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226 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

office boy; Mrs. Arthur White wanted to see her husband, I told
Alonzo Mann, the office boy, to call up Mr. Schiff, and find out when
he was coming down, The answer was that Mr, Schiff would be
right down, About this time Mrs. Emma Clarke Freeman and Miss
Corinthia Hall, two of the girls who worked on the fourth floor,
eame in, and asked permission to go upstairs and get Mra, Free-
wan’s coat, which I readily gave, and I told them at the same time
to tell Arthur White that his wife was downstairs. A short time
after, two gentlemen came in, one of them a Mr. Graham, and the
other the father of a boy by the name of Earle Burdette; these two
boys had gotten into seme sort of trouble during the noon recess
the day hefore, and were taken down to police headquarters, and
of course didn’t get their envelopes the night before, and I gave
the required pay envelopes to the two fathers, and chatted with them
at some length im reference to the trouble their boys had gotten into
the day previous, Juat before they left the office, Mrs, Emma
Freeman and Miss Corinthia Hall came into my offices and asked
permission to use the telephone. Miss Clark and Mies Halt left
the office, as near ag may be, at a quarter to 12, and went out, and
T atarted to work reading over the lettere and signing the mail and
transacting orders.

There were in the building then Arthur White and Harry
Denham and Arthur White's wife on the top floor. From 10 to 15
minutes after Miss Hall left my office, this little girl, whom I after-
wards found to be Mary Phagan, entered my office and asked for
her pay envelope, I asked for her number and she told me; I went
to the cash box and took her envelope out and handed it to her,
identifying the envelope by the number. She left my office and
apparently had gotten as far as the door from my office leading to
the outer office, when she evidently stopped and asked me if the
metal had arrived, and I told her no. She continned on ber wa’
out, and I heard the sound of her footsteps as she went away. It
‘was a fow moments after she asked me this question that I had an
impression of a female voice saying something; I don’t know which
way it came from; just passed away and I had that impression.
This little girl evidently worked in the metal department by
her question and had been laid off owing to the fact that some metal
that had been ordered had not arrived at the factory; henee, her ques-
tion. I only recognized this little girl from having seen her around
the plant and did not know her name, simply identifying ber en-
velope from her having called her number to me.

She had left the plant hardly five minutes when Lemmie Quinn,
the foreman of the plant, came in and told me that I could not
keep him away from the factory, even though it was holiday; at
which I smiled and kept on working. He asked me if Mr. Schiff
had eome down and I told him he had not and he tumed around
and left. I continned work until I finished this work and these
requisitions and I looked at my watch and noticed that it was a
quarter to 1. I called my home up on the telephone, for I knew
that my wife and my mother-in-law were going to & matines and I

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