Tuesday, 14th October 1913 Dorsey Expected Back In Atlanta Wednesday

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Generally Believed That Solicitor Will Ask Continuance of Leo Frank Hearing.

That Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey, who has been in

Valdosta for a week with E. A. Stephens, his assistant, devoting

himself to preparing a reply to the motion for a new trial for Leo

M. Frank, will return on Thursday or Friday, of this week, was the

statement made in a letter he sent to Atlanta yesterday. The

solicitor does not state whether or not he will be prepared to reply

to the defense on Saturday, when the case will be called, but it is

believed that he will ask for further time. The defense cited 115

allegations upon which they base their claim for a new trial, and

the reply to it is expected to be a lengthy one.

In the meantime the defense, after attacking Jurors A. H.

Henslee and M. Johenning, have added further affidavits against

Henslee. The latter stated in reply to the first charges that he had

expressed belief in Frank's guilt of the Mary Phagan murder, that

the statement had only been made after the trial was over.

Various Monroe citizens now come forward and state that they

have not seen Henslee since the trial, and that it was some time

during June and before the trial started that he declared that

Frank should be hung.

Statements have also been taken supporting the character

and standing of the men who made the attack on Henslee. The

charge of bias against the two jurors and the alleged errors in

ruling made by Judge L. S. Roan during the trial form the basis on

which a new trial will be demanded.

While the case is being postponed and the solicitor devotes

his entire time to making his reply, court affairs in Fulton are

getting each day more congested. Judge Roan is waiting until

after the hearing to take his place on the bench of the court of

appeals, and Judge Benjamin H. Hill, of that court, is waiting to

become a member of the Fulton superior court. Should this

change be made at present, the criminal business of the county

could not proceed, as the county would have no solicitor to

prosecute its cases or to present indictments to the grand jury.

Dorsey Coming Home.

Valdosta, Ga., October 13."(Special.) Solicitor General Hugh

Dorsey, and Assistant A. E. Stephens, who have been in Valdosta

for ten days working on the state's answer to motion for new trial

for Leo M. Frank, expect to leave for Atlanta Tuesday night to take

up the continuation of the work there on Wednesday. Mr. Dorsey

is unable to say positively whether h will be ready for the hearing

next Saturday or not. The solicitor and his assistant had not made

as much progress tonight as they had planned for the day,

despite the fact that they got to work this morning at 6 o'clock.

They have completed the brief in the case, and are taking

up, section by section, the motion for new trial filed by Attorneys

Rosser and Arnold for the defense. So busy are the solicitor and

his assistant that they reluctantly were compelled to decline an

invitation from Colonel W. H. West to spend Tuesday at his

magnificent fishing preserve near this city. It is understood that

Solicitor Dorsey has greatly strengthened the state's case by

affidavits secured from Juror Henslee on Saturday and from other

parties. The contents of the affidavits are being jealously guarded.

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PROFESSIONAL

CARDS

P. H. Brewster, Albert Howell, Jr.

Hugh M. Dorsey, Arthur Heyman,

Attorneys-at-Law.

Offices: 202, 204, 205, 206, 207,

208, 210

Kiser Building, Atlanta, Ga.

Long-Distance telephone 3022,

3024,

and 3025, Atlanta, Ga.