Category: JOHN SLATON GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA

Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 11
dropped his head and stated, "If you keep that up, we will both go to hell."On Sunday morning at about 3 o'clock, after Newt Lee, the night watchman, had telephoned the police station about the discovery of the dead body,…

Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 12
The cook's husband testified that on Saturday, the day of the murder, he visited his wife at the home of Mr. Selig, defendant's father-in-law, where Frank and his wife were living, and that Frank came in to dinner and ate…

Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 13
that some punches had been missed. The suggestion was that he had either manipulated the slip to place the burden on Lee or was so excited as to be unable to read the slip correctly.The State introduced a witness, Monteen…

Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 14
Where I have not mentioned the more prominent ones, an inspection of the record fails to maintain the contention.It is contended that a lawyer was engaged for Frank at the station house before he was arrested. This is replied to…

Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 15
The detectives learned about the middle of May that Conley could write, although at first he denied it. He made one statement and three affidavits, which are more fully referred to in stating the defendant's case. The affidavits were introduced…

Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 16
Conley described Frank as having been in a position which Conley thought indicated perversion, but the facts set out by Conley do not demand such a conclusion. Conley says that he found Mary Phagan lying in the metal room some…

Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 17
and told him, 'Here is $200,' but after a while requested the money back, and got it.One witness testified she saw some Negro, whom she did not recognize, sitting at the side of the elevator in the gloom. On the…

Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 18
citizens of Atlanta, college mates at Cornell, and professors of that college.The defendant was born in Texas, and his education was completed at the institution named.The admission of Conley that he wrote the notes found at the body of the…

Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 19
Conley testified that on the morning of April 26th, he went down into the basement to relieve his bowels and utilized the elevator shaft for the purpose.On the morning of April 27th at 3 o'clock, when the detectives came down…

Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 20
elevator shaft was in accordance with his testimony that he made water twice against the door of the elevator shaft on the morning of the 26th, instead of doing so in the gloom of his corner behind the boxes where…