1914 March 14 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia
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- 1914 March 14 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia
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- Ruby Snipes
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- 1914
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1914 March 14 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia
Author: Atlanta Constitution
Year: 1914
PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 1 MORE AFFIDAVITS ARE MADE PUBLIC BY FRANK DEFENSE Mrs. J. B. Simmons Testi- fies She Heard Screams in Factory After 2 O’Clock on Day of Murder. CONLEY A SURLY NEGRO, ASSERTS GIRL WITNESS Ruby Snipes Declares He Tried to Get Money From Her at Spot Defense Says Mary Phagan Was Slain. Two new affidavits for Frank’s new trial hearing were disclosed Friday, the latest of which is one signed by Ruby Snipes, a 17-year-old working girl employee of the National Pencil factory, who tells a story of an attempt by Jim Conley to get money from her on the same spot at which the defense says the negro sweeper slew Mary Phagan. The other is a document sworn by Mrs. J. B. Simmons, a former Atlanta resident, but who now lives in Birmingham, and who testifies that she heard screams issue from the National Pencil factory building between 2:20 and 2:30 o’clock on the afternoon of the Phagan murder, and that she made an affidavit to this effect before Solicitor Dorsey, but was never called to testify at the trial. Asked Her for Money. The Snipes girl, who lives at Hemphill Avenue and Curran Street, swears that during the month of April, 1911, two years before Mary Phagan was killed,