00:00No fingerprints found by expert on Fagan envelope. The Atlanta Journal, Thursday, July 10, 1913.
00:06Examination of portion of slain girl's pay envelope fails to throw any light on the murder
00:10mystery Fletcher. At Federal Pen makes examination fight for release of Newt Lee on habeas corpus.
00:16Resumed and hearing will be given Saturday morning that the murderer of Mary Fagan can never be
00:21identified by fingerprints on the pay envelope found in the factory and the resetting of Newt
00:26Lee's habeas corpus for 10 o'clock. Saturday morning were two important developments of the
00:31sensational murder mystery Thursday. According to attorney Bernard L. Chappell of Graham and Chappell,
00:36counsel for the Negro night watchman, 50 witnesses among them the Negro James Conley, confessed
00:42accomplice, and Leo M. Frank, accused of the crime, will be subpenied for the habeas corpus hearing.
00:48It is known that the Solicitor General, Hugh M. Dorsey, will oppose the release from the Tower of
00:54Lee on the ground that he is a material witness. Counsel for Frank will take no part in the fight
00:59to secure the release of Lee, but attorney Ruben R. Arnold stated when the case was postponed
01:04that he would oppose any effort to bring Frank into the court for the habeas corpus hearing.
01:09It is said that the counsel for Frank will oppose bringing him to the court on the ground
01:14that it is not lawful to force a defendant to give any testimony which relates to or bears on the
01:20crime for which he is to be tried. This, as a result, will prevent the much-talked-of meeting
01:25of Frank and Conley. According to the attorney for Lee, subpenace will be issued to the many
01:30detectives who have worked on the case, to the Solicitor General, and to the foreman of the grand
01:35jury that failed to indict Lee, examined by experts. The part of a pay envelope bearing across it the name
01:42of Mary Fagan, which was found in the pencil factory several weeks after she was murdered,
01:46is in the possession of Pinkerton detectives, who on Thursday took it to the federal prison
01:51in order that L.J. Fletcher, the government fingerprint expert, might examine it. The paper
01:57was curled, as if someone had rolled it in his hands when it was found in the factory,
02:01and has been carefully preserved and handled only when resting on another sheet of paper.
02:06For that reason, it was thought that a fingerprint might aid in identifying the girl's slayer.
02:11Every known method of raising or developing fingerprints on paper was used by the prison expert,
02:16however, without any trace of a fingerprint showing. While it was thought Wednesday that
02:21both the state and the defense knew of the finding of the slip of paper, prosecuting officials all
02:26denied Thursday that they had heard anything about the find until they read the journal's
02:31exclusive story. Attorneys for the defense, however, admitted that they have known for a week that the
02:36slip of paper was found in the factory. What prosecution says? Prosecuting officials doubt that
02:42the part of a pay envelope found so long after the tragedy was really the envelope which Mary
02:47Fagan received as the factory on the day she met her death. It could have been an old envelope,
02:51it bore no date. Or some factory employee might have carelessly written the girl's name on a part
02:57of an envelope and dropped it on the floor long after the crime, they say.
