The Atlanta Georgian,
Monday, 20th October 1913,
PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.
Fight for New Trial to Open Before Judge Roan Next Wednesday Morning.
The way was cleared Saturday for the actual beginning of
the fight over the motion to give Leo M. Frank, convicted of the
murder of Mary Phagan, a new trial. The battle will open before
Judge Roan Wednesday with both sides primed for a vigorous
contest in which charges against jurors accused of bias will play a
large part.
The defense, headed by Luther Z. Rosser, relies in large part
on the evidence showing that Juror A. H. Henslee expressed
violent animus to Frank before the trial opened, winning a new
trial for the prisoner Scores of affidavits will be introduced to
uphold the character of the witnesses who swear that Henslee
said he was sure Frank was guilty and would like to see him
hanged.
On the other hand the State will be prepared to assail a
number of these witnesses and will try to show through Henslee
himself that the sentiments against Frank were expressed after
the trial.
Will Exchange All Papers.
Wednesday, as had been announced in The Georgian, was
formally fixed for the opening of the arguments by Judge Roan
Saturday. At the same time the defense and State agreed to
exchange all new papers in the case. A number of important
documents, it is said have not yet been made public.
In the discussion of the case Mr. Rosser made the offer to
exchange all new affidavits for the new papers in possession of
the State, and Solicitor Dorsey agreed.
While declaring that delay undoubtedly would benefit their
client, Luther Rosser, for the defense, urged that the motion be
brought to a speedy hearing.
He pointed out that he had been neglecting his evil business
for the Frank case, and said that if the fight over the new motion
were not disposed of by Monday a week he would have to ask
that it be put over so that he could take up some of his other
work.
Roan Urges Hosts.
If that was impossible, he wanted the case to be put over
until December.
Judge Ross interrupted with the remark that he was anxious
to pass on the case as quickly as possible, and would be against
any delay until December, and the same sentiments were
expressed to Solicitor Dorsey.
The Solicitor pointed out that he had given every moment of
his time to preparing his answer to the lengthy plea, filed by the
defense, and that he would continue to do everything toward
hastening the hearing.
Dorsey and Leonard Haas, of counsel for the defense, began
Friday a review of the record of the case to check up on all the
evidence briefed by Frank's lawyers. Due to pressure of other
business, Mr. Haas was unable to continue the work Saturday, but
arranged to resume the conference Monday morning at 9 o'clock.
Sixty pages of the 400 were gone over the first afternoon,
minor alterations and additions being made at the suggestion of
the Solicitor. Practically all of the remaining time before the
hearing will be occupied in this work, and it is problematical if it
will be concluded satisfactorily by Wednesday.
PAGE 2, COLUMNS 1
AND 4
WOMAN TO CONFRONT FRANK MAN
OF MYSTERY
ARREST OF
FISHER IS
EXPECTED AS
MOVE TO
BLOCK POLICE
GRILL
I. W. Fisher, the mysterious new figure in the Phagan murder
case, who created one of the greatest sensations of the entire
investigation by his declaration that he knew the murderer of the
little factory girl and that her slayer was not Leo Frank, may be
arrested and placed in a cell on a formal warrant before nightfall
on an old warrant charging him with cruelty to his wife, who is
suing for divorce. He disappeared some months ago when the
warrant was sworn out, the police say.
The strange person, whose startling story was first told to
Chief of Police Bodeker in Birmingham, was virtually a prisoner
Sunday and Monday in the tightly locked offices of Luther Z.
Rosser, chief of counsel for Frank, in the Grant Building. No one
was permitted to see him. His food was brought to him and the
groups of persons who gathered outside the office in the hope of
getting a glimpse of the accuser of a prominent Atlanta man were
disappointed.
Meanwhile detectives in relays patrolled the first and second
floors of the Grant Building. There was no way for Fisher to get by
them without observation. Newspaper photographers, with their
cameras set up for instant action, dozed on the hard steps,
hoping to have an opportunity to get a flash of the mysterious
personage.
Reporters, who had trailed Fisher from Birmingham from
where he was brought to Atlanta by C. W. Burke, an agent for
Attorney Rosser, were on constant duty ready to resume the
chase in the event that any new move was made by Frank's
lawyers or there appeared an endeavor to hide him away.
The vigilance of an entire day and a night resulted in only
the sensational statement of the quasi-prisoner which was
forecast very closely by the Sunday American. This statement was
given out late in the afternoon by Attorney Rosser. Rosser would
not reveal the name of the prominent man charged. He said that
his identity must remain a mystery for a time at least. The only
clew he furnished was that the man was fairly prominent.
Man's Name Withheld.
I do not want to use the name of the man, said Rosser,
and thus possibly to do him an injustice. I will tell everything in
the world except the name of the man.
The man who has just told his story to us is I. W. Fisher. He
once lived here and left e about the time of the murder of Mary
Phagan, and since then has lived in North Georgia, Tennessee and
Birmingham. He now lives in Birmingham.
Without our knowledge or instigation, he went to the Chief
of Police in Birmingham, George H. Bodeker, and asserted that
Frank was innocent, and that he had known of his innocence all
the time, but that he didn't think Frank would be convicted, and
therefore had kept his silence about the real murderer.
He said that he met the man who committed the crime on
Saturday, April 26, and that this man told him he was going to
meet Mary Phagan in the pencil factory at noon. Fisher said that
when the man came factory he said: I raised h"l in there and
you have got to get out of town.'
Since that time Fisher says that this man, who is well to do
and established in business here, has been paying his expenses
wherever he went.
Whether Fisher's story is true or false we do not know. We
are not giving it out as fact, but merely as one of the numerous
stories which have come to our ears during the investigation of
the crime. We would
PAGE 8, COLUMN 1
DETECTIVES AND
FRANK
COUNSEL IN
FIGHT FOR
MYSTERIOUS
WITNESS
Continued From Page 1.
have said nothing about it if the newspapers had not come out
yesterday telling of Fisher's walking into the office of the Chief of
Police in Birmingham. We do not take any stock in it one way or
another as yet. But we are going too investigate it thoroughly and
find whether or not if it is true.
Police Told Name.
We have told the detectives something when we have not
told the public. We have told them the name of the man Fisher
accuses, and have incited them to work with us on our
investigation. There is such a man as the one Fisher names, and
he is well known. Fisher is a married man, and has several
children. They are in Atlanta.
Solicitor Dorsey, Frank A. Hooper, who assisted the Solicitor
in the Frank trial, and members of the detective department
appeared not at all impressed by Fisher's story Monday. I think
he's telling a lie, pure and simple, said Mr. Hooper when he was
asked his opinion.
Chief Lanford laughed at the story and said it was his belief
that Fisher was out in town at the time of the Phagan murder.
Fisher is the same man, he thinks, that testified some ago against
Griff Freeman, who was arrested on a blind tiger charge, and then
disappeared from town after Freeman was bound over Fisher was
not on hand to testify in the State trial.
Mrs. Fischer acted as a sleuth and obtained much of the
evidence that resulted in the prosecution of Freeman. She
testified at the trial that Fisher pawned her shoes and sold their
chickens to get liquor from Freeman. Fisher admitted that he had
bought liquor many times from the defendant.
In an effort to make the identification of the man secreted in
the office of Attorney Rosser as the same man who testified in the
trial of Griff Freeman and then disappeared from the city, Lanford
Monday ordered Detective Cowan to go the Fisher home on
Marietta street and get Mrs. Fisher. She will be taken to Rosser's
office and the attorney will be asked for permission to let her see
the man. Chief Lanford believes it will prove the same man.
May Balk Detectives.
It is conjectural if the detectives will be allowed this privilege
in view of the strict seclusion in which Fisher has been kept so far.
Chief Lanford Monday that if the lawyers have evidence that the
crime was committed by another person than Frank, he thought
they should turn it over to the police so that the man might be
arrested and justice done.
Although Frank has been convicted of the crime, said
Lanford, our eyes and ears never have been closed to evidence
that would point to any other person as the guilty on. I do not
place much reliance on Fisher's story, but I want my department
to investigate it thoroughly. This Fisher, I believe once was with
the Southern Railway, and was discharged because of his drinking
Burke, who now is acting for Rosser, once was special agent for
the Southern.
Attorney Rosser Monday explained the unpassable guard
that had been thrown around Fisher by saying that he wanted to
get every detail of Fisher's story before he let him go.
PAGE 3, COLUMNS 1 &
7
POLICE WAIT TO
ARREST FISHER
Family and Prosecution
Discredit His Story
MYSTERIOUS
WITNESS
ONCE HELD FOR
MURDER
IS NEW
REVELATION
Charged by his wife with being a raving drunkard, wanted by
the police who give him a long court record, believed by Probation
Officer Coogler to be demented as a result of accusations of
murder made against himself, I. W. Fisher, the accuser of a
prominent Atlanta man in the Phagan case, was confronted
Monday by a general disposition to ridicule his story and the
threatened collapse of a sensation.
Kept a prisoner in the office of Luther Z. Rosser, while the
police waited to arrest him, Fisher continued to be inaccessible to
newspapermen, but various investigations of his record bared
facts that thew a dark cloud on his reliability.
Detectives continued their vigil on the ground floor of the
Grant Building ready to arrest Fisher as soon as he made his
appearance. In the meanwhile the Frank lawyers kept on
investigating his story and seemed determined to hold their man
a strict prisoner until they were entirely through with him.
Mr. Coogler's opinion was contingent on the identity of an I.
W. Fisher Coogler has had before him many times and that of the
Fisher as been virtually a prisoner in the Grant Building being the
same.
Coogler said Monday that Fisher was tried several ago for
the murder of his wife's brother. He was acquitted, but it is known
that a suspicion that he was guilty still rested in the mind of his
wife and that she frequently had charged him with the crime.
These accusations are believed by Coogler to have unsettled
Fisher's Mind, a condition which perhaps has been augmented.
The Fisher Coogler has had before him lived at 797
Marietta street. An investigation of his record has disclosed that
the man was placed on probation November 24 of last year
charged with being drunk and disorderly and abusing his wife. He
obtained employment and contributed to the support of his wife
and children through the probation officer.
Fisher was before Coogler again on Christmas, and this time
he was given employment with the Christian Helpers' League. He
could not stay good, and February 21 he was arrested again,
charged with striking and otherwise mistreating his wife. He was
bound over to the State Court underbond of $200. He obtained his
release only to offend in the same respect again. A peace warrant
was issued, and he stayed in jail two days last May, and soon
afterward he disappeared from the city.
Coogler received a letter from him last May, postmarked in
Parksville, Tenn. He asked that his trunk be sent him. That was
the last Coogler heard of him until Fisher's sensational story
appeared in the Sunday papers.
Mind Broken by Drink.
Grave discredit was cast on Fisher's story by Mrs. Annie
Fisher, his wife, of No. 734 Marietta street, who asserted firmly
that she believed the tale of a business man's confession of the
crime was the fabrication of a mind broken down by drink,
perhaps by drugs.
My husband is a confirmed drunkard, Mrs. Fisher
regretfully admitted. He is at times without any responsibility for
his words or actions. He was once tried on a lunacy writ taken out
by his brother, a business man of Rome, Ga. They declared him
sane at the time, but put him on probation. I have an idea he uses
morphine. He left me August 12.
Both Stallings and his wife declare Fisher is utterly
irresponsible. His sister said she would not believe any statement
he might make, while her husband recounted some strange
stories he said Fisher had told him at different times.
He told them with no straight a face that I almost believed
him, Stallings said, but afterward I always found them to be
untrue.
Believed Frank Innocent.
As to Fisher's knowledge of the Phagan case, Mrs. Fisher said
that only once did her husband say anything that might have
been taken as evidence that he knew something. One night while
reading the newspaper accounts of the arrest Fisher said:
They haven't got the guilty man. Frank didn't murder Mary
Phagan.
Mrs. Fisher also denied that her husband had left Atlanta
immediately after the murder of the little girl, as he said.
He lived with here until August 12, she stated, and then
he went away because I had filed a petition asking divorce and
alimony. He went away to keep the papers from being served.
Mrs. Fisher was very candid and unreserved in talking the
affairs of her husband and herself.
They were married, she said, in Dalton, Ga., thirteen years
ago, and lived there until they moved to Atlanta three years ago.
Maniac When Drinking.
My husband has long been a drinking man, Mrs. Fisher
said. When sober I believe he was perfectly rational, but when
drinking"I don't know just how to express it. He was nearly a
maniac. More than once he threatened to shoot me. I had to have
him arrested less than a year ago because he was threatening my
life.
I was going to sue him for divorce then, but Officer Clarke, a
friend of his, took his part and begged me not to. I consented, and
he was put on probation. Officer Coogler, I believe it was, kept
him on the probation list four months. But it was no use at all.
Since Fisher went away to avoid the service of the divorce
papers, his wife has been taking boarders and sewing to support
herself and their two children. Fisher wrote to her from Parkville,
Tenn., she said, and again from a suburb of Birmingham. He
wanted to return and live with her, Mrs. Fisher said, but she did
not answer the letters.
Then Mrs. Fisher told of a happening the morning after the
murder was committed.
It was Sunday, she said, and just after breakfast we went
to a drug store about a block away. On our way back we met a
man I didn't know. He stopped my husband and said: Fisher, I've
got something to tell you.'
Went to Factory.
Mr. Fisher stopped and talked with him and I went on home.
Later, he came home and told me the man told him a girl had
been killed at the pencil factory. He seemed to be quite curious
about the crime. He and I went and we took our little girl, Eve-
PAGE 9, COLUMN 1
WIFE DECLARES
FISHER
A RAVING
DRUNKARD AND
RIDICULES ENTIRE
STORY
Continued From Page 1.
lyn, and Miss Lille Embree, a young woman who was boarding
with us.
We couldn't go all over the factory, but I didn't think my
husband seemed at all nervous or acted unusual. He did read a
lot about the case. I noticed that. And some time after that I
missed my diary that I kept to set down almost everything I did. I
don't know that he took it, however.
Reporters, who had trailed Fisher from Birmingham, from
where he was brought to Atlanta by C. W. Burke, an agent for
Attorney Rosser, were on constant duty ready to resume the
chase in the event that any new move was made by Frank's
lawyers or there appeared an endeavor to hide him away. The
vigilance of an entire day and a night resulted in only the
sensational statement of the quasi-prisoner which was forecast
very closely by The Sunday American. This statement was given
out late in the afternoon by Attorney Rosser. Rosser would not
reveal the name of the prominent man charged. He said that his
identity must remain a mystery for a time at least. The only clew
he furnished was that the man was fairly prominent.
Man's Name Withheld.
I do not want to see the name of the man, said Rosser,
and thus possibly do him an injustice. I will tell everything in the
world except the name of the man.
The man who has just told his story to us is I. W. Fisher. He
once lived here and left here about the time of the murder of
Mary Phagan, and since then has lived in North Georgia,
Tennessee and Birmingham. He now lives in Birmingham.
Without our knowledge or instigation, he went to the Chief
of Police in Birmingham, George H. Bodeker, and asserted that
Frank was innocent, and that he had known of his innocence all
the time, but that he didn't think Frank would be convicted, and
therefore had kept his silence about the real murderer.
He that he met the man who committed the crime on
Saturday, April 26, and that this man told him he was going to
meet Mary Phagan in the pencil factory at noon. Fisher said that
when the man came from the factory he said: I raised h"l in
there and you have got to get out of town.'
Since that time Fisher says that this man, who is well to do
and established in business here, has been paying his expenses
wherever he went.
Whether Fisher's story is true or false we do not know. We
are not giving it out as fact, but merely as one of the numerous
stories which have come to our ears during the investigation of
the crime. We would have said nothing about it if the newspapers
had not come out yesterday telling of Fisher's walking into the
office of the Chief of Police in Birmingham. We do not take any
stock in it one way or another as yet. But we are going to
investigate it thoroughly and find whether or not if it is true.
Police Told Name.
We have told the detectives something when we have not
told the public. We have told them the name of the man Fisher
accuses, and have incited them to work with us on our
investigation. There is such a man as the one Fisher names, and
he is well known. Fisher is a married man, and has several
children. They are in Atlanta.
Solicitor Dorsey, Frank A. Hooper, who assisted the Solicitor
in the Frank trial, and members of the detective department
appeared not at all impressed by Fisher's story Monday. I think
he's telling a lie, pure and simple, said Mr. Hooper when he was
asked his opinion.
Chief Lanford laughed at the story and said it was his belief
that Fisher was out in town at the time of the Phagan murder.
Fisher is the same man, he thinks, that testified some ago against
Griff Freeman, who was arrested on a blind tiger charge, and then
disappeared from town after Freeman was bound over Fisher was
not on hand to testify in the State trial.
Mrs. Fischer acted as a sleuth and obtained much of the
evidence that resulted in the prosecution of Freeman. She
testified at the trial that Fisher pawned her shoes and sold their
chickens to get liquor from Freeman. Fisher admitted that he had
bought liquor many times from the defendant.
In an effort to make the identification of the man secreted in
the office of Attorney Rosser as the same man who testified in the
trial of Griff Freeman and then disappeared from the city, Lanford
Monday ordered Detective Cowan to go the Fisher home on
Marietta street and get Mrs. Fisher. She will be taken to Rosser's
office and the attorney will be asked for permission to let her see
the man. Chief Lanford believes it will prove the same man.
May Balk Detectives.
It is conjectural if the detectives will be allowed this privilege
in view of the strict seclusion in which Fisher has been kept so far.
Chief Lanford Monday that if the lawyers have evidence that the
crime was committed by another person than Frank, he thought
they should turn it over to the police so that the man might be
arrested and justice done.
Although Frank has been convicted of the crime, said
Lanford, our eyes and ears never have been closed to evidence
that would point to any other person as the guilty on. I do not
place much reliance on Fisher's story, but I want my department
to investigate it thoroughly. This Fisher, I believe once was with
the Southern Railway, and was discharged because of his drinking
Burke, who now is acting for Rosser, once was special agent for
the Southern.
Attorney Rosser Monday explained the unpassable guard
that had been thrown around Fisher by saying that he wanted to
get every detail of Fisher's story before he let him go.
As soon as I get all I want to know, I don't care what
becomes of him, the lawyer said. We are making a most careful
investigation of every statement he has made, and we want to
keep him at hand until we are through. After that the detectives
and the newspaper men can question him to their hearts'
content.
Fisher Not Prepossessing.
Fisher is not a particularly prepossessing witness. When he
stepped from the train Sunday morning in company with Agent
Burke he had a several days' growth of beard. He wore an old
slouch hat, a shirt of striped pattern and no collar. He was
unkempt, and his dark suit appeared as if it had been used to
sleep in.
He kept his mouth tightly closed when the reporters tried to
talk to him. Had he been inclined to be loquacious, his words
would have been quickly checked by the watchful Burke, who
used the strong arm on one inquisitive young newspaper man
who tried to enter into a conversation with Fisher.
The train, due from Birmingham at 6:30 o'clock Sunday
morning, did not get into Atlanta until two hours later. Burke and
Fisher jumped into a waiting carriage and were taken to the office
of Attorney Rosser on the seventh floor of the Grant Building
where they stayed until Rosser's arrival at 10 o'clock.
The photographers flocked around Rosser to get his
permission to get a picture of Fisher.
Not on your life! shouted the lawyer, smiling at the
discomfited snapshotters. And all their efforts throughout the
remainder of the day were fruitless.
PAGE 4, COLUMNS 1 &
7
FISHER'S FRANK STORY
ATTACKED
Police Bare Record; Defense
Lawyers Hold Him
ALL
SPONSORSHIP
FOR
FISHER AND HIS
STORY
DISCLAIMED BY
ROSSER
Here is the latest trend of events connected with the newest
sensation in the Phagan case"the statement by Ira W. Fisher that
Frank is not guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan, and that a
prominent Atlanta business man, known to Fisher, is the
murderer.
1. Fisher is de virtually a prisoner in the office of LZ. Rosser,
chief counsel for Frank, all of Sunday night and until
afternoon Monday, while police wait to arrest him.
2. The police bare his record, showing a number of arrests
for disorderly conduct while drinking, abuse and
mistreatment of his wife.
3. Fisher's wife states plainly that he is an incorrigible
drunkard; that he did not leave Atlanta immediately after
the murder (as he said), and that she would put no
confidence in the wild story he tells.
4. S. J. Coogler, probation officer, gives it as his opinion that
Fisher's mind has suffered from long brooding over a
murder charge on which he himself was once tried and
acquitted, and that the continued use of liquor and
possibly drugs has produced a hallucination which would
account for the story he tells. Coogler had charge of Fisher
for about three months while he was on probation.
5. Luther Rosser disclaims for himself and his associates all
sponsorship for the story Fisher tells, but announces that
it is being probed to the limit.
6. The growing impression is that this latest sensation in the
Frank case is not a substantial texture and will very soon
be exploded.
Charged by his wife with being a raving drunkard; wanted by
the police, who give him a long court record, believed by
Probation Officer Coogler to be demented as a result of
accusations of murder made against himself, I. W. Fisher, the
accuser of a prominent Atlanta man in the Phagan case, was
confronted Monday by a general disposition to ridicule his story
and the threatened collapse of a sensation.
Kept a prisoner in the office of Luther Z. Rosser, while the
police waited to arrest him, Fisher continued to be inaccessible to
newspaper men, but various investigations of his record bared
facts that threw a dark cloud on his reliability.
Detectives continued their vigil on the ground floor of the
Grant Building ready to arrest Fisher as soon as he made his
appearance. In the meanwhile, the Frank lawyers kept on
investigating his story and seemed determined to hold their man
a strict prisoner until they were entirely through with him.
Police Haven't Seen Fisher
I am not acting sooner for Fisher or for Fisher's story,
declared Mr. Rosser, at his office Monday. We want to keep the
man for a few hours longer, and then if the police would like to
have him they are welcome to him.
Do you believe Fisher's story? questioned a Georgian
reporter.
I have said my say, exclaimed the attorney.
Can I talk to Fisher? the reporter asked.
You can"when I get through with him, said Rosser, and he
strode away in the direction of his office door.
A police officer stated positively Monday noon that the Frank
attorney prisoner would be arrested and taken to headquarters
as soon as he was taken from Rosser's office.
None of the officers has had a look at Fisher, and it is doubt
whether or not they will get him if he should try to walk out of the
Grant building. Since he was taken to the office of Rosser
yesterday morning, he has been given a shave and an overcoat. A
pint of whisky was also seen to have been taken into Fisher's
cell.
The arrival of Chief of Police Beavers in Rosser's office
Monday noon created quite a bit of excitement. Chief Beavers,
however, went into the private office of Rosser, where the
arguments in the Whitehall street injunction were being heard.
Mr. Coogler's opinion was contingent on the identity of an I.
W. Fisher Coogler has had before him many times and that of the
Fisher who has been virtually a prisoner in the Grant Building
being the same.
Coogler said Monday that Fisher was tried several years ago
for the murder of his wife's brother. He was acquitted, but it is
known that a suspicion that he was guilty still rested in the mind
of his wife, and that she frequently had charged him with the
crime. These accusations are believed by Coogler to have
unsettled Fisher's mind, a condition which perhaps has been
augmented by the use of drugs.
The Fisher Coogler has had before him lived at No. 797
Marietta street. An investigation of his record has disclosed that
the man was placed on probation November 24 of last year
charged with being drunk and disorderly and abusing his wife. He
obtained employment and contributed to the support of his wife
and children through the probation officer.
Fisher was before Coogler again on Christmas, and this time
he was given employment with the Christian Helpers' League. He
could not say good and February 21 he was arrested again,
charged with striking and otherwise mistreating his wife. He was
bound over to the State Court under bond of $200. He obtained
his release only to offend in the same respect again. A peace
warrant was issued, and he stayed in jail two days last May, and
soon afterward he disappeared from the city.
Coogler received a letter from him last May, postmarked in
Parksville, Tenn. He asked that his trunk be sent him. That was
the last Coogler heard of him until Fisher's sensational story
appeared in the Sunday papers.
Here is Fisher's probation record:
He was arrested and put on proba-
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FISHER IS
DERANGED BY
AN OLD MURDER
CHARGE,
THINKS OFFICER
COOGLER
Continued From Page 1.
tion November 24, 1912. The charge was abusing and mistreating
his wife while drinking, December 24, he violated his parole,
drinking and again being arrested. He promised better behavior,
and was continued on probation, staying at the Christian Helpers'
League on Decatur street.
February 22, 1913, Fisher yielded once more. Intoxicated, he
went to his wife's home and beat her. He was arrested and bound
over in police court under a $200 bond, which he furnished.
May 15 his wife applied for a peace warrant, under which
Fisher was arrested and detained two days, finally giving bond.
Then he disappeared May 28 Coogler received a letter from Fisher
postmarked Parkville, Tenn., requesting his truck, which he had
left in the Christian Helpers' League.
That closed that part of the official record of Fisher in
Atlanta.
Mind Broken by Drink.
Grave discredit was cast on Fisher's story by Mrs. Annie
Fisher, his wife, of No. 734 Marietta street, who asserted firmly
that she believed the tale of a business man's confession of the
crime was the fabrication of a mind broken down by drink,
perhaps by drugs.
My husband is a confirmed drunkard, Mrs. Fisher
regretfully admitted. He is at times without any responsibility for
his words or actions. He was once tried on a lunacy writ taken out
by his brother, a business man of Rome, Ga. They declared him
sane at the time, but put him on probation. I have an idea he uses
morphine. He left me August 12.
Both Stallings and his wife declare Fisher is utterly
irresponsible. His sister said she would not believe any statement
he might make, while her husband recounted some strange
stories he said Fisher had told him at different times.
He told them with no straight a face that I almost believed
him, Stallings said, but afterward I always found them to be
untrue.
Believed Frank Innocent.
As to Fisher's knowledge of the Phagan case, Mrs. Fisher said
that only once did her husband say anything that might have
been taken as evidence that he knew something. One night while
reading the newspaper accounts of the arrest Fisher said:
They haven't got the guilty man. Frank didn't murder Mary
Phagan.
Mrs. Fisher also denied that her husband had left Atlanta
immediately after the murder of the little girl, as he said.
He lived with here until August 12, she stated, and then
he went away because I had filed a petition asking divorce and
alimony. He went away to keep the papers from being served.
Mrs. Fisher was very candid and unreserved in talking the
affairs of her husband and herself.
They were married, she said, in Dalton, Ga., thirteen years
ago, and lived there until they moved to Atlanta three years ago.
Maniac When Drinking.
My husband has long been a drinking man, Mrs. Fisher
said. When sober I believe he was perfectly rational, but when
drinking"I don't know just how to express it. He was nearly a
maniac. More than once he threatened to shoot me. I had to have
him arrested less than a year ago because he was threatening my
life.
I was going to sue him for divorce then, but Officer Clarke, a
friend of his, took his part and begged me not to. I consented, and
he was put on probation. Officer Coogler, I believe it was, kept
him on the probation list four months. But it was no use at all.
Since Fisher went away to avoid the service of the divorce
papers, his wife has been taking boarders and sewing to support
herself and their two children. Fisher wrote to her from Parkville,
Tenn., she said, and again from a suburb of Birmingham. He
wanted to return and live with her, Mrs. Fisher said, but she did
not answer the letters.
Then Mrs. Fisher told of a happening the morning after the
murder was committed.
It was Sunday, she said, and just after breakfast we went
to a drug store about a block away. On our way back we met a
man I didn't know. He stopped my husband and said: Fisher, I've
got something to tell you.'
Went to Factory.
Mr. Fisher stopped and talked with him and I went on home.
Later, he came home and told me the man told him a girl had
been killed at the pencil factory. He seemed to be quite curious
about the crime. He and I went and we took our little girl, Evelyn,
and Miss Lille Embree, a young woman who was boarding with
us.
We couldn't go all over the factory, but I didn't think my
husband seemed at all nervous or acted unusual. He did read a
lot about the case. I noticed that. And some time after that I
missed my diary that I kept to set down almost everything I did. I
don't know that he took it, however.
Reporters, who had trailed Fisher from Birmingham, from
where he was brought to Atlanta by C. W. Burke, an agent for
Attorney Rosser, were on constant duty ready to resume the
chase in the event that any new move was made by Frank's
lawyers or there appeared an endeavor to hide him away. The
vigilance of an entire day and a night resulted in only the
sensational statement of the quasi-prisoner which was forecast
very closely by The Sunday American. This statement was given
out late in the afternoon by Attorney Rosser. Rosser would not
reveal the name of the prominent man charged. He said that his
identity must remain a mystery for a time at least. The only clew
he furnished was that the man was fairly prominent.
I do not want to use the name of the man, said Rosser,
and thus possibly to do him an injustice. I will tell everything in
the world except the name of the man.
The man who has just told his story to us is I. W. Fisher. He
once lived here and left e about the time of the murder of Mary
Phagan, and since then has lived in North Georgia, Tennessee and
Birmingham. He now lives in Birmingham.
Without our knowledge or instigation, he went to the Chief
of Police in Birmingham, George H. Bodeker, and asserted that
Frank was innocent, and that he had known of his innocence all
the time, but that he didn't think Frank would be convicted, and
therefore had kept his silence about the real murderer.
He said that he met the man who committed the crime on
Saturday, April 26, and that this man told him he was going to
meet Mary Phagan in the pencil factory at noon. Fisher said that
when the man came factory he said: I raised h"l in there and
you have got to get out of town.'
Since that time Fisher says that this man, who is well to do
and established in business here, has been paying his expenses
wherever he went.
Whether Fisher's story is true or false we do not know. We
are not giving it out as fact, but merely as one of the numerous
stories which have come to our ears during the investigation of
the crime. We would have said nothing about it if the newspapers
had not come out yesterday telling of Fisher's walking into the
office of the Chief of Police in Birmingham. We do not take any
stock in it one way or another as yet. But we are going to
investigate it thoroughly and find whether or not if it is true.
Police Told Name.
We have told the detectives something when we have not
told the public. We have told them the name of the man Fisher
accuses, and have incited them to work with us on our
investigation. There is such a man as the one Fisher names, and
he is well known. Fisher is a married man, and has several
children. They are in Atlanta.
Solicitor Dorsey, Frank A. Hooper, who assisted the Solicitor
in the Frank trial, and members of the detective department
appeared not at all impressed by Fisher's story Monday. I think
he's telling a lie, pure and simple, said Mr. Hooper when he was
asked his opinion.
Chief Lanford laughed at the story and said it was his belief
that Fisher was out in town at the time of the Phagan murder.
Fisher is the same man, he thinks, that testified some ago against
Griff Freeman, who was arrested on a blind tiger charge, and then
disappeared from town after Freeman was bound over Fisher was
not on hand to testify in the State trial.
Mrs. Fischer acted as a sleuth and obtained much of the
evidence that resulted in the prosecution of Freeman. She
testified at the trial that Fisher pawned her shoes and sold their
chickens to get liquor from Freeman. Fisher admitted that he had
bought liquor many times from the defendant.
In an effort to make the identification of the man secreted in
the office of Attorney Rosser as the same man who testified in the
trial of Griff Freeman and then disappeared from the city, Lanford
Monday ordered Detective Cowan to go the Fisher home on
Marietta street and get Mrs. Fisher. She will be taken to Rosser's
office and the attorney will be asked for permission to let her see
the man. Chief Lanford believes it will prove the same man.
May Balk Detectives.
It is conjectural if the detectives will be allowed this privilege
in view of the strict seclusion in which Fisher has been kept so far.
Chief Lanford Monday that if the lawyers have evidence that the
crime was committed by another person than Frank, he thought
they should turn it over to the police so that the man might be
arrested and justice done.
Although Frank has been convicted of the crime, said
Lanford, our eyes and ears never have been closed to evidence
that would point to any other person as the guilty on. I do not
place much reliance on Fisher's story, but I want my department
to investigate it thoroughly. This Fisher, I believe once was with
the Southern Railway, and was discharged because of his drinking
Burke, who now is acting for Rosser, once was special agent for
the Southern.
Attorney Rosser Monday explained the unpassable guard
that had been thrown around Fisher by saying that he wanted to
get every detail of Fisher's story before he let him go.
As soon as I get all I want to know, I don't care what
becomes of him, the lawyer said. We are making a most careful
investigation of every statement he has made, and we want to
keep him at hand until we are through. After that the detectives
and the newspaper men can question him to their hearts'
content.
PAGE 5, COLUMNS 1
& 7
FRANK WITNESS NAMES J.C. SHIRLEY
IN HIS STORY
MARIETTA
STREET
MERCHANT
LAUGHS
AT WITNESS'
STORY
Characterizing the accusation of Ira W. Fisher, author of the
latest Phagan case sensation, as a huge farce, J. Shirley, a highly
respected furniture dealer at No. 809 Marietta street, a highly
respected furniture dealer at No. 809 Marietta street, named by
Fisher as the little girl's slayer, declared the man a fit subject for
an insane asylum.
Identification of the accused man was made public Monday
afternoon. It came from Birmingham, where Fisher first made his
sensational statements. The man is well known in business circles
of Atlanta. He declared that he was not aware that he was the one
referred to until he was approached Monday.
He said that he was acquainted with his accuser. He stated
that he operated a business establishment on Marietta street,
near the Fisher residence. He declared that he had once had
business dealings with the Witness and had been forced to
transfer his negotiations to Mrs. Fisher when her husband failed ts
obligations.
Mr. Shirley could not ascribe any reason for Fisher having
brought the charge of murder against him unless he was
demented.
Why, I don't recall having talked with Fisher since he left
Marietta street home,'' said Mr. Shirley. The only time I saw
much of him was when he loafed around the store. I don't recall
having ever discussed the Phagan case with him.''
Mr. Shirley denied having ever delivered furniture at the
home of J. W. Coleman, stepfather of Mary Phagan, with Fisher.
Charged by his wife with being a raving drunkard; wanted by
the police, who give him a long court record, believed by
Probation Officer Coogler to be demented as a result of
accusations of murder made against himself, I. W. Fisher, the
accuser of a prominent Atlanta man in the Phagan case, was
confronted Monday by a general disposition to ridicule his story
and the threatened collapse of a sensation.
Kept a prisoner in the office of Luther Z. Rosser, while the
police waited to arrest him, Fisher continued to be inaccessible to
newspaper men, but various investigations of his record bared
facts that threw a dark cloud on his reliability.
Detectives continued their vigil on the ground floor of the
Grant Building ready to arrest Fisher as soon as he made his
appearance. In the meanwhile, the Frank lawyers kept on
investigating his story, and seemed determined to hold their man
a strict prisoner until they were entirely through with him.
Police Haven't Seen Fisher.
I am not acting sooner for Fisher or for Fisher's story,
declared Mr. Rosser, at his office Monday. We want to keep the
man for a few hours longer, and then if the police would like to
have him, they are welcome to him.
Do you believe Fisher's story? questioned a Georgian
reporter.
I have said my say, exclaimed the attorney.
Can I talk to Fisher? the reporter asked.
You can"when I get through with him, said Rosser, and he
strode away in the direction of his office door.
A police officer stated positively Monday noon that the Frank
attorney prisoner would be arrested and taken to headquarters
as soon as he was taken from Rosser's office.
None of the officers has had a look at Fisher, and it is doubt
whether or not they will get him if he should try to walk out of the
Grant building. Since he was taken to the office of Rosser
yesterday morning, he has been given a shave and an overcoat. A
pint of whisky was also seen to have been taken into Fisher's
cell.
The arrival of Chief of Police Beavers in Rosser's office
Monday noon created quite a bit of excitement. Chief Beavers,
however, went into the private office of Rosser, where the
arguments in the Whitehall street injunction were being heard.
Mr. Coogler's opinion was contingent on the identity of an I.
W. Fisher Coogler has had before him many times and that of the
Fisher who has been virtually a prisoner in the Grant Building
being the same.
Coogler said Monday that Fisher was tried several years ago
for the murder of his wife's brother. He was acquitted, but it is
known that a suspicion that he was guilty still rested in the mind
of his wife, and that she frequently had charged him with the
crime. These accusations are believed by Coogler to have
unsettled Fisher's mind, a condition which perhaps has been
augmented by the use of drugs.
The Fisher Coogler has had before him lived at No. 797
Marietta street. An investigation of his record has disclosed that
the man was placed on probation November 24 of last year
charged with being drunk and disorderly and abusing his wife. He
obtained employment and contributed to the support of his wife
and children through the probation officer.
Fisher was before Coogler again on Christmas, and this time
he was given employment with the Christian Helpers' League. He
could not say good and February 21 he was arrested again,
charged with striking and otherwise mistreating his wife. He was
bound over to the State Court under bond of $200. He obtained
his release only to offend in the same respect again. A peace
warrant was issued, and he stayed in jail two days last May, and
soon afterward he disappeared from the city.
Coogler received a letter from him last May, postmarked in
Parksville, Tenn. He asked that his trunk be sent him. That was
the last Coogler heard of him until Fisher's sensational story
appeared in the Sunday papers.
Here is Fisher's probation record:
He was arrested and put on proba-
PAGE 11, COLUMN 1
FISHER IS
DERANGED BY
AN OLD MURDER
CHARGE,
THINKS OFFICER
COOGLER
Continued From Page 1.
tion November 24, 1912. The charge was abusing and mistreating
his wife while drinking, December 24, he violated his parole,
drinking and again being arrested. He promised better behavior,
and was continued on probation, staying at the Christian Helpers'
League on Decatur street.
February 22, 1913, Fisher yielded once more. Intoxicated, he
went to his wife's home and beat her. He was arrested and bound
over in police court under a $200 bond, which he furnished.
May 15 his wife applied for a peace warrant, under which
Fisher was arrested and detained two days, finally giving bond.
Then he disappeared May 28 Coogler received a letter from Fisher
postmarked Parkville, Tenn., requesting his truck, which he had
left in the Christian Helpers' League.
That closed that part of the official record of Fisher in
Atlanta.
Mind Broken by Drink.
Grave discredit was cast on Fisher's story by Mrs. Annie
Fisher, his wife, of No. 734 Marietta street, who asserted firmly
that she believed the tale of a business man's confession of the
crime was the fabrication of a mind broken down by drink,
perhaps by drugs.
My husband is a confirmed drunkard, Mrs. Fisher
regretfully admitted. He is at times without any responsibility for
his words or actions. He was once tried on a lunacy writ taken out
by his brother, a business man of Rome, Ga. They declared him
sane at the time, but put him on probation. I have an idea he uses
morphine. He left me August 12.
Both Stallings and his wife declare Fisher is utterly
irresponsible. His sister said she would not believe any statement
he might make, while her husband recounted some strange
stories he said Fisher had told him at different times.
He told them with no straight a face that I almost believed
him, Stallings said, but afterward I always found them to be
untrue.
Believed Frank Innocent.
As to Fisher's knowledge of the Phagan case, Mrs. Fisher said
that only once did her husband say anything that might have
been taken as evidence that he knew something. One night while
reading the newspaper accounts of the arrest Fisher said:
They haven't got the guilty man. Frank didn't murder Mary
Phagan.
Mrs. Fisher also denied that her husband had left Atlanta
immediately after the murder of the little girl, as he said.
He lived with here until August 12, she stated, and then
he went away because I had filed a petition asking divorce and
alimony. He went away to keep the papers from being served.
Mrs. Fisher was very candid and unreserved in talking the
affairs of her husband and herself.
They were married, she said, in Dalton, Ga., thirteen years
ago, and lived there until they moved to Atlanta three years ago.
Maniac When Drinking.
My husband has long been a drinking man, Mrs. Fisher
said. When sober I believe he was perfectly rational, but when
drinking"I don't know just how to express it. He was nearly a
maniac. More than once he threatened to shoot me. I had to have
him arrested less than a year ago because he was threatening my
life.
I was going to sue him for divorce then, but Officer Clarke, a
friend of his, took his part and begged me not to. I consented, and
he was put on probation. Officer Coogler, I believe it was, kept
him on the probation list four months. But it was no use at all.
Since Fisher went away to avoid the service of the divorce
papers, his wife has been taking boarders and sewing to support
herself and their two children. Fisher wrote to her from Parkville,
Tenn., she said, and again from a suburb of Birmingham. He
wanted to return and live with her, Mrs. Fisher said, but she did
not answer the letters.
Then Mrs. Fisher told of a happening the morning after the
murder was committed.
It was Sunday, she said, and just after breakfast we went
to a drug store about a block away. On our way back we met a
man I didn't know. He stopped my husband and said: Fisher, I've
got something to tell you.'
Went to Factory.
Mr. Fisher stopped and talked with him and I went on home.
Later, he came home and told me the man told him a girl had
been killed at the pencil factory. He seemed to be quite curious
about the crime. He and I went and we took our little girl, Evelyn,
and Miss Lille Embree, a young woman who was boarding with
us.
We couldn't go all over the factory, but I didn't think my
husband seemed at all nervous or acted unusual. He did read a
lot about the case. I noticed that. And some time after that I
missed my diary that I kept to set down almost everything I did. I
don't know that he took it, however.
Reporters, who had trailed Fisher from Birmingham, from
where he was brought to Atlanta by C. W. Burke, an agent for
Attorney Rosser, were on constant duty ready to resume the
chase in the event that any new move was made by Frank's
lawyers or there appeared an endeavor to hide him away. The
vigilance of an entire day and a night resulted in only the
sensational statement of the quasi-prisoner which was forecast
very closely by The Sunday American. This statement was given
out late in the afternoon by Attorney Rosser. Rosser would not
reveal the name of the prominent man charged. He said that his
identity must remain a mystery for a time at least. The only clew
he furnished was that the man was fairly prominent.
I do not want to use the name of the man, said Rosser,
and thus possibly to do him an injustice. I will tell everything in
the world except the name of the man.
The man who has just told his story to us is I. W. Fisher. He
once lived here and left e about the time of the murder of Mary
Phagan, and since then has lived in North Georgia, Tennessee and
Birmingham. He now lives in Birmingham.
Without our knowledge or instigation, he went to the Chief
of Police in Birmingham, George H. Bodeker, and asserted that
Frank was innocent, and that he had known of his innocence all
the time, but that he didn't think Frank would be convicted, and
therefore had kept his silence about the real murderer.
He said that he met the man who committed the crime on
Saturday, April 26, and that this man told him he was going to
meet Mary Phagan in the pencil factory at noon. Fisher said that
when the man came factory he said: I raised h"l in there and
you have got to get out of town.'
Since that time Fisher says that this man, who is well to do
and established in business here, has been paying his expenses
wherever he went.
Whether Fisher's story is true or false we do not know. We
are not giving it out as fact, but merely as one of the numerous
stories which have come to our ears during the investigation of
the crime. We would have said nothing about it if the newspapers
had not come out yesterday telling of Fisher's walking into the
office of the Chief of Police in Birmingham. We do not take any
stock in it one way or another as yet. But we are going to
investigate it thoroughly and find whether or not if it is true.
Police Told Name.
We have told the detectives something when we have not
told the public. We have told them the name of the man Fisher
accuses, and have incited them to work with us on our
investigation. There is such a man as the one Fisher names, and
he is well known. Fisher is a married man, and has several
children. They are in Atlanta.
Solicitor Dorsey, Frank A. Hooper, who assisted the Solicitor
in the Frank trial, and members of the detective department
appeared not at all impressed by Fisher's story Monday. I think
he's telling a lie, pure and simple, said Mr. Hooper when he was
asked his opinion.
Chief Lanford laughed at the story and said it was his belief
that Fisher was out in town at the time of the Phagan murder.
Fisher is the same man, he thinks, that testified some ago against
Griff Freeman, who was arrested on a blind tiger charge, and then
disappeared from town after Freeman was bound over Fisher was
not on hand to testify in the State trial.
Mrs. Fischer acted as a sleuth and obtained much of the
evidence that resulted in the prosecution of Freeman. She
testified at the trial that Fisher pawned her shoes and sold their
chickens to get liquor from Freeman. Fisher admitted that he had
bought liquor many times from the defendant.
In an effort to make the identification of the man secreted in
the office of Attorney Rosser as the same man who testified in the
trial of Griff Freeman and then disappeared from the city, Lanford
Monday ordered Detective Cowan to go the Fisher home on
Marietta street and get Mrs. Fisher. She will be taken to Rosser's
office and the attorney will be asked for permission to let her see
the man. Chief Lanford believes it will prove the same man.
May Balk Detectives.
It is conjectural if the detectives will be allowed this privilege
in view of the strict seclusion in which Fisher has been kept so far.
Chief Lanford Monday that if the lawyers have evidence that the
crime was committed by another person than Frank, he thought
they should turn it over to the police so that the man might be
arrested and justice done.
Although Frank has been convicted of the crime, said
Lanford, our eyes and ears never have been closed to evidence
that would point to any other person as the guilty on. I do not
place much reliance on Fisher's story, but I want my department
to investigate it thoroughly. This Fisher, I believe once was with
the Southern Railway, and was discharged because of his drinking
Burke, who now is acting for Rosser, once was special agent for
the Southern.
Attorney Rosser Monday explained the unpassable guard
that had been thrown around Fisher by saying that he wanted to
get every detail of Fisher's story before he let him go.
As soon as I get all I want to know, I don't care what
becomes of him, the lawyer said. We are making a most careful
investigation of every statement he has made, and we want to
keep him at hand until we are through. After that the detectives
and the newspaper men can question him to their hearts'
content.
PAGE 6, COLUMNS 1 &
7
POLICE GET FISHER,
FRANK WITNESS
MERCHANT VOWS
TO
PRESECUTE
FISHER
TO LAW'S
FULL LIMIT
Ira W. Fisher, whose story attempted to involve J. C. Shirley,
a respected Marietta street merchant, in the Phagan case, was
turned over to the police authorities late Monday afternoon.
Attorney Rosser notified Chief of Detectives Lanford that he was
ready to give the witness'' up. Detective Eugen Coker was
dispatched to the attorney's office immediately. Fisher was taken
to the police station and subjected to a rigid cross-examination
Monday night.
Fisher reiterated before a crowd of newspaper men and
detectives his startling story.
Despite Shirley's denial of every accusation made by Fisher,
the man persisted in his accusations. He went into detail, going
even so far as naming the amounts of money which he said
Shirley had sent him at various times and giving the towns which
he visited. However, he had no documents to support him and
none who heard the story believed him.
That he will prosecute Ira W. Fisher, who names him as the
principal in his sensational story of the Phagan murder, to the
fullest extent the law allows, was the declaration made to a
Georgian reporter late Monday afternoon by J. C. Shirley, the well-
known and respected Marietta street merchant. He has retained
C. J. Graham, a lawyer who has already figured in the Frank case,
to represent him.
The whole story is a joke, said Mr. Shirley. But I will
investigate the law and determine how I may prosecute this man
for this abominable fairy tale.
C. F. Shirley, who lives at No. 54 Flatshoals road rand is a
brother of the man Fisher names, said Fisher was a drunkard and
a gambler and a mighty sorry man all around. That appeared to
be the opinion of all who have had any connection with Fisher.
J. C. Shirley said he did not even know where the National
Pencil Factory was until he read of the Phagan case in the
newspapers. He declared that he knew none of the girls employed
there, except that he had heard that two girls who lived across
the street were employed at the plant.
Fisher, in Luther Rosser's office, stuck to his story, but very
little credence was attached to it by anybody.
Fisher, according to report, declared that Shirley had met
him on the street on the afternoon of the murder and had
declared that he had met Mary Phagan and played hell.
When informed of this statement, the furniture man laughed.
Why the man is crazy, he said.
Identification of the accused man was made public Monday
afternoon. It came from Birmingham, where Fisher first made his
sensational statements. The man is well known in business circles
of Atlanta. He declared that he was not aware that he was the one
referred to until he was approached Monday.
Mr. Shirley could not ascribe any reason for Fisher having
brought the charge of murder against him unless he was
demented.
Why, I don't recall having talked with Fisher since he left his
Marietta street home, said Mr. Shirley. The only time I saw
much of him was when he loafed around the store. I don't recall
having ever discussed the Phagan case with him.
Mr. Shirley denied having ever delivered furniture at the
home of J. W. Coleman stepfather of Mary Phagan, with Fisher.
Charged by his wife being a raving drunkard; wanted by the
police, who give him a long court record, believed by Probation
Officer Coogler to be demented as a result of accusations of
murder against himself, I. W. Fisher, the accuser of a prominent
Atlanta man in the Phagan case, was confronted Monday by a
general disposition to ridicule his story and the threatened
collapse of a sensation.
Kept a prisoner in the office of Luther Z. Rosser, while the
police waited to arrest him, Fisher continued to be inaccessible to
newspaper men, but various investigations of his record bared
facts that threw dark cloud on his reliability.
Detectives continued their vigil on the ground floor of the
Grant Building ready to arrest Fisher as soon as he made his
appearance. In the meanwhile the Frank lawyers kept on
investigating his story and seemed determined to hold their man
a strict prisoner until they were entirely through with him.
I am not acting sponsor for Fisher or for Fisher's story,
declared Mr. Rosser, at his office Monday. We want to keep the
man for a few hours longer, and then if the police would like to
have him, they are welcome to him.
Do you believe Fisher's story? questioned a Georgian
reporter.
I have said my say, exclaimed the attorney.
Can I talk to Flasher? the reporter asked.
You can"when I get through with him, said Rosser, and he
strode away in the direction of his office door.
A police officer stated positively Monday noon that the Frank
attorneys' prisoner would be arrested and taken to
headquarters as soon as he was taken from Rosser's office.
None of the officers has had a look at Fisher, and it is
doubtful whether or not they will get him if he should try to walk
out of the Grant building. Since he was taken to the office of
Rosser yesterday morning, he was been given a shave and an
overcoat. A pint of whisky was also seen to have been taken into
Fisher's cell.
The arrival of Chief of Police Beavers in Rosser's office
Monday noon created quite a bit of excitement. Chief Beavers
however, went into the private offices of Rosser, where the
arguments in the Whitehall street injunction were being heard.
Mr. Coogler's opinion was contingent on the identity of an I.
W. Fisher Coogler has had before him many times and that of the
Fisher who has been virtually a prisoner in the Grant Building
being the same.
Coogler said Monday that Fisher was tried several years ago
for the murder of his wife's brother. He was acquitted, but it is
known that a suspicion that he was guilty still rested in the mind
of his wife, and that she frequently had charged him with the
crime. These accusations are believed by Coogler to have
unsettled Fisher's mind, a condition which perhaps has been
augmented by the use of drugs.
The Fisher Coogler has had before him lived at No. 797
Marietta street. An investigation of his record has disclosed that
the man was placed on probation November 24 of last year
charged with being drunk and disorderly and abusing his wife. He
obtained employment and contributed to the support of his wife
and children through the probation officer.
Fisher was before Coogler again on Christmas, and this time
he was given employment with the Christian Helpers' League. He
could not say good and February 21 he was arrested again,
charged with striking and otherwise mistreating his wife. He was
bound over to the State Court under bond of $200. He obtained
his release only to offend in the same respect again. A peace
warrant was issued, and he stayed in jail two days last May, and
soon afterward he disappeared from the city.
Coogler received a letter from him last May, postmarked in
Parksville, Tenn. He asked that his trunk be sent him. That was
the last Coogler heard of him until Fisher's sensational story
appeared in the Sunday papers.
Here is Fisher's probation record:
He was arrested and put on probation November 24, 1912.
The charge was abusing and mistreating his wife while drinking,
December 24, he violated his parole, drinking and again being
arrested. He promised better behavior, and was continued on
probation, staying at the Christian Helpers' League on Decatur
street.
February 22, 1913, Fisher yielded once more. Intoxicated, he
went to his wife's home and beat her. He was arrested and bound
over in police court under a $200 bond, which he furnished.
May 15 his wife applied for a peace warrant, under which
Fisher was arrested and detained two days, finally giving bond.
Then he disappeared May 28 Coogler received a letter from Fisher
postmarked Parkville, Tenn., requesting his truck, which he had
left in the Christian Helpers' League.
That closed that part of the official record of Fisher in
Atlanta.
Mind Broken by Drink.
Grave discredit was cast on Fisher's story by Mrs. Annie
Fisher, his wife, of No. 734 Marietta street, who asserted firmly
that she believed the tale of a business man's confession of the
crime was the fabrication of a mind broken down by drink,
perhaps by drugs.
My husband is a confirmed drunkard, Mrs. Fisher
regretfully admitted. He is at times without any responsibility for
his words or actions. He was once tried on a lunacy writ taken out
by his brother, a business man of Rome, Ga. They declared him
sane at the time, but put him on probation. I have an idea he uses
morphine. He left me August 12.
Both Stallings and his wife declare Fisher is utterly
irresponsible. His sister said she would not believe any statement
he might make, while her husband recounted some strange
stories he said Fisher had told him at different times.
He told them with no straight a face that I almost believed
him, Stallings said, but afterward I always found them to be
untrue.
Believed Frank Innocent.
As to Fisher's knowledge of the Phagan case, Mrs. Fisher said
that only once did her husband say anything that might have
been taken as evidence that he knew something. One night while
reading the newspaper accounts of the arrest Fisher said:
They haven't got the guilty man. Frank didn't murder Mary
Phagan.
Mrs. Fisher also denied that her husband had left Atlanta
immediately after the murder of the little girl, as he said.
He lived with here until August 12, she stated, and then
he went away because I had filed a petition asking divorce and
alimony. He went away to keep the papers from being served.
Mrs. Fisher was very candid and unreserved in talking the
affairs of her husband and herself.
They were married, she said, in Dalton, Ga., thirteen years
ago, and lived there until they moved to Atlanta three years ago.
Maniac When Drinking.
My husband has long been a drinking man, Mrs. Fisher
said. When sober I believe he was perfectly rational, but when
drinking"I don't know just how to express it. He was nearly a
maniac. More than once he threatened to shoot me. I had to have
him arrested less than a year ago because he was threatening my
life.
I was going to sue him for divorce then, but Officer Clarke, a
friend of his, took his part and begged me not to. I consented, and
he was put on probation. Officer Coogler, I believe it was, kept
him on the probation list four months. But it was no use at all.
Since Fisher went away to avoid the service of the divorce
papers, his wife has been taking boarders and sewing to support
herself and their two children. Fisher wrote to her from Parkville,
Tenn., she said, and again from a suburb of Birmingham. He
wanted to return and live with her, Mrs. Fisher said, but she did
not answer the letters.
Then Mrs. Fisher told of a happening the morning after the
murder was committed.
It was Sunday, she said, and just after breakfast we went
to a drug store about a block away. On our way back we met a
man I didn't know. He stopped my husband and said: Fisher, I've
got something to tell you.'
Went to Factory.
Mr. Fisher stopped and talked with him and I went on home.
Later, he came home and told me the man told him a girl had
been killed at the pencil factory. He seemed to be quite curious
about the crime. He and I went and we took our little girl, Evelyn,
and Miss Lille Embree, a young woman who was boarding with
us.
We couldn't go all over the factory, but I didn't think my
husband seemed at all nervous or acted unusual. He did read a
lot about the case. I noticed that. And some time after that I
missed my diary that I kept to set down almost everything I did. I
don't know that he took it, however.
Reporters, who had trailed Fisher from Birmingham, from
where he was brought to Atlanta by C. W. Burke, an agent for
Attorney Rosser, were on constant duty ready to resume the
chase in the event that any new move was made by Frank's
lawyers or there appeared an endeavor to hide him away. The
vigilance of an entire day and a night resulted in only the
sensational statement of the quasi-prisoner which was forecast
very closely by The Sunday American. This statement was given
out late in the afternoon by Attorney Rosser. Rosser would not
reveal the name of the prominent man charged. He said that his
identity must remain a mystery for a time at least. The only clew
he furnished was that the man was fairly prominent.
I do not want to use the name of the man, said Rosser,
and thus possibly to do him an injustice. I will tell everything in
the world except the name of the man.
The man who has just told his story to us is I. W. Fisher. He
once lived here and left e about the time of the murder of Mary
Phagan, and since then has lived in North Georgia, Tennessee and
Birmingham. He now lives in Birmingham.
Without our knowledge or instigation, he went to the Chief
of Police in Birmingham, George H. Bodeker, and asserted that
Frank was innocent, and that he had known of his innocence all
the time, but that he didn't think Frank would be convicted, and
therefore had kept his silence about the real murderer.
He said that he met the man who committed the crime on
Saturday, April 26, and that this man told him he was going to
meet Mary Phagan in the pencil factory at noon. Fisher said that
when the man came factory he said: I raised h"l in there and
you have got to get out of town.'
Since that time Fisher says that this man, who is well to do
and established in business here, has been paying his expenses
wherever he went.
Whether Fisher's story is true or false we do not know. We
are not giving it out as fact, but merely as one of the numerous
stories which have come to our ears during the investigation of
the crime. We would have said nothing about it if the newspapers
had not come out yesterday telling of Fisher's walking into the
office of the Chief of Police in Birmingham. We do not take any
stock in it one way or another as yet. But we are going to
investigate it thoroughly and find whether or not if it is true.
Police Told Name.
We have told the detectives something when we have not
told the public. We have told them the name of the man Fisher
accuses, and have incited them to work with us on our
investigation. There is such a man as the one Fisher names, and
he is well known. Fisher is a married man, and has several
children. They are in Atlanta.
Solicitor Dorsey, Frank A. Hooper, who assisted the Solicitor
in the Frank trial, and members of the detective department
appeared not at all impressed by Fisher's story Monday. I think
he's telling a lie, pure and simple, said Mr. Hooper when he was
asked his opinion.
Chief Lanford laughed at the story and said it was his belief
that Fisher was out in town at the time of the Phagan murder.
Fisher is the same man, he thinks, that testified some ago against
Griff Freeman, who was arrested on a blind tiger charge, and then
disappeared from town after Freeman was bound over Fisher was
not on hand to testify in the State trial.
Mrs. Fischer acted as a sleuth and obtained much of the
evidence that resulted in the prosecution of Freeman. She
testified at the trial that Fisher pawned her shoes and sold their
chickens to get liquor from Freeman. Fisher admitted that he had
bought liquor many times from the defendant.
PAGE 8, COLUMN 1
Rosser's Office in
State
Of Siege
Through Night
Kept a virtual prisoner all day, and hedged about by secrecy
that seemed to portend important things, the new entrant into
the Phagan case limelight answered the questions of the Frank
lawyers somewhat hesitantly and not all impressively, according
to the little information that could be gathered from the closely
guarded offices.
The headquarters of the law firm of Rosser, Brandon, Slaton
& Phillips was watched all day and night by a crowd of reporters
who for the most part their pains for their labors. Occasionally
during the day a figure would emerge from the office"most
frequently Herbert Haas. Close questioning brought the
enlightening information from Mr. Haas that he did not know the
man in the case; that if he did he had no idea of the story he had
told, and that at any rate he could not talk to newspaper men.
Secret Conferences.
Outward evidences were the copious questions were being
asked by Frank's lawyers and that considerable importance"
perhaps vital importance"was at first attached by them in the
developments of the day. Young women stenographers had been
summoned from their homes and appeared to be busy. The
conferences were held in the innermost offices, and no a word
drifted to the waiting men outside.
Reuben Arnold arrived about midday and was immediately
closeted with the other principals in the case. He had been there
about three hours when the word went forth that the mysterious
stranger was to be spirited away in an automobile, and the
newspaper men pared for the chase.
As a matter of fact, the word had been given to a private
chauffeur to be prepared, and Detective Burke was to rush the
much-wanted man of mystery away. But the reporters remained
on the alert, refusing to be lured away by various small
subterfuges, and the automobile that had been waiting
downstairs kept on waiting for many hours.
Rosser Secretive.
As usual, Luther Z. Rosser was a synonym for secretiveness.
He threw up his hands in horror at the suggestion that the man of
mystery be posed for the photographers. He had evidently issued
ironclad instructions to Burke to keep the mysterious man's
mouth closed, and Burke obeyed orders. The detective
complained petulantly of the pestiferous attentions of the
newspaper men, but he carried out his orders to the letter. Not a
word would he allow his charge to utter. The man might have
been deaf and dumb for all that could be gotten out of him.
Or he might have been duped. That suggestion was seriously
made by many who saw him. His appearance was anything but
impressive as he was hustled up to the seventh floor of the Grant
Building. A four-days' beard made his drawn features far from
attractive. His eyes shifted constantly. He shuffled his feet as he
walked, and occasionally he threw a glance behind him as though
afraid of a shadow. He was not an inspiring spectacle.
Detectives on Guard.
On the ground floor objectives awaited with much the same
feelings as the reporters on the floors above. Detective Starnes,
who did star work in gathering evidence against Frank, was on
duty for several hours. He simply awaited developments showing
little impatience and almost the interest. Like most every body
concerned, he was not inclined to take the latest developments
seriously as far as pointing to a new solution of the crime.
The detectives on the case speculated on the reasons for
Chief Bodeker of Birmingham, failing to inform the city or county
officials of the alleged revelations and turning the man of mystery
over to private parties instead of to the police. To them if looked
strange but they are loath to discuss whatever significance it
might have.
PAGE 9, COLUMN 3
Fisher Divorce
Record
Revealed by Suit
of Wife
The diverse record of I. W. Fisher, whose sensational
accusations have brought an upheaval in the Phagan murder
case, is revealed in the petition of his wife. Mrs. Annie Fisher, filed
in the Fulton County Superior Court May 16, 1913.
The petition charges cruelty and inhumanity; also
intoxication.
Mrs. Fisher's petition in full is as follows:
Georgia"Fulton County.
To the Superior Court of Said County:
The petition of Mrs. Annie Fisher of said county shows:
That on the 24th day of December 1899, plaintiff and one I.
W. Fisher intermarried in due form of law, to wit: in the county of
Whitfield, Dalton, Ga., and lived together as husband and wife
until May 13, 1913, on which date plaintiff and defendant
separated and are now living separated apart.
2. The Petitioner was then, and has been since, a bona fide
resident of the State of Georgia twelve (12) months next before
the filling of this petition.
3. Petitioner shows that she was very affectionate and kind
to her husband from the time of said marriage, and that during
that time she gave her said husband no cause to complain of your
petitioner. Notwithstanding this, the said defendant has treated
your petitioner in a cruel and inhuman manner, so as to make it
impossible for her to continue her habitation with him. The acts
constituting the cruel treatment of the defendant are specified in
part as follows: Defendant has many times come home from his
work, and being of a very jealous disposition, frequently struck
and abused petitioner, and on numerous occasions has
threatened her life. That these acts of cruelty have rendered
petitioner almost a nervous wreck, and that she is afraid to live
with him longer.
4. Petitioner further shows that defendant has been guilty
of habitual intoxication almost continuously for the past four (4)
or five (5) years. That he has frequently during this time absented
himself during the entire night from home, and for about eight
months during 1912 he and petitioner were living separate and
apart.
5. Petitioner further shows that the issue of said marriage
now living are one boy named James Albert Lee Fisher, age 11
years, and one named Alice Evelyn Fisher, age 5 years.
6. Petitioner further shows that neither she nor defendant
have any property.
7. Petitioner shows that she is physically and financially
unable to properly support herself and her said children: That the
defendant, I. W. Fisher, is a strong and able-bodied man, and
capable of earning $2.50 per day.
Wherefore, petitioner prays:
1. That a total divorce from defendant, that a divorce in
vinculo matrimonii upon legal principles between the petitioner
and said defendant.
2. That the custody of the two children above mentioned be
awarded to petitioner.
3. That defendant be enjoined from molesting or annoying
in any way interfering with petitioner, and from going to her said
residence, speaking to her on the streets, calling her over the
telephone or communicating any threats to her by any other
means.
4. That he be required to pay a reasonable sum into this
court to defray the expenses of this action, and for the support
and maintenance of the said children mentioned in this petition.
POOLE &
LEWIS,
Petitioner's Attorneys.
Georgia, Fulton
County.
Personally appeared before the undersigned, an officer of
said State and County, duly authorized by law to administer
oaths, Mrs. Annie Fisher, who, on oath, says the allegations
contained in the above and foregoing petition for divorce are
true.
MRS. ANNIE FISHER.
Sworn to and subscribed to before me this 16th day of May,
1913.
Z. R.
UPCHURCH,
Notary Public, Fulton
Co.
Read and considered: Ordered
That the defendant show cause before me at Chambers in
the City of Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, on the 24th day of
May, 1913, at 9:30 o'clock a. m., why the prayer of the foregoing
petition should not be granted. In the meantime, and until the
further order of the court, defendant is enjoined and restrained as
prayed. This 17th day of May, 1913.
J. T. PENDLETON,
Judge Superior Court, Atlanta Circuit.
PAGE 9, COLUMN 6
WATSON TO
ASK
QUASHING
OF
INDICTMENT
Attorney for Thomson
Editor Does
Not Expect Mail Case to
Reach a Jury.
AUGUSTA, Oct. 20"The trial of Thomas E. Watson, charged
with sending obscene matter through the mails, began here this
morning. Mr. Watson did not arrive until 10:20, a half hour after
court opened, motoring down from his home at Thomson, S. Guyt
McLendon, Mr. Watson's attorney, who has been here two days,
intimated that he would ask the court to quash the indictment,
and he stated he did not think the case would ever reach a jury.
Judge Foster and other court officials arrived last night.
District Attorney Akerman refused to make a statement regarding
the case other than to say he was ready for trial and that it would
not last more than two days.
A large crowd was in the courtroom when court opened.
Numbers of persons from the country, friends of Watson, were on
hand. Some time was taken up in organizing the court, calling the
roll of the grand and petit jurors, the charging of the Grand Jury
by Judge Foster and other preliminaries.
PAGE 10, COLUMN 3
Fisher Divorce
Record
Revealed by Suit
of Wife
The diverse record of I. W. Fisher, whose sensational
accusations have brought an upheaval in the Phagan murder
case, is revealed in the petition of his wife. Mrs. Annie Fisher, filed
in the Fulton County Superior Court May 16, 1913.
The petition charges cruelty and inhumanity; also
intoxication.
Mrs. Fisher's petition in full is as follows:
Georgia"Fulton County.
To the Superior Court of Said County:
The petition of Mrs. Annie Fisher of said county shows:
That on the 24th day of December 1899, plaintiff and one I.
W. Fisher intermarried in due form of law, to wit: in the county of
Whitfield, Dalton, Ga., and lived together as husband and wife
until May 13, 1913, on which date plaintiff and defendant
separated and are now living separated apart.
2. The Petitioner was then, and has been since, a bona fide
resident of the State of Georgia twelve (12) months next before
the filling of this petition.
3. Petitioner shows that she was very affectionate and kind
to her husband from the time of said marriage, and that during
that time she gave her said husband no cause to complain of your
petitioner. Notwithstanding this, the said defendant has treated
your petitioner in a cruel and inhuman manner, so as to make it
impossible for her to continue her habitation with him. The acts
constituting the cruel treatment of the defendant are specified in
part as follows: Defendant has many times come home from his
work, and being of a very jealous disposition, frequently struck
and abused petitioner, and on numerous occasions has
threatened her life. That these acts of cruelty have rendered
petitioner almost a nervous wreck, and that she is afraid to live
with him longer.
4. Petitioner further shows that defendant has been guilty
of habitual intoxication almost continuously for the past four (4)
or five (5) years. That he has frequently during this time absented
himself during the entire night from home, and for about eight
months during 1912 he and petitioner were living separate and
apart.
5. Petitioner further shows that the issue of said marriage
now living are one boy named James Albert Lee Fisher, age 11
years, and one named Alice Evelyn Fisher, age 5 years.
6. Petitioner further shows that neither she nor defendant
have any property.
7. Petitioner shows that she is physically and financially
unable to properly support herself and her said children: That the
defendant, I. W. Fisher, is a strong and able-bodied man, and
capable of earning $2.50 per day.
Wherefore, petitioner prays:
1. That a total divorce from defendant, that a divorce in
vinculo matrimonii upon legal principles between the petitioner
and said defendant.
2. That the custody of the two children above mentioned be
awarded to petitioner.
3. That defendant be enjoined from molesting or annoying
in any way interfering with petitioner, and from going to her said
residence, speaking to her on the streets, calling her over the
telephone or communicating any threats to her by any other
means.
4. That he be required to pay a reasonable sum into this
court to defray the expenses of this action, and for the support
and maintenance of the said children mentioned in this petition.
POOLE &
LEWIS,
Petitioner's Attorneys.
Georgia, Fulton
County.
Personally appeared before the undersigned, an officer of
said State and County, duly authorized by law to administer
oaths, Mrs. Annie Fisher, who, on oath, says the allegations
contained in the above and foregoing petition for divorce are
true.
MRS. ANNIE FISHER.
Sworn to and subscribed to before me this 16th day of May,
1913.
Z. R.
UPCHURCH,
Notary Public, Fulton
Co.
Read and considered: Ordered
That the defendant show cause before me at Chambers in
the City of Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, on the 24th day of
May, 1913, at 9:30 o'clock a. m., why the prayer of the foregoing
petition should not be granted. In the meantime, and until the
further order of the court, defendant is enjoined and restrained as
prayed. This 17th day of May, 1913.
J. T. PENDLETON,
Judge Superior Court, Atlanta Circuit.
PAGE 10, COLUMN 3
More Affidavits
Filed
Against Juror
Henslee
Two more affidavits were obtained this morning by the
lawyers for Frank tending to show that A. H. Henslee, a member
of the trial jury, had expressed strong opinions as to the guilt of
Frank before the trial.
Leon Harrison, of Atlanta, makes the statement under oath
that some time in May, 1912, he was walking South on Peachtree
street, and just north of Five Points he overheard Henslee and
another man engaged in a very animated conversation regarding
the Frank case.
Harrison stopped, he said, and listened, being interested in
anything he might learn of the famous case. He says he
overheard Henslee's companion say:
I don't believe Frank committed that murder.
To which Henslee's reply is said to have been:
I believe he did kill the girl, and if by any chance I get on
the jury that tries him I'll do my best to get him convicted.
The other sworn statement is the second affidavit of Julian A.
Lehman whose first statement drew from Henslee a sharp and
sweeping denial of the charge that he had expressed a belief in
Frank's guilt.
Lehman reiterates in his second statement all the assertions
made in his first. He says that between the date of the murder,
April 26, and the beginning of the trial, July 28, he heard Henslee
on two occasions express himself as being firmly convinced of
Frank's guilt. He gave the approximate dates of the expressions
as June 2 and June 20.
PAGE 10, COLUMN 3
Rosser's Office in
State
Of Siege
Through Night
Kept a virtual prisoner all day, and hedged about by secrecy
that seemed to portend important things, the new entrant into
the Phagan case limelight answered the questions of the Frank
lawyers somewhat hesitantly and not all impressively, according
to the little information that could be gathered from the closely
guarded offices.
The headquarters of the law firm of Rosser, Brandon, Slaton
& Phillips was watched all day and night by a crowd of reporters
who for the most part their pains for their labors. Occasionally
during the day a figure would emerge from the office"most
frequently Herbert Haas. Close questioning brought the
enlightening information from Mr. Haas that he did not know the
man in the case; that if he did he had no idea of the story he had
told, and that at any rate he could not talk to newspaper men.
Secret Conferences.
Outward evidences were the copious questions were being
asked by Frank's lawyers and that considerable importance"
perhaps vital importance"was at first attached by them in the
developments of the day. Young women stenographers had been
summoned from their homes and appeared to be busy. The
conferences were held in the innermost offices, and no a word
drifted to the waiting men outside.
Reuben Arnold arrived about midday and was immediately
closeted with the other principals in the case. He had been there
about three hours when the word went forth that the mysterious
stranger was to be spirited away in an automobile, and the
newspaper men pared for the chase.
As a matter of fact, the word had been given to a private
chauffeur to be prepared, and Detective Burke was to rush the
much-wanted man of mystery away. But the reporters remained
on the alert, refusing to be lured away by various small
subterfuges, and the automobile that had been waiting
downstairs kept on waiting for many hours.
Rosser Secretive.
As usual, Luther Z. Rosser was a synonym for secretiveness.
He threw up his hands in horror at the suggestion that the man of
mystery be posed for the photographers. He had evidently issued
ironclad instructions to Burke to keep the mysterious man's
mouth closed, and Burke obeyed orders. The detective
complained petulantly of the pestiferous attentions of the
newspaper men, but he carried out his orders to the letter. Not a
word would he allow his charge to utter. The man might have
been deaf and dumb for all that could be gotten out of him.
Or he might have been duped. That suggestion was seriously
made by many who saw him. His appearance was anything but
impressive as he was hustled up to the seventh floor of the Grant
Building. A four-days' beard made his drawn features far from
attractive. His eyes shifted constantly. He shuffled his feet as he
walked, and occasionally he threw a glance behind him as though
afraid of a shadow. He was not an inspiring spectacle.
Detectives on Guard.
On the ground floor objectives awaited with much the same
feelings as the reporters on the floors above. Detective Starnes,
who did star work in gathering evidence against Frank, was on
duty for several hours. He simply awaited developments showing
little impatience and almost the interest. Like most every body
concerned, he was not inclined to take the latest developments
seriously as far as pointing to a new solution of the crime.
The detectives on the case speculated on the reasons for
Chief Bodeker of Birmingham, failing to inform the city or county
officials of the alleged revelations and turning the man of mystery
over to private parties instead of to the police. To them if looked
strange but they are loath to discuss whatever significance it
might have.
PAGE 10, COLUMN 3
More Affidavits
Filed
Against Juror
Henslee
Two more affidavits were obtained this morning by the
lawyers for Frank tending to show that A. H. Henslee, a member
of the trial jury, had expressed strong opinions as to the guilt of
Frank before the trial.
Leon Harrison, of Atlanta, makes the statement under oath
that some time in May, 1912, he was walking South on Peachtree
street, and just north of Five Points he overheard Henslee and
another man engaged in a very animated conversation regarding
the Frank case.
Harrison stopped, he said, and listened, being interested in
anything he might learn of the famous case. He says he
overheard Henslee's companion say:
I don't believe Frank committed that murder.
To which Henslee's reply is said to have been:
I believe he did kill the girl, and if by any chance I get on
the jury that tries him I'll do my best to get him convicted.
The other sworn statement is the second affidavit of Julian A.
Lehman whose first statement drew from Henslee a sharp and
sweeping denial of the charge that he had expressed a belief in
Frank's guilt.
Lehman reiterates in his second statement all the assertions
made in his first. He says that between the date of the murder,
April 26, and the beginning of the trial, July 28, he heard Henslee
on two occasions express himself as being firmly convinced of
Frank's guilt. He gave the approximate dates of the expressions
as June 2 and June 20.
PAGE 11, COLUMN 5
WATSON
MOVES TO
QUASH HIS
INDICTMENT
Case Involves
Constitutional
Guarantee of Freedom
to the
Press, His Attorney
Says.
AUGUSTA, Oct. 20"With every seal and every particle of
available standing room in the United States courtroom occupied,
the case of the United States Government vs. Thomas E. Watson,
charging him with sending obscene matter through the malls, was
called at 10:20 o'clock this morning.
The case will be based on the question of whether or not the
Constitution guarantees to the editors of the country the freedom
of the press unabridged. The United States Supreme Court has
held that an act of Congress prohibiting the sending of obscene
matter through the mails is constitutional, but S. G. McLendon,
defendant's leading counsel, declared that the Supreme Court has
not yet decided the exact point at issue in this case.
In his argument on a motion to quash the indictment, Mr.
McLendon said that the case of Thomas E. Watson in itself was
not of very great importance, that it was not material what kind of
matter Watson published, but that the case was one which would
affect every newspaper and magazine editor in this country.
He stated that in the first amendment to the Constitution of
the United States ample provision had been made of
guaranteeing the freedom of the press and that Congress can not
pass a law which takes away any of that freedom.
When court adjourned at 12:35 o'clock Judge Foster had not
passed on a motion to quash the indictment.
PAGE 16, COLUMN 2
WATSON
MOVES TO
QUASH HIS
INDICTMENT
Case Involves
Constitutional
Guarantee of Freedom
to the
Press, His Attorney
Says.
AUGUSTA, Oct. 20"With every seal and every particle of
available standing room in the United States courtroom occupied,
the case of the United States Government vs. Thomas E. Watson,
charging him with sending obscene matter through the malls, was
called at 10:20 o'clock this morning.
The case will be based on the question of whether or not the
Constitution guarantees to the editors of the country the freedom
of the press unabridged. The United States Supreme Court has
held that an act of Congress prohibiting the sending of obscene
matter through the mails is constitutional, but S. G. McLendon,
defendant's leading counsel, declared that the Supreme Court has
not yet decided the exact point at issue in this case.
In his argument on a motion to quash the indictment, Mr.
McLendon said that the case of Thomas E. Watson in itself was
not of very great importance, that it was not material what kind of
matter Watson published, but that the case was one which would
affect every newspaper and magazine editor in this country.
He stated that in the first amendment to the Constitution of
the United States ample provision had been made of
guaranteeing the freedom of the press and that Congress can not
pass a law which takes away any of that freedom.
When court adjourned at 12:35 o'clock Judge Foster had not
passed on a motion to quash the indictment.
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- Monday, 28th April 1913 Girl’s Grandfather Vows Vengeance [Last Updated On: September 13th, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 2nd, 2023]
- Monday, the 28th Day of April-1913, Horrible Mistake, Pleads Arthur Mullinax, Denying Crime, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 18th, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 1st, 2023]
- Monday, 28th April 1913 “I Could Trust Mary Anywhere,” Her Weeping Mother Says [Last Updated On: November 23rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 11th, 2023]
- Monday, 28th April 1913 Incoherent Notes Add to Mystery in Strangling Case [Last Updated On: November 18th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 8th, 2023]
- Monday, the 28th Day of April-1913, Lifelong Friend Saw Girl and Man After Midnight, Hearst's Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: November 18th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 30th, 2023]
- Monday, 28th April 1913 Look for Negro to Break Down [Last Updated On: September 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 29th, 2023]
- Monday, 28th April 1913 Mullinax Blundered in Statement, Say Police [Last Updated On: September 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 28th, 2023]
- Monday, 28th April 1913 Negro is Not Guilty, Says Factory Head [Last Updated On: September 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 27th, 2023]
- Monday, 28th April 1913 Neighbors of Slain Girl Cry for Vengeance [Last Updated On: September 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 26th, 2023]
- Monday, 28th April 1913 Pinkertons Take Up Hunt for Slayer [Last Updated On: September 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 25th, 2023]
- Monday, 28th April 1913 Playful Girl With Not a Bad Thought [Last Updated On: September 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 12th, 2023]
- Monday, 28th April 1913 Police Question Factory Superintendent [Last Updated On: September 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 24th, 2023]
- Monday, 28th April 1913 Slain Girl Modest and Quiet, He Says [Last Updated On: September 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 23rd, 2023]
- Monday, 28th April 1913 Soda Clerk Sought in Phagan Mystery [Last Updated On: September 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 22nd, 2023]
- Monday, 28th April 1913 Story of the Killing as the Meager Facts Reveal It [Last Updated On: September 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 21st, 2023]
- Monday, 28th April 1913 Suspect Gantt Tells His Own Story [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 20th, 2023]
- Monday, 28th April 1913 Where and With Whom Was Mary Phagan Before End? [Last Updated On: September 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 19th, 2023]
- Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Bartender Confirms Gantts Statement [Last Updated On: September 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 16th, 2023]
- Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Charge is Basest of Lies, Declares Gantt [Last Updated On: September 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 15th, 2023]
- Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Factory Employee May Be Taken Any Moment [Last Updated On: September 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 14th, 2023]
- Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Factory Head Frank and Watchman Newt Lee are Sweated by Police [Last Updated On: September 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 13th, 2023]
- Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Former Playmates Meet Girl’s Body at Marietta [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 12th, 2023]
- Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Guilt Will Be Fixed Detectives Declare [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 11th, 2023]
- Tuesday, 29th April 1913 I Feel as Though I Could Die, Sobs Mary Phagans Grief-Stricken Sister [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 17th, 2023]
- Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Is the Guilty Man Among Those Held? [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 10th, 2023]
- Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Keeper of Rooming House Enters Case [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 9th, 2023]
- Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Loyalty Sends Girl to Defend Mullinax [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 15th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Negro Watchman is Accused by Slain Girl’s Stepfather [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 14th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Nude Dancers Pictures Upon Factory Walls [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 13th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Pastor Prays for Justice at Girls Funeral [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 12th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Seek Clew in Queer Words in Odd Notes [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 11th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Slayers Hand Print Left On Arm Of Girl [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 10th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Boy Sweetheart Says Girl Was to Meet Him Saturday [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 20th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 City Offers $1,000 as Phagan Case Reward [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 19th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Clock Misses Add Mystery to Phagan Case [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 31st, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Confirms Lee’s Story of Shirt [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 1st, 2023]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Girl’s Death Laid to Factory Evils [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 4th, 2023]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Great Crowd at Phagan Inquest [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 3rd, 2023]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Handwriting of Notes is Identified as Newt Lees [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 21st, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Leo Frank’s Friends Denounce Detention [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 30th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Looks Like Frank is Trying to Put Crime on Me, Says Lee [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 24th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Machinist Tells of Hair Found in Factory Lathe [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 22nd, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Mother Prays That Son May Be Released [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 29th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Net Closing About Lee, Says Lanford [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 23rd, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Newt Lee on Stand at Inquest Tells His Side of Phagan Case [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 7th, 2023]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Newt Lees Testimony as He Gave It at the Inquest [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 6th, 2023]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Policeman Says Body Was Dragged From Elevator [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 5th, 2023]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Reward of $1,000 Urged by Mayor [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 18th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Sergeant Brown Tells His Story of Finding of Body [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 28th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Sisters New Story Likely to Clear Gantt as Suspect [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 16th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Tells Jury He Saw Girl and Mullinax Together [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 25th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Tells of Watchman Lee Explaining the Notes [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 27th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Went Down Scuttle Hole on Ladder to Reach Body [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 2nd, 2023]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Witness Saw Slain Girl and Man at Factory Door [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 26th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Writing Test Points to Negro [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 17th, 2022]
- Thursday, 1st May 1913 State Enters Phagan Case; Frank and Lee are Taken to Tower [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 9th, 2022]
- Thursday, 1st May 1913 Terminal Official Certain He Saw Girl [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 8th, 2022]
- Friday, 2nd May 1913 Dorsey Puts Own Sleuths Onto Phagan Slaying Case [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 7th, 2022]
- Friday, 2nd May 1913 Police Still Puzzled by Mystery of Phagan Case [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 6th, 2022]
- Saturday, 3rd May 1913 Analysis of Blood Stains May Solve Phagan Mystery [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 5th, 2022]
- Sunday, 4th May 1913 Dr. John E. White Writes on the Phagan Case [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 1st, 2022]
- Sunday, 4th May 1913 Gov. Brown on the Phagan Case [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 4th, 2022]
- Sunday, 4th May 1913 Grand Jury to Take Up Phagan Case To-morrow [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 3rd, 2022]
- Sunday, 4th May 1913 Old Police Reporter Analyzes Mystery Phagan Case Solution Far Off, He Says [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 2nd, 2022]
- Sunday, 4th May 1913 Slayer of Mary Phagan May Still be at Large [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 30th, 2022]
- Monday, 5th May 1913 Coroners Jury Likely to Hold Both Prisoners [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 24th, 2022]
- Monday, 5th May 1913 Crowds at Phagan Inquest [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 29th, 2022]
- Monday, 5th May 1913 Frank on Witness Stand [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 26th, 2022]
- Monday, 5th May 1913 Judge Charges Grand Jury to Go Deeply Into Phagan Mystery [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 28th, 2022]
- Monday, 5th May 1913 Judge W. D. Ellis Charges Grand Jury to Probe into Phagan Slaying Mystery [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 27th, 2022]
- Monday, 5th May 1913 Phagan Girl’s Body Exhumed [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 25th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 6th May 1913 Bowen Still Held by Houston Police in the Phagan Case [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 22nd, 2022]
- Tuesday, 6th May 1913 Brother Declares Bowen Left Georgia in August [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 21st, 2022]
- Tuesday, 6th May 1913 Frank’s Testimony Fails to Lift Veil of Mystery [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 18th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 6th May 1913 How Frank Spent Day of Tragedy [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 20th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 6th May 1913 Newest Clews in Phagan Case Not Yet Public [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 23rd, 2022]
- Tuesday, 6th May 1913 Phagan Case and the Solicitor Generals Power Under Law—Dorsey Hasnt Encroached on Coroner [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 19th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 7th May 1913 Employe of Lunch Stand Near Pencil Factory is Trailed to Alabama [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 16th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 7th May 1913 Lee is Quizzed by Dorsey for New Evidence [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 15th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 7th May 1913 Phagan Girls Body Again Exhumed for Finger-Print Clews [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 14th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 7th May 1913 Solicitor Dorsey Orders Body Exhumed in the Hope of Getting New Evidence [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 17th, 2022]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Another Clew in Phagan Case is Worthless [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 5th, 2022]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Black Testifies Quinn Denied Visiting Factory [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 31st, 2022]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Boots Rogers Tells How Body Was Found [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 10th, 2022]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Didnt See Girl Late Saturday, He Admits [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 11th, 2022]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Frank Answers Questions Nervously When Recalled [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 3rd, 2022]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Frank of Nervous Nature; Says Superintendent Aide [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 1st, 2022]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Girl Employe on Fourth Floor of Factory Saturday [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 6th, 2022]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Grand Jury to Sift the Evidence in the Phagan Case Within the Next Few Days [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 9th, 2022]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Inquest Scene is Dramatic in its Tenseness [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 13th, 2022]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Lee Repeats His Private Conversation With Frank [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 30th, 2022]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Leo Frank is Again Quizzed by Coroner [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 4th, 2022]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Pinkerton Detective Tells of Call From Factory Head [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 2nd, 2022]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Police Still Withhold Evidence; Frank To Be Examined on New Lines [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 12th, 2022]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Quinn, Foreman Over Slain Girl, Tells of Seeing Frank [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2022]
- Thursday, 8th May 1913 Stenographer in Factory Office on Witness Stand [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: November 7th, 2022]
- Friday, 9th May 1913 Best Detective in America Now is on Case, Says Dorsey [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 29th, 2022]
- Saturday, 10th May 1913 Guard of Secrecy is Thrown About Phagan Search by Solicitor [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 28th, 2022]
- Sunday, 11th May 1913 Caught Frank With Girl in Park, He Says [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 25th, 2022]
- Sunday, 11th May 1913 Frank is Awaiting Action of the Grand Jury Calmly [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 24th, 2022]
- Sunday, 11th May 1913 Mary Phagans Death Only Assured Fact Developed [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 26th, 2022]
- Sunday, 11th May 1913 Weak Evidence Against Men in Phagan Slaying [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 27th, 2022]
- Monday, 12th May 1913 Burns Called into Phagan Mystery; On Way From Europe [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 23rd, 2022]
- Monday, 12th May 1913 Phagan Case is Delayed [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 22nd, 2022]
- Tuesday, 13th May 1913 Frank’s Life in Tower [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 20th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 13th May 1913 Mother Thinks Police Are Doing Their Best [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 19th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 13th May 1913 New Theory is Offered in Phagan Mystery [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 21st, 2022]
- Wednesday, 14th May 1913 Friends Say Franks Actions Point to Innocence [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 17th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 14th May 1913 Secret Hunt by Burns in Mystery is Likely [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 18th, 2022]
- Thursday, 15th May 1913 Burns Investigator Will Probe Slaying [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 16th, 2022]
- Friday, 16th May 1913 $1,000 Offered Burns to Take Phagan Case [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 13th, 2022]
- Friday, 16th May 1913 Burns Hunt for Phagan Slayer Begun [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 15th, 2022]
- Friday, 16th May 1913 Secret Probe Began by Burns Agent into the Phagan Mystery [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 14th, 2022]
- Saturday, 17th May 1913 New Phagan Witnesses Have Been Found [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 12th, 2022]
- Sunday, 18th May 1913 Burns, Called in as Last Resort, Faces Cold Trail in Baffling Phagan Case [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 11th, 2022]
- Sunday, 18th May 1913 Burns Sleuth Makes Report in Phagan Case [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 10th, 2022]
- Sunday, 18th May 1913 Greeks Add to Fund to Solve Phagan Case [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 9th, 2022]
- Monday, 19th May 1913 Burns Agent Outlines Phagan Theory [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 7th, 2022]
- Monday, 19th May 1913 Burns Eager to Solve Phagan Case [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 8th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 20th May 1913 Cases Ready Against Lee and Leo Frank [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 6th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 21st May 1913 T. B. Felder Repudiates Report of Activity for Frank [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 5th, 2022]
- Thursday, 22nd May 1913 Grand Jury Wont Hear Leo Frank or Lee [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 4th, 2022]
- Friday, 23rd May 1913 Dictograph Record Used Against Felder [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 28th, 2022]
- Friday, 23rd May 1913 Felder Denies Phagan Bribe; Calls Colyar Crook and Liar [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 30th, 2022]
- Friday, 23rd May 1913 Felder Denies Phagan Bribery; Dictograph Record Used Against Felder [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 2nd, 2022]
- Friday, 23rd May 1913 Frank Feeling Fine But Will Not Discuss His Case [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 1st, 2022]
- Friday, 23rd May 1913 Here is Affidavit Charging Bribery [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 29th, 2022]
- Friday, 23rd May 1913 Indictment of Both Lee and Frank is Asked [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: October 3rd, 2022]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Beavers Says He Will Seek Indictments [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 16th, 2022]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Blease Ironic in Comments on Felder Trap [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 17th, 2022]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Colyar Called Convict and Insane [Last Updated On: September 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 20th, 2022]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Colyar Held for Forgery [Last Updated On: September 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 26th, 2022]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Dictograph Catches Mayor in Net [Last Updated On: September 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 27th, 2022]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Dictograph Record Alleged Bribe Offer [Last Updated On: January 12th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 2nd, 2020]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Felder Charges Police Plot to Shield Slayer [Last Updated On: September 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 21st, 2022]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Felders Fight is to Get Chief and Lanford Out of Office [Last Updated On: September 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 15th, 2022]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Frame-Up Aimed at Burns Men, Says Tobie [Last Updated On: September 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 18th, 2022]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Jones Attacks Beavers and Charges Police Crookedness [Last Updated On: September 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 25th, 2022]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Mayor Admits Dictograph is Correct [Last Updated On: September 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 24th, 2022]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Miles Says He Had Mayor Go to Room [Last Updated On: September 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 22nd, 2022]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Plot on Life of Beavers Told by Colyar [Last Updated On: September 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 23rd, 2022]
- Saturday, 24th May 1913 Strangulation Charge is in Indictments [Last Updated On: September 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 19th, 2022]
- Sunday, 25th May 1913 Attorney, in Long Statement, Claims Dictograph Records Against Him Padded [Last Updated On: September 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 13th, 2022]
- Sunday, 25th May 1913 Colyar Arrest Proper End to Plot of Crook [Last Updated On: September 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 10th, 2022]
- Sunday, 25th May 1913 Colyar, Held as Forger, is Freed on Bond; Long Crime Record Charged [Last Updated On: September 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 12th, 2022]
- Sunday, 25th May 1913 Dorsey to Present Graft Charges if They Stand Up [Last Updated On: September 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 9th, 2022]
- Sunday, 25th May 1913 Ill Indict Gang, Says Beavers [Last Updated On: September 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 14th, 2022]
- Sunday, 25th May 1913 Long Criminal Record of Colyar is Cited [Last Updated On: September 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 11th, 2022]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Accuses Tobie of Kidnaping Attempt [Last Updated On: September 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 3rd, 2022]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Evidence Against Frank Conclusive, Say Police [Last Updated On: September 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 5th, 2022]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Lay Bribery Effort to Franks Friends [Last Updated On: September 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 7th, 2022]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Mason Blocks Attempt to Oust Chief [Last Updated On: September 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 1st, 2022]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Mayor Eager to Bring Back Tenderloin, Declares Chief [Last Updated On: September 20th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 6th, 2022]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Mayor Gives Out Sizzling Reply to Chief Beavers [Last Updated On: September 20th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 4th, 2022]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Pinkerton Man Says Frank is Guilty [Last Updated On: September 20th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 2nd, 2022]
- Monday, 26th May 1913 Will Take Charge of Graft to Grand Jury for Vindication [Last Updated On: September 20th, 2023] [Originally Added On: September 8th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 27th May 1913 Burns Man Quits Case; Declares He Is Opposed [Last Updated On: September 20th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 30th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 27th May 1913 Felder Aide Offers Vice List to Chief [Last Updated On: September 20th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 29th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 27th May 1913 State Faces Big Task in Trial of Frank as Slayer [Last Updated On: September 20th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 28th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 27th May 1913 Suspicion Turned to Conley; Accused by Factory Foreman [Last Updated On: September 20th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 31st, 2022]
- Wednesday, 28th May 1913 Chief Beavers to Renew His Vice War [Last Updated On: September 20th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 24th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 28th May 1913 Conley Says Frank Took Him to Plant on Day of Slaying [Last Updated On: September 20th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 27th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 28th May 1913 Conley Was in Factory on Day of Slaying [Last Updated On: September 21st, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 26th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 28th May 1913 Woman Writes in Defense of Leo M. Frank [Last Updated On: September 21st, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 25th, 2022]
- Thursday, 29th May 1913 Burns Joins in Hunt for Phagan Slayer [Last Updated On: September 21st, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 23rd, 2022]
- Thursday, 29th May 1913 Conley Re-enacts in Plant Part He Says He Took in Slaying [Last Updated On: September 21st, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 21st, 2022]
- Thursday, 29th May 1913 Felder Bribery Charge Expected [Last Updated On: September 21st, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 22nd, 2022]
- Thursday, 29th May 1913 Negro Conleys Affidavit Lays Bare Slaying [Last Updated On: September 22nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 20th, 2022]
- Thursday, 29th May 1913 Ready to Indict Conley as an Accomplice [Last Updated On: September 22nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 19th, 2022]
- Friday, 30th May 1913 Negro Conley Now Says He Helped to Carry Away Body [Last Updated On: September 22nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 18th, 2022]
- Saturday, 31st May 1913 Conley Star Actor in Dramatic Third Degree [Last Updated On: September 22nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 15th, 2022]
- Saturday, 31st May 1913 Plan to Confront Conley and Frank for New Admission [Last Updated On: September 22nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 16th, 2022]
- Saturday, 31st May 1913 Silence of Conley Put to End by Georgian [Last Updated On: September 23rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 17th, 2022]
- Saturday, 31st May 1913 Special Session of Grand Jury Called [Last Updated On: September 23rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 14th, 2022]
- Sunday, 1st June 1913 Confession of Conley Makes No Changes in States Case [Last Updated On: September 23rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2022]
- Sunday, 1st June 1913 Conley is Unwittingly Friend of Frank, Says Old Police Reporter [Last Updated On: September 23rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 13th, 2022]
- Sunday, 1st June 1913 Conleys Story Cinches Case Against Frank, Says Lanford [Last Updated On: September 23rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 11th, 2022]
- Sunday, 1st June 1913 Dorseys Grill Fails to Make Conley Admit Hand in Killing [Last Updated On: September 24th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 12th, 2022]
- Sunday, 1st June 1913 Today is Mary Phagans Birthday; Mother Tells of Party She Planned [Last Updated On: September 24th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 10th, 2022]
- Monday, 2nd June 1913 5 to Testify Frank Was at Home at Hour Negro Says He Aided [Last Updated On: September 24th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 8th, 2022]
- Monday, 2nd June 1913 Beavers to Talk Over the Felder Row With Dorsey [Last Updated On: September 24th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 7th, 2022]
- Monday, 2nd June 1913 Negro Cook at Home Where Frank Lived Held by the Police [Last Updated On: September 24th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 6th, 2022]
- Tuesday, the 3rd of June, 1913, Bitter Fight Certain in Trial of Leo Frank [Last Updated On: October 7th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 4th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 3rd June 1913 Felder Says He Will Lay Bare Startling Police Graft Plans [Last Updated On: October 5th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 5th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 4th June 1913 Cooks Sensational Affidavit [Last Updated On: October 5th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 3rd, 2022]
- Wednesday, 4th June 1913 Fain Named in Vice Quiz as Resort Visitor [Last Updated On: October 5th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 2nd, 2022]
- Wednesday, 4th June 1913 Franks Cook Was Counted Upon as Defense Witness [Last Updated On: October 5th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 1st, 2022]
- Thursday, 5th June 1913 Challenges Felder to Prove His Charge [Last Updated On: October 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 31st, 2022]
- Thursday, 5th June 1913 Cook Repudiates Entire Affidavit Police Possess [Last Updated On: October 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 27th, 2022]
- Thursday, 5th June 1913 I Know My Husband is Innocent, Asserts Wife of Leo M. Frank [Last Updated On: October 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 29th, 2022]
- Thursday, 5th June 1913 Mother Here to Aid Frank in Trial [Last Updated On: October 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 30th, 2022]
- Thursday, 5th June 1913 New Conley Confession Reported to Jury [Last Updated On: October 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 28th, 2022]
- Friday, 6th June 1913 Chief Says Law Balks His War on Vice [Last Updated On: October 7th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 26th, 2022]
- Friday, 6th June 1913 Report Negro Found Who Saw Phagan Attack [Last Updated On: October 7th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 25th, 2022]
- Saturday, 7th June 1913 Defense Bends Efforts to Prove Conley Slayer [Last Updated On: October 7th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 22nd, 2022]
- Saturday, 7th June 1913 Defense Digs Deep to Show Conley is Phagan Girl Slayer [Last Updated On: October 7th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 24th, 2022]
- Saturday, 7th June 1913 Mrs. Frank Attacks Solicitor H. M. Dorsey in a New Statement [Last Updated On: October 7th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 23rd, 2022]
- Sunday, 8th June 1913 Fair Play Alone Can Find Truth in Phagan Puzzle, Declares Old Reporter [Last Updated On: October 8th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 21st, 2022]
- Monday, 9th June 1913 Foreman Tells Why He Holds Conley Guilty [Last Updated On: October 8th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 20th, 2022]
- Monday, 9th June 1913 Rosser Asks Grand Jury Grill for Conley [Last Updated On: October 8th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 17th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 10th June 1913 Eyewitness to Phagan Slaying Sought [Last Updated On: October 8th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 19th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 10th June 1913 Indictment of Felder and Fain Asked [Last Updated On: October 8th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 18th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 11th June 1913 Asks Beavers to Investigate Affidavit [Last Updated On: October 9th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 14th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 11th June 1913 Felder Returns Phagan Fund to Givers [Last Updated On: October 9th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 16th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 11th June 1913 Plot Exposed, Says Felder, But Lanford Doubts Affidavit [Last Updated On: October 9th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 13th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 11th June 1913 Police Hold Conley By Courts Order [Last Updated On: October 9th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 15th, 2022]
- Thursday, 12th June 1913 Face Conley and Frank, Lanford Urges [Last Updated On: October 9th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 12th, 2022]
- Friday, 13th June 1913 Judge Roan to Decide Conleys Jail Fate [Last Updated On: October 10th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 9th, 2022]
- Friday, 13th June 1913 Negro Freed But Jailed Again On Suspicion [Last Updated On: October 10th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 11th, 2022]
- Saturday, 14th June 1913 Sheriff Mangum Near End, Says Lawyer Smith [Last Updated On: October 10th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 10th, 2022]
- Saturday, 14th June 1913 State Takes Advantage of Points Known [Last Updated On: October 10th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 8th, 2022]
- Monday, 16th June 1913 Colyar Returns Promising Sensation [Last Updated On: October 10th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 5th, 2022]
- Monday, 16th June 1913 Dorsey Aide Says Frank Is Fast In Net [Last Updated On: October 11th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 6th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 17th June 1913 Sensations in Phagan Case at Hand [Last Updated On: October 11th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 4th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 18th June 1913 Rush Plans for Trial of Leo Frank [Last Updated On: October 11th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 7th, 2022]
- Thursday, 19th June 1913 Blow Aimed at Formby Story [Last Updated On: October 11th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 3rd, 2022]
- Friday, 20th June 1913 Frank Trial Will Not Be Long One [Last Updated On: October 11th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 2nd, 2022]
- Saturday, 21st June 1913 Justice Aim in Phagan Case, Says Hooper [Last Updated On: October 12th, 2023] [Originally Added On: July 1st, 2022]
- Sunday, 22nd June 1913 Arnold to Aid Frank [Last Updated On: October 12th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 30th, 2022]
- Sunday, 22nd June 1913 Jurors, Not Newspapers, To Return Frank Verdict, Declares Old Reporter [Last Updated On: October 12th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 29th, 2022]
- Monday, 23rd June 1913 State Ready for Frank Trial on June 30 [Last Updated On: October 12th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 28th, 2022]
- Monday, 23rd June 1913 Venire of 72 for Frank Jury Is Drawn [Last Updated On: October 12th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 27th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 24th June 1913 Both Sides Called in Conference by Judge; Trial Set for July 28 [Last Updated On: October 13th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 26th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 25th June 1913 Conley, Put on Grill, Sticks Story [Last Updated On: October 13th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 25th, 2022]
- Thursday, 26th June 1913 Stover Girl Will Star in Frank Trial [Last Updated On: October 13th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 24th, 2022]
- Friday, 27th June 1913 Lanford and Felder Are Held for Libel [Last Updated On: October 13th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 23rd, 2022]
- Friday, 27th June 1913 New Frank Evidence Held by Dorsey [Last Updated On: October 13th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 22nd, 2022]
- Saturday, 28th June 1913 Gov. Slaton Takes Oath Simply [Last Updated On: October 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 20th, 2022]
- Saturday, 28th June 1913 State Secures New Phagan Evidence [Last Updated On: October 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 21st, 2022]
- Sunday, 29th June 1913 Brilliant Legal Battle Is Sure as Hooper And Arnold Clash in Trial of Leo Frank [Last Updated On: October 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 18th, 2022]
- Sunday, 29th June 1913 Many Experts to Take Stand in Frank Trial [Last Updated On: October 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 19th, 2022]
- Monday, 30th June 1913 Conley Tale Is Hope of Defense [Last Updated On: October 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 17th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 1st July 1913 Colyar Indicted as Libeler of Col. Felder [Last Updated On: October 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 13th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 1st July 1913 Colyar Not Indicted On Charge of Libel [Last Updated On: October 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 15th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 1st July 1913 Frank Is Willing for State to Grill Him [Last Updated On: October 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 12th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 1st July 1913 May Indict Conley as Slayer [Last Updated On: October 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 16th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 1st July 1913 May Indict Conley in Phagan Case [Last Updated On: October 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 14th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 1st July 1913 “No” Bill Is Returned Against A. S. Colyar [Last Updated On: October 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 11th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 2nd July 1913 Findings in Probe are Guarded [Last Updated On: October 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 10th, 2022]
- Thursday, 3rd July 1913 Attempt by Colyar To Disbar Felder Is Halted; Tries Again [Last Updated On: October 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 9th, 2022]
- Thursday, 3rd July 1913 Writ Sought In Move to Free Negro Lee [Last Updated On: October 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 8th, 2022]
- Friday, 4th July 1913 New Testimony Lays Crime to Conley [Last Updated On: October 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 7th, 2022]
- Saturday, 5th July 1913 Application for Lee’s Release Delayed [Last Updated On: October 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 5th, 2022]
- Saturday, 5th July 1913 Drop Ninth in Police Scandal [Last Updated On: October 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 6th, 2022]
- Saturday, 5th July 1913 Liberty for Newt Lee Sought [Last Updated On: October 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 3rd, 2022]
- Saturday, 5th July 1913 Unbiased in the Flanders Case, Says Slaton [Last Updated On: October 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 4th, 2022]
- Sunday, 6th July 1913 Application to Release Lee is Ready to File [Last Updated On: October 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 1st, 2022]
- Sunday, 6th July 1913 New Move in Phagan Case by Solicitor [Last Updated On: October 18th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 31st, 2022]
- Sunday, 6th July 1913 Phagan Case Centers on Conley; Negro Lone Hope of Both Sides [Last Updated On: October 18th, 2023] [Originally Added On: June 2nd, 2022]
- Monday, 7th July 1913 Lee’s Attorney is Ready for Writ Fight [Last Updated On: October 18th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 30th, 2022]
- Monday, 7th July 1913 Operations of Slavers in Hotels Bared [Last Updated On: October 18th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 29th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 8th July 1913 Attitude of Defense Secret [Last Updated On: October 18th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 24th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 8th July 1913 Girl Tells of Life in Slavers’ Hands [Last Updated On: October 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 23rd, 2022]
- Tuesday, 8th July 1913 Grants Right to Demand Lee’s Freedom [Last Updated On: October 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 27th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 8th July 1913 Police Hunt Principals in Expose [Last Updated On: October 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 28th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 8th July 1913 Refused by Brown, Mangham Now Asks Slaton for Pardon [Last Updated On: October 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 25th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 8th July 1913 State Sure Lee Will Not Be Released [Last Updated On: October 19th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 26th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 9th July 1913 Girl Springs Sensation in Phagan Case [Last Updated On: October 20th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 22nd, 2022]
- Wednesday, 9th July 1913 New Evidence in Phagan Case Found [Last Updated On: October 20th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 21st, 2022]
- Wednesday, 9th July 1913 Sensations in Story of Girl Victim [Last Updated On: October 20th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 20th, 2022]
- Thursday, 10th July 1913 Beavers in Speech Warns Policemen to Keep Out of Dives [Last Updated On: October 20th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 17th, 2022]
- Thursday, 10th July 1913 Beavers’ War on Vice is Lauded by Women [Last Updated On: October 20th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 16th, 2022]
- Thursday, 10th July 1913 Chief Expects Arrests in Vice Probe [Last Updated On: October 21st, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 19th, 2022]
- Thursday, 10th July 1913 Says Conley Confessed Slaying [Last Updated On: October 22nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 18th, 2022]
- Friday, 11th July 1913 Girl Tells Police Startling Story of Vice Ring [Last Updated On: October 21st, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 14th, 2022]
- Friday, 11th July 1913 Mincey’s Story Jolts Police to Activity [Last Updated On: October 21st, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 13th, 2022]
- Friday, 11th July 1913 Slaying Charge for Conley Is Expected [Last Updated On: October 21st, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 15th, 2022]
- Saturday, 12th July 1913 Conley Kept on Grill 4 Hours [Last Updated On: October 22nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 8th, 2022]
- Saturday, 12th July 1913 Dragnet for ‘Slavers’ Is Set [Last Updated On: October 22nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 9th, 2022]
- Saturday, 12th July 1913 Five Caught in Beavers’ Vice Net [Last Updated On: October 22nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 10th, 2022]
- Saturday, 12th July 1913 Parents Are Blamed for ‘Slavery’ [Last Updated On: October 22nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 11th, 2022]
- Saturday, 12th July 1913 Says Women Heard Conley Confession [Last Updated On: October 22nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 12th, 2022]
- Sunday, 13th July 1913 Affidavits to Back Mincey Story Found [Last Updated On: October 23rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 7th, 2022]
- Sunday, 13th July 1913 Indictment of Conley Puzzle for Grand Jury [Last Updated On: October 23rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 5th, 2022]
- Sunday, 13th July 1913 Seek Negro Who Says He Was Eye-Witness to Phagan Murder [Last Updated On: October 23rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 6th, 2022]
- Monday, 14th July 1913 Girl Bares New Vice System [Last Updated On: October 23rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 2nd, 2022]
- Monday, 14th July 1913 Mincey’s Own Story [Last Updated On: October 23rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 1st, 2022]
- Monday, 14th July 1913 Prosecution Attacks Mincey’s Affidavit [Last Updated On: October 24th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 4th, 2022]
- Monday, 14th July 1913 Vice Pickets Posted at Hotels [Last Updated On: October 24th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 3rd, 2022]
- Tuesday, 15th July 1913 Holloway Corroborates Mincey’s Affidavit [Last Updated On: October 24th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 28th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 15th July 1913 Police Close 2 Rooming Houses [Last Updated On: October 24th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 30th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 15th July 1913 White Men Fined in War on Negro Dives [Last Updated On: October 24th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 29th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 15th July 1913 Woodward Aids Chief in Vice Crusade [Last Updated On: October 25th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 27th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 16th July 1913 Dorsey Adds Startling Evidence [Last Updated On: October 25th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 26th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 16th July 1913 State to Fight Move to Indict Jim Conley [Last Updated On: October 25th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 25th, 2022]
- Thursday, 17th July 1913 Dorsey Blocked Indictment of Conley [Last Updated On: October 25th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 24th, 2022]
- Thursday, 17th July 1913 Mayor and Broyles in War of Words [Last Updated On: October 25th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 23rd, 2022]
- Thursday, 17th July 1913 Mayor Asked to Probe Action of Police [Last Updated On: October 26th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 21st, 2022]
- Thursday, 17th July 1913 Woodward Enemy to Society, Says Recorder Broyles [Last Updated On: October 26th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 20th, 2022]
- Thursday, 17th July 1913 Youth Accused in Vice Ring on Trial [Last Updated On: October 26th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 22nd, 2022]
- Friday, 18th July 1913 Detectives Working to Discredit Mincey [Last Updated On: October 26th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 19th, 2022]
- Friday, 18th July 1913 Woodward-Broyles Breach Widens [Last Updated On: October 26th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 18th, 2022]
- Saturday, 19th July 1913 Dorsey Resists Move to Indict Jim Conley [Last Updated On: October 26th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 17th, 2022]
- Saturday, 19th July 1913 Natural Crank, Mayor’s Shot at Broyles [Last Updated On: October 26th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 16th, 2022]
- Sunday, 20th July 1913 Attorney for Conley Makes a Statement [Last Updated On: October 26th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 12th, 2022]
- Sunday, 20th July 1913 Counsel of Frank Says Dorsey Has Sought to Hide Facts [Last Updated On: October 26th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 15th, 2022]
- Sunday, 20th July 1913 Dorsey Fights Movement to Indict Conley [Last Updated On: October 26th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 11th, 2022]
- Sunday, 20th July 1913 Mincey Ready to Tell Story to Grand Jury [Last Updated On: October 26th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 13th, 2022]
- Sunday, 20th July 1913 Mincey Story Declared Vital To Both Sides in Frank Case [Last Updated On: October 26th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 14th, 2022]
- Monday, 21st July 1913 Doctor And Girl Are Taken On Vice Charge [Last Updated On: October 26th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 8th, 2022]
- Monday, 21st July 1913 Four Women Caught In Vice Net Escape From Martha Home [Last Updated On: October 26th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 10th, 2022]
- Monday, 21st July 1913 Grand Jury Meets to Consider Conley Case [Last Updated On: October 26th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 7th, 2022]
- Monday, 21st July 1913 Protest of Solicitor Dorsey Wins [Last Updated On: October 27th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 9th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 22nd July 1913 Defense Asks Ruling on Delaying Frank Trial [Last Updated On: October 27th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 6th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 22nd July 1913 Grand Jury Defers Action on Conley [Last Updated On: October 27th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 5th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 22nd July 1913 Story of Phagan Case by Chapters [Last Updated On: October 27th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 4th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 23rd July 1913 Conley is Confronted with Lee Dorsey Grills Negroes in Same Cell at Jail [Last Updated On: October 27th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 3rd, 2022]
- Wednesday, 23rd July 1913 Lanford Ridicules Bludgeon Evidence [Last Updated On: October 27th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 1st, 2022]
- Wednesday, 23rd July 1913 Second Chapter in Phagan Mystery [Last Updated On: October 27th, 2023] [Originally Added On: April 2nd, 2022]
- Thursday, 24th July 1913 Frank Trial Delay up to Roan [Last Updated On: October 27th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 28th, 2022]
- Thursday, 24th July 1913 Let the Frank Trial Go On [Last Updated On: October 27th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 31st, 2022]
- Thursday, 24th July 1913 Third Chapter in Phagan Mystery [Last Updated On: October 27th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 29th, 2022]
- Thursday, 24th July 1913 Veneir is Drawn to Try Leo M. Frank Monday [Last Updated On: October 28th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 30th, 2022]
- Friday, 25th July 1913 Witnesses for Frank Called [Last Updated On: October 28th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 27th, 2022]
- Saturday, 26th July 1913 Chapter 5 in Phagan Case [Last Updated On: October 28th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 24th, 2022]
- Saturday, 26th July 1913 Pinkerton Chief Scored by Lanford [Last Updated On: October 28th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 26th, 2022]
- Saturday, 26th July 1913 Present New Evidence Against Frank [Last Updated On: October 28th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 25th, 2022]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Brewster Denies Aiding Dorsey in Phagan Case [Last Updated On: October 28th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 12th, 2022]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Defense Claims Conley and Lee Prepared Notes [Last Updated On: October 28th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 18th, 2022]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Every Bit of Evidence Against Frank Sifted and Tested, Declares Solicitor [Last Updated On: October 28th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 19th, 2022]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Frank Fights for Life Monday [Last Updated On: October 28th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 22nd, 2022]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Frank Watches Closely as the Men Who are to Decide Fate are Picked [Last Updated On: October 28th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 13th, 2022]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Phagan Case of Peculiar And Enthralling Interest [Last Updated On: October 29th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 16th, 2022]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Pinkerton Men Brand Lanford Charges False [Last Updated On: October 29th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 23rd, 2022]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Prominent Atlantans Named On Frank Trial Jury Venire [Last Updated On: October 29th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 20th, 2022]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Public Demands Frank Trial To-morrow [Last Updated On: October 29th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 17th, 2022]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 State Bolsters Conley [Last Updated On: October 29th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 21st, 2022]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Trial to Surpass in Interest Any in Fulton County History [Last Updated On: October 29th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 15th, 2022]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Venire Whipped Into Shape Rapidly; Negro Is Eligible [Last Updated On: October 29th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 11th, 2022]
- Sunday, 27th July 1913 Work of Choosing Jury for Trial of Frank Difficult [Last Updated On: October 29th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 14th, 2022]
- Monday, 28th July 1913 Frank, Feeling Tiptop, Smiling and Confident, is Up Long Before Trial [Last Updated On: October 29th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 9th, 2022]
- Monday, 28th July 1913 Frank Jury [Last Updated On: October 29th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 7th, 2022]
- Monday, 28th July 1913 Jury Complete to Try Frank [Last Updated On: October 30th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 10th, 2022]
- Monday, 28th July 1913 Mary Phagan’s Mother Testifies [Last Updated On: October 30th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 8th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 29th July 1913 After Rosser’s Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew or Bacca-AnyKind [Last Updated On: October 30th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 3rd, 2022]
- Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Defense Wins Point After Fierce Lawyers’ Clash [Last Updated On: October 30th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 6th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Lee’s Quaint Answers Rob Leo Frank’s Trial of All Signs of Rancor [Last Updated On: October 30th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 5th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Tragedy, Ages Old, Lurks in Commonplace Court Setting [Last Updated On: October 30th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 4th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Defense Plans Sensation, Line of Queries Indicates [Last Updated On: October 30th, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 26th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Flashes of Tragedy Pierce Legal Tilts at Frank Trial [Last Updated On: October 30th, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 28th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Frank’s Mother Pitiful Figure of the Trial [Last Updated On: October 30th, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 27th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Gantt Has Startling Evidence; Dorsey Promises New Testimony Against Frank [Last Updated On: October 30th, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 2nd, 2022]
- Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Rosser’s Examination of Lee Just a Shot in Dark; Hoped to Start Quarry [Last Updated On: October 31st, 2023] [Originally Added On: March 1st, 2022]
- Thursday, 31st July 1913 Collapse of Testimony of Black and Hix Girl’s Story Big Aid to Frank [Last Updated On: October 31st, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 24th, 2022]
- Thursday, 31st July 1913 Crimson Trail Leads Crowd to Courtroom Sidewalk [Last Updated On: October 31st, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 22nd, 2022]
- Thursday, 31st July 1913 Holloway Accused by Solicitor Dorsey of Entrapping State [Last Updated On: October 31st, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 21st, 2022]
- Thursday, 31st July 1913 Red Bandanna, a Jackknife and Plennie Minor Preserve Order [Last Updated On: October 31st, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 20th, 2022]
- Thursday, 31st July 1913 Scott Trapped Us, Dorsey Charges; Pinkerton Man Is Also Attacked by the Defense [Last Updated On: October 31st, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 25th, 2022]
- Thursday, 31st July 1913 State Balloon Soars When Dorsey, Roiled, Cries ‘Plant’ [Last Updated On: October 31st, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 23rd, 2022]
- Friday, 1st August 1913 Conley Takes Stand Saturday [Last Updated On: October 31st, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 19th, 2022]
- Friday, 1st August 1913 Defense Not Helped by Witnesses Accused of Entrapping the State [Last Updated On: October 31st, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 17th, 2022]
- Friday, 1st August 1913 Dorsey Unafraid as He Faces Champions of the Atlanta Bar [Last Updated On: October 31st, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 16th, 2022]
- Friday, 1st August 1913 Girl Slain After Frank Left Factory, Believed to be Defense Theory [Last Updated On: November 1st, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 15th, 2022]
- Friday, 1st August 1913 Sherlocks, Lupins and Lecoqs See Frank Trial [Last Updated On: November 1st, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 18th, 2022]
- Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Defense Threatens a Mistrial [Last Updated On: November 1st, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 14th, 2022]
- Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Frank Juror’s Life One Grand, Sweet SongNot [Last Updated On: November 1st, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 10th, 2022]
- Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Roan Holding Scales of Justice With Steady Hand [Last Updated On: November 1st, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 11th, 2022]
- Saturday, 2nd August 1913 State Hopes Dr. Harris Fixed Fact That Frank Had Chance to Kill Girl [Last Updated On: November 2nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 12th, 2022]
- Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Will 5 Ounces of Cabbage Help Convict Leo M. Frank? [Last Updated On: November 2nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 13th, 2022]
- Sunday, 3rd August 1913 Conley to Bring Frank Case Crisis [Last Updated On: November 2nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 8th, 2022]
- Sunday, 3rd August 1913 First Week of Frank Trial Ends With Both Sides Sure of Victory [Last Updated On: November 2nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 9th, 2022]
- Sunday, 3rd August 1913 Leo Frank’s Eyes Show Intense Interest in Every Phase of Case [Last Updated On: November 2nd, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 7th, 2022]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Boiled Cabbage Brings Hypothetical Question Stage in Frank’s Trial [Last Updated On: November 3rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 3rd, 2022]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Conley’s Story In Detail; Women Barred By Judge [Last Updated On: November 3rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 5th, 2022]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Dorsey Tries to Prove Frank Had Chance to Kill Girl [Last Updated On: November 3rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 28th, 2022]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Dramatic Moment of Trial Comes as Negro Takes Stand [Last Updated On: November 3rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 29th, 2022]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Envy Not the Juror! His Lot, Mostly, Is Monotony [Last Updated On: November 3rd, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 2nd, 2022]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Frank Calm and Jurors Tense While Jim Conley Tells His Ghastly Tale [Last Updated On: November 4th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 30th, 2022]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Frank Witness Nearly Killed By a Mad Dog [Last Updated On: November 4th, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 1st, 2022]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Jim Conley’s Story as Matter of Fact as if it Were of His Day’s Work [Last Updated On: November 4th, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 4th, 2022]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Jurors Strain Forward to Catch Conley Story; Frank’s Interest Mild [Last Updated On: November 4th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 31st, 2022]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Ordeal is Borne with Reserve by Franks [Last Updated On: November 4th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 27th, 2022]
- Monday, 4th August 1913 Rosser’s Grilling of Negro Leads to Hot Clashes by Lawyers [Last Updated On: November 5th, 2023] [Originally Added On: February 6th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Conleys Charge Turns Frank Trial Into Fight To Worse Than Death [Last Updated On: November 5th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 25th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Many Discrepancies To Be Bridged in Conleys Stories [Last Updated On: November 5th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 23rd, 2022]
- Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Mrs. Frank Breaks Down in Court [Last Updated On: November 5th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 26th, 2022]
- Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Rosser Goes Fiercely After Jim Conley [Last Updated On: November 5th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 22nd, 2022]
- Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Traditions of the South Upset; White Mans Life Hangs on Negros Word [Last Updated On: November 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 24th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Accuser of Conley is Ready to Testify [Last Updated On: November 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 19th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Can Jury Obey if Told to Forget Base Charge? [Last Updated On: November 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 21st, 2022]
- Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Conley Swears Frank Hid Purse [Last Updated On: November 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 20th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Crowd Set in Its Opinions [Last Updated On: November 6th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 18th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Dorsey Accomplishes Aim Despite Big Odds [Last Updated On: November 7th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 17th, 2022]
- Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Judge Will Rule on Evidence Attacked by Defense at 2 P.M. [Last Updated On: November 7th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 16th, 2022]
- Thursday, 7th August 1913 Jim Conley, the Ebony Chevalier of Crime, is Darktowns Own Hero [Last Updated On: November 7th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 14th, 2022]
- Thursday, 7th August 1913 Roans Ruling Heavy Blow to Defense [Last Updated On: November 7th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 12th, 2022]
- Thursday, 7th August 1913 State Ends Case Against Frank [Last Updated On: November 7th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 15th, 2022]
- Thursday, 7th August 1913 Trial as Varied as Vaudeville Exhibition [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 13th, 2022]
- Thursday, 7th August 1913 Trial Experts Conflict on Time of Girls Death [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 11th, 2022]
- Friday, 8th August 1913 Bits of Circumstantial Evidence, as Viewed by State, Strands in Rope [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 7th, 2022]
- Friday, 8th August 1913 Scott Put Conleys Story in Strange Light [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 8th, 2022]
- Friday, 8th August 1913 State, Tied by Conleys Story, Now Must Stand Still Under Hot Fire [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 9th, 2022]
- Friday, 8th August 1913 Witnesses Attack Conley Story [Last Updated On: November 9th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 10th, 2022]
- Saturday, 9th August 1913 Absence of Alienists and the Hypothetical Question Distinguishes Frank Trial [Last Updated On: November 9th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 5th, 2022]
- Saturday, 9th August 1913 Confusion of Holloway Spoils Close of Good Day for the Defense [Last Updated On: November 9th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 3rd, 2022]
- Saturday, 9th August 1913 Daltons Testimony False, Girl Named on Stand Says [Last Updated On: November 9th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 6th, 2022]
- Saturday, 9th August 1913 Exposure of Conley Story Time Flaws is Sought by Defense [Last Updated On: November 9th, 2023] [Originally Added On: January 1st, 2022]
- Saturday, 9th August 1913 Heres the Time Clock Puzzle in Frank Trial; Can You Figure It Out? [Last Updated On: January 4th, 2022] [Originally Added On: January 4th, 2022]
- Saturday, 9th August 1913 State Attacks Frank Report [Last Updated On: January 2nd, 2022] [Originally Added On: January 2nd, 2022]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Case Never is Discussed by Frank Jurors [Last Updated On: April 26th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 28th, 2021]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Conley, Unconcerned, Asks Nothing of Trial [Last Updated On: December 27th, 2021] [Originally Added On: December 27th, 2021]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Dalton Sticks Firmly To Story Told on Stand [Last Updated On: April 26th, 2024] [Originally Added On: December 24th, 2021]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Frank or Conley? Still Question [Last Updated On: November 11th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 31st, 2021]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Frank Struggles to Prove His Conduct Was Blameless [Last Updated On: November 11th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 29th, 2021]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Interest in Trial Now Centers in Story of Mincey [Last Updated On: November 11th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 26th, 2021]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Mary Phagans Mother to be Spared at Trial [Last Updated On: November 11th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 23rd, 2021]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 One Glance at Conley Boosts Darwin Theory [Last Updated On: November 11th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 22nd, 2021]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Phagan Trial Makes Eleven Widows But Jurors Wives Are Peeresses Also [Last Updated On: November 12th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 25th, 2021]
- Sunday, 10th August 1913 Study of Frank Convicts, Then It Turns and Acquits [Last Updated On: November 12th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 30th, 2021]
- Monday, 11th August 1913 Defense Bitterly Attacks Harris [Last Updated On: November 12th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 21st, 2021]
- Monday, 11th August 1913 Deputy Hunting Scalp Of Juror-Ventiloquist [Last Updated On: November 12th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 20th, 2021]
- Monday, 11th August 1913 Grief-Stricken Mother Shows No Vengefulness [Last Updated On: November 12th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 19th, 2021]
- Monday, 11th August 1913 Interest Unabated as Dramatic Frank Trial Enters Third Week [Last Updated On: November 13th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 18th, 2021]
- Tuesday, 12th August 1913 Attacks on Dr. Harris Give Defense Good Day [Last Updated On: November 13th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 15th, 2021]
- Tuesday, 12th August 1913 Frank Trial Witness is Sure, At Least, of One Thinga Good Ragging [Last Updated On: November 13th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 16th, 2021]
- Tuesday, 12th August 1913 Peoples Cry for Justice Is Proof Sentiment Still Lives [Last Updated On: November 13th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 14th, 2021]
- Tuesday, 12th August 1913 State Charges Premeditated Crime [Last Updated On: November 13th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 17th, 2021]
- Wednesday, 13th August 1913 Both Sides Aim for Justice in the Trial of Frank [Last Updated On: November 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 12th, 2021]
- Wednesday, 13th August 1913 Franks Mother Stirs Courtroom [Last Updated On: November 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 13th, 2021]
- Wednesday, 13th August 1913 State Calls More Witnesses; Defense Builds Up an Alibi [Last Updated On: November 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 11th, 2021]
- Thursday, 14th August 1913 Defense Slips Load by Putting up Character of Leo Frank as Issue [Last Updated On: November 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 8th, 2021]
- Thursday, 14th August 1913 State Fights Franks Alibi [Last Updated On: November 14th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 6th, 2021]
- Thursday, 14th August 1913 State Wants Wife and Mother Excluded [Last Updated On: November 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 10th, 2021]
- Thursday, 14th August 1913 States Sole Aim is to Convict, Defenses to Clear in Modern Trial [Last Updated On: November 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 9th, 2021]
- Thursday, 14th August 1913 Steel Workers Enthralled by Leo Frank Trial [Last Updated On: November 15th, 2023] [Originally Added On: December 7th, 2021]
- Friday, 15th August 1913 Frank Prepares to Take Stand [Last Updated On: July 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 22nd, 2023]
- Friday, 15th August 1913 Testimony of Girls Help to Leo M. Frank [Last Updated On: July 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 20th, 2023]
- Friday, 15th August 1913 What They Say Wont Hurt Leo Frank; State Must Prove Depravity [Last Updated On: July 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 21st, 2023]
- Saturday, 16th August 1913 Girls Testify For and Against Frank [Last Updated On: July 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 19th, 2023]
- Saturday, 16th August 1913 Many Testify to Franks Good Character [Last Updated On: July 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 17th, 2023]
- Saturday, 16th August 1913 Mothers Love Gives Trial Its Great Scene [Last Updated On: July 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 16th, 2023]
- Saturday, 16th August 1913 Statement by Frank Will Be the Climactic Feature of the Trial [Last Updated On: July 17th, 2023] [Originally Added On: May 18th, 2023]
- Sunday, 17th August 1913 Supreme Test Comes As State Trains Guns On Frank's Character [Last Updated On: August 30th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 11th, 2023]
- Monday, 18th August 1913 Leo Frank Testifies [Last Updated On: February 17th, 2024] [Originally Added On: September 2nd, 2023]
- Tuesday, 19th August 1913 Jim Conley To Be Recalled [Last Updated On: February 17th, 2024] [Originally Added On: September 12th, 2023]
- Wednesday, 20th August 1913 State Closes Frank Case Near Jury Defense Begins Its Sur-rubettual. Hopes To Conclude Quickly [Last Updated On: November 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 29th, 2023]
- Thursday, 21st August 1913 Mass Of Perjuries Charged By Arnold Centers Hot Attack On Conley. Ridicules Prosecution Theory [Last Updated On: November 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 23rd, 2023]
- Friday, 22nd August 1913 Rosser Begins Final Plea [Last Updated On: February 17th, 2024] [Originally Added On: September 2nd, 2023]
- Sunday, 24th August 1913 Dorsey Demands Death Penalty For Frank In Thrilling Closing Plea [Last Updated On: November 16th, 2023] [Originally Added On: August 29th, 2023]
- Monday, 25th August 1913: Frank Case To Jury Today Leo Frank On His Way From Jail To Court, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 28th, 2024] [Originally Added On: September 3rd, 2023]
- Tuesday, 26th August 1913, Frank, Guilty On First Ballot [Last Updated On: February 17th, 2024] [Originally Added On: September 12th, 2023]
- Wednesday, 27th August 1913 Fight Begun To Save Frank Motion For New Trial Follows Death Sentence [Last Updated On: February 17th, 2024] [Originally Added On: September 12th, 2023]
- Thursday, 28th August 1913 Reply Made To Frank's Attack [Last Updated On: February 17th, 2024] [Originally Added On: September 17th, 2023]
- Tuesday, 16th September 1913 No Judge To Try Fulton Docket [Last Updated On: September 6th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 3rd, 2024]
- Wednesday, 17th September 1913 Conley To Fight Felon Charge Bitterly [Last Updated On: September 6th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 3rd, 2024]
- Wednesday, 17th September 1913 Say Partee Shot In Self-defense [Last Updated On: April 26th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 17th, 2024]
- Monday, 22nd September 1913 Judge Roan Not To Hear Frank Trial Motion [Last Updated On: July 12th, 2024] [Originally Added On: March 31st, 2024]
- Wednesday, 24th September 1913 Detective Black Not Blamed For Fighting [Last Updated On: September 6th, 2024] [Originally Added On: March 31st, 2024]
- Thursday, 25th September 1913 Recall To Apply To All Big Offices [Last Updated On: September 6th, 2024] [Originally Added On: March 31st, 2024]
- Friday, 26th September 1913 Judge Roan To Hear Arguments Asking Retrial For Frank [Last Updated On: September 6th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 29th, 2024]
- Sunday, 28th September 1913 Judge Hill May Hear Frank Case [Last Updated On: July 12th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 29th, 2024]
- Monday, 29th September 1913 Delay On Frank Hearing Seems Unavoidable [Last Updated On: July 12th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 29th, 2024]
- Tuesday, 30th September 1913 Frank Ready For New Fight Rosser Ready. Roan Will Hear Frank Argument [Last Updated On: July 12th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 29th, 2024]
- Wednesday, 1st October 1913: Rosser Ready Roan Will Hear Frank Argument, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Thursday, 2nd October 1913: Ask New Frank Trial On 115 Counts Many Errors Laid To Court; Charge Made Of Jury Intimidation, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Friday, 3rd October 1913: Frank Trial Juror Denies Charge Of Bias, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Saturday, 4th October 1913: Sensational Charge In Frank Case, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Sunday, 5th October 1913: Governor Slaton Personally Investigates And Verifies The Circulation Of The Georgian And Hearst’s Sunday American, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Sunday, 5th October 1913 Indefinite Respite Is Given Frank As Juror Charges Flood [Last Updated On: July 12th, 2024] [Originally Added On: February 29th, 2024]
- Monday, 6th October 1913: Frank Given Indefinite Respite, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Tuesday, 7th October 1913: Dorsey At Work To Combat Charge, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Wednesday, 8th October 1913: Both Sides Confident In Frank Case, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Thursday, 9th October 1913: Postponement In Frank Case Made Certain, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Friday, 10th October 1913: Hawthorne Ready To Leave Prison, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Saturday, 11th October 1913: Frank Lawyers To File More Depositions, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Sunday, 12th October 1913: Governor Slaton Personally Investigates And Verifies The Circulation Of The Georgian And Hearst’s Sunday American, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Monday, 13th October 1913: Attack Is Renewed On Frank Juror, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Tuesday, 14th October 1913: Dorsey Gathers Proof Against Bias Charges, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Wednesday, 15th October 1913: Dorsey Gathers Proof Against Bias Charges, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Thursday, 16th October 1913: Dorsey Back With New Affidavits More Delay In Appeal Fight Likely, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Friday, 17th October 1913: Sparta Citizens Attack Frank Trial Juror, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Saturday, 18th October 1913: Way Clear For Frank Battle, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Sunday, 19th October 1913: Frank To Fight On Wednesday For New Trial, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]
- Tuesday, 21st October 1913: Fisher Under Third Degree Shirley's Accuser In Cell, The Atlanta Georgian [Last Updated On: August 9th, 2024] [Originally Added On: August 9th, 2024]