The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-09
MURDER NOTE MARX
MAY SAVE LEO FRANK
Faint Signature on the paper
Supports the Defence's
y Main Contention.
PADrsEDwAs NOT FRANKS
Discovery Seems 10 Make ths
Negro Conley's Stor,
Incredible.
PAD rSEDWAS NOT FRANKS

| ATLANTA. March s--I,eo n t,a,, 49,,
his attorneys were jubilsnt TODAY Owe.
tho discovery of evidence witch ~.
claim will undoubtedly induce judge u +,
Hiii 10 grant the extraordinary motion 70,
new trial which Ia to be made a,.,,,
ten DAYS before the date set for FRANZ,
execution-April II
This evidence was CLEANED from A study
OF the two notes found near Mary phasan,
body. and N Is claimed that !, tond,
show that the notes were written I'm IN.
basement OF the pencil factory. no, +,
Franks ONCE as the negro Jim Corlev
swore at the trial.
The murder notes always rardad
as vital. but always elusive when =, cam.
10 determine at whom they pointed az m.
person guilty OF last Aprils brutal niv..
der. had been examined by the detectives
by the solicitor and by lawyers FOR .ss
defence. bu. none of them had Il scarre,i
the faint tracery, as from carbon pane.
OF the signature OF H. J.. Becker. mss,s,
: mechanic at the National Pencil Factory
from the day II began operation unit he.
cember 81. 1912
May sumc~ 10 save Frank
The faint scrawl OF the name. uirnag. Oh
liberated by the smudgc and tho --me on
the note the "Io0--" date blank tina, q
ON the order pad on which the negro. jim
Conley, wrote the notes aft.r toc dawn.
OF the girl the serial number winch CO..
responds to a rsqusition made or BIZ.
Cotton states Betting Company 800 SEP.
TENDER. 1909. by II. +. Beckcr al MA,
combine TO save Frank.
Jim Coniey. at the time he ioenacted
what he saia was the manner .r WA.
the tragedy had taken pace. AID agafE
when he told his story on the stand ~
that the notes We're written in Franks
Office and upon pad which was On
Franks deck. He said that Frank reached
for the pad and had him write on il
Frank and his lawyers say the new De
covery utterly disproves the Negroes story
A close scrutiny Of the Srst note d.
closed the name OF Becker just below b.
second line that Conley had written The
Inter part OF tho name was fairly PLAN
The initials could not be distinguished
clearly. \ canvass OF the firms fror
which acquisitions had been mad 3,
Becker brought 20 light the fact that TIE
| order pad on which the note was write
was used by Becker in the fan Of 1909
three and q half years before the murder
" Mary phagan.
Jsna ConIeS's Evidence.
This IS what Conley had to say ~
the writing of the notes when he Mas or
the stand at the trial
, And Mr. Frank says = can tell "rU
the best way for ~ to get olf ~ ms
, You write what tell you And sid
, Yes. sir, again. because | was willing 10
. do anything to help Mr. FranS. him being
a white man and my superintendent .'0
> ale handed me a pad Of pap,r 1-
, told me 20 write. and wrote . lt''' r7's
, and he didn't like T. and seemed mad ma
told me TO turn over and write ,ga.n,
and he didn't seem to like this and tod
me turn over and write another time.
wrote what he said and he seemed pleased
and he smiled and rubbed his hands 10
gether.'
The murder note bore the da'" p.4rN ~
1870" Those in use al the time Of me
, crime. as shown in an original signed n'
Frank with the initial "F' Jus, a 7eeN
before the murder. were printed WIN
date blank of "lsl-"
!, Beckers Office WAS on the fourth 400
, OF the pencil factory. lie WAS masi'
, mechanic and was accustomed to fe' sHi
: plies without the 20 X" %, any u"e else
In the factory. The duplicate r'pII,' on'
remained on the pad AT his o'tir' on tar
fourth floor OF the building Scores o'
these pads accumulated during the 'ol'
or 1--WE years he was with the COMPANY
. but some were carried 10 the basement 70
. be destroyed.
Supports Cont~ntion Of Defence
1t is the contention OF the defence t'ii
Conley wrote the murder not, ' '',
, basement on the waste that N'.t.r IN
sent down to be destroyed. and FRAT. At
torneys say that tho discovery ~ l'' Nrt
name on the pad proves their contention
, Leo Frank was asked for a 90 nmtnt "r
the latest development In his cas". ITO
said They will have to change Gomez
statement again II they are 20 get AROUND
this. They will have to get him 20 saw
that instead OF reaching in my desk am
getting out pad | went down Into '''
basement and brought that old Iti .
that bore Becker's duplicates ard '''
! Conley write or that.
II never have felt NOR. conhdo0' NJ
ultimate aoauhttal than I do right a. Oh
moment"
Young Eppes shtsss Anair
! George Eppe~. the nfteen- year-old r.o'
boy who recently repudiated the dam '''f
testimony he gave against Frank '
trial. to-day made "a statement de-. b
his regulating af'davit was falls" 70"
, that he WAS coerced into makirs '
agents OF the defence, Eppes s 'n no
State refornlat ory at Milledgev,ll" and t'
new statement. In which he rcHss"-'s TO
. truth OF his trial testimony. was made ne
, fore half dozen leadnG citizens "
, MilledgsvIlle.
Eppes alleges he was lured to R'rr.
ham and arrested and told tnat
didn't make an affidavit rcpud,au0i .-
trial testimony hs would be placed 70
The boy says he made ~" staten
dictation and signed II. lie retur q" '
! Atlanta and was sent to the rctorUh''
at Mlledgeville. There h" Wns WIS.,
by an attorney for Frank who. i1' .
says, coerced him into sweat'hI 10
statement.
80, 900 RABBIT SKINS BY MAIL