00:00Stains of blood on shirt fresh, says Dr. Smith. Atlanta Constitution, Thursday, May 8, 1913.
00:06City bacteriologist makes his report after examination of garment of Negro, which was
00:11found in trash barrel. Lee's cellmate may testify at inquest witness spent 24 hours in same cell
00:17with Fagan prisoner body of girl exhumed for second time. Days developments in Fagan mystery.
00:22Dr. Claude Smith, city bacteriologist, completes examination of Negro's bloodstained shirt
00:28and finds that the bloodstains are new. Body of Mary Fagan was exhumed shortly after noon on
00:33Wednesday for the purpose of making a second examination. Mrs. Maddie Smith, wife of one of
00:38the mechanics who were last men to leave pencil factory, tells detectives that shortly before
00:43one o'clock, when she left the building, she saw a strange Negro near elevator. Bill Bailey, Negro
00:49convict who was placed in cell with Newt Lee for 24 hours, now at liberty, and will probably be
00:55called upon at inquest today to testify. Leo Frank will be placed upon the stand again today at 9.30
01:01o'clock, when the coroner's inquest is resumed. Solicitor General Hugh Dorsey holds a long conference
01:07in cell with Newt Lee, but declines to tell what passed. Detectives announce they are searching for
01:12a Greek, who is now believed to be in Alabama. Chief Lanford declares that somebody is blocking
01:18Fagan investigation, silencing witnesses, and planting evidence. The report of Dr. Claude A.
01:24Smith's analysis of the bloodstains on the shirt found in the home of Newt Lee, who is held in
01:30connection with the Mary Fagan murder, has been submitted to the detective department. It reveals
01:35that the stains were caused by human blood, not more than a month old. The report is brief. The
01:41examination was thorough, but no comparison was made with the stains on the garment and with other
01:46stains. The only specimen possessed by Dr. Smith beside the shirt were small shavings, flecked with
01:52blood, which were chipped from the flooring at the spot near the machine, where the girl is supposed
01:58to have received her death blow. Comparison with the stains on the chip were impossible because of
02:03the stain's dimness. Dr. Smith said to a reporter for the Constitution that he had not been given the
02:08bloody garments which Mary Fagan wore to use for the purpose of comparisons. The shirt has been
02:14returned to police headquarters. It will be used in the inquest today. When the Negro was confronted
02:19with the tell-tale garment Tuesday a week ago, he admitted to its ownership, but said he could not
02:24account for the blood spots. He had not worn it, he declared, for two years. He said it was not
02:30bloody
02:30when he discarded it in 1911. Lee said he knew no manner in which the stains could have been made,
02:36shirt found in trash barrel. The shirt was found by Detective Scott and Black in the bottom of a barrel
02:42filled with trash, which stood in the back yard of Lee's home on Henry Street. The sleuths never
02:48would tell the clue which led them to search for it. Dr. Smith states that his inspection revealed
02:53the fact that the garment was not being worn when the stains were made. It had been used to mop
02:58up
02:58the blood, he said, and could not possibly have been worn at the time. He could not determine whether
03:03or not the blood was that of a white person or a Negro. He will probably be summoned to testify
03:09at the
03:09inquest. Mary Fagan's body was exhumed shortly after noon Wednesday. Profound secrecy surrounds
03:15the action, and it probably will not be known until the inquest today why the disinterment was
03:19made. Dr. H. F. Harris of the State Board of Health was the only official at the gravesite in
03:24the Marietta Cemetery when the corpse was unearthed. Body exhumed for last time. After an examination
03:31lasting two hours, the body was again hurled, and according to a responsible report, some organ removed
03:37and brought by Dr. Harris to Atlanta. When the body was replaced, it was consigned forever to its last
03:42resting place. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Coleman, the dead girl's parents, objected so strenuously to
03:48further exhumations that it will never be removed again. Until late at night, Dr. Harris labored in
03:53his laboratory in the State Capitol over the examination. He was reached by a reporter shortly
03:58after sixteen o'clock.
03:59I am pledged to secrecy, he said. It was under the condition that I make public nothing whatever
04:05pertaining to the examination that I was selected for the work. I cannot disclose the object of the
04:11analysis or its nature until allowed to do so by Solicitor Dorsey. Solicitor Dorsey said about nine
04:17thirty o'clock that he was not prepared to talk of the exhumation. He admitted, however, requesting
04:22Coroner Donahue and Dr. Harris to remove the body and make certain examinations which he expected to
04:28result in new and valuable evidence. Reliable reports are to the effect that one motive of
04:33the disinterment was for the purpose of obtaining some hair from the victim's head with which to
04:38compare the stands found on the lathing machine in the pencil factory. Another rumor is that a chart
04:43was made of the cuts and bruises on the face and body and that photographic plates were made of the
04:48fingerprints on the throat. No one outside the Solicitor's staff, Dr. Hurt, Dr. Harris, and Coroner
04:54Dunhu are aware of the motive for the exhumation. Even Chief Lanford and the Pinkerton men expressed
04:59their lack of knowledge. They have not been taken into the confidence of the officials supervising
05:04the mysterious move. His work hampered, says Lanford. Accusing mysterious forces of blocking
05:10his detectives, Chief Lanford said Wednesday that the work of investigation is being seriously hampered.
05:16In many instances, he declared, his men had been refused evidence which they sought, and had
05:21encountered a number of prospective witnesses, who refused to divulge the information it was believed
05:26they could give. I cannot account for the situation, he told a reporter for the Constitution. We are
05:32being sorely handicapped. Not only are we being opposed, but, as has been shown many times, evidence
05:38is being planted. We have discovered numerous signs of plants in the past few days, and are not surprised
05:43at any frame-up. The Chief also hinted that arrests would probably result from the discoveries of
05:48planted evidence. A squad of men have been detailed to run down clues pointing to guilty persons.
05:54They are finding their task a baffling one. Although he would say but little, Chief Beavers also hinted of
05:59efforts he had met to frustrate the work of the detective department. It seems that we are being opposed,
06:05he said. Lee's cellmate may testify. Imprisoned for twenty-four hours in the same cell with Newt Lee, the night
06:12watchman suspect in the Mary Fagan mystery, Bill Bailey, an ex-convict, will probably be called to the stand in
06:18the
06:18coroner's inquest this morning to testify to certain admissions he is believed to have got from the
06:23Negro. Bailey is a Negro youth, apparently twenty years old. He served eight years in the Fulton chain
06:29gang on a charge of shooting, during which time he was bunkmate of the suspected watchman. Lee was
06:34serving sentence at that time on a charge of gambling. The Negroes were intimate friends. Bailey is working
06:39with Jay Mayo. Several days ago, Mr. Mayo brought him to police headquarters and conferred with Chief
06:44Lanford on a plan to imprison the two ex-convicts. Monday night, Bailey was sent to the tower and
06:50locked in Lee's cell. He was released twenty-four hours later. Chief Lanford nor any of his detectives
06:55will disclose the result of the scheme, but it is freely rumored around headquarters that the Bailey
07:00Negro succeeded in obtaining valuable evidence, which he is expected to deliver at the inquest.
07:05Did Negro write notes? After minute examination of the mysterious notes found beside the body on the
07:11morning of the discovery, A. M. Richardson, Inspector of Service with the Adams and Southern Express
07:17Companies, told a reporter for the Constitution yesterday morning that he was fully convinced
07:21that the Negro night-watchman did not write them. They were written by a white man, he said,
07:27and an educated man at that. The letters are formed too expertly and adhere too closely to the ruling of
07:32the paper on which they were written. In my opinion, they were written by the murderer,
07:36a shrewd man, with intention of reflecting guilt upon an illiterate Negro. Mr. Richardson has made
07:42a lifetime study of handwriting. He is thoroughly acquainted with detective methods and operations,
07:48and has taken decided interest in the Fagan mystery. Most of his investigation in the case
07:53has been concentrated upon the notes. He hopes to trace their origin by means of comparing suspected
07:58script under strong microscopic examination. New Witnesses Summoned
08:02Another new witness summoned yesterday for the inquest this morning was Miss Grace Hicks
08:07of 100 McDonough Road, an intimate acquaintance of the murdered girl, and the woman who identified
08:13the body before it had been removed from the cellar of the pencil factory. The sleuths will not disclose
08:19the character of the testimony she will be expected to render. She stated to reporters, however,
08:24that she held out little evidence, and that the last time she saw the girl of tragedy alive
08:29was on the Monday preceding her death, when she left the pencil plant.
08:34Miss Hicks was quizzed for an hour Wednesday morning in the office of Chief Lanford.
08:38She operated a tipping machine adjoining the machine operated by the Fagan girl.
08:43She came at six o'clock Sunday morning in answer to summons to the factory building.
08:47The moment the tragic face of the slain girl was revealed in the dim, flickering light of the
08:52watchman's lantern, she exclaimed,
08:54That's Mary Fagan, oh my God, falling into a swoon in the arms of her brother-in-law, Boots Rogers.
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