Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-27
NEW FRANK
EVIDE NCE
HELD BY
DORSEY


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 will 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.
II was the first time that Hooper
| udd questioned the negro.
That mass Of evidence which the
Atlanta detective force had no part in
getting, and OF which the members
have had no knowledge, viii be pre-
scented at the trial of Frank by Solic-
itor General Dorsey became known
Friday.
/ Developments revealed that the So
4 licitoE through his personal fnvestiga-
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 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, where 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 I'M
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
a private case. In connection with
the case, he was obliged to come to
this city, and while here met Solicitor
Dorsey The Solicitor obtained tho
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 Conlev
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
on another day and this time she
emerged from the office OF the So
licitor quietly, and the impression was
that she told the Solicitor all she
knew of the case. She has been called
to his office several times since and
questioned
Mrs. BaTett's name was mentioned
in a puzzling manner in the tesu-
mDny OF Miss Corinthia Hail at the
& orouer's inquest
Miss Han was asked If she had no,