The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-05-08

AT the continuation OF tne nearing
the extraordinary motion for new
trial for Leo M. Frank before Judge
Benjamin H. Hill Monday morning
Solicitor Dorsey made sensational
counter showing against the grant
ing of the motion.
The solicitor attacked the Frank
motion at many points. He read to
the court an affidavit from Ruth Rob-
mitted by the defense as coming from
her and supposed to have been wit
messed by G. w. Burke, special in
vestigator, was forgery. Samuel
A. Pardee and w. B. Green offered
affidavits declaring the testimony Civ
en- by them to the defense, in which
they claimed to have seen Frank at
the corner of Whitehall and Alabama
streets between 1903 and LOS o'clock
on the day of the tragedy was mis-
take. They declared they were at
Walton and Broad streets at 1890
o'clock, and that they had come to
this point from Whitehall and Ala
bama.
Mary Rich, colored, declared in an
affidavit that she had never given any
testimony to the effect that she had
seen Conley come out of the alley be-
hind the pencil factory at 2:15 o'clock
on the day of the tragedy and that
the first she heard of any such claim
was when she read a story about it
in the newspapers.
Offered Money to Leave.
Helen Ferguson declared in an affi-
davit read by the solicitor that she
had been offered one hundred dollars
to leave town and that repeated eff
forts had been made by Jimmie
Wrenn, masquerading as Mr.. How
ard, to get her to repudiate her testi-
mony given during the Frank trial.
She told a detailed story of how
Wrenn, alias Howard, had made love
to her and offered to marry her but
always insisted that she make an affi-
davit in the Frank case.
c. B. Dalton, who returned to the
city Monday, gave a sensational affi-
davit which was submitted to the
court, in which he swore he had made
his reputation of his testimony at
Franks trial in Fort Myers, Fla, at
the suggestion of C. w. Burke, and
on the promise of Burke that he
would be paid $1O0 and given railroad
fare back to Atlanta. He alleged
that after he had made his repudiat-
ing statement, Burke \failed Nay
him. Da}ton, in his latest *. E9so
reaffirms the testimony which he e5fa9
against Frank at his trial and a1ds
many new details to his story. He
declares he did see Frank in his office |
with girls; that he had frequently |
seen Frank go back into the factory
with women; that he, Dalton, had |
bought beer for Frank and lis COM
panions and that Frank was the first |
person to tell him about cot in the |
basement.
Order Blank Claim.
The defense's claim that the order |
blanks on which the murder notes
were written must have come from
the basement was attacked by the So
licitor through the affidavit of Philip |
Chambers, of 18 Warner avenue, a |
former office boy of Frank Cham
bers swore that he worked at the |
factory when H. F. Becker was mas
ter mechanic there and had an office
on the top floor.
He swore that when Becker left
the factory his desk was brought to |
Franks office and that Frank himself |
took the desk and gave his own desk
to barley. He swore that all of |
the papers, books, order blanks and |
carbon copies of blanks that had
been in Recker's possession were
placed in the supply room adjoining
Franks office; that none of these pa
pers were carried to the basement;
that, in fact, no trash was allowed |
TO remain in the basement, but was
burned.
K. M. DeVore, photographer, gave
an affidavit to the effect that he had
made photographs of the murder
notes and that in his opinion the
serial number on The order blanks |
on which one of the notes was writ
ten was 1918 and not 1918 as claimed
by the defense.
A sensational affidavit was read
from G. B. Ragsdale in which the
told a detailed story of how.
as he claimed, he had made the affi- |
davit which he gave to Franks de-
tense at the suggestion Of Arthur
thurman, lawyer, and on the prom
Ise of Thurman that he would be ben
efited financially by the transaction.
Ragsdale repudiated the affidavit he
gave to the defense and declared that
1T was false and a frame-up.
Judge Hill took an order during the
morning, that unless Annie Maude
Carter, to whom Jim Conley is al
legged to have written a large num-
Der of letters, which Detective Burns
claims prove him to be a pervert, was
produced within five days her evi-
dence would not be considered by the
court. The court stated the order was
not a reflection in anv sense upon the
attorneys for the defense.-Tuesday's
Atlanta Journal.
FRANKS COUNSEL