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206 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

from the basement, It was lying
on his desk. He put it in the
safe,

Mrs. J. A. White (recalled).
I have seen this man before at
police headquarters (indicating
Conley) about a month after the
murder, At that time did not
identify him as being the man
I saw sitting on the box. The
man sitting on the hox was about
the same size as Jim Conley;
couldn’t state it was Jim Con-
Tey.

C. W. Mangum. Had « con-
versation with Mr. Frank at the
jail about seeing Conley and con-
fronting him; told him the men
were there ‘with Conley and
wanted to talk with him if he
wanted to see them. He said,
“No, my attorney is not here and
I have nobody to defend me.”

N. V. Darley (zeealled). It
was very dark around the ele-
vator on the first floor on April
26th; never saw Jim Conley that
day; never saw Mr, Frank talk
to him or speak to him or coma
into contaet with him in any way
that day; was at the factory
every Saturday _ afternoon;
found Mr. Frank in his offlea on
every oecasion except one; saw
Conley on Monday. He looked
to be excited and when I spoke
to him he failed to look up as he
usually does; went around the
factory that morning aud looked
at everybody to see if I could
pick out a man that looked suspi-
eious, and Jim Conley was the
man I thought looked most sus-
picious. Have made no contribu-
tion toward the fund to defend
Frank. If a body had been shot
down the chute, behind those
Boxes, it would have been hidden
more than where it was found;
don’t know anything about Con-

ley being there Saturday after-
noons and watching. He wasn’t
there by my instructions.

EF, Holloway (recalled). Am
the day watebman and time
keeper; look after the register
to see that everybody registers;
it was not a habit of Conley to
register or not as he pleased and
to get his pay anyhow; never
saw Mr. Frank goose, pineh ot
joke with Conley. He surely
was a good hand at borrowing,
but Mr. Frank would never let
him have a nickel but what he
owed him, Up till 12 months
ago the sweepera stayed at the
factory until about 2:30, but
then they made a rule that any
sweeping that wasn’t done by
noon on Saturday would have to
go over until Monday and since
that time no negroes have been
there since 12 o'clock. We never
bad any negro night watehman
in July, August, September, or
any time last fall. We never had
a negro night watehman until
we hired Lee about threa weeks
before the murder, Waa at the
factory every Saturday since last
June, Have never known Mr.
Frank to have any women on
Saturdays excepting his wife.
Mr. Schiff helped Mr. Frank on
his booka on Satardays. Conley
never did wateh the door down
stairs; never did see him giving
signals to Mr. Frank and Frank
giving him signals from up-
stairs; would baye seen them if
he had watched the door. There
‘was nobody practicing any im-
moralities in the building. If
they did I would know it. Daisy
Hopkins quit some time in May
or June last spring. She has
never been there since she quit.
On Monday morning saw Conley,
instead of being upstairs where

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