Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-06-22
FRANKS life SAVED;
GEORGIA RABbLE RAGE;
GALL SLATON TRAITOR
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dence of feeling beyond the courts
power to correct. 1t would be diff
cult for an appellate court or a trial
court to grant a new trial in such
long, case because the audience in
the courtroom on a few occasion in
Dictated their sympathies. S.
The jury found the defendant guilty,
and with the exception of tie demon
stration outside the courtroom there
was no disorder. Nothing was done
which the court could correct
through legal machinery"
The governor said the United
States supreme court had sustained
this ruling. He declared the charge
against the state of Georgia of racial
prejudice is unfair. He then review
ed the evidence.
| Governor Reviews Evidence.
The governor asserted the state
proved that Frank was in his office
at the factory a little after - o'clock
the day OF the murder and that he adj
mitted paying Mary Phagan wages
due her. So far as known, he says
Frank was the last person who Saw
her alive. other facts, enumerated
| by the governor as 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 Waterman, Newt Lee, to leave
the factory for two hours; that the
same evening Frank called Lee on
the telephone, that Lee found the
double inner doors locked, all OF
which things he had never done be-
fore; 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
discovered. HHes Also included the
testimony of Miss Monteen Slower,
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, ,'';.Sas
IL Conley's Testimony. ''s,..g +
%"The most startling and spectacu-
lar, testimony in the case was that
given by negro, Jim Conley, VINO
frequently has been in the chain
gang" the governors statement says.
He then referred to the murder
notes" found beside the body, which
Conley finally admitted he had writ
ten at Franks dictaton. "Conley
claimed Frank asked him to come to
1.-The factory on Saturday and watch
for him as he had done, which he ex-
planned meant that Frank expected
to meet some woman" the governor
says. "Conley occupied dark place
beside the elevator 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 also went up the stairs, that
in few minutes he heard footsteps
going toward the. metal room, that
he heard scream and then dozed.
In a few minutes Frank stamped anc
Conley unlocked the door and then
Frank whistled and Conley went up
stairs. He said Frank was SILVER
ing 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. on
| ley said he found the girl in the
metal room with a cloth tied about
her neck as though to catch blood,
although there was no blood at the
place.
According to Conley's ;, story,
Frank told him to get piece OF
cloth and wrap the body in it and
Conley got piece of bedticking and
tied up the body, carried it to near
| the dressing room, dropped It and
| then called on Frank to assist him.
He said that he and Frank took the
body to the basement in the eleva-
tor; that he rolled the body out Of
| the cloth, then went to Franks Of
flee; 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 note"
The statement then points out al
legged inconsistencies in Conley's
story and mentions several contra
dictions in his story as related in
various affidavits. Among them, he
said, was evidence that the elevator
had not been used Saturday aftc4'-
] noon; that Frank could not have
carried the girl down the hatchway,
| while Conley, powerful negro
could have done so; that no bedtick-
ing ever had been seen in the fac
tory: that it was agreed the murder
| could not have been committed be-
fore 12:Oo p. m, and yet Conley had
Emma Clark and Corintha Hall in
Franks office after the body had
been disposed of. while unimpeached
testimony showed that they reached
the factory at 1885 and left at 11:45
a. m.
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