Tuesday, 28th October 1913: Solicitor Dorsey Hammers Frank New Trial Motion, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 28th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.COURTS MUST KEEP RESPECT OF PEOPLE ARGUES SOLICITORFrank Verdict Must Not Be Upset If Administration of Law Is Not to Be Brought Into Contempt, Says DorseyTAKES A BOLD STAND AGAINST A NEW…
Friday, 24th October 1913: Frank Motion Is Almost Ready For The Arguments Now, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 24th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Few More Depositions to Be Read by the Defense-State Will Follow, Then the Arguments Will Begin.READING OF MOTION NOT COMPLETED UNTIL NOONState and Defense Fight Hard Over Latter's Plea for New Trial…
Saturday, 11th October 1913: Dorsey And Stephens To Confer With Henslee, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 11th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.They Hope to Have Their Case Ready by Next Saturday (Special Dispatch to The Journal.)ALDOSTA, Ga., Oct. 11.Solicitor Hugh Dorsey and Assistant Solicitor A. E. Stephens are working on the Frank case…
Saturday, 4th October 1913: Affidavits Attacking Frank Jurors Made Public Two Jurors Prejudiced, Say Affidavits, And Jury Heard Crowds Cheer And Threaten, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 4th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.Three Men Swear They Were TogetherWhen Juror Henslee Said He Knew Frank Was Guilty, and Five Say They IndiVidually Heard Him Say the Same Thing Three in Same Family Attack Juror Johenning…
Sunday, 5th October 1913: Two Frank Jurors Firm In Denying Outside Pressure, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 5th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.M. Joehenning and A. H. HensleeHold Long Conference With Solicitor General Hugh DorseyAFFIDAVITS ARE HOTLY BRANDED AS FALSETold Truth When They Swore as Talesmen They Were Not Biased, They Declare Dorsey FramesReplyM.…
Thursday, 2nd October 1913: Solicitor At Work Preparing Answer To Frank Motion, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 2nd October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.Dorsey Has Dropped All Other Business and Will Devote His Time Exclusively to New Trial FightJUROR JOHENNING SAYS HE WAS UNPREJUDICED He Declares He, Henslee and All the Others Served Only Through…
Sunday, 12th October 1913: Says He Stole For His Wife And Baby, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 12th October 1913,PAGE 10, COLUMN 4.A heart-broken letter from his wife who is in destitute circumstances in Jacksonville, Fla., with their little baby, is given by W. M. Herald, twenty years old, as the reason why he…
Monday, 13th October 1913: Frank Defense Arms To Back Fight On Henslee, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 13th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.Affidavits Are Secured as to Character of Men Who Attack Frank JurorThe work of strengthening their attack upon JurorA. H. Henslee is being continued by the attorneys for Leo M. Frank, the…
Tuesday, 14th October 1913: Henslee Gives Dorsey Material For Defense, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 14th October 1913,PAGE 20, COLUMN 4.Frank Juror Attacked Confers With Solicitor Latter Due Here WednesdayAccording to dispatches from Valdosta, Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey and his assistant, E. A. Stephens, will leave that place for Atlanta Tuesday…
Friday, 10th October 1913: Roan Not To Resign Until After Hearing, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 10th October 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.Judge Hill's Statement Dispells All DoubtThat Roan WillPreside Doubt that the Frank motion for a new trial would be heard by Judge L. S. Roan has been dispelled by a statement from…
Tuesday, 7th October 1913: Dorsey And Stephens Busy In Valdosta, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 7th October 1913,PAGE 7, COLUMN 3.(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)VALDOSTA, Ga., Oct. 7Solicitor General Hugh Dorsey and Assistant Solicitor Ed Stephens of Atlanta, are spending this week in Valdosta, preparing the answer to the motion for a…
Wednesday, 8th October 1913: Frank Hearing To Be Postponed Another Week, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 8th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.DORSEY IN VALDOSTA SAYS HE CANNOT BE READY BY SATURDAY"Working Hard," Says Solicitor, "But Will Be Lucky If We Get Ready by 2 Week From Next Saturday"ANOTHER JUROR,ATLANTA MAN, WILL BE ATTACKEDJuror…
Thursday, 9th October 1913: Judge Roan Tells Solicitor He Will Postpone Hearing, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 9th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.Dorsey Notified That Presence Will Be Waived Saturday,Date for New Hearing on FrankNew Trial MotionHEARING DATE LIKELY TO BE SATURDAYWEEKIn Meantime Machinery Is Clogged in Superior Courts of Two Circuits and in…
Wednesday, 15th October 1913 Dorsey Will Return To Gate City Today
The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 15th October 1913,PAGE 15, COLUMN 4.Solicitor and HisAssistant WillDevote Rest of Week toLeo M. Frank Case.Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey is due to arrive at 7:35o'clock this morning and it is said will devote the remainder ofthe…
Wednesday, 1st October 1913 Frank Case Papers To Be Served Today
The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 1st October 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 3.Hearing for New Trial Set for Saturday. Dorsey May Ask for More Time.Announcement was made Tuesday by Attorney L. Z. Rosser,for Leo M. Frank, sentenced to hang October 10, for the murder…
Thursday, 2nd October 1913 115 Reasons Given Why Frank Should Get Another Trial
The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 2nd October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.Hearing Is SetBefore JudgeRoan NextSaturday, ButIt Is Believed theSolicitorWill AskPostponement.TWO JURORSATTACKEDIN RETRIALPETITIONHenslee and JohenningDe-clared Prejudiced"Objectto Alleged IllegalEvidenceand toDemonstrations.Charging that two members of the jury, Henslee andJohenning, were biased and prejudiced against the…
Monday, 13th October 1913 Photo By Francis E. Price.
The Atlanta Constitution,Monday, 13th October 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 2.MRS. JESSIE B. GWINN.Mrs. Jessie Brock Gwinn, who has found that wealth andautomobiles to not always make a girl happy, and who longs forthe fianc who is not wealthy, instead of the…
Sunday, 12th October 1913 Henslee Confers With Hugh Dorsey
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 12th October 1913,PAGE 21, COLUMN 1.Solicitor General Is Now Preparing for Leo M. Frank's Hearing on Retrial Petition.Valdosta, Ga., October 11."(Special.) Juror A. H. Henslee,who has been the storm center in the Frank case during the lastten…
Saturday, 18th October 1913 Criminal Court Will Convene Monday Week
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 18th October 1913,PAGE 9, COLUMN 2.Before That TimeSolicitor Dor-sey Expects to HaveCon-cluded FrankHearing.That the criminal division of superior court will start onMonday week and the general work of that division be resumedwas the statement made yesterday by…
Saturday, 11th October 1913 35 Lawyers In Race For Municipal Court
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 11th October 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 2.Thirty-five applicants have signified their willingness to beappointed to the five judgeships of the new municipal courtlegalized by the last legislature. This fact became known Fridaywhen it was determined that the new…
Friday, 10th October 1913 New Trial Hearing Postponed For Week
The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 10th October 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 5.Dorsey Notified at Valdosta That He Need Not Come To Atlanta.The hearing of a motion for a new trial for Leo M. Frank, setfor Saturday, has been postponed for another week. Judge…
Thursday, 9th October 1913 Judge To Grant Dorsey’s Request
The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 9th October 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 4.Frank Hearing Will Be Postponed Until the Solicitor Is Ready to Make Answer to PetitionJudge L. S. Roan stated last night when informed by The Constitution of Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey's…
Wednesday, 8th October 1913 Frank Hearing Will He Held On Saturday
The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 8th October 1913,PAGE 9, COLUMN 3.Generally Believed That Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey Will Announce Ready Then.That Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey, now studying the case in Valdosta, will announce ready when the hearing for a new trial for…
Sunday, 19th October 1913 Frank Innocent Says Man Who Claims To Be Murder Witness
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 19th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMNS 1 AND 6.HE WILL TELLWHOCOMMITTEDCRIMEON ARRIVALHEREMakes Statement to Chief ofBirmingham Policeand Catches Train at Midnightfor Atlanta inCompany With Detective"Prominent CitizenSlew girl, He Says, But It WasNot Frank.By L. W. Friedman.Birmingham, Ala., October…
Tuesday, 7th October 1913 Henslee Answers Sprata Citizens
The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 7th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Made His RemarksAboutLeo Frank After TrialandNot Before, SaysJuror Ac-cused of Prejudice.A. H. Henslee, juror in the Frank case, who has beendeclared prejudiced against the prisoner in a number of affidavitsfled with the…
Monday, 6th October 1913 Sparta Citizens Insist Henslee Was Prejudiced
The Atlanta Constitution,Monday, 6th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.You Said Frank WasGuil-Ty, They Tell Jurorin Let-Ter Sent to Him,and Fur-nish Copies to thePress.WEPRACTICALLYTRIEDHIM BEFORE THETRIALSay They Will NotAllowHenslee to CallThem LiarsTo Protect HimselfFromCriticism HeDeserved.Declaring that they had practically tried Leo…
Sunday, 5th October 1913 A.h. Henslee May Establish Alibi
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 5th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Attacked Frank JurorBrandsAs False theCharges MadeAgainst Him inSeveral Af-fidavits.In answer to several of the affidavits claiming that atspecified times and places he made declarations of belief in theguilt of Leo M. Frank,…
Tuesday, 14th October 1913 Dorsey Expected Back In Atlanta Wednesday
The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 14th October 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 5.Generally Believed That Solicitor Will Ask Continuance of Leo Frank Hearing.That Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey, who has been inValdosta for a week with E. A. Stephens, his assistant, devotinghimself to preparing…
Saturday, 4th October 1913 Interest Centers In Attacks Made On Frank Jurors
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 4th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Many SealedDepositions AreFiled With DeputyClerkAssailing A. H.Henslee andMarcus Johenning.SPARTA CITIZENSSAYHENSLEEPREJUDICEDMembers of Jury Denyin In-dignant Terms ThatAny ofTheir Number WasBiasedIn Any Way.That one of the Sparta, Ga., citizens whose affidavits are nowsealed and…
Friday, 3rd October 1913 May Use Jurors To Deny Charges
The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 3rd October 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.Dorsey Expected toProduceAffidavits, DenyingJurors'Alleged Bias AgainstFrank.Postponement Seen.The hearing of the motion for a new trial made by attorneysfor Leo M. Frank, convicted slayer of Mary Phagan, which isscheduled to come up Saturday,…