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that, because he sent for Mr.. Rosser-
Dig OF reputation and big of brain.
dominating and controlling, SO far as
he can, everybody with whom he comes
In contact, the reason he wanted him AT
the police headquarters. and the reason
he wanted Haas, was because his con.
science needed somebody to sustain
him.
And this man Darley! We had to 20
Into the enemy's camp to get the am
munltion. but fortunately l got on tba
Job and sent the subpoena. and fortu-
nately Darley didn't know that he
didn't have to come, and fortunately
he came and made the AFFIDAVIT to
which he stood UP here as far as he
had to because he couldn't get around
It. IN which barley says"I noticed his
nervousness = noticed 1t up stairs. no.
ticed 1t down stairs" when they went
TO nail up the door. when he nat in
my lap going down to the Police Head
quarters he shook and he trenb ed ill.
an aspen leaf" ''Ae
You tell mo that this man that ca,,.d
Tor breakfast at home, as Durant caiIsd
Tor oromo-seltzer In San Francisco iris
man who called for coffee at the fac
tory. as Durant- called for bromo- saltzsr
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Mary Phagan Gave Up Life to Save
- That Which Is Dearer Than
, Life, Solicitor Says.

But this man Frank knew-he didn't
expect her 40 turn him down; he paved
the way; he had set the snare and he
thought that this poor little girl would
yield to ,hiS opportunities; but, ah,
thank God! she was made of that kind
of stuff to which you (Frank) are a
stranger, ana she resisted she wouldn't
yield. You struck her and you at
tackled her She was unconscious. You
gagged her and YOU choked her. Then
you got Mrs. White out, the woman that
saw you jump "a, l2.35 when you were
there fixing to Sc" about little Marys
pay envelope, which you never did give
tbs poor child
And you fused a good deal about
that poCketbOok, that meshbag
wouldn't be at aI' surprised If old Jims
statement that Frank had that mesh
bag, didn't keep that meshbag from
turning up ia IT, trial, Just exactly
like that plant u. Id Newt Lees shirt
and just exactly Ike that club and Just
exactly like these spots these men
l found on May II around that scuttle
Vhole. 1t worried YOU too much. it wor-
ried you too much, it disconnected your
plans. The thing had already been done
when Mrs, White got back there at l2. 35,
and old Jim Conley was still sitting down
there walting patiently for the signal
that had been aSrced upon, waiting pa
t!ently for the signals that YOU had
fourth floor and other people had been
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He'd as to what occurred on that Tues
day night
This defense, gentlemen-they have
got no Defense. they have never come
into close contact in this case, except on
the proposition of abuse and villffication
They circle and fiutter but never light
they grab at varnish and cats blood
and rats blood and Duffy's blood, but
they never knuckle down and show this
Jury that 1t wasn't blood and in view
OF the statement of that boy, Mel STAN
rord,, who swept that floor Friday after
noon, In view of the statement OF Mrs.
JEFFERSON, In view Of the statement Of
Chr1stopher Columbus" Barrett, who
tells the truth, Notwithstanding the fact
that he gets his daily bread out Of the
Golfers Of the National Pencil Company,
you know that that was the blood Of
this innocent victim OF Frank.
Frank says he visited the Morgue not
only once, but twice. II he went down
there and visited that morgue and saw
that child and identified her body and II
tore him all to pieces, as he tells you It
qid, let any honest man, 1 don't care
VINO he be, On this jury, seeking to
fathom the mystery of this thing, tell
me why 1t was. except for the answer
that give you, he went down there to
view that body again? Rogers said he
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Says Failure to Cross-Examine Char
acter Witnesses Sustains
Conley's Testimony.

Is Conley sustained? Ahundan,,v
Our proof OF general bad cbaracter
the existence Of such character as can
reasonably be supposed to cause one
10 commit an act like We charge, our
PROOF OF general bad character, I saw.
sustains Jim Conley. Our proof II gem
eral bad character as to immortality
not even denied by a single witness,
sustains Jim Conley.
1our failure to cross-eXamine and
develop the source OF information of
these girls put upon the stand by the
State-these "hair-brained fanatics"
as Mr.. Arnold called them, without
rhyme or reason, sustains Jim Conley.
Your failure to cross-examine our char
acter witnesses with reference to this
mans character for immortality sus-
fains Jim Conley.
His relations with Miss Rebecca Car
son, the lady on the fourth floor, going
into the ladies dressing room even in
broad daylight and during work hours,
as first developed by Miss jackson,
your own witness, and as sustained by
Miss Kitchens:
Mr.. Rosser-Miss jackson said moth
ing about that, she never mentioned
Miss Carson at all
Mr.. porsey-Thats right you are
right about that
son, who is shown to have gone into
the ladies' dressing room. even in broad
daylight and during work hours, by
witnesses whose names | can't call
right now sustains Jim Conley. Your
own witness, Miss Jackson. who says
that this libertine and rake came. when
these girls were in there reclining and
lounging after they had finished their
piece work. and tells of the sardonic
grin that lit his countenance, sustains
Jim Conley.
Miss Kitchens. the. lady from the
fourth floor, that, in spite of the re-
peated assertion made by Mr.. Arnold,
you didn't produce, and her account OF
this mans conduct when he came In
there on these girls. whom he should
have protected, and when he should
have been the last man TO go in that
room, sustains Jim .Conley; and Miss
Jackson's assertion that she heard OF
three or four other instances and that
complaint was made to the foreladies in.
charge. sustains Jim Conley.
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Darley and Matte Smith, as to what
they did on the morning of Saturday,
April 26th, even going into the minutest
details. sustain Jim Conley. McCrary,
the old negro that you praised SO high
ly, the man that keeps his till filed by
money paid by the National Pencil
Company. as to where he put his stack
of hay and the time of day he drew his
pay, sustains Jim Conley.
Monteen Slower, as to the easy
walking shoes she wore when she went
up into this man Franks room, at the
very minute he was back there in the
metal department with this poor little
unfortunate girl, sustains Jim Conley.
Monteen Slower, when she tells You
that she found nobody in that office,
snstains Jim Conley when he says that
he heard little Mary Phagan go into
the office, heard the footsteps of the
two as they went to the rear, he heard
the scream and he saw the dead body
because Monteen says there was no
body In the office, and Jim says she
went up Immediately after Mary had
gone to the rear.
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sunday morning that tho crime was
committed, not word, not a word. AL
though the notes themselves said that
the crime was done by a negro II Ia
not necessary to discuss that further.
Frank says. with reference to this
visit or Conley to the Jail. when ConIev
wanted to confront him, "I told them
II they got the permission, I told them
through my friend Mr. Klein. that n
they got the permission Of Mr.. I.osser
to come. would speak to them. would
speak to Conley and face him or any-
thing they wanted, II they got the per
mission of Mr.. Rosser. Mr.. Rosser was
on that day up at Tallulah Falls try-
ing a case" But Mr.. Rosser got back.
didn't he? Mr.. Rosser didn't remain
at Tallulah Falls.
/ tell you. gentlemen of the fury.
measuring my words as I utter them.
ana II you have got sense enough to
get out OF shower of rain you know
It's true, that never In the history of
the Anglo-Saxon race, never in the his
tory OF the African race in America.
never In the history Of any other race
did an ignorant. filthy negro accuse a
white man OF a crime and that man
decline TO face him. You tell me that
the weakest among you (speaking to
the Jurors), II you were innocent and
a man OF black skin charges you with
an Infamous murder. that any LAWYER
Rosser or anybody else, could keen Won
from confronting him and mailing the
lie? No lawyer on earth, no lawver
that ever lived In any age or any CLINE
could prevent me, II were innocent
from confronting a man who accused
mo wrongfully. be he white or black.
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Asks Why Frank Did Not Tell Police
Conley Could Write When He
First SAN Notes.

|, Mr.. Arnold: I must object TO AZ
UNFAIR and outrageous an argument
as that. that his wife didn't 60 there
through any consciousness Of guilt
on his part. l have sat here and
heard the unfairest argument have
ever heard. and I can't object to II.
but 1 do object to his making any
allusion to the failure Of the wife
to go and see him; it's unfair, 1t isn't
the way to treat man on trial for
his life.
Mr.. Dorsey: Frank said that nj.
wife never went there because she
was afraid that the snapshotters
would get her picture-because she
didn't want to go through the line
OF snapshotters I tell you, gentle
men OF the jury. that there never
lived woman. conscious Of the rec
titude and innocence of her husband
who wouldn't have gone to him
through snapshotters. reporters and
over the advice of any Rabbi under
the sun. And you know it.
Frank knew so Well that this man
Conley could write. In the mama OF
fairness, why didn't Frank, when he
saw those notes at the police station
found beside this dead body, then and
there say this is the writing of James
Conley?" Why didn't he do It? Scott
denies that they came into possession
of any information from Frank that
led to knowledge on their part that this
man Conley could write.
And up to the time that they dis
covered that this man Conley could
write, this man had kept his mouth
sealed and it was only the knowledge
on the part of the detectives and the
knowledge on the part OF Con,ey that
the detectives knew he was lying about
his ability to write. that forced him
to make the first admission that he
was connected with this crime He
says he knew that that Conley could
write. Why, then. did he keep his
mouth shut until the detectives dis
covered it. when he knew that the
notes found beside that poor girls
body was the one kew that was going
to unlock the Phagan mystery?
You know why. All. you Crank did
know that Coniey could write. You
knew It, not only because he wrote the
notes for you, through which YOU
sought to place the responsibility for
this crime on another man, but yau
knew it because he checked up the
boxes OF pencils, and he had written
you numerous notes to get money from
you, just like he borrowed money srom
those other people in that factory.
You knew that the most powsrfuI
fact that could be brought to light
showing who committed this dastardly
crime was to ind who penned the
notes placed with the body; and vet.
although you saw them, according TO
YOUR own statement, at Police Head
quarters and saw them there the ysTy
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NO DESIRE TO
MISREPRESENT TESTIMONY.

/ don't want to misrepresent this
testimony. for goodness knows there's
enough here without resorting to any
such practice as that, and / don't
want to mislead this jury and, fur
thermore, Pm not going to do 1t.
Frank says, after looking at the body
Il identified that little girl as the one
that had been up shortly after the
noon OF the day previous and got her
money from me. I then unlocked the
safe and took out the payroll book
and found that II was true that a lit
tie girl by the name of Mary Phagan
did work in the metal plant and that
she was due to draw $1.2O, the payroll
book showed that, and as the detec-
ttye had told me that some one had
identified the body Of that little girl
as that OF Mary Phagan, there could
be no question but what 1t was one
and the same girl"
And he might have added, "as I
followed her back into the metal de-
partment and proposed to her that
she submit to my demands, I hit her,
she fell, she struck her head; to
protect my character, I choked her
to protect my reputation I choked
her. and called Jim Conley to move
her down to the basement, and for
all these reasons, because I made out
the payroll for fifty-two weeks dur
ing which time Mary had worked
there, I know, for these reasons, al
though I didn't look at her and
couldn't have recognized her II she
was in the dirty. distorted condition"
he tells you in this statement. she
really was, but I know II was Mary
Phagan."
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and who ought to receive the rewar rds,
IL there are, any, IFS this poor en-
ploye Of the National Pencil, Company
who had the manhood and the courage
to tell the truth, and I hope II there be
such thing as a reward to be given
to anybody that, this man Barrett gets
1t. .as ~ u -'.' q, -
But not a single, thing did Barrett
swear! but that either didn't occur be-
fore any rewards were offered or that
weren't >substanttaeSd by four md FIVE
OF the most reputable witnesses that
could be found.
Jim Conley saw Mary go UP and
didn't see her go down. Necessary, alb
solutely necessary, that this man should
put her where he said in his telegram
or letter the body was found. The g.
covery made Monday by Barrett and
Jefferson and Mel Stanford and seen
by Beavers and Starnes. but not only
that but reinforced by barley, for Oar
ley says Il saw what appeared to be
blood spots at tho dressing room, a
white substance had been smeared over
1t, as II to hide it." And Quinn saws
The spots / saw at or near the dress
Ing room looked like blood to me-"
Sometimes you have got to 20 into
the enemy's camp to get ammunition.
its mighty dangerous proposition,
and yet In this case, conscious of the
fact that we were right, having Darley
ted up with an affidavit, we dared %
go right into the enemy's camp, and
there we got the best evidence Of the
fact that Frank was more nervous than
he had ever been known to be except
on two occasions, one when he had
seen little child killed, and the other
when he and his boss had had a fall
Ing out-this man Montag, who was so
AFRAID something was going to be
twisted In this case-and also Darley
saw the blood.
1t was mighty hard pill for Darley,
II was an awful hard situation for him,
put we drove 1t up to him and he dared
not go back on the affidavit which he
mad signed. though he did modify hi.
NOW. Harry Scott didn't manipulate
exactly right, SO they got them some
new Richmonds and put them in the
held. and this fellow Pierce-and where
is Pierce? Echo answers where? And
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Dorsey, in Vivid Word Picture of Trag-
edy, Says Frank Killed to. "
Save Reputation.

And you say that you and Schiff
made up the payroll Friday, and I
wouldn't be at all surprised that.
after little Mary had gone and while
you and Schiff were making up the
payroll Friday afternoon, you saw lit
tie Mary's name and you knew that
she hadn't been notified to come there
and get her money Friday afternoon
at O'Clock, and then, as early as 3
oclock-yes, as early as 3-knowing
that this little girl would probably
como there Saturday at IL, at the
usual hour, to get her pay, you went
up and arranged with this man Jim
Conley>to look out for you-this man
Jim Conley. who had looked out for
you on other occasions, who had
locked the door and unlocked It while
you carried on your immoral practices
In that 'factory-yes, at 8 o'clock,
when you and Schiff were SO busy
working on the payroll, I dare say
you went up there and told Jim that
you wanted him to come back Satur-
day, but you didn't want Darley to
know that he was there.
d And l wouldn't be at all surprised
n 1t were not true that this little
Helen Ferguson, the friend Of Mary
Phagan, who had often gotten Mary's
pay envelope before, when she went
in and asked you to let her have that
pay envelope. If you didn't refuse be-
cause you had already arranged with
Jim to be there, and you expected to
make the final onslaught on this girl,
in order to ruin her and make her,
this poor little factory girl, sub
servient to your purposes.
Frank said in his statement: Miss
Hall left my Office on her way home ;
there were in the building at tthe time
Arthur White and Harry Denlam and
Arthur Whites wife, on the top floor
to the best of my knowledge, it must
have been ten or fifteen minutes after
Miss Hall left my office when this little
girl, whom l afterward found to be
MARY Phagan. entered my office and
asked for her pay envelope.
This little girl whom I afterward
found"-why didn't you give her her
money? No., he didn't give her her
money; he knew ner all right. That
child never got her money, she
never got her money, and this man
Frank, when Mrs White came down
there at 1885, and when he jumped and
when Jim Conley was still sitting c,wn
stairs-the one fact in this case that
must make you see that Jim Conley
didn't do the deed-this man Frank wa,
ut that~safe then. wnen ne jumped and
Mis- "iite came up, getting out the
pay envelope OF this little girl, who had
gone back to the rear to see whether the
metal had come or not
At the time Frank was at that safs
and Mrs. White came in, she saws h.
jumped. Remember that As sne went
down the stairs at 1850 she saw Jim
Conley, or a negro who resembled him.
and that's the one incident in this case
that shows that old Jim Conley didn't
do the deed Then it was after this
saan had tipped Uip-toed) up andaipped
back-then it was he had to let
Mrs. White go up.
Previously he had sent up and had
them to come down, but this time he
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tCcntinucd from Preceding PaseJ

tnat worked UP there and upon the
Same noor with you Crank In the
ne.afidepartment, and you had passed
Ilsht -py her machine, this pretty, at
'racupe little girl, twelve months, and
q man of your brilliant parts didn't
even Know her. and do you tell me that
Sou mad made up the pay roll with
Scniu. .hfty-two times during the year
tnat. Mary Phagan was there and still
you d'dn't know her name or number?
hou tell me. that this little country
poy VINO comes, from Oak Grove, near
SANDY Spr ngs, in the northern part Of
tIfs county, was lying when he got on
that stand? I'll tell you no.
DO, you tell me that little Dewey
fewell,. a little girl now from the Home
OF the. Good Shepherd In Cincinnati,
VINO used to work at the National Pen
Gil Company, was lying when she tells
you that she heard him talking to her
frequently-talked to Mary frequently,
piaced his hands on her shoulder and
called her Mary?
You tell me that that long-legged
man. CAN'T, the man you tried to- direct
suspicion toward. the man Schiff was SO
anxious to have arrested that he ac-
companied the police. that YOU said in
your telegram to your uncle, had the
case In hand and would eventually
slVe the mystery-do you tell me that
Can't has lied when he tells you that
this man Frank noticed that he knew
little Mary and said to him, 1T see
that you know Mary pretty well?"
You tell me that all of these people
nave, .hed-Willie Turner mas lied?
Dewey Hewell has lied? That CAN'T
mas lied? That Miss Ruth Robinson
has He'd? And even Frank, in his
statement. admits that he knew Mary
well enough to know that CAN'T was
familiar with her. because Chief De-
tective Harry Scott was told on Mon
Gay, April 2Sth, that this man CAN'T
was familiar with little Mary. And
yet you (Frank) expect an honest
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where. oh, where, Is whitfield? And
echo answers where? The only man
you bring in here Is thfs man Me-
Worth, Starnes denies, Black denies,
scott denies, every witness put on the
stand denies. that around that scuttl
hole anything was seen Immediately
after that murder VI ss,fsg. - ,. .
Don't you know that Frank. who
went through that, factory-that
Schif, barley. Holloway, don't you
know, that they would have been only
too glad to have reparted to Frank that
blood spots had BEEN found around that
scutne hole, and don't YOU know that
Frank would have rushed to get his
detective Scott to put the police in
charge OF the Information that blood
had been found herer But long after
jim Conley had been arrested, after
this man Holloway had arrested him,
after this man Holloway had said that
Jim was his nlgger." realizing the
desperation of the situation, realizing
that something had to be forthcoming
to bolster UP the charge that Conley
did 1t, then ii was and not until then
that this man McWorth, after he had
gone looking through the factory for
a whole day, at about $50 o'clock saw
seven large stains. found the envelope
and stick right there in the corner.
Now. he found too much, didn't he?
Wasn't that little too much?
This defendant stated to you, after
His Honor had excluded our evidence
and properly. think. that his wife
visited him at the police station. He
says that she was there almost in
mysteries, having been brought there
by her father and two brothers-in-
law and Rabbi Marx-no. Rabbi
Marx was with me. ! consulted with
him as to the advisabihty OF allow
ing my dear wife to come up to the
top floor to see those SURROUNDINGS,
city detectives, reporters and snap
shooters"
He doesn't prove that by a living
soul and relies merely upon his own
statement II thy could have proven
1t by Rabbi Marx, who was there and
advised him, why didn't they do It?
Do you tell me that there lives a
true wife. conscious of her husbands
innocence, that wouldn't have gone
through snapshotters. reporters and
everything else. to have seen him
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didn't look at Il; Black said he didn't
see him look. at It. -.-.-..
Mr.. Rosser-He is misstating the
evidence. Rogers never said that he
didn't look at the body; he said he was
behind him and didn't know whether he
did or not; and Black said he didn't
know whether he did or not. .--
Mr.. Dorsey-Rogers said he never
did look at that body. -
Mr. Arnold insist that isn't the
evidences. Rogers said he didn't know
and couldn't af1swer whether he saw Il
or not, and Black said the same thing
II that man Frank ever looked at
the girls face-I challenge them to
produce the record to show tit was
so brief that II she was dirty and be-
grimed and her hair was bloody and
her features contorted, tell you that
II he didn't know her any better than
he would have you believe he knew
her. he never could have identified her
as Mary Phagan. Never could And |
say to you. gentlemen OF the jury, that
the reason. why this man revisited that
morgue on Sunday afternoon, after he
had failed to mention the subject of
the death In the bosom Of his family
at the dining table. when he tells you
that 1t tore him all to pieces, there
was but one reason for revisiting that
morgue, and that was to put his ear
to the ground and see II at that hour
there was any whisper or suggestion
that Leo NJ. Frank, the guilty man.
had committed the dastardly deed