Category: TRANSCRIPTS: ATLANTA GEORGIAN
Tuesday, 26th August 1913 Frank, Guilty On First Ballot
The Atlanta Georgian, Tuesday, 26th August 1913. FRANK RETURNING TO HIS CELL IN TOWER AFTER JUDGE'S CHARGE Frank's control of his emotions was never more strikingly shown than on last day of trial. Leo M. Frank, convicted slayer of Mary…
Wednesday, 27th August 1913 Fight Begun To Save Frank Motion For New Trial Follows Death Sentence
The Atlanta Georgian, Wednesday, 27th August 1913. FRANK RETURNING TO HIS CELL IN TOWER AFTER JUDGE'S CHARGE Frank's control of his emotions was never more strikingly shown than on last day of trial. Leo M. Frank, convicted slayer of…
Thursday, 28th August 1913 Reply Made To Frank’s Attack
The Atlanta Georgian,Thursday, 28th August 1913.Solicitor Cites Prisoner's State-ment on Stand, "Now is the Time, This is the Place."Solicitor Dorsey was as busily engaged on the Frank case Thursday as he was any day before Leo Frank was convicted of…
Tuesday, September 16th, 1913: No Judge To Try Fulton Docket, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian, Tuesday, 16th September 1913. Frank Case and New Bench Appointments Cause Congestion in Court 100 Await Trial. Solicitor General Dorsey is on a still hunt for a judge to conduct the large grist of cases which have…
Wednesday, September 17th, 1913: Jim Conley To Fight Felon Charge Bitterly, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian, Wednesday, 17th September 1913. PAGE 6, COLUMN 5 Conley To Fight Felon Charge Bitterly Attorney Will Permit Him to Plead Guilty Only to Misdemeanor, Judge Sought. Jim Conley's trial on a felony charge as accessory after the…
Wednesday, 17th September 1913 Say Partee Shot In Self-defense
The Atlanta Georgian,Wednesday, 17th September 1913.PAGE 20, COLUMN 3Witnesses Tell Grand Jury Jack-Son Killing Was Justified NoBill' Asked for Newt Lee.That W. D. Partee, a locomotive engineer, who on July 28 shot and killed Samuel Jackson, another engineer, in the…
Monday, 22nd September 1913 Judge Roan Not To Hear Frank Trial Motion
The atlanta Georgian,Monday, 22nd September 1913,PAGE 7, COLUMN 6.JUDGE ROAN NOTTO HEAR FRANKTRIAL MOTIONFour Superior Judges Will ElectOne of Their Number toPass on Plea.The puzzle in regard to the judge who will hear the motion for a new trial for…
Wednesday, 24th September 1913 Detective Black Not Blamed For Fighting
The Atlanta Georgian,Wednesday, 24th September 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 2.Chief Beavers received a letter Tuesday morning from George Bodeker, of Birmingham, defending Detective John Black in the latter's recent trouble at Birmingham.Bodeker asserts that Black was not to blame for the…
Thursday, 25th September 1913 Recall To Apply To All Big Offices
The Atlanta Georgian,Thursday, 25th September 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Initiation and Referendum Addedto Old Charter WoodwardDelighted.By the adoption of the initiative, referendum and recall amendment to the city charger the votes of Atlanta can recall Mayor James G. Woodward, Recorder Nash…
Friday, 26th September 1913 Judge Roan To Hear Arguments Asking Retrial For Frank
The Atlanta Georgian,Friday, 26th September 1913,PAGE 2, COLUMN 1.Judge L. S. Roan, who pronounced sentence upon Leo M. Frank in Georgia's greatest murder trial, in an informal statement Friday made it plain that he considered it his duty to hear…