Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case.
Atlanta Journal
July 29th, 1913
Agent Who Said That Conley Told Him of Killing “a Girl” May Testify
W. H. Mincey, who has made affidavit that James Conley, the negro sweeper, practically confessed to him as being the murderer of Mary Phagan, is in Atlanta but has not yet gone to the courthouse where Frank is being tried.
At the time of the murder, Mincey was employed here as an insurance solicitor. On the day of the murder, he says that he met Conley at the corner of Carter and Electric streets.
The negro, according to the affidavit, was drinking, and when the solicitor mentioned insurance the negro flared into anger.
“I’ve killed a girl today,” the affidavit charges Conley, the negro sweeper, with having said, “I don’t want to hurt anybody else.”
Several weeks ago Mincey left Atlanta to take a position as school teacher. But attorneys for the defense say that he has returned, and is now here.