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The Atlanta Constitution,

Saturday, 27th December 1913,

PAGE 5, COLUMN 6.

Defense Will Stress Judge Roan's Doubt

As to Guilt of the Prisoner.

Supplemental briefs will be filed in the supreme court today by attorneys for the defense in the Leo M. Frank case calling attention again to the doubt which rested on Judge Roan's mind when he declined to give the defendant in the case the benefit of a new trial.

This point is stressed in the supplemental brief because of the vigorous argument made by Attorney General Felder attacking the validity of incorporating into the bill of exceptions Judge Roan's expression of doubt.

So far from being an unimportant or negligible ground for a new trial, the defense insists that it is an all-important ground and cites numbers of former decisions of the supreme court to uphold its contention.

Frank's attorneys declare that the supreme court has repeatedly granted new trials in criminal cases where it appeared from the record that the trial judge had, from timidity or a misapprehension of the law, failed to exercise his discretion.

A large part of the supplemental brief is taken up with what the defense claims were misrepresentations or misstatements on the part of Solicitor General Dorsey, Reuben R. Arnold, of counsel for Frank, declared, however, that he wished it to be understood that there was no charge that these alleged misrepresentations of fact had been intentional on the part of the solicitor.

PAGE 5, COLUMN 7

PAYS THE FINE OF MAN SHE STARTED TO SHOOT

Woman Detective Says Vision Saved Life of Man

She Thought a Burglar.

Mrs. Hattie Barnett, the woman detective the only licensed one in the state started to shoot at a man Christmas morning whom she believed to be a burglar.

In the afternoon she pleaded for lenience and paid the fine the recorder imposed.

Mrs. Barnett, at her home, 15 Woodward Avenue, heard someone trying to get into the place Christmas morning early.

She got her pistol and went to investigate.

Seeing a man on the front porch, she leveled the gun in his direction.

Then just in time to prevent her from firing, she had a vision of a cold and lifeless body lying unidentified on an undertaker's slab.

It was Christmas.

She simply couldn't shoot.

Instead, she decided to make a noise and scare him away, but her efforts to frighten him were in vain.

Then she decided it wasn't a burglar, but somebody who had mistaken the house.

An investigation revealed the fact that it was S. P. Sims, a next-door neighbor, living at 9 Woodward Avenue.

He had gone to the wrong address.

Sims was arraigned in police court Friday afternoon.

The recorder fined him $15.75 for disorderly conduct.

The fine was paid by Mrs. Barnett, who said in explanation that the vision she had was worth the coin, and that she felt a whole lot better in being able to pay only a fine of $15.75 instead of funeral expenses.

PAGE 10, COLUMN 5

PROFESSIONAL CARDS P. H. Brewster.

Albert Howell, Jr.

Hugh M. Dorsey.

Arthur Heyman.

Dorsey, Brewster, Howell & Heyman.

Attorneys-at-Law.

Offices: 202, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 210

Kiser Building, Atlanta, Ga.

Long-Distance Telephone 3022, 3024, and 3025, Atlanta, Ga.

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