Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-04
DORSEY ASKS DEATH DAY
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CHARGE AGAINST CONLE\

50 here the boys receive their papers
I 20 sell. and when ! arrived at The
I IDurnal building the extra iSsue Of
/ The Journal was coming out. and
Immediately got my papers, and went
/ over TO Five Points. where | sold
! them TO fix the time that ! must
! have arrived at The journal building
| ! win stat ethat. the extra generally
| comes out from about 1920 TO 1873"
4 and ! told all Of these circumstances
/ I'm detail 10 Detective Black when
| frs met him, as | am telling them
| now
BLACK wanted me TO say that | sat
! IN the seat with Mary on the car. but
/ / 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. ana the fac
! tory hands came out for dinner
Detective Black asked me to come
| down to his Office the next day to see
| him, and ! told him that IL he would
| see my boss and get me off / would
| come. He then handed me a sub
| reua, and read II TO me, and told me
| how much | would have TO pay or 20
! 10 jail II ] didn't come down 10 his
office and that ! could show the sub
| pena to my boss. ] did show the
| subpoena 70 my boss, and the next day
went to Blacks Office at police head =
| quarters.
Il arrived there about 2:30 in the
afternoon. At that time there were
several newspaper men in his Of
| fice. lie at once carried me to an
ether room, where we We're alone to-
gethef. He then questioned me again
about coming downtown ON the car
with Mary, and told me that ! got on
the ear at 10 minutes to II O'Clock,
and that / sat on the seat with Mary.
and that we got off the car about 8
70 Z minutes after u, at Marietta and
Forsyth streets | again told Black
that that was not true, and that
didn't want to lie about IT,
Agreed to Periure Himself.
He told me that that was all rign.
You so ahead and tell it just like |
tell you | told him that | didn't
know anything about what time We
got off the car. and Black says oh,
you was raised in the country, vol
can tell the time by the sun, and It
was about five or seven minutes after
twelve and he said il Just Ike that
/ told him that that was not true. bIt
he made me agree to say it was rs
he told me, and | said All right, II
you say | got to say il that way, all
right but il is not true and he fur
Their said You do as | tell YOU and
] will give you some money when this
trlaI is over, and YOU can leave town
If YOU want to-,
81 told him that ! hatel to leave
town and leave my mother. and he
said That is all right. viii fix il with
| your mother told Black. AN right,
| il you say so, | suppose | can do ic.'
He then told me that | must say that
| ! 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 sweetheart
at the pencil factory. and that | should
! say that Mary said Sac didn't have
any sr'eetheart but Mr.. Frank down
| there acted suspicious toward her,
! that he came out ahead Of her at
nights when she would leave the fac
} tory and would look at her and winl,
I at her and | shoui. say thar Mary
| said she was Afraid of Frank and
! that she asked me to come to the fac
! tory every night To- meet l. 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
30 to the pencil factory and besides
! I didn't have time 10 go to the pencil
| factory to meet her If she wanted me
to He said, That is all right. Won
just say that just like YOU say II now,
that is, YOU did not have time to go
to the factory TO meet her, bur don't
say anything about being afraid or
| what ! told YOU soaring YOU
He then urged me to go ahead ami
| tell the story Just like he told IL to
me, and | said All right, If you FAY
| got to do H. | suppose ! can do It.
after t7is talk with Detective
! Black In private room at police
| headquarters. he cave me a .ickel IA
buy a drink which | did and he TOT |
me after ! had my drink to come back
/ to the inquest, which is being held on
| the second floor at police headquar-
! ters. ! did as he told me. and waited
! on TIE second floor near where the
4 inquest was being held, fifteen "
/ twenty minutes. and then Detective
| Black and Mr. Donehoo came out II
where was
Told Lie to Coroner, He Says.
! Mr. Donehoo was blind and Black
! told him who was. that l was George
! Fpps ano he knows something about
/ the Phagan case and MIR DonehoJ
told me that l would be the next wit
ness.
Detective Black and MIR Douehoo
then returned to the inquest room
and in 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 to tell
les because Detective Black had told
me IL was all right for me TO do so
! When | left the Witness stand at tht
| Coroner's inquest went out
into the hall and Detective
/ Black came out and saw me.
and he said. George you done all
right. now stick TO that story, foi
there may be other men come out tt
see on and question YOU about what
YOU know, and YOU tell them that vou
don't know anything about it, ano
that You have been told not To say
anything TO anybody about the MARI
Phdgan case. He then carried mn.
down 20 soda fountain by the sid,
OF police station and bought me ;
drink and told me 10 90 ON home
and | met MIR Watkins. "A man VIII,
lives In mv ueighborhood near tn,
police station and We rode home 10.
gether on the car.
After ! got home ! realized thei
that I had sworn to lies under tn,
airaetinu Of Detective Rlltk mud