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LEO M. FRANE. 245

house. I had also bought a pint of rye and some pan seusege.
I remained at home all Saturday night, and at 12 o'clock
noon, Sunday, walked up on Mitchell Street and got a eigarette,
remaining there until 12:45 p. m, and returned home, remaining
until 6:30 p. m, when I went to my mother’s house, and got my
lunch, and then returned home and remained at home until Monday,
April 26th. On April 28th, veported for work at the pencil factory
at 7:05 a.m

STATEMENT OF JAMES CONLEY, MAY 24, 1913,

On Friday evening before the holidiy, about one o'clock, Mr.
Frank come up the aisle in the factory and asked me to come fo his
office. He asked me, could I write, and I told him yes, I could write
a little bit, and he gave me a scratch pad and told me what to put
on it, and told me to put on there, “dear mother,” “a long, tall, black
negro did this by himself,” and he told me to write it two or three
times on there, I wrote it on a white scratch pad, single ruled. Ho
pulled ont a box of cigarettes, and in that box he had $2.50, two
paper dollars and two quarters, and I taken one of the cigarettes and
handed him the box, and I told him he had some money in the box,
and he said that was all right, I was weleome to that for I was a
good working negro around there, and then he asked me where Gor-
don Bailey (Snowball, they call him) was, and I told him on the
elevator, and he asked me if I knew the night watchman, and I told
him no, and he asked me if I ever saw him in tho basement, and I
told him no, and I asked him not to take out any money for that
watch man I owed, for I didn’t have any to spare, and he told me ho
wouldn't, but he would see to me getling some money a little bit
later. He told me he had some wealthy people in Brooklyn, and
then be held his head up and looking out of the corner of his eyes
and said, “Why should I hang? and that’s all I remember him say-
ing to me. When I asked him not to take out any money for the
match, he said you ought not to buy any watch, for that big fat wife
of mine wants me to buy her an automobile, but he wouldn't do its
I never did see his wife. On Tuesday morning after the holiday on
Saturday, before Mr. Frank got in jail, he eome up the aisle where
I was sweeping and held his head over to me and whispered to me
to be a good boy and that was all he said to me.

STATEMENT OF CONLEY, MAY 28, 1913.

I make this statement, my second statement, in regard to the mun
der of Mary Phagan, I'rasde the statement that 1 went to the peneil
factory on Friday, April 25, 1013, and went to Frank’s office at
four minutes to 1, which is a mistake. I made this statement in
order that I might uot be accused of knowing anything of this mur-
der, for I thought that if I put myself there on Saturday, they might
aecuse mo of having a band in it; I now make my second and last
statement, freely and voluntarily, after thinking over the situation,

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