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IIKARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1913.
IMfiS FAIL
TO HALT PRAISE
OFTHEACGUSEO
TELLS OF FINDING CLUB AND ENVELOPE
D EHIND a radiator on the ground floor near the elevator shaft I found a
piece of heavy cord, one end of which looked as if it had been freshly cut.
There was also a piece of pay envelope folded up. The number 186 was marked cn
it, and the initials “M. P.” I also found a big stick lying nearby, which had
stains on it resembling blood. I also found stains resembling blood—six or
seven of them—around the cubby hole on the first floor. I was looking for the
girl’s mesh bag when I found these things.—From testimony of Pinkerton De-
Three of the great army of witnesses called to testify in the.tlie trial of cUieo M. Frank, snapped by The Sunday American
photographer at the Courthouse. They are, left to right, Mrs. Ida Miller, Rosser Shields and' Miss Ara Kagan.
Dramatic Incident Comes When
tective W. D. McWorth.
:« t
clock ana saw that it was 12:05
o'clock.
This obstacle is overcome by ac
cepting as the truth the possibility
that the car may have be«n running
about five minutes ahead of time
and that the clock at the factory was
several minutes slow.
Thomas said that the distance from
the pencil factory to Whitehall and
Alabama streets, where Miss Helen
Curran declared she saw Frank
awaiting a car, was 831 feet, and that
It required him 8 i-2 minutes to walk
it.
The distance from Broad and Hun
ter streets to the pencil factory, the
route the defense contends the Pha-
gan girl to.ok to the factory the day
she weni after her pay, the witness
said was 333 feet, and that it took
him 13-4 minutes to walk it.
Frank'* Mother Recalled.
Mrs. Rae Frank, mother of the de
fendant, who testified briefly at Fri
day's session of court, was recalled to
the stand when the trial resumed Sat
urday. The defense sought to show
that Frank would have been most un
likely to make any remark to Jim
Conley about having "wealthy folks
In Brooklyn” by proving that, a* a
matter of fact, his Brooklyn rela
tives were of only ordinary means.
The witness became somewhat ex
asperated on cross-examination when
the Solicitor insisted on going into
every' source of income, as well as the
financial resources of her husband.
She said that she and her husband
were living on the Interest of $20,000
w'hich was lent to different persons at
an average of 6 per cent interest. She
said that this constituted all of the
w'ealth of her husband and herself,
except for the home In which they
lived. On this she said there was a
$6,000 mortgage.
Lanford Takes Day Off
To GrO to Camp Meeting.
Chief of Detectives Newport A*
Linford, under whose guidance the
State’s evidence was secured against
Leo M. Frank, wants a day’s com
plete respite and will spend Sunday
at Handy Springs, Ga., where a Meth
odist camp meeting is in progress.
Chief Lanford’s activities in the
case ended when the trial began, but
he has been daily ir. the courtroom
sitting close to Solicitor Dorsey whis
pering information about the various
witnesses. The Chief will return to
Atlanta Monday morning In time for
the opening of Monday's session of
the trial.
1! a
when Detective John Black had come
to inspect the new evidence, showed
him the buggy whip found behind
the front door of the factory and did
not show’ him the club which was
produced in evidence at the trial. The
Solicitor failed in his effort to show
that McWorth and his fellow opera
tive, L. P. Whitfield, did all this at
the direction of Superintendent H. B.
Pierce.
Time Element Again.
Interesting testimony, which may
prove of considerable importance in
the development of the time element
in the case, was given by Knox
Thomas, a civil engineer.
From the Intersection of Marietta
and Forsyth streets to the pencil fac
tory, Thomas testified the distance
was 1,016 feet, and that it required
him 4 1-2 minutes to walk it at a
fairly brisk pace. This Is the walk
which the State contends Mary Pha-
gan made Saturday, April 26. to get
to the factory from her oar. The car
was due at this corner about 12:07.
This would have brought her to the
factory at about 12:11 1-2. A conflict
is found here in the State's own
theory, as the Solicitor believes Mary
Phagan entered the factory before
Monteen Stover, w'ho glanced at the
Witness Heaps Encomiums on
Superintendent on Trial.
More than one hundred witnesses
had been called to testify in defense
of Leo M. Frank’s character when
the third week of the factory super
intendent’s trial concluded shortly af
ter 1 o’clock Saturday.
Character witnesses occupied most
of the time during the four hours of
Saturday’s session. They displayed
a remarkable loyalty to their em
ployer. who is being tried on the
charge of being the murderer of little
Mary Phagan. Only one of the num
ber, Miss Irene Jackson, gave testi
mony in any way prejudiced to the
case of Frank.
The character testimony, the tale
of the finding of Mary Phagan’s en
velope and other so-called clews on
the first floor of the factory by \V. D.
McWorth, Pinkerton operative, and
tne return of Mrs. Rae Frank, moth
er of the defendant, formed the im
portant features of the day.
Girl Furnishes Incident.
A spectacular incident, wfrich
would have been even more amusing
than it proved had it not been for
the evident sincerity and profound
earnestness of the witness, came in
the testimony of Miss Sarah Barnes,
one of the pencil factory employees.
"I’d die for Mr. Frank if they’d let
me!” she exclaimed almost the in
stant nile had composed herself in
the witness chair. Attorney Arnold
had only time to ask her the formal
question: “Do you know Leo M.
Frank, the defendant In this case?"
before she launched into an eulogistic
description of the young factory su
perintendent that left her breathless
at the end of five minutes.
Th° attorney sought to interject an
other of the formal questions pre
scribed bv law. but by this time she
had caugnt her breath and was en
gaged iii telling her willingness to
lay down her life, if need be, to prove
the guiltlessness of Frank.
Attorney Arnold could not stop her.
The court could not dam the flood of
words. She had a itiind to speak and
she was determined to speak without
check and without interruption.
"I Know Frank couldn’t have com
mitted such a terrible deed.” she cried,
accompanying her declaration with an
emphatic brandishing of her folded
fan. "I nave known him ever since
1 have been in the pencil factory. He
has always been kind to all of the
employees and to the girls in par
ticular. He never has done any of
these things that have been told about
him. He has always been a gentle
man.
Willing to Die for Him.
‘Tve had to fight for him. almost,
a number of times since these awful j
charges have been made against him.
, I’m willing to tight for him again. I
am willing to die in his place.”
At this point she turned toward the
. jury and said:
“You can give me any sort of a
. death you want. I know' he is an in-
; nocent man. I just wish that I could
make everyone believe in his inno-
| cence.”
Attorney Arnold succeeded In the
"brief space of one of the moments
u when she paused for a fresh start to
4 ask the remainder of the questions he
S? desired, and then gave her to Solicitor
I Dorsey.
i Dorsey' met with the same trouble.
£ He tried to get her to say with whom
; she had talked about the testimony to
which she was to swear. Disregard-
| ing his question as though if never
had been asked, she continued in her
encomiums of Frank until the court-
[} room spectators were convulsed with
‘ laughter and the Solicitor filed with
. disgust at his inability to get the sort
Y of answer he wanted from the girl.
Miss Irene Jackson, daughter of
County Policeman A. W. Jackson, was
called by the defense as a character
:i witness, but gave testimony on her
V cross-examination in regard to coi-
duct by Franak which the State has
■ construed as highly improper.
Looked in Dressing Room.
Miss Jackson said that so far as
she knew the character of Frank was
good and that she never had known
him to attempt any liberties with the
factory' girls. To the Solicitor she
admitted, however, that she three
-■ times had been in the girls’ dressing
room when Frank had pushed open
L- the door and looked in.
Once Emmelin. Mayfield had hem
in the room with her, she said; once
Mamie Kitchen and once her own sis-
‘jft ter. Her sister had threatentod ro
■u quit on this last occasion, she testi-
5 fled, but had been persuaded against
f it.
She said that Frank merely pushed
&■ the door open, looked In. one one oc-
fi casion smiled to ward Miss Kitchen,
•‘“i and then turned around and walked
k away. She testified that the girls
k. never were any further In a condi-
■fp tion of undress than lacking their
overskirt.
# Solicitor Dorsev inquired of her in
jfr regard to a reported remark of N. V.
5 Darlev general manager, that “if the
IS girls stay with us through this, they
■ will not iose by it.” She said she hai
overheard Darley sav this.
Many Employees Called.
A The following pencil company em-
7 ployees were called as character wit
nesses during the day:
m. Misses Mollie Blair, Ethel Stewart,
v Sarah Barnes, Corinthia Hall, Ina
Hayes, Eula May Flowers, Elma
Hayes. Minnie Foster, Ohie Dieker-
/f eon, Gussie Wallace, Annie Osman,
t Bessie Thrailkill, Allie Denham. Re-
* becca Carson. Maude Wright, Irene
Jackson, and Mesdames Emma Free
man and Ella Thomas.
Frank Ordered Flirting Stopped.
Attorney Arnold In his redirect ex
amination of Miss Jackson asked if
it were not true that girls had been
caught flirting from the dressing room
windows, which front on Forsyth
street, and that Frank had given or
ders that this should be stopped. She
said that this had occurred.
"Might not Frank have been looking
in to see if his orders were being
carried out?” asked his attorney. 1 but
his • interrogation was ruled out. as
leading to u conclusion on the part t>f
the witness.
Miss Opie Dick *rson, another of th«*
character witnesses, appeared some
what perturbed when asked by the
Solicitor in regard to her movements
on the Saturday night of the murder.
She was requested to tell if she! was
not in the company of N. V. Darley,
Wade Campbell and Miss Louise
Gresham at the Bijou that evening.
She replied tha^ she could not re
member, and the question later was
ruled out as irrelevant and immate
rial, on the objections of Attorneys
Rosser and Arnold.
The testimony of W. D. McWorth,
a Pinkerton operative, provided one
of the sensations of the day, and At
the same time rr.voked a lively
wrangle among the attorneys over
.the mjapner in .'hich the Solicitor
persisted in questioning him.
Mr Worth testified that he found on
May 15, on the first floor near a ra
diator, a piece of a pay envelope
bearing he name of Mary Phagan,
her number, 186, and the amount due
her. $1.20' He said that he found it
:thes same time several pieces of cord
similar to, that found around the neck
of the slain girl, a club and part of a
buggy whip. He described splotches
near the trapdoor leading into the
basement which he thought at the
time might be bloodstains.
‘Neither side brought out wha> the
real value of Me Worth's testimony
might be. The defense submitted it
without .asking whether the spots had
proved ‘to he' blood, and the Solicitor
'also fettled to question him on this
point*-
Dorsey’s main attack was contained
in his ’ charge that the Pinkerton
operatives ha/1 "played double” with
the city detectives and, while profess
ing to "go down the road with the
road" w’ith the city department, in
reality branched off, discovered clews
very material if they were genuine
and kept their discovery a secret from
the city defectives in spite of the
agreement to work hand in hand.
Dorsey tried to find out from the
wtttness under whose instructions he
had withheld this information from
the police while prentending to work
with them. Rosser objected on the
ground that Frank should not be
bound by anything a detective did.
While the point was being debated
with some acrimony, Rosser shouted,
referring to Poysey;
"The State of Georgia ought to be
represented in this case with decency,
your honor, and not in the manner
in which the Solicitor General is con
ducting the prosecution.”
Dorsey charged that the Pinkertons,
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re-
on
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turned from rental and taken in exchange
player-pianos. We need the room and they go
on sale Monday at
Their Actual Value
Most of them are nearly new and are stand
ard makes. Below we list a few of them:
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Wing -
Cooper - - -
Cote - -
Smith & Barnes
Temple - - -
Everett -
Columbus - -
Estey -
Weser -
Lester - -
- Lsed -
- Used - -
- Used - -
- Used -
Nearly New *
Nearly New
Nearly New -
Nearly New
Nearly New -
Nearly New
$ 75.00
- $85.00
$145.00
- $155.00
$160.00
$225.00
$150.00
$260.00
$145.00
$225.00
Some Fine Bargains in PIayer=Pianos
Ludden & Bates
63 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Georgia
GIRL EMPLOYEE SHOUTS SHE’D DIE FOR FRANK
Another Tells How Defendant Peered Into Room Where Women Dressed in Factory
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83-85 North Forsyth St.
Opposite Ansley Hotel
Free Air Station
Gasoline 17c
We can reach
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within 30
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