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AMERICAN LEAGUE

At New York-New York I, Wash.
inston o.
At Detroit-Detroit 2, Chicago 1.
No other games; wet grounds.
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BASEBALL RESULTS
NATIONAL LEAGUE

At cincinnati-St. Louis 2, cincin-
natl O. Ill H.. "
At Brooklyn - Brooklyn 3, New
York 2. .G ...-~..: s..
At chicago-chieago 2, Pittsbure I.
At PhiladeIphia-No PhiIIie-Braves
game; wet. ..
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Germans Claim Krasnik is Reached

BERLIN, Germany July -ofical-on the east front
the Germans have reached Krasnk The Russians have been
repelled west Of Zamorc
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DIAz,
LONG DICTATOR
OF mexico, dies
Lays Down His Life in Paris,
Where He Has Spent Much
Time Since Being Deposed
THREATENED RETURN IN
" CASE OF INTERVENTION
Fought French at Time of Max
imiIian and Gained Presi-
dency in 1877 =......

1Associated Press by Federal Wirelessl
PARIS, France, July 2.-Porfirio
piaz, former president and dictator Of
Mexico, died here today, IS years Of
age. Diaz has been aiIing for some
time, and recently left Madrid for this
city, hoping to be able to penetrate to
the Swiss mountains for the summer,
but his enfeebled condition, and diff
cuIties ct travel, delayed him in the
french capital.
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Slight Progress Made by Italians

LONDON, England July 2-Slight progress by the
Italians is admitted by the Teutons with the Ausans sy
ing to hold back the determined advance
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Little Mary Phagan Enters Franks
office and Asks for Her
Pay Envelope.
Pay Envelope.

Miss Hall left my office on her way
nome at TINS time and. to the best of
my recollection, there were in the build
Ing Arthur White and Harry Denham
and Arthur Whites wife on the ton
floor. To the best of nv knowledge. il
must have been from 10 to Is minutes
after Miss Hall left nv office when this
little girl, whom l afterward found to
be Mary Phagan. entered my ONCE and
asked for her pay envelope.
| asked her her number and she told
me. went to the cash box and took
her envelope out and handed it to her
identifying the envelope bv the number
She left my office and appa rently had
got as far as the door of nv Office lead
ing to the outer office. when she evil
IDENTIFY stopped and asked me il the
metal had arrived. and told her no.
She continued on her wav out and
heard the sound Of her footsteps as she
went away. II was a few minutes after
she asked me this question that had
an impression of a female voice SAVING
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Awakened Sunday Morning BY De.
tective 7elephoning Him of Awful
Tragedy at Pencil Factory.

spoke TO MIR. CAN'T ana asked him
what he wanted. He said that he had
q couple pair OF shoes--a black pair
and a tan pair--in the shipping room.
told Newt Lee il would be ali right
I" pass CAN'T in, and CAN'T went in.
.'ewt Lee closed the door. locking It
after him. heard the bolt turn in the
door. ] then walked up Forsyth street
to Alabama, down Alabama to Broad
street. where ! posted the two letters,
one to my uncle. Mr.. NJ. Frank, ana
one to MIR. Pappenheimer. a few min
utes after g, and continued on my way
down to Jacobs's store, where l went
in and got a drink at the soda foun.
and bought my wife box Of candy. !
then caught a Georgia avenue car. and
a-r'\ ed home about 6.2j.
] sat looking at the paper until about
$50. when ! called up the factory to
find out II Mr. CAN'T had left. called
at $50 because ] expected Newt Lee
" ould BE- punching the clock on the
half houl and would be near enough TO
the telephone to hear it. | couldn't get
Newt Lee then. so ! sat in the hall
reading until : o'clock. when again
called the factory. This time | was
successful in getting Lee. and I asked
him II CAN'T had gone. He said Yes
and / asked him il everything was all
right a. the factory. and he said It
was. and then | hung up.
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something. | don't know which way II
came from--tust passed awav and had
that impression. This little girl evil
IDENTIFY had worked IN the metal depart
ment from her question. and had been
laid off. owing to the fact that some
metal that had been ordered had not
arrived at the factory; hence her ques-
tion.
| recognized this little girl only from
having seen her around the plant and
did not know her name. simply identI-
Tying her envelope from her having
called her number to me. She had left
my office hardly five minutes when
Lemmie Quinn. the foreman of the
plant. came in and told me that could
not keep him aWav from the factory.
even though it was a holiday. at which
] smiled and kent on working He
asked ME If Mr.. Schif had come down
and told him ne had not and he turned
around and loft
J continued until ! finished this work
and these re0uisitions. and l looked st
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DECIDED TO STAY
HOME THAT EVENING.

] sat down and had supper. and after
supper ] phoned over to my brother
in-law. Mr.. Ursenbach. to find out IL
he would be at home that evening" but
he said he had another engagement, 80
i decided to stay at home. and did
stay at home. reading either a news
paper or a magazine that night.
About s o'clock I saw Minola pass out
on her way home. That evening my
parents-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Selig.
lad company. and among those there
were Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Goldstein, !,
MIR. and Mrs. NJ. Marcus. Mrs. A. f..
Marcus and Mrs. Ike Strauss. Mr.. Ike
Strauss came in much later, something
after 10 o'clock. believe.
I sat reading in the hall until about a
quarter to 10. when 7 lighted the gas
water heater preparatory to taking a
bath, and then continued reading in the
hall. At 1880 I turned out the gas,
went into the dining room and bade
them all good night and went up stairs
to take my bath. A few minutes later
my wife followed me up stairs.
4 recess pds taken by the court at
this point.
I believe I was taking a bath when
YOU went out. After finishing my bath
! laid out my linen to be used next day
My wife changed the buttons from my
oiu SIi' W 'iic Shiil ! was W wear tne
following morning, and / retired about
IL o'clock.
The next day, sunday, April -,
was awakened at something before +,
o'clock by the telephone ringing. /
got out of bed had been tight asleep:
II awakened mel got out Of bed.
put on a bathrobe and went down t.
answer the telephone, and manSs
voice spoke to me over the phone and
said afterward found out that this
man that spoke to me over the phone
was City nete tive Starnes-- said; ~,
this NJ, Frank. superintendent of thr
National Pencil com any" l said.
"Yss, ar. and ne said. \ want you
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SUPERINTENDENT LYONS
SEEMED IN HURRY.

continued to work on those In
voices until 7 was Interrupted by Mr..
Lyons. superintendent of Montag
Brothers, coming in. He brought me
a pencil display box that we call the
Panama assortment box. and he left
it with rne. He seemed to be In
hurry. but l told him IL he would
wait a minute I would go over to
Montag Brothers with him, as l was
going right over there anyway.
He stepped into the outer ONCE, and
as soon as came to a convenient
stopping place In the work I put the
papers I had made out to take with
me In the folder and put on my hat
and coat and went into the outer Of
fee. found that Mr.. Lyons had al
ready left. Mr.. Darley went with me,
about a.35 or 8.4O. and we passed out
Of the factory. and stopped at the cor
ner Of Hunter and Forsyth streets.
where we each had a drink at Cruik-
shank's soda water fount.
bought a package Of Favorite cigar
cites, and after we had our drink we
conversed there for some time, and l
lighted a cigarette and told him good
by. He went in one direction and I
went on my way then to Montag
Brothers, where I arrived, as nearly
as may be, at 10 o'clock or a little
after.
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my watch and noticed that 1t was a
quarter TO one. ! called my home on
the telephone, for | knew my wife and
my mother-n-law were going TO the
matinee and wanted 10 know when
they would have lunch.
got my house. and Minola. the nego
cook. answered me back that they would
nave lunch Immediately and for me to
come right on home. then gathered
my papers together and went upstairs
TO see the boys on the top floor. This
must have been. since had Just Looked
at my watch ten minutes 10 one
| noticed in the evidence OF one of
the witnesses. Mrs. Arthur White. that
she states it was 1885 when she passed
by and saw me That is possibly true.
| have no recollection about 1t: per-
haps her recollection is better than
mine. have no remembrance of it:
however. | expect that it is so. When
arrived upstairs I saw Arthur White
and Harry Denham. who had been
working up there. and Arthur Whites
wife. asked ,hem if they were ready
to go and they said they had enough
work to keep them several hours. ]
noticed that they had laid out some
work and ! had to see what work
they had done and were going to do. ]
asked Mr. Whites wife if she was 90
ing or would stay there. as ! would be
obliged to lock M the factory. Mrs.
White said no. she would go then. ]
went down and gathered up my papers
and locked my desk and went around
and washed my hands and put on nv
hat and coat. locked the inner door
to my office and locked the doors to
the street and started to 60 home.
Now, gentlemen, to the best OF nv
recollection, from the time the whistle
blew for L. o'clock until after quar-
ter to one when | went upstairs and
spoke to Arthur White and Harry
penham-to the best Of my recoI;rc-
tion-l did not stir oul of the Inner
ofice. but 1t Is possible that NAV
have done So Those are things a
man does unconsciously and cannot
afterward tell how many times or
when he does It. Now, sitting in nv
Office 81 my desk. il is impossible fo-
me 10 see into the outer hall when
the safe door is open. as It was that
morning. and not only is II !mpossible
for mo to see out. hut it is impos 81 BILE
FOR people 30 S.s in and see me there
rh!s was in answer 10 the
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worth. DeKalb. H.. and Logansport,
Ind. That Is all my handwriting en-
cepting the amounts that were placed
down here under the dates when the
shipments of these orders were made,
which Is In the handwriting Of my as
Mr.. Schiff. That is my hand
writing and the work on all OF those
was done on the morning Of April 2G.
Franks purpose in going SO en-
haustively into every detail OF his
mornings work is to show that
he did no work on the financial
sheet itself In the forenoon. but
reserved that for the afternoon
and. in fact, completed it that af
ternoon. an intricate task that
would have been impossible OF ac-
complishment. the defense con-
tended. II he just previously had
strangled a little girl to death and
her dead body was then lying in
the basement.
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from Preceding rage,

the office. 1 then went out to the snip
ping room and conversed a few minutes
with Mr.. 1rby, who at that time was
shipping clerk, concerning the work lie
was to do that morning.
| returned to my Office and looked
over the papers and assorted out those
which I was going to take over on my
usual trip to the general managers Of
fee that morning. I then turned to the
invoices covering shipments which were
made by the pencil factory on Thurs
day. April "a. and which were typewrlt-
ten and figured out on Friday. Apr,l -,
by Mise Eubanks. the stenographer VINO
stays in my Office. She had hurrleu
through with her work that day, pre-
vious to going home so she could spend
the holiday in the country, where she
lived
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Frank Tries to Show He Would Have
Been Unable to Do Certain
Work After Crime.

On entering Montag Brothers, | spoke
to Mr.. Sig Montag, the general manager
or the business. I went on chatting t.
Mr.. Montag and I spoke to Mr.. Mat
thcws and Mr.. Cross, and after that /
spoke to Miss Hattie Hall, the pencil
"onpany's stenographer. who stays at
Montag Brothers, and asked her to
come over and help me that morning.
since, as I already have told you. prac-
ticaily every one Of those invoices was
wrong. and l wanted her to help me
on that work and in debating the mail
In fact. told her | had enough work
10 keep her busy that whole afternoon
If she would agree to stay. but she
said she wouldn't do that She wanted
to have at least half holiday on
Memorial Day.
then spoke to several OF the Mon
tag Brothers on business matters. and
after that l saw Harry Gottheimer. the
sales manager OF the National Pencil
company, and I spoke at some length
TO him in reference to several of his
orders. told him l didn't know how
far along in the process of manufac-
turc the orders had proceeded. but II
he would 60 back with me then I would
he very glad to look for it. He said
he couldn't go right away-he was busy
but he would come a little later.
told him ! would be glad for him to
come over later that morning or in the
afternoon, as I would be there until
about l o'clock and again at 3 and
after. l then took my folder and re-
turned to Forsyth street alone. On ar
rival at the factory, went to the sec
ond or office floor and | noticed the
clock and it indicated five minutes after
u o'clock.
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TELLS WHERE HE WENT
AFTER QUITTING OFFICE.

On leaving tho factory. went nm
Forsyth to Alabama and down Ala.
bama to Whitehall, where / waited a
few minutes for car After Few
minutes Georgia avenue car com.
along and / took it. arriving home a +
ABOUT l.2" ] found that my wife and
my mother-in law were eating their
dinner. and father-in-law had Just sat
down and started his dinner. sat
down TO dinner and, before 49,
taken anything I turned in nv chair
10 the telephone. which was risht he
mind me, and called up my brother-in
law to tell him that on account ~
some work ! mad to do at the fac.orv
! would be unable to go with him h..
having invited ME to go with him %
the bail game. succeeded in pettIr1 10
his residence and his cook answered
the phone and told me that Mr.. Ursen
bach had not come back home. toId
her 20 give him the message that I
would be unable to go with him 7
turned around and continued eatinr
my lunch. and after few minut.s
my wife and nother-in-law finished
and told me goodby and left.
Albert Mcknight, husband NJ
Minola, the colored cook. testified
that he was sitting in the kitchen
and through mirror saw Frark
enter the house. lie said that Frank
ate nothing, but went to the side
board and after few minutes lert
the house again and boarded
Georgia avenue car for town. Nc
Knight afterward recanted his tes
timony on the stand and then. in the
hands OF The police, recanted his re-
Cantation.
My father-in-law and myself cont.
Hued eating our dinner MinoIa Nc.
knlsht serving us After finishing din
rer, MY father-in-law sajd he would 20
into the back Yard TO look after his
chirkcas. and ! lighted ,,iyarc,,c and
la! down. After = lew n.nutss 1 roi
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to tell Arthur White that his wifr
was down stairs.
A short time after they left my once
two gentlemen came in, one Of them \
Mr.. Graham and the other the father
OF boy by the name OF Earl Bur-
dette. These two boys had got In some
sort Of trouble at the noon hour the
day before and were taken down to
police headquarters. and. of course,
didn't get their pay envelopes the night
before
gave the envelopes to the two
fathers and chatted with them at
some length In reference to the trou-
BILE their boys had got into the day
before. Just before they left the Of
fee. Mrs Freeman and Miss Hail
came back into my Office and asked
permission to use my telephone. AS
they started to the telephone the two
gentlemen left the office.
Mrs. Freeman and Miss Hall left
the office, as near as may be. at
quarter to IL and went out, and
started to work reading over the let
ters | previously had dictated to Mis-.
Hattie Hall. and signing the mail.
have the carbon copies Of the letters
which Miss Hall typewrote for me
that morning here, attached to the
letters from the customers or the
Ing. they have been introduced and
Identified. These letters are copies
or the ones ! dictated that morning
| signed these letters, and while
was signing | gave Miss Hall the or
ders which hau been received by me
that morning from Montag Bros. over
at the general managers office.
gave her those orders to be acknowl
edged.
| continued signing the letters and
separating the carbon copies from
the letters and putting them in va
rious places. i folded and sealed the
letters and told Miss Hall that
would post them myself. Miss Hair
nnlshed the work an, started to leave
when the II o'clock, whistle blew.
She left the office and returned. II
looked TO me. almost immediately.
Gaming INTO my office that she had
forgotten something. and then she
left for good. Then started in
nrst we enter all orders into the hou.e
order book. All these orders which
Miss Hall had acknowledged en-.
tered into that book. and | will ex-
plain that matter in detail
AFTER hn'shing that work | went n,
to the transcription of these orders ,o
these requisitions. and Notwithstanding
an answer that mas been made /
wrote these requisitions myself. That
Is my handwriting and you can reaI
every one Of them through. Here ia
one r. W. Woolworth. wrote thar
one And another F. W. Woolworth:
wrote that one. And another F. w
Nooiworth. Here is one ! and IN
cent Store. Sault Ste. Marie wrote
mat one And here is F. w. Wool
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BUSY WHOLE DAY
WITH THE PAYROLL.

didn't get to checking over those in
voices on Friday, due to the fact that
Mr. Schiff and myself were completely
occupied the entire day. until we left the
factory, with the pay roll. Naturally. as
these invoice shipments which were
made on April 25 ought to have been
sent to the customers. I got right to
work in checking them.
Now ] have those invoices here. They
have not been exhibited before, but I
will explain them. or all the mathe-
matical work in the pencil factory this
very operation. this very piece Of work
that / have before me, is the most i'm
portant.
1t il the invoice covering shipments
that are sent to customers, and 1t IL
very important that the prices are cor
rect. that the amount Of goods shipped
agrees with the amount that is on the
invoice, that the terms are correct. that
the address Is correct and also in some
"ases-I don't know whether there Is
one like that here-.there are freight de-
duc.ions, all Of which have to be very
carefully checked over and gone into.
because I know OF nothing else that eX-
asperates a customer more than to re-
ceve invoices that are incorrect.
Moreover, on this morning the work
took me longer than ordinary, because
usually one person calls out and the
other checks but I did the work all by
myself, and, as I went over the in
voices, noticed that Miss Eubanks, the
day before evidently had sacrificed
accuracy to speed, as every one OF
them was wrong. I had to go alone
over the whole invoice, and I had to
make the corrections as went along.
figure them out, extend them, make de-
ductions for freight, IL there were any
20 be made, and then get the total
shipments, because, when these ship
ments were made on April "a, which
was Thursday, this was the last day of
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our fiscal week. 1t was on this day
that made that financial sheet which
l make out every Saturday afternoon.
Frank here showed each of the
invoices separately to the jury.
explaining in detail his work on
each one.
I started on this work. as said. and
7 went into 1t In some detail to show
you the carefuness with which the
work must be carried out. I was at
work on this at about . o'clock, as
nearly as I can remember. when Mr.
Darley and Mr.. Wade Campbell. the
latter the inspector Of the factory. came
into the outer office, and stopped what
work ] was doing and went into the
outer Office and chatted with Mr. Darley
and Mr. Campbell for ten or hfteen
minutes, and joked with them.
While was talking with them--1
should figure about 9.15 oclock-Miss
Matte Smith came in and asked for
her pay envelope and for that OF her
sister -in-law. went to the safe and
unlocked 1t and got out the package
of envelopes that Mr.. Schin had given
me the evening before and gave her
the two envelopes, placing the re-
naming envelopes in my cash box,
where would have them handy in
case others came in. / wanted to
have them near at hand, without hav-
ing to jump up and go to the safe
every time in order to get them.
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HE EXPLAINS CHANGES
IN TIME STAMP.

] finished this work that hav.
just outlined about 5 minutes To a
ana proceeded to take out the two
time slips used that day from the
CLOCKS and to replace them. The
slips / put in that night with q blue
ink, with a rubber dating stamp,
April rs. 1913" at the bottom opno-
site the word date"
NOW, In reference to those time
Sips and the reason that the date
April ~ was put on the slips, no one
was coming down to the factory sun
gay, so far as I knew, or as far as
the custom was, and therefore OF,
SATURDAY night We had to put slips
into the clock dated with the date on
which the help were coming to tn.
factory to go about their regular
duties, which, in this case, was Mon
day. April 2s.
NOW. on one Of these slips New,
Lee, the night watchman, would reg
lister his punches Saturday night, ana
on Sunday night he would reeis,e,
his punches on the other. Hi.
punches on Monday night would be
registered on two new slips thar
would be put into the clocks on Mon
day night. As was putting thezr
slips into the clocks Saturday niph,
l saw Newt Lee coming up the stairs.
1t was o'clock. finished putting
the slip in and went back to wash nj
and. as l was washing. 1 heard New
Lee ring the bell on the clock as n.
registered his first punch for tn
night. He went down stairs to awa!,
my departure.
got my hat and top coat and went
downstairs to the front door. As
opened the front door I saw outside.
on the street, on the street side o.
the door, Newt Lee in conversation
with Mr.. J. NJ. CAN'T. a man that
had let go from the ONCE two weeks
previous. They seemed to be in dis
cussion and Lee told me that NJ
CAN'T wanted to go back up into thr
factory. and he had refused him ad
mission because his Instructions were
for no one to go back into the factory
after he went out, unless he got CON
trary instructions from Mr.. barley .:
myself.