The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-06-22

murder and that he admitted paying
Mary Phagan the wages due her So
| far as known, he says, Frank was the
! last person who saw her alive.
Other facts enumerated by the gov
ernor and to him the more important
of those shown by the state were:
That Frank at 4 o'clock the after
noon of the murder allowed the negro
watchman, Newt Lee, to leave the fac
tory for two hours; that same evening
Frank called Lee over the phone; that
Lee found the double inner doors lock-
ed, all of which things he had never
done before; that a cord similar to
that with which the girl was strangled
was found in quantities on the metal
room floor and in less quantities in
the basement, where the body was dis
covered.
He also included the testimony of
Miss Monteen Stover that when she
was in Franks office, about the time
the state contended Frank and the
Phagan girl were in the metal room,
Frank was not in his office, although
he had declared he had not left the
office
The most startling and spectacu-
lar testimony in the case was that
given by negro, JIM Conley, who fre-
quently had been in the chaingang,"
the statement says lie then referred
to the murder notes" found beside
the body which Conley finally adj
mitted he had written at Franks die
tatDn. "Conley claimed Frank asked
him to come to the factory on Satur-
day and watch for him as he had done
which he explained meant that Frank
expected to meet some woman
The governor says: "Conley occu-
pied a dark place beside the elevator
shaft behind some boxes" 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 that in few minutes he
| heard footsteps gong toward 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 whistled and
Conhy unlocked the door and went
upstairs. He said Frank was shiyer-
ing and trembling and told him he had
made advances to the girl and she re-
pulsed him and he struck her too hard
and She fell and hit her head against
something and he didn't know how
! badly she was hurt Conley said he
found the girl in the metal room with
a cloth around her neck as though to
catch blood although there was no
blood at the place.
According to Conleys story, Frank
| told him to get piece Of cloth and
wrap the body in it and Conley got
| piece of bed ticking and tied up the
body carried 1t near the dressing
room, dropped it, then called on Frank
to assist him. He said that he and
! Frank took the body to the basement
in the elevator that they rolled the
body out of the cloth and 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 Frank dictated the
murder notes.
The statement then points out alleg-
| ed Inconsistencies in Conleys story
and mentions several contradictions in
his story as related in various affi-
davits. Among them he said were the
evidence that the elevator had not
been used Saturday afternoon that
! Frank could not have carried the girl
| down the hatchway while ConIey,
powerful negro, could have done so,
that no bed ticking ever had been seen
in the factory, that it was agreed the
murder could not have been commit
ted before 1905 pm, and yet Conley
has Emma Clark and Corintha Hall in
Franks office after the body has been
! disposed OF while unimpeached testi-
mony showed that they reached the
factory at 1875 and left at 11:45 am.
In conclusion the governor said:
I'm any event the performance of
my duty under the constitution, is
matter Of my conscience. The respon-
sibility rests where the power is re-
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