Author: Mary Phagan
Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 35
The evidence loses its pertinency if Mary Phagan had not arrived at the time Monteen Stover came. What is the evidence?The evidence uncontradicted discloses that Mary Phagan ate her dinner at 11:30 o'clock, and the evidence of the streetcar men…
Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 36
hardly seems possible under the evidence that Mary Phagan was at that time being murdered.Lemmie Quinn testifies that he reached Frank's office about 12:20 and saw Mr. Frank. At 12:30, Mrs. J. A. White called to see her husband at…
Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 37
found by her side, it was urged before me by counsel for the defense that ladies usually carried their handkerchiefs in their mesh bags.If the motive was assault, either by natural or perverted means, the physicians' evidence, who made the…
Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 38
It may be possible that his version is correct. The testimony discloses that he was in the habit of allowing men to go into the basement for immoral purposes for a consideration, and when Mary Phagan passed by him close…
Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 39
In this connection, Judge Roan declared orally from the bench that he was not certain of the defendant's guilt that with all the thought he had put on this case, he was not thoroughly convinced whether Frank was guilty or…
Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 40
Surely, if Judge Roan entertained the extreme doubt indicated by his statement and had remembered the power granted him by the Code, he would have sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment.In a letter written to counsel, he says, "I shall…
Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 41
In the case of Hunter, a white man charged with assassinating two white women in the City of Savannah, who was found guilty and sentenced to be hung, application was made to me for clemency. Hunter was charged together with…
Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 42
at the time he was an escapee from the Fannin County jail under indictment for felony."I refused to interfere unless the judge or solicitor would recommend interference, which they declined to do. Finally, when on the gallows, the solicitor-general recommended…
Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 43
Judge Roan, with that awful sense of responsibility, which probably came over him as he thought of that Judge before whom he would shortly appear, calls to me from another world to request that I do that which he should…
Page 1 of 8: Rare, Alonzo Mann Affidavit, March 4th, 1982.
A F F I D A V I T IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, COUNTY OF SULLIVAN The undersigned, being duly sworn, deposes as follows: My name is Alonzo McClendon Mann. I am 83 years old. I was born near…