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mPi AlijAiN l A virA/nurj ain ai> u in i\ \v o. E I 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. ' 1 1 First I Prev. IOp*n|Hl*hlLowl Call.l Close Aug . . 11.57-59 Sept. . . ii.22 ii .so 11 20 11.30 11.14-16 oet. . 11.16 11.18 11.15 11 .8 11.07-08 Nov 11.01-03 Dec. ii.it 11 .11 ii. io 11.10 11.05-06 Jan 10.99 11.00 10.9K .1.00 11106-07 Feb. . 11.04-06 Mob . . 111.0811 1.08111.01 111 .08 11.13 14 May 11. OStill. 09| 11,08j 11.08111.20-22 NEW ORLEANS COTTON. I i iFirst! Pro*. IOpen!HI*h|Low 1 Call 1 Close Au« . . 11.55-56 Sept . . 11.15-16 Oct. 11 18 ii. 18 11.17 11.18 11.07-08 Nov. . 10.98-11 1 >ec. ii.ic 11.16 11.16 11.16 10.98-11 Jan. . 11.16 11.16 11.15 11.15 10.90-91 Feb . 11.02-04 Mch. . . 10.98-99 May 11.01-02 Find Missing Banker 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 New York, * 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 LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. Futures opened quiet and Opening Kangu 2 .622 -6 23 .6.134-6 16 .6 03 -6.054 Aug . . . Aug.-Sept Sept.-Oct. Oct.-Nov. Nov. - Dec. Dec.-Jan. Jan - Feb Feb -Mch. Mch.-Apr. April-May May-June June-July 5 02 -5.96 4 -597 .5.99 .5.95 .6.95 .5 95 . 5 99 ’5:97V4-5.99tt .5 984 .6 00 -6.02 . .5.994 steady. Prev. P M. Close 6.22 6 184 6.154 6.11 6.05 6.01 6.OI4 5.974 5.97 5.92% • 5.924 5.97 5.93 5.944 6 964 5.914 6.93V NEW YORK STOCK MARKET. Stock quotations to 10 a. m 10 Prev STOCK— 'Ugh Liow AM. Close Amal. Copper. 744 74 74 74% American Can $34 334 334 34 American Ice 22 22 22 22 Am. Smelting 664 664 664 68% Anaconda .... 364 364 364 364 B. and O 964 964 964 96% B. R. T 88% 884 88% 89 Can. Pacific. 2174 2174 2174 219% Cen. leather 23 23 23 234 C and O 57 It 67 674 Erie 284 284 28% 29 4 Gen. Electric 144 144 144 143% Interboro 164 15% 15% 154 do, pref . . 604 604 604 61 Lehigh Val.... 162 152 162 1524 North. Pacific 1114 1114 1114 1114 Pennsylvania. 1124 1124 1124 113 Reading 1604 159% 1604 1604 Rock Island pf. 284 284 28% 28 4 So Pacific 914 91% 91% 91% So. Railway . 25 25 26 25 4 Tenn. Copper. 314 314 *14 31% Union Pacific. 1534 1534 1534 1544 U. S .Steel. . . . 63 62% 63 634 Utah Copper. 504 604 504 514 Vp-Car. Clvem* *44 $44 *4 Jn#otric n\ f*% T2* n% 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- Gmttfiimwf efi