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r t I vnr: Atlanta Georgian and news. FRANK CALM AS HOOPER ARGUES TO SEND HIM TO THE GALLOWS Stoically and Unblinkingly He Listens to Scathing Arraignment of State ACCUSED ATTEMPTED TD !ATTORNEY F. / HOOPER 1 ARGUING E 3EFORE JURY GANTT, STATE SAYS Continued from Pago 1. protection of th® law Ju*t aa any other cltlsen. "But another thing: He is not en titled to any more. He la not, on ac count of hla high position and wealthy connection*, entitled to any more than any other defendant. The strong arm of the law la strong enough to reach to the highest places and do Justice there. "It la strong enough to reach down Into the gutter and regulate the lives of the lowlleat. I am not going to undertake to go over all the facts In this case Believes Firmly In Frank ’s Guilt. “I congratulate you. gentlemen of the Jury, that the case Is nearing an end. I have felt sympathy for you. because you not only have worked hard, but you have been de prived of your liberty and the en joyment of your homes. In one sense of the word, you have been In Jail. "There haa never been a criminal case in Georgia that ha* been so long. There has been no trial so Important or the result of which will be so far- reaching. and that only makes the re sponsibility on you the greater. "There Is one other thing that I want to say to you before I go Into the facts of the case. This man ought not to be convicted simply because someone has to be, nor because of the law that demands an eye for an eye and a life for a life. We think the evidence shows him to be guilty b»- yond any reasonable doubt. "In taking up this evidence I am considering you deeply, I am consider ing the strain you have been under. I am thinking deeply; In fact, I am trying to make myself as one of you twelve men, and In attempting to bring this to a conclusion I am striv ing to get at the truth. "Let’s see what the situation was on Memorial Day, Saturday April 26. Here is this great big pencil factory, which was being run by a number of men with this defendant in charge. Let us consider the conditions that existed there, and, gentlemen, I must aay that I am not proud of these con ditions. Witnesses Incensed By Factory Conditions. "But to get to the real facta of this case; to come to a full realization of Just how things occurred, we must understand the conditions that existed here absolutely before we can pro ceed with this case. The character of this plaec was one to make us think deeply. The evidence which haa been laid before you here has been of the kind to make one doublv serious. Take the defendant. Between 25 and 40 girls have come before you and said that his character was good. "They spoke In the highest terms of him. That must be considered. But on this charge this Is negative evidence. But also consider that we have brought before you girl after girl who told of his character being bad ;who told of the Immoral condi tions that existed In this great pencil factory, and, gentlemen of the Jury, most of them girts had quit working at that factory from two years to three weeks before the time of this trial. "Every one of them said h1s charac ter was bad. Did you notice the em phasis with which they mid 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 were 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 of the Incidents to which we have re- trred." tolonel Arnold Interrupted at this Pint, protesting to Judge Roan that 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 thjit the defense did not take advantage of It* 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 me.% 90 of them say that a certain person's character Is good, but ten of them say, ‘Beware 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 & man without con science and filled with lust. Theso girls In the factory were entirely de pendent upon the attitude assumed by the men who were superior to them. This defendant, assisted by the noble Darley and the handsome young Schlff, practically had these girls morals in his hands. The girls were absolutely dependent upon this trio. "We And 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 aay when a man whose dally 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? "I expect most all of you have re;f.d that little wtory, "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 seeks 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 out the bankers and people of his regular sphere when hla baser paffllona 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 wide with him. Of course, he Is a fellow of a lower class, but It has been shown to you that be Is a good fellow of his class, con genial to that environment. "Then there are other facto to sup port this Idea, This defendant claimed to you he did not know Mary Phag&n. Yet the evidence showed that he passed back and forth by her every day. We And 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 hl» protection, was In his eye, the eye of lust. He was laying a foundation for his object. Conley, Too Ignorant to Lie, Stuck to Truth. "Let’s turn back to the Arst evi dence of this, the first Interest of this man who never knew Mary Phagan. He said to Gantt, 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 had remarked what a good office force he had. The flrnt 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 said 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 as 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 Arst time the real story of what actually happened that fatal day. "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, gentlemei^pf the Jury, that held Jim Characteristic attitude of Dorsey’s aide in action. m so. Li. -A-. • '•••• A Attorney F. A. Hooper, who opened the Frank trial argument for the State. 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’ efTort to break the negro, he tried to put it off on hla brother, Mr. Arnold. But the law protects man, and would not allow this. They will tell you that Jim Conley Is powerful liar—and he la. But take each of his affidavits. Each one of them gave a little more of the truth, and on Mr, Rosaer's long croaa-examl- natlon 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 out did Frank no good. They beat upon him mentall> but he remained unshaken. "Thla 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 back to Jim Conley, the Jim Conley 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 other 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 Negro'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 wa* 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- Ace at the right of the stairs. As Mrs. White came downstairs she saw a negro sitting exactly where Jim Conley In his affidavits said he was They made their affidavits at differ ent places, but they Atted In exactly. "Why was he there? For what was 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 was 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 w’ent up. He could have said that he saw' Mrs. White, but he admitted that he w'as napping about this time. Now w’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 Mary'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 w’atch 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 U a word 1 never have heard before, but you will notice that tnere are two persons that use It. One of them la Frank and the other Is Conley. "He tells Jim he wants to have a chat wdth that girl that day. ‘Jim, you Juat 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 with him. She want ed to go to the factory first for her little 11.20. She went, tripping along, a happy child. From that dreadful hour not one thing was heard from her. But we know what a horrible 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 went 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 1 want to im press upon you is th 4 Frank stated here from this stand he might have gone out of his office for a moment. It was the Arst time such an admis sion was intimated. But theTe 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 wa* 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 w’hen 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 POPULAR EXCUR SION TO WRIG-HTS- VILLE BEACH. $6 round trip; six days; Satur day. August 23. Special train, sleepers and coaches Leave 6 p. m. Make reservations early. poor, Ignorant negro—I wish you could have heard It; that scream that sounded like a ripple of laughter that ended when she realised Ms hellish purpose; the scream that ended when her life began to ebb.” Rosser Interrupted Attorney Hooper to say that there was no evidence about laughter. Hooper replied: "All right; I was mistaken." "The scream," Hooper continued, "and then those fast running foot steps. That was Frank coming to get the cord that strangled the child Then he gave the signal for the negre 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 hi* office wa* located. "Now, gentlemen, we have this man F^uk—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 hla desk to a point by the clock. I don’t want to give any tes timony. for if I did I could show that 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 his 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 And 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 oe heard over the entire building, autf 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 wore 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. "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 hare twisted the rope about the neck of that pretty little girl. But he said: ^Vhy should I be punished for doing such a little thing as taking the life of this little girl? I have rich relative# 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; thoise 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 the courtroom so faith fully through all this trial. I can not understand how she has had the bravery to do It" At this point Attorney Rosser 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 And 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 4on’t think Frank had any $200 to hi* 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.’ Alou i he said: ‘Let me see that money, Jim;’ and he sticks It back lntq Ms pocket as If to say: ‘If everythin* comes out all right, I will give it b.urk 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 gat 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. 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But Frank didn’t want him In there, and toM 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 of 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 somethin* 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 know* I don’t want to let you In here, but I have got to let you In, hut 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 nlghtf 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-leered Gantt was there. "And when he found that Gantt had left and had dlscoveerd nothing, what burden rolled from him! No wonder he looked light-hearted. No wonder that he could read baseball Btorles and Joka No wonder that his family could say that he had nothing on his mind. “Another Thing on His Mind That Night.” "But yot he had another thing; on hi* mind before the niffht 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 ijotify him. "But Frank did not answer. He says he heard the telephone but faint ly, or he Imagined he heard It. 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