Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-12

covered Thursday, will be in the
effort to show attempts at a
frame-up" by Detective John
Black.
Mrs. Brown has been married
since the Frank trial, and now
lives in Milledgeville. Last
spring she was 16 years old, m-
married, and living with her
parents.
Jenkins and his wife told the fol-
lowing story freely and assert they
will make affidavit to it, and testify
in court. if called.
Tell of Visit From Black.
About one month after Frank was
arrested, the Jenknses state. John
Black came to their home and asked
to see Lula Belle
you are the girl who went with
Mary Phagan to the factory the day
she was killed, aren't you?" the de-
tective is said to have asked. When
the girl told him no, ne pressed the
assertion, and add4d
You went there sits Mary Pha-
gan, and Frank sent you awav. and
kept Mary Phagan there, saying she
had some work to do"
The girl denied this assertion also.
and after some more questions by the
detective he went away.
Used Threats, Says Mother.
The following Monday he came
back again" said Mrs. Jenkins. lie
asked to see Lula Belle, and put the
same questions to her She denied
knowing anything about the case, and
the detective became threatening.
There was another detective with him
and they both talked that way-+said
they had something on the girl and
could have her locked up if they
wanted to-"
The detectives went away, Mrs.
Jenkins said. only to return that
night; at elast Black came back, and
the same detectives, or maybe anoth-
er. was with him.
This time the detectives were open
in their threats to lock the girl up if
she did not admit her knowledge.
Mrs. Jenkins said
Heard Talk Of Money.
"And l heard Black tell Lula Belle
that If she would admit what he had
said, she could have part of his SAL
ary.' They were promising her money
as well as threatening her. it seemed"
In the course of the conversation,
Black is quoted as stating that a Mrs.
Moody, who lived nearby, had told the
police that Lula Belle had told her she
went to the factory with Mary Pha-
gan.
II wanted to see the matter to the
bottom" said Mrs. Jenkins so we all
went around to Mrs. Moody's. She
said plainly that Lula Belle never had
told her anything like that On the
way home. oneo the detectives talked
III an ulluti AOilH " LULA DtlASf anu
after they had gone away she told
me that Black had offered her $40
to tell what he had said about going
to the factory with Mary Phagan. But
she did not work at the factory and
she did not know Mary Phagan"
With William ]. Burns expected
either late Thursday or sometime Fri
day to open his probe Of the Mary
Phagan murder and the startling de-
velopnents that followed, interest in
the Frank case centers now about the
great detective.
e New and Vital Clews.
Burns is known to be keeping his
own counsel about the investigation
he already has made, and has res
fused to discuss valuable clews he Is
said to nave picked up in New York
There was all sorts of speculation
about the attitude he would assume
toward Jim Conley, and the negro is
said to have declared that he was
willing to face the detective If some
unbiased" white man were present.
The negro. however is being guided
entirely by hiss lawyer. W. M Smith,
who does not look with particular