Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-04
DORSEY ASKS DEATH DAY
Be SET; NEW, STARTLING
CHARGE AGAINST CONLEY

where the boys receive their paper
: 10 sell and when / arrived at Thu
journal building the extra issue o
The Journal was coming out, and
Immediately got my papers, and wen
/ over 10 Five Points, where sold
( them To fix the time that | mus
/ have arrived at The Journal building
viii stat ethat the extra generally
comes out from about 1920 to IL: 80
ana I told an OF these circumstances
in detail to 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 will be all right
You do as ! tell you And then the
whistle blew for noon at the factory,
ana 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 and / told him that II he would
see my boss and get me off would
come. He then handed me sub
pena, and read 1t TO me, and told me
how much / would have to pay or go
TO jail II didn't come down TO his
Office, and that could show the sub
pena 10 my boss / did show the
subpoena to my boss, and the next day
went 10 Blacks Office at police head
quarters
Il arrived there about 1880 in the
afternoon. At that time there we're
several newspaper men In his Of
fee He at once carried me to an
ether room, where we we're alone to-
gether. 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 IL o'clock.
and that sat on the seat with Mary,
and that we got of the car about 8
to Z minutes after ~, at Marietta and
Forsyth streets. ] again told Black
that that was not true, and that j
didn't want TO lie about H.
Agreed to perjure Himself.
He told me that that was all right.
You go ahead and tell II just Ike
tell YOU / told him that | didn't
know anything about what time we
got off the car, and Black says ooh,
you was raised in the country, yod
can tell the time by the sun, and it
was about FIVE or seven minutes after
twelve and he said It just like that.
| told him that that was not true, buk
he made me agree 10 say II was as
he told me, and | said AN right, II
you say ! got to say 1t that way. all
right, but II Is not true, and he fur
Their said You do as | tell you and
/ will give you some money when this
trial Is over and you can leave town
If you want to-
Il tolk him that / hated to leave
town and leave my mother, and he
said That Is all right, win fix II with
your mother told Black, All right.
If you say so, suppose l can do It,
He then told me that / must say that
I 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 sweet heart
at the pencil factory and that | should
say that Mary said She didn't have
any sweetheart. but Mr.. Frank down
there acted suspicious toward her,
that he came out ahead OF her OF
nights when she would leave the fac
tory and would look at her and wink
at her and ] should say that Mary
said she was Afraid OF Frank, and
that she asked me to come to the fac
tory every night to meet IT because
she was afraid OF Frank.
Il told Black when he had told me
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 If 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 go
to 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 and
tell the story just like he told It 70
me. and said All right, II you say
got to do, | suppose can dot It,
After this talk with Detective
Black in a private room at police
headquarters. he gave me \ nickle to
buy a drink, which | did. and he toll
me after had my drink to come back
to the inquest. which is being held on
the second floor at police headquar-
tiers. | did as he told me, and waited
on the second floor near where the
inquest was being held, fifteen or
twenty minutes and then Detective
Black and Mr., DonehoO came out II
where | was.
Told Lie to Coroner, He Says.
MI. IptltlOO WAS bilnh anu bldN -
told him who I was, that I was George
Epns anC he knows something about
the PhaRan case. and Mr. Donehno
told me that | would be the next wilt
ness.
Detective Black and Mr. Donehoo
then returned 20 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 ! knew then was mostly a lie,
but felt that was Obliged 10 tell
lies, because Detective Black had told
me 1t was all right for me 20 do so.
When | left the witness stand at the
Coroners inquest
Il went out into the hall and De-
tective Black came out and saw me,
and ne said, George. you done all
right, now stick TO that story. for
there maybe other men come out to
see YOU and question you about what
YOU know, and you tell them that you
don't know anything about II, and
that YOU have been told not 10 say
anything to anybody about the Mary
Phagan case. He then carried me
down to a soda fountain by the side
of police station and bought me a
drink and told me to 60 on home
and ! met Mr. watkins, man who
lives In my neighburhood near the
police station and We rode home to-
gether ON the car
After | got home ! realizedt then
/ that had sworn TO lies under the
direction of Detective Black and