TRUMAN MCCRARY, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 80th To Testify

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TRUMAN Mc CRARY, (colored), sworn for the Defendant.

I am a drayman on the streets of Atlanta. I work for the National

Pencil Company. I have hauled for them. I have drayed for them most

every Saturday for the past three years. I would work on Saturday

afternoons until half past three and sometimes as late as five. I would be sometimes there so late the shipping clerk would be gone. I have

never found the front door locked on a Saturday afternoon. I have

never seen Jim Conley watching there Saturday afternoon. I have never

seen him guarding the door. I have never seen him around the factory

at all Saturday afternoon. I have never found the doors to Mr. Frank's

inner or outer office locked. Both doors have glass windows in them.

Anybody could see through them. I have sometimes found Mr. Schiff

working there with Mr. Frank on Saturday afternoon. I did not see Jim

Conley at the factory April 26th. I did not tell him to go down in the

elevator shaft and ease his bowels. I went into Mr. Frank's office about

twelve o'clock on April 26th. Mr. Frank was there.

CROSS EXAMINATION.

I did not haul any for the pencil factory on April 26th. I took a sack

of hay there. That was about 7:30. I didn't see Mr. Frank upstairs

that time. I did not see Jim Conley at all that day. It may have been as

late as 8:30 that I reached the factory that day. Mr. Frank was not

there. I was paid sometime before 12 o'clock that day. The boxes are

piled around in there pretty high around the elevator going down there.

There are some pretty large ones, four or five feet high. They are piled

around the stairway. I have never seen them use that door to the Clarke

Woodenware space. I have used it once to haul out a lot of trash. No I

have never seen Jim Conley sweeping up there Saturday afternoon.

There was one Saturday afternoon that I didn't go up there. That was

since Christmas. I think it was in April. I went up there every afternoon

in January.