Category: TRANSCRIPTS: ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Flashlight in The Constitution Introduced in Trial of Frank
Atlanta ConstitutionAugust 5th, 1913 Police Sergeant L. S. Dobbs was the witness who followed Grice. The officer had already testified on the first day of the trial and was brought back for only a few minutes. "Did you find a…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Frank Very Nervous, Testifies L. O. Grice
Atlanta ConstitutionAugust 5th, 1913 Witness Had Gone to the Pencil Factory After Reading The Constitution Extra L. O. Grice was the first witness put on the stand when court convened Monday morning. He was kept there but a few minutes.…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Handsome Woman Seeks in Vain For Witness at Franks Trial
Atlanta ConstitutionAugust 5th, 1913 Shortly after the courtroom had been cleared of women during the trial of Leo M. Frank Monday, Detective Harper entered the room with a handsome woman and the two took a leisurely survey of those in…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Scenes In Courtroom Monday While Conley Was On Stand
The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 5th August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3."JIM. CAN YOU PUT THIS CORD AROUDN YOUR NECK LIKE YOU FOUND IT ON MARY PHAGAN'S BODY?"SOLICITOR DORSEY.WOMEN SPECTATORS.JIM CONLEYOn the STAND.Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Scenes In Courtroom Monday While Conley Was…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Stanford Recalled By Solicitor Dorsey
Atlanta ConstitutionAugust 5th, 1913 Declares There Were Bars Across Door on Second Floor on Day Before Murder. Following Sergeant Dobbs, Mell Stanford, a factory employee, who had previously testified, was recalled for a few minutes. "Was the door on the…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Witnesses in Franks Trial In Role of Marriage Witnesses
Atlanta ConstitutionAugust 5th, 1913 While T. Y. Brent, notary public and ex-officio justice of the peace, was waiting in the witness room of the Frank murder trial yesterday, the "big and little of it" came to him to pronounce the…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Women of Every Class and Age Listen With Morbid Curiosity To Testimony of Negro Conley
Atlanta ConstitutionAugust 5th, 1913 By Britt Craig. There was a chorus girl who sat next to an aged and withered woman who is undoubtedly a grandmother—a great-grandmother, maybe; there was a painted-cheeked girl with hollow eyes who bore the unmistakable…
Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Conley Remains Calm Under Grilling Cross-Examination
Atlanta ConstitutionAugust 6th, 1913 ROSSER ADOPTS NEW TONE MONDAY Jim Conley, upon whose story practically the entire result of the Frank case is believed to rest, went on the stand at 9:03 o'clock and when court adjourned for lunch at…
Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Conleys Main Story Still Remains Unshaken
Atlanta ConstitutionAugust 6th, 1913 GRILLED 12 HOURS BY LUTHER ROSSER JIM CONLEY INSISTS FRANK GUILTY MAN Declaring That "I Don't Remember," or, "No, Sir; I Didn't Say That," or Simply Affirming Blandly That He Had Lied on a Previous Occasion,…
Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Defense Asks Judge Roan to Strike From Records Part of Conley Testimony
Atlanta ConstitutionAugust 6th, 1913 At the opening of the afternoon session, Attorney Reuben Arnold arose, asking that the jury be sent from the room. When the twelve men had passed into their rom, he made a motion asking the court…