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LEO MW. FRANK. . 187

beer had gotten him to sweating. Then Frank asked him if
he could write and Frank made him write at his dictation
three times, and Frank told him he was going to take the
note and send it in a letter to his people and recommend Con-
ley to them. Frank said, ‘“Why should I hang??? Frank
took a cigarette from a box and gave the box to Conley and
when Conley got across the street he found it had two paper
dollars and two silver quarters in it, and Conley said ‘‘Good
Jack has done struck me.’? At the beer saloon he bought one-
half pint of whiskey and then got a bucket and bought fifteen
eents’ worth of beer, ten cents’ worth of stove wood and a&
nickel’s worth of pan sausage, and gave his old woman $3.50.
He did not leave home until about 12 o’clock Sunday. On
Tuesday morning Frank came up stairs and told him to be
a good boy. On Wednesday, Conley washed his shirt at the
factory, and hung it on the steam pipe to dry. The detectives
took the shirt and, finding no blood on it, returned it. On
the 29th of May, 1913, Conley made another affidavit in
which he said that Frank told him that he picked up a girl
and let her fall and Contey hollowed to him that the girl was
dead, and told him to go to the cotton bag and get a piece of
loth, and he got a wide piece of cloth and took her on his
right shoulder, when she got too heavy for him and she
slipped off. He called Frank to help, and Frank got a key to
the elevator and the two carried the body down stairs and
Frank told him to take the body ‘back to the sawdust piles,
and Conley picked the girl up and put her on his shoulder,
while Frank went back up the ladder. Conley then took the
eloth from around her and took her hat and slipper, which he
had picked up upstairs where her body was lying, and
brought them down and untied the cloth and brought them
ack and ‘‘throwed them on the trash pile’”’ in front of the
furnace.

When Frank was arrested and indicted for the murder
there was intense excitement and feeling in Atlanta—lyneh-
ing was feared, and the Governor of the state had the mili-
tary in readiness to protect the prisoner if the jnil was at-
tacked. And during the trial the spectators again and

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