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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
DORSEY’S TACTICS ARE FLAYED BY ROSSER
They Will Never Be Repeated in Georgia Courts, He Says
ON TO CURVES OF POLICE
Continued From Pafle 2.
fras a little boy named Turner. I am
hot here to say anything against Tur
ner, but look at the detectives with
their claws 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 three
steps, but he admitted that it all
took place in broad daylight, and in
full sight of Lemmie Quinn’s office.
“Is it to be believed that a man In
sight of a whole factory, handicaped
’ by his race, would have gone into the
metal room and attempted those ad
vances with that little girl? Is it to
he conceived that this innocent lit
tle girl would not have fled like a
frightened deer and would not have
run home and told 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 wlregraBS
(meaning Hooper) said that this was
the beginning of his diabolical
scheme. Then Gantt was turned on
as a. part 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 Bays 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 was
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 wheh 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
did not ask for Mary Phagan’s pay.
Now one of them is mistaken, but this
is not of much importance, so we will
pass it on. . „
“How did Frank know that Mary
Phagan would come to the factory at
all on Saturday. Th e custom had
been that when employees failed to
get their envelopes on regular pay
days before holidays, that they pass
ed over the holiday and waited until
the next regular working day to draw
their pay. So we see from that that
there was absolutely no reason why
Frank should have expected her there
on Saturday.
“Now, what else? They say Frank
was nervous. He w'as, and we admit
it. A young boy went there, said he
saw Frank, and that he was nervous.
Black said he was nervous. Darley
said he was nervous. Mr. Montag,
his wife, Isaac Haas, and a number
of others, all said he was nervous.
Of course, he was nervous, and there
were lots of others around there that
were nervous. Why don’t they hang
Jake Montag? Why don’t they hang
old Isaac Haas? They were nervous.
Why don’t they hang all those pretty
little girls who became nervous and
hysterical when they heard of this
terrible crime? Wouldn’t the sight
of this little girl s body, dragged in
the dirt and crushed into the cinders,
have made you nervous too?
Only Manhunter Not
Moved By Child’s Death.
“Man is a cruel monster. He is
hard-hearted. They say he is a little
below the angels, tfut he has fallen
mighty low in ages past, it
the angels haven’t descended with
him. Yet I have never seen a man
who when he looked upon a little
girl crushed that some of the divinity
that shapes his head did not arouse
him and cause tears to flow down his
cheeks.
”1 am not chicken-hearted. I could
see one of you badly hurt without
going into hysterics. But I never
hear the cry of a woman or a child
but that manhood and tenderness I
got from my sainted mother does not
arise in rebellion within me, and 1
pray God if it ever should cease that
my end may come. No one but the
manhunter with blood In his heart
would w ant to hang a man because he
was nervous from the death of a little
child. . , ,
"Then we come to that telenhone
call. They say he did not hear it and
that that is cause for suspicion. Some
people sleep lightly; others are hard
to awake. The wife of old man Selig
had to arouse him. They called old
Uncle Ike Haas and he did not hear.
His wife had to awaken him. Why
not hang old Uncle Isaac Haas? He
did not hear the telephone. Hang
him because he slept—a peaceful
sleep, evidence of a good conscience.
"They have another suspicion. He
* . hired ,i lawyer. I had known the
r National Pencil Company, but I don’t
know that I ever saw Frank until 1
met him at the police station. Frank
had been down there on Sunday and
told them all that he could. I don't
know what was in the minds of the
detectives; I don't know what was In
the head of old John Black. God Al
mighty only khows. That’s one rea
son I love John so. I can’t tell what's
in his head.
"Then on Monday the police did
not have the same attitude to Frank.”
Hooper Says Rosser Is
“Wire-grass” Man, Too.
At this point the Jury was excused
for a breathing: spell. Attorney Frank
Hooper, of the prosecution, came over
to the -press table and said that he
wanted to make an explanation of
where he came from, after Mr. Ros
ser’s humorous references to him.
“We both came from Randolph
County,” Hooper said, “and I guess
Mr. Rosser knows about as much
about gophers and wire grass as 1
do.”
“The only suspicion against this
man is that he employed me and he
employed Herbert Haas. I felt a lit
tle bad about It because my friend
Dorsey didn’t say anything about
Rube Arnold. Frank didn’t employ
a lawyer Sunday, but on Monday the
police employed different tactics.
They sent after him witb two detec
tives. He wasn’t arrested—oh, no.
But my friend Black said he was re
leased. When I asked him what that
meant, If he wasn’t arrested, he had
to admit that to all intents and pur
poses Frank w^s under arrest.
“Chief Lanford walked about with
his accustomed dignity, and Chief
Beavers, the beautiful one. scudded
around, and they left Frank to soak.”
Here Rosser turned to Frank.
“That’s the only time in this whole
thing.” he said, “you didn’t show good
sense. If you had known what I know
about that bunch, you wouldn't have
gotten one lawyer, but would have
gotten two goods ones, and you
wouldn’t have been satisfied then.
“But old man Sig Montag was a lit
tle wiser than Frank. He knew that
bunch. He was onto their curves. I
am going to be mighty careful,
though, about what I say about that
police bunch, because if they take a
notion they would get me for white
slavery before to-night.
“At any rate, Sig Montag called
Herbert Haas and told him to go
down there and see what is the mat
ter with Leo Frank. Haas could not
go. I will give a house and lot worrh
$20,000 to be in the same position he
was that day. His wife was pre
paring to have a baby.
Not Arrested, Bui,
Had To Be “Released.”
“Sig took the automobile and went
down to Haas’ house and said you
must go. They went to the police
station, and what happened? That
throws a whole flood of light oil the
matter.
"No, Frank was not arrested, but
he had to be released. I said to John
Black, 'John, what do you mean by-
released ?’ He stammered and stut
tered, and said, 'Why, I Just mean
released.’
“These men went down to see a
man who was not under arrest. He
was a free citizen sitting there, ^nd
yet they wouldn’t let his friends see
him. They wouldn't let his law-yen
Haas see him.
"This man Haas is not of my age
or of my flesh, or of my experience.
He called me up. If there is any
crime in that <he is the guilty man.
My friend Dorsey, with his eyes close
together, snapping like snake’s, made
much of the fact that Frank had
hired the lawyer. The charges and
insinuations that he has made are
the most,contemptible that ever have
occurred in a Georgia court. The
things that he has done in this trial
will never be done again in Georgia. I
will stake my life on that.
Could Not Hire
More Devoted Lawyer.
“Dorsey’s eyes got as green as
beads on a woman's dress as he
hissed his charges against Frank o.
dirty dog and brutal murderer. You
may question Frank in his Judgment;
he might have hired a better lawyer
than I. He might have hired a more
decent lawyer, but he couldn’t have
hired a more devoted lawyer. I will
say that for myself if I drop dead in
mv tracks. .
"Under what circumstances dirt
Frank hire the detectives? He had
been to the station house and was
asked to make a statement. I went
down there, not at Frank's Invitation,
for he didn't know I was coming. Mr.
Haas had asked me to go down there,
and I wasn't a welcome visitor at the
police station that morning. They
don’t like me very well down there.
They didn’t take my hat; they didn’t
give me a warm welcome. I guess
they would have arrested me long
ago, but they just don’t want me
down there. 1 can’t blame them for
that.
“And when I reached there I saw
Frank for the first time In my life. I
walked in and said. 'What’s the mat
ter here, boys?’ You know, I Just
used plain old common English. 1
don’t put on any fancy frills.
“Someone said, ’They’Ve got Mr.
Frank under arrest here for murder
One of the detectives got up and
said. 'No, we haven't.’ Yet they talk
ed about him not being under arrest
at that time.
Why Didn’t They
Want Me There?
"Someone said, 'They want him to
make a statement.’ ] said, Let him
go ahead and make it.’ Rtght away
Lanford and the others hustled him
over to a room. They didn’t want me
to go with him.
"Now, I have always been a little
hit impudent, and when I started In.
they said, ‘We don't want you in
here,’ and I said, kind of impudent-
Itke, 'I’m coming in, anyway. I won't
interrupt him. but I’m coming in
"And why didn’t they want me in
there? I don't know. Wasn’t I as
reputable a citizen as Lanford?'
Wasn't I as capable of protecting the
law as he was? Gentlemen, while we
were there a peculiar thing hap
pened. I said a man could not havfc
Luther Rosser’s 1 nbute to the Jury
“We walk the streets carelessly, absorbed in our own interests. We pass our friends, and do not recognize them. The
mind wanders in flights of fancy and fits of revelry. We mean no harm to ourselves nor harm to our friends, but we are careless.
“Men of the jury, you are set aside. You cease to be a part of that revelry of the streets. In old pagan Rome women
walked the streets, chatted gavly and carelessly, but a few were set aside—the vestal virgins. They cared not for the gladiatorial
combats or the strife. .
“So it is with you set apart. You care not for the chatter or the laughter of the rabble. You are unprejudiced. Yours
is the sworn duty to pass on a matter of life and death. You are to decide on the evidence, with no fear, no favor, no affection.
“Others may take the brave task of standing up for the weak and oppressed, but it is not for you. You are a still, silent,
consecrated band. You are to do your duty without one thought of the past or the future. You are here and now consecrated by
justice to do your duty.”
committed that crime a*»d not have
nears upon him. Frank showed them
that he had no marks upon himself.
“Why didn’t Lanford get upon the
stand. Was it because he dreaded to
get in converse with me? No, he
didn’t want to recall that dark Con
ley chapter; that hideous Minola Mc
Knight incident.
“And after they had released Frank,
what did they do? They went out to
his house and looked at his soiled
linen, and what evidence did they
find? Not a thing,
"If Frank had been a guilty man,
do you know what he would have
done? Gentlemen of the Jury, he
would have kept quiet. He would
have kept his silence to himself. But
he was not guilty and he did not do
that. But he went hofne with the
thought of this horrible murder in
his mind. He thought of how a beast
had committed the crime; of how
God’s laws had been outraged; of hiw
there was a stain upon the fair name
of this city.
Says Frank Wanted
To Find Slayer.
“Then he sat down and did what?
He telephoned Sig Montag that he
wanted to hire detectives; that he
wanted to ferret out and punish the
murderer o fMary Phagan.
“I have not had *oo high an esti
mate of the detective department. I
don’t mean they are not good, clever
fellow’s, but no man can spy on folks,
come in constant contact with crime
and elevate his character. God Al
mighty couldn’t do it.
“You,” and here Rosser turned
again to the detectives, “may not be
made worse men, but you won’t be
made better men. Nor Scott; I am
sorry he has gone and will not hear
what I have got to sav. He crept into
this case in the most remarkable sit
uation I ever heard of. He got up or
the stand and said, ‘We worked hand
and, glove with the city detectives.’
Ain’t that a fine gang? Do nothing
outside of what the city police do.
“Hiring Detective
A Courageous Deed.”
"Some good man will hire him
again. But I don’t care anything
about that. I will let it go. The point
Is that Frank knew that Scott was
going to work with the police. I will
give Scott credit for being that hon
est. He told Frank he was going to
lock arms with John Black and walk
down the disgraceful avenue of this
case.
“This young Jew, Just down from
the North, ignorant of Southern cus
toms, hired a Pinkerton detective to
ferret out the crime. The detective
told him he was going to trail with
the police. Frank told him, ‘Find the
murderer.’ He knew Scott was going
to trail with the police, even if Frank
himself was trailed.
“Ah. gentlemen, his race has pre
sented many a heroic scene, but nev
er one greater than this. Yet they
want to hang him because he em
ployed a detective.
"My friend' Hooper charged that lie
tried to point suspicion on Newt Lee.
I don’t believe Hooper meant what he
said. Frank first said there was no
error in the time slips. The next day
he said there was. Darley made the
same mistake. Why not hang Dar
ley?
“Then do you remember what he
said about the time being rubbed off
of that slip? Dorsey had to admit
that he erased it. I don't mean that
Dorsey meant any harm.
Denounces Bloody
Shirt Evidence.
"Then the bloody shirt. Gentlemen,
that is the most unfair thing in this
whole case—to charge that that young
man had that shirt planted. Black
and Scott went out and found that
shirt In the bottom of an old barrel
'at Newt Lee’s house. They found it
Tuesday morning, brought it in and
Newt said it was his shirt..”
Dorsey jumped to his feet at this
moment and exclaimed that such was
not the testimony. Rosser said;
"Newt Lee did. 1 got it out of one
of those boys on the stand."
"No. he didn’t,” replied Dorsey. "Lee
said it looked like a shirt of his."
"Well, we’ll admit it then,” Rosser
continued; "we w-ill just put it that
way. We will suppose they went out
and got a bloody shirt Just like the
one old Newt Lee wore and hid it In
that barrel.
“Frank didn’t even know where
old man Lee lived. He certainly didn't
know he had a shirt that looked like
that one. 1 never heard of going to
such extremities to try to hang an
innocent man. „ . „
"But old man Lee—I don t believe
he had anything to do with the crime
itself I never will believe anything
but that he found that corpse earlier
than he said he did I can’t under
stand how he knew it was white when
it took the detectives so long to find
out. I can’t understand how he saw
the body from where the detectives
themselves said it was impossible to
see it.
"And he said the face was turned
up and the police found it different.
I am mighty afraid the old man knew
it was a white girl, but I still don't
believe he had anything to do with
the crime itself. If he did, he is the
most remarkable old negro that ever
lived.
“Shame the Way They
Treated Newt Lee.”
"If I nad his endurance, I would
talk forever. It will be a shame to
the dying day of every member of
that detective department the way
they treated that poor old man. They
talked to him until he got weary and
his head hung low, and then they
sent in a fresh relay, and when it
looked like he couldn’t endure It any
longer, they would come in with a
battery of pistols and poke them in
face.
“I am afraid Newt Lee saw the
body before he said he did. But he
is a wonderful negro. Oh, the dirty
trick that you played on him will be
a shame to you as long as you live.
(Rosser looked at the detectives.) You
hammered away at that old negro all
hours of the night. But Newt wore
the detectives out in relays. They
fired pistols near him-
“I am afraid he knows more about
this than he ever has told. Let us
listen to the story that he told. He
told of coming to the factory that
night and that Gantt and he stobd out
in front of the factory. He said that
Frank appeared alarmed when he
came out and ran into *Gantt.
“But the explanation that the negro
gave was the very best that could be
given. He said, T knew they had had
some trouble, and I thought Gantt
was there to do Mr. Frank dirt.* Lee
and Gantt both say now that Frank
jumped back, but neither said it be
fore the Coroner’s inquest.
No Wonder Frank
Jumped at Seeing Gantt.
“Is it to be wondered at that Frank
Jumped, if he actually did Jump, which
I doubt? Why, you could take him
and put him on the top floor of the
factory with a girl the size of Mary
Phagan and she could make him Jump
out of the window. He is not a
strong man. He Is a physical weak
ling. comparatively. I am not say
ing this unkindly, but the Jewish peo
ple, once the bravest on earth, are
not the fighters now that they used
to be.
“As he came out of the factory he
was confronted by this giant, Gantt.
He might have jumped back. If lit
tle Dorsey had come out suddenly
like that in the night he would have
bent his back into a bow jumping
back. It is ljttle groveling, snake
like suspicions like this that have
marked Dorsey’s whole case against
the defendant.
“They said also that Frank had
thrown suspicion on Gantt. Scott
gets up now dnd says that Frank told
him Gantt was familiar with the lit
tle Phagan girl, not in a bad way, as
there has been no reflection upon this
little girl’s character, but that they
say that in his reports to us. He
didn’t say that in his reports to the
police. He didn’t say that In his re
ports to his FLgency, and now, in this
were friends in a good way. But,
gentlemen of the Jury, Scott didn’t
connection, the understanding was
that the Pinkertons were to furnish
the police their reports 24 hours be
fore they gave them to us. And this
was done all the way through.
“Now for old Newt Lee, and then I
am through with the suspicious cir-
cumstancese. Frank had told old
Newt to come early Saturday, as that
was a holiday, and having In his mind
at the time that he was going to the
ball game.
“The suspicion has been cast be-
cause he was afraid that he might j
discover something, that he might
make the grewsome find of that cruel
ly mutilated body In the basement.
“Is it conceivable that by a trick he
would get old Newt away for two
houi^s and then leave him the whole
night alone in the building where he
was sure to discover the body? Then
we know that Frnnk went home and
calmly ate his supper; that he read,
that he was light-hearted and told a
joke. And my brother gets up and
charges that Frank was so callous
that he laughed.
“Oh, gentlemen of the jury, can
you Imagine that laugh? If Frank
had been guilty of murder it would
have been the laugh of a maniac.
Now, Frank is smart. Is there a
man here who ig such a fool that he
believes that Frank would have sent
the watchman away by a trick for
two hours and would have then left
the body with no one but Newt In
the building? And Newt there all
night?
“Gentlemen, that would have
weighed on his mind. He would have
been raving like a maniac, waiting to
be called by old Newt «to be told of
the grewsome find. Can you believe
it? Oh, such a stigma; oh. such a
hideous plot.
No Chnce for Him
To Commit Crime.
“There is one other suspicion. They
say he was in the factory the time
Mary Phagan was. But, -entlemen!
you know this only because Frank
says it. You didn’t have to fish it
out. He was not the only man there.
If the corpse had been found there
and he was the only man in the build
ing, it might have been some proof;
but there were others. He-was in an
open room. He had company every
hour. Unless he was some magician
there was no chance for him to com
mit the crime. Up on the fourth
floor were two young men.
“If there is one thing indelibly fixed
In thla case, it is that this young boy
could not see ingoers and outgoes
of that factory. Conley or some othei
negro was seen In tjie hall on th<«
first floor. Yesterday there came out
like a ray of sunlight on a wicked
world another negro, a lighter one.
They had the same opportunity to
commit this murder that Frank had.
Who knows what white-faced scoun
drel might have lurked around among
those machines.
“Gentlemen, these facts drive out
.any suspicion that he did the deed
simply because he was there. Father
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, father
of us all, may no such mean nrejudlce
rankle In the hearts of this conse
crated Jury, to the undoing of this
unfortunate young boy!
“I know you will pot blame me If
I fail in my feeble steps to walk over
this same ground that this legal giant
(referring to Arnold) did yesterday.
Bo I will touch briefly on some of
these points.
“I come to Conley. That part of
the ca.se fatigues my indignation.
That white men should believe this
infamous character is a shame on
this great city and this great State,
and will be to the end of tlpie. Who
Is this Conley? Let’s see who he
used to be. A plain, dirty, filthy,
drunken, tying, and I expect* lousy,
negro.
Scores Scott,
Pinkerton Detective.
“Have I overstated that? Ftarnea
knows I have not. Black knows I
have not. I don’t know whether Chief
Beavers’ dignity has ever got down
low enough for him to see him, but
if it has, he knows It. Now Black,
he of the doubtful memory, he would
remember one thing one time and the
next time he wouldn’t—there was a
good deal of fun made over Black,
but I say he was trying to tell the
truth and got mixed. But he Is in a
heap better fix than Scott. Scott—
well, I’ve seen a heap of men heavier
up here (pointing to his forehead). He
might detect a louse with a spy
glass; I don’t think he could do more.
“I said, ‘Scott, what about that
negro? Does he look like he did when
you got him here?’ He said ’No!’ 1
said, ‘They have slicked him up a
little bit, haven’t they?’ And he had
to admit it. And shame to them.
Who was it that took this dirty, filthy
negro, gave him warm baths and good
clothes, and brought him out here to
make his dirty, lying testimony be
fore detectives? I don’t charge that
to anybody, because I don’t know who
it was, but it is as dirty and con
temptible a piece of work as was
ever done. They shaved that dirty
wool and his bestial face; and if I
knew who was responsible for it I’d
call his name.
“I’ve had that joke played on me,
nearly, once before. Some railroad
lawyer dressed up a brakeman who
was suing the railroad and brought
him Into court, but I never heard of
it being done in a case of life and
death.
“It is very hard to find a man that
somebody won’t believe. There’s
Dalton; some few believed him. But
who was there, in all that crowd, who
would say they would believe Jim
Conley?
Black Hypocrisy
Charged to Dalton.
“What a contempt Black has for
this man Dalton. What a contempt
that son of Erin (pointing out Pat
Campbell) has for him.
“Yet they found people who would
testify to his good character and to
his reputation for truth and veracity.
One man said that Dalton had joined
the church and, so far as he knew, he
was a good church member now.
Thus was the blackest hypocrisy add
ed to his other evil characteristics
But they found sponsors for him.
“But who was Con'ey? Who would
stand up and say his character was
good? Wtio would be sponsor for
him ?
“Do you, Starnes? Stand up if you
do.
“f)o you. Black? Stand up.
“Do you, Campbell?
“Do you, Rosser? Rosser is one
whose ancestors trod the earth in the
same places as mine, and I know he
wouldn’t hang a suck-egg dog on the
testimony of this lying nigger Con
ley.
“They have swept every back al
ley In Atlanta to get someone who
would stand up and say that he was
an honest nigger. But they found not
a soul. Who Is thei*e that will stand
up and marry the nigger Conley to
the truth? Not a person.
Failed to Prove
Frank a Pervert.
“My friends on the other side have
attempted to make this young man
before you a pervert. They tried to
do it on the lying testimony of this
nigger, unsupported by a single other
person. But they didn’t do it.
“But even if they had proved it be
yond doubt, it could not enter into
this case. This boy is being tried for
murder, and if he is a thousand times
a pervert, that can not be allowed to
sway your verdict.
“The vilest thing in this case is
the dragging of this issue into the
trial on the unsupported word of the
lying nigger who is trying to save his
own neck by any foul lies which he
can shape.
“Yet the Solicitor made the charges
here in open court. He made them
before the jury, before everyone in
the courtroom. He made them be
fore the young wife of the defendant.
He made them uselessly and pur
poselessly. They could serve only one
purpose. The sole explanation is that
the Solicitor made them to add a lit
tle strength to his case, to serve his
leaping ambition to win his case and
send a man to the gallows. It is im
possible that it was done in the in
terests of Justice.
“A dirty thief and liar was brought
into the courtroom to destroy a man’s
character. My Indignation cap not be
put In words.”
Court adjourned at this point for
the noon recess, Attorney Rosser say
ing that as it was near the recess
hour he would prefer to stop his ad
dress at that time, as he did not want
to be interrupted in his closing at the
afteinooo session.
Women Early
Tc Get Seats.
Attorney oRsser resumed his ad
dress at 2 o’clock. He said that he
would probably consume about half
or three-quarters of an hour longer.
Many women were In the courtroom
during the afternoon, having been al
lowed to come in early and get seats.
Several hundred men were on the
outside trying to get admission when
the court opened.
Attorney Rosser said:
“Gentleihen of the Jury, when re
cess came I was Just saying how hor
rible it was that this charge of per
version had been made against the
defendant. Dorsey made the charge
through his lying witness Conley. No
other witness in this case has made
such a suggestion as that made by the
negro.
“It was a horrible thing—a thing
inconceivable that such an accusation
should be brought in here. Conley
had no one to support him except
Dalton, and Dalton did not say that
he ever had seen Frank in any wrong
conduct. Dalton merely said that h$>
had seen women In Frank's office.
When questioned, he was unable to
say that he ever saw Frank do a
wrong aot.
“Dalton in his story said that ne
was with Daisy Hopkins in the fac
tory.
“But Conley says that It was Frank
who had Daisy Hopkins. This is the
important point on which these two
liars differ. Conley said that Dalton
was with some ‘peach,’ some lesser
beauty, living between llalnes and
Hunter streets.
Says Conley Has
"Butted In” for Life.
“He went to that Butt Inn saloon
and Lord bless my soul, he ha9 butted
in for life. He gave a detailed state
ment of seeing those negroes and
taking drinks with them. Did any
one of them come here to say he did?
Did that negro come here that Con
ley said he shot dice with—the negro
with the whip around his* neck? Did
that bartender come here who mixed
his wine and beer?
“Now, these police know those ne
groes on Peters street lots better than
they do you and I. It is their busi
ness to know them. They know
those dicemen around there like a
book. If Conley had given a single
correct name, time, place or inci
dent, they would have had that whole
horde of negroes lined up here.
“Another thing, he said dice: He
would have said craps, until those po
licemen got him and talked to him.
He said his name was James Conley;
he certainly would have said Jim, if
they hadn t have been after him. He
said ‘Snowball’ heard Frank tell him
to come back and watch for him, but
Snowball said he didn’t. Snowball is
just a plain, ordinary, African negro.
He didn’t know how to tell a lie.
“And then they talk about Frank
trying to mak e the police suspect
somebody If he could. Why, it is
just like an English sparrow sus
pecting a horse and then following
him a mile.
Rosser Asserts He
4 ' Broke Down ’ ’ Conley.
“Get John Black on a negro and he
will have to leave town. Poor old
Snowball. That poor negro is going
to melt under the wrath of these po
licemen because he would not swear
the way they wanted him to. Then
there was old Truman McCrary, that
old negro drayman raised before the
war on greens and meat. 1 mighty near
said cabbage. God deliver me! Old
man McCrary proved Conley a liar.
The story implicating McCrary was
about the 157th story, I don't re
member the exact number.
“Conley didn’t have to bring In old
Truman, but with that African imagi
nation of his, he likes to put frills
on his tale. Instead of saying simply
that he did a hting, he says somebody
told him to do it. Then Conley says
he was there on Saturdays. Old
Man Holloway was there, and he
branded Conley’s story as a lie.
“Do you believe those little office
boys; those clean-eut little fellows
who worked in Frank's office on Sat
urday afternoons? They brand Con
ley a liar.
"They say I didn’t break Jim Con
ley down. That is the silliest thing
that has been said since this trial be
gan. 1 have been practicing almost
as long as my bald head would indi
cate. and I have never yet broken a
witness down in the sense they mean.
Did they want me to take a club and
break his head? Lord knows I wish
I could, but what we lawyers mean
when we say we break a witness
down Is to demonstrate that he is a
liar.
Says Conley Practiced
Telling Same Story.
“You can’t get a man with Anglo-
Saxon blood to admit he lied. He
has pride. I have never seen one
admit he lied. No matter where he is
born, he has that same Anglo-Saxon
pride. My friend John Black, Honest
John, and I mean It, when he got to
the point where he didn’t know
whether he was standing on his feet
or bis head, he admitted he was mixed
up. Those were the words of an hon
est man.
“Now, with a negro it is different.
He wiil admit he lied. Jim Conley
without any character to protect, lied
this way and lied that, and grinning-
ly admitted it. He reminded me of a
statement of old man Jesse Blalock, r»
merchant down at Fayetteville. It
was a case In which old Judge Dor3ey
appeared, in which Uncle Jesse was
sued. They put an old man by the
name of Green Gray on the stand who
worked for old man Blalock, and ne
swore against the old fellow. Judg°
Dorsey argued that Uncle Jesse was
bound by Green’s statement. Uncie
Jesse got up and said to the Jury:
‘Gentlemen, I just put old Green Gray
up to see how he would swear,’ ana
that is the way it is with Conley. It
is a revelation how he did swear.
“It is true that every time Jim Con
ley repeated his story of the disposi
tion of the body that he repeated It
word for word. But is this so won
derful? Take an actor, one who por
trays Shakespeare's characters. on4
who has studied Macbeth so mui.h
that he is letter perfect; you can
wake him up In the midst of the
night and he can repeat the part for
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