Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-22
H0WLING MODS ASSAIL
HOME OF GOVERNOR WHO
COMMITTED FRANK.
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in the chain gang" the statement says.
| lie then referred to the murder
/ notes" found beside the body, which
! Conley admitted he had written at
Franks dictation.
"Cenley claimed Frank asked him
! to come to the factory on Saturday
and watch for him as he had done,
which he explained, meant that Frank
expected to meet some woman" the
governor says. "Conley occupied a
dark place beside the elevator behind
some boxes.
Evidence of Conley.
"Conley mentioned several male and
female employees who went up the
steps to the second floor. where
Franks office was. He said Mary
Phagan went up the stairs. In few
minutes he heard footsteps going to-
ward the metal ROOM that he heard a
scream and then dozed. In a few
minutes Frank stamped and conley
locked the door and then Frank whis-
tied and Conley unlocked the door and
went up stairs He said Frank was
shivering and trembling and told him
he made advances to the girl and she
repulsed him, and he struck her too.
hard and she fell and hit her head
against something and he did not
know how badly she was hurt. Ell
Conley said he found the girl in the
metal room with cloth tied about the
neck as though to catch blood, al
though there was no blood at the
place.
According to Conley's story. Frank
told him to get a piece of cloth and
wrap the body in it and Conley got
piece of bed ticking and uea up the
body carried il TO near the dressing
room, dropped IL, then called on Frank
to assist him. He said that he and
Frank took the body 10 the basement
In the elevator; that they rolled the
body out of the cloth then went to
Franks office; that Emma Clark and
Corintha Hall came into the office and
Frank put him in the wardrobe and
after they left that Frank dictated
the murder notes.
Inconsistencies In Story.
The statement then points out al
legged Inconsistencies in Conleys
story. Among them, he said was evil
denee that the elevator had not been
used Saturday afternoon; that Frank
could not have carried the girl down
the hatchway while Conley, a power
full negro, could have done so; that no
bed ticking ever had been seen in the
factory; that it was agreed the MUIR
ger could not have been committed
before 1905 y. m, and yet ConIey had
Emma Clark and Corintha Hall I'm |
Franks office after the body had been
disposed Of, while unimpeached tes- |
timony showed that they reached the /
factory at 1875 and left at 1916 a. m. /
In conclusion the governor said:
In any event the performance of my I
duty under the constitution is a mat !
Ter of my conscience The RESPONSE |
)ility rests where the power is re-
posed Judge Roam NOV deceased) I
With that awful sense Of responsibility
which probably came over him as he
housht of that Judge before whom he
would shortly appear, calls on me
rom another world, to request that |
10 that which he should have done.
II can endure misconstruction.
lbuse. and condemnation but [ can
lot stand the constant companionship
II an accusing conscience which would
'emind me in every thought that I,
Is governor of Georgia, failed to do
What | thought to be right
There is territory beyond a rea-
onaDle doubt and absolute certainty
or which the law provides in allow
ng life Imprisonment instead of exc 4
ution. This case has been marked
" doubt. The trial Judge doubted
'wo judges of the state supreme court
oubted. Two judges of the United
'tates supreme court doubted. One of
he three prison commissioners
QUILTED. II
In my Judgment by granting a /
ommutatlon in this case / am sus-
aiming the jury, the Judge and the APP
ellate tribunals and at the same time |
m diseharging my duty which is
laced upon me by the state constitu-
ION"