The Atlanta Georgian,
Thursday, 23rd October 1913,
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ROSSER, FRANK'S ATTORNEY, AND JUDGE ROAN ON WAY TO COURT
Judge L. S. Roan.
Luther Z. Rosser
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CERTIFIES TO CHEERS IN COURT;
HEARING MAY GO ON ALL WEEK
Prospects for a new trial for Leo M. Frank were made much brighter Wednesday afternoon by Judge Roan's certification of the defense's description of the disorder and demonstration in the courtroom on various occasions during Frank's trial.
The judge's official approval of this fact as a ground for argument will give the defense an invaluable advantage when the arguments begin, and also before the Supreme Court in the event that it becomes necessary to carry the fight for Frank's life to the higher tribunal.
The facts to which Judge Roan certified were contained in the defense's charge that immediately on the announcement that Conley's testimony, taken to show perversion and immorality and acts wholly dissociated from the charge of murder, was to stand, there were immediate cheers, clapping of hands and stamping of feet in the courtroom.
Jury In Adjacent Room.
The jurors were in an adjacent room at the time, so close, in the opinion of Judge Roan, as to be able readily to hear the demonstration.
The defense also held that the court was in error when it refused at the time to grant a mistrial for which Attorney Arnold moved, and did not clear the courtroom as was demanded by both the attorneys for the defense.
It also was charged by the defense that during the examination of one of the witnesses the crowd made a jeering demonstration against Attorney Arnold.
Judge Roan certified to all of these facts as represented by the defense, a circumstance which is regarded as most favorable to Frank's chance for a new trial.
Solicitor Dorsey won a slight victory when the battle ranged around section 13 of the motion which declared that the Solicitor had continued his cross-examination of witnesses to draw out particular acts of immorality on the part of the pencil factory superintendent when Judge Roan had ruled against such questions.
Mr. Dorsey demanded that this particular reference to him in the motion be struck out and it was granted by Judge Roan, after a bitter struggle.
Calls Testimony Prejudicial.
Another point brought up for arraignment by counsel for the defense was the testimony of Conley that he had been refused admittance to Frank's cell when taken to the Tower by detectives.
Attorney Arnold ascribed this testimony as irrelevant and prejudicial before the jury and declared that the court errored in admitting it.
From that point the fight veered to section 16 of the motion pertaining to the testimony of Mrs. Arthur White, wife of a machinist at the pencil factory.
The defense declared that the court erred in permitting the State to draw from the witness the fact that she had not reported the fact that she saw a negro in the factory on the day of the murder until three days later, and then to attorneys for Frank.
Attorney Rosser stated that such testimony was a direct reflection on the witness and the defense.
Rosser repeatedly charged Dorsey with quibbling, splitting hairs and on one occasion intimated that the Solicitor was seeking to hang a man "on the dotting of an I' or the crossing of a t'.
No mention had yet been made of the charges of bias and prejudice against Jurors Henslee and Johenning.
The early reasons had to do with errors which the court had committed, according to the contentions of the defense, in letting in certain testimony of Detectives Black and Starnes and Newt Lee and keeping out a part of that of Black.
Conley's testimony became the subject of heated discussion immediately on the reading of the tenth reason of the defense.
In this it was argued that the court had been in error in denying the motion of the defense to strike out all of Conley's testimony in regard to the alleged perversion of the defendant on the ground that it was immaterial, irrelevant, illegal and highly prejudicial to Frank.
Dorsey Scores a Point.
The Solicitor was instant with his objection to this being one of the grounds for the arguing of a new trial. He contended that this motion by the defense had not been made at the time the evidence was put in.
Arnold retorted that the objection was put in and that the records showed it.
The Solicitor conceded that the motion had been made, but called attention to the fact that this action had not been taken by Frank's lawyers until after Conley had been cross-examined by Rosser a day and a half.
Dorsey was successful in his effort to have added to the reason the fact that the motion was made and denied only after this lapse of time.
The attorneys for the defense maintained that the cross-examination up to the time the motion was made never had touched on the subject of perversion and this also was incorporated in the reason, the Solicitor having the privilege of investigating the records on the question.
Sections 10 and 11 dealt with the same subject except that one was in narrative form and the other in questions and answers.
Both were certified to by Judge Roan after the revisions had been made.
"Don't you think you had better add five minutes to that day and a half, or, at least two minutes," sarcastically inquired Attorney Rosser, annoyed by the Solicitor's determination to have the time the motion was made become a part of the reason.
Violates Ruling's Spirit.
Conley's testimony cropped up again in the twelfth reason.
Here it was maintained that, after Judge Roan had ruled that no specific acts of immorality on the part of Frank should be testified to, Solicitor Dorsey merely changed the wording of his questions and openly violated the spirit of the court's ruling.
Dorsey first had asked Conley about Frank's conduct with women at the factory and when this was ruled out, he asked, instead, what Conley did when women came to the factory.
Conley replied that he watched at the door while the women went to Frank's office.
This, according tot eh contentions of the defense, involved Frank exactly as much as the previous question and answer would have done.
Dorsey argued that asking Conley about his own movements at the factory did not violate the judge's ruling in regard to the specific acts of Frank.
With slight revision, the reason was permitted to stand.
The court was charged with error again because of the overruling of the motion of the defense that all of Conley's testimony bearing on the alleged immorality of Frank be stricken from the records as irrelevant, immaterial and highly prejudicial to the defendant in that it disgraced him before the jurors and convicted him in their eyes, not because he was guilty of murder, but because they believed him guilty of perversion and depravity.
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ROSSER CHARGES DORSEY WITH TRYING TO HANG ON SLIGHTEST TECHNICALITY not be completed before Friday.
After this the arguments will take place.
A small room in the State Library in the Capitol Building was the scene of the arguments.
Besides the half dozen men who were trying to save Frank and the two who were there to block efforts to keep the convicted man from the gallows and Judge Roan, were a dozen newspaper men and people directly interested in the result of the arguments.
Outside were two dozen curious people who were not allowed in the room.
Judge Roan sat near the center of a long table.
This left was Herbert Haas, Leonard Haas and Reuben Arnold, attorneys assisting Luther Rosser.
On the judge's right was Solicitor Dorsey and Assistant Solicitor Stevens.
Luther Rosser, big and deep-toned as usual, was in the center of the room.
The pounding of his heavy cane on the floor always preceded his saying anything.
A coal fire in a grate warmed the room, the walls of which were shelved with dust-covered volumes of old authors.
Financial Sheet in Dispute.
A hot dispute developed over the incorporation of the entire financial sheet in the brief of evidence as soon as the hearing began.
This wrangle was followed by a series of others over practically every reason that was put forward by the defense.
Before the hearing had progressed far, it became evident that unless the opposing attorneys could reach some sort of an armistice the hearing would last four or five days.
Attorney Rosser declared during a heated argument with the Solicitor that the hearing would drag out two weeks if Dorsey continued his objections to every paragraph of the brief.
Arnold and Rosser, in supporting their reasons for a new trial, charged that the stenographers had failed to make a record of many of their objections and the grounds of the objections.
Dorsey's objection to the first reason in the defense's brief was that the use of the whole financial sheet magnified this feature of Frank's case beyond its proper importance in a condensed brief of evidence.
"We couldn't boil that down," said Attorney Arnold, "because its object is to show the volume of work that Frank did on April 26, and how long it took."
"Then we are entitled to all of our evidence in extenso if that goes in," replied Dorsey.
Arnold retorted that the defense stood absolutely on its right to have the whole financial sheet in the brief.
Judge Roan did not decide on this point at the time, and the attorneys passed on to the brief, reason by reason.
His observation that the object of the financial sheet could be but one thing to demonstrate how long a time its compilation required indicated that he was inclined to listen to Arnold's contention.
The Judge did not decide on the first basis for argument advanced by the defense that the court erred in letting in Lee's testimony that Detective Black talked longer to him than did Frank, from which the Solicitor argued that Frank was not interested in getting the truth from Lee.
Second Ground Passed.
The second ground for a new trial also was left for future discussion.
It was that the court was in error in letting in Lee's testimony that Frank talked to him less time than Reuben Arnold, one of Frank's counsel, later talked to him at the time.
Part of the third reason was struck out upon objection of Dorsey.
The contention of the defense was that the court was in error to let Detective Starnes testify that Newt Lee was at the time of his arrest composed and showed no signs of trying to get away.
Solicitor Dorsey later using it to make a comparison with Frank who was said to be nervous.
The reference to Lee making no endeavor to escape was stricken out, the defense's objection to the remaining testimony being that it was illegal, unwarranted and prejudicial.
Detective's Evidence Challenged.
In succeeding reasons, the defense argued for a new trial on the contention that the court had erred in letting in Starnes testimony that the conversation between himself and Frank over the telephone, April 27, was "guarded;" in permitting before the jury the chart of the pencil factory, with its red lines and Greek crosses, illustrating the State's theocracy of the case; in allowing Detective Black to testify that Frank when he saw him on one occasion a month before the tragedy was not nervous; in allowing Black to testify that Frank the morning he was taken to the police station had "employed" Herbert Haas and Luther Rosser as his counsel, and in forbidding Black to answer that Lee had admitted to him that the bloody shirt found at his home was his own.
In the event that a new trial is denied, Frank's attorneys will immediately carry the case up to the Supreme court rules against them.
The effect that the weird story told by Ira W. Fisher will have upon the outcome of the motion is regarded as nil.
Fisher's ridiculous accusations possibly served to influence the popular mind one way or another, but it is most unlikely that they even will be mentioned either by the Solicitor or counsel for the defense, or given consideration by Judge Roan.
The hearing was set to begin in Judge Bell's courtroom on the first floor of the old City Hall, Pryor and Hunter streets, at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, but was transferred to the State Library.
Solicitor Dorsey left his home early and put the finishing touches on his preparations in his office across the street from the court house.
Attorney Rosser and Arnold also had a brief conference before the hearing and then announced themselves ready to proceed.
One of the main contentions of the defense was that at least two of the jurors who decided the fate of Frank A. H. Henslee and Marcellus Johenning had decided that Frank was guilty before they were called upon the jury or had heard the evidence presented.
Frank's lawyers also maintained that the jurors were intimidated, or at least unduly influenced, by the demonstrations that were made during the trial.
The crowds unmistakably were hostile to the defendant, they argued, and the jurors could not help but notice this.
That there was disorder in the courtroom which it was hardly possible to suppress was argued from a conversation between Judge Roan and Deputy Sheriff Plennie Miner.
The Judge was quoted by Frank's lawyers as saying during one of the many disturbances:
"Can't we have order in this courtroom?"
Deputy Miner is alleged to have replied:
"We can't have order, your honor, without clearing the courtroom."
Cheers for Solicitor.
The cheering that greeted Solicitor Dorsey several times toward the close of the trial also was called to the attention of the court as one of the grounds for a new trial, Jim Conley's testimony in regard to Frank's alleged conduct with women in his office in the pencil factory was used as a basis to argue that the court had been in error in admitting certain evidence into the record.
Solicitor Dorsey and Reuben Arnold were in conference Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of coming to an agreement on the exact grounds on which the new trial would be argued.
The Solicitor objected to a number of contentions advanced by the defense, and these were left for the decision of Judge Roan.
Frank Lawyers Aid Fisher Plot Search.
In the effort to solve the mystery of the alleged conspiracy out of which the tale of Ira W. Fisher attempting to connect J. C. Shirley with the murder of Mary Phagan, the attorneys for Leo M. Frank will assist the furniture dealer, according to C. W. Burke, who has assisted Luther Rosser and Reuben Arnold.
He said he would find the address of Joe Hicks, the Birmingham man who went with the Fisher in the office of Chief Bodeker and related his story, which created such a sensation.
"I am perfectly willing to do my share in running this affair to the bottom, and if there is anything like blackmail connected with it, I will do all I can to have the parties convicted," said Burke.
Restless, continually puffing at cigarettes, and giving indications of a breakdown, Fisher remains in his cell at the station house.
A hearing before Justice of the Peace Puckett will be given him some time to-day, but he expresses no fear of it, asserting that he is speaking the "immaculate truth".
There is strong belief in the minds of the officers that Fisher will break down and tell the real reason of his fanciful tale whether it was the concoction of his own brain or a plot.
Shirley's brothers, Russell and Frank Shirley, are more bitter toward Fisher than he is himself.
J. C. Shirley is inclined to think that Fisher is crazy.
The brothers believer otherwise and will push the charges which they have brought against him.
Should fisher be released, it is quite probable he will be sent back to Birmingham.
Burke said that he promised Fisher if he would come to Atlanta, he would pay his fare back, and he is ready to stand this expense.
PAGE 2, COLUMNS 1 & 7 FRANK LAWYERS ATTACK JURORS BITTEREST CONTEST OF RETRIAL HEARING DUE OVER AFFIDAVITS
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The most bitterly fought contest of the entire hearing on a new trial for Leo M. Frank was looked for Thursday over the alleged bias of A. H. Henslee and Marcellus Johenning, two of the twelve jurors who decided that Frank should go to the gallows as the slayer of Mary Phagan.
With the purpose of overlooking no possible aid in their assault upon these two jurors, agents for Frank's lawyers were continuing their search Wednesday and Thursday for persons who had talked to Henslee and Johenning before the trial of Frank began and who had heard them comment in one way or another on the tragic end of the little factory girl.
The result of the combing that has been given Atlanta and the towns through which Henslee passed as travelling salesman for carriages and accessories was made evident when C. W. Burke, agent for Attorney Rosser, brought in sworn statements to the hearing from persons who were willing to testify that Henslee had expressed his belief in Frank's guilt days or several weeks before the trial began.
Before the hearing was well underway Attorney Rosser announced that there were a number of affidavits which he had not yet obtained, but which he wished to submit along with the rest as soon as they were signed.
He remarked that Solicitor Dorsey had made the exchange of affidavits so late that he had not had the opportunity to get four or five counter affidavits which he knew were available.
With the review of the defense's grounds for a new trial than a third completed it, it was regarded as almost certain that the fight on the jurors would be precipitated sometime Thursday.
The defense to support heir contentions of bias and violent prejudice had more than a score of affidavits to submit from reputable and prominent persons in Atlanta, Sparta and Monroe, who swore that they had heard Henslee before the trial bitterly denounce Frank and declare that if he was called as a juror he would do his best to "break his (Frank's) neck."
Friends of the convicted factory superintendent, without minimizing in any way the weight and importance of the host of other reasons for a new trial advanced by Frank's lawyers, were jubilantly assured that there was more than enough weight in Henslee's alleged prejudice alone to furnish a basis for the granting of a new trial.
Dorsey Full of Fight.
Solicitor Dorsey went into the hearing Thursday prepared to concede nothing and determined to fight very inch of the way against the accusations of bias and prejudice.
He was fortified with affidavits from Henslee and Johenning testifying to their own lack of bias when the trial started and with affidavits from other members of the jury who swore that during the 29 days of the trial they never heard Henslee or Johenning utter a word that indicated their opinions were for or against the defendant.
Reuben Arnold made the startling charge just before the close of the first day's session that it was the crow, and not the judge and jury, who ran the Frank trial.
The discussion was on reason 38, which narrated that during Attorney Arnold's examination of one of the witnesses the spectators laughed in derision when he failed to elicit the answers desired.
"It seemed as though I was the comedian of the trial," observed Arnold.
"I never knew I was so funny until that trial took place.
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hostile guffaw somewhere back in the audience."
"Should Have Cleared Court."
The defense, in outlining its reason, held that the judge should have cleared the court or taken other radical steps to put a stop to the demonstrations.
"Threats of clearing the courtroom were not sufficient as the succeeding disturbances, handclapping and other demonstrations evidenced," the reason read.
Solicitor Dorsey, objecting to this reason as he did to practically everyone that was offered, insisted that the dialogue between lawyer and witness which was taking place at the time of the laughter so as to show the real cause of the merriment.
"That's all right, let it go in," acquiesced Arnold.
"I just wanted to show that it was the spectators who were running the court and not the judge and jury."
The transcript of testimony at this point was entered in the reason in accordance with the wishes of the Solicitor.
Judge Roan hurried the lawyers along in the afternoon session and more than twice as many of the reasons were taken up and passed on as in the forenoon.
The majority of the reasons, most of them with slight revisions insisted upon by the Solicitor, were approved by Judge Roan.
Others were dismissed from consideration temporarily to be taken up later when the Solicitor had been able to investigate them carefully by comparison with the records of the case.
Judge Tells of Applause.
One of the most significant events of the hearing came in the certification by Judge Roan of the description of the applause in the courtroom when it was announced that the testimony of Conely in regard to alleged acts of immorality on the part of Frank should remain in the record.
Judge Roan certified that it was his recollection that there was applause and stamping of feet and that there was a demonstration which easily could have been heard by the jurors who were in an adjacent room.
This certification on the part of the judge is regarded as highly favorable to the prospects for a new trial.
Even should a new trial be denied by Judge Roan, the Supreme Court will not be compelled to go behind the statement of facts, as would be necessary in the event that the possibility of the jurors' hearing the demonstration was merely a contention of the defense, unsupported by the court's certification.
All of the grounds bearing on Conley's testimony which had to do with the alleged acts of perversion also were admitted as bases of argument in the move for a new trial.
Practically all of the reasons were subjected to slight amendment at the suggestion of the Solicitor, but were not vitally altered.
Dorsey insisted upon a notation in all of the paragraphs to the effect that no objection to Conley's testimony along this line was made by the lawyers for the defendant until the negro had been under cross-examination for a day and a half.
Attack Miss Hall's Testimony.
The defense succeeded in getting into the reason the statement that the cross-examination had been along other lines that Frank's alleged perversion, and that this phase never had once been touched when the objection was made during the cross-examination.
Frank's lawyers also held that the court was in error in not permitting Miss Hall, the stenographer, to tell that Frank called her on the telephone the morning of the murder and informed her that he had enough work for her to keep her busy all day; in permitting the Solicitor to question Philip Chambers, an office boy at the pencil factory, in regard to purely suppositious conversations with Frank in which Frank was said to have threatened the boy with dismissal, and in not severely rebuking the Solicitor for this line of questioning, and in permitting testimony which left with the jury the impression that pay had been withheld from the Pinkerton narratives in order that their testimony on the stand might be favorable to the defense so as to get the amounts due.
PAGE 3, COULMNS 1, 5, & 7 FRANK CHARACTER EVIDENCE ASSAILED TESTIMONY CHARGING IMMORALITY CALLED UNFAIR BY DEFENSE
The character of Leo M. Frank, a burning issue during the trial for the murder of Mary Phagan, again was the subject of animated argument at the hearing on a new trial Thursday in the library of the State Capital.
Almost the entire forenoon was given over to a fight by Frank's attorneys to establish as reasons for a new trial the admission by Judge Roan of all the mass of evidence which sought to prove Frank a pervert and a desperate of the worst type.
Throughout the hearing, the lawyers for Frank made ground after ground for a new trial upon the attacks that had been made by the Solicitor upon Frank's character.
It was apparent that the convicted man's lawyers were confident that the court had been led into an error by admitting testimony of this sort.
Every question asked by the Solicitor during the trial which sought to elicit answers derogatory to Frank's character and moral conduct entered into the numerous reasons for a new trial.
The admission of all the testimony bearing on Frank's alleged attitude toward women and his reported acts of perversion, particularly as testified to by Conley; the alleged bias of jurors, and the demonstrations in the courtroom are the three grounds for a new trial on which the defense will place the greatest stress in their arguments, according to all indications during the first two days of the hearing.
The testimony of Miss Irene Jackson, the pretty daughter of County Policeman Jackson, formed the basis of a heated argument at the outset of the hearing between Solicitor Dorsey and A. E. Stephens on one side and Reuben Arnold and Herbert Haas on the other, the attorneys for the defense coming off victorious.
Luther Rosser, chief of counsel for Frank, was not present when the hearing resumed in the little ante room off the library in the State Library.
Attack Girl's Testimony.
Miss Jackson's testimony was taken up in the forty-third reason.
The court was declared in error because Miss Jackson had been permitted to tell of alleged particular acts of immorality on the part of Frank which had nothing to do with the crime of the murder.
Dorsey maintained that absolutely no objection had been made at the time.
Arnold and Haas replied that a blanket or omnibus objection had been made while Ashley Jones was on the stand from which a ruling came that all testimony of this class should be regarded as objected.
Defense Wins Again.
Judge Roan decided in favor of Arnold and Haas, remarking that the tesitmoynof Miss Jackosn, which had to do with Frank's conduct in the ladies' dressing room on the fourth floor, seemed to be covered by the objection to the cross-questioning of Jones, and also to the direct examination of C. B. Dalton, one of the State's witnesses.
The forty-sixth reason contended that the court erred in letting in the questions of the Solicitor when Miss Lula Mc Donald was on the stand, Miss Mc Donald was asked if she was aware that Frank on the Saturday previous to the murder had been seen on a car to Hapeville in company with a young girl whom he sought to persuade to leave the car with him.
The witness denied that she knew of any such circumstances, but Frank's lawyers contended that the questions, regardless of the answers given, tended to place in the minds of the jurors an unfavorable conception of the defendant's character, a circumstance extremely prejudicial to his case.
The reason was approved by Judge Roan.
Boy's Story Called Unfair.
The forty-seventh ground, based on the testimony of Willie Turner, also was approved as a basis of argument.
Turner testified that he saw Frank talking with Mary Phagan some weeks before the murder and the defense objected on the ground that the Solicitor unfairly was seeking to build up in the minds of the jurors the conviction that Frank for some time previous to the pencil factory tragedy was making persistent endeavors to become intimate with the girl, a suspicion which was unjust in view of the meager evidence.
The forty-eighth reason was withdrawn by Attorney Arnold because his objection made during the trial to the testimony of W. P. Murk, a street car conductor, had been withdrawn.
Murk had testified that he met Daisy Hopkins one Saturday, and that she told him she was on her way to the pencil factory where she had an engagement with the "boss."
The Hopkins woman was a witness during the trial, and her character and reputation were vigorously assailed by the State.
More
Defense Affidavits.
Before the hearing was well under way Attorney Rosser announced that there were a number of affidavits which he had not yet obtained, but which he wished to submit along with the rest as soon as they were signed.
He remarked that Solicitor Dorsey had made the exchange of affidavits so late that he had not had the opportunity to get four or five counter-affidavits which he knew were available.
With the review of the defense's grounds for a new trial more than a third completed, it was regarded as almost certain that the fight on the jurors would be precipitated some time Thursday.
The defense, to support their contentions of bias and violent prejudice, had more than a score of affidavits to submit from reputable and prominent persons in Atlanta, Sparta and Monroe, who swore that they had heard Henslee before the trial bitterly denounce Frank and declare that if he was called as a juror, he would do his best to "break his (Frank's) neck."
Friends of the convicted factory superintendent, without minimizing in any way the weight and importance of the host of other reasons for a new trial advanced by Frank's lawyers, were jubilantly assured that there was more than enough weight in Henslee's alleged prejudice alone to furnish a basis for the granting of a new trial.
Dorsey Full of Fight.
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their own lack of bias when the trial started and with affidavits from other members of the jury who swore that during the 29 days of the trial they never heard Henslee or Johenning utter a word that indicated their opinions were for or against the defendant.
Reuben Arnold made the startling charge just before the close of the first day's session that it was the crow, and not the judge and jury, who ran the Frank trial.
The discussion was on reason 38, which narrated that during Attorney Arnold's examination of one of the witnesses the spectators laughed in derision when he failed to elicit the answers desired.
"It seemed as though I was the comedian of the trial," observed Arnold.
"I never knew I was so funny until that trial took place. Nearly every time I jumped up there was a hostile guffaw somewhere back in the audience."
The defense, in outlining its reason, held that the judge should have cleared the court or taken other radical steps to put a stop to the demonstrations.
"Threats of clearing the courtroom were not sufficient as the succeeding disturbances, handclapping and other demonstrations evidenced," the reason read.
Solicitor Dorsey, objecting to this reason as he did to practically every one that was offered, insisted that the dialogue between lawyer and witness which was taking place at the time of the laughter, be entered, so as to show the real cause of the merriment.
"That's all right, let it go in," acquiesced Arnold, "I just wanted to show that it was the spectators who were running the court and not the judge and jury."
The transcript of testimony at this point was entered in the reason in accordance with the wishes of the Solicitor.
Judge Roan hurried the lawyers along in the afternoon session and more than twice as many of the reasons were taken up and passed on as in the forenoon.
The majority of the reasons, most of them with slight revisions insisted upon by the Solicitor, were approved by Judge Roan.
Others were dismissed from consideration temporarily to be taken up later when the Solicitor had been able to investigate them carefully by comparison with the records of the case.
Judge Tells of Applause.
One of the most significant events of the hearing came in the certification by the judge Roan of the description of the applause in the courtroom when it was announced that the testimony of Conley in regard to alleged acts of immorality on the part of Frank should remain in the record.
Judge Roan certified that it was his recollection that there was applause and stamping of feet and that there was a demonstration which easily could have been heard by the jurors who were in an adjacent room.
This certification on the part of the judge is regarded as highly favorable to the prospects for a new trial.
Even should a new trial be denied by Judge Roan, the Supreme Court will not be compelled to go behind the statement of facts, as would be necessary in the event that the possibility of the jurors' hearing the demonstration was merely a contention of the defense, unsupported by the court's certification.
All of the grounds bearing on Conley's testimony which had to do with the alleged acts of perversion also were admitted as bases of argument in the move for a new trial.
Practically all of the reasons were subjected to slight amendment at the suggestion of the Solicitor, but were not vitally altered.
Dorsey insisted upon a notation in all of the paragraphs to the effect that no objection to Conley's testimony along this line was made by the lawyers for the defendant until the negro had been under cross-examination for a day and a half.
Attack Miss Hall's Testimony.
The defense succeeded in getting into the reason the statement that the cross-examination had been along other lines that Frank's alleged perversion, and that this phase never had once been touched when the objection was made during the cross-examination.
Frank's lawyers also held that the court was in error in not permitting Miss Hall, the stenographer, to tell that Frank called her on the telephone the morning of the murder and informed her that he had enough work for her to keep her busy all day; in permitting the Solicitor to question Philip Chambers, an office boy at the pencil factory, in regard to purely suppositious conversations with Frank in which Frank was said to have threatened the boy with dismissal, and in not severely rebuking the Solicitor for this line of questioning, and in permitting testimony which left with the jury the impression that pay had been withheld from the Pinkerton narratives in order that their testimony on the stand might be favorable to the defense so as to get the amounts due.
Fisher Protests His Story Is True.
Detectives were puzzled Thursday over the persistence with which Ira W. Fisher, the "man of mystery in the Phagan murder case," sticks to his original story involving another man in the slaying of Mary Phagan and declaring Leo M. Frank is innocent.
The man is an enigma, which detectives are assiduously seeking to solve, not because of any importance they attached to his remarkable recital, but in an effort to ascertain the real motive that prompted him to jump into the Frank case in such a sensational manner.
Despite the severe grillings he has undergone already, Fisher has not shown the slightest signs of weakening, and Thursday morning reiterated his story with the same show of confidence that marked his first narration.
Ridicule and the Frank charge that he is "lying," are all the same to him neither disturbs him.
He only smiles when told that he is in a "frame-up," or is accused of being a "dopester" or a "lunatic."
"Nothing to Take Back."
"I'll go to the penitentiary for life before I'll ever change my story in the least I've told just what happened, and there's nothing for me to take back," calmly remarked the mysterious prisoner.
Fisher said he is not worrying over the possible consequences of his trial Saturday morning before Justice of the Peace O. H. Puckett on the warrant charging him with criminal libel.
"I expected all of this I am not surprised at being in jail," he said, "I had read of the way witnesses in the Frank case were being attacked here, and I knew they would go for me as soon as I opened my mouth."
"I started to come over here several weeks ago and tell all I knew about this case, but I knew they would make it hot for me, because of my trouble with my wife and my bad reputation. But I couldn't keep my mouth shut any longer I just worried about this thing until I had to tell somebody about it."
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hostile guffaw somewhere back in the audience."
"Should Have Cleared Court."
The defense, in outlining its reason, held that the judge should have cleared the court or taken other radical steps to put a stop to the demonstrations.
"Threats of clearing the courtroom were not sufficient as the succeeding disturbances, handclapping and other demonstrations evidenced," the reason read.
Solicitor Dorsey, objecting to this reason as he did to practically everyone that was offered, insisted that the dialogue between lawyer and witness which was taking place at the time of the laughter so as to show the real cause of the merriment.
"That's all right, let it go in," acquiesced Arnold.
"I just wanted to show that it was the spectators who were running the court and not the judge and jury."
The transcript of testimony at this point was entered in the reason in accordance with the wishes of the Solicitor.
Judge Roan hurried the lawyers along in the afternoon session and more than twice as many of the reasons were taken up and passed on as in the forenoon.
The majority of the reasons, most of them with slight revisions insisted upon by the Solicitor, were approved by Judge Roan.
Others were dismissed from consideration temporarily to be taken up later when the Solicitor had been able to investigate them carefully by comparison with the records of the case.
Judge Tells of Applause.
One of the most significant events of the hearing came in the certification by Judge Roan of the description of the applause in the courtroom when it was announced that the testimony of Conely in regard to alleged acts of immorality on the part of Frank should remain in the record.
Judge Roan certified that it was his recollection that there was applause and stamping of feet and that there was a demonstration which easily could have been heard by the jurors who were in an adjacent room.
This certification on the part of the judge is regarded as highly favorable to the prospects for a new trial.
Even should a new trial be denied by Judge Roan, the Supreme Court will not be compelled to go behind the statement of facts, as would be necessary in the event that the possibility of the jurors' hearing the demonstration was merely a contention of the defense, unsupported by the court's certification.
All of the grounds bearing on Conley's testimony which had to do with the alleged acts of perversion also were admitted as bases of argument in the move for a new trial.
Practically all of the reasons were subjected to slight amendment at the suggestion of the Solicitor, but were not vitally altered.
Dorsey insisted upon a notation in all of the paragraphs to the effect that no objection to Conley's testimony along this line was made by the lawyers for the defendant until the negro had been under cross-examination for a day and a half.
Attack Miss Hall's Testimony.
The defense succeeded in getting into the reason the statement that the cross-examination had been along other lines that Frank's alleged perversion, and that this phase never had once been touched when the objection was made during the cross-examination.
Frank's lawyers also held that the court was in error in not permitting Miss Hall, the stenographer, to tell that Frank called her on the telephone the morning of the murder and informed her that he had enough work for her to keep her busy all day; in permitting the Solicitor to question Philip Chambers, an office boy at the pencil factory, in regard to purely suppositious conversations with Frank in which Frank was said to have threatened the boy with dismissal, and in not severely rebuking the Solicitor for this line of questioning, and in permitting testimony which left with the jury the impression that pay had been withheld from the Pinkerton narratives in order that their testimony on the stand might be favorable to the defense so as to get the amounts due.
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CRUSHING ASSAULT ON CONDUCT OF TRIAL IS MADE IN FRANK'S FIGHT
Reserving until the last their most crushing assault upon the manner in which the Frank trial was conducted and upon the ad bias of the jurors that tried the accused man, the lawyers for the defense went into the hearing for retrial Thursday afternoon armed with affidavits swearing that Juror A. H. Henslee was in Albany, Ga., on the date he has declared he was not there, and when he is said to have uttered his opinion of Frank's guilt before the trial.
Henslee met the charge that he had expressed in Albany his belief that Frank killed Mary Phagan by the declaration that he was not in that city at the time the utterances were alleged to have been made.
Attorney Rosser announced Thursday afternoon that he would submit to Judge Roan incontrovertible proof that Henslee's name was on the register at a hotel in Albany and under a date corresponding to the time in question.
As another proof that the juror was misrepresenting the facts of the case, the lawyer promised also to submit affidavits from three persons who had sworn that they saw Henslee in Albany at this time.
The forenoon session was practically divided between a determined and uniformly successful struggle by the defense to incorporate the admission of every fragment of character testimony against Frank as a reason upon which to argue for a new trial, and a squabble over the testimony of E. H. Pickett, who declared that Minola Mc Knight had told him that her salary in the Frank home was raised immediately after the crime, that she was given a new hate by Mrs. Frank, and that she was instructed by Mrs. Emil Selig, Mrs. Frank's mother, to say nothing to anyone about the murder.
A long debate also arose over the contention of the defense that the judge erred in letting in the testimony of Harlee Branch, a newspaper man, who made an estimate of the time that it required Jim Conley to re-enact in the factory the part he asserted he had in the Phagan tragedy.
The objection to this testimony was on the ground that it was a pure conclusion; that it was impossible to take a witness to the factory and have him indicate accurately how long it required for him to do one thing or another; that Branch did not pretend to have timed the performance.
And his testimony would not have been admissible even if he had; that Conley's performance at the factory was not the same as he described it on the stand at the trial; that the negro described it entirely differently on the stand, at least, differently in many particulars; that it could not help the jury for Conley to illustrate his last affidavit when he said on the stand that much of it was a lie and didn't happen at all, and that this evidence was of another transaction and not binding on the defendant.
The reason was approved by Judge Roan.
Attorneys Rosser and Arnold maintained that Pickett's testimony should be allowed to stand as a reason to be argued for a new trial, in that it was palpably immaterial evidence employed to impeach the testimony of the Mc Knight woman.
This ground was approved after slight revision by Judge Roan.
Dorsey and Judge Clash.
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in the trial, Solicitor Dorsey took sharp and indignant issue with Judge Roan, asserting that if it was not in the province of the judge to give his opinion as to whether it was possible for the jurors to have heard the demonstration.
"I can give my opinion if I wish," retorted the judge.
The matter was compromised by the qualification that this possibility was "contended."
Indications Thursday were that the review of the 115 reasons would hardly be completed by night.
It is unlikely that the arguments will begin before Friday noon.
They will require at least one day.
The character of Frank, a burning issue during his trial for the murder of Mary Phagan, again was the subject of animated argument.
Almost the entire forenoon was given over to a fight by Frank's attorneys to establish as reasons for a new trial the admission by Judge Roan of all the mass of evidence which sought to prove Frank a pervert and a degenerate of the worst type.
Throughout the hearing the lawyers for Frank made ground after ground for a new trial upon the attacks that had been made by the Solicitor upon Frank's character.
It was apparent that the convicted man's lawyers were confident that the court had been led into an error by admitting testimony of this sort.Each Question Contended.
Every question asked by the Solicitor during the trial which sought to elicit answers derogatory to Frank's character and moral conduct into the numerous reasons for a new trial.
The admission of all the testimony bearing on Frank's alleged attitude toward women and his reported acts of perversion, particularly as testified to by Conley; the alleged bias of jurors, and the demonstrations in the courtroom are the three grounds for a new trial on which the defense will place the greatest stress in their arguments, according to all indications during the first two days of the hearing.
The testimony of Miss Irene Jackson, the pretty daughter of County Policeman Jackson, formed the basis of a heated argument at the outset of the hearing between Solicitor Dorsey and A. E. Stephens on one side and Reuben Arnold and Herbert Haas on the other, the attorneys for the defense coming off victorious.
Luther Rosser, chief of counsel for Frank, was not present when the hearing resumed in the little ante room off the library in the State Library.
Attack Girl's Testimony.
Miss Jackson's testimony was taken up in the forty-third reason.
The court was declared in error because Miss Jackson had been permitted to tell of alleged particular acts of immorality on the part of Frank which had nothing to do with the crime of the murder.
Dorsey maintained that absolutely no objection had been made at the time.
Arnold and Haas replied that a blanket or omnibus objection had been made while Ashley Jones was on the stand from which a ruling came that all testimony of this class should be regarded as objected.
Defense Wins Again.
Judge Roan decided in favor of Arnold and Haas, remarking that the tesitmoynof Miss Jackosn, which had to do with Frank's conduct in the ladies' dressing room on the fourth floor, seemed to be covered by the objection to the cross-questioning of Jones, and also to the direct examination of C. B. Dalton, one of the State's witnesses.
The forty-sixth reason contended that the court erred in letting in the questions of the Solicitor when Miss Lula Mc Donald was on the stand, Miss Mc Donald was asked if she was aware that Frank on the Saturday previous to the murder had been seen on a car to Hapeville in company with a young girl whom he sought to persuade to leave the car with him.
The witness denied that she knew of any such circumstances, but Frank's lawyers contended that the questions, regardless of the answers given, tended to place in the minds of the jurors an unfavorable conception of the defendant's character, a circumstance extremely prejudicial to his case.
The reason was approved by Judge Roan.
Boy's Story Called Unfair.
The forty-seventh ground, based on the testimony of Willie Turner, also was approved as a basis of argument.
Turner testified that he saw Frank talking with Mary Phagan some weeks before the murder and the defense objected on the ground that the Solicitor unfairly was seeking to build up in the minds of the jurors the conviction that Frank for some time previous to the pencil factory tragedy was making persistent endeavors to become intimate with the girl, a suspicion which was unjust in view of the meager evidence.
The forty-eighth reason was withdrawn by Attorney Arnold because his objection made during the trial to the testimony of W. P. Murk, a street car conductor, had been withdrawn.
Murk had testified that he met Daisy Hopkins one Saturday, and that she told him she was on her way to the pencil factory where she had an engagement with the "boss."
The Hopkins woman was a witness during the trial, and her character and reputation were vigorously assailed by the State.
Before the hearing was well under way Attorney Rosser announced that there were a number of affidavits which he had not yet obtained, but which he wished to submit along with the rest as soon as they were signed.
He remarked that Solicitor Dorsey had made the exchange of affidavits so late that he had not had the opportunity to get four or five counter-affidavits which he knew were available.
With the review of the defense's grounds for a new trial more than a third completed, it was regarded as almost certain that the fight on the jurors would be precipitated some time Thursday.
The defense, to support their contentions of bias and violent prejudice, had more than a score of affidavits to submit from reputable and prominent persons in Atlanta, Sparta and Monroe, who swore that they had heard Henslee before the trial bitterly denounce Frank and declare that if he was called as a juror, he would do his best to "break his (Frank's) neck."
Dorsey Full of Fight.
Solicitor Dorsey went into the hearing Thursday prepared to concede nothing and determined to fight every inch of the way against the accusations of bias and prejudice.
He was fortified with affidavits from Henslee and Johenning testifying to their own lack of bias when the trial started and with affidavits from other members of the jury who swore that during the 29 days of the trial they never heard Henslee or Johenning utter a word that indicated their opinions were for or against the defendant.
Reuben Arnold made the startling charge just before the close of the first day's session that it was the crow, and not the judge and jury, who ran the Frank trial.
The discussion was on reason 38, which narrated that during Attorney Arnold's examination of one of the witnesses the spectators laughed in derision when he failed to elicit the answers desired.
"It seemed as though I was the comedian of the trial," observed Arnold.
"I never knew I was so funny until that trial took place. Nearly every time I jumped up there was a hostile guffaw somewhere back in the audience."
The defense, in outlining its reason, held that the judge should have cleared the court or taken other radical steps to put a stop to the demonstrations.
"Threats of clearing the courtroom were not sufficient as the succeeding disturbances, handclapping and other demonstrations evidenced," the reason read.
Solicitor Dorsey, objecting to this reason as he did to practically every one that was offered, insisted that the dialogue between lawyer and witness which was taking place at the time of the laughter, be entered, so as to show the real cause of the merriment.
"That's all right, let it go in," acquiesced Arnold, "I just wanted to show that it was the spectators who were running the court and not the judge and jury."
The transcript of testimony at this point was entered in the reason in accordance with the wishes of the Solicitor.
Judge Roan hurried the lawyers along in the afternoon session and more than twice as many of the reasons were taken up and passed on as in the forenoon.
The majority of the reasons, most of them with slight revisions insisted upon by the Solicitor, were approved by Judge Roan.
Others were dismissed from consideration temporarily to be taken up later when the Solicitor had been able to investigate them carefully by comparison with the records of the case.
Judge Tells of Applause.
One of the most significant events of the hearing came in the certification by the judge Roan of the description of the applause in the courtroom when it was announced that the testimony of Conley in regard to alleged acts of immorality on the part of Frank should remain in the record.
Judge Roan certified that it was his recollection that there was applause and stamping of feet and that there was a demonstration which easily could have been heard by the jurors who were in an adjacent room.
This certification on the part of the judge is regarded as highly favorable to the prospects for a new trial.
Even should a new trial be denied by Judge Roan, the Supreme Court will not be compelled to go behind the statement of facts, as would be necessary in the event that the possibility of the jurors' hearing the demonstration was merely a contention of the defense, unsupported by the court's certification.
All of the grounds bearing on Conley's testimony which had to do with the alleged acts of perversion also were admitted as bases of argument in the move for a new trial.
Practically all of the reasons were subjected to slight amendment at the suggestion of the Solicitor, but were not vitally altered.
Dorsey insisted upon a notation in all of the paragraphs to the effect that no objection to Conley's testimony along this line was made by the lawyers for the defendant until the negro had been under cross-examination for a day and a half.
Attack Miss Hall's Testimony.
The defense succeeded in getting into the reason the statement that the cross-examination had been along other lines that Frank's alleged perversion, and that this phase never had once been touched when the objection was made during the cross-examination.
Frank's lawyers also held that the court was in error in not permitting Miss Hall, the stenographer, to tell that Frank called her on the telephone the morning of the murder and informed her that he had enough work for her to keep her busy all day; in permitting the Solicitor to question Philip Chambers, an office boy at the pencil factory, in regard to purely suppositious conversations with Frank in which Frank was said to have threatened the boy with dismissal, and in not severely rebuking the Solicitor for this line of questioning, and in permitting testimony which left with the jury the impression that pay had been withheld from the Pinkerton narratives in order that their testimony on the stand might be favorable to the defense so as to get the amounts due.
Fisher Protests His Story Is True.
Detectives were puzzled Thursday over the persistence with which Ira W. Fisher, the "man of mystery in the Phagan murder case," sticks to his original story involving another man in the slaying of Mary Phagan and declaring Leo M. Frank is innocent.
The man is an enigma, which detectives are assiduously seeking to solve, not because of any importance they attached to his remarkable recital, but in an effort to ascertain the real motive that prompted him to jump into the Frank case in such a sensational manner.
Despite the severe grillings he has undergone already, Fisher has not shown the slightest signs of weakening, and Thursday morning reiterated his story with the same show of confidence that marked his first narration.
Ridicule and the Frank charge that he is "lying," are all the same to him neither disturbs him.
He only smiles when told that he is in a "frame-up," or is accused of being a "dopester" or a "lunatic."
"Nothing to Take Back."
"I'll go to the penitentiary for life before I'll ever change my story in the least I've told just what happened, and there's nothing for me to take back," calmly remarked the mysterious prisoner.
Fisher said he is not worrying over the possible consequences of his trial Saturday morning before Justice of the Peace O. H. Puckett on the warrant charging him with criminal libel.
"I expected all of this I am not surprised at being in jail," he said, "I had read of the way witnesses in the Frank case were being attacked here, and I knew they would go for me as soon as I opened my mouth."
"I started to come over here several weeks ago and tell all I knew about this case, but I knew they would make it hot for me, because of my trouble with my wife and my bad reputation. But I couldn't keep my mouth shut any longer I just worried about this thing until I had to tell somebody about it."
Shirley's Attorneys Charge Old Grudge.
Charles J. Graham, attorney C. Shirley, the Atlanta merchant, the attempted victim of Ira W. Fisher, returned from an investigation of Fisher's actions in Birmingham Thursday.
Mr. Graham held a long conference with Chief of Detectives Lanford upon his arrival and Fisher was brought from his cell for another cross-examination.
The lawyer's trip mainly was for purpose of locating Joe Hicks, who it is declared, played a leading role in the Fisher fiasco when it was first revealed before Chief of Police Bodeker, of Birmingham.
Hicks is said to have taken Fisher to the Birmingham police official and accused him to tell the story which accused Shirley of Mary Phagan's murder.
Investigation in the Alabama city, Mr. Graham said, failed to reveal the mysterious Hicks.
It was declared there that he had disappeared following the expose of the accusations against Shirley.
The attorney, however, said that he had obtained evidence which will tend to show a motive for Fisher's fabrication.
From what Fisher told Chief Bodeker, according to Graham, he had a private grudge against Shirley and sought revenge.
When questioned on this point Thursday, however, Fisher denied any motive of that kind.
Fisher is held at police headquarters on several serious charges in connection with his story.
Graham declared his investigation had not been completed.
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"MOB MENACED FRANK"
ROSSER COURT RECESSED TO ALLOW ANGER TO DIE, ATTORNEY DECLARES
Attorney Luther Z. Rosser made the positive declaration at the hearing on a new trial for Leo M. Frank Thursday afternoon that if the defendant had been in the courtroom at the time the verdict was rendered he almost certainly would have suffered violence at the hands of the huge crowd outside, especially in the event that an acquittal had been brought in.
"Why, that howling mob of 5,000 would have eaten him alive, if he had gone out among them," shouted Rosser.
"He would have been meat for them."
Rosser's remarks were made during a discussion of the hostile sentiment toward the prisoner, in which it was developed that Frank's pressure at the rendering of the verdict was waived at the suggestion of Judge Roan himself, because the judge was impressed with the possibility of violence and thought it advisable to take every precautionary measure.
The expected attack upon A. H. Henslee and Marcellus Johenning, jurors of the Frank trial, was launched by the attorneys for Frank Thursday afternoon.
The jurors were charged with having expressed before the trial the opinion that Frank was guilty, and it was represented that Frank, therefore, was unable to get a fair and impartial trial.
A score of affidavits were attached as exhibits to bear out the contention of bias.
Several of them were submitted to show that Juror Henslee was in Albany, Ga., on a date he specially had denied being there.
It was at Albany that Henslee is alleged to have made denunciatory remarks against Frank.
Attorney Rosser announced Thursday afternoon that he would submit to Judge Roan incontrovertible proof that Henslee's name was on the register at a hotel in Albany and under a date corresponding to the time in question.
As another proof that the juror was misrepresenting the facts of the case, the lawyer promised also to submit affidavits from three persons who had sworn that they saw Henslee in Albany at this time.
The forenoon session was practically divided between a determined and uniformly successful struggle by the defense to incorporate the admission of every fragment of character testimony against Frank as a reason upon which to argue for a new trial, and a squabble over the testimony of E. H. Pickett, who declared that Minola Mc Knight had told him that her salary in the Frank home was raised immediately after the crime, that she was given a new hate by Mrs. Frank, and that she was instructed by Mrs. Emil Selig, Mrs. Frank's mother, to say nothing to anyone about the murder.
A long debate also arose over the contention of the defense that the judge erred in letting in the testimony of Harlee Branch, a newspaper man, who made an estimate of the time that it required Jim Conley to re-enact in the factory the part he asserted he had in the Phagan tragedy.
Objection to Testimony.
The objection to this testimony was on the ground that it was a pure conclusion; that it was impossible to take a witness to the factory and have him indicate accurately how long it required for him to do one thing or another; that Branch did not pretend to have timed the performance. And his testimony would not have been admissible even if he had; that Conley's performance at the factory was not the same as he described it on the stand at the trial; that the negro described it entirely PAGE 10, COLUMN 1
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ISBELIEF OF FRANK DEFENSE Continued From Page 1.
differently on the stand, at least,
differently in many particulars;
that it could not help the jury for Conley to illustrate his last affidavit when he said on the stand that much of it was a lie and didn't happen at all, and that this evidence was of another transaction and not binding on the defendant.
The reason was approved by Judge Roan.
Attorneys Rosser and Arnold maintained that Pickett's testimony should be allowed to stand as a reason to be argued for a new trial, in that it was palpably immaterial evidence employed to impeach the testimony of the Mc Knight woman.
This ground was approved after slight revision by Judge Roan.
Dorsey and Judge Clash.
In a discussion of the nature of the applause during one of the outbreaks in the trial, Solicitor Dorsey took sharp and indignant issue with Judge Roan, asserting that if it was not in the province of the judge to give his opinion as to whether it was possible for the jurors to have heard the demonstration.
"I can give my opinion if I wish," retorted the judge.
The matter was compromised by the qualification that this possibility was "contended."
Indications Thursday were that the review of the 115 reasons would hardly be completed by night.
It is unlikely that the arguments will begin before Friday noon.
They will require at least one day.
The character of Frank, a burning issue during his trial for the murder of Mary Phagan, again was the subject of animated argument.
Almost the entire forenoon was given over to a fight by Frank's attorneys to establish as reasons for a new trial the admission by Judge Roan of all the mass of evidence which sought to prove Frank a pervert and a degenerate of the worst type.
Throughout the hearing the lawyers for Frank made ground after ground for a new trial upon the attacks that had been made by the Solicitor upon Frank's character.
It was apparent that the convicted man's lawyers were confident that the court had been led into an error by admitting testimony of this sort.Each Question Contended.
Every question asked by the Solicitor during the trial which sought to elicit answers derogatory to Frank's character and moral conduct into the numerous reasons for a new trial.
The admission of all the testimony bearing on Frank's alleged attitude toward women and his reported acts of perversion, particularly as testified to by Conley; the alleged bias of jurors, and the demonstrations in the courtroom are the three grounds for a new trial on which the defense will place the greatest stress in their arguments, according to all indications during the first two days of the hearing.
The testimony of Miss Irene Jackson, the pretty daughter of County Policeman Jackson, formed the basis of a heated argument at the outset of the hearing between Solicitor Dorsey and A. E. Stephens on one side and Reuben Arnold and Herbert Haas on the other, the attorneys for the defense coming off victorious.
Luther Rosser, chief of counsel for Frank, was not present when the hearing resumed in the little ante room off the library in the State Library.
Attack Girl's Testimony.
Miss Jackson's testimony was taken up in the forty-third reason.
The court was declared in error because Miss Jackson had been permitted to tell of alleged particular acts of immorality on the part of Frank which had nothing to do with the crime of the murder.
Dorsey maintained that absolutely no objection had been made at the time.
Arnold and Haas replied that a blanket or omnibus objection had been made while Ashley Jones was on the stand from which a ruling came that all testimony of this class should be regarded as objected.
Defense Wins Again.
Judge Roan decided in favor of Arnold and Haas, remarking that the tesitmoynof Miss Jackosn, which had to do with Frank's conduct in the ladies' dressing room on the fourth floor, seemed to be covered by the objection to the cross-questioning of Jones, and also to the direct examination of C. B. Dalton, one of the State's witnesses.
The forty-sixth reason contended that the court erred in letting in the questions of the Solicitor when Miss Lula Mc Donald was on the stand, Miss Mc Donald was asked if she was aware that Frank on the Saturday previous to the murder had been seen on a car to Hapeville in company with a young girl whom he sought to persuade to leave the car with him.
The witness denied that she knew of any such circumstances, but Frank's lawyers contended that the questions, regardless of the answers given, tended to place in the minds of the jurors an unfavorable conception of the defendant's character, a circumstance extremely prejudicial to his case.
The reason was approved by Judge Roan.
Boy's Story Called Unfair.
The forty-seventh ground, based on the testimony of Willie Turner, also was approved as a basis of argument.
Turner testified that he saw Frank talking with Mary Phagan some weeks before the murder and the defense objected on the ground that the Solicitor unfairly was seeking to build up in the minds of the jurors the conviction that Frank for some time previous to the pencil factory tragedy was making persistent endeavors to become intimate with the girl, a suspicion which was unjust in view of the meager evidence.
The forty-eighth reason was withdrawn by Attorney Arnold because his objection made during the trial to the testimony of W. P. Murk, a street car conductor, had been withdrawn.
Murk had testified that he met Daisy Hopkins one Saturday, and that she told him she was on her way to the pencil factory where she had an engagement with the "boss."
The Hopkins woman was a witness during the trial, and her character and reputation were vigorously assailed by the State.
Before the hearing was well under way Attorney Rosser announced that there were a number of affidavits which he had not yet obtained, but which he wished to submit along with the rest as soon as they were signed.
He remarked that Solicitor Dorsey had made the exchange of affidavits so late that he had not had the opportunity to get four or five counter-affidavits which he knew were available.
With the review of the defense's grounds for a new trial more than a third completed, it was regarded as almost certain that the fight on the jurors would be precipitated some time Thursday.
The defense, to support their contentions of bias and violent prejudice, had more than a score of affidavits to submit from reputable and prominent persons in Atlanta, Sparta and Monroe, who swore that they had heard Henslee before the trial bitterly denounce Frank and declare that if he was called as a juror, he would do his best to "break his (Frank's) neck."
Dorsey Full of Fight.
Solicitor Dorsey went into the hearing Thursday prepared to concede nothing and determined to fight every inch of the way against the accusations of bias and prejudice.
He was fortified with affidavits from Henslee and Johenning testifying to their own lack of bias when the trial started and with affidavits from other members of the jury who swore that during the 29 days of the trial they never heard Henslee or Johenning utter a word that indicated their opinions were for or against the defendant.
Reuben Arnold made the startling charge just before the close of the first day's session that it was the crow, and not the judge and jury, who ran the Frank trial.
The discussion was on reason 38, which narrated that during Attorney Arnold's examination of one of the witnesses the spectators laughed in derision when he failed to elicit the answers desired.
"It seemed as though I was the comedian of the trial," observed Arnold.
"I never knew I was so funny until that trial took place. Nearly every time I jumped up there was a hostile guffaw somewhere back in the audience."
The defense, in outlining its reason, held that the judge should have cleared the court or taken other radical steps to put a stop to the demonstrations.
"Threats of clearing the courtroom were not sufficient as the succeeding disturbances, handclapping and other demonstrations evidenced," the reason read.
Solicitor Dorsey, objecting to this reason as he did to practically every one that was offered, insisted that the dialogue between lawyer and witness which was taking place at the time of the laughter, be entered, so as to show the real cause of the merriment.
"That's all right, let it go in," acquiesced Arnold, "I just wanted to show that it was the spectators who were running the court and not the judge and jury."
The transcript of testimony at this point was entered in the reason in accordance with the wishes of the Solicitor.
Judge Roan hurried the lawyers along in the afternoon session and more than twice as many of the reasons were taken up and passed on as in the forenoon.
The majority of the reasons, most of them with slight revisions insisted upon by the Solicitor, were approved by Judge Roan.
Others were dismissed from consideration temporarily to be taken up later when the Solicitor had been able to investigate them carefully by comparison with the records of the case.
Judge Tells of Applause.
One of the most significant events of the hearing came in the certification by the judge Roan of the description of the applause in the courtroom when it was announced that the testimony of Conley in regard to alleged acts of immorality on the part of Frank should remain in the record.
Judge Roan certified that it was his recollection that there was applause and stamping of feet and that there was a demonstration which easily could have been heard by the jurors who were in an adjacent room.
This certification on the part of the judge is regarded as highly favorable to the prospects for a new trial.
Even should a new trial be denied by Judge Roan, the Supreme Court will not be compelled to go behind the statement of facts, as would be necessary in the event that the possibility of the jurors' hearing the demonstration was merely a contention of the defense, unsupported by the court's certification.
Fisher Protests His Story Is True.
Detectives were puzzled Thursday over the persistence with which Ira W. Fisher, the "man of mystery in the Phagan murder case," sticks to his original story involving another man in the slaying of Mary Phagan and declaring Leo M. Frank is innocent.
The man is an enigma, which detectives are assiduously seeking to solve, not because of any importance they attached to his remarkable recital, but in an effort to ascertain the real motive that prompted him to jump into the Frank case in such a sensational manner.
Despite the severe grillings he has undergone already, Fisher has not shown the slightest signs of weakening, and Thursday morning reiterated his story with the same show of confidence that marked his first narration.
Ridicule and the Frank charge that he is "lying," are all the same to him neither disturbs him.
He only smiles when told that he is in a "frame-up," or is accused of being a "dopester" or a "lunatic."
"Nothing to Take Back."
"I'll go to the penitentiary for life before I'll ever change my story in the least I've told just what happened, and there's nothing for me to take back," calmly remarked the mysterious prisoner.
Fisher said he is not worrying over the possible consequences of his trial Saturday morning before Justice of the Peace O. H. Puckett on the warrant charging him with criminal libel.
"I expected all of this I am not surprised at being in jail," he said, "I had read of the way witnesses in the Frank case were being attacked here, and I knew they would go for me as soon as I opened my mouth."
"I started to come over here several weeks ago and tell all I knew about this case, but I knew they would make it hot for me, because of my trouble with my wife and my bad reputation. But I couldn't keep my mouth shut any longer I just worried about this thing until I had to tell somebody about it."
Shirley's Attorneys Charge Old Grudge.
Charles J. Graham, attorney C. Shirley, the Atlanta merchant, the attempted victim of Ira W. Fisher, returned from an investigation of Fisher's actions in Birmingham Thursday.
Mr. Graham held a long conference with Chief of Detectives Lanford upon his arrival and Fisher was brought from his cell for another cross-examination.
The lawyer's trip mainly was for purpose of locating Joe Hicks, who it is declared, played a leading role in the Fisher fiasco when it was first revealed before Chief of Police Bodeker, of Birmingham.
Hicks is said to have taken Fisher to the Birmingham police official and accused him to tell the story which accused Shirley of Mary Phagan's murder.
Investigation in the Alabama city, Mr. Graham said, failed to reveal the mysterious Hicks.
It was declared there that he had disappeared following the expose of the accusations against Shirley.
The attorney, however, said that he had obtained evidence which will tend to show a motive for Fisher's fabrication.
From what Fisher told Chief Bodeker, according to Graham, he had a private grudge against Shirley and sought revenge.
When questioned on this point Thursday, however, Fisher denied any motive of that kind.
Fisher is held at police headquarters on several serious charges in connection with his story.
Graham declared his investigation had not been completed.
PAGE 10, COLUMN 4
FISHER INDICTEDIN DALTON AS SLAYER
Latest Sensation-Maker in Pha-Gan Case Charged With Kill Ing Man 5 Years Ago.
DALTON, Oct. 23
Ira Fisher, the man who produced the latest sensation in the Frank case, was to-day indicted for murder by the Grand Jury in session here.
The bill of indictment charges him with killing his brother-in-law, Dug Steele.
Steele was found dead beside the Southern Railway tracks near the northern limits of Dalton about five years ago.
It appeared that a train had passed over him, for his head was cut off and the body mangled, but owing to an absence of blood it was thought he had been killed and placed by the track to hide the crime.
This caused the Coroner's jury to prolong the investigation for several days.
A verdict that Steele was killed by a train was finally returned because of inability to find any evidence pointing to anyone as his slayer.
One Grand Jury investigated the death, but took no action.
The affair was then forgotten until the present Grand Jury, besieged by rumors that Steele was murdered, reopened the investigation and got enough evidence to warrant the indictment of Fisher.
Chief Beavers Thursday received a telegram from the chief of police at Dalton, Ga., asking him to hold Fisher to answer a grand jury indictment there for the murder of his brother-in-law.
Fisher did not appear downcast when he was informed of this indictment.
He protested his innocence, and declared the indictment is a plot to imprison him because he accused J. C. Shirley.
"The detectives are the cause of it," he declared.
"They have combined against me, and the indictment is nothing but a frame-up.
Bud Steel, my brother-in-law, was killed about four years ago.
Seven or eight men were under suspicion when the Coroner did his inquest.
I was relieved of all suspicion at the inquest because I proved by seven, or eight people that I had sat up all night with the sick wife of a friend, Cliff Barden, and they swore I had never been out of the house.
Steel and I were on the best of terms when he was killed, and had not had a quarrel like the detectives say we had."
PAGE 13, COLUMN 1
EX-JUSTICE S. R.
ATKINSON PRAISES AND AMPLIFIES JURY SYSTEM EDITORIAL
In response to the editorial in Wednesday's Georgian, "The Jury System of Georgia on Trial, former Supreme Court Justice Spencer R. Atkinson has written the following letter.
Letters from several other readers of The Georgian have been received and everyone is invited to send his opinion of Georgia's jury system to this paper.
Following is Judge Atkinson's letter:
Editor Georgian:
I have read with great interest the splendid editorial in your issue of yesterday's date, entitled "The Jury System of Georgia on Trial."
To your masterly presentation of the occasion and reasons for your editorial utterance at this time I could not hope to add.
In the concluding sentence of that editorial you invite suggestions from your readers as to the proper method of "safeguarding jurors in the future," such as will make "the jury system of our State so strong that it will not break down anywhere."
System Is Simple.
I shall not presume to enter upon the discussion of the jury system as it relates to or its integrity is called in question in the particular case to which you refer.
It is presumed that the courts will so deal with that matter that no odium can attach to our jury system because of any revelations which may have been made in that case.
However, such revelations may reflect upon the individual juror or jurors whose conduct is called in question.
I will, however, as an interested reader of your editorial, claim your indulgence and ask the privilege of submitting some observations upon the general subject concerning which you invite discussion and suggestion.
It is submitted that the jury system of this State, as a system, is as nearly perfect as human ingenuity can devise.
It possesses the merit of extreme simplicity to start with.
It provides that none other save upright and intelligent citizens shall sit upon juries.
It requires and provides for the impartial selection, by sworn jury commissioners, of the persons whose names shall be entered upon the jury list.Drawing Impartial. It provides a strictly impartial method for the drawing of jurors, and directs that they should be summoned by a sworn officer of the law. After they are thus selected they are chosen in the given case under a system which is perfectly fair and impartial as between the parties, and they are even then as individual jurors subjected to such an examination as but for the intervention of the human element, assures absolutely the selection of only upright, intelligent and impartial jurors to pass upon the issues made.
I submit, therefore, that the system, in and of itself, is sufficiently strong.
If this system, in its just operation, fails to furnish such a jury as the law requires and such a jury as measures up to the highest standard of human perfection.
In my judgement, we will have to look deeper than and beyond the system for the causes which produce the failure.
Causes of Bias.
Assuming that in the process of selection those charged with administration of the system have failed of their duty, the responsibility is and should be upon the individual officers charged with one duty of selection.
Let us suppose, however, that there has been no failure here, and that still upon the jury there appears one who because of bias or prejudice, enters upon the trial with a fixed determination, we will say, in a criminal case, either to convict or acquit the defendant; the presence of such a man on a jury could result only from one of two causes either dense ignorance, almost to the point of imbecility, or inexcusable and criminal corruption.
Before being sworn in a felony case each individual juror is required to answer, on oath, these three questions in order to test his impartiality;
First.
Have you, from having seen the crime committed, or from having heard any of the testimony delivered on oath, formed and expressed an opinion in regard to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner at the bar?
When Disqualified.
If he answers Yes, he is disqualified.
Second. Have you any bias or prejudice in your mind, either for or against the prisoner at the bar?
An affirmative answer to this question disqualifies him.
Third. Are you perfectly impartial between the State and the accused?
If the answer in the negative, he is disqualified.
I therefore submit to every candid mind that no man can truthfully and honestly answer these questions and permit himself to be chosen as a juror if he has upon his mind such a bias as amounts to a fixed opinion in regard to the guilt or innocence of the person being tried.
It will be observed, then, that the fault, if any arising from a failure of justice in a given case, in so far as that failure rests upon the finding of the jury, it is not to be attributed to the jury system, nor ought the right of trial by jury he subjected to invidious criticism because of the happening of such an event, but, on the contrary, it should be attributed to the man upon whom the system operates and who is engaged in the execution of the duties enjoined upon him by that system.
It is therefore that I fear the defect to which you refer lies deeper than the system.
It is imbedded in the heart and conscience of the man who abuses his right to sit on a jury.
If trial by jury as an institution or the administration of public justice (and by the term public justice I means justice administered in accordance with the law as opposed to that species of private justice exemplified in the so-called system known as trial by mob) shall fall of the purpose for which it was originally designed, such failure must be attributed to the men by whom the law is administered, and not to other cause.
If men deliberately swear in as jurors for the corrupt purpose of bringing about a particular result, or after being sworn in, led by prejudice they heed not the voice of reason, or if overmastered by passion they should tear away the very pillars of the temple in order to gratify their private malice or a supposed public demand for the sacrifice of a victim, it can not be supposed that any institution and withstand such an assault.
Trial by Jury Scared.
When violence rules the land of mad anarchy rides upon the wings of revolution, we can not hope that justice may assert herself; but when, in normal times, people come to truly value life, liberty and the right to enjoy property, and the constitutional guarantees for stability, their minds will instinctively turn into the right of trial by juror as the one institution which affords to them protection against the encroachments of arbitrary power.
The right of trial by jury lies close to the hearts of the American people.
It is sacred wherever the common law prevails.
It is the sheet anchor which has steadied Anglo-Saxon institutions amidst the storms of revolution which have threatened to overwhelm them in the past.
It has been the one institution which has afforded protection to the weak against the aggressions of the strong, given shelter to the poor when their rights were invaded by the rich and powerful, and has at all times been the sure refuge of the citizen, whatever his station in life, against those who, in violation of law, would despoil him of his rights.
How to Preserve It.
You do well say that the people should take counsel of themselves as to how this inestimable right may be best preserved.
There never was an apter time for anxious and for sober thought.
Than the right of trial by jury, there is none which should be more scrupulously guarded against the insidious influence of personal corruption or ignorance a right which the juror himself, by his improper conduct, may expose to public ridicule or contempt.
Personally, I have, all my life, been an ardent advocate of the strongest possible requirements as to the qualifications and character of jurors, and judges as well.
To fill the offices of juror or of judge, not only, in my judgement, should the incumbent be a man of irreproachable personal integrity, superior to the minor prejudices which sometimes enter into human deliberation a man of blameless private life, a man who, like the elder Brutus, would sacrifice his own son on the altar of his country's good but who should be a man endowed with such a Spartan fortitude, such courage as will enable and impel him to do battle for justice and for right at all times and everywhere, against every enemy against law or order, form whatever source opposition may arise.
Defy Public, if Need Be.
Whether such opposition shall seek to seduce him by the smiles of the siren or to intimidate him by the angry roar of the commune, let him, indeed, be such a one as shall be willing to stand up in the face of public opinion brave it, and, if need be, defy it in order to preserve from pagan touch the ark of the covenant, under which is sheltered all that is dear to every American citizen.
When civic righteousness shall bring the citizen to this standard, when the public conscience shall have been educated to a just conception of the duties and responsibilities of citizenship, when every man selected as a juror shall feel a sense of personal consecration to his task and shall approach the performance of his duty in the spirit of which I speak, then and then only will the jury system be freed of reproach and its permanency definitely assured; then and then only will one whose rights are being judicially ascertained be assured of a judicial trial and of the determination of his rights according to the law of the land.
More than this no man has a right to demand; less than this the Government should be ashamed to accord to him.
SPENCER R. ATKINSON.
PAGE 14, COLUMN 1
EX-JUSTICE S. R.
ATKINSON PRAISES AND AMPLIFIES JURY SYSTEM EDITORIAL
In response to the editorial in Wednesday's Georgian, "The Jury System of Georgia on Trial, former Supreme Court Justice Spencer R. Atkinson has written the following letter.
Letters from several other readers of The Georgian have been received and everyone is invited to send his opinion of Georgia's jury system to this paper.
Following is Judge Atkinson's letter:
Editor Georgian:
I have read with great interest the splendid editorial in your issue of yesterday's date, entitled "The Jury System of Georgia on Trial."
To your masterly presentation of the occasion and reasons for your editorial utterance at this time I could not hope to add.
In the concluding sentence of that editorial you invite suggestions from your readers as to the proper method of "safeguarding jurors in the future," such as will make "the jury system of our State so strong that it will not break down anywhere."
System Is Simple.
I shall not presume to enter upon the discussion of the jury system as it relates to or its integrity is called in question in the particular case to which you refer.
It is presumed that the courts will so deal with that matter that no odium can attach to our jury system because of any revelations which may have been made in that case.
However, such revelations may reflect upon the individual juror or jurors whose conduct is called in question.
I will, however, as an interested reader of your editorial, claim your indulgence and ask the privilege of submitting some observations upon the general subject concerning which you invite discussion and suggestion.
It is submitted that the jury system of this State, as a system, is as nearly perfect as human ingenuity can devise.
It possesses the merit of extreme simplicity to start with.
It provides that none other save upright and intelligent citizens shall sit upon juries.
It requires and provides for the impartial selection, by sworn jury commissioners, of the persons whose names shall be entered upon the jury list.Drawing Impartial. It provides a strictly impartial method for the drawing of jurors, and directs that they should be summoned by a sworn officer of the law. After they are thus selected they are chosen in the given case under a system which is perfectly fair and impartial as between the parties, and they are even then as individual jurors subjected to such an examination as but for the intervention of the human element, assures absolutely the selection of only upright, intelligent and impartial jurors to pass upon the issues made.
I submit, therefore, that the system, in and of itself, is sufficiently strong. If this system, in its just operation, fails to furnish such a jury as the law requires and such a jury as measures up to the highest standard of human perfection.
In my judgement, we will have to look deeper than and beyond the system for the causes which produce the failure.
Causes of Bias.
Assuming that in the process of selection those charged with administration of the system have failed of their duty, the responsibility is and should be upon the individual officers charged with one duty of selection.
Let us suppose, however, that there has been no failure here, and that still upon the jury there appears one who because of bias or prejudice, enters upon the trial with a fixed determination, we will say, in a criminal case, either to convict or acquit the defendant; the presence of such a man on a jury could result only from one of two causes either dense ignorance, almost to the point of imbecility, or inexcusable and criminal corruption.
Before being sworn in a felony case each individual juror is required to answer, on oath, these three questions in order to test his impartiality;
First.
Have you, from having seen the crime committed, or from having heard any of the testimony delivered on oath, formed and expressed an opinion in regard to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner at the bar?
When Disqualified.
If he answers Yes, he is disqualified.
Second. Have you any bias or prejudice in your mind, either for or against the prisoner at the bar?
An affirmative answer to this question disqualifies him.
Third. Are you perfectly impartial between the State and the accused?
If the answer in the negative, he is disqualified.
I therefore submit to every candid mind that no man can truthfully and honestly answer these questions and permit himself to be chosen as a juror if he has upon his mind such a bias as amounts to a fixed opinion in regard to the guilt or innocence of the person being tried.
It will be observed, then, that the fault, if any arising from a failure of justice in a given case, in so far as that failure rests upon the finding of the jury, it is not to be attributed to the jury system, nor ought the right of trial by jury he subjected to invidious criticism because of the happening of such an event, but, on the contrary, it should be attributed to the man upon whom the system operates and who is engaged in the execution of the duties enjoined upon him by that system.
It is therefore that I fear the defect to which you refer lies deeper than the system.
It is imbedded in the heart and conscience of the man who abuses his right to sit on a jury.
If trial by jury as an institution or the administration of public justice (and by the term public justice I means justice administered in accordance with the law as opposed to that species of private justice exemplified in the so-called system known as trial by mob) shall fall of the purpose for which it was originally designed, such failure must be attributed to the men by whom the law is administered, and not to other cause.
If men deliberately swear in as jurors for the corrupt purpose of bringing about a particular result, or after being sworn in, led by prejudice they heed not the voice of reason, or if overmastered by passion they should tear away the very pillars of the temple in order to gratify their private malice or a supposed public demand for the sacrifice of a victim, it can not be supposed that any institution and withstand such an assault.
Trial by Jury Scared.
When violence rules the land of mad anarchy rides upon the wings of revolution, we can not hope that justice may assert herself; but when, in normal times, people come to truly value life, liberty and the right to enjoy property, and the constitutional guarantees for stability, their minds will instinctively turn into the right of trial by juror as the one institution which affords to them protection against the encroachments of arbitrary power.
The right of trial by jury lies close to the hearts of the American people.
It is sacred wherever the common law prevails.
It is the sheet anchor which has steadied Anglo-Saxon institutions amidst the storms of revolution which have threatened to overwhelm them in the past.
It has been the one institution which has afforded protection to the weak against the aggressions of the strong, given shelter to the poor when their rights were invaded by the rich and powerful, and has at all times been the sure refuge of the citizen, whatever his station in life, against those who, in violation of law, would despoil him of his rights.
How to Preserve It.
You do well say that the people should take counsel of themselves as to how this inestimable right may be best preserved.
There never was an apter time for anxious and for sober thought.
Than the right of trial by jury, there is none which should be more scrupulously guarded against the insidious influence of personal corruption or ignorance a right which the juror himself, by his improper conduct, may expose to public ridicule or contempt.
Personally, I have, all my life, been an ardent advocate of the strongest possible requirements as to the qualifications and character of jurors, and judges as well.
To fill the offices of juror or of judge, not only, in my judgement, should the incumbent be a man of irreproachable personal integrity, superior to the minor prejudices which sometimes enter into human deliberation a man of blameless private life, a man who, like the elder Brutus, would sacrifice his own son on the altar of his country's good but who should be a man endowed with such a Spartan fortitude, such courage as will enable and impel him to do battle for justice and for right at all times and everywhere, against every enemy against law or order, form whatever source opposition may arise.
Defy Public, if Need Be.
Whether such opposition shall seek to seduce him by the smiles of the siren or to intimidate him by the angry roar of the commune, let him, indeed, be such a one as shall be willing to stand up in the face of public opinion brave it, and, if need be, defy it in order to preserve from pagan touch the ark of the covenant, under which is sheltered all that is dear to every American citizen.
When civic righteousness shall bring the citizen to this standard, when the public conscience shall have been educated to a just conception of the duties and responsibilities of citizenship, when every man selected as a juror shall feel a sense of personal consecration to his task and shall approach the performance of his duty in the spirit of which I speak, then and then only will the jury system be freed of reproach and its permanency definitely assured; then and then only will one whose rights are being judicially ascertained be assured of a judicial trial and of the determination of his rights according to the law of the land.
More than this no man has a right to demand; less than this the Government should be ashamed to accord to him.
SPENCER R. ATKINSON.
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- Police Question Factory Superintendent, The Atlanta Georgian, Monday, 28th April 1913. [Last Updated On: February 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
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- Monday, 28th April 1913 Story of the Killing as the Meager Facts Reveal It [Last Updated On: February 21st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 28th April 1913 Suspect Gantt Tells His Own Story [Last Updated On: February 21st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
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- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Reward of $1,000 Urged by Mayor [Last Updated On: March 7th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
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- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Sisters New Story Likely to Clear Gantt as Suspect [Last Updated On: March 7th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Tells Jury He Saw Girl and Mullinax Together [Last Updated On: March 7th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Tells of Watchman Lee Explaining the Notes [Last Updated On: March 7th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
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- Thursday, 1st May 1913 State Enters Phagan Case; Frank and Lee are Taken to Tower [Last Updated On: March 14th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
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- Saturday, 3rd May 1913 Analysis of Blood Stains May Solve Phagan Mystery [Last Updated On: March 14th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
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- Sunday, 4th May 1913 Gov. Brown on the Phagan Case [Last Updated On: March 14th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 4th May 1913 Grand Jury to Take Up Phagan Case To-morrow [Last Updated On: March 14th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 4th May 1913 Old Police Reporter Analyzes Mystery Phagan Case Solution Far Off, He Says [Last Updated On: March 14th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 4th May 1913 Slayer of Mary Phagan May Still be at Large [Last Updated On: March 14th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 5th May 1913 Coroners Jury Likely to Hold Both Prisoners [Last Updated On: March 14th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 5th May 1913 Crowds at Phagan Inquest [Last Updated On: March 14th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 5th May 1913 Frank on Witness Stand [Last Updated On: March 14th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 5th May 1913 Judge Charges Grand Jury to Go Deeply Into Phagan Mystery [Last Updated On: March 14th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 5th May 1913 Judge W. D. Ellis Charges Grand Jury to Probe into Phagan Slaying Mystery [Last Updated On: March 14th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 5th May 1913 Phagan Girl’s Body Exhumed [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 6th May 1913 Bowen Still Held by Houston Police in the Phagan Case [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 6th May 1913 Brother Declares Bowen Left Georgia in August [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 6th May 1913 Frank’s Testimony Fails to Lift Veil of Mystery [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 6th May 1913 How Frank Spent Day of Tragedy [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 6th May 1913 Newest Clews in Phagan Case Not Yet Public [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 6th May 1913 Phagan Case and the Solicitor Generals Power Under Law—Dorsey Hasnt Encroached on Coroner [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 7th May 1913 Employee of Lunch Stand Near Pencil Factory is Trailed to Alabama [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 7th May 1913 Lee is Quizzed by Dorsey for New Evidence [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 7th May 1913 Phagan Girls Body Again Exhumed for Finger-Print Clews [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 7th May 1913 Solicitor Dorsey Orders Body Exhumed in the Hope of Getting New Evidence [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Another Clew in Phagan Case is Worthless [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Black Testifies Quinn Denied Visiting Factory [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Boots Rogers Tells How Body Was Found [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Didnt See Girl Late Saturday, He Admits [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Frank Answers Questions Nervously When Recalled [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Frank of Nervous Nature; Says Superintendent Aide [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Girl Employe on Fourth Floor of Factory Saturday [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Grand Jury to Sift the Evidence in the Phagan Case Within the Next Few Days [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Inquest Scene is Dramatic in its Tenseness [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Lee Repeats His Private Conversation With Frank [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Leo Frank is Again Quizzed by Coroner [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Pinkerton Detective Tells of Call From Factory Head [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Police Still Withhold Evidence. Frank To Be Examined on New Lines [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Quinn, Foreman Over Slain Girl, Tells of Seeing Frank [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Stenographer in Factory Office on Witness Stand [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 9th May 1913 Best Detective in America Now is on Case, Says Dorsey [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 10th May 1913 Guard of Secrecy is Thrown About Phagan Search by Solicitor [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 11th May 1913 Caught Frank With Girl in Park, He Says [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 11th May 1913 Frank is Awaiting Action of the Grand Jury Calmly [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 11th May 1913 Mary Phagans Death Only Assured Fact Developed [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 11th May 1913 Weak Evidence Against Men in Phagan Slaying [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 12th May 1913 Burns Called into Phagan Mystery; On Way From Europe [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 12th May 1913 Phagan Case is Delayed [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 13th May 1913 Frank’s Life in Tower [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 13th May 1913 Mother Thinks Police Are Doing Their Best [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 13th May 1913 New Theory is Offered in Phagan Mystery [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 14th May 1913 Friends Say Franks Actions Point to Innocence [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 14th May 1913 Secret Hunt by Burns in Mystery is Likely [Last Updated On: March 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 15th May 1913 Burns Investigator Will Probe Slaying [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 16th May 1913 $1,000 Offered Burns to Take Phagan Case [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 16th May 1913 Burns Hunt for Phagan Slayer Begun [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 16th May 1913 Secret Probe Began by Burns Agent into the Phagan Mystery [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 17th May 1913 New Phagan Witnesses Have Been Found [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 18th May 1913 Burns, Called in as Last Resort, Faces Cold Trail in Baffling Phagan Case [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 18th May 1913 Burns Sleuth Makes Report in Phagan Case [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 18th May 1913 Greeks Add to Fund to Solve Phagan Case [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 19th May 1913 Burns Agent Outlines Phagan Theory [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 19th May 1913 Burns Eager to Solve Phagan Case [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 20th May 1913 Cases Ready Against Lee and Leo Frank [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 21st May 1913 T. B. Felder Repudiates Report of Activity for Frank [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 22nd May 1913 Grand Jury Wont Hear Leo Frank or Lee [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 23rd May 1913 Dictograph Record Used Against Felder [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 23rd May 1913 Felder Denies Phagan Bribe; Calls Colyar Crook and Liar [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 23rd May 1913 Felder Denies Phagan Bribery; Dictograph Record Used Against Felder [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 23rd May 1913 Frank Feeling Fine But Will Not Discuss His Case [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 23rd May 1913 Here is Affidavit Charging Bribery [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 23rd May 1913 Indictment of Both Lee and Frank is Asked [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Beavers Says He Will Seek Indictments [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Blease Ironic in Comments on Felder Trap [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Colyar Called Convict and Insane [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Colyar Held for Forgery [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Dictograph Catches Mayor in Net [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Dictograph Record Alleged Bribe Offer [Last Updated On: April 11th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Felder Charges Police Plot to Shield Slayer [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Felders Fight is to Get Chief and Lanford Out of Office [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Frame-Up Aimed at Burns Men, Says Tobie [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Jones Attacks Beavers and Charges Police Crookedness [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Mayor Admits Dictograph is Correct [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Miles Says He Had Mayor Go to Room [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Plot on Life of Beavers Told by Colyar [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Strangulation Charge is in Indictments [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 25th May 1913 Attorney, in Long Statement, Claims Dictograph Records Against Him Padded [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 25th May 1913 Colyar Arrest Proper End to Plot of Crook [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 25th May 1913 Colyar, Held as Forger, is Freed on Bond; Long Crime Record Charged [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 25th May 1913 Dorsey to Present Graft Charges if They Stand Up [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 25th May 1913 Ill Indict Gang, Says Beavers [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 25th May 1913 Long Criminal Record of Colyar is Cited [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Accuses Tobie of Kidnaping Attempt [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Evidence Against Frank Conclusive, Say Police [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Lay Bribery Effort to Franks Friends [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Mason Blocks Attempt to Oust Chief [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Mayor Eager to Bring Back Tenderloin, Declares Chief [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Mayor Gives Out Sizzling Reply to Chief Beavers [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Pinkerton Man Says Frank is Guilty [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Will Take Charge of Graft to Grand Jury for Vindication [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 27th May 1913 Burns Man Quits Case; Declares He Is Opposed [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 27th May 1913 Felder Aide Offers Vice List to Chief [Last Updated On: April 22nd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 27th May 1913 State Faces Big Task in Trial of Frank as Slayer [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 27th May 1913 Suspicion Turned to Conley; Accused by Factory Foreman [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 28th May 1913 Chief Beavers to Renew His Vice War [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 28th May 1913 Conley Says Frank Took Him to Plant on Day of Slaying [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 28th May 1913 Conley Was in Factory on Day of Slaying [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 28th May 1913 Woman Writes in Defense of Leo M. Frank [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 29th May 1913 Burns Joins in Hunt for Phagan Slayer [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 29th May 1913 Conley Re-enacts in Plant Part He Says He Took in Slaying [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 29th May 1913 Felder Bribery Charge Expected [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 29th May 1913 Negro Conleys Affidavit Lays Bare Slaying [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 29th May 1913 Ready to Indict Conley as an Accomplice [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 30th May 1913 Negro Conley Now Says He Helped to Carry Away Body [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 31st May 1913 Conley Star Actor in Dramatic Third Degree [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 31st May 1913 Plan to Confront Conley and Frank for New Admission [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 31st May 1913 Silence of Conley Put to End by Georgian [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 31st May 1913 Special Session of Grand Jury Called [Last Updated On: April 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 1st June 1913 Confession of Conley Makes No Changes in States Case [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 1st June 1913 Conley is Unwittingly Friend of Frank, Says Old Police Reporter [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 1st June 1913 Conleys Story Cinches Case Against Frank, Says Lanford [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 1st June 1913 Dorseys Grill Fails to Make Conley Admit Hand in Killing [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 1st June 1913 Today is Mary Phagans Birthday; Mother Tells of Party She Planned [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 2nd June 1913 5 to Testify Frank Was at Home at Hour Negro Says He Aided [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 2nd June 1913 Beavers to Talk Over the Felder Row With Dorsey [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 2nd June 1913 Negro Cook at Home Where Frank Lived Held by the Police [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 3rd June 1913 Bitter Fight Certain in Trial of Frank [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 3rd June 1913 Felder Says He Will Lay Bare Startling Police Graft Plans [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 4th June 1913 Cooks Sensational Affidavit [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 4th June 1913 Fain Named in Vice Quiz as Resort Visitor [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 4th June 1913 Franks Cook Was Counted Upon as Defense Witness [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 5th June 1913 Challenges Felder to Prove His Charge [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 5th June 1913 Cook Repudiates Entire Affidavit Police Possess [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 5th June 1913 I Know My Husband is Innocent, Asserts Wife of Leo M. Frank [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 5th June 1913 Mother Here to Aid Frank in Trial [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 5th June 1913 New Conley Confession Reported to Jury [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 6th June 1913 Chief Says Law Balks His War on Vice [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 6th June 1913 Report Negro Found Who Saw Phagan Attack [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 7th June 1913 Defense Bends Efforts to Prove Conley Slayer [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 7th June 1913 Defense Digs Deep to Show Conley is Phagan Girl Slayer [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 7th June 1913 Mrs. Frank Attacks Solicitor H. M. Dorsey in a New Statement [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 8th June 1913 Fair Play Alone Can Find Truth in Phagan Puzzle, Declares Old Reporter [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 9th June 1913 Foreman Tells Why He Holds Conley Guilty [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 9th June 1913 Rosser Asks Grand Jury Grill for Conley [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 10th June 1913 Eyewitness to Phagan Slaying Sought [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 10th June 1913 Indictment of Felder and Fain Asked [Last Updated On: May 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 11th June 1913 Asks Beavers to Investigate Affidavit [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 11th June 1913 Felder Returns Phagan Fund to Givers [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 11th June 1913 Plot Exposed, Says Felder, But Lanford Doubts Affidavit [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 11th June 1913 Police Hold Conley By Courts Order [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 12th June 1913 Face Conley and Frank, Lanford Urges [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 13th June 1913 Judge Roan to Decide Conleys Jail Fate [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 13th June 1913 Negro Freed But Jailed Again On Suspicion [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 14th June 1913 Sheriff Mangum Near End, Says Lawyer Smith [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 14th June 1913 State Takes Advantage of Points Known [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 16th June 1913 Colyar Returns Promising Sensation [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 16th June 1913 Dorsey Aide Says Frank Is Fast In Net [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 17th June 1913 Sensations in Phagan Case at Hand [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 18th June 1913 Rush Plans for Trial of Leo Frank [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 19th June 1913 Blow Aimed at Formby Story [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 20th June 1913 Frank Trial Will Not Be Long One [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 21st June 1913 Justice Aim in Phagan Case, Says Hooper [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 22nd June 1913 Arnold to Aid Frank [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 22nd June 1913 Jurors, Not Newspapers, To Return Frank Verdict, Declares Old Reporter [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 23rd June 1913 State Ready for Frank Trial on June 30 [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 23rd June 1913 Venire of 72 for Frank Jury Is Drawn [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 24th June 1913 Both Sides Called in Conference by Judge; Trial Set for July 28 [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 25th June 1913 Conley, Put on Grill, Sticks Story [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 26th June 1913 Stover Girl Will Star in Frank Trial [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 27th June 1913 Lanford and Felder Are Held for Libel [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 27th June 1913 New Frank Evidence Held by Dorsey [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 28th June 1913 Gov. Slaton Takes Oath Simply [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 28th June 1913 State Secures New Phagan Evidence [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 29th June 1913 Brilliant Legal Battle Is Sure as Hooper And Arnold Clash in Trial of Leo Frank [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 29th June 1913 Many Experts to Take Stand in Frank Trial [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 30th June 1913 Conley Tale Is Hope of Defense [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 1st July 1913 Colyar Indicted as Libeler of Col. Felder [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 1st July 1913 Colyar Not Indicted On Charge of Libel [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 1st July 1913 Frank Is Willing for State to Grill Him [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 1st July 1913 May Indict Conley as Slayer [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 1st July 1913 May Indict Conley in Phagan Case [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 1st July 1913 “No” Bill Is Returned Against A. S. Colyar [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 2nd July 1913 Findings in Probe are Guarded [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 3rd July 1913 Attempt by Colyar To Disbar Felder Is Halted; Tries Again [Last Updated On: May 27th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 3rd July 1913 Writ Sought In Move to Free Negro Lee [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 4th July 1913 New Testimony Lays Crime to Conley [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 5th July 1913 Application for Lee’s Release Delayed [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 5th July 1913 Drop Ninth in Police Scandal [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 5th July 1913 Liberty for Newt Lee Sought [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 5th July 1913 Unbiased in the Flanders Case, Says Slaton [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 6th July 1913 Application to Release Lee is Ready to File [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 6th July 1913 New Move in Phagan Case by Solicitor [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 6th July 1913 Phagan Case Centers on Conley; Negro Lone Hope of Both Sides [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 7th July 1913 Lee’s Attorney is Ready for Writ Fight [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 7th July 1913 Operations of Slavers in Hotels Bared [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 8th July 1913 Attitude of Defense Secret [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 8th July 1913 Girl Tells of Life in Slavers’ Hands [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 8th July 1913 Grants Right to Demand Lee’s Freedom [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 8th July 1913 Police Hunt Principals in Expose [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 8th July 1913 Refused by Brown, Mangham Now Asks Slaton for Pardon [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 8th July 1913 State Sure Lee Will Not Be Released [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 9th July 1913 Girl Springs Sensation in Phagan Case [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 9th July 1913 New Evidence in Phagan Case Found [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 9th July 1913 Sensations in Story of Girl Victim [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 10th July 1913 Beavers in Speech Warns Policemen to Keep Out of Dives [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 10th July 1913 Beavers’ War on Vice is Lauded by Women [Last Updated On: June 15th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 10th July 1913 Chief Expects Arrests in Vice Probe [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 10th July 1913 Says Conley Confessed Slaying [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 11th July 1913 Girl Tells Police Startling Story of Vice Ring [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 11th July 1913 Mincey’s Story Jolts Police to Activity [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 11th July 1913 Slaying Charge for Conley Is Expected [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 12th July 1913 Conley Kept on Grill 4 Hours [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 12th July 1913 Dragnet for ‘Slavers’ Is Set [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 12th July 1913 Five Caught in Beavers’ Vice Net [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 12th July 1913 Parents Are Blamed for ‘Slavery’ [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 12th July 1913 Says Women Heard Conley Confession [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 13th July 1913 Affidavits to Back Mincey Story Found [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 13th July 1913 Indictment of Conley Puzzle for Grand Jury [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 13th July 1913 Seek Negro Who Says He Was Eye-Witness to Phagan Murder [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 14th July 1913 Girl Bares New Vice System [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 14th July 1913 Mincey’s Own Story [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 14th July 1913 Prosecution Attacks Mincey’s Affidavit [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 14th July 1913 Vice Pickets Posted at Hotels [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 15th July 1913 Holloway Corroborates Mincey’s Affidavit [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 15th July 1913, Atlanta Police Close 2 Rooming Houses, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: July 3rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 15th July 1913 White Men Fined in War on Negro Dives [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 15th July 1913 Woodward Aids Chief in Vice Crusade [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 16th July 1913 Dorsey Adds Startling Evidence [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 16th July 1913 State to Fight Move to Indict Jim Conley [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 17th July 1913 Dorsey Blocked Indictment of Conley [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 17th July 1913 Mayor and Broyles in War of Words [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 17th July 1913 Mayor Asked to Probe Action of Police [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 17th July 1913 Woodward Enemy to Society, Says Recorder Broyles [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 17th July 1913 Youth Accused in Vice Ring on Trial [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 18th July 1913 Detectives Working to Discredit Mincey [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 18th July 1913 Woodward-Broyles Breach Widens [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 19th July 1913 Dorsey Resists Move to Indict Jim Conley [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 19th July 1913 Natural Crank, Mayor’s Shot at Broyles [Last Updated On: July 1st, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 20th July 1913 Attorney for Conley Makes a Statement [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 20th July 1913 Counsel of Frank Says Dorsey Has Sought to Hide Facts [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 20th July 1913 Dorsey Fights Movement to Indict Conley [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 20th July 1913 Mincey Ready to Tell Story to Grand Jury [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 20th July 1913 Mincey Story Declared Vital To Both Sides in Frank Case [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 21st July 1913 Doctor And Girl Are Taken On Vice Charge [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 21st July 1913 Four Women Caught In Vice Net Escape From Martha Home [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 21st July 1913 Grand Jury Meets to Consider Conley Case [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 21st July 1913 Protest of Solicitor Dorsey Wins [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 22nd July 1913 Defense Asks Ruling on Delaying Frank Trial [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 22nd July 1913 Grand Jury Defers Action on Conley [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 22nd July 1913 Story of Phagan Case by Chapters [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 23rd July 1913 Conley is Confronted with Lee Dorsey Grills Negroes in Same Cell at Jail [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 23rd July 1913 Lanford Ridicules Bludgeon Evidence [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 23rd July 1913 Second Chapter in Phagan Mystery [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 24th July 1913 Frank Trial Delay up to Roan [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 24th July 1913 Let the Frank Trial Go On [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 24th July 1913 Third Chapter in Phagan Mystery [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 24th July 1913 Veneir is Drawn to Try Leo M. Frank Monday [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 25th July 1913 Witnesses for Frank Called [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 26th July 1913 Chapter 5 in Phagan Case [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 26th July 1913 Pinkerton Chief Scored by Lanford [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 26th July 1913 Present New Evidence Against Frank [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Brewster Denies Aiding Dorsey in Phagan Case [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Defense Claims Conley and Lee Prepared Notes [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Every Bit of Evidence Against Frank Sifted and Tested, Declares Solicitor [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Frank Fights for Life Monday [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Frank Watches Closely as the Men Who are to Decide Fate are Picked [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Phagan Case of Peculiar And Enthralling Interest [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Pinkerton Men Brand Lanford Charges False [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Prominent Atlantans Named On Frank Trial Jury Venire [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Public Demands Frank Trial To-morrow [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 State Bolsters Conley [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Trial to Surpass in Interest Any in Fulton County History [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Venire Whipped Into Shape Rapidly; Negro Is Eligible [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Work of Choosing Jury for Trial of Frank Difficult [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 28th July 1913 Frank, Feeling Tiptop, Smiling and Confident, is Up Long Before Trial [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 28th July 1913 Frank Jury [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 28th July 1913 Jury Complete to Try Frank [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 28th July 1913 Mary Phagan’s Mother Testifies [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 29th July 1913 After Rosser’s Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew or Bacca-AnyKind [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Defense Wins Point After Fierce Lawyers’ Clash [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Lee’s Quaint Answers Rob Leo Frank’s Trial of All Signs of Rancor [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Tragedy, Ages Old, Lurks in Commonplace Court Setting [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Defense Plans Sensation, Line of Queries Indicates [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Flashes of Tragedy Pierce Legal Tilts at Frank Trial [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Frank’s Mother Pitiful Figure of the Trial [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Gantt Has Startling Evidence; Dorsey Promises New Testimony Against Frank [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Rosser’s Examination of Lee Just a Shot in Dark; Hoped to Start Quarry [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 31st July 1913 Collapse of Testimony of Black and Hix Girl’s Story Big Aid to Frank [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 31st July 1913 Crimson Trail Leads Crowd to Courtroom Sidewalk [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 31st July 1913 Holloway Accused by Solicitor Dorsey of Entrapping State [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 31st July 1913 Red Bandanna, a Jackknife and Plennie Minor Preserve Order [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 31st July 1913 Scott Trapped Us, Dorsey Charges; Pinkerton Man Is Also Attacked by the Defense [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 31st July 1913 State Balloon Soars When Dorsey, Roiled, Cries ‘Plant’ [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 1st August 1913 Conley Takes Stand Saturday [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 1st August 1913 Defense Not Helped by Witnesses Accused of Entrapping the State [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 1st August 1913 Dorsey Unafraid as He Faces Champions of the Atlanta Bar [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 1st August 1913 Girl Slain After Frank Left Factory, Believed to be Defense Theory [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 1st August 1913 Sherlocks, Lupins and Lecoqs See Frank Trial [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Defense Threatens a Mistrial [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Frank Juror’s Life One Grand, Sweet SongNot [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Roan Holding Scales of Justice With Steady Hand [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 2nd August 1913 State Hopes Dr. Harris Fixed Fact That Frank Had Chance to Kill Girl [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Will 5 Ounces of Cabbage Help Convict Leo M. Frank? [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 3rd August 1913 Conley to Bring Frank Case Crisis [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 3rd August 1913 First Week of Frank Trial Ends With Both Sides Sure of Victory [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 3rd August 1913 Leo Frank’s Eyes Show Intense Interest in Every Phase of Case [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Boiled Cabbage Brings Hypothetical Question Stage in Frank’s Trial [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Conley’s Story In Detail; Women Barred By Judge [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Dorsey Tries to Prove Frank Had Chance to Kill Girl [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Dramatic Moment of Trial Comes as Negro Takes Stand [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Envy Not the Juror! His Lot, Mostly, Is Monotony [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Frank Calm and Jurors Tense While Jim Conley Tells His Ghastly Tale [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Frank Witness Nearly Killed By a Mad Dog [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Jim Conley’s Story as Matter of Fact as if it Were of His Day’s Work [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Jurors Strain Forward to Catch Conley Story; Frank’s Interest Mild [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Ordeal is Borne with Reserve by Franks [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Rosser’s Grilling of Negro Leads to Hot Clashes by Lawyers [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Conleys Charge Turns Frank Trial Into Fight To Worse Than Death [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Many Discrepancies To Be Bridged in Conleys Stories [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Mrs. Frank Breaks Down in Court [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Rosser Goes Fiercely After Jim Conley [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Traditions of the South Upset; White Mans Life Hangs on Negros Word [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Accuser of Conley is Ready to Testify [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Can Jury Obey if Told to Forget Base Charge? [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Conley Swears Frank Hid Purse [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Crowd Set in Its Opinions [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Dorsey Accomplishes Aim Despite Big Odds [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Judge Will Rule on Evidence Attacked by Defense at 2 P.M. [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 7th August 1913 Jim Conley, the Ebony Chevalier of Crime, is Darktowns Own Hero [Last Updated On: July 30th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 7th August 1913 Roans Ruling Heavy Blow to Defense [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 7th August 1913 State Ends Case Against Frank [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 7th August 1913 Trial as Varied as Vaudeville Exhibition [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 7th August 1913 Trial Experts Conflict on Time of Girls Death [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 8th August 1913 Bits of Circumstantial Evidence, as Viewed by State, Strands in Rope [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 8th August 1913 Scott Put Conleys Story in Strange Light [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 8th August 1913 State, Tied by Conleys Story, Now Must Stand Still Under Hot Fire [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 8th August 1913 Witnesses Attack Conley Story [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 9th August 1913 Absence of Alienists and the Hypothetical Question Distinguishes Frank Trial [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 9th August 1913 Confusion of Holloway Spoils Close of Good Day for the Defense [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 9th August 1913 Daltons Testimony False, Girl Named on Stand Says [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 9th August 1913 Exposure of Conley Story Time Flaws is Sought by Defense [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 9th August 1913 Heres the Time Clock Puzzle in Frank Trial; Can You Figure It Out? [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 9th August 1913 State Attacks Frank Report [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Case Never is Discussed by Frank Jurors [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Conley, Unconcerned, Asks Nothing of Trial [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Dalton Sticks Firmly To Story Told on Stand [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Frank or Conley? Still Question [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Frank Struggles to Prove His Conduct Was Blameless [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Interest in Trial Now Centers in Story of Mincey [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Mary Phagans Mother to be Spared at Trial [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 One Glance at Conley Boosts Darwin Theory [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Phagan Trial Makes Eleven Widows But Jurors Wives Are Peeresses Also [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Study of Frank Convicts, Then It Turns and Acquits [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 11th August 1913 Defense Bitterly Attacks Harris [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 11th August 1913 Deputy Hunting Scalp Of Juror-Ventiloquist [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 11th August 1913 Grief-Stricken Mother Shows No Vengefulness [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 11th August 1913 Interest Unabated as Dramatic Frank Trial Enters Third Week [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 12th August 1913 Attacks on Dr. Harris Give Defense Good Day [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 12th August 1913 Frank Trial Witness is Sure, At Least, of One Thinga Good Ragging [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 12th August 1913 Peoples Cry for Justice Is Proof Sentiment Still Lives [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 12th August 1913 State Charges Premeditated Crime [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 13th August 1913 Both Sides Aim for Justice in the Trial of Frank [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 13th August 1913 Franks Mother Stirs Courtroom [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 13th August 1913 State Calls More Witnesses; Defense Builds Up an Alibi [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 14th August 1913 Defense Slips Load by Putting up Character of Leo Frank as Issue [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 14th August 1913 State Fights Franks Alibi [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 14th August 1913 State Wants Wife and Mother Excluded [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 14th August 1913 States Sole Aim is to Convict, Defenses to Clear in Modern Trial [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 14th August 1913 Steel Workers Enthralled by Leo Frank Trial [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 15th August 1913 Frank Prepares to Take Stand [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 15th August 1913 Testimony of Girls Help to Leo M. Frank [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 15th August 1913 What They Say Wont Hurt Leo Frank; State Must Prove Depravity [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 16th August 1913 Girls Testify For and Against Frank [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 16th August 1913 Many Testify to Franks Good Character [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 16th August 1913 Mothers Love Gives Trial Its Great Scene [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Saturday, 16th August 1913 Statement by Frank Will Be the Climactic Feature of the Trial [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 17th August 1913 Supreme Test Comes As State Trains Guns On Frank's Character [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 18th August 1913 Leo Frank Testifies [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 19th August 1913 Jim Conley To Be Recalled [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 20th August 1913 State Closes Frank Case Near Jury Defense Begins Its Sur-rubettual. Hopes To Conclude Quickly [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 21st August 1913 Mass Of Perjuries Charged By Arnold Centers Hot Attack On Conley. Ridicules Prosecution Theory [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Friday, 22nd August 1913 Rosser Begins Final Plea [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Sunday, 24th August 1913 Dorsey Demands Death Penalty For Frank In Thrilling Closing Plea [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 25th August 1913 Frank Case To Jury Today Leo, Frank On His Way From Jail To Court [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Tuesday, 26th August 1913 Frank, Guilty On First Ballot [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 27th August 1913 Fight Begun To Save Frank Motion For New Trial Follows Death Sentence [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Thursday, 28th August 1913 Reply Made To Frank's Attack [Last Updated On: December 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 1st September 1913: Scent Phagan Case In Woman’s Cries Building Ransacked, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 23rd, 2024]
- Tuesday, 2nd September 1913: Mystery At Frank's Pencil Plant Solved, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 23rd, 2024]
- Wednesday, 3rd September 1913: Big Tasks Await Slaton’s Return, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 23rd, 2024]
- Friday, 5th September 1913: Conley To Face Misdemeanor Charge Only, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 23rd, 2024]
- Sunday, 7th September 1913: Dorsey Sure He Can Break Frank Claim Of Jury Bias, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 23rd, 2024]
- Monday, 8th September 1913: Medical Student Is Held As Swindler, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 23rd, 2024]
- Tuesday, 9th September 1913: Jim Conley Indicted For Part In Phagan Killing, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 23rd, 2024]
- Thursday, 11th September 1913: Judge Roan Picked To Get Appointment To New Judgeship, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 23rd, 2024]
- Friday, 12th September 1913: Roan Likely To Be Named In 30 Days, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 23rd, 2024]
- Saturday, 13th September 1913: Attorneys Jab At Each Other's Face In Broyles' Court, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 23rd, 2024]
- Sunday, 14th September 1913: Professor Beavers To Teach Etiquette, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 23rd, 2024]
- Monday, 15th September 1913: Express Theft Arrest Due By Nightfull, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 23rd, 2024]
- Tuesday, September 16th, 1913: No Judge To Try Fulton Docket, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 3rd, 2024]
- Wednesday, September 17th, 1913: Jim Conley To Fight Felon Charge Bitterly, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 3rd, 2024]
- Wednesday, 17th September 1913 Say Partee Shot In Self-defense [Last Updated On: February 17th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 17th, 2024]
- Monday, 22nd September 1913 Judge Roan Not To Hear Frank Trial Motion [Last Updated On: April 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: March 31st, 2024]
- Wednesday, 24th September 1913 Detective Black Not Blamed For Fighting [Last Updated On: April 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: March 31st, 2024]
- Thursday, 25th September 1913 Recall To Apply To All Big Offices [Last Updated On: April 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: March 31st, 2024]
- Friday, 26th September 1913 Judge Roan To Hear Arguments Asking Retrial For Frank [Last Updated On: April 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 29th, 2024]
- Sunday, 28th September 1913 Judge Hill May Hear Frank Case [Last Updated On: April 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 29th, 2024]
- Monday, 29th September 1913 Delay On Frank Hearing Seems Unavoidable [Last Updated On: April 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 29th, 2024]
- Tuesday, 30th September 1913 Frank Ready For New Fight Rosser Ready. Roan Will Hear Frank Argument [Last Updated On: April 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 29th, 2024]
- Wednesday, 1st October 1913: Rosser Ready Roan Will Hear Frank Argument, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Thursday, 2nd October 1913: Ask New Frank Trial On 115 Counts Many Errors Laid To Court; Charge Made Of Jury Intimidation, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Friday, 3rd October 1913: Frank Trial Juror Denies Charge Of Bias, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Saturday, 4th October 1913: Sensational Charge In Frank Case, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Sunday, 5th October 1913: Governor Slaton Personally Investigates And Verifies The Circulation Of The Georgian And Hearst’s Sunday American, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Sunday, 5th October 1913 Indefinite Respite Is Given Frank As Juror Charges Flood [Last Updated On: April 5th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 29th, 2024]
- Monday, 6th October 1913: Frank Given Indefinite Respite, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Tuesday, 7th October 1913: Dorsey At Work To Combat Charge, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Wednesday, 8th October 1913: Both Sides Confident In Frank Case, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Thursday, 9th October 1913: Postponement In Frank Case Made Certain, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Friday, 10th October 1913: Hawthorne Ready To Leave Prison, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Saturday, 11th October 1913: Frank Lawyers To File More Depositions, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Sunday, 12th October 1913: Governor Slaton Personally Investigates And Verifies The Circulation Of The Georgian And Hearst’s Sunday American, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Monday, 13th October 1913: Attack Is Renewed On Frank Juror, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Tuesday, 14th October 1913: Dorsey Gathers Proof Against Bias Charges, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Wednesday, 15th October 1913: Dorsey Gathers Proof Against Bias Charges, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Thursday, 16th October 1913: Dorsey Back With New Affidavits More Delay In Appeal Fight Likely, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Friday, 17th October 1913: Sparta Citizens Attack Frank Trial Juror, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Saturday, 18th October 1913: Way Clear For Frank Battle, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Sunday, 19th October 1913: Frank To Fight On Wednesday For New Trial, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Monday, 20th October 1913: Way Clear For Frank Battle, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Tuesday, 21st October 1913: Fisher Under Third Degree Shirley's Accuser In Cell, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Wednesday, 22nd October 1913: Man Higher Up Sought In Fisher Plot, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 15th, 2024]
- Friday, 24th October 1913: Disputes Block Frank Speech, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 15th, 2024]
- Saturday, 25th October 1913: Atlanta's Prejudice As Bitter As Russia's Declares Attorney, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 15th, 2024]
- Sunday, 26th October 1913: Lawyers In New Battle Over Life Of Leo Frank, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 15th, 2024]
- Monday, 27th October 1913: Henslee Is Attacked As Cold Plotter, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 15th, 2024]
- Tuesday, 28th October 1913: Ridicules All Claims Made For Frank, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 15th, 2024]
- Wednesday, 29th October 1913: Negro's Statement Legal Evidence, He Says; State Closes, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 15th, 2024]
- Thursday, 30th October 1913: Frank Alibi Upheld By Rosser In Closing, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 15th, 2024]
- Friday, 31st October 1913: Roan Keeps Frank Decision Secret, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2024] [Originally Added On: November 15th, 2024]