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248 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

laughed and said, “Good iuck has done strnck me,” and I bought a
ten-cent double-header and then went back to Peters Street, and
hadn’t none of the boys got there that I ran with and I walks up
there to the moving picture show and looked at the pictures, I got
home about half-past 2 o’clock, and I took the bueket and went and
.got fifteen cents’ worth of beer in it and come back home and sent
the little girl to get a dime’s worth of stove wood and « nickel’s
worth of pan sansage, and I eat half the pan sausage up raw, and L
give my old lady $3.50, and the other litile change I kept it, and I
layed down across the bed and didn’t leave home no more until 12
o’clock Sunday, in the day time. Next morning I got to the factory
four or five minutes after 7 o'clock, and when I got there went up-
stairs to the dressing room, and in comes Gordon Bailey, and Joo
Williams, and Mr. Wade Campbell, the lead inapector, and he says,
“Wasn't it bad about that girl being killed,” and we asked him,
“which girl,” and it seemed like he said “Mary Puckett,” and we
asked him whereabouts, and he said, “in the basement,” and we
asked him “if it was a white or colored girl,” and he said, “it was
a white girl,” and we asked him how she got Killed, and he said he
didn’t know, and I stayed down the aisle until about 9 o'clock, and
went to the fourth floor, and then I said I would go to the basement
and see who that was that got killed; when I got there there was
auch 8 crowd of white people there I couldn’t go back there. Tnee-
day morning I got through with my work and went down stairs
about helf-past 9, and there was sveb a crowd down there I didn’t
stay long, About half-past 10 Mr. Frank came back up the aisle and
leaned over to me and said, “Jim, be a good boy,” and I said, “Yea,
sit, I am, Mr. Frank,” and when I heard from Mr. Frank again be
twas arrested. I come to work Wednesday morning, and works all
that day, and Thursday morning I come to work, and went down-
stairs, and the fireman and another colored fellow was down there,
and T asked the fireman where it was that they say the young lady
got killed at, and he told me right around there, and I took a little
piece of paper and went around there to see if I conld see, but I
eowlda’'t see where anybody bad been laying at, and J went upstairs,
and stayed there until 12, and the detectives were giving us all sub-
poenas and got my subpoena and started to cleaning up at half-past
12, and got through cleaning at half-past 1. I went down to wash
my shirt so I could have a clean one to wear to court, for I had been
wearing this one for three weeks. Some of them saw me back there
washing my shirt and called up the detectives, and when the detec-
tives come ap there I had done put on my shirt, and they asked me
where was the shirt I was washing, and I told them this bere was
the shirt. They brought me down here and found there ‘was no
blood on the shirt, and give me my shirt back, and that’s all I know.

CONLEY’S STATEMENT MAY 29, 1913.

On Saturday, April 26, 1913, when I come back to the pencil fac-
tory with Mr. Frank, I waited for him downstairs like he told me,

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