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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 Continued on Page 7. BALTIMORE AND RE TURN—$20.95. On sale August 22, 23. 24. Through steel trains. Seaboard. YOU *7 ROLL TO ME a get the best results you er had in 8 hours. 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There are black, tan and white in the lot. They were formerly $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 a pair. Shop early on these. Every low shoe in the house reduced to either $5.95'. $4.95, $3.95 or $2.95 a pair. Next week our twice-yearly shoe sale will end, and you will lose if you don’t get some of the exceptional bargains on sale now. J. P. Allen & Co. 51-53 Whitehall St.