The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-28
FRANKS ATTORNEYS TO FILE MOTION FOR
 NEW TRIAL APRIL IS
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ouctS a boarding house near the site of the pencil factory, in an affidavit includ- ing in motion, asserts that Conley, the negro came out af an alley in the rear of the factory about 2:15 on the after- noon the girl was murdered. and that he entered the house' purchased and ate lunch. When he left, she asserts that re went back toward the alley. Conley has testified that he left the pencil fac tory at 1:3O o'clock by way of the front door on the afternoon of the murder
 The evidence of the negro boarding housekeeper is taken by the defense to indicate a possible explanation of the broken lock on the rear door of the fac tory basement. The lock of the door was found to be broken the day after the murder. No evidence bearing upon 1t was introduced at the trial of Frank.
 Hair Plays Part
 Statements of Dr. H. r. Harris that a microscopic examination of hair found on lathe on the second floor of the fac tory showed it to be unlike the hair of the murdered girl are included in the mo- tion. Affdavits of similar import from several girl employees of the factory, who knew the dead girl and who examined the hair found on the lathe, also are in- troduced by the defense
 An explanation, according to the de- fense, of the blood spots found near the lathe is given in affidavit by J. M Duffy, an employe of the pencil fac tory now resident of New York, on working in the metal department he cut one of his fingers and that con siderable blood from the wound fell on the floor. The machine which he was operating was opposite the one at which the murdered girl worked
 The alleged finding of a carbon tra- cery of the signature of II. r. Becker former master mechanic in the fac tory, no wa resident of New York. on one of the notes found beside the body. is considered in the motion. The note was written on an order blank of the kind used in 1909 by Becker It is claimed that the unused blanks of this kind were taken to the basement and discarded when Becker left the Ma tional Pencil company's service in 909.
 It is contended by the defense that it is unlikely that pad of these old blanks would have been on Frank S desk in 1913, and that the note on one of the blanks tends to show that the murder was committed in the base ment and not on thes second floor of the factory near Franks office. The notes are to the effect that a negro had committed the crime. Conley testified at Franks trial that he had obtained the blanks for Frank from the latter's office
 Thestimony from several witnesses reflecting on the character of Frank is repudiated in affidavits made by them recently. The defense also at- tacks the methods used by detectives and other officials of the prosecution in preparing the case against Frank, introducing affidavits to show that wit nesses had been coached as to what testimony to give and that, in some cases. they had been led to make untrue statements. It is understood that the new motion is not necessarily com pleted and that facts that may de- velop by an investigation now being conducted by the head of national de- teetive agency may be embodied. The investigation Is expected to be com pleted in a short time and the results it. is announced, will be made public