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WITNESS, SHY EMEUS
Continued from Page 1.
ing minute explanation* of the intri
cate work involved in the financial
sheets, the reports and the hundred
and on© details of his work, the im
pression that he gave was that of a
fluent classroom lecturer thoroughly
at home with his subject. He was
not disturbed by Interruptions. He
spoke easily and with unconscious
gestures.
He spoke more than two hours on
the complexity of the work he was
compelled to do Saturday forenoon
and afternoon the day that Mary
Phagan came to her death. He ac
counted for every moment of his
time on the day of the murder.
The latter part of his address was
given over to his experience with the
detectives, for whom he did not ap
pear to have great respect or admira
tion. and to a categorical denial of
all t‘ *■ charges made against him.
O of his most startling state
ments was In reference to the sup
posed blood spots near the ladles'
dressing room on the fourth floor
which have figured so prominently In
the case since thetr discovery by R. P.
Barrett, a machinist at the pencil
factory.
Frank said that he had made an
examination of the spots of which
the detectives and Solicitor General
have made a great deal.
"I did not depend on the light from
the windows for my inspection," said
the defendant. "I crouched right
down on the floor and made the clos
est sort of an Inspection. I discov
ered a curious thing. I scraped away
with my finger and I found that there
was an accumulation of dirt and
grease over the dark spots. The ac
cumulation was not that of three
days. It was not that of three weeks.
It was an accumulation o( three
months or more.
"Another thing which has been
overloowed in connection with these
spots is the effect that the Haskoline
compound would have had had it
been smeared over real blood spots
when the blood is fresh. The Hasko-
llne, which is simply a lubricating
mixture, is applied in a liquid con
dition. Had the blood been fresh,
as the dectectves have presumed, it
would have mixed with, the Haskollne
which would have turned a pink or
red color Instead of remaining white
as has happened to be the case."
Admits His
Nervousness.
Frank admitted readily that he had
been nervous when he waa routed
from bed and taken without his
breakfast to the undertaking rooms
to view the body of the murdered
elrl.
"I was nervous; I admit It.” he
•aid. “I waa extremely nervous. I
waa distracted. But what man would
not have been under the clrcum-
wtances? It would have been a man
of stone who would not have been
affected by the tragedy of thl* little
girl killed on the dawn of woman
hood.
He made a sensational charge in
timating that an attempt had been
made to "frame” against him by the
detectives In connection with the
time slip taken from the clock the
morning after the tragedy.
He declared that on the illp he
took from the clock he wrote; "Taken
out at 8:26 a am.,” underscoring the
word* with two heavy lines. He said
that he handed this slip at once to
Chief I>anford.
That an attempt had been made
at the erasure of this meant! he had
taken to identify the slip was the
accusation he made. He held the slip
up to the Jurors and told them that
the words* were still faintly visible as
well as the two lines with which he
underscored th<^ words.
He added that such a vigorous at
tempt had been made to rub out bis
writing that the red lines on the time
slip also had been partly obliterated.
Toward the beginning of his ad
dress he referred to hts home life,
which the detectives at various times
have sought to show was unhappy.
He drew an affectionate smile to the
lips of his pretty wife when he said
that his married life had been excep
tionally happy, the happiest period of
his career.
Denies He Ever
Had Seen Dalton.
He referred only briefly to the tes-
tlrryjny of C. B. Dalton, who said on
the stand that he had seen women In
Frank’s office and had been intro
duced to Frank by Miss Daisy Hop-
kinp. Frank denied he ever had met
Dalton. He denied flatly any Intima
cy with women in his office or any
where else, and denounced as un
speakable slanders the charges of
other acts of Immorality
His account of the visit of Mary
Phagan to his office was simple and
direct. He said she came and asked
for her pay and was given It. As
she passed from his sight she called
back to ask him If the metal had
come. He answered, “No,” and then
heard her footsteps retreating. He
thought that he heard a female voice
an instant later, but paid little atten
tion to It.
That, he said, was all he knew of
Mary Phagan's movements on the day
she met her death. He did not even
know her name at the time, identi
fying her by the number on her en
velope. That he had any part in her
death or in the disposal of her body
he denied absolutely. He branded the
story of Jim Conley, the negro, as a
tissue of lies from start to finish.
“I have told the truth and the whole
truth,” he said as he left the stand a»
6:05 o’clock. He had been Calking
almost continuously for four hours.
Spartanburg Sheriff and Deputy
Rout Would-Be Lynchers of
Negro Assailant.
SPARTANBURG. Aug. 19.—Sheriff
White apd one deputy fought off a
mob of several hundred who attempt
ed to enter Spartanburg County kill
and lynch a negro. Frank Bppley.
J. C. Owensby and John Turner were
wounded by the Sheriff and his deputy
before they drove the mob from the
Jail.
The mob attempted to blow up the
Jail with dynamite, but failing, tried
to batter down the doors. It was
then the three men were wounded
and the mob wa* forced to recognise
the courage and determination of
Sheriff White and h1a deputy.
Threats were made by the mob that
they would secure nitroglycerin and
destroy the entire building, but they
did not return.
The negro h«vd attacked a young
white woman earlier In the day. He
was later captured and landed in Jail.
The mob formed after nightfall and
attacked the jail.
A call was made to Governor Biease
to send a company of the State mi
litia. but he declined. It appears to
day that the Sheriff is able to cope
with the situation.
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Led Gay Lobster Life
NEWARK. N. J.„ Aug. 19.—In trac
ing the career of Raymond E. Smith
secretary-treasurer of the Roseville
Tru#t Company, who is being sought
to clear up mysteries surrounding a
shortage of over $500,000 in the bank,
the searchers found evidences of lob
ster suppers, Joy rides and gay par
ties.
They failer to find the object of their
search, but they got traces of a young
woman to whom Smith is alleged to
have paid marked attention.
Another woman gave a clew that
leads th^ company’s official# to be
lieve thm the banker has sailed on
ew of the- traoe-AU^aUc lk*xw from
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TO-DAY’S MARKET OPENING
(MEW YORK COTTON.
LIE DIRECT IS GIVEN TO CONLEY’S STORY
(irntlemen, I know nothing whatever of the death of little Mary Phagan, I had no part in
causing her death, nor do I know ho wahe came to her death after she took her money and left my
offioe. I never even saw Conley in the factory or anywhere else on that date, April 26. 1913.
The statement of the negro Conley is a tissue of lies from first to last. I know nothing what
ever of the cause of the death of Mary Phagan, and Conley's statement as to his coming up and
helping me dispose of the body, or that I had anything to do with her or to do with him is a
monstrous lie.—From Frank’s Statement.
Frank’s Story in Complete
Form as Told to the Jury
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Leo M. Frank, in his remarkable statement to the jury, had
little to say of the charges made against him until the latter part
of his address, which on this account became the most interesting
and most impressive portion of his talk. After going into close
detail in respect to his work at the factory office the afternoon of
Mary Phagan’s murder, he took up the principal evidence and the
principal charges against him.
He explained why he did not talk to Conley. He asserted
that it was he who gave the information that Conley could write,
in spite of the assertions/that he had withheld this information.
He made complete denial of seeing Conley on the day of the crime
or of having any personal knowledge of how Mary Phagan came to
ed all he desired.
Here is Frank’s story as it was
told with its various interrup
tions :
Mr. Arnold; "Now Mr. Frank,
such papers at you want to uoe
you can come down here at any
time or from time to timo and got
them on this table right hero.
The Court: ‘‘Before you com*
mence your statement I want to
read the law. In criminal proce
dure, the prisoner will have the
right to make to th# Court and
jury such statement
the case
as he may deem proper In his
defense. It ahall not be under
oath and shall have such force
aa the jury shall think right to
give it. They may believe it in
preference to the sworn testimony
in the case. The prisoner ahall
not be compelled to answer any
questions on cross-examination.
He should feel free to decline
to answer them. Now you can
make such statement as you aee
fit.”
The defendant said: “Gentle
men of the jury, in 1884, the 17th
day of April, I was born in Ter
rell, Tex. At the age of throe
months my parents took mo to
Brooklyn, N. Y., which became
my home until I came South, to
Atlanta, to make my home here.
I attended the public achools of
Brooklyn and prepared for col
lege in Pratt Institute, Brooklyn,
N. Y.
“In the fall of 1902 I entered
Cornell University, where I took
the course of mechanical engi
neering, graduating after four
years, in June, 1906. I then ac
cepted a position as draughtsman
with the B. F. Sturdevant Com
pany, of Hyde Park, Mass. After
remaining with this firm for
about six months I returned once
more to my home in Brooklyn,
where I accepted a position as
testing engineer and draughtsman
with the National Meter Com
pany of Brooklyn, N. Y.
“I remained with these parties
until about the middle of October,
1907, when at the invitation of
some citizens of Atlanta, I came
South to confer with them with
reference to the starting and op
eration of a pencil factory to bo
located in Atlanta. After re
maining here for about two weeks
I returned once more to Now
York, where I engaged passage
and went to Europe, i remained
in Europe nine months. During
my sojourn abroad I studied the
pencil business and looked after
the erection and testing of ma
chinery which had been previous
ly traced for.
Looked After the
Purchase of Matei&ls.
“In the first part of August,
1908, I returned once more to
America, and immediately came
South, to Atlanta, which has re
mained my home ever since. I
married in Atlanta an Atlanta
girl, Mias Lucille Seiig. The major
portion of my married life has
been spent in the home of my
parents-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. E.
Seiig, at No. 68 East Georgia
avenue. My married life has been
exceptionally happy, indeed—it
haa been the happiest days of my
life.
“My duties as superintendent of
the National Pencil Company
were in general as follows: I took
charge of the technical and me
chanical end of the factory, look
ing after the processes and see
ing that the product was turned
out in quality equal to the stand
ard which was set by our compet
itors. I looked after the instal
lation of new machinery, and the
purchasing of any machinary,
and in addition I had charge of
the office work at tho Forsyth
street plant, and the lead plant
on Bell street.
“I looked after the purchasing
of the raw material.' I saw after
the manufacture of pencils and
kept up with tho market of these
mMarioJa and wfrtn t*e prtoaa
fKiotvatocf so tfcet the purchase a
could be made to the beet pos
sible advantage.
“On Friday, April 25, I arrived
at th# pencil factory on Forsyth
street at about 7 o'clook, my usu
al time. | immediately started in
on my regular routine worL, look
ing over the papers I had laid out
the evening before, and attending
to any work that needed my spe-
oiol attention that morning.
“At about 9:30 I went over to
the offioe of the general manager
and treasurer, Mr. 8igmund Mon
tag, who*e office it at Montag
Brothers on Nolson street. I
stayed over there a short timo,
and got what papers had arrived
in the mail—oil the mail of tho
pencil factory oomos over to their
offioe. I got that mail and
brought it back to tho Forsyth
street office. I then separated the
mail and continued in my usual
routina duties in the office on For
syth street. %
“At about 11 o'clock Mr. Schiff
handed me the payrool book, cov
ering tho planta at Forsyth street
and Ball street, for me to check
over and see if the amounts and
extensions were correct. Of
course, this work has to be very
carefully done, so that tho proper
amount of money is drawn from
the bank. This checking took me
until about 12:20 p. m.
Went to Bank
To Get Pay Money.
M l then wont over to Montag
Brothers, took the checks drawn
and had them signed by Mr. 8ig-
Montag, after which I returned to
Forayth street and got the leath
er bag in which I usually carried
the money and the coin from tho.
bank, and got th# payroll slip, on
whioh tho various demoniations
which I desired to have on the
payroll were made out. and went,
accompanied by Mr. Herbert
Schiff, my assistant, to the At
lanta National Bank, where I had
the checks cashed.
“Returning to the factory in
company with Mr. Schiff, I placed
this bag containing the taoney
for the payroll, in th* safe and
locked it. At this time my wife
called for me and in her company
and that of Mr. Schiff I went over
to the car, and went with my wife
home to lunch. After lunch I re
turned to tho factory and took
a tour for about an hour through
the factory, after which I then as
sisted Mr. Schiff in checking over
the amounts on the pay envelopes,
checking the money against the
duplicate slips that we had got
from the bank to aee that the
correct amount had been given
ua, and helpod Mr. Schiff in
checking over the money and in
filling the envelopes.
“This took us approximately
until a quarter to six to fill the
envelopes and seal them, and
place them in a box we have there
with two hundred pigeon holes in
it, that we call our payoff box.
Paid One Man
Check in Cash .
‘'While I was so occupied with
Mr. Schiff in filling the enve
lopes, a young man named Wright
who had helped ua out in the
office aa clerk during the past
week came in and I paid him in
cash, aa Mr. Schiff had neglected
to put hia name on the payroll. I
just made out a ticket and put
it in the payroll box, not the
cash box, and continued in the
office with Mr. Schiff, taking all
the envelopes that were due the
help that had worked from April
18 to April 24, inclusive, to pay
them through the window in one
side of the office. There ia a lit
tle window built in the hall. I
had stayed in my office, checking
over the amount of money which
had been left there.
“This amount should have been
equal to the amount loaned out
in advanco to the help. I took
a ticket out whon we were filling
the envelopes in checking this
amount there. Aa near as I rscoi-
Jat t ** * waa abotift
wotteod m sftaytayo of aba at
$1.20, or something over a dollar,
at any rata, and I kept chocking
to soe if I could find the shortage
shortage in the various deductions
which had been made. I could
not locate it that evening, after
the help had been paid off, dur
ing whioh timo I stayed in my
office. No one came into my of
fice and asked me for tho en
velope or for an envelope of any
other party.
“After the paying off of the
help had taken place, Mr. Schiff
returned and handed me the en
velopes which were left over,
bound with an elastic band, and
I put them in the cash compart
ment, whioh is different from the
the cash box, the key to which is
kept in my cash box, and placed
them in the safe, and Mr. Schiff
placed the amounts in the box,
and placed the box in the safe
and left them.
Tells vf Putlng
Slips in Time Clock,
“I placed the time dock alips
which were to be used the next
day. I took the two time slips
dated April 25, which had been
used by tho help on Friday, April
25—those are the two that I put
in the slot” exhibiting the same
to tho jury.)
Mr. Dor thereupen vigor
ously protested that Mr. Frank
should be -’lowed to exhibit these
slips to the jury, because they had
not been offered In evidence, on
the grounds that they were im
material and Irrelevant and on
the second ground that he could
not put them in evidence on his
own statement.
Consel for the defendant insist
ed, however, that they should be
allowed, to offer these slips in
evidence, as they had been testi
fied to by Mr. Darley and others.
The testimony, however, was not
produced, and Judge Roan ruled
that Mr. Frank might make any
statement concerning the same,
but that he would withhold his
ruling until fui or investigation.
Mr. Frank thereupon proceeded
to explain to the Jury.
“Gentlemen, at I was saying,
these two slips that havs April
26, 1913, written at the bottom
are the two slips I put in the
clock on tho evening of Friday,
April 25, to be used on the day
following, which, of course, wee
April 26.
Darley’s Duty to
Employ All Help.
'I neglected te mention also, in
going over my duties at the fac
tory, that Mr. Darley was super
intendent of labor and manufac
ture, and it fell to his duty to
engage the help and distribute the
help throughout the plant, and to
discharge the help in case it was
neceasary. It was also due te
him whether the wages were
raised or not. In other words, he
wee the men that came directly
in contact with the help. More-
over, he sew that the goods prog
ressed through the plant without
stopping, speedily and economic
ally for thoir manufacture.
‘On Friday evening I got home
at about 6:30, had my supper,
washed up, and with my wife
ployed a game of auction bridge
at a friend’s home in the evening.
My wife and I returned home and
retired about 11 o’clook.
“On Saturday, April 26, I rose
between 7 and 7:30 and leisurely
washed and dressed and ate my
breakfast, and caught a Wash
ington Street or Georgia Avenue
car I don't really remember
which, at the corner of Washing
ton and Georgia avenue, and ar
rived at the factory, Forsyth
street plant, at about 8:20.
“Upon my arrival at the fac-
tery I found Mr. Holloway, the
day watchman, at nis usual place,
and I greeted him in my usual
way, and found Alonzo Mann, the
office boy, in the office.
“I took off my coat and hat
and opened my desk and opened
the safe, and removed the various
books and files and wire trays
containing the v. *ious imporant
papers which were placed there
the evening before and distribut
ing them in their proper. places
about the office. I then went out
to the shipping room and con
versed a few minutes with Mr.
Irby, who was «t that time ship
ping clerk, about the work he was
going te do that morning.
“Aoeording te my recelleotien,
we did no shipping that day, ow
ing to tha fact that the freight
offices were not receiving any
ahipmants, due to the fact that it
was a holiday.
“I returned to my office and
looked through the papers and
■opted set those which I
hf te toire 1
to tha general mar.agt *'s office
that morning.
“I then turned to the invoice
covering shipments which were
made by the pencil factory on
Thursday, April 24, and which
wbre typewritten on Friday, April
25, by Miss Eubanks, who was
the stenographer who staved at
my office. She had hurried
through with the office work on
the day previous, so thet the
could go home and spend the hol
iday in the country where she
lived. But I didn't get to check
over the invoices on the shipments
on Friday, due to the fact that
Mr. Schiff and myself were com
pletely occupied the entire day.
8o we left the factory with the
payroll. So that naturally, these
invoices covering shipments which
were made on April 24, ought to
have been sent to the customers,
and I got right to work checking
them.
Shows Invoices to
Jury First Time.
“Now I have these invoice* nere
(taking up the papers and ex
hibiting them to the jury). These
papers have not been exhibited to
you before, but I will explain
them. You have seen some simi
lar to these.
“Of all the mathematical work
in the office of a pencil factory,
this very operation, this very
piece of work that I have now be
fore me is the most important. It
is the invoices covering shipments
and is sent to the customer, and
it is verv important that the
prices are correct, that the
amount of goods shipped agrees
with the amount which is on the
invoices, that the terms are cor
rect, and that the price is correct.
Also, in some cases, ther were
freight deductions, all of which
has to be very carefully checked
over and looked into, because I
know of nothing else that exas
perates a customer more than to
receive invoices which are in
correct.
“Now, with reference to the
work I did on these orders—that
is not such an easy job as you
might bo led to believe. Here are
initials. They represent the sales
man who took the order. Some
times I have to go through a
world of papers to find out to
whom to credit these orders.
“I notice that one of the or
ders to R. B. Kindele calls for a
specialty. That has to be care
fully noted and recorded. One
column represents the shipping
point, another the date, etc.
“The next step is to fill in the
orders on this sheet. On this
sheet I must separate the orders
into price groups. Evidently no
work has been done on this sheet
since he went away. The reason
this is done —in the pencil busi
ness as in all manufacturing
businesses—it is advantageous to
sell as much of the high-proiced
goods as possible.
“This sheet is the only means
of telling how much of the va
rious goods we are **»>iing. It is
the barometer of our business and
requires most careful work.
Declares He Wrote
Financial Sheet.
“After I have finished that work
I have had to do this, and not
withstanding any insinuations
that have been made, I wrote
these requisitions."
Frank read the name on each
requisition, which were the same
as the names on ths orders.
“Now that is all my handwrit
ing, except what as written at
a subsequent date to April 26."
“Well, moreover, this operation
this morning took me longer than
it usually takes the ordinary per
son to check invoices because
usually one calls out and tho
other checks, but I had this work
all myself that morning. As I
did this work this morning I saw
that Miss Eubanks had evidently
sacrificed accuracy to speed, and
everyone of them was wrong. I
went over the invoices to make
the corrections, figure them out,
correct them, and make deduc
tions, if any were to be made, and
then get the total shipments, be
cause sinoe these shipments were
made on April 24, which was
Thursday and the last day of our
fiscal week, and it was on this
week which the financial report
which I make out every Saturday
afternoon, which has been my
custom, so that the total ship
ments could be figured out, and
therefore I could not let it go out
at that, so I had to figure every
invoice in its entirety, so I could
get a figure I would be able to
use.
“The first order here is to Hil
ton, Hart & Kern Co., Detroit,
Mich. Here it the original or
der, which exists in our files in
our office. Here ie the original
transaction which was made
March 18, but it was not to be
shipped until April 24. This is a
small order, 100 gross of Number
2; and here is an order of the
Packard Motor Car Company for
125 gross of No. 3, and 150 gross
of No. 4. Those figures repre
sent the grade of hardness of the
lead in the pencil."
Explains How
Orders are Filled.
Frank thereupon explained hew
•uch order, were usually filled,
whether in part or In whole, and
how the shipments ware made,
and continuing, said;
"In investigating ahipmants
made by tha pencil company our
method ia a, follows: We make
them in triplicate. Our firet
original ia a whits sheet that gees
goo# ovsrtribs
general manager’s office and is
filed serially, that ia chronologic
ally, that it, one date after the
other, nad from that the chargee
are made on the ledger, and the
last sheet, the third sheet, or yel
low sheet, which is here (exhibit
ing it) and those are placed in
the files in my office, and are filed
alphabetically. These yellow
sheets that I have here are not
the yellow sheeta I had that day,
because they have since been cor
rected, and I am just taking the
corrected sheets I made the cor
rections and Mias Eubanks cor
rected them on Monday by the
corrections I had on the whits
sheet from the corrections I made
and I presume at that time made
that correct.”
Mr. Frank exhibited to the
jury various orders similarly
written, to H. W. Williams and
Company, of Fort Worth, Tex.;
The Fort Smith Paper Oomotny,
of Fort Smith, Ark.; S. O. Barr-
num & Sons, of Buffalo, N. Y.;
F. L. Schmidt and Company, of
Chicago, and H. S. Kress and
Company, of New York.
“Now, there ia an order that
takes a great deal of study (re
ferring t othe Kress order) be
cause in common with these five
and ten cent syndicates, there is
a great deal of red tape. These
are invoices that were typed on
April 25, Friday, and were shipped
on April 24. It was the date on
which the shipment was made
irrespective of the date there,
(referring to the date on the
letter) and these were typewrit
ten. In other words, shipments
took place April 24, and that date
was at the top, typewritten and
stamped by the office at the bot
tom, April 24. Among other
/ things that the S. H. Kress Com
pany demand on their orders, we
must state whether or not it if
complete, must give the case
number, and must tell by which
railroad the shipment goes.
Checking Made Hard
By Much Red Tape.
“Here is one for F. W. Wool-
worth and Company, Fort Wayne,
Ind., which shows 35 pounds, less
86 cents per 100 pounds credit. In
other words, we had to find out
what was the weight of that was
on a basis of 86 cents for every
100 pounds shipped. Then here
is another one of our large dia-
tributors in New York. They
have a freight allowance of 86
cents a 100 pounds also, and their
shipments amounted to 618
pounds on Thursday, April 24.
“I started on this work. As I
said, I have gone into it in some
detail, to show you the careful
ness with which the work must
be carried out, and I was at work
on this until about 9 o'clock, as
near as I remember.
“Mr. Darley and Wade Camp
bell, the inspector of the factory,
came into the outer office and I
stopped what work I was doing,
which was this work, and went to
the outer office and chatted with
Mr. Campbell for ten or fifteen
minutes, conversed with them,
joked with them and while I was
talking with them, I think about
9:15, or a quarter after 9, Miss
Mattie Smith came In and asked
me for her pay envelope, and the
envelope of her sister-in-law. I
went to the safe and got out
the packaae of envelopes that
Mr. Schiff nad given me the eve
ning before, and placed the two
remaining envelopes in my oath
bax, as I considered they might
come in and I wanted to have
them near at hand so that I could
r ay them off when they came in.
keep my cash box on the lower
aide of my desk. After Miss Smith
had gone away with the enve
lopes, in a few minutes Mr. Darley
came back with one of the enve
lopes, and pointed out an error in
one of them, the one of the sister-
-in-law of Miss Mattie Smith,
who had gotten too much money.
“When I took the amount which
waa too much, that amount bal
anced the error in the payroll
that I had noticed the night be
fore, and left about five or ten
cents. Those things generally
right themselves, anyhow. I con
tinued to work on these invoices
when I was interrupted by Mr.
Lyon, the superintendent of
Montag Brothers, and he brought
mo a pencil display box. He
seemed to be in a hurry, and I
told him if he would wait a min
ute I would go over with him, but
he passed out of the office, and
then I found a stopping place in
the work i waa workina on, and
I put on my coat and when I
got to the outer office I found
that Mr. Lyon had already left.
“Mr. Darley and I left about
9:35 or 9:40, and we got out of
the factory and stopped at the
corner of Hunter and Forsyth
streets, where we each had a
drink at Cruickahank'a soda foun
tain, and I bought a package of
my favorite cigarettes.
“After that conversation there
I left him and went alone to
Montag Brothers, where I ar
rived about 10 o’clock or maybe a
little after. I entered Montag
Brothers and spoke to Mr. Sig
Montag, general manager, on bus
iness, and he brought the pa
pers which I collect and laid them
on his desk, and I then took the
papers out, thrust them in the
folder and took the other papers
which I had in my folder, and
then distributed them at the
P roper places in the Montaa plant.
don't know just whicn ones
they were.
Conversation With
Miss Hall Recalled.
“In chatting with Mr. Montag
I spoke to Mr. Montaa and Mr.
Korse, after that I spoke to Mias
Hattie Hall, the pencil company's
stenographer, who stave at Mon*
tag Brothers, and asked her to
come over and help me that
morning, as I have already told
you, that these invoices were
wrong, and I wanted her to help
me on that work, and could not
take it up to-morrow. In fact,
I told her I had enough work to
keep her busy that whole after
noon if she would stay. She said
she didn’t want to do that; she
wanted to have at least a half
holiday.
M i then apoka to membsig of
mottoro, 8od tbse slksr
matters. Alauo I then apoke to
Mr. Guttenheim, who was sales
manager of the Montag Brothers
and of the pencil factory, and then
apoke to him about several of his
orders that were in the factory.
There were two of hia orders
that he paid special stress on that
were desired to be shipped right
awav. I said, ‘I don't know how
una tar along in the process of
manufacture the orders have pro^
cseded, but if you can come back
I can look it up and tell you
when they can be shipped.’ He
said he could not come then, but
he would come a little later. I
told him I would be glad if he
would come up a little later on in
the afternoon; that I would be
ther® until about 1 o’clock in the
morning, and then about half past
three. I then took the folder and
returned.
Arrived at Factory
At About 11 o’clock.
“Upon arrival at the pencil fac
tory I went up to the second or
office floor, and then I noticed
that the clock was perhaps five
minutes after 11 o’clock, and I saw
Ml*. Holloway there, and I told
him he oouid go as soon as he got
ready. He told me he had some
work to do for Harrv Denham
and Arthur White, who wanted
to do some repairing on the top
floor, and that h® would do the
work first.
“I then went to the office, and
found Miss Hattie HaH ; who had
preceded me from Montag Broth
ers, and another young lady, who
introduced herself to me as Mrs.
Arthur White. Mrs. White want
ed to see her husband. I went
into the inner offioe, and took off
my hat and coat and removed the
papers which I had brought back
from Montag Brothers and put
the folder away.
Week's Sheet Left
In Incomplete Form.
"It was about this time that I
first heard the elevator motor
start up, and the circular saw in
the carpenter shop which was
near to it, and I heard it sawing
through some boards and thought
it was evidently the work that
Mr. Holloway had referred to.
“I seperated the orders from
the letters which required an
swers, and took from them the
letters that did not need imme
diate attention and laid them in
the various places, and it was
about this time I had an idea I
would like to see how far along
the report sheets were which I
used in getting up the financial
report every Saturday afternoon.
To my surprise I found that the
sheet contains the records of the
pencils packed for the wecU had
been entered for Thursday. The
last day of the fiscaj week was
omitted, and Mr. Schiff, evident
ly in the stress of figuring out
and filling the envelopes for the
ayroll for Friday instead of Sat
urday, had evidently not had
enough time. I told Alonzo Mann,
the office boy. to call up Mr.
Schiff and find out when he was
coming down, and Alonzo said
that the answer came back over
the telephone that Mr. Schiff
would be right down, so I didn’t
pay any more attention to that
part of the work, because I ex
pected Mr. Schiff to come down
any minute.
Mrs. Freeman and
Corinthia Hall Came In.
“It was about this time that
Mrs. Emma Clark Freeman and
Mies Corinthia Hall, two of the
girls that worked on the fourth
floor, came upstairs and asked to
go upstairs and get Mrs. Free
man’s coat, which permission I
gave them. I told them at the
same time to tell Arthur White
that his wife was downstairs. A
few minutes after they left my
office two gentlemen came in, one
of them Mr. Graham, and another
gentleman, fathers of two boy*
who had gotten into some trouble
during the noon recess and were
taken down to police headquar
ters, and, of course, could not get
their pay envelopes the night be
fore. I gave the required en
velopes to the two fathers, and
chatted with them at some length
in reference to the trouble that
their boys had gotten into cn the
day previous.
“Just before they left the of
fice Mrs. Emma Clark Freeman
and Mrs. Corinthia Hall came
into my office and asked my per
mission to use the telephone, and
started using the telephone dur
ing the time these two gentle
men left my office. Previous to
the time these two gentlemen
came in I had called Miss Mattie
Hall In and dictated what mail I
had to give her, and she went
out and was typewriting the mail.
Frank went back to the stand.
He was handed a glass of water
as he resumed his seat, but de
clined it.
“Miss Hall left my office” h®
continued, “on her way home at
this time. There were then in
the building Arthur White, Harry
D®nham and Mrs. White. It must
have been from ten to fifteen
minutes after that this little girl
whom I afterwards found to bs
Mary Phagan came in. She asked
asked for her pay. I got my cash
box, referred to the number and
gave her the envelope.
“As she went out, she stopped
near my outer office door ana
said:
“‘Has the metal come?*
Sound of Voice Made
Little Impression.
“The safe door was open and I
could not im her, but I answered
‘No.’ The last I heard was th®
found of her footsteps going down
the hall. But a few moments after
she asked me. I had ths impres
sion of a voice saying something,
but it made no impression on me.
’"The little girl had hardly left
the office when Lemmie Quinn
came in. He said something to
me about working on a holiday
and went out. A few minutes
before 1 o’clock, I called up my
wife and told her I was coming to
lunch at 1:15. I then went up
stairs to where Denham and
White were working and found
they had a bit of ths floor taken
up and were sawing. 1
"I explained to them that I was
going to lunch and would lock tho
doer when I left. Mrs. White
left at thi» time. Some lady said
that at 12:35 o’clock she found
me in front of tho safe. It i. bare
ly possible that she did. I don’t
recall her being there. Her mem
ory probably is fresher tha n mine
on this point.
1 vvan , t . “P •‘■•re I seked
Mr. White vf his wife wai going
to stay there with him. She said
no, that she would go. She left
and then I got my hat and coat
and left, locking the outer door
"New, gentlemen, to the best
of my recollection from the time
th* whistle blew until I went up-
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