00:00Conley's Confession is Given in Full, Atlanta Journal.
00:04Friday, May 30th, 1913.
00:06On Saturday, April 26th, 1913, when I came back to the pencil factory with Mr. Frank,
00:12I waited for him downstairs like he told me, and when he whistled for me, I went upstairs
00:16and he asked me if I wanted to make some money right quick, and I told him, yes, sir, and
00:20he told me that he had picked up a girl back there and had let her fall, and that her
00:23head
00:24hit against something he didn't know what it was, and for me to move her, and I hollered
00:28and told him the girl was dead.
00:30And he told me to pick her up and bring her to the elevator, and I told him I didn't
00:34have nothing to pick her up with, and he told me to go and look by the cotton box there
00:38and
00:38get a piece of cloth, and I got a big, wide piece of cloth and come back there to the
00:41men's
00:42toilet where she was and tied her, and I'd taken her and brought her up there to a little
00:46dressing room, carrying her on my right shoulder, and she got too heavy for me, and she slipped
00:52off my shoulder and fell on the floor right there at the dressing room, and I hollered
00:56for Mr. Frank to come there and help me, that she was too heavy for me, and Mr. Frank
01:00come down there and told me to pick her up, damn fool, and he run down there to me, and
01:05he was excited, and he picked her up by the feet.
01:07Her feet and head were sticking out of the cloth, and by him being so nervous he let her
01:12feet fall, and then he brought her up to the elevator, Mr. Frank carrying her by the feet,
01:17and me by the shoulder, and we brought her to the elevator, and then Mr. Frank says, wait,
01:21let me get the key, and he went into the office and come back and unlocked the elevator door
01:26and started the elevator down.
01:28Frank ran the elevator.
01:29Mr. Frank turned it on himself, and we went on down to the basement, and Mr. Frank helped
01:34me take it off the elevator, and he told me to take it back there to the sawdust pile,
01:37and I picked it up and put it on my shoulder again, and Mr. Frank, he went up the ladder
01:42and
01:42watched the trap door to see if anybody was coming, and I'd taken her back there and taken
01:47the cloth from around her and taken her hat and shoes, which I picked up upstairs right
01:51where her body was lying, and brought them down and untied the cloth and brought them
01:55back and throwed them on the trash pile in front of the furnace, and Mr. Frank was standing
01:59at the trap door.
02:01He didn't tell me where to put the thing.
02:03I laid her body down with her head toward the elevator, lying on her stomach, and the
02:07left side of her face was on the ground, the right side of her body was up, and both arms
02:12were laying down with her body by the side of her body.
02:16Mr. Frank joined me back of the elevator, and he stepped on the elevator when it got to where
02:20he was, and he said, Gee, that was a tiresome job, and I told him his job was not as
02:26tiresome
02:26as mine was, because I had to tote it all the way from where she was lying to the dressing
02:31room and in the basement from the elevator to where I left her, got in the wardrobe.
02:35Then Mr. Frank hops off the elevator before it gets even with the second floor, and he
02:40makes a stumble, and he hits the floor and catches with both hands, and he went around
02:44to the sink to wash his hands, and I went and cut off the motor, and I stood and waited
02:48for Mr. Frank to come from around there washing his hands, and then we went on into the office,
02:53and Mr. Frank, he couldn't hardly keep still.
02:55He was all the time moving about from one office to the other.
02:59Then he come back into the stenographer's office, and come back and told me, Here come Emma Clark
03:04and Corinthia Hall.
03:05I understood him to say, and he come back and told me to come here, and he opened the
03:08wardrobe and told me to get in there, and I was so slow about going, he told me to hurry
03:13up, dammit, and Mr. Frank, whoever that was, come into the office.
03:16They didn't stay so very long till Mr. Frank had gone about seven or eight minutes, and
03:20I was still in the wardrobe, and he never had come to let me out, and Mr. Frank come
03:24back, and I said, Goodness alive, you kept me in there a mighty long time, and he said,
03:29Yes, I see I did.
03:30You are sweated.
03:32And then me and Mr. Frank sat down in a chair.
03:34Mr. Frank then took out a cigarette, and he gave me the box and asked me, Did I want
03:38to smoke, and I told him, Yes, sir, and I'd taken the box and taken out a cigarette, and
03:42he handed me a box of matches, and I handed him the cigarette box, and he told me that
03:46was all right, I could keep that, and I told him he had some money in it, and he told
03:50me
03:50that was all right, I could keep that.
03:52Mr. Frank then asked me to write a few lines on that paper, a white scratch pad he had
03:57there, and he told me what to put on there, and I asked him what he was going to do
04:01with
04:01it, and he told me to just go ahead and write, and then after I got through writing,
04:06Mr. Frank looked at it and said it was all right, and Mr. Frank looked up at the top
04:10of the house and said, Why should I hang?
04:12I have wealthy people in Brooklyn, and I asked him what about me, and he told me that was
04:17all right about me, for me to keep my mouth shut, and he would make everything all right,
04:20handed him roll of bills, and then I asked him where was the money he said he was going
04:24to give me, and Mr. Frank said, Here is dollar two hundred, and he handed me a big roll of
04:29greenback money, and I didn't count it.
04:31I stood there a little while, looking at it in my hand, and I told Mr. Frank not to take
04:35out another dollar for that watchman I owed, and he said he wouldn't, and the rest is just
04:39like I told it before.
04:40The reason I have not told this before is I thought Mr. Frank would get out and help
04:44me out, but it seems that he is not going to get out, and I have decided to tell the
04:48whole truth about the matter.
04:49When I was looking at the money in my hand, Mr. Frank said, Let me have that, and I will
04:53make it all right with you Monday, if I live and nothing happens.
04:57And he took the money back, and I asked him if that was the way he'd done, and he said
05:01he would give it back Monday, sworn to and subscribed before me the 29th day of May, 1913, G.C.,
05:08February, Notary Public, Fulton County, Georgia.
