Category: TRANSCRIPTS: ATLANTA CONSTITUTION


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Thursday, 31st July 1913 Daintily Dressed Girl Tells Of Daily Routine of Factory

Atlanta ConstitutionJuly 31st, 1913 Grace Hicks, a sister-in-law of ‘Boots' Rogers, whom he carried to the factory the morning of April 27 to tell if the dead girl was an employee of the factory was put upon the witness stand…
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Thursday, 31st July 1913 Defense Riddles John Black’s Testimony

Atlanta ConstitutionJuly 31st, 1913 SLEUTH CONFUSED UNDER MERCILESS CROSS-QUESTIONS OF LUTHER ROSSER Just Before He Left the Stand He Confessed That He Was "Mixed Up" and That He Could Not Recall What He Had Testified a Moment Before—Tangled on Finding…
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Thursday, 31st July 1913 Detective Black Muddled By Keen Cross-Examination Of Attorneys for Defense

Atlanta ConstitutionJuly 31st, 1913 Detective John R. Black, the officer who went in Rogers' machine from the factory to Frank's residence on the Sunday morning that Mary Phagan's body was discovered, was next put up by the state. He took…
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Thursday, 31st July 1913 Gantt, Once Phagan Suspect, On Stand Wednesday Afternoon

Atlanta ConstitutionJuly 31st, 1913 J. W. Gantt, who once was a suspect in the famous case, followed Mrs. Coleman to the stand at the afternoon session. "Have you ever been connected with the pencil company?" "From January 1st, 1918, until…
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Thursday, 31st July 1913 Idle and Curious Throng Court Despite Big Force of Deputies

Atlanta ConstitutionJuly 31st, 1913 In spite of the largest force of deputies that has ever been brought together in Fulton county for a similar purpose, the greatest difficulty is being experienced in keeping out the idle and morbidly curious at…
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Thursday, 31st July 1913 Mrs. Coleman Is Recalled To Identify Mary’s Handbag

Atlanta ConstitutionJuly 31st, 1913 Mrs. J. W. Coleman was recalled to the stand for only a moment's interrogation regarding the mesh handbag which she carried with her upon leaving home on the day of the tragedy. Attorney Rosser asked, "What…
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Thursday, 31st July 1913 Photo By Francis E Price, Staff Photographer.

The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 31st July 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Miss Grace Hicks, an employee of the National Pencil factory, and a friend of Mary Phagan, who testified on Wednesday morning; Detective John Black (Wearing derby), who was put through severe cross-examination…
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Thursday, 31st July 1913 Rogers on Stand Describes Visit of Frank to Undertakers

Atlanta ConstitutionJuly 31st, 1913 When court convened and before the jury had been brought in Attorney Luther Rosser entered an objection to the drawing of the pencil factory which Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey had rehung upon the wall after removing…
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Thursday, 31st July 1913 William Gheesling First Witness Today

Atlanta ConstitutionJuly 31st, 1913 Harry Scott, Pinkerton Detective Will Also Be Called to Stand During Day William Gheesling, the P. J. Bloomfield undertaking attachee who made the first examination and emblamed the body of Mary Phagan will probably be the…
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Friday, 1st August 1913 Acquitted In The Same Court, She Believers Is Innocent

The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 1st August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.Photo by Francis E. Price. Staff Photographer.Mrs. Callie Scott Appelbaum, who was tried before Judge Roan for the murder of her husband. Jerome Appelbaum, and declared "not guilty," and Leo M. Frank,…