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Atlanta Georgian
Tuesday, May 6th, 1913
Factory Superintendent Explains Every Hour of the Saturday Phagan Girl Was Slain.
Here is told how Frank passed the whole day of the Saturday when Mary Phagan was killed. The following is taken from Frank's testimony:
7 o'clock a. m.βArose, and dressed at home.
8βLeft home for factory.
8:20βArrived at factory.
8:50 or 9βM. D. Darley and others entered there.
10βWent over to office of Sig Montag, factory manager, on Nelson Street.
11βWent back to the factory office.
12βStenographer and office boy left him alone in office.
12:10 p. m.βMary Phagan came for her pay; got it and left. He heard her footsteps die away, and went on with his work, thinking no more about her. When she left he thought he heard her voice in the outer office.
12:15 or 12:20βLemmie Quinn, foreman of the department where Mary worked, came in.
12:25βQuinn left.
1βLeft the factory.
1:20βArrived home.
1:40βFinished lunch with his father-in-law.
2βLeft home for factory.
2:40βSpoke to Miss Rebecca Carson, forewoman in his factory, in front of Rich's store on Whitehall Street.
3βArrived again at the factory.
3:10βWhite and Denham left; he remained entirely alone in the factory.
3:20βLatched the street door behind them.
3:45βNight Watchman Newt Lee, negro, came. He let negro go away again.
5:30βFinished work on the financial sheet.
6βFinished balancing cash; night watchman came back. Frank washed his hands, and left factory, leaving night watchman with J. M. Gantt.
6:25βArrived home.
6:30βWife and mother-in-law came in just as he was telephoning to the factory. Got no answer there.
7βTelephoned again. Night watchman told him everything was all right. He ate supper.
9:30βAfter smoking and reading since supper, he went upstairs and lit the gas heater.
10:30βBathed.
11βWent to bed.
Sunday, April 27.
7:30 a. m.βAwakened by the phone. Informed of the tragedy. Went to undertaker's shop and identified Mary Phagan's body as that of the girl whom he had paid the afternoon before.
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