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The Story of
Tbe Frank Case
that is, "that one man hired down
here did this." There were several
men "hired" on the second floor, and
any number of girls. So that "one
man" could not hare referred to the
one man hired on the second floor.
Of course Cooler swears hat Frank
fot htm to write these notes in his
(Frank's) office on the second floor;
but every earmark of these notes
that they were not the work of de
liberation but of haste. Up to tbe
time of the trial Conley insisted that
Frank wrote the longer note, begin
ing "Mam." This was Patently a lie,
Besides. Frank never would have
bad Mary Phagan address her mother
as "Mam." The negro would. So
be claimed on the trial that Frank
got him to write both notes. If it
was only one note, as it was evidently
intended to be, it could have been
written on one sheet. The second
note shows an afterthought. He
writes "long, tall negro, and then
be adds "black" so that the police
will be sure to know that it is not
a yellow or "ginger-cake" negro
Scratch Fad Contradicts Conley.
Conley claims that Frank reached
up into a pigeonhole in his desk and
drew down the pad on which these
notes were written. Frank would
not be likely to hare on his desk for
current use, unless for scratch pur
poses, an old pad four years old. But
if he had this old pad for scratch
purposes, would it be likely to be a
pad composed entirely of sheets filled
with carbon impressions? tor it
now turns out that the sheet on
which the first or .Mam" note was
wri'.ten.as distinctly seen through the
microscope, was a carbon impression
of an order directed to the Cotton
States Belting and Supply Company,
and signed by a man named Becker,
now a resident of New Jersey, who
was at a time master mechanic at the
reneil factory. The number of the
order shown on the note "1018."
The original of this order as well as
some of the immediately preceding
and succeeding orders is in existence
and in the possession of Frank's
lawyers. The original order was dat
ed in September, 1909. It was the
custom to send the original orders
out and to retain the carbon impres
sions. These pads tilled with carbon
Impressions were carried into the
celtar as refine when, as Becker
swears, his office was cleaned up;
that is to sny when he left the factory
on the last Saturday In l'ecejnber,
1912, va few months before the mur
der. Since January 1, 1011, all pad
used for orders were printed with the
date 1 HI " and the "1!0 " head
line shown in this fmt note discard
ed. Tbe Notes nn.l the "Niulit Witch."
It was too dark in the cellar, with
the dim light, for Conley to see the
carbon Impression of the first note
which he at first said Frank wrote,
but it would have been impossible
for Frank in his well-lighted office
on the second floor, in the middle of
the day not to have seen it. If the
cotes had been written in the office
en the second floor, why was tho pad
back on which the second note was
written found with the notes and the
t'te pencil and the body in the cellar?
Here were all the materials used in
the making of the notes found in the
cellar. Where then were the notes
written? In the cellar and in the
cellar only, by the light of the gasi
jet keit burning there. If the body
was to be burned, why write the
notes at all? Conley never said a
word about burning the body in his
affidavits before the trial. And why
should Frank let Conley know that
he was going to place Conley's in
criminating handwriting beside the
body?
The prosecutor and the police con
tended that Conley's story that
Frank had dictated the notes to Con
ley was true on the face of the notes
themselves, because no negro could
write "did this" he would have said
"done this" and no negro could write
the word "negro"" he would have
written "nigger." The old-time, un
educated, ante-bellum negro was of
ten given to saying "I done it," and
among the first inaccuracies of speech
to be corrected by teachers in the
South is thia use of "done." The
same Is true of "negro." The negro
doesn't like the word "nigger." But
we don't have to rely on theories.
Conley in his testimony on the trial
used the word "did" In the same
sense nearly a hundred times. For
instance, "I did as he said." "They
would keep at me until I did." "He
walked faster than I did, and when
I saw (not seen) he was walking
faster than I did, then I walked fas
ter, too." But a clearer proof Is at
hand In the "love" letters Conley
wrote to bis colored sweetheart with
whom he became acquainted while
both were in jail. In these letters
the words "did" and "done" occur
frequently, and these letters are
frightfully obscene.
There is another strong piece of
evidence Inherent in the notes them
selves. Conley makes Mary Phagan
say that the "long, tall, sleam, black
negro" would "play" that is,
make It appear "like the night
witch did it." but that he "did it buy
bis slef." Again, turn to Conley's
expressions on tbe witness stand: "It
peemed like be was too far back."
"You just come back to work Monday
like you never known anything."
"Going like they were coming down
the steps." The term "night witch"
has been used by negroes to deslg
rate an imaginary evil spirit that
crawls through keyholes and suffo
cates little children, or lurks in drk
j laces at night and waylays grown-
nps. It is inconceivaDie mat tranK,
Atlanta, and then only in the remot
est business association, would know
of this negro superstition concerning
the "night witch." The whole idea
of the writing of the notes is so idi
otic that no white man of intelli
gence, much less a Cornell graduate,
would have conceived it. He could
not have conceived either the lan
guage, the ideas, or the purpose of
the notes.
Conley's Negro Logic.
Would Frank not know that these
notes in Conley's handwriting would
immediately fasten suspicion en Con
ley. and that Conley. to protect him
self, would Immediately expose
Frank? The fact that Conley claim
ed before tbe trial that he wrote one
note and Frank the other, shows that
in his dense ignorance he did not
know that handwriting is individual
and would reveal the author; and
that argues that when he left the
notes alongside the body his cunning
deceived him
The notes repeat three times the
words "a long, tall, black negro,
Conley. on the witness tsand, de
scribed a "stout," black negro" be
hind the bar. He described a woman
as "a tall, heavy-built lady." He
claimed Frank "had a good, long
wide niece of cord In his hands." He
described another as "a little bitta
chunky man. wears big eyeglasses.
Another he describes as "a tall, slim-
built, heavy man."
What white man would conceive
the preposterous idea that a girl in
her dying agony could write? What
white man would believe that such
a pretense would deceive anybody of
intelligence? The purpose of the
notes, no matter who wrote them,
was to divert suspicion, which would
be immediately defeated by the
handwriting itself, which was not
Mary Phagan's, and by tracing the
authorship. Frank would have
known that instantly, but Conley was
capable of no such logic. He placed
the pencil and the notes and the pad
by the body to make people believe
Mary Phagan had written the notes
in the cellar. He thought that the
police would recognize It as a negro's
crime, and so he makes the notes
describe a negro. He knew that the
crime occurred in the basement, and
so he picks on the man who was em
ployed down there. He never dream
ed of the storm of prejudice that
would swirl around Frank anil make
it fo easy for him to say, and to be
believed, that Frank hiul dictated the
notes.
Tell-Tnle Cinder.
The State contended that Frank
murdered MaryPh.igaii on the sec
ond lloor of the pencil factory. There
was found four corpulses of "blood
a mere iota on the second doer.
The girl w-as brutally handled and
bled freely, nut only from the wound
in her head, but from other parts of
her body. Her physical condition
when found is utterly Inconsistent
with the theory of the tate that
Frank killed her in a moment of an
ger due to her resentment. There
were cinders and sawdust in the
girl's nose and mouth, drawn in In
the act of breathing, and under her
finger nails. Her face had been rub
bed before death into these tinders
evidently in the attempt to smother
her cries. Her clothes were all soil
ed in the cinders yet Conley swore
he and Frank carried the body In a
"crocus" sack Into the cellar and
left it there. This "crocus sack
was never found. There was not an
ounce of cinders on the second floor,
where Conley said ho found her dead.
The upper floors were swept clean
every day. There were strands of
I arouse suspicion. There was a sub
I stance found at the bottom of the
! elevator shaft on Sunday which had
1 been left there on Saturday morning.
I This is undisputed. It is Conley's
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If the elevator cage had gone into
the basement that Saturday noon, it
would have been crushed. It was
crushed when the elevator was oper
ated on Sunday. This is a physical
fact which cannot be argued away,
and which unimpeachably disproves
Conley's story. The two silent work
men on tbe fourth floor never heard
the elevator run that day. The gear
ing of the elevator was on the fourth
floor, uninclosed. and they could not
have avoided hearing the noise and
feeling the vibration.
All this trouble has come upon
Frank because of a bottle of cheap
whisky purchased by one worthless
negro from another negro in a South
ern city which prohibits the sale of
whisky.
The verdict of the jury was but
the echo of the clamor of the crowd.
loose hair found on a machine on the
second lloor where Frank is supposed
to have struck Mary Phagan. They
were not discovered by the officers
on Sunday in a complete search of
the factory. The expert who micro
scopically examined this hair and
compared it with Mary Phagan's in
formed the prosecutor before the
trial that the hair was rot that of
Mary Phagan's; but this information
was withheld from the defense, and
was not brought out by the prosecu
tor on the trial who afterward said
the matter was not important, and
that he had proved by other witnesses
that the hair "resembled-' Mary Pha
gan's. On the trial the prosecutor
claimed to have lost these strands of
hair.
Siimnilnir Up.
Mary Phagan's umbrella was found
at the foot of the elevator shaft. Ev
idently she had leaned it against the
elevator shaft when she "went to"
( fasten her hose supporter, for illus
tration). It had fallen down into
the cellar. Conley never mentioned
it in his affidavits or testimony. He
did not mention her handkerchief,
blood stained, found in the cellar. He
denied ever having seen Mary's purse
until be was recalled at the last mo
ment of his evidence. Then he said
be bad seen it lying on Frank's desk
when he and Frank returned from
the cellar after disposing of tbe body,
and that Frank had put tbe purse in
the safe.
Frank opened the safe in the pres
ence of the officers the next morning.
Frank would have had no use for the
purse, the bat ribbon, or the hat
flowers which were stripped from the
hat and never found. They are the
natural spoils of the savage. It is
Inconceivable that the superintend
ent of the factory would escape from
the back door in the basement after
prying the lock off. Conley had
$2.50 when he left the factory that
day. Did be get it from a cigarette
box given blm by Frank, as he testi
fied, or did he take It out of Mary
Phagan's purse? Nobody would ex
pect the factory entrance to be open
on a holiday. Why should Frank
have asked Conley to "watch" to see
that nobody came in. Instead of lock
ing the door? Conley could not, and
would not, have prevented any South
ern white man from entering that
rRF.SIDF.XT HAD QUIET TIME.
Spent Christmas with His Family at
the W hile House and Had a Tree
for Little Mere.
President Wilson spent Christmas
day quietly at home with his family,
did not leave the White House, much
of his attention being given to his
small grand niece, Anne Cothran, for
whom a Christmas tree had been ar
ranged. Many officials called to leave
presents and holiday greetings.
The White House Christmas dinner
was served at 7 o'clock. Many dishes
were presents from admirers from all
parts of the country. All of the
President's near relatives were pres
ent for it was the first Christmas din
ner the Wilson family had eaten in
the White House. Last year they
were at Pass Christian, Miss.
Secretary McAdoo and Mrs. McA
doo, the President's youngest daugh
ter, will leave soon for San Diego,
Cal., where the Secretary will repre
sent the President at the opening of
the exposition there.
Mrs. Francis B. Sayre, the Presi
dent's daughter, expects to remain at
the White House for at least a month.
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NO TRUTH IN OLD STORY
Oliver Goldsmith's Dead Body Never
In Danger of Being Seized by
His Creditors.
More or less credence has always
seemed to be g'.ten to the story that
Goldsmith's debts disrupted the ar
rangements made for his funeral. His
biographers have not been above
dwelling on this unhappy report Now
comes Case and Comment with the
legal side of it, and makes out what
appears to be a clear case. A public
funeral In Westminster abbey was de
signed, the pall-bearers had been se
lected from tbe distinguished circle to
which Goldsmith belonged; and then
the rapidly maturing arrangements
came to a sudden halt The public
funeral was given np without explana
tion. The burial took place simply,
almost secretly. In the ground of
the Temple church. None of the old
literary friends was present This
strange change In procedure has been
explained by the statement that
friends feared that creditors would In
terfere with the public funeral by
seizing the body, a right which It is
alleged the creditors had under the
law at that time. This explanation
has been reiterated until it Is quite
generally believed. As a matter of
fact th story is without foundation,
because the law of England never
gave a right of this nature to cred
itors. The story has also been quite
industriously circulated about Richard
Brinsley Sheridan, who likewise died
heavily in debt. Whatever it was that
changed the arrangements of a public
funera' for Oliver Goldsmith, It may
be safely asserted as a legal propo
sition that there was not any likeli
hood that the dead body would be
seized by creditors. Goldsmith was
buried by his lawyer friends and
neighbors within the boundaries of
their own domain. He had lived bis
happiest days among them, and It was
after all more fitting that he should
ll- down to his long rest in the midst
of them, rather than In a garish and
splendid tomb In Westminster abbey,
Journal Penny Ads bring results.
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lion with negroes until his advent In (that Conley was attempting It would,
TWT YSTERY impinges upon mystery from
the very first installment of this re
markable story
By the author of "The
Leavenworth Case"
With a mysterious house secluded behind a high
fence and a tangle of shrubbery, with a mysterious
old recluse occupying it, with many mysterious
people corning and going, with a mysterious mur
der occurring early in its course, and with the hunt
for the murderer soon in full cry, the reader is
treated to a series of unusual sensations, with a
climax that is startling end unexpected.
You will enjoy every installment of our coming
serial
DARK HOLLOW
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REX
TONIGHT
"The Pipes of ran." a beautiful
dramatic fantassy in two reels,
featuring pretty Pauline Bush.
"The Proof of a Man" Power
ful one reel feature. See it.
WEDNESDAY
Matinee 3:30.
MYSTERY! MYSTERY!
King Baggot, movie favorite,
playing all characters, eleven dis
tinct rolls In "Shadows," a re
markable two act mystery drama.
Don't fail to see it.
"The Baseball Fan of Fan.
vllle." Joker comedy. Fun, fun.
THURSDAY
Matinee 3:30.
"The Trey o' Hearts," episode
No. 10 In two parts. If you are
not seeing Tbe Trey o" Hearts you
are not seeing the best, most ex
citing serial thriller ever produced.
"Iilliertlcs,H fantastic comedy
with Vivian Prescott.
WATCH FOn THE "MTTUAIj
filllL." Get the habit, the popu
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good show with tbe clean policy.