Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-27
DORSEY CHARGED
WITH HEAD
HUNTING
Arnold Declares Solicitor and
Police Appealed to Mob Spirit
for Conviction.
Continued From Page 1.

dence in his alleged immoral prac-
tice." argued Attorney Arnold.
Granting that Frank was foolish
enough TO make the negro acquainted
with his improper conduct, whom
could the negro have stopped had he
actually been watching?
what white man would have paid
any attention to that disreputable
negro at the bottom Of the stairs
Could Conley have stopped barley?
Could he have stopped Sig Montag?
Could he even have stopped Hollo-
way. the Waterman? No, any one OF
them would promptly have told him
to get out of the way.
Didn't Stop Monteen Slower.
Conley's story never was corroborated
except in the facts which the detec-
tives knew before they had Conley's
confession and to which the confess
sion itself was made to conform,
Sound, Not Senses, Ruled.
THE jury was taking sound, and
not sense, in this trial Conley was
not sustained by Monteen Slower.
Far from It, His story was patched
up to fit her testimony"
The lawyer went over each incl
dent and each particle Of testimony
by which the Solicitor argued during
the trial that Conley was sustained.
Arnold contended that Conley was
supported by none of the citations of
Dorsey, and advanced his. reasons,
Arnold laughed at the idea that
Conley watched at Franks direction
while women visited the pencil fac
tory office.
ITO have a Waterman involved
taking another man into his conf
why, Conley did not even stop
little shrinking Monteen Slower, who
tripped up those stairs without inter
ference. Conley said he say her. He
said that, just moment before, he
had heard the piercing scream OF
Ma ry Phagan. Yet he let Monteen
Slower go on upstairs. Your honor
do you believe that Jim Conlsy ever
was watching there at the foot of
those stairs? No one can, 1t seems
to me. 1t is the rottenest, clumsiest
lie ever invented.
"Our theory, your honor. is that
Jim Conley was the murderer OF
Mary Phagan.
Every fact of the case connects
him more closely with the crime than
any fact points suspicion toward
Frank. The handwriting convicts
Conley. His confessions convict him
He admitted, after concealing the
fact for weeks, that he was in the
factory at the time of the murder
HE confessed to handling the body.
He was seen by Ivy Jones, another
negro, at AS, giving him just about
time to dispose of the body. At this
time Frank had been at home more
than twenty minutes"
Arnold asserted that Frank had es-
tablished as powerful an alibi as ever
existed and that the physical facts
Of the case made it absolutely i'm
possible for Frank to have been the
murderer.
Attorney Arnold. refreshed by the
days recess, entered vigorously into
his argument, and recalled to the at
tention of the court a number of
points which he had touched on only
lightly in his previous remarks. He
repeated his assertion that never in
his entire legal career had he en-
rountered a trial in which prejudice
and mob spirit had played so great
and deciding a part as in the trial OF
Frank last August.
Harps on Mob Spirit.
He based his demand for new
tVial on the prejudice of Henslee and
Johenning. the admission of illegal
and irrelevant evidence when Jim
Conley, c. b. Dalton and a number of
the factory girls called by the State
were on the stand; the many demon
STATIONS that were made in the prog
ress OF the trial which, Arnold assert
ed, were unmistakable evidences OF
mob spirit and tended to influence
and intimidate the jury, and on a
score of alleged errors into which he
contended the court had been led
during the progress OF the trial
Solicitor Dorsey was prepared to go
ahead with his reply at the conclu-
sion OF Arnold's address