Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-05-06
DETECTIVE GETS IN BAD.
Some New Developments In the Leo
Frank Hearing.
ATLANTA Constitution, 9TH J

Judge Ben Hill demanded Of Leo
Franks defense yesterday afternoon
that Anna Maud Carter, the negro
witness, be returned to the jurisdic-
tion of the court within five days.
He declared that If she were not
brought back to Atlanta within that
time he would decline to consider her
evidence or any evidence In which
she was involved. ......
Detective Burns admitted before
be-" said Judge Hill, chat he had
sent Anna Maud Carter from the ju-
risdiction Of the court. want an
order drawn commanding Anna Maud
Carter to be returned to Atlanta in
five days or l will not consider any
of the evidence in which she Is con-
cerned." .... .....
1t is said that immediate efforts
will be made to bring the missing
woman back to Atlanta. She is now
in New Orleans, where, according to
letter she recently wrote relatives
in this city, she Is working with the
William j. Burns Detective Agency.
This letter was read to Judge Hill
by Solicitor Dorsey Monday after
noon. ....
Anna Maud Carter Is the negress
who accuses Jim Conley OF having
confessed to her the murder OF of,Mary
Phagan. A literal mountain of evil
dence was introduced by the solicitor
Monday to show that she had con-
spired with George and Jimmy
Wrenn, in Fulton Jail, to frame up
on Conley. Other testimony was
adduced to show that she had told
friends and relatives, upon being re-
leased from Jail, that she had tried
to "pick" Conley, and that he had
firmly maintained that Leo Frank
was the murderer.
A surprising new phase Of evidence
that arose Monday was an affidavit
from Mrs. Hattie Waites, the young
wife of j. M. Waites, who swears that
on%the morning OF the day Mary Pha-
gan was slain, she saw Leo Frank
and Jim Conley talking to each other
some time between 10 and II o'clock
and that they we're apparently en9
gagged In earnest conversation. {.t
This evidence was introduced to
bear out in part that, portion OF Con-'
slley's tsstinloh bearing on d meet
:siIip he had vii ii Ttranly k on
the lff0rnti y df the M az F.orsyf 81;
and Nelson streets, when Frank Is
said to have instructed him to come
to the pencil factory that noon to
watch" for him. Mrs. Waites' af1i-
davit has been kept a secret by the
solicitor, and created sensation
when it was sprung.
Lehon Nears Contempt.
At the very outset Of the retrial
proceedings Monday morning a SEN
sation was created when Dan S. Le-
hon, Southern superintendent Of the
WIN. j. Burns forces, was practically
put under arrest for contempt OF
court. Following the strenuous ex-
animation which he underwent before
Solicitor Dorsey he made heated
TRADE against the solicitors tactics.
They were cut short by Judge Hill,
however, who ordered him to cease.
and who instructed Deputy Sheriff
Plennie Miner to take charge Of the
Burns man. Miner escorted Lehon
into an adjoining room, where he re-
mained for some little while. Later,
Judge Hill asked the court stenogra.
pher to read that part OF Lehon's
statement which attacked Dorsey.
Attorneys Arnold and Rosser stat
ed that the witness had not intended
to be in contempt. Judge Hill order
ed the words eXpunged from the
record, called Deputy Miner into the
room and ordered that Lehon be al"
lowed to go his way
Detective Under Bond.
Atlanta, May 5.-Dan G.. Lehon, q
private detective, was placed under a
thousand dollar appearance bond
here to-day at the hearing OF the ex-
traordinary motion for a new trial in
the case Of Leo NJ. Frank, sentenced
to die for the murder OF Mary Pha-
gan, the factory girl. Lehon's testi-
mOny is wanie ed in connection with
the affidavit O.. Rev. G.. B. Ragsdale
later repudiatrd) that he heard Jas.
COnley, the negro, confess to muir
dering the girl. Lehon gave bond.