Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15

Leo Frank Saturday night gave his
version of some OF the vital links in
the web Of evidence the State pre-
scented at his trial He answered in
detail eight of the most important
que stions raised Here are the queries
put TO him and his own answers in
fun;
@. Why did you not recognize
the notes to be in Conley'S hand
writing when you and others were
examining them at police head
quarters the Sunday after Memo
rial Day?
A. simply did not know Conley's
handwriting There were seven 9TH
err negroes employed at the factory, in
one capacity or another ! had also
received notes from some of them.
had no more reason to remember
Conley's scrawl than that Of the 9TH
ers A superintendent of factory
can not be expected to recognize the
handwriting of every one of his negro
employees.
Theory of the "BIoodstain."
Q. The State has convicted you
of the murder of Mary Phagan.
The theory the state gNves is that
YOU committed the murder in the
metal room on the second floor
OF the pencil factory. What an
sWer have you to this?
A. The States theory as to the
murder being committed on the sec
ond floor of the pencil factory rests
upon three contentious, viz: % The
hair found on the lathe; (2) the spot
by the dressing room alleged to be
blood; CD Conley's testimony.
The contention as to the hair has
been disproVed to every fair-minded
man end exploded by DR. Harris re-
cent revelation.
The supposed blood spot" was
nothing but paint. There are many
such spots all about the factory, on
account of The paint used in the
painting Of pencils. The factory
used three or four shades of red
paint, which, when on the floor
might look like blood On the sec
ond floor was one Of the factory's
paint storage rooms from which
paint was distributed for all the fac
tory On April 26 there must have
been about so gallons Of red and
brown paint IN the second floor stor-
age room. not to speak of $50 gallons
of other colors.
Couldn't Say 1t Was Blood.
At the trial Dr. Claude Smith, the
Prosecutors chemical expert, de-
clared that he examined four chips
taken from this spot. He found paint
or stain on three of the chips. On the
fourth chin he found paint and four
blood corpuscles. He could not say
positively that this was human blood.
| am told that single drop OF
blood contains several million corpus
cles. These are so very small that il
one-thousandth part Of one drop OF
blood, which is about as large as
the point of a needle, were placed
under the lens or magnifying glass
Of a microscope such as DIR. Smith
used, there would easily be visible
about 10000 corpuscles. The part of
the spot that LOOKED LIKE blood
was shown by DR.. Smiths analysis TO
be paint. If the spot had really been
caused by blood from Mary Phagan's
head, the number of corpuscles would
have been countless, aAs would
have been found on all four chips.
As to Conley's testimony, | am
obliged to leave 1t to the intelligence
and fair mindedness of the commu-
nifty whether his successive periuries.
his motive to lie, the most powerful
that could aetuate a human being, and
the utter improbability Of his story,
does not render it unworthy of belief
@. Why did you not state that
Conley could write as soon as you