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

which you have not already turned
over to the lawyers for the defense !
A. No.
9. When did you make your full
and detailed report to the LAWYERS
for the defense? A. am report
ing every day.
Q. When did you make your last
report? A. Probably a day or two
ago.
Ssn!s 2; Be more. more specific. A. can't;
Q. When did you talk last to the
lawyers for the defense? A. This
morning.
Q. You talked to them last night
Q. Have you Seen and an read res, q conv
OF the defense's motion and amend
ments in this case? A. No.
q. Do you know of any evidence or
Issue not already in the hands of
these men and already reported to
the court? A. No.
Arnold Questions Burns.
Here MIR. Dorsey finished his cross
examination and Attorney Reuben r
Arnold, for the defense, began to
question Mr.. Burns.
Mr.. Burns" began Mr.. Arnold
nave you found it difficult on ac.
count of the attitude of the public
70 make an investigation in this case {?
A. Extremely so.
v. Have you in all of your experi-
ence ever encountered more stubborn
ana unreasoning prejudice? A. +
most certainly have not.
y. Have you in all your experi-
ence ever found people so unwiling
never have. ~
=. Have you not found it difficult
TO hold mans evidence after Won
nave obtained it? A. have.
". DID you ever know of anything
more outrageous than the Albert Nc.
hnlght case? (Mr. Arnold was re-
ierring to the Frank witness who
furnished an affidavit to the state re,
cantlng his reputation of his trial
testimony, while locked up in a cell
at police station). A. have NOT
q. You read Albert McKnipbt;s af-
fidavit? A. Yes.
u. You went to Albert McKninbt
after he gave the defense this affi.
davit? A. Yes. '' "''i-
9. What did he tell YOU? A. He
told me the evidence he gave on tho
stand was untrue. That he had boen
ihduced to give this evidence bv -
man named Craven. "
Head Conley's Evidence.
" 5id you read Jim Coniey's evil
dence? A. Yes. '''-
V. have you ever heard of court
jury or community accepting surh an
explanation for such a crime? A I
have not.
Q. From your Investigation who
do you thing is guilty of the mprdn,.
OF Mary Phagan? A. Unouestion-
ably Jim Conley.
Attorney Arnold here asked Mr.
Burns If he had read certain trial foe,
tlmony relating to Conlev's chan~i,,, .,
OF ms statements. The detective rn-
piled that he had.
Judge Hill then Interrupted toII-
ing Attorney Arnold he would have
10 discontinue that line of questions
lt seems to me, your honor" said
AAttornel Arnold, ''that YOU are DIV
r 7 !seShe solicitor a wider latitude in
MS questions than you are pivino.
L won't permit you to ask oues-
tions which reflect on the iury's YER
dict or the ruling by the sunren,a
court replied Judge Hill.
Attorney Arnold resumed his cues
tionlng of Burns.
Z; Mt. Burns, did you ever talk to
Conley? A. No. ~
Q. Where is he held? A. He's kent
locked up in Jail. -
y; Is any one allowed to talk to
e., Why didn't you embrace the
privilege offered you by w. NJ. Smith
Sonley's lawyer to talk to himo a
Because of Smiths terms.
| u. what were those terms?
| why, Smith defanded that he be pres.
ent and reporter be there.
| Y. Under such circumstances could
you get any information out of Con
ley! A. l didn't think so.
| .. You arrived at your conclusion
That Conley was pervert from the
character of the letters he wrote to
Annie Maude Carter and the manne,
In which the dead girls clothing was
mutllated, didn't you? A. Yes,
Letters Were Vile.
| y. What were the contents of those
letters? A. Why, they were very
vile. They showed the writer's mind
was saturated with lust. | never saw
an instance more filled with that
character of perversion.
| y. Mr.. Burns, did you ever attempt
TO get anything in this case except
the truth? A. No.
y. DID you ever by the offer of
Drioes, intimidation or coercion or any
other improper methods seek to OBJ
tain evidence from witnesses? A.
assuredly did not.
q; Were you besieged by people
profferlng absurd things as evidence ?
A. Yes, by hundreds of them.
y. And you found it difficult to
estimate the motives actuating them ?
A. | did.
With this question. Mr.. Arnold