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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 Continued on Page 5. j BASS DRY GOODS CO. 'a CLEARANCE OF BEAUTIFUL DRESSES $0.90 Ladies ’ Beautiful white embroid-1 ered Net Dresses. Handsome, white embroidered Voile Drpsses, silk Ratinp Drosses and all silk Mpssaline Dresses, worth $10 to $12.50. Choice $0,90 EMRROIDERY AND VOILE DRESSES $|,98 500 Ladies' Dresses at 1-3 their value in all-over white embroid ery and dainty white voile. Dresses worth up to $6.00. 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