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TITE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS.
JIM CONLEY MISERABLE, LYING SCOUNDREL, SAYS ARNOLD
Dressing Room Story Preposterous, Lawyer Asserts Hotly to the Jury
Continued from Page 5.
absurd hie discover!©a are. I am not
going to Just hit the high places like
my friend Hooper did I am going
fully into it. My friend Hooper is a
bully fellow He is such a good fel
low that really I am almost pursuad-
ed he hasn't had his heart in this case
at all
Blood Stains Were
Only Analine Drops.
"Four pieces of floor were chipped
■up. Each piece had a spot on it
which they thought to be blood. These
chips were taken from the floor cov-
to shred*. 1 have no doubt that Daisy
Hopkins is a bad woman. She has
admitted it. I am sorry for her, but
some of the men who testified in this
case were no better. Think of the
motorman who got on the stand her*i
and told about going to that place
with women and Dalton telling about
going there with Danny Hopkins and
sneaking down through a scuttle hole
into the basement.
'They told us that Dalton, the man
with a < riminal record, had reformed.
He lied when he said he had reform
ed and if he ever went into the pen
cil factory he slipped in. Look at this
man, gentlemen (pointing to Frank).
Why should such as he associate with
' ' he would
ereij with dirt and grease one-quarter I Dalton. Would you think
\ be a boon companion of a man iiko
of an inch thick. This floor has never
ben scoured and we know a few' men
who had been hurt back there and
who had been carried by this spot.
There is a difference of opinion as to
how much they bled, but ue know
that they did bleed, that they bled
considerably. And this place was in
front of the ladles’ toilet.
"And we know- from the chemists
who have been upon the stand that if
a drop of blood had fallen there four
years ago the chemist could find cor
puscles now. They took up four
chips. I want to show' you these
chips, and I also want to read you
Dr. Claud Smith's testimony on the
stand here. Here are the chips with
the blood spots on them—all blood.
Oh! The chemist can And the cor
puscles! Unless they are scoured up
they will be there ten year*. Now
listen to Dr. Claude Smith’s evidence.
He says here that he found three or
four or five corpuscles in the field. My
recollection is that one drop of blood
contains not less than 80.000 corpus
cles.
"As to the amount of blood, you
can form your conception. And here
is what he says about the chips: 'The
chips 1 handled had blood and dirt,
grease and other things on them.’ He
says he found corpuscles on one of
the chips, but he could not tell w hat
chip it was. He said he raked them
all together. He could not even say
whether the corpuscles he found were
human or not. He could not even
pick out tlie one chip that had the
blood on It. He said that he tested
for blood only; that he made his
test in the ordinary way, and he
found the stain on every chip. And
that stain was paint, analine which
we have insisted was there. And as
to the amount of blood, he could not
sey whether It was half a drop or
less.
No Blood Spots
Where Hair Was Found.
“1 say that nne-half a drop of bio ,d
might have been there aeveral years.
And now. If I make myself clear,
what they say whs blood was a stain,
the same thing on every chip, and not
blood at all. - It Ju§t happened thece
were one or two corpuscles on one
chip when one drop of blood would
have made 80,000 corpuscles. And
they would have remained intact sev
eral years.
"Now that hair Christopher Colum
bus found on the lathing machine,
and by the by it has ver been in
troduced and I would like to know’
where it is. It has never been iden
tified for the very simple reason that
it is not in exiften Every doctu/
* haw told you that she must have bled
where the hair was found or wher*
the wound was made, and there was
no blood found.”
Attorney Rosser here interrupts3
Arnold to read from Detective Black's
testimony in which he said that De
tective Htarnes and himself made a
thorough examination of the metal
room and dressing room the Sunday
morning after the crime and found
neniit r hail nor Mood.
"Now here where Barrett found
strands of hair.” Arnold continued, I
want to sav that it would be noth-
ln* remarkable to fin strands of
hair on any machine in the factory
at which women orked.
Even Frank’s Honesty
Worked Against Him.
“My friend Dorsey says they wash
ed up blood in several places Now
why wasn t it all washed up, instead
of putting this haskeline around that
one place?
"The whole truth is that the whole
case rests on this fact: that Frank
was honest enough to tell them that
first Sunday morning that he did see
Mary Phngan; that she did come
there for her money, the time she
cairo there and the time she left
Now if he had been trying to hide
any tiling he would certainly have had
eense enough—my friend Hooper
says he is more than the ordinary In
Intelligence—to have denied seeing
the girl at all. to have known abso
lutely nothing about her and to have
had her pay envelope in the cash
drawer where It would have been If
he had not honestly paid her off when
she went to his office unharmed
"When Little Mary Phngan came
Harry Denham and Arthur White
were upstairs. Lemmle Quinn and
Monteen Stover and all the others
were coming In. People were coming
and going all morning The doors of
the offices were open; the doors of
the metal room were open. There
were glass doors in the metal room
so anyone could look in and see
everything that was going on.
"Du you mean to tell me that a
man Is going to plot murder with
conditions like that? There were
people coming in before and after the
crime—a dozen people were dropping
In. There Frank was overwhelmed
with work, his stenographer gone,
and yet they tell me he had planned
to lose half or almost all the entire
morning with a plot like that. All
reason w’ould be against hie having
relations with the girls in the factory
Brands Dalton As
A Common Liar.
‘T have no doubt that some of the
girls in the factory were bad, but
don’t believe they were all bad. I I
believe most of the girls who work t
in that place are good. Now the !
prosecution has jumped on poor Daisy*
Hopkins and has torn her character j
{■
that. No man says he was but Dal
ton and Conley. Dolton and Conley
brought Daisy Hopkins Into this c-aso,
too. She was not our witness exrept
In (his way. Fallen women some
time* tell the truth. It Is known that
they have peculiar characteristics an'l
we knew that It they had lied when
they said they went to this place with
her she would say so.
■ Now, Daisy Hopkins snys It Is a
lie and when all of these neonle say
Frank was never there with women
and when the clerks, the office boys
and hts assistant. Srhiff, say that
these men lied, then Dalton has lied.
State Suppressed
Dalton’s Record.
"The State WM hard pruned to
bring on a witness like Dalton. They
didn’t tell you about Dalton. They
didn't tell you that he had been ar
rested and served prison terms almost
without number. Now. gentlemen,
occasionally a thief reforms, but not
often. Drunkards may reform and a
man with bad habits will reform, but
h man with stealing propensities sel
dom reforms. Our friends, Dorsey
and Hooper, say Dalton has reformed.
Now this man stole valuable articles
in Walton County and in Gwinnett
County. We brought witnesses from
both counties to show that Dalton's
character was had now. They had
witnesses from Walton County, not a
soul from Gwinnett County.
"Now, Dalton has named two other
girls he says he met at the pencil fac
tory. They said he lied. Now. gen
tlemen, would you convict a man
against whom prior to this murder
no word has ever been said on the
word of a jailbird, an admitted adul
terer who slips into factory basements
to follow his precarious practices.
"Now. gentlemen. I am coming to
Jim Conley. As our friend Hooper
said this morning, the whole case
centers around Jim Conley. At the
outset suspicion was directed to
Frank because It was thought he was
the only person in the building who
hafl the opportunity to commit the
crime. Harry Denham and Arthur
White were there on the fourth floor,
and as far as Frank knew*. Mrs.
White was there, but no one knew
of anyone being in the dark passage
way near the elevator, the most fa
vorable place in the entire building
for a crime.
"No one knew anything about this
for weeks. The detectives started
against Frank because he admitted
that he had seen the little girl, that
she had come there and that he had
given her her money. They worked 1
on Newt Lee. and if he had been a
negro who could have been bulldozed
or intimidated he would to-day have
been swearing falsely against Frank.
“Negroes, Like Children,
Tell Long Fairy Tales.”
"Now I have no harsh words to
say about the methods of the de
tectives, but in this case they have
let their zeal lead them astray. Their
theory Is that when they get a pris
oner so he will tell something on
«ome one they have accomplished
something. Now, 1 am coming to th»
case of Mlnola MeKnight, and it is
a fearful thing It is worse than the
Newt Lee affair. Mr. Frank said he
had never heard such vllliflcatlon as
was showered upon the head of Newt
Lee by the detectives Evidence
gained in that manner, gentlemen, by
browbeating, Intimidating or per
suading is suspicious and it is no held
In the decision of the* Court of Ap
peals that I read to you this morning.
•This evidence looks bad no matter
how blameless are the men who got
it. I don't believe thut Detective
Htarnes would write something and
tell Jim Conley or anyone else to
swear to it, but they can accomplish
the same thing or more by doing
what they did.
Tell me a negro can’t Invent a tale
with lots of details. They havs got
the capacity of little children for do
ing that. Don’t you know how little
children tel] stories of fairies and
things like that? There is nothing
in the word! so extensive as the
Imagination of a child.
“The older I grow' the legs imagi
nation f have. And anyone who has
been around court rooms much knows
that negroes are the equals of chil
dren In making up plausible yarns.
•They say that Frank used the
word ‘chat’ and that Conley used It.
The very first things that a negro
apes in his boss are his peculiarities
of expreneion. I have heard negroes
stand and mimic their bosses, using
all their mannerisms and motions
Why, gentlemen. I can see it devel
oping how Conley sat and read the
papers and conjured tip this tale. I
can see t?ir> developments in- the
cooking up of this whole thing. And
1 am corning to it. And It i» mon
strous.
"Then the bloody shirt: my friend
waving that scared me. 1 thought
the war was over. They say Frank
planted It. Frank didn’t know any
thing about if. But John Black knew
it was there before he w'ent and got
it I don’t Ray that the detectives
planted it. But you had to find out
shunt It from Black and Scott. We
don’t know anything about it. About
that time Lanford was giving out
interviews saying Newt Lee was
guilty The detectives were bringing
i i - case against him. The shirt
was found.
"Conley wan arrested on Mav 1
He denied that he could write. This
fact points to him like the finger of
fate itself. They found out he could
write from Frank. Frank didn’t
know, before that, what the detect
Ives w'ere trying to learn from Con
ley. T honestly believe that.
"Frank snowed them pawn tickets
snd Conley admitted the handwrit
ing. Then time rocked along and
Conley began to try to figure out
his story to clear himself He knew'
suspicion pointed to Frank. He had
plenty of time to conjure up his tale
before he Raid anything.
"They didn’t want Conley to stay
with Wheeler Mangum. They found
he could write, they found that he
wrote thn.se notes and found out he
was* congitently lying Why didn’t
they leave him with Wheeler? Be
cause they knew* he was honest and
would not stand for any frame-ups,
and they come into court with a pe
tition and say they don’t want him
o stay d-^wn there because they are
talking to him. I never heard of a
petition like that before, but they got
one, and got Conley out of there.
They have go* that petition over
there now.
‘I like my friend Dorsey He’s a
mighty nice young fellow', full of zeal
but he is a young man and when he
gets a little older he will know bet
ter than to take the initiative in a
case of this kind and get mixed up
with the detectives in their investi
gations.
Calls Jim Conley
A ‘Lying Animal.’
"But the officers had indicted
Frank before Conley made his flrit
confession. Back in his cell, this no-
gro was studying. . nd he smiled * *
himself. It was the easiest thing in
the world for him to say that lie
wrote the notes and lay the blame
of the crime on Frank. He said on
that stand: "Why the reason I did
this was because Mr. Frank had gone
back on me But that wat only the
beginning of his lies.
"Why, gentlemen of the Jury, I sup
pose there never was in the history
of criminal animals, and I stick to mv
opinion that there are criminal ani
mals. another such instance as this,
an instance where the lies of an ig
norant hut emooth negro are tak n
by officers of the law’ and used m
evidence to place the life of an inno
cent man In Jeopardy.
"But how glad the officers wer*
when Conley made his first state
ment. How they Jumped at It like
a straw. Frank is a well-known min
and officers felt that they were bound
to push their case against him. Else
they thought they might be crlticis a 1
if they failed to do so So they pro
grossed along the evidence furnished
them by this lying criminal animal
Their evidence alone is based on
these miserable lies. Take the affi
davits made by Jim Conley. Oh, he
Is smooth, this negro C’onley. He Is
not near the fool he made out he
was. And the State has clutched at
his lying testimony.
"Now look at these affidavits.
The attorney here read the affi
davit* of Jim Conley.
Accuses Officers of
Scheming With Negro.
“In one of these affidavits he said
he did a lot of thin#* on Peters street.
Then he comes tlons later and say*
this ts not true. Here t* another In
stance. the greatest one of all. he
chariKes the time he said he wrote
the ndt-a, and here also ie another lit
tle fact in the note* found by the aide
of the girl's body. Just notice the
word ‘negro.’ It is spelled right.
"Now. gentlemen, the first word a
negro teams to spell is the word ne
gro. And It was a noticeable fact
when Conley was on the stand that
he went out of hts way to say the
word ‘nigger.’ He said the word
’nigger’ every five minutes.
"flentlemen, he was drilled to It.
The first time Jim Conley admitted
writing the notes, he said he wrote
them at four minutes to one on Fri
day. But he was trapped in this. He
had told a crude lie. H e had gone
back on Frank. The officers caught
him in it. Then the scheming began.
• Jim. this don’t fit.’ the officers
told him. So he went back to lying
again. He had lied and was feeling
his way by lying. The reason he put
it on Friday at first was because it
was a whole lie. But these officers
schemed with him, and he kept build
ing lie upon lie until we don’t know
wnere w, are. If they put him on
the stand again he would go to lying
some more, I expect. If they had left
him over in the County Jai! with old
Daddy Wheeler Mangum, I haven’t
a doubt but that he would have told
the whole truth long ago.
Tells How Conley Was
Taken From the Tower.
"Here is what my good friend did
and the detectives got him to do 't.
He said: 'Judge Roan, I want to get
that negro Conley out of the Tower.
Judge Roan said: ‘All right, I’ve got
nothing to do with it.’
"They took him out of the Tower
and put him in the police station.
There they held him. They haven’t
any charge against him; they haven':
indicted him despite the fact that
there is ten times the evidence
against him that there is against
Frank.
"Now I am going to show you
something about getting evidence. I
have learned something myself In
this case. Here Is an affidavit from
Conley. Here is another one saying
It l* a lie. I am not going to read
them. They tell all about saloons,
sausage an<J the like.”
At this point the Jury was permit
ted to go out for refreshments. When
they returned five minutes later Ar
nold continued.
"The third statement, May 28,” ho
said, “in which Conley changes the
date of writing the letters from Fri
day to Saturday, conflicts with all his
other statements. He tells two pages
of w'hat he did that morning. Now
he say* all that is a lie. He says:
‘I made the statement about writing
the notes on Friday because I was
afraid I might be accused.
'He says he told all the truth ani
that this is his last statement. God
knows when he will make his last
statement. According to him he has
a sign language by which he tell*
whether he is lying or telling the
truth.
Says Negro’s Story Was
Wonderful in Detail.
“Don’t you know he looked into the
faces of the detectives when he made
these statements just as he looked
into your faces when hje talked the
other day? If he had a sign language
why didn’t he take the detectives
into his confidence. He said he al
ways looked clown when he lied. But
the detectives didn’t know his signs.
And in it al lhe keeps away from the
truth of his guilt of lying in wait in
that hall. Guilt was in his soul and
he was afraid to approach that. When
he did finally admit he was in that
hall, he said he was watching for
Frank. *
“Why the miserable lying wretch.
It 'makes me almost too indignant to
argue. Yet some people wonder how
he could imagine such a wonderful
lie. Why, if there is anything a ne
gro can do it is to lie.
“My late lamented friend, Charley
Hill, used to say that if a negro was
put Into a hopper he would drip lies.
“I haven't time to read this second
affidavit or to read of the hundreds
of things the negro did on Peters
street during the morning; how he
went to half a dozen saloons; fought
with a negro who had a bull whip
over his shoulder; of the controver
sies he engaged In; of the things he
ate and the things he drank. 1 have
never seen such a labyrinth of de
tail.
“We now come back to the writing
of the letter in this affidavit. This 1
affidavit Is filled with all sorts of |
things. Conley says: ’Frank grab
bed me by the arm and squeezed it.
He held me so tight it made his hands
cramp. He had me like he was
walking up the street with a lady. He
carried me back through his office
into his outer office picked up a box
of sulphur matches. Then he looked
out and saw two ladies coming.
Searching Analysis
Of Negro Continued.
“He said ‘Gee, there come Emma
Clark and Corinthia Hall. Then
F’rank grabbed me and put me into
a closet. I was a little slow, and he
gave me a push.’
“Now, gentlemen, Conley says Em
ma Clark and Corinthia Hall were
there at 1 o’clock or shortly after,
and as a mater of truth they were
there between 11:30 and 11:40. Then
Frank says: ‘Get into the closet.’
Once it was mapped out it was no
trouble at all for Conley to tell his
tale. He knew about the closet in
Frank’s office. He knew every foot
of the plant. He had swept out every
inch of it. He could tell by the voices
of the women and the spots on their
dress who they were. He says he
heard Mrs. Freeman say: Good
morning, Mr. Frank, are you alone?’
“Now*, gentlemen, this miserable
wretch has himself hiding in the
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