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tomorrow, and I went and changed shoes and pulled off the pants and
put on my hat and come down at 10 minutes to 10, and didn't go
back any more until Tuesday morning and went to work at Tuesday
morning and got through with my work and went downstairs about
half past 9 and there was such a crowd down there I didn't stay
long, and I come back up the aisle and went to taking up some trash
and about half past 10 or 11 o'clock, Mr. Frank come back up the
aisle and leaned over the table right where Jim was and Mr. Frank
said "Jim how is everything?" and Jim hollered "All right Mr. Frank" and he
was arrested. Mr. Frank and said I heard a boy, Frank again he
was arrested.

I come to work Wednesday morning and started down to the
basement and there was such a crowd down there I couldn't get to
use the toilet, and I goes back upstairs and finished my work and
works all that day, and Thursday morning I come to work and got
caught up by 10 o'clock, and I went downstairs and the fireman and
another colored fellow was down there and I asked the fireman
where was Jim and he said the young lady got killed at, and he told
me right around there, and I took a little piece of paper and went
around there to see if I could see, but I couldn't see where any-
thing had happened, and I come on back upstairs and stayed there
doing some stuff in the furnace room until about 12, and then I went
there until 25 minutes to 12, and the detectives were giving out all
subpoenas and I got my subpoena, and went back upstairs and stayed
up there until 5 minutes to 12, and I come down and went out in
the streets and heard the whistle when it blowed for 12 o'clock,
and I went back and started to cleaning up at half past 12 and got
through cleaning at half past one. Then I went down to wash my
shirt so I could have a clean one to wear to court for I had been
wearing this one for three weeks and when I got back there was
pulled off my shirt and washed it, then here comes Mr. Quinn and I
asked him where was the dry house and he showed me where it was,
and I went and hung it up and then I went and got the team pipe
and I said to myself I will get it over with that the detectives
to get it dry, and by me hanging it on there I got a little rust
on it, and some of them saw me back there washing my shirt and
called up the detectives and when the detectives come up there I
had done put on my shirt and they asked me where was the shirt
I was washing and I told them this here was the shirt, and they
said yes because it is not good dry, and then told me to come and
go with them and I did. They brought me down here and found these
was no blood on the shirt, and give me my shirt back and that's
all I know.

(signed) James Conley

Sworn to and subscribed before me
this the 29th day of May 1913.

W. C. February (signed)
Notary Public, Fulton County, Ga.

DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 39.

O'QULEY'S STATEMENT OF MAY 29, 1913.

Atlanta, Ga., May 29, 1913.

On Saturday, April 26, 1913, when I come back to the pencil
factory with Mr. Frank, I waited for him downstairs like he told
me, and when he whistled for me I went upstairs and he asked me if
I wanted to make some money right quick, and I told him yes sir,
and he told me that he had picked up a girl and had her in his
office and that she was not a respectable girl, and he said that
he was not built right and he told me to go in there and fix her
up and he told me to go and lock the door and come back.

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