop him down. He’s a great tree, and after they chopped off his roots on one side and laid the iron rails up close to him he still lived on just the same.” Many Bumped Off. Wnile no street car passenger has ever been reported seriously injured by the tree in the ten years during which the West View car line has been in operation, many boys and men crowded on the running boards of street cars have been scratched and bumped. Anyhow, the tree is a source of constant irritation to the motormen, who have to run their cars slowly passing it, and to the conduc tors. who have to warn passengers against being bumped. "Blamed old tree.” mutters one con ductor. “Wish someone would come out here some night and hack it all down. It wouldn’t do any hurt to nick it some, anyway. Maybe it would ole then." But old Gottlieb Eitinger still sits In his dooryard and smiles at his tree, at the street cars and the whole world in general. "•He’s a g#o*l old tree,” says Gott lieb. COLORADO SPRINGS. Aug. 9. When Judge Morris,refused to accept the report of Referee Collins in the suit of Dr. J. G. Hollingsworth. Kansas City dentist, against Edward R. Tufts, a New York millionaire, there was practically ended a mine case which has occupied the attention of Colorado courts at various time rince 1899. The referee's decision was in favor of Hollingsworth, awarding him 1,500,000 shares of Grand Union Min ing Company stock, worth about $1,500,000. and a personal judgment against Tufts for $350,000. But by the judge’s refusal to accept the re port Hollingsworth loses at present, although he may ask for a rehearing. WINCHESTER, KY, Aug. 9.—The work of Mrs. Lillian Gross, daughter of Ed Callahan, of Breathitt County, former Sheriff and noted feud leader, was rewarded to-day. when a jury returned a verdict finding Andrew Johnson. 19. guilty of having mur dered Callahan. The jury fixed Johnson’s punish ment at life imprisonment in the peni tentiary. When the verdict was given out. Mrs. Gross and Mrs. Tlmandy Calla han. young widow of the feudist, shouted for joy. The evidence was secured almost entirely by Mrs. Gross. Twelve witnesses, who swore that they saw Johnson at Jackson. 12 miles from th* scene of the shooting, are under indictment for perjury. Winner Eats 9 Pounds Of Steak .in Contest Heavyweight Entries Devour Tre mendous Quantities of Meat for $25 Prize. NEW YORK. Aug. 9.—The Sam Bren ner Association gave an outing at Wit- zel’8 Grove, College Point, yesterday, and a prize of $25 was hung up for the contestants in a steak-eating joust Those wno qualified were Frank Postal weight 223 pounds; A. T Morton. 24'> pounds: George Wachter, 260. and Phil Lommel. 230. Max Molens was the referee, and gave the word to fall to. each man with a tenderloin steak in front of him. Postal got the prize by eating 9 pounds. Mor ton collapsed at 84 pounds. Wachter fell under the table with 64 pounds, and Lommell was a rank outsider with 54 oounds riostal ate nothing but steak and urank nothing but coffee Mouth Is Plastered To Preserve Voice Teacher of Oratory Declares Lips Should Aiways Be Sealed While Sleeping. BERKELEY. CAL., Aug. 9.—Pro fessor Robert Irving Fulton, dean of the College of Oratory at the Ohio Wesleyan University, who is lectur ing on public speaking at the sum mer session of the University of Cal ifornia, advocates the use of com mon sticking plaster over the mouth during sleep to keep the voice in good condition. To his class he said: "Get a yard of sticking plaster, a whole yard, no less, and cut it in pieces half an inch wide and an inch long. Then put one of the pieces over the lips every night, keeping them in their proper shape, and you will sleep like a baby. In the morning wash it off. This is the secret of keeping the voice in condition, and it is the most economical way in the world, for it costs only 50 cents a year.” Broncho “Buster” Has Narrow Escape From Death When At tacked by Infuriated Horse. TACOMA. Aug. 9.—Charged by a wild horse as he sat on the arena fence in the Stadium. J. M. Montano, a member of the desert tribe of Pap- ago Indians, escaped being trampled to death only by his quickness in grabbing the animal about the neck. He had no chance to Jump aside. The horse, at full gallop, dragged him nearly 50 yards, then again darted against the fence. The impact loosened Montano’s hold and he was thrown aside after the animal had trampled on his leg. His face was badly bruised by the fence, and he received other bruises in the body. Montano is one of the picturesque bronco busters of the Stampede. He sat down on the fence to rest for a few moments. Another bronco buster vaulted onto the wild horse without bridle <>r saddle and the animal, en raged, promptly lowered its* head and raced into the fence. Its head struck Montano in the chest, and involun tarily he threw his arms around its neck and hung on for dear life. The horse tried to shake him loose as it careened about the arena, but he hung on until it hit the fence the second time. SHEDS TOENAILS BIENNIALLY. BEDFORD. IND. Au"\ 9.—J. W. Mundy, of this city, sheds the nails from his toes every two year?, and this has occurred since he was a child. When asked to see his foot. Mundy bared his left foot and showed the old nails, barely hanging to the toes, and the new nails growing under the old ones. Orders Coffin Repainted. LANCASTER. OHIO. Aug. 9.—Be lieving that death is near. James Swan, 87, a pioneer of Ingham Coun ty. has sent a coffin that he had made for himself several years ago to a painter at Danville to be “retouched.’’ Annual Mountain Weds Man She Fought Excursion With in Balkan War Southern Railway "“'ESCITe'LluZ, En j Saturda y> August 16. Wounded ~ $6.00 Asheville, N. 0. pittsburg, Aug. 9. —a romance I $6.00 Lake Toxaway, N. C. that began in the Balkan States resulted i $6.00 Hendersonville, N. 0. in the marriage to-day of Vida Radak ! AA TT * o vr n and Barbara Coganio, Bulgarians, in i $O.UU xlOt bpi’lllg’S, JN. U. Daniel Lev «y’ s office Hi Farrell, Jgoo Tate Springs, N. c. The two were sweethearts from child- ~ hoo*l, and when Radak joined the army and went to the front Barbara was dis consolate, but determined. Dressed as a man she entered the army when the fighting against Turkey began. It being wartime physical examination was waived and her sex was not discovered. After many hardships even tally she found her lover, and clothed as a man fought by his side against the Turks. During a battle she was wounded and in a hospital her sex was discovered and she was sent back home. $6.50 Bristol, Tenn. Final Limit September 1. Three trains to Asheville. Morning Noon Night 8:00 a.m. 11:15 a.m. 9:30p. m, MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW SEE THE T 1 MOVIES AT THF I I At inL GRAND 1 ALL SEATS 10c