280 Sheet – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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248 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

I laughed and said, "Good luck has done struck me," and I bought a ten-cent double-header. Then I went back to Peters Street, but none of the boys I ran with were there. I walked up to the moving picture show and looked at the pictures. I got home about half-past 2 o'clock, took the bucket, and went to get fifteen cents' worth of beer. I came back home and sent the little girl to get a dime's worth of stove wood and a nickel's worth of pan sausage. I ate half the pan sausage raw, gave my old lady $3.50, and kept the other little change. I lay down across the bed and didn't leave home again until 12 o'clock Sunday, in the daytime.

The next morning, I got to the factory four or five minutes after 7 o'clock. When I got there, I went upstairs to the dressing room. Gordon Bailey, Joe Williams, and Mr. Wade Campbell, the lead inspector, came in. Mr. Campbell said, "Wasn't it bad about that girl being killed?" We asked him, "Which girl?" It seemed like he said, "Mary Puckett." We asked him whereabouts, and he said, "in the basement." We asked him if it was a white or colored girl, and he said, "It was a white girl." We asked him how she got killed, and he said he didn't know. I stayed down the aisle until about 9 o'clock and then went to the fourth floor. I said I would go to the basement and see who that was that got killed. When I got there, there was such a crowd of white people that I couldn't go back there.

Tuesday morning, I got through with my work and went downstairs about half-past 9. There was such a crowd down there that 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." I said, "Yes, sir, I am, Mr. Frank." When I heard from Mr. Frank again, he was arrested. I came to work Wednesday morning and worked all that day. Thursday morning, I came to work and went downstairs. The fireman and another colored fellow were down there. I asked the fireman where it was that they said the young lady got killed at, and he told me right around there. I took a little piece of paper and went around there to see if I could see, but I couldn't see where anybody had been laying at. I went upstairs and stayed there until 12. The detectives were giving us all subpoenas. I got my subpoena and started 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. When the detectives came up there, I had already put on my shirt. They asked me where the shirt I was washing was, and I told them this here was the shirt. They brought me down here and found there was no blood on the shirt, and gave me my shirt back. That's all I know.

CONLEY'S STATEMENT MAY 29, 1913.

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

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