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2 VfTE ATT .A NT A GEORGIAN AND NEWS. ASKS 'HOW DID FRANK KNOW GIRL WOULD COME FOR HER PAY?' No Way for Him to Know She Would Call on Holiday, Rosser Asserts DETECTIVES ME SCORED GANG’ BENT Continued from Page 1. you put your hand on your pocket- book? If you wouldn’t, you are braver men than I. The word 'thief is written all over his face. My friend Rube Arnold said when Dalton came to the stand, ‘That’s a thief or 1 don’t know one.’ I smelled the odor of the chaingang upon him; I 'reach- asked as to what Frank was doing in his office? He said: 'I had such a peach myself that I had no time to give attention to anyone else.' Gen tlemen, he said he had Daisy, and you saw Daisy. She was the ‘peach!’ Poor Daisy! She is not to blame. If she has fallen, which I pray to God she has not, let us forgive her, !ike the Saviour forgave the Magdalene. "Gentlemen of the Jury, 1 don't say Rosser turned toward Attorney Hooper at this point, and continued: "You were willing, without one line of testimony, to attack the charac ters of these young men, so that you may carry your case. You are willing to clasp this Bertus Dalton to your breast as though he were a 16-year- old. If I know a single thing on thl» -arth I know the ordinary working man and working woman of Georgia. I have an ancestry of working people behind me. My parents were work ing people. With 100 of Atlanta’s working girls, with about the same number of Atlanta’s hardy working men. in that factory on Forsyth street. I assert they could not have been there eight long years if the factory had been an Immoral house. Those girls would have fled. The outraged citizens would have torn LEADINGCOUNSELFOR FRANK IN FULL SWING Rosser's work on the case has taxed even his remarkable physique. He has lost 25 pounds in weight. every man connected wdth the bank has been under suspicion at one time jr the other. But there is one thing I wish to fay. There was never a hard-working, thrifty man among you who was „ ever found guilty in the slightest way.’ "Now, gentlemen of the jury, that is the way it is in every walk of life. When you watch a great river flowing m to the sea, you don’t take a spy glass and pick out the little eddies. No. You look at the heavy flow of the waters as they move majestically along. “So it is with human life. It is this way with the hard-working man who follow's the straight course and goes on in a majestic flow on the even tenor of his way. It is not for the jury, trying him, to take the spy glass and search out the small eddies Luther Z, Rosser closes argument ed’ for him; I ‘felt’ for him; 1 asked him If he had ever been long away from home. He evaded me. When he left the stand, I said, ‘Rube, that man’s been In the chaingang as sure as there’s a God In heaven.’ And, sure enough, we looked him up. and he h*d been Then he came to At lanta, and they said he had reformed. But there are tv/o things in this world I do not believe In. One is a reformed thief and the other Is a reformed woman of the streets. “Joining the Church Is Old Trick of Thieves.’’ "On the cross the thief prayed, and the Master recognized him. He gave him forgiveness. He saw the thief and before the thief spoke He recog nized him as a thief. But the I^ord is all-forgiving, and He said to the thief, 'This day ihou shalt be with Me in Paradise.’ Now, l have no faith in these reformed thieves. I have no faith in a reformed pros titute. Tell me you can reform a thief? 1 mean a thief at heart, and the man who has thievery in his heart will carry it there all his life. H e may steal with secrecy, and be safe, but the thievery is still within him. You may reform other criminals, but the thief never. "Has Dalton reformed? Oh, he has done the beastly thing. Ho has done the low, with a sanctimonious ex pression on his face. He slinks down upon a congregation of godly people and deceives them. H«» joins them in hypocritical carrying on of their work. He deceives them. Why, gen tlemen of the Jury, Joining the church is an old trick of thieves, and here before us we have had the real il lustration. that of a thief who stinks in two counties and goes into an other to get away from the odor of his past existence. "Here is this man Dalton, of the Anglo-Saxon race. Yes. gentlemen of the Jury, he had a w hite face, but that was all. He was black within. What did he do, thia thief who joined the church? Look how brazenly he ad vertised his immorality. When he was placed upon the stand and questioned as to his acts, he could have declined to answer; could at least have hung his head in shame. But was he ashamed? No; he was as proud of his dirty immorality as a young hoy with a new red top. He milled over It. He gloated over it. It was the first time in his existence that a group of respectable men and women had listened to him, and he fairly gloated. "Did you hear what he said when Coming of The Sunbeam How to Avt>id Those Pains and Dis- trots Which so Many Mothers Hava Suffered. It U • pity more »wru. .1 know of Mother*! frtfcd Hart U a remedy that aaftMi* Um nut »1«*. enable* thvtn u# nr-nu. without any strain upon thi and enable# wonmo to (• through maternity without pale., uumi moral Mekr.ta* or any of tha d-faded aymptoms *o fa ■illar to many mother* There la no fooliah diet to haraaa the wind Th« it* do not dwell upon pain and autfe-tr*. fot art avoided TVn.sar.d* yf women nc realgn them*-]*** to th« thought that alcknoai totreea ar* natural They know bettor, for loth or'a Frieod they hare found a wonderfv atlng remedy to banlah all th-xv droaded cocoa. U a aubjert every woman ahould bo familial * and even though abc may not require aurh i remedy, abe arlL now aad then meet aom- proa- K tire mother to whom a word In time about Thi* fatuous remedy 1* sold hy all dniggUt* liothor ■ Friend will oome as a wonderful bieae and la only $1.«S a bottle It U fur externa, ** snly, and la really worth lta weight In gold Writ* to day to tho Brtdfigld Regulator Co.. 1?T lamai Atlanta. Gm. for a Boot valuable boofc all of us have been free of passion’s lust, but I do say that most of hu manity guilty of the crime hold It private. A gentleman wants decent surroundings when committing such an act. He wants cleanliness. No decent man ever stood on the stand and bragged about tho 'peach' that he had. Why, even the beasts of the field hide.that. "Burns had It right when he wild *n that poem aibout ‘be gentle with your brother man. be gentler with your sis ter woman.’ that ends with the lin >, ‘'Tis "human to step aside.’ "Dalton went and got that ‘peach’ and carried her to his scuttlehole like a gopher. Did you ever see a gopher? My friend Hooper used them for chains down in South Georgia all his life. The gopher has a a hole, with usually a rattlesnake for his compan ion. Ain't that a fine combination? In that dirty, filthy old hole of the pencil factory, on old goods boxes, with an odor which If put to the nose of a skunk would be offensive, where a dog would not step aside, where an old lascivious cat would not crouch— that’s Dalton. Yet only he and Jim Conley have brought charges of im morality against this factory. "I am going to be fair with you, gentlemen, if I can. I am going to tell you the truth. I thought this case was to 'be tried by a Solicitor Gen eral. God save the mark! I’ve never seen such partisan feelings before. Says State Witness Left Serpent’s Trail. "This arm of the State is to protect the weak, yet I’ve heard something I’ve never heard before, and I never expect to hear as long as God lets me live. The Solicitor said, ‘I’ll go as far as the court will allow me. That's the crux of this whole case. When the Solicitor General said that, God only knows how far the detectives went. Dalton said he went to the factory some time last year, between the hours of 1 and 2 o’clock. Did he go into the Wooden ware Company's part of the building or into the pencil factory? There’s nothing to show, except that wherever he went he left the trail of a serpent behind him. Frank didn't know he was there. It was Frank’s lunch hour. If Dalton went, he was taking advantage of the factory authorities. "When we come to consider t, what is there about this factory to make it so bad as the State has tried to paint It? It was searched by my friend Starnes, who wouldn’t stop at anything to get evidence. It was searched by that delightfu 1 man John Black. Do you know when I think of him I just want to take him In un arms and caress him. And it was searched by Patrick Campbell, that noble detective who wouldn’t go on the stand for fear 1 might ask him about his tutorage of Jim Conley. "The entire police department, in all Its pride, went over the record of that factory with a fine-toothed comb. What have they found? "Lot’s see. In the first place we have had a mighty upheaval in the last two years. It is wrong to com mit adultery, but with segregation, the proper surroundings, and a de cent amount of secrecy, the world tol erates It. But Chief Beavers doesn’t. He has combed the town with a fine- toothed comb. Young women have had to fly to cover, and young men go down the middle of the road. That Immoral squad; what do they call It, Brother Arnold? Oh, yes; the vice squad, has swept the town with a broom until there is not one lasciv ious louse left in the head of the body politic. And now they try to tell us this pencil factory was an im moral resort. "Who has one word to say against that boy Schiff? Who has a word to say against young Wade Campbell?” Rosser possesses none of the graces of the pleasing speaker, but in forcefulness he is hardly surpassed at the Atlanta bar. down that old building, stone by stone. You may assert that those girls wouldn’t have fled, but I tell you I have a higher conception of the Georgia working girl than to believe for one minute that she would have remained. "If I am mistaken, and 100 willing females stayed there, and 100 thin- blooded males stood by and let con ditions continue, 1 assert the factory could not have lasted 48 hours. No man in charge of a business of that magnitude ever yet attempted to be on terms of criminal intimacy with the scores of women in his employ but that they didn’t rule him with stronger reins than the Queen of Sheba. “Frank’s Statement Had Ring of Truth.’’ "What do you think would become of a factory superintendent who got on intimate terms with his women employees? This would be bad enough for a native born American, but what would you think full-blood ed Americans would do or say about a foreigner who came here and at tempted such a thing, and especially considering the antipathy which has always been borne to the Jewish race ?, “Now, I have shown you that the factory has been prosperous, and we know well enough that it could not have been prosperous if immorality had been allowed to exist there. "Now, let’s take up the man. I don’t have to tell you that he is smarv Every one of us know s that. When he got upon the stand and talked to you. he gave illustration of being one of the most remarkable men I have ever met. His talk to you was. indeed, remarkable, and as I sat and listened to it for the first time, I wondered and marveled at the brain of the man. I could never have made up a speech like that, even if I had had the brains. And it wasn’t a written speech, either. It was the truth, gushing out natural ly as does the water from the flowing spring. There was no force behind it. There was no electricity there. It was the plain, simple flowing truth .is mother Nature furnished it. Gentlemen of the jury, if Frank’s talk to you had been forced, it would not have had that ring of truth to it You may make a silver dollar that in appearance would fool the Secretary of the Treasury. But drop that dollar and the ring will tell. The real dollar has the real ring, the silver tinkle that can not be mistaken. And tho real truth, like the real ring, has the ring that shows that it is nothing but the truth. "Frank’s words had the ring that comes from old Mother Nature's breast when telling the truth. The old saying is that the idle brain is the devil’s workshop. No one knows this better than I do. When I am busy, I am one of tho nicest men you ever met. I eat regularly and get plenty of sleep, and I behave mvseif. I mean I am fairly good. But let mo stop work for a couple of days and there is no telling where I will light. It is the man with nothing to do who gets into mischief. Why Frank’s Character Was Put in Evidence. "Who do you catch stealing and doing mischief all around? It is the idle folks. An old banker retired from active business in New York was once given a banquet, and this is what he said when his faithful em ployees gathered around him; ‘Iq my 40 years in this bank, it has been an unfortunate coincidence that nearly in bis character, but let them take his full character, the broad and ma- jestic flow of it. "If we hadn’t said a word about his character, the court would have instructed you to assume a good character. Under the law, we could have remained mute, and his char acter would have been good to you. But we didn’t wish to do that. We wanted you to know what manner of man he was. I say to you with all the sincerity of my soul that no man within the sound of my voice could show as good character as he has, if put to such a test. I am not dealing with the infamous lies of Dalton and Conley. "But you say. ‘Wait a minute. Some people said he had a bad character.’ That’s correct. I am not going to try to fool you. I am going to deal with the facts. Easy to Find Witnesses Against a Character. "I couldn’t fool you if I tried. Let’s see who they are who say he has a bad character. You know’ you can And some people to swear against anyone. Suppose my friend Arnold had occasion and so far forgot him self a3 to put my character up. Don’t you suppofcie you could find a hun dred men in Atlanta to swear that I am vilely vicious? I am not—not ex traordinarily so. but in my long prac tice of law-, perhaps I hav$ wronged someone. Perhaps sometimes in my zeal I have been too severe, and some people may think they have a just grievance against me. "Now, what did this young man do? Here are the young ladies, and T haven't a word to say against them. The older I get the gentler I become, if anything. Oh. why should I abuse and vilify anyone? With our lives a moment bright, then dark forever, w-hy should I? "Here is Miss Myrtice Cato. She worked there three and a half years. If she was a sweet, pure girl, and I take it for granted she was, would she have stayed there that long, con stantly associated with Frank, If he w-as a vile man? She w’ould have fled from him long ago. Oh, s»he has felt the bitterness of the rabble since this crime occurred. She was under the tense heated atmosphere of this trial. "Then Miss Maggie Griffin. She worked there two months two years ago. What does she know about Frank compared with these women who have been there for years? “Miss Estelle Winkle had an exten sive acquaintance with Frank. She worked there one week in 1910. Miss Carrie Smith, like Miss Cato, worked there three and a half years, and the other few worked there very brief periods. "That’s all. gentlemen, of the hun dreds of women who worked there during the last five years. Scores Detectives as “Active Gang.” "Why, I could And more people to swear against the Bishop of Atlanta. They have searched every corner. They have spyglassed every nook. Starnes and Black and Campbell and Rosser, generaled by that mighty de tective, Chief Lanford.” Attorney Rosser turned and ad dressed the detectives grouped around the prosecution’s table. "You are an active gang,” he said to them. "Not only that, but how much of the Minola McKnight meth ods you have used nobody knows. How- they have wheedled and turned and twisted the minds of these little girls no one but God Almighty knows. Hundreds of men have worked in that factory, and they are the larger vessels, but not one of them appeared here to testify against Frank’s char acter. "Has no man who ever worked there brains enough to scent the cor ruption and the depravity that ex isted around the factory? Here is that long-legged fellow' Gantt. My friend Hooper here tried to explain w'hy he left, but you know why he was fired. He was there for three months. Don’t you know- that if Frank’s character had been what they said it w-as. if he had been the las civious fiend, the brute and moral pervert. Gantt would have been tha first man to testify to it? "I had intended not to go into tha detail, but If you will bear with me for a while I will. My friend Hooper said he had fairly presented tha State’s case. If he has they haven’t a case and If he has not he has nofi been fair to you. Says Boy Was Wheedled By Dorsey. "They say Frank had been prepare ing for this for several weeks. That little fellow says he saw Frank talk ing to the little girl and calling her Mary, and this Gantt said Frank told him he seemed to know- Mary Phagan very well. Gantt did not tell that be fore t^-coroner’s inquest and that other young fellow had to be wheedled and led by my friend Dor sey, only to get tangled up and prove that he knew nothing. "Then what was next? The next w-as a little boy named Turner. I am not here to say anything against Tur ner, but look at the detectives with their claw-s about him. Remember what they did to Minola McKnight* and then you will realize what hap pened to the boy. "Turner testified that he went into the metal room and saw Frank speak to Mary Phagan. Under the leading questioning of the Solicitor, under his wheedling and coaxing. Turner said that the girl backed off two or threo steps, but he admitted that it all took place in broad daylight, and in. full sight of Lemmie Qufnn’s office. “Is it to be believed that a man in sight of a whole factory, handicaped by his race, would have gone into tha metal room and attempted those ad vances with that little girl? Is it to be conceived that this innocent lit tle girl would not have fled like a frightened deer hnd would not have run home and toid that good step father and the good old mother -who reared her? "That little girl, Dewey Hewell* testified that Frank put his hand on. Mary’s shoulder, but there were Grace Hix, Magnolia Kennedy and Helen Ferguson. Do you believe that he would have done this in their sight, and that they would have said noth ing about it when they were on the stand? Gantt Knows Nothing Wrong About Frank. "My friend from the wiregrass (meaning Hooper) said that this was the beginning of his ’ diabolical scheme. Then Gantt was turned on as a pajt of the plot, Gantt being the only one who knew of Frank’s intentions toward the girl. “Don’t you suppose that if this plot had existed, Gantt would have been the one who in clarion tones would have proclaimed it from the witness stand? Yet they had this long-legged fellow' twice on the stand, and both times he said he knew nothing wrong about Frank. "Conley says that Frank told him at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon to come back Saturday. Now, gentlemen, do you believe that? Don’t you know that Frank had every reason in the world to believe she would not be there Saturday? Placards had been posted all around the factory telling that it would be a holiday. All of the employees knew of it, and there w r as nothing to show that she did not know of it. They paid off Friday afternoon, and there were some en velopes left over, but Frank did not know whose they were. Schiff had paid off, and had put the envelopes up. Frank had not even seen them. Now. little Helen Ferguson said she went to the office Friday afternoon and got her envelope, and that she asked them to give her Mary Pha- gan’s. She said Frank declined to give it to her, and that when he did this, she turned and walked away. "Now, we have Magnolia Kennedy, who says she was right there with the little Ferguson girl, and that she Continued on Page 3, Column 1. The Best Food-Brink Lunch at Fountains 3F insist Upon ORIGINAL GENUINE HORLICK’S Avoid Imitations—Take No Substitute Rich milk, malted grain, in powder form. More healthful than tea or coffee. For infante, invalids and growing children. 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