00:00Solicitor will fix Frank trial for June 30th, he says. The Atlanta Journal, Monday, June 23rd,
00:061913. Unless showing is made in open court why the case should be deferred, trial will proceed.
00:11Monteen Stover again figures in the case. Detectives question her with view to attacking
00:16theory that girl was slain on the first floor. Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey, it was definitely
00:22learned Monday, will set the case of the state against Leo M. Frank, charged with the murder of
00:27Mary Fagan, for June 30th, and the Solicitor will insist that a legal showing be made by the defense
00:34before a postponement is allowed. During the day, Monday or early on Tuesday morning, the court
00:40calendar for the week of June 30th will be made up, and then a small army of bailiffs and deputies
00:46will
00:46commence to summon talesmen. Owing to the unusual interest in the case, it is probable that more
00:52than 150 talesmen will be summoned to the court in order that 12 jurors to try Frank may be picked
00:57from them, court won't interfere. It is understood that the court of its own volition will not
01:03interfere in the matter, and if a postponement of the case is secured, it will be on a legal showing
01:08made in open court next Monday by the attorneys who represent the accused man. The illness of one
01:14of counsel, or the absence from the city of a material witness, or the engagement of counsel in
01:19another court, or any one of several other perfectly good excuses constitute legal grounds for the
01:25postponement of case. So the uncompromising attitude of the state by no means makes the trial of the
01:30case on June 30th a certainty. Luther Z. Rosser and Ruben R. Arnold, the able attorneys who represent
01:36Frank, will give no intimation of their attitude towards entering into the case next Monday.
01:41The published rumor that John W. Moore, another noted Atlanta lawyer, would assist attorneys Arnold
01:47and Rosser and Herbert Haas in the case is without foundation, according to Mr. Moore and the other
01:52attorneys connected with the case. Witness questioned. What is believed by the prosecution
01:57of Leo M. Frank to be a refutation of the defense's theory that Mary Fagan was slain at the foot
02:03of the
02:03stairs on the first floor of the pencil factory, occurred at police headquarters Sunday afternoon,
02:08when Jim Conley, the Negro, identified Monteen Stover, aged 14, 17 South Forsyth Street, as the girl in the
02:16raincoat and easy walkers who went to the office on the second floor at 12 o'clock and came down
02:22the
02:23stairs five or ten minutes later and left the building. The little Stover girl was taken before
02:28Conley in the detective's room Sunday and positively identified by the Negro, according to the detectives
02:34who were present, Chief Lanford and Detectives Campbell and Starnes. Conley declared that she was the girl
02:40he watched while he was hid at the foot of the stairs. The Stover girl entered the building,
02:44went up the stairs to the office, stayed there some five or ten minutes, and then came down and
02:50went out. J.C. Hines, who went to headquarters with Walter Sutterth and Mr. Edmondson, pointed out
02:56Monteen Stover as the girl whom he saw enter the building. Mr. Hines, who was present at the alleged
03:01identification, said Monday that Miss Stover admitted that she went to the factory at that time to draw
03:06her pay, went up the stairs to the second floor and found the office open. She said that she waited
03:11around five or ten minutes and noticed the clock when she went into the office. It was 12.05, she
03:16said. As no one seemed to be around, she asserted, she left the place sometime between 12.10 and 12
03:22.15
03:22o'clock to set case for June 30th. The prosecution believes that this will kill the defense's theory
03:28that Mary Fagan was killed at the foot of the, continued on last page, Colonel Six. Solicitor will fix
03:34Frank trial for June 30th, he says, continued from page one. Stairs, assuming that the Fagan girl
03:41undoubtedly preceded Miss Stover into the factory. Miss Stover would have sent the body, they say,
03:46if Mary Fagan had been killed at the foot of the stairs. Frank, at the coroner's inquest, asserted
03:52that he paid Mary Fagan at about 12.10 or 12.15 o'clock, and that he himself did not
03:58leave the
03:58building until about one o'clock. Little girl talks. Monteen Stover admitted Monday morning that she
04:05has gone to police headquarters Sunday with her stepfather H. W. Edmondson, Walter Sutterth,
04:10and J.C. Hines to see if Conley could identify her. That the police attach significance to the
04:15identification is evidenced by the frequent efforts made by detectives to get her to headquarters.
04:20They wanted me to go down there Friday, said the girl Monday, but Mama didn't want me to.
04:25Then Saturday they phoned, but Mama said no. Papa said I better go Sunday afternoon,
04:29so he took me down to the station himself. I wore the raincoat and hat I wore the day I
04:34went to the
04:34factory, but I didn't wear the tennis shoes I had on that day, and Conley said I was the one
04:39he saw
04:39only he said I had on easy walkers that day. I guess he meant the tennis shoes. When I went
04:45to
04:45the pencil factory, I went right up the stairs to the office and went through the front room to where
04:49they paid off. Nobody was there. The office door was open, so I thought someone was around.
04:54I waited about five minutes, and I noticed the clock when I went in. It was five minutes after
04:59twelve. Nobody came, and I didn't hear anybody, so went down the stairs again and left the factory.
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