Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-27

expert evidence Of its own to the
c. atrary.
Evidence by Mis- Jimmie Mayfeld
and Mrs. Cora Faita, factory em-
ployees, is then quoted to show that
the hair was not Mary Phagan's.
These two young women testify abb
solutely to that fact, declaring they
knew Mary Phagan well and that the
hair found was much lighter and
altogether different.
Albert Meningitis reputation of
the testimony he gave that he saw
Frank at the Selig home on the day
OF the crime and that he acted
suspiciously is then quoted The de-
Tense says Mcknight swears the
statement was written and prepared
by Albert Craven, a white man em-
ployed by the Beck & Gregg Hard
ware Company, and was witnessed by
=. II. Pickett and Angus Morrison.
VI, both employed by the same Arm.
They declare the negro was told that
ne would have to stick to his false
story because It had been witnessed.
mcknight swears that he was
threatened with the changing IL he
changed the story prepared for him.
which he now brands as an entire
untruth. Mcknight says now he left
the Selig home before 1890 and did
not see Frank al all on the day OF
the crime. The defense contends
that Craven planned to collect the
reward offered for the arrest and con-
Nletion OF the slayer, a part OF which
ne promised to Mcknight. Mcknight
says he was weak enough to follow
CraVen's directions after he had been
thoroughly drilled. The defense
points out that the Mcknight testi-
Inony was relied upon strongly by
me state TO shatter Franks allbi
ana That the reputation should en-.
ute MIN to a new trial.
Mrs. j. y. simmons evidence that
the Solicitor failed to call her as n
witness after she had informed him
inst she heard screams from the
basement OF the factory at ego
O'Clock IS set forth as further justin-
cation for new trial. Mrs Sim
mons Is quoted as declaring that the
Solicitor tried hard to make her
change her story but that she stead
lastly refused. The motion then con.
tains this paragraph:
defendant further shows that II
mas come to the knowledge OF this
defendant since the motion for new
trial was denied, that on April 26
tsis, between $50 and o'clock on
whitehall street, that he fact that
said Solicitor General Hugh nj nor,
sey had seen Frank al about the time
Just stated is the reason that he at-
tempted 10 discredit the statemeot
MADE him by Mrs. Simmons"
me defense contends that the
states whole case revolved about the
theory that the girl was killed be-
tween 1905 and 1920 and that Mrs.
Simmonst testimony given TO the So
licitor that she heard screams al 2. 40
would tend TO show the girl was alive
an hour after the State contends she
was killed
The testimony OF Mrs Ethel Har-
rls Miller that she saw Frank at
Whitehall and Alabama streets he
tween 100 and 1:1O follow. Her ar
fidavlt is submitted.
Girl Regulates Testimony.
Dewey Hewell was one OF the
states witnesses against Frank al
the trial She was called 10 show
mat Frank had tried TO force his at
tentions on Mary Phagan and that
ne was man Of bad character.
In the affidavit made for the de-
Tense, she states clearly that she was
coached and drilled in her testimony
given on the stand, and that Maggie
Griffn. another Of the States charac-
ter witnesses, was one OF those most
eager In coaching her.
She declares that the Griffin girl
told her exactly what TO say and that
others were coached In a similar
manner; that when some OF them
said they were afraid to 60 on the
stand and tell an untruth the Griffin
girl said that she wasn't afraid and
was going on the stand and tell ex-
aetly what the solicitor wanted,
The Hewell girls afiidavlt sets
forth that she told Maggie Grimm
that she knew nothing against Frank
and nothing about Mary Phagan and
that the Griffin girl told her To 20
on the stand Just the same and saw
that she knew Franks character 10
be bad and that she had seen Frank
Whispering to the Phagan girl with
his face very close 10 her
Dorsey's Methods Attacked.
Now VEL SO over Il again so that
YOU won't forget It, the Grimm girl
said. according 10 the affidavit, after
she had given directions as TO how
Dewey Hewell should testify.
A strong attack upon the methods
Of Solicitor Dorsey Is contained in