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Show BURNS KNOWS WHO KILLED GIRL Detective Claims He Is Sure of Murderer's Identity and Can Prove It. READY TO REPORT Friends of Frank Employ Expert Ex-pert to Solve Mary Phagan Mystery. Chicago, 111., April 3. "I know who the murderer of Mary Phagan is." said William J. Burns, the detective, today, on his return from a trip to Kansas City. "I can't say at tins timo whether it is Leo M. Frank or some one else, but I know his Identity and can prove that he committed tho murder." Frank, superintendent of the National Na-tional Pencil company's factory in Atlanta, At-lanta, Gn., is under sentence to die on April 17, for tho murder of the girl. Tho detective was employed several weeks ago by friendB of the convicted man to Invostignto the Phagan mystery. mys-tery. His statement today was the first information he had given as to the result of Ills Investigation. Ho declined to say on what grounds he based his conclusions, but said they would bo set forth in a report which he would make soon to the attorneys in the case. Hearing on an extraordinary motion mo-tion for a new trial iB set for April 16 the day before that set for tho hanging of Frank. This motion automatically au-tomatically stays the execution. oo |