1914 March 05 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia

1914 March 05 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia

Author: Atlanta Constitution

Year: 1914

PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 7 GEO. EPPS BRANDS AS A FALSEHOOD STORY OF HIS SON IN AFFIDAVIT Father of the Boy Who Charges John Black With Framing Affidavit Says His Story Is Absurd; That His Son Told Him Before He Knew of Such a Person as Black. JOHN BLACK IS SORE; TALKS OF FIGHTING Statements of Luther Z. Rosser, Quoted in the New York Times, Are Not War- ranted by the Facts, Think Members of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, and Denial Is Wired to the New York paper. Branding his own son’s story as a fabrication of the whole cloth, George W. Epps, father of George Epps, the ex-newsboy witness in the Frank trial, who has repudiated his testimony in a sensational affidavit, early last night telephoned The Constitution office and asked to be allowed to make a statement. The father is night superintendent of the Candler Annex building. He was visited in that building by a reporter, to whom he declared that his son’s affidavit, which was published Wednesday, was almost totally a lie, and bore an atmosphere of suspicion which he would investigate at once. “Why, that boy told me the story he told on the stand at least two days before he ever saw Detective Black, I was the first one to whom he men