Monday, 18th August 1913: Diagram Showing Main Points In Frank’s Alibi, The Atlanta Georgian

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FRANK Left Montag Bros 11 A.M. for Office. (FORSYTH ST.)

CORINTHIA HALL and EMMA FREEMAN enter 11.45 A.M. (FORSYTH ST.)

LEMMIE QUINN Entered 12.20 P.M. (FORSYTH ST.)

FRANK arrived at factory 8.25 A.M. Goes to Montag Bros 10 A.M. (FORSYTH ST.)

Mrs. WHITE Enters office 12.30 (FORSYTH ST.)

MARY PHAGAN entered at 12.05 P.M. (FORSYTH ST.)

LEMMIE QUINN Left 12.25 P.M. (FORSYTH ST.)

REBECCA CARSON saw FRANK here at 2.20 P.M. and here at 2.50 (WHITEHALL ST.)

CAUGHT CAR here for Home 6.05 P.M. (ALA. ST.)

HELEN CURRAN saw FRANK on this Corner at 1.10 P.M. (ALA. ST.)

FORSYTH ST. (Horizontal)

BROAD ST. (Horizontal)

WHITEHALL ST. (Horizontal)

TRINITY AVE. (Vertical)

MITCHELL ST. (Vertical)

HUNTER ST. (Vertical)

ALA. ST. (Vertical)

The defense claims it would have been utterly impossible for Frank to have murdered Mary Phagan and disposed of her body in the lapses in time in the alibi they have set up. They also contend that it proves Conley's story a tissue of falsehoods. Thus, they declare, Conley lied when he said Quinn preceded Monteen Stover and Mary Phagan because Quinn did not arrive until 12:20, just as they charge the negro was caught when he said he saw Mary go in ahead of Monteen because according to State's Witness George Epps, Mary was at Marietta and Forsyth at 12:07, while Monteen entered the factory at 12:05. Proceeding further, the defense attacks Conley's story of the disposition of the body on the ground that Helen Curran saw Frank at Alabama and Whitehall at 1:10, and Conley says the disposing of the body began at 12:56. The events Conley describes could not have occurred in the intervening 14 minutes, according to the defense, because Conley said he was in the wardrobe 8 minutes, and the writing of the notes must have taken at least 6 minutes, according to the State itself. The State will undoubtedly attack this formidable alibi in its rebuttal evidence.