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LEO M. FRANK AS HE TOLD HIS STORY ON WITNESS STAND < 'Jt '*' V % He apparently welcomed the opportunity to tell of the famous crime from his view point. The accused man urged his lawyers to let the Solicitor and his aides cross-question him freely. Frank appeared perfectly calm • and collected as he went to the witness chair in his own behalf. >, vis* POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y„ Aug. 18.—A warrant charging Harry K. Thaw with conspiracy in con nection with his escape from Mat- teawan was issued this afternoon to District Attorney Conger, of Dutchess County, who will at tempt to use it as the basis of an indictment, if Thaw is captured in another State, said the Dis trict Attorney, an effort will be made to extradite him on the conspiracy charge. If was said that another warrant charging bribery would be demanded. NSW -YORK, Aug. J 8.— Harry K. Thaw, who escaped Sunday from the flatten vs an Asylum for the criminal insane, to-day wrote to his mother, Mr:,. William Copley Thaw, at the Hotel < n*tham. in this city, saying he was well and that lie would meet her at Elmhurst, the Thaw summer home at Cresson, l*a. Mrs. Thaw said she would leave at 9:25 to-morrow morning for Elm hurst. Thaw's note was in an en velope. apparently addressed by one pf the men who had aided him to escape. It had been mailed from station O in this city at midnight Sunday. Over the top Thaw had written: ’Night letter. Fifty words. Twenty- live eents.” H& had evidently in- t< nded to send it by telegraph. The pote was addressed to Mrs. William Thaw, Hotel <3otham. New York r.i> and read as follows: All well; will take a rest before going to Elmhurst, as I might be asked for interviews and do not • wish to refuse, yet do not care to make any statement. Hope H. and G. arrived safe and that you will go home together. Have sent short note to New York Evening Journal. H. T. K. Thaw, together with a man be lieved to be Dr. W. R. Holden, of No. 220 West Ninety-eighth street, spent the night at the Lennox Hotel in Lennox, Mass., according to Richard A. Stanley, proprietor of a hotel there. About 8 o'clock a dust covered Palm er-Singer touring car containing two men drove up to the Lennox Hotel, which is a favorite stopping place for tourists in that section of New England. One man registered as W. Li. Holden, of New York and the other as P. H. Sims. They spent the night there, leaving about 6: SO o’clock thii morning in the direction pf Pittsfield. Their car had the appearance of hard usage and both men were stained and travel weary. Sims avoided other guests and refused to enter the din ning room. Identified by Picture. This morning when newspapers bearipg the picture of Thaw were re ceived at the hotel. Stanley at once identified "Sims" as Thaw. Over the long distance telephone it was said by the clerk of the hotel both men left Continued on Page 4, Column 1, ! Frank, accused of slaying Mary Phagan, made his appeal for life and liberty. It was a dramatic close to the presentation of the case in Frank’s behalf. The statement was the crowning point of the en tire trial and was hoped by the defendant's lawyers to clinch and strengthen all of the favorable testimony that had gone before. With scar?ely a sign of emotion on his features, : e began his story fraught'with importance and interest. Just before, he un- | concernedly had assisted his attorneys in picking out a number of documents to be identified in the record of the case. The moment ous import of the occasion did not appear to weigh upon him | heavily. Outside a large crowd clamored for admission. They resem- i bled nothing so much as the spectacle before a theater at a popular- priced matinee where hundreds are waiting to purchase their gal lery seats. The throng formed itself into two lines extending in both directions from the front doors of the courthouse around the building into the alley on one side and the whole length of the courthouse on Hunter street on the other side. His Mother a Tense Listener. The courtroom filled up with a rush as soon as the doors were i opened. After that only three or four at a time were permitted to push their way through the doors. The others waited patiently in the hot sun through the long afternoon. Mrs. Rae Frank, who rushed from the courtroom, her fingers in her ears earlier in the day when she anticipated another attack character by the Solicitor, was present when he The younger Mrs. Frank had been in court any statement he sees fit. He is not under oath. He does not have to submit to any cross-examination and can decline to answer any question. He can say as much or as little as he pleases.” ‘Mr. Frank,” continued Judge Roan, “make your statement.” Hnpeville Episode Hinted by State. That Frank rode on a street .•at - to Ilapeville with a girl the Saturday previous to the murder of Mary Phagan and repeated!\ sought to persuade her to leave the car with him was the sensn. tional testimony Solicitor Dorsey endeavored to get from Mrs. J. (1. Wardlow Monday. Anticipating the nature of the ques- tions the Solicitor was about to a si. Mrs. Rae Frank, mother of the de fendant. stopped her ears with her fingers and then rushed from the room. Attorneys for Frank at first objected to the questions and the jury Kills employed In the National Pencil Company were called to tell what the.v knew of Frank's character and what had observed of his conduct aboul the factory. All asserted that they nev. r had know n personally of any misconduct on the part of the superintendent and never had heaid of any. Explains Looking 1 Into Dressing Room. In a courtroom held silent by the thrill of expec tancy, Leo M. Frank, charged with the murder of Mary Kipon* her “son Phagan, began Monday afternoon, with a striking calm j went to the stand ness that gave added weight to his words, his own de fense. I great nervous tension as the crisis of the trial was reached. A Step by Step he took up his movements that tragic big law book dropped, hitting a cuspidor with a clatter. The de April 26 and talking slowly and distinctly he sought to all day. While outwardly calm, the two women were evidently under impress upon the jury the falsity of every charge against him and the utter impossibility of his having any con nection with the attack and strangulation of the brave little worker whose fate stirred Georgia as it has seldom been stirred before. To the twelve jurors who have his fate in their hands, Leo M. fendant’s young wife jumped as though she had been struck. Frank started his appeal at 2:05 o'clock in rather low but distinct tones. Aside from a preparatory clearing of his throat and a scarcely perceptible catch in his voice as he began his story, be displayed no signs of nervousness or agitation. Before Arnold started the questioning, Judge Roan said to Frank: '' I want to read you the law,' and read "In all Criminal trials, the defendant has the right to make was excused. It was at this moment that Mrs. Frank made her dramath fcxit. She was evidently fearful of repeating her outburst of a few days ago- Mrs. Wardlaw denied that she ever knew of such a circumstanet She denied as well that she had been told of it by Harmes Stanton or H. G. Baker, street car men. Another sensation was created when the defense called to the stand Miss Emmeline Mayfield, the young woman whom the State maintains was in the dressing room when Frank looked in at one time. Miss Mayfield j denied this was true. Paving the way for the eagerly J awaited statement of Frank, ttie law - j vers for the defendant devoted Men- | day morning to the gathering up of itlie story ends of their ease, most of ithe time being occupied with the tes- | tirm ny of character witnesses. More than a score of women <oui Mrs. Mattie Thompson proved one of the most important of the charac ter witnesses. After testifying to Frank’s good character, Mrs. Thomp son declared that the girls on the fourth floor were in the habit at one time of flirting from the windows of the dressing room. She said that the practice became a matter of commapff among the elder women on tho/foTirth floor and that she Anally tool/it upon herself to report it. Whereup/n order* w< i • issued against it. f The testimony of Mrs. Thompson was produced to provide a basis for the contention of the defense that Frank had opened the dressing room door on several occasions solely for the purpose of determining if his or ders w ere being carried out. Miss M. E. Fleming, a stenographer, said that she worked in Frank's office from April to December. 1912, and tha^ she never had observed any, miscon duct on the superintendent's part nor had seen women visiting his office. Godfrey Winecoff superintendent of the lead plant of the National Pencil Company, testified that it was his custom to visit the pencil factory of fice every other Saturday lafternoon about ■> o'clock. He said p always found. Frank or SuufC. Franks a*-