00:00Frank will take stand at inquest, Atlanta Constitution, Thursday, May 8, 1913.
00:05Mrs. Maddie White tells detectives that on afternoon of killing she saw Negro in factory.
00:11Leo M. Frank will probably be the first witness to take the stand in the Mary Fagan murder inquest
00:16to be resumed this morning at 9.30 o'clock in police headquarters.
00:20He will be examined thoroughly along lines which neither the chief of detectives,
00:24coroner, nor solicitor general will disclose.
00:27He was resting comfortably at midnight, and according to reports from the tower in which
00:31he is imprisoned, he is in fit condition to undergo the ordeal.
00:35In the first interrogation to which he was subjected, he was on the stand for a trifle
00:40more than six hours.
00:41It is not thought that the examination today will last that long.
00:45Headquarters was given a surprise yesterday afternoon, with the report brought back by
00:49detectives Rosser and Hazlitt, who were sent early in the afternoon to interview Mrs. Maddie White,
00:55wife of Arthur White, the mechanic who was in the pencil factory during the time Mary
00:59Fagan entered the building to draw her pay envelope, saw a Negro in factory.
01:04Mrs. White stated that she went to the plant to see her husband shortly before one o'clock,
01:08and that as she came downstairs a few minutes later she noticed a stalwart black Negro,
01:13sitting on a box on the first floor only a few feet from the elevator.
01:17He was seated in the shadow of the staircase and was almost out of view.
01:21This is the first time she has told of seeing the Negro.
01:24It also is the first time it has been revealed that a Negro was in the building between the
01:29hours of twelve noon and four o'clock, the fatal afternoon.
01:33Mrs. White told the sleuths that she did not recollect the incident at first.
01:38Her statement was written and placed on record at headquarters.
01:41She will be summoned to the inquest.
01:43Her residence is at 58 Bonnie Bray Avenue, where she has resided several years.
01:48The Negro was a big man, she said to Hazlitt and Rosser, and was apparently too well-dressed
01:54to be a workman.
01:55He was sitting on a box in the shadows of the stairway and gazing intently at the elevator
02:00shafts.
02:01I thought nothing of his presence and hurried on out of the building.
02:05I don't know whether or not I will be able to identify him.
02:07I possibly could, though.
02:09Searching for Greek.
02:10Detectives are searching for a young Greek who is supposed to have disappeared the day
02:14the body was discovered.
02:15He was an attach of the CAF adjoining the pencil factory, a popular establishment with girl
02:21employees of the plant, at which many of whom ate their lunches.
02:24Chief Lanford stated that when city detectives, following clues they had obtained from girls
02:29of the factory, sought to interview him, they found him missing.
02:33Later, it was reported that he was in Anniston, Alla, in which city Pinkerton men are making
02:38a search.
02:39He was employed as a waiter at the CAF, and had been in America for a good many years.
02:43The officers will not give his name.
02:45The theory on which suspicion is directed toward the Greek is that the girl was murdered on
02:50the outside of the factory building, probably in the alleyway facing Madison Avenue, and
02:56that her body was carried into the basement through the rear door which was broken open.
03:00The bursting of the door would have been an easy matter as the staple could have been
03:04taken out, the detectives say, with the fingers.
03:07It is advanced, too, that the slayer was in love with his victim, and that the deed was
03:11inspired by insane jealousy.
03:14Added energy was injected into the search for the missing Greek at dusk Wednesday, when
03:19W.T. Hunter, a youth living at 250 Grant Street, came to police headquarters and told Chief
03:25Lanford a story of a scene he had witnessed at 3.30 o'clock on the Sunday morning the body
03:29was found.
03:30Hunter told of the appearance of three Greeks in a club at Broad and Hunter Streets at
03:348.30 o'clock the Sunday morning of the discovery.
03:37One of the trio, he said, carried a mysterious package under his arm, obviously containing
03:42clothing.
03:43All three, upon entering the club, went into the washroom where they cleaned their faces
03:47and hands.
03:48Detectives have been detailed to look for the three Greeks answering Hunter's descriptions.
03:53Dorsey talks with Lee.
03:55Solicitor General Dorsey held a lengthy interview with Newt Lee in the Tower Wednesday afternoon.
04:00It was the first opportunity he had gained to talk with the suspect.
04:03He would not divulge the result nor tell of the lines along which the Negro was quizzed.
04:09Immediately after leaving the jail, Mr. Dorsey hurried away in an automobile.
04:13The Negro watchman, Chief Lanford says, will also go on the stand today.
04:18It will be his second examination.
04:20He will be questioned more closely regarding his private interview held with him by Frank
04:24Tuesday, a week ago, when both were allowed to talk in the privacy of the Negro's cell.
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