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VfTTC ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRANK CALM AS HOOPER ARGUES TO SEND HIM TO THE GALLOVl Stoically and Unblinkingly He Listens to Scathing Arraignment of Sta ACCUSED ATTEMPTED TO DAUGHTER OF JUROR WAITING TO SEE 'PAPA' GANTT. STATE SAYS Continued from Page 1. factory, and. gentlemen of the Jury, most of these girls had quit working at that factory from two years to three weeks before the time of this trial. "Every one of them said his charac ter wan bad. Did you notice the em phasis with which they wild it was bad? And did you notice that they would have told more if they could have been allowed to? Did you notice how highly Incensed they felt toward the Immoral conditions which existed at this factory? "You have those who are still there who will say that his character is good, but you have those who have left who invariably say his character is bad. We put them on notice from the very first that we w-ere willing to enter fully into his character. We could furnish particular information in regard to this, but we have been prevented. "We have asked their own wit nesses and our own; we have asked them, ‘Did you ever hear of this inci dent?’ and ‘Did you ever hear of that incident?’ We brought these particu lar girls before you, and asked them in regard to Frank’s character. They said it was bad. We turned them over to the defense, and they failed to question them in regard to any ot the incidents to which we have re ferred.” Colonel Arnold interrupted at this point, protesting to Judge Roan that he considered Mr. Hooper was mak ing an Improper argument in saying that the State could not go into the particular evidence and In intimating that it was an incriminating circum stance that the defense did not take advantage of its privilege and ques tion the State’s witnesses in regard to the particular incidents. Judge Roan sustained Hooper, saying that it was his only legal recourse. Hooper continued: "If out of 100 men, 90 of them say that a certain person’s character is good, hut ten of them say, ‘Bew’are of that man; he is a bad man,’ would you say that you had a man of good character? Says Girls’ Morals Were in Hands of Men. "It is almost Impossible to magni fy the temptation in the National Pencil Factory to a man without con science and filled with lust. These girls in the factory were entirely de pendent upon the attitude assumed by the men who wen; superior to them. This defendant, assisted by the noble Darley and the handsome young Schiff, practically had these girls' morals m his hands. The girls were absolutely dependent upon this trio. "We find that the defendant con nected himself up with a man whose character is good enough at present, but who admittedly was leading an Immoral life at that time. What can we say when a man whose daily as sociates are bankers and prominent business men shall associate himself in his leisure hours with a man of the character of this C. B Dalton? ”1 expect most all of you have read that little f*tory, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” We are all dual characters; none is so good but that there is some evil; none so bad but that there is some good. It is when the evil predominates that we have a bad man. The bad is good when with his own class. When the shades of night have fallen, and he seek* associates of his baser passions, then it is that we get a glimpse into his other na ture. So it is with this defendant. "He didn’t seek opt the bankers and people of his regular sphere when his baser passions came on. He looked for an associate in a man like Dalton. Dalton has had a number of men to get up here and say they would be lieve him. They are men who have worked side by side with him. Of course, he is a fellow of a lower class, but it has been shown to you that he is a good fellow of his class, con genial to that environment. ••Then there are other fact* to sup port this idea. This defendant claimed to you he did not know Mary Phagan. Yet the evidence showed that he passed back and forth by her every day. We find he did know her. Wit nesses declared he stopped to speak to her and show her how to do her work. He told her HE was the su perintendent of the factory. He pur sued her out of the beaten path. This little girl, sent there by her parents to be under hie protection, was In his eye, the eye of lust. He w as laying a foundation for his object. Conley, Too Ignorant to Lie, Stuck to Truth. "Let’s turn back to the first evi dence of this, the first interest of this man ever knew' Mary Phagan. ~ i said t*> Gftxgtt, a man reared in the same community, several weeks be fore the tragedy, ‘You are pretty thick with Mary Phagan?’ He had her in his mind. Next we see him getting Gantt removed, and It was Just after he bad remarked what a good office force he had. The fir*t opportunity was about one dollar. He sought to give you the Impression of dishonesty. He would attack this man whom he wouldn’t let go Into his factory unless accompanied by a negro. Shame upon him! “Thus he got rid of Gantt, and be gan to lay his plans. "You remember that the defense pitted Its case against Conley. I haven’t nald anything about him yet. but he comes in right here. He was to them like a stone mountain. They must break him down, or they are lost. They must break him down, and you have seen here the greatest fight between my herculean friend Rosser on the one side, and that poor, Ignor ant negro on the other, and you have seen the result. It was brains against ignorance; strength again* weakness —and after three and one-half days you saw Conley unshaken. His evi dence was written ns fast as he talked and my friend here, Rosser, carried him back over the same ground again and again, but they could not break him down, because it was the truth. It continued to pour like the waters through a mill race, because that ne gro didn’t have sen*e enough to lie. He was telling for the first time the real story of what actually happened that fatal day. Other Men and Women Corroborate Conley. “Why didn’t Mr. Rosesr break Jim Conley down? It was because, after all the lies the negro had told, he was telling the truth, and the truth is stronger than either of these two gentlemen. And it was the truth, gentlemen of the Jury, that held Jim Conley unbroken on the stand for three days. And truth Is greater than all. Yes, even after my herculean friend had worn himself out In three days’ effort to break the negro, he tried to put it off on his brother, Mr. Arnold. But the law protects a man, and would not allow this. They will tell you that Jim Conley is a powerful liar—and he Is. But take each of his affidavits. Each one of them gave a little more of the truth, and on Mr. Rosser’s long cross-exami nation he brought out more of the truth. "The opinion I expressed at the time was that if the defense contin ued to bore into Conley they might bring out even more of the truth. What they brought oift did Frank no good. They beat upon him mentally but he remained unshaken. "This defendant is a smart man It was a remarkable statement that he made upon the stand to you, but he didn't need to get on the stand here and talk to you for more than two and a half hours. He went into each detail, going from one thing to the other, and putting it on one man and then the other. “But let us go hack to Jim Conley, the Jim Coni A they could not shake, because he was telling the truth. He tells you he had done that often be fore. He told you that he saw othel people come there; that he saw men and women meet there; and, gentle men. there are other people who cor roborate Jim Conley; who said they saw men and women come to this pencil factory and meet the defend ant there. Says Affidavits Fit Exactly With NegTo’s Narrative. "The next morning Frank was there to see him; the next morning Jim was there. Do you know, gentlemen, that Providence sometimes will di vulge the truth at the very last min ute? At the last minute yesterday two men came up here and said that they saw’ Jim Conley there. Mrs. Ar thur White said she saw someone re sembling Jim. but she was not cer tain. So Jim was telling a story that a good many people were disbelieving, but here came two men who said they saw him there, or a negro very much like him, who directed them to the of fice at the right of the stairs. As Mre. White came downstairs she saw’ a negro sitting exactly where Jirn Conley In his affidavits said he was. They made their affidavits at differ ent places, but they fitted in exactly. "Why was he there? For w’hat wag he sitting there hour after hour? He was sitting there to do as he had done many times before—to watch at the direction of Frank. One thing they have said is that he w r as drunk. 1 suppose he did drink a few’ beers that morning, but have you noticed that he told of everyone that went up there that morning, and in the order in which they went up. He could have said that saw Mrs. White, but he Margaret Louise Wisbey, whose father Is on the Frank Trial Jury. ,V.;VV. t > < * -• f -y admitted that he was napping about this time. Now w r e come to the time of the tragedy. Jim was still there. “But about this little Mary Pha gan. A little girl who asked for Man’s money had been refused the night before. They told her that Mary would have to come after It herself. This was a violation of the general rule at the office. Even Schlff told you, I think, that they gave out the envelopes to other persons if they knew them well enough. Frank told Jim on Friday night to come back the next morning, but he didn’t have any work for him to do. All he want ed of him was to watch at the door as he had done before. He wanted him to watch while girls came up to the office to chat with him. You will notice something peculiar about that word ‘chat.’ It is a word 1 never have heard before, but you will notice that there are two persons that use It. One of them Is Frank and the other Is Conley. Paints Word Picture of Little Mary Phagan. "He tells Jim he wants to have a chat with that girl that day. ‘Jim, you Just make yourself convenient; wait around.’ Jim comes and waits He makes himself easy there in the hall. He takes a nap. People come and go. Then Mary Phagan comes, the beautiful little Mary. She must have been a beautiful little girl. I guess you all remember her pictures, with her curly hair and bright eyes, and trim figure. "She came with a little boy. They must have been sweethearts. She had an engagement w ith him. She want ed to go to the factory first for her little $1.20. She went, tripping along, a happy child. From that dreadful hour not one thing was heard from her. But we know what a horribly f catastrophe she met as she went, so innocently, for her little $1.20. “Frank was there. How do we know it? From his own statement. And he had to change It when he came upon the stand. A live human being, a young girl, came here and said he was not there when she w’ent to his office. Frank did not see her. She waited five minutes. He was not in. I am not going into the details cf the time. Mr. Dorsey will do that la his conclusion. What I want to im press upon you is that Frank stated here from this stand he might have gone out of his office for a moment. It was the first time such an admis sion was intimated. But there was the sworn statement of Monteen Sto ver to combat him. "It had to be got around. You don’t have to depend altogether on Jim Conley’s story. Monteen Stover went to his office after Mary Phagan, ani he was not here. Rosser Interrupts to Enter an Objection. “In the meantime another little girl was waiting in his office—Monteen Stover—and Conley was waiting for the signal downstairs. Frank fol lowed that little girl back there, and I want to be perfectly frank and say I do not think he had murder in his heart when he did, but the pent-up passions of weeks gained control and he could not stop. That scream that was poorly described here by this poor, ignorant negro—I wish you could have heard It; that scream that sounded like a ripple of laughter that ended when she realized his hellish purpose; the scream that ended when her life began to ebb.” Bosser Interrupted Attorney Hooper to say that there was no evidence about laughter. Hooper replied: “AH right; I was mistaken.” "The scream.” Hooper continued. “and then those fast running foot steps, That was Frank coming to get the cora that strangled the child Then he gave the signal for the negro to lock the door and come up, and Conley found him nervous and shak ing, fresh from that harrowing scene on the rear of the floor on which his office was located. "Now, gentlemen, we have this man Frank—this man of high standing and character—either committed this crime or that he was back in his office in plain hearing of any scream or any running of the elevator or the hearing of people going up and down the stairs, attending to his duties in his office, preparing that wonderful state ment we have heard so much about. Finds Mute Accuser In Factory Diagram. "By this diagram I will show you that he was bound to have known of the commission of this crime, even If he hadn’t committed It, but lis tened to that brute negro attack that little girl. "I want to show you that even If he was where he said he was. and where Monteen Stover said he was not, that this crime could not have been committed without his knowl edge. "I want to show you that he could see from his desk to a point by the clock. I don’t want to give any tes timony, for if I did I could show thdt he saw more than that, but by this diagram—and it is a fact—I will show that his line of vision sitting at his desk would bring him to the clocks. "Frank doesn’t sit back In Ms chair He sits away forward, and when he is at work he Is the hardest working man you ever saw. And, gentlemen, he could see into the space beyond his office. "Little Mary Phagan was killed back there In the metal room—back there where our friends say they could see not find any blood spots, but where we have shown there were spots of blood. And, gentlemen of the Jury, if Frank did not commit this crime, he sat supinely there at his desk and let that brute negro kill her: let that negro bring her up the pas sageway, bring her up to the elevator and take her down that elevator, which, when running, shook the whole building, which the negro said he could hear downstars; which witness after witness has told you could be heard over the entire building, and which Frank could not have helped but hear. “Frank’s First Word 'Betrayed His Guilt.” “Mr. Frank. I will give you the benefit of every doubt, but according to your own statements as to the time you were there, and the time which has been shown conclusively that the girl was killed, you were right there; you sat right there, and you never moved. "Now, to bring Jim Conley back into it: Gentlemen of the Jury, isn’t it an evident fact—haven’t you been shown conclusively, that either Frank or Conley killed little Mary Phagan? Or that Frank killed her by himself, as Conley says? Or that Frank sat supinely at his desk and let this negro Conley kill her, and yet he made no move? "As soon as the murder was con summated, there was something up stairs that had to be attended to. There were two men upstairs and a woman. Frank was anxious that they be let out of the factory. He went upstairs and told them that if they were going to go, now was the time. “Mrs. Arthur White left. Arthur White and Harry Denham stayed. Frank told Mrs. White that he was going to put on his coat and hurry away. But this man, who was in such a hurry, still was without his coat when she got down to the office floor. Frank went into his office, washing his hands in that imaginary water. They say that this was his habit, and that we must not assume anything from it. “The first words that he uttered when he got inside the office, he opened the doors to his guilt that all might look in. Frank said: ‘Why should I hang.’ adding that he had wealthy people In Brooklyn. How Did Conley Know He Came From Brooklyn. "What was the estimate that he put on the life of a young girl? Didn’t it hurt him to wind the rope about her neck until It had sunk deeply into the tender flesh? I can’t conceive how any being with the Instincts of hu manity could have twisted the rope about the neck of that pretty little girl. But he said: ‘Why should I be punished for doing such a little thing as taking the life of this little girl? I have rich relatives in Brooklyn.’ They will say he never uttered these words. He has denied them on the stand. But did Jim know that he came from Brooklyn? Did Jim know that he had rich relatives In Brook lyn? Did Jim know that he reckoned a human life in dollars and cents? "No; those words came from the bottom of this man’s heart. “From the African temperament of Jim Conley came the next remark. ‘What’s going to become of me?’ he asked. ‘Oh, I’ll take care of you, Jim: you have been a good negro. I will write my mother in Brooklyn.’ "This is that old mother who has stayed here in tho courtroom so faith fully through all this trial. I can not understand how she has had the bravery to do it.” AX this point Attorney ob jected on the ground that the speaker was quoting from the affidavits that Conley first made and not those that he told on the stand. "You will find that they are all about the same,’’ said Hooper. "Frank says: ‘Jim, can you write?’ Jim says: ‘Yes, I can write a little bit.’ Says Frank Lost Head In Fixing the Notes. "Why did he ask Jim that ques tion? Jim had furnished reports on those boxes. He knew what Jim could do. "Jim was trustful; he wasn’t on his guard like he was when confronted by the terrible Mr. Rosser. He had faith In his boss, and how false was his boss? As false as he was to the little girl. As false as he was to poor old Newt Lee when that bloody shirt was planted. "You all, I presume, are Southern men, or have lived long enough in the South to become familiar with the traits of the negro. Can you tell me that you could imagine a negro on his own initiative writing such notes as were found beside that body? "They charge the crime to a negro —a negro who could hardly write. Would a negro who stood before the grilling of Luther Rosser for three days, and came out victor, be fool enough to do that? "The truth of the matter—the fixing of those notes seems to be the only time that Frank lost his head. He might have known the police would go back of that. “Then we come to the money in the case: I don’t think Frank had any $200 in his office when he was talking to Conley, but dollar bills would look mighty big. He handed the reward to Conley. Then he thought: ‘You are as deep in the mud as I am in the mire.’ Aloud he said: ‘Let me see that money, Jim;’ and he sticks it back into his pocket as if to say: ‘If everything comes out all right, I will give it hack to you.’ Tells How He Arranged To Dispose of the Body. "False again to the poor negro who had carried out his hellish purpose, he compromises with a cigarette box containing about $1.50. "Perhaps there was another idea in his head; there was the mute and mutilated evidence of the crime in the basement. That must be destroyed. This money would be a reward to get that removed. "Then we come back to that origi nal proposition that the body was carried down the elevator shaft by Frank and Conley. But there is the part of burning the body. A man who had committed the crime would not hesitate to burn it. He knew that there was no man to come back there that day except Newt Lee. "I don’t care anything about what time Frank got home or what he did there; he got back to the factory at 3 o’clock, where he had an engagement with Conley to dispose of* the body, and he knew that Newt Lee was go ing to get there at 4 o’clock. “Conley overslept himself and Lee came first. Frank said: ‘You go away, Newt,’ then to himself he said: ‘And give me two more hours to get rid of that body.* “But Conley never came back, and Newt Lee did. He had to let him in, and he knew then that he was lost. “When Frank saw Gantt in front of the factory door, did he start back aghast and say, ‘There is that blood thirsty thief that was $1 short?’ No; he said, ‘There is Gantt; he was Mary Phagan’s friend. He lived near her and her family has sent him to find her.’ “But Gantt w r ould not harm a flea. He reassured Frank by telling him ne nad come to ^et a pair of shoes ne had left in the factory. But Frank didn’t want him in there, and told him the shoes had been swept out. Charges Frank Lied to Gantt. “Gantt told him there was another pair, and, gentlemen of the Jury, Frank had to let him in, and he went in and found not one pair of shoes, but both pairs. “Did Frank tell him a lie to keep him out cf the factory, or did he really think the shoes had been swept out? He told a lie, and he was so afraid Gantt would find something that he sent him in under guard. “And, gentlemen of the Jury, as he stood at that entrance in the presence of Gantt the thought was going through his head, ‘It is going to be known in a day that Mary is gone. Lord knows I don’t want to let you inshore, but I have got to let you in, but I will guard you. Come on in, but you go with him. Newt,’ and, gentle men of the Jury, notice this: “The striking thing about it—the singular fact is that Gantt found both pairs of shoes, showing, gentlemen of the Jury, that Frank had never seen the negro sweeping them out. “Did he lie about this, gentlemen? And after he had left the pencil fac tory, trembling and with a burden upon him, what did he do that night? He did something he had never done before- He called up Newt Lee over the telephone, and when he could not get him the first time, he called again and asked if that long-1e~*red Gantt was there. "And when he found that Gantt had left and had discoveerd nothing, what burden rolled from him! No wonder he looked light-hearted. No wonder that he could read baseball stories Joke* No wonder that his family I could say that he had nothing on his ! mind. “Another Thing on His Mind That Night.” "But yet he hAd another thing on his mind before the night had gone. During the early hours his telephone rang, but he did not answer It. Hon est old Newt Lee notified the police and tried to notify him. “But Frank did not answer. He says he heard the telephone but faint ly, or he imagined he heard it. “But the police heard the call, and they went down Into that basement and found something. They found the body of little Mary Phagan cruel ly murdered, the cold body lying on the ground where it had been left for Jim Conley to bum. “Jim had taken his nap, though, and had not come back. The police men took the body to the undertak ing establishment, and at daybreak they started to get up Frank again. And when they got him he was anx ious to know if there had been a fire. “And, gentlemen, aside from the conversation that took place, even officer and every man who was with him that morning will tell you that he was nervous; that he was shaking like a leaf; that he rubbed his hands and was completely filled with nerv ousness. “But, gentlemen, he is a wonderful man. Though he stood there and quivered that Sunday mom, not a one of you can say that during this trial you have seen him quiver once. He is as calm and cool, as any man in the courthouse, to all intents and pur poses. “But the morning after the crime he was as weak as a cat. He was nerv ous; he was trembling like a leaf The people In the automobile on the way to the undertaking establishment felt him tremble. Holds Up Time Slip to Jury. “What was his conduct when he got down there to the morgue? He did not look on his victim, on whom he had had lustful eyes for weeks. He fled; he could not pay the proper re spect to a dead body. He went be hind a curtain, a place where he had no business *to go. He rushed out and waited for the rest. “Did he Identify her? No; he said he thought it was the girl he had paid off the day before. He had to go back to the records; he had to look up and see what her name was. Still he had seen her every day as he passed the machine where she worked. “It was the same girl he called Mary; it was the same girl he tried to engage in conversation; it was the same girl on whose shoulder he placed his hand. “What did he do with the time slip that was put in the night before? He said, after looking at it, that It was properly punched. Others looking over his shoulder agreed to it Dar ley himself agreed to the error.” At this point Attorney Hooper pro duced the time slip which he held up before the Jury. “There weren’t any marks on it then,” he continued. “Frank said it was perfect. He told the night watch man: ‘I know you didn’t do it, Newt.’ But he found that he was getting him self in trouble. Bloody Shirt Also Exhibited. "He asked himself why he had said anything about the slip until he had htfd time to fix it up. “The next day comes Holloway, his right-hand man, saying that he had the slip, and that it had two misses on it. Frank made some remarks about Newt Lee. “John Black, suspecting that the negro might know something about the crime, went out to Newt Lee’s house and in a trash barrel he found this.” The bloody shirt was held up by Hooper before the Jury. “Somebody had to plant a shirt out at Newt Lee’s. Somebody did plant a shirt out at Newt Lee’s. “Did you notice how minutely Frank described his movements all day Sun day and all Sunday night? That struck me a* very suspicious. “Newt Lee said: ‘If that is a ma chine made shirt it is not mine, and if it is a home-made shirt it is mine.’ And\ behold! it was a home-made shirt. “These remarkable discoveries were made when the shirt was found. You will find that the blood is on both sides of the shirt. And not in corre sponding places. “There Is only one explanation—It was used to wipe up a pool of blood. It did not have the distinctive negro odor; it had not been washed. The button holes ahd not been opened up since it came from the laundry. “Willing and Anxious To Sacrifice Negro.” “Remember please that that morn ing this defendant had brought up a time slip with skips showing that Newt Lee had not made all the punches. Gentlemen, he was willing and anxious to have that negro's life sacrificed to save himself. “The Bible says: ‘What will a man not give for his life?’ He was will ing to give up Gantt, but never one word did he say against Conley. Con ley was his friend and associate. That poor negro got arrested for washing a shirt to go to Frank's trial. "Frank never accused him until the Newt Lee scheme and the schemes had fallen through, last resort the defense has throw whole attack on Conley. “There is one other thing I wai mention—that big stick and the 1 piece of paper found by the shre smart Pinkerton detectives who't find anything, even an elephant, on floor. These were found after n merous searches, weeks after the mui der. “Unfortunately, they showed tht slip of paper to Mr. and Mrs. Cole man, but there was a figure *6’ on this piece of paper, purporting to be a part of Mary Phagan’s pay envelope. “When they came on the stand with that evidence, the figure ‘5’ had been conveniently removed. It fitted the amount Mary Phagan drew that week. “Doctors say the wound on Mary Phagan’s head could not have been made with a stick like they exhibited. No scientific tests for blood were made on it. Yet the defense Intro duced It as the possible weapon that caused her death. “Where Is Mincey?” ' Hooper Asks. "An Inquiry has been made about a man named Mincey. Conley went on the stand and was asked If he did not make certain statements to Min cey about killing' a girl. The only purpose of these questions was to in troduce Mincey to clear up this whole affair. “My recollection was he wa* brought into the courtroom and sworn with the other witnesses.” Rosser: “You are mistaken.” Hooper: ‘1 may be. but where 's Mincey? It looked like the whole fight was to be about him. Frank was to be cleared, Conley convicted. But there has not been one word from him. "Gentlemen, I am not going to take up any more of your time. I wanted to open up the case fairly and squarely to show you and the defense your positions on these various points." Hooper concluded. Then Judge Roan asked Solicitor Dorsey to cits the authorities upon which he expect ed the court to base its charge to the Jury. Solicitor Dorsey requested Mr. Hooper to do It for him. The Jury retired for a short recess and Dorsey sent his deputies out for a number of court decisions. “Use Common Sense,’’ Hooper Tells Jury. After the jury returned to the box. Hooper read from a great many au thorities on the question of a reason able doubt and the quality of circum stantial evidence. “I have heard men say that they thought one thing but when they were on a jury they had to decide another wa3 r ,” said Hooper. “That being on " a jury made a whole lot of difference, but it was never intended that such should be the case. “If you gentlemen believe beyond a reasonable doubt, that is the way you should decide. You should decide this case as you would in your own home. You are supposed to use your com mon esnse In arriving at a conclusion in this case, for the law is supposed to be common sense in its highest form. “The absolute certainty is not ob tainable. The most that can be ob tained is the moral certainty, which has been described as being an ab solute certainty. The question of moral certainty is before you In this case. The question for you to decide or not it is an absolute certainty. “It is unfair for a jury to be charg ed that direct evidence is superior to circumstantial evidence. And it is against the law to charge a jury that to direct. Alibi Must Be Complete. Citing other authorities, Hooper said: “If the facts of the case point unerringly to the guilt of this defend ant, then to all intents and purposes his guilt is as certain as though the, evidence was direct. “The proof of good character,” Hooper continued, “will not hinder a conviction if the evidence against the defendant is sufficient. Even though the proof of good character ip not at tacked, as it was in this case, the evidence in the case Is enough to overbalance the character testimony. “An alibi must exclude the possi-* bility of the presence of the defend ant at the place and the time the crime was committed. “You are not 'o be governed by any opinion that counsel may express, but by the evidence presented. “If a party is apprised of the evi dence against him and does not ex plan or controvert it, the strongest presumption is lhat it is true.” Negro Boy Held for Drowning White Boy DOUGLASVILLE, Aug. 21.—Will J Tally, a negro boy, Is in Jail here ; L charged with the murder of Fred Hol- llnsgworth, a white boy, at LithiaJ Springs. It is alleged that in a struggle be-J tween the boys on the banks of Sweet-1 water Creek the negro struck Hol-j lingsworth with a rock and pushed;! him in the creek, where he waal drowned. The negro says they were in swimming and when the white boy . became strangled he was unable to save him. W JEFF DAVIS CORN RALLY. VIDALIA.—The boys’ corn clubs df Jeff Davis County held a rally at Hazlehurst Wednesday, all the clubs In the county having representation. A program previously arranged carried out.