Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
.EPPS NOW SWEARS HE WAS
COERCED TO DENY STORY
Boy Witness, in New Statement, Says He Was
Threatened With Jail Unless He Signed Aft
davit-DecIares It Was Made in Birmingham
Continued From Page I.

wrote a little bit, and ne didn't like II
and seemed mad and told me to
turn over and write again; and he
didn't seem to like this, and told me
TO turn over and write another time
Il wrote what he said, and he
seemed TO be pleased, and he smiled
and rubbed his hands together"
Difference in Dates.
The murder note bore the date blank
y of 800" Those in use at the time
OF the crime, as shown in an original
obtained by The American from the
Southern Betting Company and sign
ed by Frank with the initial 'F' just
week before the murder, were
printed with date blank OF "19l--."
Becker's office was on the fourth
floor OF the pencil factory. He was
master mechanic and was accus-
toned to obtain supplies without OBJ
tanning the 20. K" of anyone else in
the factory He was with the pencil
company from the start, and, aside
from Frank, was said to have the
E1nost intimate knowledge of the pro-
scesses of pencil manufacture OF any
zone In the institution.
Most of his supplies he obtained
from the Southern Betting Company,
the Cotton States Betting and Supply
Company and the Beck & Gregg
Hardware Company II was his prac-
tice, according to factory officials,
ssimply to write out n requisition. sign
st. with his name, and send it by an
apprentice or driver TO one OF these
three places whenever he was in need
of supplies.
The duplicate requisition remained
on the pad in his Office on the fourth
floor of the building. Scores of these
spads accumulated during the four or
five wears he was with the company.
FThey were filed away for a time ana
some Of the earliest ones were burned.
Sent Old Pads to Basement.
Becker, it was said at the factory
Saturday, conducted his department
entirely separate from that of the
other departments until about year
before he left His acquisitions were
sent out and honored without passing
through any other Office. His pads OF
duplicates he either kept in his office
or had carried to the basement to be-
destroyed.
He left the employ OF the pencil
company on December q, 1912. With
f. a few weeks after he had left his
Office on the fourth floor was cleaned
out All oG the paper and old pads
We're gathered up and taken to the
basement. ne defense viii Claim ina
the pad containing the duplicates OF
Becker's acquisitions In 1909-three
and half years before-were among
the pads that were carried down the
elevator to be dumped into the re-
use-strewn basement.
This, then, the extraordinary mo-
ton will set forth, was the place
where the paper on which the death
note was written was found and
where the writing took place, and
not in Franks office, as Conley said
and as the State claims,
To Lemmie Quinn, foreman in the
tipping department, belongs the cred
it for the first discovery of the name OF
Becker on the murder note. He re-
ported this 10 the factory officials and
then began the search t. find the date
of the order from the serial number
All of the firms with which the pencil
company obtained its supplies were
canvasseG. The orders retained by
the Southern Betting Company
showed from their serial numbers that
No. 1918 was between September %
and October 6, 1909.
Franks Comment on New Turn.
The invoices for that period then