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Jiir; An iAi^ .1 a \t ni^riwjriAJN r\ if r n n. * V* LEO M. FRANK’S COMPLETE STORY AS TOLD TO THE JURY Accused Makes Statement Remarkable for Clarity and Wealth of Detail nothing was cn’ it. There was somethino on it. It had been par- tjally rubbed out. It could not be rubbed out altorether without rubbing out the printed lines. I did write with a pencil across the face of it, *8:26 a. m.' We noticed a slip but overlooked any skips. I folded the time slip as it is now and handed it to Chief Lanford. Now, gentlemen, I Have heard a great deal during this trial about nervousness. “I wap nervous. I 'was com pletely unstrung. Imagine your self called from sound slumber in the early hours of the morning, whisked through the chill morn ing air without breakfast, to go into that undertaking establish ment and ave the light suddenly Chief Beavers asked me if I would give him a statement. “I heard Mr. Rosser say: “Why, it’s preposterous. The man who did that would have signs on His body.” I jumped up and, open ing my clothes, let the detectives see for , themselves. “I then gave them a statement, willingly and freely and without any reluctance. Then one of them said something about ex amining my linen at my home. I knew that none of it had gone to the laundry at that time and in vited tho detectives to make a search, which they did. Mr. Her bert Schiff wont with them. They were very well satisfied with the search, or rather, they found nothing. Employed Pinkertons To Aid the Police. “That afternoon I telephoned Mr. Schiff to get Mr. Montag's permission to employ the Pin kertons to aid the police. I told him I would be down about 9 o'clock. “I went around to Mr. Wolfs- heimers. got into his automobile and went down town. I saw Mr. Qn from izs/var mi/ jeiDiccj CAjeroM a/ 3 .10 on ivay orric£> \ wanted me to go to the station house. I went and I have tfeen incarcerated' since then. “I went down in an automo bile. They took me to Chief Lan- ford’s office. | answered all the questions they asked. In a few minutes Detectives Scott and Black came in with a bundle. “Thjy me showed me a piece of material and isked me if I had a shirt like that. I told them I never had. They showed it to Newt Lee and. thev said he ad mitted . having a shirt like that but declared he had never worn it. “They then unfolded a bloody shirt. “About 10 o’clock Mr. Rosser came down and said Chief Seav- ers thought it best for me to re main at the station, and they thought I might employ a super numerary to avoid being locked up. I assented, because, of course, I could not do anything olse. “They wanted a sample of my handwriting. I told them I was willing. They dictated it word for word, spelling the unuiuat words. Detectives Starnes took me down to the deek sergeant and search ed me. “I was locked up tn a cell while my father-in-law was providing a supernumerary. “The detectives came to me and said: ‘Mr. Frank, we would like to talk to you a littto bit/ We went into a little room and they stressed the possibility of a cou ple being let. in the pencil fao- Now, perhaps'If you go to that jeweler you may find some sort of a receipt that Conley had to give and be able to prove that Conley can write.’ Pinkertons Found Conley’s Contracts. “Well, Gottheimer took that in formation back to the Pinkertons. They did just as I said; they got the, contract with Conley’s name on it. got back evidently to Scott, and then he told the negro to write. Gentlemen, the man who found out or paved the way to find out that Jim Conley could write is sitting right here in this ohair. That is the truth about it. “Then that other insinuation, an insinuation that is so das tardly that it is beyond the ap preciation of a human being, that is, that my wife didn’t visit me. Now the truth of the matter is this, that on April 29, the date I was taken in custody at police headquarters, my wife was there to see me. She was downstairs on the firs$ floor. I was up on the top floor. She was there al most in hysterics, having been brought there by her two broth ers-in-law arid her father. “Rabbi Marx was with me at the time. I consulted with him ae to the advisability of allowing my dear wife to come up to the top floor to see me in those sur roundings with city detectives, reporters and snap-shotters. I thought I ’ would save her that TO TALK IS NOW HAVE TOLD YOU m ■;> . Vopk 4<0 opm if A.it -A'' -Ml m Continued from Page 2. stairs to see Mr. White, I did not stir out of my office. I went on home. “I called up my brotl>er-in-law, Mr. Ursenbach, to tell him I was unable to keep the engagement to go to the ball game. The cook answered the phone. “My wife and mother-in-law were going to the opera, My fa ther-in-law and I at? lunch. He went into the backyard while I lit a cigarette and lay down for a moment. 7- “I left and while passing the home of Mrs. Wolfsheimer, saw Mrs. Michael on the porch. I went in to see her and saw Mrs. Wolfsheimer, Mr. Loeb and oth ers. Watched Parade When Street Cars Stopped. “To catch, the next car I ran down to Glenn street. On the car I met my wife’s cousin, Mr. Loeb. The car was b.ocked at the cor ner of Washington and Hunter streets. I walked up to Wfiite- hall street and stood ther$ possi bly for fifteen minutes watching the Memorial Day parade. “As I walked down Whitehall street I met Miss Rebecca' Car-, son. This was probably o:10 or 3:15 o’clock. I greeted her and walked on. I stopped at Jacobs’ Pharmacy and walked on. I went from there to the factory. “When I reached there I went upstairs and let the boys know I had returned. A minute later, I returned to my office and started to work on the financial sheet. “In a few minutes the clock bell rang and Arthur White came into the office to borrow two dollars. It was while I was at work on the sheet at probably 4 o'clock that I went to the toilet. “As i returned toward the of fice, Inoticed Newt Lee coming toward me from the head of the stairs. I told him he oould go on >ff but to be sure and be back at > o’clock. I told him I was very sorry I could r.ot let him know about the half holiday but that he was at liberty to enjoy himseif as he saw fit, but that he must not fail to return at 6 o’clock. “The first night that Newt Lee came to work at the factory, I took him over the bui'dmg, and stressed the fact that he must go into the basement, especially the just bin, every half hour. “I toid him it would be part of his duties to watch the back door. He was to make a complete tour every half hour and punch the clock. “Now, I will return to the work of the financial sheet. This sheet contains the cost of all the pencils made that week. There are no names but this sample case will show you.” Evidence Excluded But Jury Sees It. Frank unfolded a sample '*ase. Dorsey.: “We object .to this being used as evidence.” Judge Roan: ”L sustain you.” Frank placed the sample case to one side. “Well,” he said, “you got a suf ficient glance at those pencils to see there were a great many.” “In making up this sheet it was necessary to go through the list of all that were packed. Specials, of course, have to be figured sep arately. ., “For instance, there is a special GO-60-x pencil known as ‘Crack- crjack.’ Now I notice that the two expert accountants reported tvso errors. While they were un important, I wish to explain that those errors were not mine. They were made by Mr. Schiff. I never checked his figure#. I checked over mine, but not his. “Now the next j# ‘jobs.’ The accountant found the only error in my financial sheet there in the item ‘job it was not an error, * as I will show you. He did not know my method of figuring. “Twp Items here are tota's. The total grpss amount is 791 gross, the total value amount $396.75. In figuring the average I obtained $50.01. In that .average . he discovered an error. It was not an error. I simply die not go as far into the decimals as he did. One tenth of a cent was close enoi/gh for my purpose. “Now-some of the items in here art t*»lfser\ from the reports of the foremen of the different depart ments.” Frank then exhibited a report from the foreman or forewoman of qach department and explain ed it. “Then there is the report of Mr. Schiff, showing the gross of pen cils shipped each d&y of that week -»nthat w«ek was an exceptionally* heavy oneL “Now there is a little report here that donstitutes one of the most difficult calculations. It is from the packing room. We have a trick of the trade to put the pencils that do not sell very fast into fancy packages to make them go. “Now, very often these pencils ane taken from the shelf, where thfey have laid for more than a year; and repacked in the fancy cases. | made all the calculations on Vhis that afternoon, despite everything that has been said here to the contrary. “Now here is a little sheet that deals with the grades'of the pen cils. It shows th^ totals for each class 6f 1 pencils shipped that w6e*k. This data sheet—we have had very few clerks at the For syth street office capable of keep ing it, because it requires rather advanced mathematics to reach the totals/’ *‘Ndto ) wi IF have to get all my thoughts on this sheet. I isn’t a hard job but It is a very tedious ©he and requires much care and accuracy- Here is rubber—cheap rubber and good rubber. Now it Ha> been intimated th£t some of these items-—this one in particu lar, ,ifj am no\ mistakep—that J could take two'that were already figured and subtract- them from the total and get the cost of the third. “That is not so. Some of the pencils haven’t any rubber in them at all. I have to go through the same tedious operation on each item. There are various sorts of packing boxes used. Then there, are the skeletons ip the boxes. Some pencils don’t have skeletons at all. “All these items must be gone through accurately to get correct results of this sheet. Then there is no section on this data sheet showing the co6t of tips. You can5t use rubbers without tips, so, after figuring them, I just added them to the rubbers. “Some pencils take wrappers and some don't. The very cheap pencils are tied with a cord, so we have the same tedious figuring again. “The slat item is not worked out because I could not find the data. I just put it off until Mon day. “Here are the jobs—the payroll at Forsyth street and the payroll at Bell street. “Now the shipments were fig ured for the week. I did part of that work in the mi&rning and I explained to you about the in voices being wrong. Well, here are the items on this financial sheet. Then, as to the orders re ceived. . Entering the orders re ceived that day involved no more work than transferring. Has Own Method of Figuring Cost Data. "Here they are in comparison to the amount shipped. “One of the mo6t intricate things in making out this financial she^rt is figuring the cost data. This sheet 1 may say is a child of my own brain. The first one gotten out was gotten out by my self. “This item here gives us the net value and the net amount of mon ey the pencil factory received for its pencils. The burden that a business hbs to' carry is its fixed Charges—rent, insurance/ certain salaries, etc.—thd Charges that are' the same whether great or few- pencils are made. f “The machine shop is variable. tea m We did make many machines at first, but later the machine shop was used solely for upkeep. The slats are figured at 22 a gross. That cost was simple multiplica tion. “The figuring of that price is not done in making out the finan cial sheet Saturday afternoon. Mr. Montag and myself figure that in. advance, making allowance for profit, breakage, etc. “I have here on the report of April 26 ‘Slats, not complete;’ that was because Schiff had not made out the slat report, and I planned to complete it Monday morning before taking it to Montag. “Now, beside the making this large sheet here and the financial sheet, there aer three other sheets that I made out. Now, I want to call your attention to this. I did not typewrite it. I merely filled in the blanks. I have several of them typewritten and keep them in my desk. “In addition to that I make out two condensed financial sheets, showing the principal figures. They are sufficient for a director or stockholder to see what t,he factory is doing. Mailed Statements To Stockholders. “One of these statements I mailed to my unefe, Mr. M. Frank, who is president of the company, and the other to Oscar Papen- heimer, who was a director. “I put one in an envelope and addressed i tto Mr. OscAr Papen- ! heimer; the other I sent to my unole along with a price list, and I wrote him this letter. “This price list is too long for an ordinary envelope, hence the large envelope. “After finishing the financial sheet, I folded the large sheet and addressed it to Mr. Selig Montag. I then took up the checking up of the cash and bal ancing of the cash book. I did that work as near as I remember, between 5:30 and 5 minutes to 6 o’clock. It did not take me an hour and a half. I did it in about 25 minutes. There was $30.54. There couldn’t have been any more. It was mostly in small- change. There was one loan to Mr. White, ma ji[P9 *he total amount of cash $28.56. “Beginning that week, we had $39.25 as a balance. We drew two checks of $15 each—I mean by that that we went to Mr. Montag's office and had him draw the checks. The total amount of money we had to account for was 69.25. What it was spent for, of course, is shown on the debit side.” Frank explained each of those Items, Including drayage, parcel post, etc. • v • “I found at the end a shortage of $4.34 coming about in payrolls within the last three months.” At this point Frank paused to take a drink of water having been talking for 2 hours and 30 min utes. “I finished this work I have just outlined,” he continued, “at 5 minutes to 6 o’clock. I took those slips—I won’t show them to you— stamped April 28: They were put into the clock because no one was coming into the office until Mon day. “Newt Lee’s punches on Mon day night, would appear on the strip placed on the clock Monday night. Just before I left I put a new tape in the clock and made Newt Lee punch it. Then he went on down stairs to wait and let me out. “As I started out of the factory, I saw Newt Lee talk ng to a man named Gantt, who had been re leased about two wepks before. I gave them permission to go into the factory and get Gant’s shoes which he said were left there and I told Newt Lee to go with him. “I reached home at about 6;25 o’clock and at 6:30, thinking Newt Lee would be near the clock. I called him over the phone to iee if everything was all right. I could not get him. I called aqain at 7 o’clock and again at 7:30. At that time I got him and he tolej me everything was aft right. <4 “That night my parents-in-law had company at the home Thrse present were Mr .and Mis. Mar cus, Mrs. Goldstein, .,rs- M. Marx, Mrs. A. B. Marx, Mr. Ike Strauss—who came in at about 10 o’clock. I read a maga^m*; un til about 10:30 and then retired.” Told Officer He Did Not Know Girl. At this juncture the jury retired for five minutes. Frank conferred with his attor neys while the jury was out. Up n its return he resumed: “I believe I have taken in ever-' move Saturday night. I ret re* 1 Saturday night. Sunday merning about 7 o’clock I was awakened by the telephone ringing and a man’s voice whiich I afterwards found out to be Detective Starnes, said: “I want you to come down to the factory/ ‘What is the trou- . ble?’ I asked. ‘Has there been a fire?' ‘No,’ he said. ‘A tragedy has occurred.’ I said, ‘All right,’ and he said .he would send an auto. “They came before I finished dressing." At this point I differ wrth the detectives, Black and Starnes, about .where the conver sation took place. They say it >fras after we were in the ma chine. ! say it was before we left the house, before my wife. At any rate, here, is what was said: “They asked me if I knew Mary Ph agan. I answered that I did ndt. Thev asked' me if I did not pay off a-little girl with long hair down, her back iji© afternoon be fore, | said I did. Thev said they wanted me to go to the un dertaking establishment to see if L could identify the boyd. Th#y made the trip to the undertaking establishment very auickiy. I went in and st6bd in the dbbr- way. The attendant removed the sheet from the little girl’# faca and turned the head/ toward me. Hi# finger was right by the cdt^. on the head. I noticed her nostrils were filled with dirt and cinders and there were several discolora tions. I notioed a piece of cord around her neck, the kind we used in the pencil factory. I said it looked like a little girl that came to the factory th© day before. They had already to ! d me It was Mary Phegan. We went to the factory and by examining the payroll-1-found that Mary Phegan had tfrawn her pay the day before and that the amount was $1.20. “As we went into the factory I noticed Mr. Darley going ih. We went to the office and I found New» Lee in the custody of the officers. They told me they wanted to go down into the basement. I got the elevator key, but when I tried to start the elevator, ma chinery I found I coujd not and I told Mr. Darley to #ee if be could start it. Admits Nervousness And Defends Himself. “He started the car, and when we got further down I found that one of the chains had slipped. They showed ms where the body was found, where the shoe was found and pointed out every thing that was at that time known. After looking about the basement we got eomfe nail# and a hammer, and Mr. Darley nailed up the back door. Back upstairs Mr. Darley, Chief Lanford and myself went on a tour of inspecticn of the three upper floors. We went through the metal room, the same metal room that has figured so promi nently in this trial, and neither Mr. Darley nor myself noticed anything oarticular on that floor. Nor did Sergeant Lanford, chief of the Atlanta detective force. “We went to the time clock. I took out the si* and a casual note .of. this ship would indicate Z-£FT QFF7C£ 6.00 P MT- /hr jtclm:/. flashed c a see le like that. To see that little girl on the dawn of womanhood'so cruelly murdered— it was a scene that would have melted stone. Is it any wonder I was nervous?” ‘I got in an automobile and sat on Mr. Darley’s knee. I was trembling, perhap*. .. Later Sun day morning, I went to tlje home of Mr. Sig iVlontag and tola Ki’tfi what had occurred. I got homo about 11 o’clock. My wife and I went over to my sister-ia-law's, Mrs. Ur#enbaob’s, and with a number of friends we discussed the tragedy. “We went back home to dinner and mentioned there" the terri ble crime. A.^r dinner I read a short time and about/'10 minutes to 3o’clock caught a car down town. “T ho conversation^ on thq, cap was about the little girT that Had been found dead in the factory. At 3:10 o’clock I went back to the undertaking establishment and found Joe Stelka there. “Oh Monday I went to the po lice station with Darley and he said he would li-xe to talk to Newt Le« alone. We were shown the two notes found by the side of the slain girl.” >»■ - Frank then described. tbe./uitps. . . “Now, an one of the notes thebe was an erasure, but the tracing was still discernable. It was January 11, 1912. The order number was very indistinct, but it was evidently an o.d serial number. “Returning to rVfcy heme at 4:15 I .met Mr. Haas and he asked me about^tjhe murder. Severay people on the street also masked me* “I remained at •hoFfie^-tmtil 5 o’clook, then I went to .'Mr. • Mon- tag’s home and made a report of the tragedv to him. From there I went to the home c/ Mr. Mar cus where I had received a tele phone message from my wife, and I went by there to get her. “At supper that night the con versation was again about the murden After supper I read the paper. 1 called up Mr. Marcus and .asked him if he would come down. He said he could not. “Mr. and Mrs. Selig had a party that night. About 10 o’clock, my wife and I wen*, up to bed. Next morning before I had finished dressing, the door bell rang, ft was Detectives Elapk and Haze- lett. They said they wanted me to go to the police station with them. Kept in Ignorance of Charge Against Hmi. “I went and cn the way I asked t'hem vl/hat was -:7ie trouble. They said Chief Lanford would te>l me. . “I arrived at the police station and sat in an outer office for probably an hour w thout seeing Chief Lanford. Near 9 o'clock, Mr. Sel Montag and Mr. Herbert Haas came down. Near 10 o’clock I saw Mr. Rosser. He came in and said, “Hello boys, what’s the trouble.’ “Mr. Haas took him off to one side. Chief Lanford came out and said to m«: ‘Come in here.’ “? w®r»t into hi# office. He hawed me «-.e time slips and if I am not mistaken A his same tine slip h’-* the figures still un erased: *8:26 a. m/ “I took the sbp and examined it ’ .losely, discovering the slips. There seemed to be some alter cation about Mr. Rosser getting into the reem with me. I heard him says. ‘l*am going into that room. Tha^lhsan is my client/ Schiff, Mr. Darley and a number of others, including .4r. Quinn. “Mr, Quinn said he wanted to take me back to th# metal room where it was claimed blood spots had been discovered and where * the hair on the lathe was discov ered by Mr. Barrett. “F bY'&mined them closely, par ticularly the spots. | did not ex amine them standing up. I got dqvyn on my knees and examined them with a strong electric flash light and I arrived at certain oon- clasiont. “That floor ia grease, soap and dirt covered to a thickness vary ing from a qu irter to half an ihch. *' * “To return- to that spot. I don’t claim Jt.was not blood. The space where these spots were adjoins the ladies’ dressing room. There have been accidents which may not,have be* n brought out in this trial. We do not report every time one of the employees cuts his finger. “There are all sorts of paints around the factor I have seen girls drop bottlee in the hall, not exactly dt that point, but near there. But the point about thosd spots is that when I examined them there was over them an ac- cumulatidU of dirt not of days'oi* weeks, but of at least three months. Phoned to Prevent Alarm of Family. “The white stuff was not fresh. IF.was dry . And another ttying^ if that Compound had been put ort the blood fresh, it would h£V6 been pink and not the white that it- was. ‘Now, when the Atlanta pa pers containing the statement that I was detained were pub lished, I telegraphed Mr. A. R. Montag to communicate with my uncle that I was no longer; that I had been released. I did this because I knew they would be alarmed if they saw the sensa tional stories in the papers. “Harry Scott of the Pirlkertons came in and spoke to me in the presence of Mr. Darley. He said he had not reacj the newspapers. I told him all tHat had been pub lished and in addition the state : ment that Mrs. White had seen a neoro about 1 o’clock on the first floor. “After I had told him all I knew, I took him over the fac tory. On the second floor, I no ticed him put several articles in his pocket. One Inoticed was a piece of cord such as I learned had been found around Mary F'hagan’s neck. I asked him as to the rates of th© Pinkertons. He told me and I informed Mr. Mon- tag, who approved them. “Mr. Scott said that at it waa the usual custom of the Pinker tons, he would work hand in hand with the police. I went home and found my family there and sat up until about 10 o’clock, when I went to bad. Gave Officers All Information Wanted. “Tuesday a. m. I arose between 7 and 7:30 and caught the 8:10 oar. I remember f got to the fac tory at 8:30. I went right into mv routine work and at 9:30 o'clock went on my regu'ar trip to Montag’s. I then went back to *he factory and to work again. “After a ^hrle Detectives Black and Scott came and told me they tory at night. Then they said: ‘You talk to Lee. You are his boss. He will talk to you/ “The detectives told me to go after him strong and tell him we would both go to hell. Detective Black said that. “1 went in and talked to Lee. I tried to got him to talk. I said: ‘Newt, you had better tell every thing you know or ou will get ua both into trouble.’ He stuck to his statement that he had told th# whole truth. “Then the detectives came in and f waa initiated to the Atlanta police department third degree for the first time. Detective Black went after that poor negro. He called him every vile name he could think of. He fairly streamed with profanity. “I want to touch upon a few accusations that have been level ed against me, besides this crime. The first ia that I would not talk to the detectives. Let us look into that and ae© if there is any truth in that. I went there Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and dis cussed the matter freely and openly. I gave them a written statement. I talked to them at enidnetiht. I talked to Newt Lee at their instance. What did they do? They grilled him. They twisted my words. They put words into his mouth he never hoard. After that I said I washed my hands of them. They came to me again—Soott and Black. Black said: ‘We are suspicious of that man Darley. Now, open up and toll us all you know about him/* , • J! ■“Vsaidr ‘He is the soul of honor/ “‘Come on, Scott: nothing do ing,’ said Black. “Then I knew I couldn’t trust even our own Pinkerton detec tives. After that I treated them with siience. That is why 1 would not see Conley surrounded by a bevy of city detectives. Thoy would distort; they would falsify. j'That is the reason I kept my si lence. “Now this second charge that I knew Conley could write. Tells of Showing Conley Could Write. “Let’s look into that. “On M«y 1 l was taken to the Tower. On the same date, as I understand it, the negro Conley was arrested. I didn^t know any body had kfty suspicions about him. His name was not in the papers. He was an unknown quantity. The police were not looking out for him; th«y were looking out for me. They didn’t want him, and I Had no inkling that he ever said he couldn’t write. “I wa# sitting in that cell in the Fulton County Jail—it was along about April 12, April 13 or April 14 that Mr. Leo Gottheimer, a salesman for the National Pen cil Company, came running over, any says: ‘Leo, the Pinkerton de tectives have suspicions of Con ley. He keeps saying h© can’t write; these fellows over at the factory know well enough that he can write, can’t he?** “I said: ‘Sure he can write/ “We can’t prove it. The nig ger says he can’t write and we feel that he can write.’ “I said; ‘I know he can write. I have reoeived many notes from him asking me to loan him mon ey. I have received too many notes from him not to know that he c«n not write. In other words, I have received notes signed with his name, purporting to have been written by him, though I have never seen him to this date use a pencil.’ “I thought a while and then I said: Now, I tell you. If y6u will look into a drawer in the safe you will find the card cf a jew eler from whom Conley thought a watch on the installment plan. humiliation and that harsh sight, because I expected any day to be turned loose and be returned once more to her tide at home. “Gentlemen, we did all we could do to restrain her in the first days when I was down at the jail from coming on alone down to the jail, but she was per fectly willing even to be locked up with me and share my incar* ceration. Says He Knows Nothing of Crime. “Gentlemen, I know nothing whatever of the death of littie Mary Phagan. I had no part in causing her death nor do I know how she came to her death after eh© took her money and left my office. I never even saw Conley in the factory or anywhere else on that date, April 26, 1913. “The statement of the witness Dalton is utterly false ae far as . coming to my office and being in troduced to me by the woman, Daisy Hopkins, is concerned. If Dalton was ever in the factory building with any woman, I didn’t know it. I never saw Dalton in my life to know him until this crime. “In reply to the statement of Miss Irene Jackson, she is wholly mistaken in supposing that I ever went to a ladies’ dressing room for the purpose of making improper gaze into the girls’ room. I have no recollection of occasions of which she speaks, but I do know that that ladies 1 dressing room on the fourth floor is a mere room.in which the girls change their oqte^ clothing. “There was no bath or toilet in that room/ and it had windows opening onto the street. There was no lock on the door, and I know I never went into fhat room at any hour when the girls were dressing. These girls were sup posed to be at their work at 7 o’clock. Occasionally I have had reports that the girls were flirt ing from this dressing room through the windows with men. “It is also true that sometime* the grls would loiter in this room when they ought to have been doing their work. It is possible that on some occasions I looked into this room to see if the girle were doing their duty and were not using this room as a place for loitering and for flirting. Says Negro’s Story Is Tissue of Lies. “These girls were not supposed to be dressing in that room after 7 o’clock, and I know that I never looked into that room at any hour when I had any reason to suppose that there were girls dressing therein. “The statement of the negro Conley is a tissue of iles from first to la*t. I know nothing whatever of the c*use of the death of Mary Phagan, and Con ley’s statem®nt as to his coming up and helDing me dispose of the body, or that I had anything to do with her or to do with him that day, i$ a monstrous lie. “The story as to women com ing into the factory with me for immoral purposes is a bas# lie, and the few occasions that he claims to have sepn me in inde cent positions with women is a lie so vile that I have no language with which fitly to denounc# it. “I have no rich relatives in Brooklyn, N. Y. My father is an invalid. My father and mother together are people of very lim ited means, who have barely enough upon which to live. My father is not able to work. I have no relative who has any means at all, except Mr. M. Frank, who fives in Atlanta. Nobody has raised a fund to p«y the fees of my attorneys. The*« fees Have been paid bv the sacrifice in part of th© small property which my parents possess. “Gentlemen, some newspaper men have called me ‘the silent man in the tower/ I kept my si lence and my counsel advisadly until the proper time and place. The time is now, the place is here, and I have told you the truth, the whole truth.” Frank bowed s’ightly to the twelve men to whom he had ad dressed this remarkable states ment and th/n stepped down from the 6tand. Court adjourned until 9 o’clock Tuesday mornirrej