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he HEARD ELEVATOR
MOTOR START UP.

saw Mr. Holloway there and | told
him he could go as soon as he got
ready. and he told me he had some work
TO do for Arthur White and Harry
Denham, who were doing some repair
work up on the top floor. and he said
he would do that work first. then
went into the Office.
| went into the outer Office and found
Miss Hattie Hall. who had preceded
me over from Montag s. and another
lady who introduced herself to me as
Mrs. Arthur White, and the office boy.
Mrs. White wanted to see her hug
band, and ! went into the inner 9th e
and took off my coat and hat and re-
moved the paper ! had brought back
from Montag Bros. in the folder, am
put the folder away. 1t was about this
time that | heard the elevator motor
start up, and the circular saw in the
carpenter shop, which is right next t,
IT, running. | heard it saw through
some boards, and | supposed it was tn
work that Mr.. Holloway had reterr, d
to.
I separated the orders from the lot
ters which required answers, and the
other material which didn't require irr-
mediate attention | put in various
trays 1t was about this time that
concluded ! would look and see how
far along the reports We're which ] use
in getting up my financia! report every
Saturday afternoon. TO my surprise
] found that the sheet which conta rs
the record OF pencils packed for tHe
week did not include the report for
Thursday the day the fiscal week ends.
Mr.. SchiT evidently. in the sire o
OF getting up. figuring up and filling
the envelopes for the pay roll on fr =
day, instead of, as usual, on Saturday
had not enough time. ! told Alone
Mann, the office boy. to call up Mr..
SChiff and find <out what time he wa
coming down Alonao told me tina
the answer came back on the telo-
phone that he would be right down. 50
didn't pay any more attention to tina
part of the work, because ! expected
Mr. Schiff to come down anv minute.
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DETECTIVE REFUSED
TO TELL OF CRIME.

/ was in the midst OF dressing to 80
with the people who should come TO-
me with the automobile when the au-
tomob!le drove up The bell rang, AMI
my wife went down stairs to open tn
door. She had on her nightdress with
robe over it. ! followed my wife
wasn't completely dressed, but as
soon as could get dressed I wen,
down stairs. following my wife in
minute or two. | asked them what the
trouble was and the man who I after
ward found out was Detective Blaci
hung h.s head and didn't say anything.
Now. at this point, these two VIII
nesses Mr.. Rogers and Mr. Black, dis
agree with me on the place where tn
conversation occurred say, to the
best Of my recollection. it occurra4
right there in the house in front OF NV
wife.
They say 1t occurred just as ~.
tho automobile. But. be that a. I,
may, this is the conversations: Th.y
asked me II knew Mary Phapan
told them I didn't They then ..;d
to me: Didn't little girl with Ionr
hair hanging down her back come IN
TO your office for her money ye.tere
day "a little girl that works in IN.
tipping plant?'
ea"' les. 40 remember such
a girl coming up to my once who
works In the tipping room, but 7
didn't know her name was Mar
Pha gan" They said: We'll, we wan,
you TO come right down to the fac
tory" and finished dressing.
AS they said they would bring mo
right back. ] didn't have any break
fast but went right on with them !,
the automobile: made the trim ,o
the undertaking establishment very
auickly-l mean they made tho trim
downtown very quickly. and stopped
at the corner of Mitchell and Pryor
streets and told me they were going
to take me to the undertaker's ir.,
that they wanted ME to see the bod,
and see If | could identify the littlr
girl.
/ went with them into the under-
taking establishment and one Of the
two men asked the attendant to SHOW
us the way into where the body was
and the attendant went down a long
narrow passageway with Mr.. Rogers
following. Then l came and Black
brought up the rear. We walked
down this long passageway until we
got to place that was apparently
the door to small room-very dark
in there.
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with the conpa rison sheet In a large
envelope. addressed ii TO Mr. Sig Mon
tag, general manager OF the pencil fac
tory. and put 1t under my ink well. in.
tending to take II over to Mr.. Montag
on the morning OF the Monday follow
ing.
then came to the checking up Of the
cash on hand and the balancing OF the
cash book. That's my handwriting. and
did that work on Saturday afternoon
April 26. as near as might be between $50
ana nve minutes to six. I did that In
about twenty-five minutes. In checking
up the cash the nrst thing to do 10 to
open The cash box. We have a little
coin bag In there, and there was in
cash actually on hand that day about
$D54. That's all there was, That's
al there could have been, and that
$3O54 was, to the best of nv recoIIec-
ton, composed Of about three dollars in
one dollar bills, about four or Ave dol
lars In quarters and halves and the bal
ance IN dimes, nickels and one cent
pieces.
Conley testified that Frank
handed him a 500 roll OF bill.
with the understanding that the
negro was to return and burn the
pooy. The State did not attempt
10 snow how he happened to have
ms amount on his person. His
Dank DOCK was submitted to show
, mat ne had not drawn any large
, sum from his account in the bank
ana no had not yet been paid for
MS months work a. supeript>d.,,
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Frank about two and half
hours to complete the financial
sheet, and that this was task
always reserved for Saturday af-
ternoons, by way of establishing
that Frank made out the finan-
ctal report Saturday afternoon.
April 26, and not in the fore
noon. as the State Contended, but
failed to prove.
Here was another vital point
that the State would have over
thrown had it been possible
Frank had been at the factory
five years. In all that time. do
YOU not suppose there were
plenty Of persons who would have
seen Frank working on the flnan-
cial sheet in the morning.
had such been the CASE Yet
Dorsey was unable to bring for
ward one witness to say Frank
ever worked on the financial
sheet in the forenoon.
The fact Of the matter is.
Frank compiled this inancia!
that Saturday afternoon. the
same as every> previous Satur-
have done II II the killing OF that
little girl had been on his con-
science. and II the picture OF her
huddled body in the basement
had been in his mind. The in
tricate report was made out, and
on II there was not an error nor
the sign OF tremor in Franks
handwriting.
TWO expert accountants Svore
it would take any man from two
and half to three hours to com
pile that sheet. and not syllable
was uttered in the court room
10 show this estimate was not
accurate.
No Drinking Parties.
Schiff. who was Franks assist
ant. testified. as all others who
were at the factory SATURDAY.
afternoons. that women never
visited Franks Office and that
there were no drinking parties
there. Dalton. VINO said he had
seen women with Frank. subse-
Guent to the trial. recanted and
declared what he said on the
stand was lie
Another interesting feature OF
tO-day's installment is contained
in the expressions of d.sapproval
by expert physicians who We're
asked to comment on DR. H. F.
IIarris,s conduct in the case. DR..
Harris, at the request Of Dorsey.
made an eXanina ton Of the BODY
Of Mary Phagan nine days after
the crime. He had no helper.
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TWO GIRLS ASKED
TOGO UPSTAIRS.

1t was about this tine that Mrs
Emma Clark Freeman and Miss CORN
thia Hall, two of the girls who worked
on the fourth floor, came i'm and ask, d
""f'hisslon to so M stairs and get
Mr.. Frremans coat, which ! ,csdiI\
save. told them Al the same tine
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testimony 0: MonIeen Slower.
who swore. in the face OF
FRANKS story to the police that
ne did not leave his office. that
sne went TO his outer office at
l2.oo o'clock and did not see him
in his inner Office.
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up and walked up Georgia avenue TO
get car. I missed the 10 minutes to
: car. and looked up and saw In front
Of Mr.. Wolfsheimer's residence Mrs.
Michael. an aunt of my wife's, who
lives in Athens, Ca. There we're sew
eral ladies there, and went UP there to
see. and after few minutes Mrs.
Wolfsheimer came out of the house and
] waited there until / saw a Washing
ton street car coming. got on the car
and talked to Mr.. Loeb on the way to
town.
The car got to a point about tho in
tersection Of Washington and Hunter
streets when a couple Of cars were
stalled in frcnt Of US.
The cars were waiting there on ac-
count OF the Memorial Day parade.
They were all banked up. After 1t had
stood there a few minutes, as I did not
want to wait, told Mr.. Loeb that
was going to get out and go on, as /
had some work to do. SO l went down
Hunter street, going in the direction OF
Whitehall and when I got to the cor
ner Of Whitehall and Hunter the pa
rade had started to come around and
] could not get around at all. l had
to stay there fifteen or twenty minutes
and see the parade. Then / walked on
down Whitehall on the side Of NJ. Rich
& Bros store toward Brown & Al
lens. In front Of NJ. Rich & Bros.
store I stood between half-past two ana
few minutes to three o'clock, until the
parade passed entirely. Then l crossed
the street and went on down to jacobs
and went in and purchased twenty-five
cents worth OF cigars. I left the store
and went up Alabama street to Forsyth
street and down Forsyth street to the
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HE TAKES TWO HOURS
TO EXPLAIN SYSTEM.

Now. this pencil sheet. when | looked
at II at about half past II on Saturday
morning, was incomplete. The entry
for Thursday. April "a, was omitted.
Mr. Schiff had entered the production
for April rs, 10, n, - and %, but he
omitted the entry for April ~, and,
that not being there. of course, it was
not totalled or headed, so it became
necessary to look in the bunch of daily
reports, which was handed in every
day by the packing forelady, sort out
the various pencils noted on there. and
place them in their proper places. Now,
| had to go through this report for
Thursday and make the entries. After
! had made the entries, ! had to total
each number for itself. Now after /
entered them in the total the next thing
| had to do was to make out the job
sheet.
Frank continued in his descrlp-
tion OF a large amount of prelm-
mary work that II was necessary
for him to do before he could start
on the financial sheet itself. lIc
displayed TO the jury AL the re-
ports from the Various DEPART
nsnS Of Lhs factory and from
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Leo N. Franks own story
among the most dramatic fca-
lures OF a trial abOu- ling ~
striking testimony - will he
continued in ncAt 'ays in
staIlment.
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CHECKED up CASH
ON HAND IN SAFE.

One Of these sheets ! always make
out and mail to Mr.. Oscar Pappen-
heimer, who formerly was a member
OF our Board Of Directors, although he
~ not now. The other sheet in
variably sent to my uncle. Mr.. NJ.
Frank. no matter where he Is. He Is
president Of the company. On this
particular week my uncle had gone to
New York. stopping at the Hotel Nc
Alpin. preparatory to taking his an
nual trip abroad for his health, he be-
ing sick, feeble old man.
When l made out the financial I
really made out two other small ones,
and ! put one in an envelope and ad-
dressed 1t to Mr.. Oscar Pappenheim-
er. Atlanta: the other was put in this
envelope that you see right here and
sent to my uncle, Mr.. NJ. Frank, to-
gether with a letter which I wrote
him after finishing the financial
sheet. I wrote that letter to my un-
Gle and I sent him that report, and
also sent price list, to which I re-
ferred in my letter. I addressed that
letter to my uncle, Mr.. NJ. Frank,
Hotel McAlpin. Greeley Square, New
York, as has been Identified.
This practically ends the work on the
financial. After finishing the work on
the financial I wrote those letters and
sealed them and placed them aside to
post. folded this big report and put it
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The query must arise in the
mind of every one who has fol-
lowed the Frank testimony: ar
1t was true that Leo Frank had
that disreputable and criminal
negro Jim Conley watch at the
front door Of the National Pencil
factory while women visited
Franks Office. could not have So
licitor Dorsey proved it by doz-
ems Of witnesses?"
Two Of the witnesses for the
defense whose testimony appears
in to-day's installment Of the
Frank trial evidence swore posi-
lively that Conley never was sta
toned at the front door. They
were not impeached. II they
were lying. do you not think
Dorsey could have brought for
ward this person and that per-
son who would have said: Ger
tainly. | know there was ne
gro watching there at the door.
went to the factory one Sat-
urday afternoon and was stopped
by him. He would not let me
go upstairs"
"0S q WIN S"oIS
he watched at the front door for
Frank many Saturday after
moons. Yet they combed the
city from one end to tho other.
and did not fnd a person whom
Conley had stopped.
The factory shut down at noon
on Saturdays. but throughout the
afternoon people were coming and
going at all hours. Statesmen were
coming in; friends Of Frank and
his assistant, HenDert Schiff.
visited the office: officials OF the
company from Montag Brothers
made 1t frequent practice to
visit the factory on Saturday ar
ternoons. yet from all this num-
Der no one has been able TO find
a person who ever had been pre-
vented from going on up TO
Franks office.
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FEARED DEADLY WIRES
IN THE BASEMENT.

! told him it was part OF his duty
! to look after and lock that back door,
! and ne fully understood it. i showed
! him the cutoff for the electric current,
/ and told him that in case OF nre that
! ought to be pulled SO that no fireman
coming in would be electrocuted. l ex-
: planned everything to him in detail. and
| told him that he was to make that tour
every half hour and stamp it on the
time card, and that that included the
! basement Of the building.
! Newt Lee, on the witness stand,
explained the fact that he did not
discover the body Of the murdered
! girl in the basement until afte. 3
! o'clock Sunday morning by saying
that he did not go to the rear or
the basement until that time, and
! had been instructed to visit the
!, basement only "once in while
: Now. this sheet here displaying
sheet) is the factory record containing
! the lists OF the pencils in stock and the
! amount Of each and every number-the
! amount Of each and every one or our
! pencils which we have manufactured at
! the end OF any given week. There are
| no names there. We make the entries
! on this sheet by trade notes. Here is
sample case containing the pencils that
are manufactured at the Forsyth street
! plant. That is just an explanation or
! what these figures are.
| Solicitor Dorsey objected to
Frank displaying the long sample
| case containing a large variety
OF pencils on the ground that they
had not been introduced as evil
! dence Frank smiled and contin-
! ued:
! Well. | expect you have got enough OF
! a glance at them for YOU to know that
| there are great many pencils and
! great many colors-all sorts and styles
! all sorts Of tips. all sorts Of rubbers.
all sorts Of stamps. | expect there are
! 40 pencils in that roll. That shows
the variety Of goods we manufacture.
We not only have certain set numbers
| that we manufacture, but we will man.
! ufacture any pencil to order for any
| customer who desires a sufficient num-
ber Of a special pencil.
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Dalton Only Support.

D"ASOh why SuPPoAt.
Dalton. with a chain gang rec
ord, was the only man who could
be persuaded, even slightly. to
corroborate Conley, and he would
only say that he had been intro
duced to Frank by Daisy Hop
kins. and that he had seen wom-
en- in Franks ONCE whom he did
not know. He knew Of nothing
wrong that Frank had done.
As an indication Of the falsity
Of Conley's story, it is only neces-
sary to read the testimony OF +.
r. Holloway, the day watchman
at the factory. who said he a.
ways was at the factory on Satur-
day afternoons. and never saw
women 60 to Franks ONCE and
never turned the door over to
Conley or any one else. If sin
gle syllable Of this statement
could have been disproved, Dorsey
would have done his utmost to
disprove 1t.
OF course. the jury believed
Frank was a libertine OF the worst
sort. They believed 1t solely on
the story Of Conley. unsustained
by any reliable witness. The
jurors failed to take into consid-
Grafton that. II the neEro's story
were true 1t must be susceptible
Of overwhelming proof. since the
factory was on one Of the main
streets OF the city. only a few
steps from the business centre.
and was visited by many persons
every Saturday and holiday, who
must have seen Conley II he was
there. SO Conley's clumsy strtU-
ture OF lies falls to the ground
Frank would have been n hope
less idiot and not the hrainy
Young man he is known 10 he II
he had placed his whole reputation
and career In the hands of the
scoundrel Conley by making the
negro his confidant. Frank. did he
have the parties in his office de-
scribed by Conley. did not need a
watcher. All he had to do was to
lock tho door on the stairway and
no one could have gone UP.
Was Expecting Schiff.
sthiff, who like Holloway. Vas
recalled to the stand by the de-
tense. ia the man Frank momen-
tarily was expecting at the Office
Saturday afternoon. and it is alb
snrd to think Frank would have
attacked this little girl. expecting
Schiff in at any moment. expecting
that Harry Gotheimer from Mon
tags. might fulfll his engagement
and come in at any time. or tina;
any one OF a score OF persons who
were in the habit of coming to the
factory might call to see him.
Schin testified that it required
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10 come down to the factory re,
away said. What's the troublr
has there been a fre?" He said, mo
a tragedy: I want you to come dow,
right away" ] said. "All right" anu
he said. "TIl send an automobile for
CoN -
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STARTED TO WORK
ON FINANCIAL REPORT.

: unlocked the street door and then
unlocked the inner door and left 1t
open and went on upstairs to tell the
| boys I had come back and wanted to
| know IL they were ready to 90. ana
at that time they were preparing to
leave. I'went Immediately down to my
Office and the safe and my desk, and
! hung up my coat and hat and started
, to work on my financial report, which
| I will explain. Mr. Schiff had not come
down and there was additional work for
me to do.
In a few minutes after I had started
| to work on the financial sheet, which
am going to take up in few minutes.
heard the bell ring on the time clock
| outside and Arthur White and Harry
| Denham came into the Office, and Ar
, thur White borrowed 81 from me in
advance on his wages I had got to
work on the financial sheet, when I left
the Office for a moment, and. returning
! noticed Newt Lee. the night watch
man. coming from toward the head OF
the stairs coming toward me- l had
told him the night before to come back
at 4 o'clock. for I expected to go to the
ball game. At that time Newt Lee came
along and offered me a banana out OF
yellow bag which he carried. l de-
clned the banana and told him had
no way Of letting him know sooner that
was to be there at work and that l
had changed my mind about going to
the ball game. I told him that he could
20 il he wanted to. or could amuse him.
self in any way he saw At for an hour
and a half. but to be sure and be back
by half past six o'clock.
He went Off down the staircase lead
ing out, and ! went back to my once.
Now, In reference to Newt Lee. the
night watchman. the first night he came
there to watch ! personally took him
around the plant-frst. second and tniro
floors and into the basement-and told
him that he would be required. that IT
i was his duty, to go over that entire
building every half hour. not only TO
tour completely the upper four floors.
; but to 90 down into the basement. and
I specially stressed the point that that
dust bin at the end Of the basement
was one of the most dangerous places
for f,re. and I wanted him to be sure
! to 60 back there every half hour and 10
be careful how he held his lantern.
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the lead plant, and explained how
the figures were reached and how
they were used In compiling the
intricate financial sheet. lie illus
trated his statement that ii In
volved a great amount OF work
and required exceptional care and
accuracy. He spent in the neigh
borhood Of two hours outlining to
the jury the innumerable calcula-
tions that II was necessary to
make, and showing them the CAL
culations and compilations a. they
appeared in his own andwritinE.
Separate calculations, he said,
were required for every grade of
pencil and for every style. The
quality Of lead made different
classifcations. Other classifca-
tions we're made by the fact that
pencils took different style tips,
different style rubber, and that
some took rubber but no tips, and
some no rubber or tips. The man
ner OF packing and wrapping also
entered into the calculations. by
the time he had concluded he had
the jurors fairly bewildered by the
array OF figures. He asserted he
did all this work after he returned
to the factory Saturday afternoon.
The financial sheet was identified az
his handwriting, and on it was no
sign OF a tremor or the indication
OF nervousness on the part Of the
writer
Now. besides the business Of max
ing out this large sheet there are II
the making Of the financial repor
three other sheets that usually make
out. One Is the comparison sheet
showing the comparison Of each weel
or 1913 with the corresponding weel
IN 1912. 1t is nothing more than TAX
ing the vital figures. the vital stats
Tics, for one week and comparing with
the figures Of the corresponding weel
Of the year previous.
In addition to that I make out tive
condensed financial sheets: that is.
give the main figures. Those wer,
enough figures for a director or q
stockholder to receive, and are prac
fica!ly the only figures he is interest
I'd in. He does not care how much W.
make on this pencil or that pencil
The only thing he is interested in 1.
dividends, IL we are able to give then
to him.
The Spectator., 1915-07-02
WITH A NUTTY FLAVOR

It's long road that has no busted automobile.
 Kicking without knocking is possi- ble. There's the mule.
 If silence really was golden deaf and dumb folks would all be millionaires.
 We only see the colors in the sunset and in the rainbow that are in our souls.
 It takes something more than bricks, wallpaper, oriental rugs and a porte cochere to make home.
 A hypocrite is fat man who goes singing to his work in a stuffy office downtown on a broiling hot day.
The Spectator., 1915-07-02
JINGLES

Talk is cheap. and most women like bargains.
 Most girls allow their ideals to de- velop into mere husbands.
 Perhaps all the world loves lover because pity is akin to love.
 It's easy enough to be generous to a fault. if it's your own fault.
 Of two evils the optimist chooses neither. the pessimist both.
 Laughter is the wine of life. but & good bit of it is win ordinaire.
 Unfortunately the man higher up isn't always worthy of his hire.
 Don't waste your time worrying about the time you have wasted.
 No labor union has ever been or SdUlLeQ lUdJ COuiu TtSutdb tut WdSSS of sin.
 A man can always pocket his pride, but woman. who generally has more pride, is handicapped.
 We have a theory that wild flowers get that way by trying to pronounce their botanical names.
 Many big man has just as small thoughts as has the elephant whose mind is centered on peanut.
 Lots of people who complain that they don't get all they deserve should really congratulate themselves.
 Prosperity has ruined many a man, but if fellow is going to be ruined at all that is undoubtedly the pleasantest way.
 No one has ever been able to dis. cover any use for the vermiform ap- pendix, except the doctors who get paid for cutting it out.