New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-30

the evidence of every person in the
case. | sad: Sally, l reckon | am tax
ing my life in my hands in committing
this sentence. 1t sure will cause some
connection
"'Well, Jack said she, 4 guess we
had better commute and take chances
on the commotion. You see, Mrs. Sla.
ton is the granddaughter of one of
Georgia's greatest Governors, who was
not afraid TO fight for his convictions.
He fought eight duels with land grab
bers whose plots he opposed. Once he
! lai dior hours within three feet of one
of his opponents in duel, dead, unable
/ TO move himself. He's buried in Ar
! lington.
Take the case against Frank. It
rested on suspicion and the story OF
the negro. Conley. Conley was a proved
| thief, perjurer and forger He told
story after story that was in evidence
at the trial. The detectives had him
on the grill every day for weeks. They
would come back to him and say that
something in his story did not fit with
! the facts. The next day his story
would At with the facts. This was done
repeatedly.
''For example, he first had the girls
! body put in one kind of sack. When
! II was shown that this could not hold
/ the body because it was not big enough,
| he said Il was in some bed ticking.
! Now. there was no bed ticking in that
! factory 1t would have been as much
out of place as an orange grove in a
shoe factory. On the very last day he
was on.the stand he said this.
Attacks Negroes Testimony.
"First he had said that the murder
notes were written on a Friday at the
dictation Of Frank. When 1t was
pointed out to him that Frank could
not have known that Mary Phagan
would be at the factory on Saturday at
that time he changed his story and
! said he was told to write the notes on
| Saturday. All the way through the
/ case there was doubt as to what had
/ become OF the girls meshbag. At the
/ last moment Conley said it was in
Franks safe. No one else ever saw it
there.
There was no evidence Of degeneracy
in this case. | know there has been a
lot said about that. Nor was there any
assault.
"The girl was murdered in the base
ment, Conley's preserve. or on the sec
| OnO MOOR. tOHlty ~ "ao III Wv
latter place. Now, IL 1t was on the
floor above, Conley must either have
logged the BODY downstairs or used
the elevator. Frank, a slight fellow,
could not have done it. Conley says he
used the elevator.
"Now, mark you this: Conley also
f, said that he had left certain things In
that elevator well on the afternoon OF
the murder before the murder was
known TO have been committed. That
substance was in the bottom Of the
shaft exactly as he left IL at o'clock
on the morning after the murder
/ Thf elevator runs snug TO the bottom
, OF the floor, and when il was so run
later on the following morning the
mass was crushed out Of shape. II is
| impossible 70 send the elevator down
without it's hitting the bottom OF the
shaft.
az know that because | tried 1t.
"See where Conley lied in a most
important detail?
"Now, in the matter OF the murder
notes. Conlev write a number OF similar
notes, of similar meaning and import
TO a negress confined in jail when he
was. The same peculiar individual Ian
guage was used, language peculiar to
the man himself. IL there Is an ex'
preston you use commonly and l do
! not YOU cannot write a leF.er using ex-
pressions peculiar to yourself and not
II me and palm II OF on any one who