Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-27
FRANK
Ev|DE NCE
HELD BY
DORSEY
Solicitor Closely Guards Data Of
Which City Detectives Have
No knowledge.

New activity was injected into the
Phagan case Friday when James Con-
ley, negro sweeper at the National
Pencil Factory, was removed secretly
from his cell in police station and
closely questioned by Frank Hooper.
who viii aid Solicitor Dorsey in the
prosecution Of Leo Frank.
The move was surrounded with the
utmost secrecy. The negro was taken
from his cell by Detective Starnes,
and behind locked doors questioned
anew in the room used by the Police
Commissioners. He had been in for
many minutes before the action be-
came known.
Mr.. Hooper asked Conley various
new questions, and after the quiz
zing was over hurried away from
the police station,
Dorsey Has New Evidence.
1t was the first time that Hooper
had questioned the negro
That a mass of evidence which the
Atlanta detective force had no part in
getting, and of which the members
have had no knowledge, will be pre-
sented at the trial of Frank by Solic-
itor General Dorsey became known
Friday
Developments revealed that the So
lieitor, through his personal investiga-
ton and that of his greatest detect
i've" has discovered number of per-
sons whose names have not been con-
nected with the mystery in any way
by the local detectives. From these
persons the Solicitor has obtained
much evidence which will be made
public for the first time when Frank
is put on trial for his life.
Detective Identified.
Mr.. Dorsey for a time engaged the
services of a well-known detective
whose name he kept carefully a secret,
but whose identity was disclosed Fri
day by The Georgian's Houston, Tex,
correspondent as Frank Pond, who
was connected with the Pinkerton
forces for a number of years. Pond
is now in Houston, whess he was
seen by the reporter.
1t is understood Pond was shad-
owed by the Atlanta detectives all the
ten days he was working on the case
for the Solicitor He is said to have
registered at eight different hotels un-
der as many different names. At the
Coroner's inquest he sat by the So
licitor and no one present except Mr.,
Dorsey knew who he was.
Did Work Before Inquest.
Pond did most of his work before
the inquest. Before coming to At
lanta he was in Asheville, n. c., on
private case. In connection with
the case, he was obliged to come to
this city, and while here met Solicitor
Dorsey. The Solicitor obtained the
consent of Ponds employer to the
plan of having the detective work on
the Phagan mystery for ten days or
two weeks
Pond. by a process Of elimination.
reached the decision that Frank was
the only person who could have com
mitted the crime, but this was before
it had been discovered that Conley
was in the factory and drunk at the
time of the crime.
One of the witnesses who will be
called by the Solicitor, of whose tes-
timony the detectives evidently have
had no knowledge, is Mrs. May Bar
rett The Solicitor is believed to re-
gard her statements as of great i'm
portance.
Daughter Says She Knows.
Mrs. Barrett is the woman who sew
eral weeks ago came, screaming. from
the offices Of the Solicitor and crying
| that someone had been telling lies
about her.
Mrs. Barrett's daughter, Mrs. George
Bailey, had told the officials that her
mother knew more about the mystery
than she had disclosed. This led to
the questioning and the woman's hys-
terics. She was brought to the office
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