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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-07-31
WIN Hold Annual outing,

The annual outing and picnic Of the
sunday school Of the Triadelphia NJ. h.
cltuicn VIII be held al Biayneys Grove
on wednesday. August g. A splendid
program Of field sports b. being arr
RANGED Refreshments Of all Kinds Will
Be served.
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ln ono block I'M Chicago 57s fsmf
lies exist. consisting Of 1896 persons
~ whom sos are children. There 4.
one bafhtub 10 each 900.
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Thl afternoon the Triadelpaia team
port al Stars on the Trindeirhia
grounds Tho games will mo- doubt be-
one Of the best that has been staged az
that place this season.
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William p. -nrcLau9hun.

city, and Mrs. William Erskine. Of
1ishaaIe ~ deceased was In the sew
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FOUND GUILTY.

Los ANGELES July 60 federal
jury in the trial OF Charles A. Elder.
president and ten other former Off.
cIals and employees OF tho Los Angeles
Investment company. charged with
cousuIrIng to use the mails .u o.
scheme to dcfraud late today return.
od a verdict 81 guilty aFainsf proai.
dent Elder ~ ID Decide and Geo.
NJ Ferby Tho other defendants were
acquitted
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Obituary


Ferdinand Bopp. ared 70 years. one
vl tne hest nowu German residents ~
clock at the family home SO. z90f.
l.oit street Death was due to n com.
lueAilom or diseases from Whlch he had
Hecu sufferlrE Tor six months.
Fnrp was born in Germany. july
T. lNIH and came 90 This country when
le was ~ years % age. since that ffme
Pc has ENGAGED Zoo various work. ruaIIr
engaging ~ tho grocery business
tfhruarF DO. 1881. Mr. H0ru WAC urI.
ted in marriage 90 Mics AnrIa Miller
ls WIDOW and one daughter. Mrs MARY
Hickman. survive.
VIZ Hnrr VS. ri rrfrhfr n tho gf.
NIrhnrHIe catholic church. sri NTrHUr.
society. n 3D. o.. W. and knights 0'
FuncrII Arrangement dol,
o. grt Incomplete
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nrafardaY rtsuIuC word wra -rrrIv-
- Ir THE city Ur relatives Announcing
It' death 20 Alexander HIuIHu. of Star.
O'Clock The deceased woe fHr.
mer'N Re- resident .f tII. UffI nHf while
rre vas Connected with fFs HeiIaIrr
CITY fH EfIIIIrr fTrm which place Ha
moved fn MHrfiraIurr Mr IInHHr f1f
fHt.NH years wac r.afmHafar OF Mar.
Nu.NIrr Go fHnr Hr active Interest
.r frHIf RAISING being u.r .f fNH frH.
most Fruit NJ rho eastern rHr-
handle Wr HIan fnIk au active inter.
UHf IH rnI.fI|H
Tho deceased ID. survived Hr nIa wife
nrI aIr children besides n humber ~
Er~HHHrnIIfrfu bite a~HrrI.In. relatives
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never considered 1t Of enough inport-
ance to testify about II at the coroner's
Inquest? A. Yes
q, Now, Mr.. Starnes, of course you
don't know that the sp)otches you saw
there were blood. A. No.
Q. You are not an expert on thatf
A. No.
q. No one could look at II and tell
when the splotch was made there? A.
No, sir: don't think so.
q. Isn't there an accumulation on that
floor OF one-third of an inch of grease
and dirt and paint of all colors A. 1t
was dark. Of course! 1t had dark
color.
=. How do you reckon 1t had dark
color IL 1t didn't have grease ana oirt
on It? A. Well. it was dirt, suppose.
q. Didn't you see spots all over the
factory OF red color-red splotches,
| aren't they there now. and weren't they
there then? A.. They have splotches
there. but not all over.
q. Scattered everywhere. all over the
building? A. Anaiine. or something;
don't know what 1t is.
(At the conclusion of Detective
Starness testimony Solicitor Dorsey
| rendered in evidence pieces OF wood
| chipped from the second floor of the
pencil factory, the chips from the base
ment door, the cord found around the
slain girls neck, her shoes. dress. lair
| ribbons. hat and other garments, ana
. her parasol)
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on the floor was smeared right over
the splotch. I found another splotch Of
blood between the dressing room and
the elevator.
Q. Where did you find any other blood
there in tho building? A. l Clipped off
the back door of the basement two
splotchcs where 1t looked like finger
prints.
CROss-ExAWINAIIUN BY MIR.
ROSSER.
q. Mr.. Starnes. you testified before
the Coroner about getting Lee to write
from dictation, didn't you. A. Yes. sir.
q. Give me the very words you used
down there about that. A. rather
think 1t would be impossible to give the
exact words.
q. Indeed. Mr.. Starnes. four months
afterward, to give the exact words OF
a conversation is "a very difficult thing.
isn't It? A. can't say now the tele-
phone message I had with Mr.. Frank.
but | gave Just my best recollection OF
it, but to remember 1t Is impossible.
Q. And you might miss 1t, SO far as
the words are concerned? a. l might
miss 1t.
Q. The conversation wasn't considered
OF any Importance to you then-the tele-
phone conversation? 1t was just a cas-
ual conversation, wasn't it. and you
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back there? A. Well. that is what ,hey
put in the machine. SO they told me at
the pencil factory. There Is buckets or
II in tho metal room.
y. Isn't II scattered around the doors
over the building? a. Yes, str, I have
seen 1t around the machines.
~ Have you girls got place back
there where you comb your hair and
curl II! a. Well. sometimes We sit over
there at machine and comb our hair.
we sit right down at a machine next TO
Mary's and Comb it,
V. DO You remember that lathe
where they said the hair was found4
A. Yes. sir.
y. How far would the girls comb
their hair from that lathe? A. Oh, |
suppose from here to that chair over
there (about three feet).
o. And the window was right by
you? a. l would stand right here, and
| the window was like that Gndicatinc
window Immediately back of witness
stand).
.. And the girls curled their hair
Mary didn't curl hers; it was curly!
A. Yes, sir.
| q Now was there another girl who
| worked In the metal department whose
hair was nearly the color of Mary s:
| y. Yes, sir: Magnolia Kennedy.
GO. You say you went to get YOU,
pay on Friday evening? A. Yes. sir.
| -. Did You sec me balance OF thc
girls getting their pay? \. Yes. sir
| T. Who was paying off that eve,
ming? A. don't remember
g. Was 1t Mr., sch'r? A. dom,
.. MIR. Frank wasn't paying off?
| No. sir Mr.. Frank wasn't paying off
G. You didn't see Mr.. Frank at all.
A. No. sir.
Q. You don't pay off from the office
anyway? A. No. a little aside from
the office, where there is a hall
| q. Did you see any of the little girls
get their pay that evening? A. saw
Helen Ferguson and Magnolia Ken.
nedy.
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Staple Of Door
Was Pulled Out Clean.

=. What did you first do when you
got there" A. ] met Officer Dobbs,
and he took me down to the basement.
where the body was found, and where
the notes were found. and in looking
around on the trash pile there ] found
the hat, and / went to the back door
and saw the staple and lock lying on
the back platform near the back door.
The staple was lying down in the lock-
There was no splintering in the wood
work of the door. 1t looked as il the
staple had been pulled straight out.
There was an impression on the wood
just below where tho staple had been
that looked like a pipe had been pressed
against the wood. used. possibly. to
pry. to pull the staple.
q. Did You see that pipe? A. There
was a pipe there that fitted the inden-
tation. The door could not have been
opened from the outside without badly
bending the staple. The staple was not
bent.
q. Well. after you had made your
Investigation and had talked to Newt
Lee. what did YOU do? A. l went and
called up the superintendent. Mr.,
Frank. | asked who 1t was. and he
said it was Mr.. Frank. and ] told him
| wanted him to come to the pencil
had any breakfast. and that he wanted
to get his breakfast, | told him it was
necessary tor him to come right away
and than il he would come | would
send an automobile for him, Boots
Rogers and Officer Black went for hun
pened or why sou wanted him. \.
did not
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Detective Tells How
Frank Acted.

G. When you saw Mr. Frank what
was his appearance? A. When l saw
Mr.. Frank he came into the factory
with several other gentlemen; Mr.. Dar-
ley and quite a number came in to-
gether Mr.. Darley, as ] understand it.
Is general manager of the factory.
About the first time l noticed Mr.. Frank
was when he was starting to pull OF
his coat and spoke to Mr.. Darley and
says: you see l have got another
suit" 1t was a deep blue suit
Q. State what he did and said. his
movements and all that. A. Well he
just simply appeared to be a nervous
man. Why, he looked like he was in a
nervous condition. just In rather
trembling condition, or the condition Of
a gentleman who Is not composed.
never spoke to him at that time.
didn't know him and ! didn't speak.
q. Mr.. Starnes, did YOU or not see any
slips punched in that timeclock? A.
did Some time about a week after the
homicide ] went to the factory and got
the new night watchman, Mr.. Hendrix
to show me the clock. and hs took q
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Tells OF Detectives
Conversation With Frank.

u. What did you find there! a. a
negro. Newt Lee let US in and takes us
to the basement. and there we found
the body of II dead giri.
o. We're YOU there when Mr.. Starnes
called some one over the telephone?
A. Yes. sir.
O. Did you hear the substance OF the
conversation? a. He asked whoever he
was talking to If he would come to tho
factory. Then he hung up the phone
and turned to me and says: Boots.
will you drive down to Mr.. Frank $
house and bring him to the factory?
Mr.. Black IA city derecuve) got In the
car with me. We went to No. 6s East
Georgia avenue. Mrs. Frank opened the
door. Mr.. Black asked if Mr.. Frank
was there. To the bsst of my recollec-
ton, Mrs. Frank had on 4 heavy bath
robe, with a kind Of plush figure in It
Mrs. Frank said Mr.. Frank was there
and Just then he came out In the hau.
came through the curtains: the nrst
time saw him he came through the
curtains. "a
Q. How was Mr.. Frank dressed? \.
He was dressed for the street. with the
exception OF a collar, q tie. coat, and
a hat. He had on. II I make no MIS-
lake. a white plated shirt, and what at
tracted my attention TO the shirt and to
him was the way the shirt was ironed'
it was just as clean as pin.
Z. Now, what happened. what was
said? A. When Mr.. Frank came into
the reception hall where we were ne
went directly to Mr.. Black. and he says:
Has anything happened at the rae
tory?" and Mr. Black kind of hung MS
head and didn't answer. ne turned 10
me and says: Has anything happened
at the factory" Well. didn't answer,
IHe says: Did the night Waterman
|call and report anything to YOU ail!
Mr.. Black says: Mr.. Frank. you had
better get YOUR clothes on and let Us
go to the factory and See When Mr'
Black asked Mr. Frank to so to the rae
tory Mrs Frank spoke up and SAID nc
hadn't had any breakfast. wouldn't We
allow him to get some breakfast. Ana
Mr.. Frank spoke up and says mel,
let me have cup of coffee. ana
think Mr.. Black. in a kind OF sidewa avs;
says: II thnl: a drink Of whisky "oui"
do him good ,,,
@. What kind of a voice did Frank
| have when he carried on this CONVERSE
ton: A. Mr. Frank appeared to DE cN-
| tremelv nervous. His questions were
| jumpy.
@. Now what was he doing, II any
| thing, with his hands? a. When ne
came out from the hall and asked MI
Black the question had anything nap
pened at the factory he was rubolnS
his hands together this way. ne
| seemed to be excited.
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J. ~ Starnes, City Detective, Testifies
Staple of Back Door Was
Pulled Oft.
Pulled off.

new slip and put it In the clock and
punched the slip all the way around in
less than five minutes. showing a COM
plete punch for the night. a punch for
every half hour all the way around.
1t covered period OF from 6 o'clock at
night to 8 In the morning. and it was
done in less than five minutes
(This testimony was brought out =
by the State to show later tho pos
sibillty that Frank. in an endeavor
to shift the blame to Newt Lee, had
run tape through the clock so that
1t would show three "skips." such
a tape having been turned over u
the police by Frank as the one
which was in the clock tlG Satur-
day night of the murderD
Q. Subsequent to this did YOU see these
cords (exhlbitins)? Look at these cords
here; did you ever see these cords be-
fore? A. saw them or some like them.
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Grace Hicks, Mary Phagan's Friend,
Says Frank Never Ad-
dressed Girl

Q. Was she not well developed for
her age? A. Yes, sir,
Q. Now. Miss Grace, where was
Mary's work place? a. In the metal
room. The machine she worked at was
right next to the dressing room where
they say they dug UP that blood
.. How near would a person have
TO pass to where Mary was working
each time he went from Franks office
to the rear Of the building? \. About
three feet.
9. Did you or not. during the twelve
months that YOU and Mary were work.
nIS there. did sou see Mr.. Frank back
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Frank Remembered
Girl From Her Dress,

.. state whether or not Leo NJ. Franz
said anything when ne went up to that
room and stepped behind that curtain.
A. He said he didn't know the girl ius,
then, but he believed he had paid her
off on Saturday. He thought he recog-
mixed her being at the factory on satur-
day from the dress she wore.
: Q. When You arrived at the factor.
did you see Frank when he went to tn,
time clock? a. I did. l asked MIR
| Frank If the clock had been punched
correctly. and he said it had BEEN
Q. Well. did you afterward hear him
! say anything with reference to the
punches on the time slip that was IN
the clock the night Newt Lee was there
Saturday night? A. On Tuesday Nj
Frank said the clock had been mis-
! punched three times.
Q. Now. Tuesday morning. when he
made that statement. did Frank or not
! produce a slip, did he have a slip? j.
The slip to which Mr.. Frank had refer
encc Tuesday was turned over to Ch!cf
Lanford Monday.
q. 10 YOU know what became of the
slip that Frank had Sunday morning
when he said 1t had been punched cor
| rectly. the one he had in his hand
there? A. Mr.. Frank took 1t back 10
his office on Sunday morning. aud said
It had been punched correctly.
Q, Who was present when Fran;
made that statement? A. Mr.. Starnes,
Chief Lanford, Newt Lee, Rogers aEd
myself.
q. At that time-when Frank mad
that statement-who was being held
charged with this mburder? A. New .
Lee.
=. Do you know anything about what
took place between Frank and New
Lee Tuesday night. April %? A. Yes.
Sir. Mr.. Scott Harry Scott Pinaerton
detective) and myself had had a talk
with Newt Lee and We couldn't get
anything out of him. Then we talked
awhole with Frank and ! finally sus-
gested to Mr.. Frank that he take Newt
Lee in the room there at the statiod
house and see il he could get anythinS
out of him. They went in a room auu
stayed five or ten minutes. Afterward
we went into the room with Frank anG
Lee and Mr.. Frank said Lee still stuck
to the story that he knew nothin2
| about IT.
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lar and tie, and he seemed to be very
rapid In asking questions In regard TO
what had happened. Then he was very
anxious for a cup Of coffee and his
breakfast. 1t seemed he couldn't get
his collar and tie on; he couldn't SET
his tie tied. He asked me II II was
something that had happened at the
factory, and. before I could answer, hr
wanted to know II the night watchnan
reported II.
q. Did you look at his face? A. Yes,
sir. l was watching Mr.. Frank very
close. and he seemed to me like he was
pale.
O. How many times did he ask for q
| cup Of coffee? A. He mentioned coffee
| twice at the house.
Q. Twice at the house: and how many
! times anywhere else that you recollect?
| a. Well. I heard him say something
about going and getting a cup Of coffee
after he got over to the pencil factory.
f, q. Did you or not, at the pencil fac.
tory. hear him say anything about any
breakfast? A. Yes. sir; he mentioned
| to Chief Lanford that he hadn't had
| any breakfast
! .. Now. what. II anything. was said
by you or MIR. Rogers in the presence of
Mr.. Frank, and by Mr., Frank. In the
automobile after you left the house?
A. Well, when we got into the automo-
bile to start to the pencil factory. Mr.
Frank wanted to know what had hap
pened. and l asked him. l said: DO
you know"-as well as remember, that
Is about the way l asked the question
do you know girl by the name of
Mary Phagan that worked at the pencil
factory" and he said he didn't know
that he did by name; that he knew
very few Of the employees, but could
look on the payroll.
Q. Now. tell what happened down
there with reference to Franks iden,i,
Tying the body? A. As we'll as ~
member. the undertaken or tho man Ia
charge was in front. Mr.. Rogers was
next and MIR. Frank was following Nj.
Rogers. and followed Mr.. Frank. Tho
undertaken turned the spread back
from over the girls face and Mr.. Frank
looked at her and stepped about, step
Ped aside.
y. Explain that stepping aside. \
There was curtain there. and lie
stepped behind that curtain.
q. Did Mr.. Frank remain behind tina
curtain or come out from behind it? A.
II he ever came back to where the dead
girl was ! never saw him.
q. Did he ever 90 in that room where
the dead girl was while he was ther.
that morning if you know it? A. Yc,
he went right In there when we tirs
went into the room; he passed right b,
@. Was the girls face uncovered q
not: A. mr.. Gheesling was uncovering
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John r. Black, Detective, Tells HON. He
Called for Frank After Dis
c0perv of Killing.

out to Mr.. Franks house, on Georgia
avenue,
Q. Did YOU notice his voice? \. Yes
sir, | did. fIc seemed 10 hc horse and
nervous and excited.
., What part Of his dress was he
putting on? \. His collar and tie
.. Wei. what was there about that
now, that he did? \. Well he seemed
70 bs very nervous In handling the col
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Boots" Rogers Relates HON. Frank
Was Taken to See Body
of Girl
of Girl.

and we went to the undertaking es-
tshlishment.
Q. How did you go in and what oc-
Cured after you got in: A. The light
WAC not lit In the little room where
the dead girls body wos lying. ana
Mr.. Gheesling. the man who came up
to the factory after this young lady
stepped In ahend Of me and lit the
light above her head, and her head
was then lNing toward the wall. ]
stepped on the opposite side of the
corpse with the door to my left. Mr..
Gheesiing caught the face of the dead
girl and turned 1t over toward me.
looked then to see II anybody followed
me, and ] saw Mr.. Frank step from
outside Of the door into what l thought
vas closet, but | have afterward
found that it was where Mr.. Gheesiing
slept.
O. State whether or not you saw
Frank look at this corpse? a. No. sir
| didn't see him look at II.
9. How much time. II frank hn.. dia no
| looked at it from the time that Mr..
Gheesling was going around behind,
| hut he could not have seen her face at
| ALL because her face was then lying
| over toward the wall. That was the
| cause Of Mr.. Gheesling's turning 1t
| over, ! presume.
| Q Then did you have any conversa-
ton with Frank as to whether he knew
| this girl? A. think there were some
questions asked him II he knew her
and think he replied that he didn't
| know whether he did or not. but that
| II her name was Mary Phagan he could
tell whether she worked at the factory
| by looking at his pay roll.
| O. What happened when you got to
| the factory? A. After We got upstairs,
Mr. Frank went to his Office and opened
the safe and took out the time book.
He ran his finger down till ne came to
the name OF Mary Phagan and he said
YES" Mary Phagan works here. She
was here yesterday to get her pay.
will tell YOU about the exact time
that she was here" He saws: MY
stenographer left exactly at y o'clock.
In q few minutes after she left tho
office hoy left, and Mary came in and
| ,,ot n %
The Washington times., 1915-01-17
Found Cords On
Second Floor Of Factory.

9. State II you got any cord at the
National Pencil Company's factory at
any time subsequent to this crime A.
did.
q. Do those or not look like the cords
you found there? A. They do.
Q. On what floor did you get those
cords? A. got them on the second
floor. Franks office was on the second
floor, and 1t was in .the metal room on
the second floor that the State insisted
the girl was killed. while the defense
contcnded that every bit of evidence
showed that she was slain. presumably
by the negro sweeper, jim Conley in
the basement. where her body was
found) A lot of the cords were hang
Ing on a post Just inside of the door,
right near the partition door that led
into the metal department-what is
, known as the finishing room | saw
some cords also in the basement.
q. Did you find anything near the
! dressing room on the office floor back
there in the metal department. A. on
Monday morning ! went back to the
factory. and j saw on the floor AT what
you might call the northwest corner of
the dressing room. splotchcs that looked
Ike blood. splotches thrown around the
, place looked as If it had been thrown
toward the dressing room. This was on
the second floor The splotches were
about foot and a half or two feet
| from the corner of the dressing room.
Q. Now, describe to the jury as fully
as you can just exactly how it looked
| when you saw it there Monday morning
| A. Well. it looked like splotches of blood
or something had been thrown down
| there, and, in throwing it down. had
spattered or spread out, and I took a
hammer and chisel, and | Clipped ur
the splotches in the floor. One main
place looked like there was a right
smart Of blood. and then splaltered
around. / couldn't say the size of II
possibly something like as large as the
palm of my hand here
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DIRECT EXAMINATION BY
SOLICITOR DORSEY.

@. Did you know Mary PhaGap? A.
Yes, sir ! knew her mighty near a
year. knew her at the National Pen
Gil Factory.
@. Did you see her Sunday morning,
April 81? A. Yes sir, at the under
takers,
as Mary Phagan? 4. ] just know ed
by her hair being so long. hanging
down, and it was IN big curls hanging
on the cooling board.
q. Was she pretty o. ugly? A. She
was pretty.
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Staple Was Forced.

The physical facts show that the
staple was forced from the base.
ment door from the inside. and that
there was left on the door a bloody
finger print. This might be the
evidence that would determine posi-
lively the murderer Of Mary Pha-
gan, yet 1t was passed over. De-
tective Starnes Clipped this bloody
hnger print from the door and took
1t away. thus depriving myself or
any one else from making an inde-
pendent examination Of this evi-
dence.
l need not call attention to the
many pieces Of testimony which, un-
reasonably enough. we're construed
as revelations OF suspicious circum.
stances pointing toward Frank as
the murderer. An example is con-
tanned In Newt Lees statement that
Frank never before had called him
on the phone until the night Of the
murder. Later 1t developed that
Leo had been night watchman at the
factory only three weeks. and there.
fore was hardly in a position to
know 4 great deal of Franks busi.
ness habits Then. when the circum-
stance Is considered in Connection
WITH the fact that J. NJ CAN'T, a
discharged empleye. had been hang
ing around the factory, 1t seems
quite the natural thing that Frank
should call up and see II cVervthins
was all right. |'''"e
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Found Blood Marks
On The Back Door.

Q. Was there anything else down
there on that floor but blood? \. There
was some kind of white sub
stance there that looked like it had
been white and swept over. There was
lot of that white stuff around there
that they showed me. The While stun