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THURMAN GAVE ME 5200
JWEARS PASTOR, DORSEY
HITS NOTE-PAD EVIDENGE
and pletured I"edder as the man who
apparently took 1t upen himgelf to
obtain tha wmpney to pay Ragsdale
and Barber. Ha quoted Tedder as
sMn% to go whead and slgn, as he
had the mone'w
An afMdavit 'was read from Samuel
A. Pardes withdrawing his previous
afidavit for this defense in which he
had sworm 10 jsecing Frank at 1.0%
o'clock at 'Whhehnll and Alabama
streets the aftisrnoon of the crime
Pardee said thf.t he made the origl
nal affidavit in, good faith, but that
later com!dornti on had convineced him
that he could nat he certain as to the,
staternemt he hiild made for the de
fense, amnd was quite sure he oould
not hawe seen Hrank at this time
Mrs. Hattie Walts, of No. 22 Mark
am street, gave « orrohoration to Con
ley's ltw‘g"t hat h e met Frank at Nel
son and rayth streets at 10 o'clock
the morning of the crime, lln her af
fidavit she swors,.she saw a negre and
a man she' took to be a Jew talking
at Nelson and Forsyth streets that
morning. Shwe afterward saw Frank
at the trial and idemtified him as the
man she had seen. She them ‘went (o
the jail with. her hushand and saw
Conley, She swore he was the negro
she had seen talkimg with Prank.
An affidavii from Mary Rich repu
diated the aMfavit she made for the
defense In whhkh shwe wasz accredited
with saying that she saw, Jim Coniey
come from the rear of the pencil fac
tory at 2:16 oNlock the afterncon of
April 26,
Calls His Affidavit Forgery.
An affidavit of the negro lvey Jones
branded the afMdavit accredited to
him by the defense as a forgery.
Affidavits from Conley and another
negro, MBugene Perry, -corroborated
Jones in his story of meeting Conley
shortly after 1:30 o'clock April 26.
Judge Hil] created a stlr shortly
before adjournmment in the afternoon
by announcing that he wished an or
der issued bringing back to Atlanta
the negress Annie Maude Carter, He
sadd if she was not back within five
days he would have all the Carter
lotters and testimony stricken from
the record.
A Jetter from the Carter woman to
her father said that she was working
for Wililam Burms ine New Orleans
and going under the nasne of “Mrs.
Joseph Griffin”
Dalton Repeats Chvarges.
Dalton reaffirmed the nmxmenu he
made on the stand at t trial of
Frank, and said he would he wliling to
repeat them In court at any time, He
told of an attempt of . W. Burke to
bribe him, snd of how, harg pressod
hy the insistent Burke, he signed a
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paper Burim offered. It oceurred at
Fort My¢rs, Fla,, he said, where ha
was working for F. P. Heifner, a con
tractor, and where HBurke came to find
him.
Burke, he declared, asked him
whether the Sollcitor or Detectivas
Btarnes or Campbell had tried to
make him say things that were not
&0, and, upon his negative answer, of
fered him $lOO to slgn the paper go
ing before the Pardon Board, Dalton
refused, according to hia testimonvy,
but when Burke returned the next day
with a typewritten statement he
signed it, helng promised st!l] the $lOO
and a pass from Atlanth to Jackson
ville. Dalton declared hes has seen
neither.
Once hefore, he said, when he was
at Dublin, Ga., a short time after the
trial, he was offered money hy two
men. \ |
“One of them, at fat man, told me
I could make $4OO hy Ileaving the
State” he testified. “He sald, ‘'We are
going to Nt Fyank a new trial' I
know they wére Jews, - There was no
mistaking that, [ refused them each
time.”
Dalton sald he came to Atlanta of
his own accord upen receiving a letter
from Solicitor Dersey. His affidavit
told of occurrences in Frank's office
before the murder of Mary Phagan,
and of ¥rapk's hehavior with girls
upon several occasions
PastoF Ragsdale’s Story. ‘
Ragedale charged that he was paid
bribe of $2OO by Attorney Arthur
%‘hnrmnn to swear to the “confession” ‘
atory. He accused Thueman of insti
gating the faise affidavit after the at.
torney had conducted a business
transaction that financially involved
the minister. He gald Thurman held
out the confessiop story as a lure to
gettle his financial difficulties. |
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| torney William M. Bmith, counsel for%
Jim Conley also Was implicated {n
the deal, #le met Tedder four ar five
times in Thurman's office, he said,
while the afMidavit was belng discuss
ed. Ragsdale swore that he himself
| approached R. .. Barber and ind\u'e(ll
| him to corroborate the “confession’
story, He said Barber suggested that
he “would swear he thought the negro
who made the confession was Con- |
ley.” Told by Thurman or Tmldvr}
that this would not do, Ragsdale xum‘
Barber agreed to swear “he Knew it
was Conley.”
The “confession” affidavit, Rags
dale swore, was made in the offices of
Attorney Luther Z. Rosser on April
28, and was dictated by Mr. Rosser.
Before golng to the Rosser om"e.‘
Ragsdale said Tedder took both he
and Barber to the Burns office in the
Healey Building, where they were in
troduced to Dan lLehon. The bribe
‘m-\nuy, he said, was brought to Thur
man’'s ofMlce by Tedder, and was
handed to him by Thurman. He sald
he and Barber each weve given $lOO,
aud that as he started out Thurman
handed him another hundred, remark
ing that he had received $lOO for his
part,
Affidavit by Conley,
A long athdavit signed by Jim Con
ley was read in deniad of every es
sential statement in the “confession”
aMidavit by Annie Maude Carter, 'n
which she charged Conley with telling
her of killing Mary-Phagan. Coniey
said that the Carter woman had
slipped him letters, byt that one da.’
he saw Dr, George Wrenn drop her a
letter from the second floor of Ilh-!
Jail and that she a few minutes l»l:-ra
delivered It to him as one of her ow n‘
letters. * A specimen of the Carter
woman's handwriting was submitted !
as an exhibit. ¢ .nley charged that
Deputy Reberts left the door open so
friends of Frank could get into his!
cell block.
Attaches at the jail told of seeing
Wrenn in frequent conversation wih
the Carter negress, who was allowed
considerable freedom hecause of he
ing emploved part of the day in the
laundry All of them said that rhe
Carter woman had been forbidden to
go into Conley's cell block, and it ap
peared unlikely that she had done so
to the extent that the letters repre
sented to be Conley’s indlcated.
An affidavit from J. E. Duffey told
of a night ride to Austell with agenis
for Frank in an endeaver to Keep him
from detectives from Dorsev's office
who were trying te get him to the
Solicitor's office.
“Truth on the Run,” Says Dorsay.
“That was truth on the run,” re
marked Dorsey. paraphrasi a
statement hy Frank whxh \\as‘?n‘
cluded by the sentenee: “The tru is
on the march.”
Mell Arnoid, a relative of Duffey s,
signed an affidavit saying that he had
¢ot his job bgcek with the Southern
Railway after Duffey had made an
Ndavq for the defense
Several adfidavits [rom Julia Car
ter, mother of Annie Maude Carter,
were submitted to show that the girl
had never told at home of Conley con
fessing to her, though she had been
asked about it repeatedly, Two coeus-
Ins testified to the same thing. A
' Lalf dozen or more witnesses testifled
l to the Carter girl's bad character,
Othep witnesses testifled that Mrs
IM. Jaffe, one of the new allbi wit
nesses for the defense, was not wor
} thy of belief, .
1. P Eubanks, who was Involved in
ohtaining the affidavit from Duffey,
admitted that he had Jent Duffey
'money, hut denied that 1t was with
the understanding that he need never
pay it back. An affdatit by Duffey's
father contradicted this,
Girl Tells of Courtship,
Helen Ferguson, telllng of the
methods that she swore were used to
| get her out of town, said that an of
fer of $lOO was made to her if she
wonld leave. Thisz failing, she gald
that Jimmy Wrn came to her, under
the name of J. W. Howard, and that
after that he hegan taking her to the.
aters and paying her attentions, final
ly proposing marriage. .
She gaid she went with him to t,m
Grant Building, and there was In-1{
Auced to sign an aMdavit telling of an |
occasgion when she had heen fright
ened by Corley, This, she sald, was
after she had refused to sign one
changing her testimony on the stand,
She said she met Burke, who repre
sented himself as Jimmy Wren's
father.
Later, she sald, Wren renewed his
protestations of love, and sought to
kiss her She slapped his face, and
thereafter his ardor cooled, according
to the affidavit,
Lehon Attacks Dunor
A hot denuneiation of Bolicitor Dor.
sey's methods in insinuating crook
edness by the Burns' agency in the
Phagan investigation was uttered |
Monday hy Dan 8. JTsehon. Lehon
asked, after he had been questioned at
length by the Solieitor, ilf he might
make a statement. Judge Hill permit
ted him, and he hegan:
“Ygur honor; I'm an American citi
zen and I've heen a police officer for |
twenty vears, and I never have en
oountered such an outrageous pro
cedure as this
“Phe Solicitor has been trying tnl
make it appear that I and the other |
officiale of the Burns agency havs|
been guilty of crooked work, That's’
a lle and there 18 no basis for it."”
Nearly in Contempt.
Judge Hill stopped Lehon in his
denunciation, but the detective was
g 0 indignant that he continued in
spite of the warning. Judge Hlll
threatened to adjudge him In con-
.
tempt and Lehon apologized for his
outbhreal.
Judge Hill later in the hearing or
dered the words of Detective L.ehon
in respect to the conduct of the So
licitor read. He then remarked that
while the language was in contempt
he would not inflict any penalty, as
the witness probabiy intended no dis
courtesy to the court,
The interrogation of Lehon began
with questions as to his position with
the Burns system and his part in the
Phagan investigation. Under the
questioning of the Solicitor, he denied
that the taking of the case by Burns
made any difference in his salary. He
said that he had received payments
from the clients of Burns in the case
and had glven feceipts.
l Admits Receiving $5OO.
Asked what he had received at
about the time of the Ragsdale affl
davit, he admitted that he had been
lm\'nn $5OO
' This, he explained. was'in part pay
ment for Burns' services and had no
connection with the Ragsdale affida
vit. He said that he had heard from
W. W. Rogers, Detective Whitfield
and . (O, Tedder that there was a
preacher who would make an affidavit
saying that he had heard a confes
sion from (‘onley. He said| hmwm-er.l
'that he did not knew the preacher
had been identified or leecated at the
time he had given the $5OO salary and
expense money to Tedder.
Attornev Arthur Thurman, he said,
brought Ragsdale and R. 1. Barber to
the Burns offices and that he (I.ehon)
immediately took the two men over :n:
the office of 1. 7Z. Rosser, who teok
their affidavits in good faith. Beth
men gave good references
Lehon, who is general manager of
the Rurns agencies in the South, was
put on the stand Monday by Solicitor |
Dorsay to tell evervthing he knew of
the incidents lesading up to the mak
ing of an affidavit In the Frank case
by ‘he Rev. €. B. Ragsdale, who said
he had heard a confession of the
Phagan murder from the lips of Jim
Conley
The Soßicitor twas partheularly in
quisitive agout a $5OO payment made
»v Herbert J. Haas to Mr. Lehon and
afterward v?rrnvd over to Carlion '
Tedder, s2s# as Tedder's first month's |
salary in tha Burns employ and S‘.‘:n\l
as expense money for a trip to Chat
tanooga, Rirmingham and .\‘ashvxlm.l
Money Simply Fee, Says Lehon.
Lehon said that the $5OO was sim- |
ply on account for the Burns agency's ‘
services in the case, and that it was
not used to buy Ragsdale's affidav:t,
as the Solicitor had intimated. 1
T T PITRTIIRTY
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Shriner Meet. -
GLACIER PARK STATION, |
MONT., May 4.—A unique pilgrimage
starts, to-morrow to the Shriners’ con
vention in Atlanta, when a speciai
train leaves here bearing a band of
Blackfoot Indians from the Glacier
National Park reservation and the
members of Algeria Temple of Shrin.
ers of Helena. The Indians, who ara
from “the Glacier Park Tepee Tem
ple,” will be the mascots of tHe Mon-!
tana Shriners during their trip to
the South. They are selected speci
mens of the “Original American” and
rurn aftired -in all of their buckskin,
beaded and feathered brilliance. The
copper-colored aggregation is headed
by the famoug Blackfoot chief, Three
Rears, 94 years old, survivor of fif
teen Indign wars
The Indiansg have with them their
tepee, which they will pitch on the
'hi:-:mric old Peachtree Trall dur!ng[
[lheir stay in Atlanta., They will give
STATEMENT FROM COUNTY PHYSICIAN
: J. W. HURT.
ATLANTA, GA, May 4, 1914.
This is to certify that I visit the County Jail
DAILY and see every inmate and inspect the san
itary conditious. There are very few sick and the
SANITARY CONDITIONS ARE GOOD.
J. W. HURT, M. D.
T NPy S o e e
ONE OF THE BEST SHERIFFS
Wheeler Mangum has made Fulton County one of the
REST SHERIFFS we have ever had. Owur townsman, Mr.
John H. Owen. is chief deputy on his foree, and we wish
them hoth every suceess in the race. They are giving us a
humane administration of affairs of this diffieult office. and
as we remember the cruelties revealed in the ehamgangs
we are alad we have such men as Messrs. Mangum and
Owen at the head.—College Park Herald, February 16, 1914
!their tfamous grass dances dally for
' the edification of the throng of Shrin
| ers during the week of the conwven
| tion. This is the first time these In
| dians ever left the shadows of the
| Rocky Mountains, and their trip to
| the South will be the revelation of
lxheir lives,
The greatest mark of distinction to
which the Blackfoot Indians lay claim
ie that for hundreds of vears, ever
since they first pitched their homes m:
that part of the Rocky Mountains now
knowi as Glacler Park, their tepes
| tribe has defended this sacred spot of
scenic beauty against all other In
dians.
The people say the Coun
ty jail and police station
are separate institutions
and shall not be merged
into one. Vote for Mangnml
l for Sheriff and help to keep|
them separate. I
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property of ‘\phe Waters-Plerca Ofl
Company in tha city of Puebla. This
Includes hundreds of cases of oil and
large tanks, valueda at several hun
dred thousand dollays. There is no
official confirmation o) the report.
: Railway Men Asrested.
Three American railwxy men were
arreasted at Mexico City ‘lut week
after they had boarded a train for
Vera Cruz, and are now hefd incom
munjeado at Villa Guadaloups, ac
cording to refugees’ who arrived In
camp to-day.
They stated that San Luis Potosi
‘had been sacked and abandoned by
‘the Federal garrison there, but that
all foreigners had escaped safely. The
garrison mutinfed and looted the en
tire city, but made no attempt to in
texfers with the Amerfcan and Brit
fsh citizens who fled to Mexico_ City.
Wilson to Honor
Vera Cruz Slain.
WASHINGTON, May 4 President
Wilson will lead the nation’s tribute
to the seventeen marines and sailors
killed in the fighting at Vera Cruz
and now on thelr way to New York
on hoard the cruiser Montana. Ar
rangements for the President to meet
the Montana were completed to-day
at a conference hetween the President
and Secretary of the Nayy Daniels
Following the conference, Secretary
Daniels said:
| “The President informs me that if
possible he will certainly be on hand
'when the Montana - reaches the
Brooklyn navy vard next Monday and
'he will preside at the memorial serv- ‘
ilf‘es to ba held in honor of the navy's
'dead. In the event of press of public
business prevents his leaving Wash
ington, the President will write a let
ter expressing his regret that anv
lives should have been lost and his
appreciation of the valor of those
who died.” |
Secretary Daniels further stated
that everything possible will be donei
to make the cerdmonies impressive,
After the memorial exercises at .\’ewl
York, the bodies will be sent to the
different homes of the dead men,
there to he interred hy their families.
The Secretary of the Navy stated
that no steps have been taken towardl
‘tho establishment by Presidential
proclamation of a “national day of
' mourning”’ for the Vera Cruz dead.
Government officials, despite their op
timism, still fear that more dead may‘
be numbered in the roster of the
Mexican war, and that it would be
inappropriate at this time to an
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300 More Americans
'To Leave Capital.
| Special Cable to The Atlanta Georglan.
MEXICO CITY, May 4-—More than
300 Americans will leave here this aft
ernoon for Puerto Mexico, with a
guard of troops personally selected by
President Huerta., They will be es
corted to a point several miles east of
the capital by Senor Cardozo, the Bra.
zilian Minister, whose presence on the
train is expected to prevent any of
| the refugees being arrested at the city
limits, as has happened on previous
occasioms.
When Senor Cardozo leaves the
train he will have one of the at
taches of the Brazilian Legation re
| main aboard to assure the Americans
of safe conduct to the coast. The Bra
zilian Minister has been personally
promised by Prestdent Huerta that
the filght of the refugees will not meet
any interference.
. HMuerta Preparing for War,
While President Huerta is ostensi
hly meeting with favor the efforts of
the “A. B. ("' mediators to effect
peace in Mexico, he is actively pre
paring for war. During the last two
days he has been in almost constant
comference with. generals of the Mexi
can army.
Huerta to-day summonad General
Gonzales Luque here from Cordoba
and General Joaguin Jiminez Castro
and General Pradillo from Jalapa.
They wers instructed to bring the
complete reports as to the number of
their men and their available muni
tions of war. The calling of the com
manders to the Capital indicates that
Huerta is preparing to put up a stub
born defense of Mexico City in case
rot attack.
' The Prestdent has refused to ac
‘u{t the resignation of Esteva Ruiz
siNsecretary of Foreign Relations,
'and that officlal fs still fulfilling the
Authes of the post left vacant by the
resigznation of Portillo y Rojas, Min
ister of Foreign Relations. No inti
mation has yet been made that Por
"Mlln's yace will be filled.
Blr:miuet Stripped of Power.
Senor Alcocer, Minister of the In
terior, is in line for the provistonal
presidemcy in case Huerta is over
thrown or forced to resigm, but there
iz no indicatiom at the present that he
intend& to step out. By orders of the
President many changes have been
made in the petsonnel of the War
‘lTpartmem. and General Blanquet
hAs been stripped of his fnfluence in
great measure,
Canards, apparently authorized by
the Govermment, are being printed
datly in the newspapers. One that
appeared to-day said that the United
Siates cruiser Ralelgh had chased
and overhauled the gunboat Morelos
near Topolobampo and “putc‘er guns
and machinery out f ecomMmission.”
This information, it was said, came
from the War Depawtment, which was
also authority for the reports that
the Raleigh had bombarded Manza
nillo: that an American merchant
vessel had been blown up by a mine
at Manzanillo, and that the German
wvessel Luella also had been blown up.
Riddled Refugee
Ship in New York.
NEW YORK, May 4.—Her chart
house riddled by Mexican bullets dur
ing the fighting at Vera Cruz, the
Ward line steamer Guantanamo ar
rived here to-day with twenty Amer
jcan refugees, mostly women and
children. Eighteen of the refugees
were taken aboard at Tamploo and
two at Vera Cruz, .
While the’ Americans were being
‘taken aboard at Tammico, the Guan
tanamo lay in the outer harbor, but
her position at Vera Cruz while (he
Mexicans were resisting the . dvance
of the American marines was dangar
ous. She was in the direct line «
fire where she was tied up at th
dock. ;
Coast Artillery = “ijie
Goes to Texas.
MOBILE, ALA., May 4.—A detachfl
ment of 210 members of the Unit
States Coast Artillery Battalion stas)@
tioned at Fort Morgan, Ala., at tiy
entrance of Mobile Bay, under con|’(
mand of G. Taylor, left last night nn%“]
special traln for Brownswille, Texa!
for duty on the border, The office 8
and men were equipped for an i/ "
definite stay. i
L of
Georgia Boy Writes ot
Of Vera Cruz Attack. Jes
Supplementing the vast publie mO‘
terest in the press accounts of w '
fare in Mexico, personal accounts no
are being recedved in the wug of letl .
ters from the “boys at the froat”
their relatives at haome. i]
A lefttle{r rec:ll;red from oofim cd&
Bon, o, artwell, Ga. ear A
miral Badger on the fia% 0
glves an account of the
at Vera Cruz, and an
teresting description of the applica
tion of ‘Ley Fuega” to a squad '
Mexican “snipers” who had shot :
an American girl as she was be
escorted to the dock preparatory t
boarding an American vessel.
“Ley Fuega'" is the Meaxican fu{l
tive law that permits the killing of &
fleeing prisoner.
~ “Marines patrolling the .atreet
idashed into the house from which
.came the firing,” writes young Cason.
| “The ‘greasers’ were dragged out by
.our boys, five or six of them, and ‘Ley
Fuega' was applied.
Prisoners Shot Down Running.
“As soon as they reached the open
'street the prisoners wene released.
'They darfed away like rabblits and
' the marifies opened fire. Their aim
was deafily, and one by one the run
ning Mexiecans pald for their ‘sniping’
kwith their Hves."”
T P
The people say the Coun
ty jail and police station
are separate institutions
and shall not be merged
into one. Vote for Mangum
for Sheriff and help to keep
[them separate. ‘
Who put the notice on
the ‘“local leokodt book™
telling the patrolmen which
srgeant to se in dorer to
provide themselves with
the ‘“Captain’s’’ campaign
cards? ,