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THK ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NFTTS.
RED-STAINED CLUB AND PAY ENVELOPE ARE SHOWN TO JURY
Pinkerton Detective Says He Found Spots on the Floor Near Cubby ■■■
Continued from Pag* 1.
apart from your families. This duty
is one of the burdens of good citizen
ship. You are here because you have
measured up to the responsibility. If
there was any way to relieve you I
would, but you are under oath and so
am I. Be very particular about your
health. Be select in what you eat.
Make the Sheriff exercise you as
much as possible. I hope we will be
able to wind up this can* soon.”
Mother Deniei
“Wealthy" Relatives.
Mrs. Frank declared Frank's rela
tives were of only moderate means.
Solicitor Dorsey did not spare the de
fendant's mother in his cross-exami
nation. He sought to show that
Frank's parents in reality were
wealthy and that Conley's quotation
of Frank’s alleged remarks about hi*
“wealthy foliks” wus quite plausible
She said the source of the Income of
herself and her husband was the in
terest on about $20,000. They paid
$000 for their home in Brooklyn
and assumed a $6 000 mortgage on th«
residence.
‘To whatb usinesn is your hus
band?” the Solicitor asked her.
“Hs is not in business at present.”
“Ah, he’s a capitalist. Is he?" kald
Dorsey.
Mrs. Frank replied that th^s was
not mo and added Inter that her hus
band was broken down in health and
that this was the explanation of his
beUig oat of business at present.
Mrs. Frank was shown a photo
graph copy of the test note Frank
wrote ft$r the detectives which Dor
sey had intimated was written in a
disguised hand. f
"That's my son's writing.” she ex
claimed, as roon as *he saw the pho
tographic copy. “H4 wrote me every
week and I know his handwriting'
Mother to
Son's Aid.
A hushed crowd leaned forward ex
pectantly as ihe aaddened woman,
whose outburst of anger against So
licitor Dorsq^ was one of the sensa
tions of th* ‘Trek. took her place in
the witnestf chair.
The prisoner and his wife wore the
same c^ol, unflinching demeanor.
Frank sept his eyes on his mother,
Luther Z. Rowser questioned Mrs.
•JJranlf.
Mrs Frank, you said you lived
In Brooklyn? Has your son Leo
Frank any rich relatives In Brook
lyn?—A. He has not.
Q. This letter that was received by
him from his uncle, were show you
here?—(The small letters were In a
( long envelope—A. Yes, a long paper.
i don’t know what It was.
Q. 1 show you a photograph letter.
Is the writing similar to your eons?
—(He handed her the photograph of
Frank’s writing for the police which
witness Nix could not identify yester
day)-—A. That is my son's writing.
Dorsey Delves Into
Family's Finances.
Dorsey took Mrs. Frank for cross
examination.
Q. Mrs. Frank, you have no diffi
culty ih recognizing that as your son's
writing, have you?—A. None at all.
Q. What were those other papers?—
A. A price list, I think.
Q. Now you look at the price
Hat?— A, No.
Q. Who are your relatives in Brook
lyn?—A. My sister, Mrs. Bennett. Her
husband clerks for my brother-in-
law.
Q. What does your son-in-law* do?
.—A, Ha l« in the retail cigar busi
ness.
Q. What do your other sons-in-law-
do?—A. I don't know, 1 have enough
to do to keep up with my own af
fairs.
Q. What ore your means of sup
port?—A. We have a little money out
at Interest.
Q. How much?—A. About $20 000.
Q. Do you own your own home?—
A*. Yes.
Q. What is it w-orth?—A. I don't
know'. We pay about $86 taxis.
Q. Well, what does that make It
worth?—A. You must understand wo
have a large mortgage.
Q. How much?—A. About $6,000.
Q. Was that about one-third of the
cost?—A. More than that. We paid
$6,000 and assumed the mortgage.
Q. Now, haven’t you more than $20.-
600 out at interest?—A. No.
Q What income do you get on that?
—A. l>o you want me to tell you
everything of my everyday life?
Q. 1 want you to answer my ques-
ttorts, if you please, Mrs. Frank.—A.
All right.
Doetn’t Know Frank’s
Uncle Is Called Rich.
Q. What other relatives have you?
—A. Miss Jacobs, a single lady.
Q Are these the only relatives your
son has In Brooklyn?—A. Yes.
Q. Where is his uncle?—A. He lives
hi Atlanta.
Q. He is supposed to be very
'fealthy?—A. I don’t know.
Q. Don't you know he was In Brook
lyn Saturday?—A. Not to my knowl
edge.
Q. Don’t you know what rate of
Interest your husband gets on his
$20,000°—Ah' AbotK 6 per cent.
Q- I>° know how much mei^ey
Afcbu
are 3
Q. How much interest ai¥ you pay
ing on the $6,000 mortgage?—A. Five
per cent.
Q. How often do you pay if?—A.
Once a year.
Rosser took the witness.
Q. How old is your husband?—A
Sixty-seven years.
Q. What’s the condition # of his
health?—A. Vgry ppor.
Q. Too bad to come here?—A. Oh,
yes; he is very nervous.
The witness was excused and Knox
T. Thomas, a c^vll engineer, was the
next witness called
At this time Mr. Rosser offered the
letter of Leo M. Frank to his uncle.
M. Frank, as .‘evidence. Arnold ques
tioned Mr. Thomas.
Civil Engineer Tells
Of Measuring Street.
Q. At our request did you make
*om£ measurements, one from Ma
rietta and Forsyth streets to the Na
tional Pencil Factory?—A. Yes.
Q. How far was it?—A. One thou
sand/ and sixteen feet.
Q, Did you walk it?—A. Yes.
Q, How long did it take you?—A
Fphr and one-half minutes.
Q. Did you walk from the National
Pencil Factory to Alabama and
Whitehall streets?—A. Yes.
Q. How far is it and how long did
it take you to walk It?—A. 821 feet,
and three and one-half minutes.
Q. Did you walk from Frank’s of
fice to Broad and Hunter streets?—A.
Yes.
Q How far was It, and how long
did it take you?—A. A distance of 333
feet, and it required one and three-
quarter minutes to walk it.
Q. How fast did you walk?—A. My
usual gall, rather brisk.
Dorsey took the witness on cross-
examination.
Q. You could have quickened your
gait and walked from Marietta and
Forsyth streets In two minutes,
couldn’t you?—A. Nojt easily.
Q. At that rate, how long w-ould it
take you to walk a mile?—A. I'll have
to figure it—60 minutes.
Q. Sixty minutes to walk a mile?—
A. No; fifteen minutes.
Q. You were more accurate in your
measurements than you were with
your first answer?—A. Yes.
The witness was excused and Miss
Corinthla Hall was recalled to trie
stand. She was the first of another
array of witnesses employed in the
factory and scheduled to be called
during the day to repudiate the
charges of immorality on the part of
the prisoner in the plant.
Says Conley Delayed
Paying Back Money.
Miss Hall said Frank’s character
was good. She added that she did not
know Conley well enough to swear
about his character.
Dorsey then took the witness on
cross-examination.
Q. You don’t know- Conley’s char
acter?—A. No. Only I loaned him
some money once and could hardly
get it back. I wouldn’t lend him any
more.
The witness was excused and Mrs.
Emma Clark Freeman was recalled,
but did not answer. Miss Ida Hayes,
another employee, who works on the
fourth floor, testified to the good
character of Frank She said she 1 had
never heard of any immoral prac
tices in tho factory. She would not
believe Jim Conley under oath, she
added.
i Hooper cross-examined her
W The principal trouble with Jim
Conley was borrowing money and for
getting to pay it back, wasn't it?—A.
Yes.
The witness was excused and Ebla
May Flowers, another employee, was
recalled to the stand.
She testified to Frank’s good char
acter and gave Conley a bad record.
She said Conley had borrowed money
from her and never paid it back.
Miss Bessie White, another charac
ter witness, was called, but did not
answer. Miss Ella Hayes, now an
employee of Kress’ stbre, but an em
ployee of the National Pencil Compa
ny up to the date of the murder, tes
tified to Frank's good character. Miss
Minnie Foster, an employee in the
factory, said Frank’s character was
good. She did not know Conley's char
acter.
Objection by Arnold
Upheld by Court.
Hooper cross-examined her.
Q. Up to this killing, whom did you
ever hear discuss Frank’s character?
—A. No one.
The witness was exucsed>
Miss Opie Dickerson was another
pencil factory employee to give Frank
a good character. Conley's charac
ter was bad, she said.
Dorsey cross-examined her.
Q Where were you on Saturday
night, April 26?—A. I don’t remem
ber.
Q- Were you not with Louise der
ation. W ade Campbell and Mr. Dar-
ley on that night?
Arnold objected and was sustained.
Mrs. Emma Clark Freeman was re
called to the stand next. She testified
to Frank's good character and de
clared that that of the negro’s was
bad.
Miss .Jessie Wallace, another
fourth-floor employee, following Mrs.
Freeman, said that Frank’s character
was good. She stated that she did
not know Cona-y well enough to tes
tify regarding him.
Miss Annie Osborne and Mrs. Ella
Thomas, both employees of the pencil
factory, also testified to Frank's good
character. Mrs. Thomas declared that
Jim Conley had borrowed money from
her and never repaid it.
Miss Bessie Thrnilkill, another em
ployee of the factory, said she did not
know Frank’s character.
Arnold—I mean his reputation.
Miss ThraUkill—He was always a
gentleman around me.
Hooper took the witness.
Q. Did you see Jim Conley after the
killing?—A—Not that I know of.
Q. Did vA hear anything about any
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The defense claims it would have been utterly impossible for Prank to have
murdered Mary Phagan and disposed of her body in the lapses in time in the
alibi they have set up. They also contend that it proves Conley’s story a tissue
of falsehoods. Thus, they declare, Conley lied when he said Quinn preceded
Monteen Stover and Mary Phajran because Quinn did not arrive until 12:20, just
as they charge the negro was caught when he said he saw Mary go in ahead of
Monteen because according to State’s Witness George Epps, Mary was at Mariet-
"ta and Forsyth at 12:07, while Monteen entered the factory at 12:05. Proceed
ing further, the defense attacks Conley’s story of the disposition of the body on
the ground that Helen Curran saw Prank at Alabama and Whitehall at 1:10, and
Conley says the disposing of the body began at 12:56. The events Conley de
scribes could not have occurred in the intervening 14 minutes, according to the
defense, because Conley said he was in the wardrobe 8 minutes, and the writing
of the notes must have taken at least 6 minutes, according to the State itself. The
State will undoubtedly attack this formidable alibi in its rebuttal evidence.
blood on the floor?—A. Not until
Monday morning.
Q. Did you see it?—A. No.
The witness was excused, and Miss
Allie Denham, Miss Rebecca Sarson
and Miss Maude Wright, all em
ployees of the pencil factory, spoke
highly of Frank’s character.
W. D. McWorth, a Pinkerton detec
tive, was next called. Under Ros
ser’s questioning he said he devoted
fifteen days to the Phagan murder
investigation, beginning May 12.
Q. What did you do?—A. I ques
tioned the employees and made a
search of the ground floor.
Q. What did you find?—A. I found
stains by the trapdoor which might
have been blood. It w-as on the
ground floor.
Q. What else did you find?—A. Be
hind a radiator I found a good bit of
rubbish. There was a heavy cord in
the trash. One end \>f it looked like
it had Just been cut with a sharp
knife.
Pay Envelope and
Bloody Glub Introduced.
Q. What else did you find?—A. In
one corner a few inches from the ra
diator, I found a piece of pay en
velope folded up. It was In a pile of
trash. ,
The torn bit of envelope was in
troduced by the defense.
Q What did you do with the en
velope 1 ’- A. 1 saw the number 186 on
It and initials “M. P.” I handed it
to officer Whitfield and told him to
take it to the light and *ee what it
W q 1 ' Did vou find anything else?—A.
Yes’ 1 found a big stick lying near
the radiator beside some pipes
At this point a boold-stained stick
was exhibited.
Q Do vou know what this stick Is
used for?—A. Mr. Holloway said it
was a roller on which boxes were
moved. ,,
q Was there anything odd about it
that you noticed?—A. It was stained
as Is apparent now—stains that look
ed as though they might be blood.
Dorsey took the witness on cross-
examination.
Q. Did you ever see this stick be
fore? (The blunt end of a buggy whip
was exhibited.)—A. Yes.
Q. Where?—A Behind the front
door. *
Blood Stains Found
Around Cubby Hole.
Q. Where did you find the envel
ope?—A. In the door to the Clark
Woodenware department.
Q What day?—A. May 16.
Q Where did you begin to search?
—-A. On the office floor.
Q. What did you see on that floor?
—A. In the metal department I saw
half a dozen stains like the one Mr.
Darley showed me by the water
cooler
y. Did they look like the other
stains?—A. Yes.
Q. Did you make any search of the
office for that envelope?—A. No; 1
was looking for a mesh bag.
Q. Who told you to?—A Mr. Scott.
Q. You made that search all day.
alone?—A. Until 5 o'clock, when 1
was Joined by Whitfield.
Q. He searched with you?—A. Yes.
Q. You found bloodstains around
the cubby hole?—A. Yes.
Q. Was that your report to the
Pinkertons?—A. Yea.
Q. You didn't say anything about
blood?—A. I said it looked like blood.
Q. How- many stains were there?—
A About six or seven.
Q. How- large was each?—A. Aboui
six or seven inches in diameter.
Q. And were they blood?—A. I don’t
know; 1 took up the chips.
Q. Now, after you found the blood -
spots you found pieces of cord around
the radiator?—A, Yes
Q. The bloodspots led you to that?
-A. No.
Q. You showed those bloodspots to
Whitfield?—A. Yes.
Envelope Found
Near Trap Door.
Q. And while he was examining: the
(tains, you picked up a roll of pa
per?—A. Yes.
Q. And in that roll you found the
envelope?—A. The roll was the en
velope Itself.
Q. Was that envelope lying right
out In the open space?—A. Within
eight or ten inches of the trapdoor.
Q. Were there any other pieces of
paper?—A. Yes, one or two little ones.
Q. Was it light enough for you to
see the number—186—in the right-
hand corner?—A. Yes.
Q. Has that envelope bee.n changed
any?—A. None at all.
At this point Attorney Rosser con
ferred with Attorney Hooper.
Rosser—The officer In charge of the
witnesses talks to them, then comes
down and reports to Detective
Starnes. If It" doesn’t stop, I will
make a protest to the court.
Hooper—If anything improper Is
going on, I wish you would make It
public.
Solicitor Dorsey, who was standing
near the witness, turned and said:
"Your honor, we want this matter
settled, if they think anything im
proper Is going on.”
Judge Roan—No complaint has been
made.
Dorsey—We are bringing it now.
The officer came in and spoke tu
Mr. Starnes.
Dorsey: “If there is any objection,
1 will have Mr. Starnes state what
the officer said to ihm.”
Asks Schiff Be
Sent From Room.
Arnold; "We have no objection to
make to the court. We Just made a
personal request.”
Dorsey continued questioning the
witness
QrThis envelope did not have a fig
ure 5 on it did It?—A. No.
At this point Solicitor Dorsey no
ticed that Herbert Schiff was in the
courtroom He addressed the court;
“Your Honor,” he said, ”1 want Mr.
Schiff to be put out of the room. I
will want him as a witness a little
later.”
Rosser: "We merely want to have
him here when we are questioning
these witnesses who work at the fac-
tory.”
Judge Roan: "The witness will
have to leave."
Rosser: “All rtght, we will go up
stairs to confer with him. I don’t
care if it takes a month.”
Schiff left the courtroom and Dor
sey continued to question the wit
ness. f
Q. Did you show this envelope to
Herbert Schiff?—A. Later.
Q. Did he identify it as his hand
writing?
Rosser: "We object. Mr. Arnold is
a little excited about a fire close to
his building and will be back In a few
minutes."
Dorsey—Well. I want this witness
held until I can examine Schiff. He
continued his questioning.
Q. Wasn’t there a figure "5" on
that envelope?—A. Not any more than
there is now-.
Hints at Change in
Figures on Envelope.
Q. Didn’t Mrs. Coleman call your
attention to a figure “5?"
Rosser objected.
Dorsey—This is for the purpose of
impeachment. 1 want to show that
whei\ this envelope was shown to the
Colemans on May 15 it had a figure
”5’' on It. They told the Pinkertons
Mary did not get but $1.20 the week
she was murdered.
Judge Roan overruled the objection.
Dorsey—Did any conservation be
tween you and the Colemans about a
figure "5” takel place?—A* No.
Q. Where did you get J^iis informa-
man regarding the police. When the
tion in your report? (Solicitor Dor
sey handed the w-itness a typewrit
ten report.)—A. From Mr. Schiff.
Q When did you report the finding
of this .stick to the police?
Rosser objected.
Dorsey—I w-ant to show In refer
ence to this club, what the head man
for the Pinkertons Instructed this
police asked about that club, the
Pinkertons gave them a little stick.
Mr. Rosser has tried to make It ap
pear that the Pjnkertone employed
at the instance of Frank, went down
the road on and on with the police.
The jury was taken from the room
at the request of Dorsey.
Judge Roan—Let me hear your ob
jection, Mr. Rosser. I don’t want to
hear any argument.
Rosser Through
Arguing, He Says.
Rosser; "I don’t want to argue.
I don’t expect to argue here any
more. All I want is to have my ob
jection recorded. He has tried to Im
peach every witness we have put up
on the grounds that he did not re
port to the police.”
Judge Roan: "Mr. Dorsey, yow can
ask the witness whether he told any
city detectives about the note and
the bludgeon, or whether he sought to
conceal it. You can not ask him what
somebody told him to do.”
Hooper: "What we want to do is
to show that Pierce is the head of the
Pinkertons, and that he controls the
policy of the Pinkertons.”
Judge Roan: “This man is not re
sponsible for what somebody told
him." $
The Jury was brought back, and
Dorsey continued his questioning.
Q. Who is the head of the Pinker
tons?—A. H. B. Pierce.
Q. Where is Whitfield?
Rosser: "I object to that, your
Honor."
Dorsey: "It is a w-ell-known prin
ciple of law that we can ask that."
Judge Roan: "You can ask the
question.”
Q. Where is Pierce?—A. I don’t
know.
Q. Where is Whitfield?—A. I don’t
know.
Q. Now how long after you found
that club did you report it to the po
lice?—A. Seventeen hours.
Q. How long after that did you
have a conference with the police?—
A. Four hours.
Q. Now, did you not show Black
this stick when you told him about
the club?—A. I did not.
Q. Were you there when the stick
was shown Black?—I was not.
Rosser took the witness.
Q. Now, is this your report?—A.
Yes.
Q. Is this your diagram showing
the place where you found the club
and the pay envelope?—A. Yes.
Girl Bursts Forth
In Frank’s Defense.
Q. You attached this to your report
and we now get it from Mr. Dorsey?
-—A. Yes.
Q. You don’t know whether I erer
saw it or not?—A. No.
Q. Now, this piec of envelope iv
Just like it was when you found It?—
A. Yes.
Q. If there are any changes, they
don’t show here?—A No.
The witness was excused, and Miss
Mollle Blair, a former employee of the
pencil factory, was called as & char
acter witness. She did not answer.
Miss Cora Barnes then took the stand.
Before Attorney Arnold could ntk her
any questions, she burst forth into
oratory to declare:
"We love our superintendent be
cause he was a good business man
and a gentleman.
Her words were Interrupted and
when the formal quetfions were pu*
as to whether she knew Leo M. Frank,
she arose to her feet and said;
"I believe Mr. Frank is innocent.
He is too good a man and I wish I
could make everybody else believe he
is innocent. I would be willing to
take his place and die for him. I
would be glad to die for him.’
Miss Barnes’ spasmodic statements
threw the courtroom into a volcanic
eruption. As her wjords flowed freely
from her mouth, attorneys for both
sides sprang to their feet in various
attitudes of protest, some shouting
their objections at Judge Roan and
others in pleading gestures to the
w-itness to come to a halt. Yet her
words w r axed more eloquent and
flowed more freely with each pro
test that w'ap registered against them.
Spectators in Courtroom
Convulsed With Laughter.
Sheriff Mangum and Chief Deputy
Plennie Miner, with a dozen depu
ties, strove for several minutes in
the courtroom crowd. Several spec
tators were so convulsed with laugh
ter that they were compelled to leave
the courtroom. One man of large
avoirdupois threatened to l.o into
convulsions.
Following the restoration of quie
tude, the witness was excused with
out an attempt to question her.
Miss Ethel Stewart, a telephone op
erator and a former employee of the
pencil factory on the fourth floor, was
next called and testified to Frank’s
good character.
Miss Irene Jackson, an attractive
young woman, a daughter of County
Policeman A. W. Jackson, and a for
mer employee of the pencil factory,
who stated that she left there the day
of the murder, was the next witness.
On direct examination the witness
testified that Frank’s character was
good. Dorsey cross-examined her.
Q. Did you ever hear any of the
employees say anything about Frank?
—A. They seemed to be afraid of him.
Q. How?—A. They would always
work hard when they saw him com
ing.
Q. Do you recall Emily Mayfield?—
A. Yes.
Says Frank Looked
Into Dressing Room.
Q. Where does she work?—A. She
worked at Jacobs’ until Easter.
Q. What about that dressing room
incident you told Mr. Starnes about
In the presence of your father?—A.
Emily Mayfield was in the dressing
room one day and Frank came back
there. I was back there to take off
my apron.
Q. How was Miss Mayfield dressed?
—A. She off her dress.
Q. Did he come all the way In?—A
He opened the door and looked in.
Q. Did he laugh?—A. I don’t know.
Q. Did you threaten to quit?—A.
Yes.
Q. To whom?—A. Mr. Darley.
Q. What did he say?—A. He said
that we girls should stick together
and that we would not lose anything
by it.
Q. You told your father about it?—
A. No. my sister did.
Q. Did you hear anybody but Miss
Emily Mayfield talk about Frank go
ing into this dressing room?—A. Yes,
I heard about it.
Q. Who told you?—A. I don’t re
member. I heard them talking about
him going into the dressing room two
or thre^ times.
Q. What did Frank do when he
came into the dressing room?—A. He
walked in, turned around and walk
ed out.
Q. Were you In there?—A. Yes.
Q. You have told me of two times.
Have you heard of any other times
besides your sister and Miss May-
field?—A. Miss Mamie Kitchens and I
were in there one day when he came
in.
Q. Did you hear the girls talk about
other times?—A. Yes.
Q. Where were they?—A. I don’t
remember.
Q What else did you hear abo
Frank besides the fact that he w
into the dressing room and stared at
the girls?—A. Nothing.
Arnold took the witness on re-direct
examination.
Q. How long did you work in the
factory?—A. About three years.
Q. You were willing to work on
there after this?—A. I had some bills
to pay and I wanted to get the money
Papa wanted me to quit.
Q. The murder was the real reason
you quit, r w-asn’t it?—A. Papa said
he didn’t want me to work there, so
I quit.
Q. Didn’t you hear Frank Issuing
an order about the girls flirting
through the fourth story window?
Dorsey objected and was sustained.
Q. What street did those windows
look out on?—A. Forsyth street.
Q. People were constantly walking
along the street, were they not?—A.
Yes.
Q. Did any rule or order come to
you against flirting out of the win
dow?—A. There w-ere orders against
it.
Q. Frank never came into the room.
He Just came to the door and turned
away?—A. He pushed the door open
and looked in.
Q. Did he ever come in?—A. No.
Girls Partly Undressed
When Frank Looked In.
Q. Which time was it you w-ere not
fully dressed?—A. When 1 was
Mamie Kitchens.
Q. The other times you were dress
ed fully?—A. Yes.
Q. How were you when you were
with Miss Kitchens?—A. I had off my
top dress and was preparing to put
on my street dress.
Q. You had on your underskirt?—A.
Yes.
Q. Were any of the girls anywhere
nude at any time he came and look
ed in?—A. itfb, sir.
Q. When was this?—A. Last sum
mer.
Dorsey took the witness on recross-
examination.
Q. How soon after Frank opened
the door on your sister did she quit?
A. She wanted to quit right t^en,
but the forelady persuaded her not
to.
Q. There was no way he could tell
before opening the dressing room door
how near any of the girls were to be
ing undressed?—A. No, sir.
Q. It was near to the dressing room
wasn’t it?—A. Yes, sir.
Arnold took the witness.
Q. What time w-ere you girls ex
pected to be at work?—At 7 o’clock.
Q. What time was it Frank came
to the door?—A. Ten or fifteen min
utes after 7 o’clock.
Dorsey took the w-itness.
Q. You never flirted with anyone
out of the window?—A. No.
Q. Did the forelady come in?—A.
No.
Q. Did you ever see any signs
around there not to flirt?—A. No.
Q. Did you ever hear Mr. Frank say
anything about flirting?—A. I heard
him say something once.
Smiled or Made
Face at Girl.
Q. Well, )Vhen he stood in that
dressing roorri door and smiled did
he— \
Arnold: "Ydur honor, she never
said anything about sm/ling.”
Miss Jackson: “He never asked
me.”
Dorsey; “Well, I am asking you
now; did he smile?”—A. Y s, su'iil-
ed, or made some kina of face it Miss
Mayfield.
Q Did he say anything? -A. ,Xo,
just looked at her and walked but.
Q. He never said anythir.gTabout
flirting?—A. No.
The witness w-as excused aijd Mar-
lee Branch, a reporter for 'Inc At
lanta Journal, was called to th stand.
Arnold questioned him.
Q. Do you recollect having Jan in
terview with Jim Conley?—-A K\ s.
Dorsey: "The story of his Actions
Is practically the Same.”
Judge Roan: “He can go an far as
this evidence is similar. Tlx- jury
can tell whether it is the same or
not.” /'
Rosser: "It Is the duty of tUqi Judge
to pass on it before it goes* to the
jury." '
Q. I call your attention to this In
terview of May 31. Read it j>yer and
tell the substance
Before Mr. Branch had replied, Mr.
Rosser questioned him.
Q. I will get you to stat« whether
Conley said anything ^bout feeing the
little girl’s purse?—A^He did not.
“Took 30 Minutes M
Take Body tc B.isentwi^r
Q. Didn’t he say It took b mln<-
utes to get the body dowiiCHw the
basement ?—A. Yes.
Q. I will ask if he didn't say Lem-
mie Quinn got to the factopr a er 12
o’clock and stopped eight oilnin min
utes?—A. Yes. ’
Dorsey took the witness on crois-
examination.
Q. Was he positive about the tin
—A. I tried to get him to be as d<
nlte as he could, but he qualified
statements with the word “about.”
Q. Did you get this intervi§
fore or after Conley
w-hat he said was 1
crime at the factory i
or three days after. 1
Q. Did you see himl
performance at the fall
Rosser objected.
Dorsey—I want to show by t5
witness Conley’s preformanee ag
that it was just as admissible as <
evidence of Dr. Ow r ens the other g
Judge Roan overruled the objeefl
Rosser continued to object, on tH
ground that Conley hi s told a differ-^
ent story since the interview.
Branch went ihr.-ugh the negro's]
re-enactment of rbe rum-. H- ent 4
mated the start at 12:18. Rossi-f
made another strenuous objection, but
Judge Roan admitted the evidence.
Branch said that at 1:05 o’clock he
left the building and the negro
reached the point in his pant< mim|
where he wrote the notes in 1 rank'f
office.
At this point court adjourned unf
9 o’clock Monday morning.
Militia treasury
Shy $19,000 Needed
For Augusta Deb
Georgia's military department fai
a deficit of about $19,000, due on de
made during the Augusta trouble
year. The Legislature failed to make'
the proper appropriation.
The news came out in military cir
cles Saturday morning. It became
known the appropriation item provid
ing for this amount had been killetlk
the final shuffle. •
In the absence of Adjutant General
"tanHolt Nash, who is attending the
national rifle shoot at Camp Perry, no
official statement was given out Sat
urday. But the department heads ar ■
perturbed over the failure to get > ’
appropriation. Lnm
A letter was received
morning from General Vanlfiolt Nash
In which he expressed hopej that the
appropriation as requested
provided for. According to
tion given out In the mi:
partment, General VanHolt L
had been
1 n forma -
‘cry de
ls!; left
Atlanta confident that, thij- depart
ment would get the appropriation.
'si. Frank Trial Halts '
As Clanging Engines
Run to Fire Nearby
Proceedings at the Frank $rial were
interrupted about 11 o’clock Satur
day morning when the fire depart
ment was called to Pryor and Hun
ter streets. The clanging gongs
drowned the voices of the attorneys
and witnesses, and for a brief time
nervousness prevailed in the fear that'
the fire was in the courthouse.
Sharp rapping by deputies resto.4
order.
The fire proved to be nothing m
than smote issuing from a leaky fl
on the steond floor of the Broi
Building at Pryor and Hunter street:
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