Wednesday, 24th September 1913: Leo M. Frank Again Heads B’nai B’rith, The Atlanta Journal

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From Cell in Tower Man

Con-

demned to Hang

Operates

Affairs of

Organization

Leo M. Frank has been re-elected president for another year

for another year of the local branch of the B'nai B'rith, the Jewish

charitable organization.

Other officers elected for the ensuing year are Arthur

Heyman, law partner of Hugh M. Dorsey, Frank's prosecutor, vice

president; Milton Klein, monitor; Dr. B. Wildauer, treasurer, and B.

Kaufman, warden. The secretary of the organization is not elected

at the same time with the other officers, and Sam P. Cronheim

remains in the position.

Frank was named to head for another term the order, which

is said to be the most important of all Hebrew organizations, not

only after he was arrested and charged with the murder of Mary

Phagan, but after he had been convicted of the crime and

sentenced to death.

The action of the local branch of the order, which is

composed of more than 500 of the most prominent Jews in

Atlanta, is regarded as a remarkable demonstration of the fact

that the conviction of Frank's friends in his innocence has not

been at all shaken by the verdict of the twelve men who listened

for more than a month to the evidence in the case.

Frank, who has been sentenced to be hanged on October 10,

but whose execution is certain to be stayed at least for many

months, is said to be not only conducting the affairs of the B'nai

B'rith from his cell in the tower, but is also said to be supervising

to a certain extent the affairs of the National Pencil company, of

which he is superintendent.

The amendment to the motion for a new trial for Frank is

being prepared by Luther Z. Rosser, his leading counsel, and it is

expected will be filed within the next week. It is then extremely

probable that Solicitor Dorsey will on October 4 ask for a

postponement of the hearing of the motion, on the ground that he

has not been given sufficient time to study the contentions of the

defense.

Should Frank's motion for a new trial, when it is finally heard,

be denied, then the case will be appealed to the supreme court,

and there is little probability of its finally being disposed of during

the next six months.

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NOMINATES

DONEHOO

FOR ATLANTA

MAYOR

Pensacola, Fla., Sept. 22, 1913.

Editor The Journal: Reading The Journal after an absence of

nearly three months is like getting a letter From home.

What pleased me most was the article about Paul

Donehoo.

May I have the pleasure of nominating him to be the next

mayor of Atlanta?

He is clean through and through, and his capabilities are

beyond question.

Yours truly,

G. W.

HIMEBAUGH