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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, 9 You Do! re- on This refers to a fine lot of used pianos 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: 2 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 This Is a Thing of the Past for Our lire Customers RING IVY 2023 Three service cars and two motorcycles on duty day and night, every day in the year, to come to your assistance. BUY YOUR TIRES FROM US (We sell all makes.) Our prices are no higher and the service is free JOHNSON-GEWINNER COMPANY 83-85 North Forsyth St. Opposite Ansley Hotel Free Air Station Gasoline 17c We can reach the farthest points in 30 minutes. Service within 30 miles of Atlanta 4