00:00Officials plan to exhume body of victim today. Atlanta Constitution Wednesday, May 7, 1913.
00:06For second time in less than a week. Physicians to make examination at the graveside of Mary
00:11Fagan. Refuse to tell why action will be taken. Search for fingerprints and new wounds is reported.
00:17Reason inquest resumed Thursday. Strange man sought. Mary Fagan's body will be exhumed today
00:23for the second time. Bertillion and medical experts will make examinations for fingerprints
00:27and wounds which may have been overlooked before. Coroner Donhoo and Dr. H.F. Harris of the State
00:33Board of Health will be in charge. Between 9 and 10 o'clock is the scheduled time. The coroner and
00:39Dr. Harris and others of their staffs will leave at daybreak this morning in automobiles. They are
00:44expected to return about noon. The examination will be at the graveside. This action is taken at the
00:50request of Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey. Neither he nor Dr. Harris would talk when questioned by a
00:55Constitution reporter last night. Although they admitted that a second exhumation was in view,
01:00they would not divulge their reason. Dr. Harris is non-committal. I am not in a position to talk,
01:06said Dr. Harris. Under other circumstances, I would be glad to give any information at my command.
01:11In this case, though, I have been urged to secrecy and cannot violate my trust. The Solicitor said,
01:18I cannot talk. The body will be exhumed, it is true, at my request. To reveal further plans would be
01:23ruinous. It was learned by the Constitution, however, that the body was to be exhumed for an
01:28examination for possible fingerprints and wounds. The information came from responsible source.
01:34It also is rumored that a Bertillion expert summoned by authorities arrived in Atlanta last
01:39night and will inspect the body for fingerprints. In case such evidence is revealed, photographs will
01:45be made and placed in hands of the Solicitor General. The examination for wounds will be made by Dr.
01:50Harris. When he was asked if his analysis of the dead girl's stomach had been finished, he said,
01:56Examination not complete. The examination has not been completed. It is well underway, however,
02:01and within a few days I will be prepared to submit the result before the coroner's jury.
02:06He was asked if he could determine at this stage of the examination whether or not there were traces
02:11of drugs or dope. He answered, I am not prepared to talk on that subject. I will be unable to
02:16make a
02:17statement until I am called before the coroner's inquest. The body was first exhumed last Sunday
02:22night under supervision of Dr. Harris, Coroner Don Hu, and County Physician John W. Hurt. The
02:28stomach was removed and placed in the laboratory of Dr. Harris, who is analyzing it for traces of
02:33drugs or poison. It came as a surprise. It was not made known until 2.50 o'clock Monday afternoon
02:39when
02:39the coroner and Dr. Hurt appeared at the inquest held at police headquarters. It was intended to keep the
02:44second exhumation a secret, in accordance with plans of the solicitor. Seek strange man.
02:50Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey is striving to learn the identity of the strange man who
02:54participated in a sensational scene at the terminal station last Saturday week with a girl believed to
03:00have been Mary Fagan. It was learned Tuesday that this man's suitcase, which was checked overnight in
03:06the parcel check room, was tagged with a label bearing the lettering National Pencil Company,
03:11Atlanta. Also, it was disclosed that, following the scene created by him and the girl, he cancelled
03:17his Pullman ticket for Saturday night, returning Sunday afternoon to engage a berth for that night.
03:23He left the station Saturday in company with the girl. Girl makes scene. As he has already been
03:29revealed, a youthful, well-dressed man wearing a straw hat and carrying a suitcase walked hurriedly from
03:34the waiting room of the terminal Saturday afternoon of the 26th, and made his way along the runway leading
03:40to the track stairways. As he reached the gateway of tracks number five and six, a pretty girl,
03:46about fourteen years old, clad in summer frock and wearing a dark blue straw hat, rushed from the
03:51waiting room and accosted him. She seemed angry. He dropped his case and led her away from the crowd,
03:57apparently to have a talk with her. The attention of a gateman, who had noticed the arrival of both
04:02the man and girl, was again attracted to them by loud exclamations from the girl. She was furious and
04:08tearful, while he was obviously trying to explain something. You want to leave me, you want to
04:13leave, she was heard to wail. I won't let you, you are doing wrong, you are, you know you are.
04:18Scene attracts attention. The scene attracted a considerable crowd. The man drew himself away,
04:24picked up his suitcase, and catching the tearful girl by the arm, moved with her to the window of
04:29the parcel checkroom. There he deposited the case. The operator of the checkroom states that he noticed
04:35the name of the pencil firm on a tag attached to the baggage, but thought nothing of it until
04:40several days later, when he read of the Fagan tragedy. The man and girl walked into the waiting
04:45room, where he went to the ticket window and cancelled the Pullman ticket he had obtained for
04:50a trip that afternoon. The agent could not recollect his destination. Immediately he and his companion
04:56left the station, and were last noticed as they walked across the plaza toward Mitchell Street.
05:01Sunday afternoon he returned alone to the terminal and obtained a Pullman berth for a journey that
05:06night. The ticket agent, it is said, will be able to identify him in the event he is located,
05:11and so will the parcel checkroom man. The description of the girl, as given by the gate men and man
05:17who
05:17checked the stranger's suitcase, fit aptly with that of the murdered girl. Neither saw her body,
05:23however, as it had been buried before news of the pencil plant tragedy refreshed their memory of the
05:28station incident. Coroner's inquest Thursday. A number of attaches to the pencil concern will
05:34probably be examined in the effort to learn the identity of the strange man at the terminal
05:38when the coroner's jury meets Thursday. The pencil company tag on the suitcase leads the solicitor and
05:44his staff to believe he was connected in some capacity with the plant. Dorsey makes denial.
05:49Solicitor General Hugh Dorsey declared yesterday that in speaking with Lemmy Quinn,
05:53foreman of the National Pencil Factory, about the Fagan murder case, that he had not asked Quinn if
05:59counsel had bribed him for his testimony. It is the last thing that would come into my mind,
06:04said the solicitor. I did ask Quinn about whom he had been talking with and asked him if anybody
06:09was paying him for his testimony, but I certainly did not mention counsel or anyone else in particular
06:14in regard to the case.
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