Friday, 5th September 1913 Grand Jury May Act On Jim Conley Today

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PAGE 7, COLUMN 5

The new grand jury will meet today, and there is much speculation rife as to whether or not this grand jury will take up the charge against Jim Conley, negro sweeper at the National Pencil company's factory, of accessory after the fact of Mary Phagan's murder.

Solicitor Dorsey has declined consistently to commit himself on the subject. It is definitely known that on Thursday no bill against Conley had been drawn.

There are those wise ones who say, however, that the case of Conley will be among the first to be considered by the grand jury, and there are others who declared that the jury will not consider the case at all.

The upshot of the situation is that no one, not strictly on the inside, knows just what the grand jury is going to do.

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WATSON CASE HEARING

IN MIDDLE OF OCTOBER

Macon, Ga., September (Special). At a conference here today between Hon. S. G. McLendon, counsel for Thomas E. Watson in the case now pending against him in the United States district court at Augusta, with District Attorney Alexander Akerman relative to the Watson case. It was definitely decided to take up the case at Augusta on the third Monday in October. The presiding judge has not yet been determined on.

Mr. McLendon stated today that an effort would be made to have the case thrown out of court on the ground that the government has no jurisdiction. The contention is that such a case is in violation of the constitution of the United States, in that it curbs free speech. This, it is said, will be the first time that such a question has been raised in a case of this kind.