Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-04
DORSEY ASKS DEATH DAY
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CHARGE AGAINST CONLE\

where the boys receive thelr papers
! to sell, and when | arrived at The
! journal building the extra issue OF
| The journal was coming out and
Immediately got my papers, and went
over 10 Five Points, where sold
! them To FIX the time that ! must
have arrived at The Journal building,
J win stat cthat the extra generally
comes out from about 12:20 to 1890.
and ! told all Of these circumstances
in detail 10 Detective Black when ]
first met him as | am telling them
now.
Black wanted me to say that ! sat
In the seat with Mary on the car, but
I told him that this was not true,
that | sat three seats behind her But
Black said That win be all right
You do as ! ten YOU And then the
whistle blew for noon at the factory
and Black went away, and the fac
tory hands came out for dinner
Detective Black asked me to come
down 10 his office the next day to see
him, ard told him that If he would
see my boss and get me off | would
come. He then handed me sub
pena, and read II to me. and told me
how much l would have TO pay or go
10 jail if I didn't come down to his
cfilce, and that ! could show the sub
pena to my boss did show the
subpoena 10 my boss, and the next day
went TO Blacks office at police head .
quarters
- arrived there about 2:30 in the
afternoon. At that time there were
several newspaper men In his Of
flee. He at once carried me to an
ether room, where we were alone to-
Fether. He then questioned me again
about coming downtown on the car
with Mary, and told me that | got on
the car at 10 minutes to ~ o'clock,
ana That ! sat on the seat with Mary.
ana that we got off the car about
to minutes after II, at Marietta and
FORSYTH streets. | again told Black
that that was not true, and that
didn't want to lie about IT,
Agreed to Periure Himself.
lie told me that that was all right.
You go ahead and tell It just Ike
tell YOU told him that didn't
know anything about what time we
got off the car and Black says oh,
you was raised in the country. you
can tell the time by the sun, and il
was about five or seven minutes after
twelve and he said IT Just Ike that.
told him that that was not true, but
ne made me agree to say il was as
he told me, and ! said AN right, II
you say ! got to say II that way, all
right, but II Is not true, and he fur
Their said YOU do al ! tell you and
VIII give you some money when this
trlal is over, and you can leave town
If you want to-
II told him that ! hatel to leave
town and leave my mother and he
cat . III. n
your mother I told Black. All right,
II you say so, ] suppose ! can do iC'
He then told me that | must say that
| talked to Mary on the car coming
downtown, and told me to say devil
ed Mary about her sweetheart. and
told her she must have a sweetheart
at the pencil factory. and that / should
say that Mary said Sac didn't have
any s,'eetheart. but Mr. Frank down
there acted suspicious toward her,
that ne came out ahead OF her at
lights when she would leave the fac
tory and would look at her and wink
at her and ! shoulu say that Mary
said she was Afraid Of Frank and
that she asked me to come TO the fac
tory every night To meet T. because
she was afraid of Frank
Il told Black when he had told ma
all OF this to say that he had me
scared and that | would be afraid to
go to the pencil factory and besides
i didn't have time to go to the pencil
factory to meet her II she wanted me
to- He said, That is all right, YOU
Just say that just like you say 1t now.
that Is, you did not have time TO 20
10 the factory to meet her, but don't
say anything about being afraid or
what | told you soaring YOU
He then urged me to go ahead ami
tell the story just like he told 1t 10
me, and | said AN right. II you say
got 60 do IT, ! suppose I can do 1T
After rs talk with Detective
Black In a private room at police
headquarters. he cave me .ickel To
buy drink, which I did. and he TOT
me after had my drink 20 come back
to the inquest, which IL being held on
the second floor at police headquar-
ters. | did as ne told me. and waited
on The second floor near where the
inquest was being hel'. fifteen ,r
twenty minutes and then Detective
Black and Mr. Donehoo came out 10
where | was
Told Lie TO Coroner He Says.
Mr. Donehoo was blind and Black
told him who was, that ! was George
Eppe ant he knows omething about
the Phagan case, and MIR Donehna
told me that | would be the next Wit
ness
Detective Black and Mr. Donehoo
then returned to the inquest room
and in a minute or two my name
was called, and | went in and was
sworn and took the witness stand
and told the story on the stand that
Detective Black had told me to tell.
which l knew then was mostly a lie.
but felt that ! was obliged 10 tell
Hes, because Detective Black had told
| me il was all right for me to do so.
When | left the witness stand at the
Coroner's inquest, went out
into the hall and Detective
Black came out and saw me.
and he said 'Georr- vou dom, an