Tuesday, 19th May 1914: Lehon Contempt Trial Up Today, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 19th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.Judge Hill Plays Detective: Burns in His Charge Before Grand Jury Calls for Indictments Against PerjurersFollowing an indirect but unmistakable denunciation of Detective William J. Burns by Judge Ben Hill, it was…
Wednesday, 20th May 1914: W.j. Burns Loses Permit Of Board To Operate Here, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 20th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.With but one dissenting vote, the Board of Police Commissioners last night revoked the permit of the William J. Burns Detective Agency to operate in Atlanta. A recommendation will be sent to…
Thursday, 21st May 1914: Witnesses Said To Be Departing, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 21st May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.It has been reported that several individuals involved in alleged perjury and bribery efforts related to the Frank case have left for parts unknown. Rumors have reached the office of Solicitor Dorsey…
Friday, 22nd May 1914: Grand Jury Probe Will Begin Today, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 22nd May 1914,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.E. A. Stephens, Assistant Solicitor General, will present all bills to probers this morning. It is expected that when the Grand Jury convenes today, the charges growing out of the Frank Case…
Saturday, 23rd May 1914: State Cases Are Planned Against Burns Operators By The Police Commission, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 23rd May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Dan Lehon, Charles Sears, and four assistants were placed under bond for appearance before Recorder Broyles on Tuesday. Burns is expected today to defend his course, declares Dan Lehon. Detectives were given…
Sunday, 24th May 1914: Our Record Clean, Asserts Dan Lehon, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 24th May 1914,PAGE 28, COLUMN 1.Says They Could Have Escaped Trouble by Asserting Frank's Guilt, But It Would Have Violated Their Convictions.Asserting that if he and Detective Burns were as questionable as they are accused by the…
Tuesday, 26th May 1914: Council Revokes License Of Burns, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 26th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Recommendation of Police Board Adopted: Broyles Tries Cases Against Detective's Agents Today.Because of alleged failure to cooperate with the local police and for violating his pact with the Police Commission, C. E.…
Wednesday, 27th May 1914: Lehon Is Fined $100 And Costs And Bound Over, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 27th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Burns Detective Will Take Case to Higher Courts to Test the Constitutionality of the City Ordinance. Contempt Cases Are Dismissed by Hill. Motion to Upset the Frank Verdict Will, in All Probability,…
Thursday, 28th May 1914: Three Burns Aides Fined And Bound Over By Recorder, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 28th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Detectives Charged with Operating in Atlanta Without PermissionDetectives from the Burns Detective Agency, including W. W. ("Boots") Rogers, have been charged with operating in Atlanta without the permission of the Police Board…
Saturday, 30th May 1914: Negro Cuts Detective In Effort To Escape, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 30th May 1914,PAGE 10, COLUMN 2.John Black was stabbed in an encounter with a desperate shoplifter. Chief Detective John Black, a prominent figure in the Leo Frank murder case and one of the city's sleuths detailed on…
Monday, 25th May 1914: Frank Appeal May Be Signed Tuesday, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 25th May 1914,PAGE 16, COLUMN 3.Bill of Exceptions Likely to be Presented Late TomorrowIndications were, on Monday, that it will be late Tuesday afternoon before the bill of exceptions, on which the extraordinary motion for a new…
Tuesday, 26th May 1914: Burns’ Men Fight Effort To Shut Up Offices In Atlanta, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 26th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Ordinance Requiring Supervision of City Police Assailed as Unconstitutional in Answer to RecorderCharge Compliance Was Impossible PropositionDetectives say one of their duties in the Frank case was to probe alleged acts of…
Wednesday, 27th May 1914: Burns Agent Here Is Fined And Bound Over, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 27th May 1914,PAGE 2, COLUMN 1.Judge Broyles ordered Dan S. Lehon, Burns' chief aide, to pay $100 and costs for violating a city ordinance. Lehon was also held for the state under a $500 bond, charged with…
Thursday, 28th May 1914: More Burns Agents Are Fined And Bound Over, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 28th May 1914,PAGE 2, COLUMN 1.Rogers, Whitfield, and Tedder Each Fined $100 and Held for StateThree more Burns agents were heavily fined in the Recorder's Court Wednesday afternoon and bound over to the state courts charged with…
Saturday, 30th May 1914: Sunday Music First Universalist Church, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 30th May 1914,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.Prelude Cantilene Nuptiale, Dubois."The Lord is My Shepherd," Pullin.Offertory Serenade, Braga."Hark, Angelic Voice," Shelley, performed by Miss Martha E. Smith and Mrs. Lawrence Elder.Postlude Lemaigre.Miss Annie Mae Taurman, organist.Miss Lucy Hamilton, pianist.Miss…
Sunday, 31st May 1914: Frank Motion Before Judge Hill Next Friday, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 31st May 1914,PAGE 7, COLUMN 5.Affidavits from Trial Judge L. S. Roan are expected to play a significant role in the upcoming hearing. It is generally believed that the last postponement of the motion to set aside…
Friday, 22nd May 1914: Five Men Indicted On Perjury Charge In Leo Frank Case, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 22nd May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Ragsdale, Barber, Lehon, Thurman, and Tedder Named in True Bills Found by the Grand JuryDaniel S. Lehon, lieutenant of Detective W. J. Burns in the Frank case; Carlton C. Tedder, formerly a…
Saturday, 23rd May 1914: Judge Hill Postpones Burns And Lehon Trial, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 23rd May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.Contempt Case Delayed Because Counsel for Detectives Will Be Out of CityJudge Ben H. Hill postponed the trial of the contempt cases against Detective W. J. Burns and his assistant Dan S.…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Factory Employee May Be Taken Any Moment, Atlanta Georgian
Gantt reading murder warrant Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 A sensational arrest will be made in the Mary Phagan murder mystery within a few hours. It will be based on the firm theory of the police and…
New Audio Book: The American Mercury on the Leo Frank Trial – Judge Leonard Roan’s Charge to the Jury, Monday, August 25, 1913
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Introduction to the Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, July 28th, 1913 to August 21st, 1913, in the Fulton County Superior Court, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, 1913 STATE OF GEORGIA VERSUS LEO M. FRANK In Fulton Superior Court, trial began July 28th and ended August 21st, 1913. Judge Leonard Strickland Roan, presiding. Conviction of murder at July term on…
Tuesday, April 29, 1913 Bartender Confirms Gantt’s Statement, Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 (Page 3, Column 8) Says Phagan Suspect Left Pair of Shoes In His Place Saturday Evening. Charles W. McGee, of Colonial Hills, a bartender in the saloon of J. P. Hunter at 35 South…
Monday, 28th April 1913 Police Question Factory Superintendent, The Atlanta Georgian
STRAND OF HAIR CLEW IN KILLING OF PHAGAN GIRL Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Body of Mary Phagan Is Found in Basement of Old Granite Hotel in Forsyth Street—Mute Evidence of Terrible Battle Victim Made for Life WHITE…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Was Victim of Murder Lured Off on Joy Ride Before She Met Death?
Atlanta Constitution Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 (Page 3, Column 2) Evidence obtained by Detectives Black and Rosser Monday afternoon has led the detective department to suspect that little Mary Phagan was lured away by her murderer Saturday afternoon by…
Monday, 28th April 1913 12-Year-Old Girl Sobs Her Love for Slain Child
Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 "I'd help lynch the man that killed poor Mary. If they'd let me, I'd like to hold the rope that choked him to death. That's all he deserves. I was playing with Mary only…
Monday, 28th April 1913 10,000 Throng Morgue to See Body of Victim
The Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 (Page 5, Column 1) Coroner's Jury inspects remains and scene of tragedy, then waits until Wednesday Lying on a slab in the chapel of the Bloomfield undertaking establishment, with the white throat bearing…
Monday, 28th April 1913 Story of the Killing as the Meager Facts Reveal It
Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 (Page 5, Columns 2 And 4) A new turn was given the mystery to-day when strands of blood-matted hair were found in a lathing machine on the second floor of the factory. The…
The Leo Frank Trial: Closing Arguments, Solicitor Dorsey
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 “Every Woman and Girl Should See Body of Victim and Learn Perils”
Atlanta Constitution, Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 (Page 3, Column 6) A middle-aged woman, with signs of care and sorrow stamped on her features, pushed through the mob of people which crowded around the entrance to the Bloomfield undertaking establishment…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Pinkertons Hired to Assist Police Probe the Murder of Mary Phagan
John M. Gantt, former bookkeeper of the National Pencil company, and acquaintance of Mary Phagan, who is under arrest, and was put through a gruelling third degree last night at police station. He maintains his innocence. Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, April 29th,…