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LEO M. FRANK, 186

On the trial Conley testified that he was asked by Frank to
come to the factory on Saturday and watch for him as he had
previously done, which he explained meant that Frank ex-
pected to meet some woman and when Frank stamped his foot
Conley was to lock the door leading into the factory, and
‘when he whistled he was to open it. He said he occupied a
dark place at the side of the elevator behind some boxes,
where he would be invisible. He swore he saw several people,
including male and female employees, go up the steps to the
seeond floor where Frank's office was located; that Mary
Phegan went up, that he heard in a few minutes footsteps
going beck to the metal room; thet he heard a seream and
then he dozed off. In a few minutes Frank stamped and he
locked the door, and then Frank whistled, when he unlocked
the door and went up the steps. Frank was shivering and
trembling and told Conley, ‘‘I wanted to be with the little
girl and she refused me and I struck her, and I guess I struck
her too hard, and sho fell and hit her head against something,
and I don’t know how bad she got hurt. Of course you
know I ain’t built like other men.’’ Conley said that he
found Mary Phagan in the metal room, some 200 fect from
the office, with a cloth tied about her neck and under the
head, as though to eatch blood, although there was uo blood
at the place. Frank told him to get a piece of cloth and put
the body in it, and Conley got a piece of striped bed-tick and
tied the body in it and called on Frank for assistance in car-
rying it. Frank went to his office and got a key and unlocked
the switchboard in order to operate the elevator to the base-
ment, where Conley rolled the body off the cloth. They went
back into Frank’s private office and just at that time Frank
ssid: ‘‘My God, here is Emma Clark and Corintha Hall,”
and Frank then put Conley into the wardrobe. After they
left, Frank let Conley out and asked Conley if he could write,
to which Conley said ‘‘yes”’, Frank then dictated the letters
just referred to and then took out of his desk a roll of green-
backs and said, ‘‘Here is $200,’’ but after a while requested
the money back and got it.’

1 Post, p, 202.

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