TRANSCRIPTS: ATLANTA JOURNAL

  • Monday, April 28th, 1913: Coroner’s Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns Without Rendering Verdict, The Atlanta Journal

        Atlanta Journal Monday April 28th, 1913 Will Meet Again Wednesday Morning When Witnesses Will Be Examined—Five Hundred People Present When Inquest Was Begun For an hour Monday morning a jury empaneled by Coroner Paul Donehoo groped through dark basement passageways and first floor rooms in the factory of the National Pencil company hunting for evidence that would aid them in reaching a verdict as to who murdered pretty Mary Phagan. At the end of their hunt the body adjourned. They will meet again Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock to continue their investigation. Many witnesses who can throw a
  • Monday, 28th April 1913 “God’s Vengeance Will Strike Brute Who Killed Her,” Says Grandfather of Mary Phagan

    Atlanta Journal Monday, April 28th, 1913 Calling upon God Almighty to visit speedy vengeance upon the murderer or murderers of his fourteen-year-old granddaughter, Mary Phagan, whose mutilated body was discovered Sunday morning in the basement of the National Pencil company's factory on Forsyth street, W. J. Phagan, an elderly citizen of Marietta, declares that he will never rest until the fiend or fiends are brought to justice. The old man almost collapsed when he learned of the awful crime, and he sobbed piteously as he prayed for divine aid in clearing up the mystery surrounding the murder of the girl.
  • Monday, 28th April 1913 J. M. Gantt is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday

    Arthur Mullinax, who seems to have established an alibi through statements of friends that he was at home on night of the murder. Atlanta Journal Monday, April 28th, 1913 Gantt Protests His Innocence, Declaring He Knows Nothing of the Crime — Says He Went to Factory Saturday to Get Pair of Shoes Left There—His Statement is Confirmed by Superintendent Frank DECLARES HE KNEW MARY PHAGAN BUT HAD NOT HARMED HER It Is Not Known What Was Purpose of His Visit to Marietta Monday —His Whereabouts Sunday Not Yet Explained —Story of His Arrest and What He Says J. M. Gantt,
  • Monday, 28th April 1913 Man Held for Girl’s Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last

    Atlanta Journal Monday, April 28th, 1913 Arthur Mullinax, Trolley Conductor, Denies That E. L. Sentell Saw Him Saturday Night With Mary Phagan Arthur Mullinax, identified by E. L. Sentell, of 22 Davis street, clerk for the Kamper Grocery company, as the man whom he saw with Mary Phagan, the murdered girl, at midnight Saturday, vehemently denies any part in the atrocious crime, and declares that he will be able to prove an alibi. Subjected to a quizzing in the office of Chief of Police Beavers, he told an apparently straightforward story of his actions on the night preceding the finding
  • Monday, 28th April 1913 Police Think Negro Watchman Newt Lee Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest

    Mary Phagan Atlanta Journal Monday, April 28th, 1913 Developments in Case Have Come Thick and Fast Monday but No Evidence Has Yet Been Developed Which Fixes the Atrocious Crime — Mullinax Seems to Have Proved Alibi SUPERINTENDENT FRANK AIDS POLICE IN TRYING TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY He Was Closely Questioned for Several Hours Monday but Left Headquarters in Company With His Attorneys and Friends—Crime Was Committed in Metal Room on Second Floor—Sleeping Compartment Found in Factory Basement Detectives expect to wring the secret of Mary Phagan's murder from Newt Lee, negro night watchman at the National Pencil factory, 37-39 South
  • Monday, 28th April 1913 Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan

    1—Mary Phagan's own handwriting, as shown in her address she wrote for Sunday School teacher. 2—Written by Lee at suggestion of detectives for purpose of comparison. 3—One of notes found in cellar. 4—Also written by Lee at suggestion of detectives. Atlanta Journal Monday, April 28th, 1913 It's Discovery Leads to Theory That She May Have Been Attacked There and Then Dragged to Factory Basement The finding of half a dozen strands of hair in the cogs of a steel lathe in the metal room on the second floor of the National Pencil company's factory and the discovery of blood splotches
  • Monday, 28th April 1913 Thousands Visit Morgue to View Girl’s Body

    Atlanta Journal Monday, April 28th, 1913 Six thousand people, according to reliable estimates, visited P. J. Bloomfield's undertaking parlors Monday morning to see the body of Mary Phagan. It was the largest crowd, police say, that had ever viewed a murder victim's body in Atlanta. Scores of friends, hundreds of acquaintances and fellow-workers in the pencil factory and thousands of simply curious walked around the bier between 7 o'clock and noon. So far as known, no relatives appeared. The mother of the girl is ill at her home as a consequence of her daughter's death and other members of the
  • Monday, 28th April 1913 Two Maundering Notes Add Mystery to Crime.

    1—Mary Phagan's own handwriting, as shown in her address she wrote for Sunday School teacher. 2—Written by Lee at suggestion of detectives for purpose of comparison. 3—One of notes found in cellar. 4—Also written by Lee at suggestion of detectives. Atlanta Journal Monday, April 28th, 1913 City detectives, detailed to run down the murderer or murderers of fourteen-year-old Mary Phagan, are endeavoring to clear up the mystery surrounding the authorship of two crudely written and badly composed notes which were found near the corpse of the murdered girl in the basement of the pencil factory. These notes were written in
  • Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Bloody Thumb Print is Found on Door, The Atlanta Journal

      Atlanta Journal Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Murderer of Mary Phagan Probably Left Factory by the Rear Door A bloody thumb print, found Tuesday afternoon on the rear door to the basement of the National Pencil factory, leads the police to the theory that the murderer of Mary Phagan left the factory building by that door after he had deposited the girl's body in the basement. This theory is still further strengthened by the fact that when the murder was discovered Sunday morning it was found that a staple had been drawn from the fastening on the rear door. R.
  • Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Gantt’s Release Asked in Habeas Corpus Writ

      Atlanta Journal Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Petition Made to Judge George L. Bell and Will Be Heard at 4 o'Clock James Milton Gantt charged with the murder of Mary Phagan is seeking his release upon a writ of habeas corpus. Petition for such a writ was made Tuesday morning to Judge Bell of the superior court and he directed that a hearing be had at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Judge Gober, attorney for J. M. Gantt, made the petition, and will argue Tuesday afternoon for the immediate release of the former bookkeeper. Gantt sets forth in his petition to
  • Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Leo Max Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained By Police

      Leo M. Frank. Superintendent of the National Pencil company, snapped by a Journal photographer on the way to police headquarters. Mr. Frank is not under arrest, but will be a witness at the coroner's inquest.   Atlanta Journal Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Detectives Building Case on Theory that Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery Chief Lanford Believes That Testimony of the Superintendent and Negro Night Watchman May Lead to the Arrest of the Person Guilty of the Atrocious Crime That Has Shocked the Whole City—No Further Arrests Expected Soon MRS. FRANK IN TEARS AT POLICE STATION WHILE HUSBAND IS
  • Tuesday, 29th April 1913 State Offers $200 Reward; City Will Follow With $1,000 For Mary Phagans Murderer

    J. M. Gantt, who was arrested at Marietta and brough to Atlanta Monday, charged with the death of Mary Phagan. Atlanta Journal Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Mayor Woodward Calls Special Meeting of Council So That Reward Can Be Formally Offered—Governor Brown Issued Proclamation Tuesday Morning Governor Joseph M. Brown Tuesday morning offered a reward of $200 for the apprehension and conviction of the murderer or murderers of Mary Phagan, and the city of Atlanta is expected to offer a $1,000 reward at a special meeting that has been called by Mayor James G. Woodward for Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock.
  • Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Stepfather Thinks Negro is Murderer

    Atlanta Journal Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Believes That Newt Lee Bound and Gagged, Then Murdered Mary Phagan W. J. Coleman, step-father of Mary Phagan, believes that she was murdered by Newt Lee, the negro night watchman, but that before the murder she lay bound and gagged in the factory of the National Pen company, 37 South Forsyth street, from shortly after noon on Saturday until past midnight. As people passed back and forth along the street, as members of the girl's family waited anxiously for her return, he thinks that she lay helpless within the factory, while the negro waited
  • Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl

    At the top is a photograph of writing done by Newt Lee, the negro night watchman after his arrest. At the bottom is a photograph of two lines of a note found beside the body of Mary Phagan in the pencil factory cellar. Three handwriting experts—Frank M. Berry, assistant cashier of the Fourth National bank; Andrew M. Bergstrom, assistant cashier of the Third National bank and Pope O. Driver, chief bookkeeper and head of mail departments, of the American National bank, unhesitatingly declare that the same hand penned them both. Detectives are satisfied that Lee knows all about the killing
  • Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Where Was Mary Phagan on Saturday Afternoon?

    Atlanta Journal Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Are there any friends or acquaintances of little Mary Phagan who saw her after she is supposed to have left the offices of the National Pencil company Saturday afternoon, where she went for the little pay that was due her? Is there any one who knows the girl, who can say she was seen in the city of Atlanta or elsewhere following her departure from home shortly before noon on that day? According to Superintendent Leo Frank, the child called for her envelope shortly after 12 o'clock on the day of the tragedy. She
  • Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Witnesses Positive Murdered Girl Was Same Who Created Scene at the Terminal Station on Friday

    Atlanta Journal Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Gatemen, T. R. Malone and H. P. Sibley, After Viewing Corpse, Declare Mary Phagan, Sobbing Loudly and Displaying Vehement Feelings, Prevented Strange Man From Boarding Train for Washington—Neither of Men Detained by Police Is Mysterious Stranger H. P. SIBLEY, gateman and T. R. Malone, special officer at the Atlanta Terminal station, have identified the dead body of little Mary Phagan as the same girl whom they saw dramatically prevent a man from leaving on train No. 38 for Washington, D. C., Friday morning at 11:01 o'clock. Both men declare a young man apparently about
  • Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Business Men Protest Sensational “Extras”

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Following an interview between Mayor Woodward and Chief of Police Beavers and Chief of Detectives Lanford, in which the mayor protested that extras on the Phagan murder case which were based on information alleged to have been given out by the officers and the detectives and which were liable to unduly inflame the public, a petition has been circulated among local business men asking the newspapers not to issue so many sensational extras. The petition states that extras such as have been issued are hurting business and will hurt it still further, that the
  • Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Hearing for Gantt at 3 P.M. Wednesday

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Judge Gober Says His Client Will Be Taken Before Justice of the Peace Powers J. M. Gantt, held on a warrant charging the murder of Mary Phagan, will given a hearing before Justice F. M. Powers at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Gantt was Tuesday afternoon transferred from police barracks to the jail on an order issued by Judge Bell. Justice Powers, who issued the warrant for Gantt's arrest, had not been notified of the hearing at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday morning, but it was stated at the office of Judge George Gober, attorney for Gantt,
  • Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Mary Phagan at Home Last Friday, Says Mother

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Mrs. W. J. Coleman, mother of Mary Phagan, says that the girl was at home during Friday and Friday night, and could not possibly have been the one seen at the Terminal station Friday morning by H. P. Sibley, gateman, and T. R. Malone, special officer. Just as a young man with a ticket for Washington reached one of the gates to the tracks at the Terminal station, he was stopped Friday morning by a pretty girl, who pleaded with him not to leave her. The girl finally reached such a state of hysteria
  • Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl’s Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him

    A sketch of pretty Mary Phagan from her latest photograph by Brewerton. Atlanta Journal Wednesday April 30th, 1913 Newt Lee, Negro Who Notified Police of Mary Phagan Murder, Tells Coroner Girl's Body Was Lying Face Up With Head Toward West When He Found It — But Officers Declare They Found It Lying Face Down, Head Toward East, Knew She Was White, Said He, by Her Hair SAYS MR. FRANK DID UNUSUAL THINGS, BUT DOES NOT DIRECTLY IMPLICATE ANYONE Mr. Frank Met Him Outside Office Saturday Afternoon and Let Him Off for Two Hours, After Having Insisted That He Be There
  • Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Negro Watchman Wrote Note Found Beside Dead Girl, Experts Declare, After Seeing Franks Handwriting

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 The Journal's Three Handwriting Experts Still Firm in Their Conviction That Newt Lee Wrote Mysterious Notes When Shown Copies Written by Both Frank and Lee in Comparison With Original Note Found Having compared exact reproductions of the notes found near the body of Mary Phagan with specimens of the handwriting of Newt Lee, the night watchman, and of Leo M. Frank, the superintendent of the National Pencil company, three handwriting experts Tuesday morning stuck to their first opinion that the negro's handwriting and that of the notes found near the girl are the same.
  • Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Reward of $1,000 is Appropriated by City

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Money Will Be Paid for Information Leading to Arrest of Girl's Murderer At a special session called at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning, the city council of Atlanta voted for the appropriation of $1,000 as a reward for information leading to the arrest of the party or parties guilty of the brutal murder of little Mary Phagan. In the building of the National Pencil company's factory on Forsyth street, last Saturday afternoon or night. Immediately afterward the aldermanic board met and concurred in the appropriation. The only objection made to the money as a reward
  • Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Says He Punched Time Clock on Wrong Number

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Harry Denham's Story Indicates Miss Annie Howell Wasn't in Factory The time clock at the National Pencil company's factory, where Mary Phagan was murdered, shows that employe No. 141 registered off at 3:07 p. m. last Saturday. This is the number of Miss Annie Howell, of 664 East Fair street, and at first the detectives thought she might be able to throw some light on the mystery. It developed later, however, that this must have been a mistake. Harry Denham, one of the men employed in the factory, claims that he punched her by
  • Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro is Denied by Police

    Leo M. Frank Atlanta Journal Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 They Decline to Say, However, Whether Conversation Between Superintendent and Watchman Was Overheard WAS MARY PHAGAN SEEN AT 5 P. M.? J. L. Watkins Says He Saw Her Near Her Home—Chemist's Tests Shows No Blood Under Negro's Finger Nails A report that there was a Dictaphone in the room in which Leo M. Frank talked with Newt Lee, the negro night watchman, at police headquarters Tuesday night in a supposed effort to wring a confession from the negro, was denied Wednesday by both Chief of Detectives Lanford and Chief of Police
  • Thursday, 1st May 1913 Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory that Phagan Girl Never Left Factory

    The big picture in the center shows the head of the detective department, Chief Newport A. Lanford. To his left is John R. Black, city detective, who was largely instrumental in convicting the Druid Hills murderers. On the extreme left at the top is Detective Pat Campbell, and below him is J. N. Starnes. To the right of the chief is Harry Scott, of the Pinkertons, who are working on the mystery. The top picture at the extreme right is City Detective S. L. (Bass) Rosser, and below is Detective W. F. Bullard. Atlanta Journal Thursday, May 1st, 1913 All
  • Thursday, 1st May 1913 Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girls Body, and Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, May 1st, 1913 A new theory based upon an assumption of the innocence of the negro night watchman, Newt Lee, is that the murdered body of Mary Phagan was taken to the basement of the National Pencil factory primarily for the purpose of burning it, early Sunday morning, and that the slayer was hid in the basement when Newt Lee discovered the child's body face up with its head toward the back door. This theory will permit explanation of several details which tend now to keep the mystery thick. It assumes that the negro night watchman, Newt
  • Friday, 2nd May 1913 Solicitor Dorsey is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 2nd, 1913 Outside of Solicitor's Activity There Have Been No Developments Since the Suspects Were Transferred to Tower GROUNDLESS RUMORS DENIED BY OFFICIALS Chief Lanford's Busy Running Down Tips—Coroner's Inquest Will Be Resumed on Monday Afternoon at 2 The Atlanta Journal has published every fact and development in connection with the mysterious murder of Mary Phagan. The Journal will continue to print news of further developments and additional evidence as the investigation proceeds. No fact has been suppressed nor will any news relating to the hunt for solution of the crime be withheld from the public.
  • Saturday, 3rd May 1913 Detectives Confer With Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey

    Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 3rd, 1913 Following Meeting Lasting Two Hours, Officials Investigating Murder Mystery Visited Scene of Tragedy NO CHANGE IN PLANS FOR INQUEST MONDAY Progress Has Been Made In Developing Evidence, It Is Said, but its Nature Has Not Been Divulged The three central figures in the investigation of the Phagan murder case—the solicitor general, the coroner and the chief of detectives—held a conference Saturday morning, which lasted for more than two hours. The officials discussed the evidence in the case and the many theories which have been advanced, but refused to divulge any definite information about the
  • Sunday, 4th May 1913 Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery

    Atlanta Journal Sunday May 4th, 1913 A 17-year-old miss, blonde and who weighs about 140 pounds, and who was in in Marietta last Wednesday afternoon wearing a dark red dress and a leghorn hat, may furnish the vital clue in the mystery of the murder of Mary Phagan. Who is she? Where does she live? Is it true that she was the last friend of Mary Phagan's to see the murdered girl alive on Saturday afternoon, April 26? She alone can answer. It is but a matter of hours until her identity is revealed. If she knows what she is
  • Monday, 5th May 1913 Coroner’s Inquest Resumed 2:30 p. m.; Frank Will Testify

    Atlanta Journal Monday, May 5th, 1913 Factory Superintendent Was Expected to Be the Chief Witness, Though 200 Others Had Been Subpoenaed NEW GRAND JURY URGED TO PROMPT INVESTIGATION A Thousand Violations of Law Against Vice Do Not Equal Crime of Mary Phagan's Murder, Says Judge Ellis The jury empanelled a week ago by Coroner Paul Donehoo resumed its probe into the mystery of the murder of little Mary Phagan on Monday afternoon shortly after 2:30 o'clock. Although police headquarters was crowded by nearly 200 witnesses, mostly employees at the National Pencil factory, where Mary Phagan met her death, it was
  • Tuesday, 6th May 1913 L. M. Frank’s Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on Day of Mary Phagan Murder

    Atlanta Journal Tuesday, May 6th, 1913 For Three Hours and a Half Mr. Frank Was on the Stand, Answering Questions About His Movements Every Hour and Minute of the Day—He Was Calm and Unruffled When Excused From Stand and Returned to the Tower HE TELLS OF VISIT OF LEMMIE QUINN TO HIS OFFICE TEN MINUTES AFTER MARY PHAGAN RECEIVED WAGES Introduction of Quinn Gives the Factory Superintendent an Important Witness, in Confirmation of His Statements. Only Three Witnesses Examined by Coroner at Session Monday Afternoon For three hours and a half Leo M. Frank, general superintendent of the National Pencil
  • Tuesday, 6th May 1913 Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn’t Been Back

    Atlanta Journal Tuesday, May 6th, 1913 Negative Alibi Seems Established for Young Man Held in Texas City as Suspected Murderer of Mary Phagan in Atlanta — Police There Say "Strong Evidence," but Nothing Shows Young Man Was Around Here April 26 BROTHER, IN NEWNAN, SAYS PAUL HAS BEEN IN HOUSTON SIX WEEKS; OUT WEST SINCE OCTOBER Two Friends, Young Men in Atlanta, Report Recent Letters From Him—Brother Has Had One—So Has Father—Detectives Say Quinn Changed His Story—Newt Lee Declares Murder Must Have Occurred During the Afternoon A negative alibi established for Paul P. Bowen by several authorities, among whom are
  • Tuesday, 6th May 1913 Pictures of Fifty Girls Found in Search of Bowens Trunk

    Atlanta Journal Tuesday, May 6th, 1913 BY KENNETH TODD. Formerly reporter on The Atlanta Journal, now the special correspondent in Houston. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) Paul P. Bowen, a round-faced youth of twenty years, was arrested in Houston by detectives Monday night in connection with the murder of Mary Phagan in Atlanta several days ago. Information furnished the department by Mrs. A. Blanchett, of Texas City, led to the arrest. Bowen and Mrs. Blanchett occupied adjoining rooms at the St. Jean hotel Sunday night, according to the story she told detectives. She saw young Bowen reading an Atlanta paper
  • Tuesday, 6th May 1913 Story of Paul Bowens Arrest as Told by Associated Press

    Atlanta Journal Tuesday, May 6th, 1913 The actions of a man giving his name as Paul P. Bowen, observed by a woman boarder at the hotel where he was stopping, and the story she told the police, caused his arrest here last night. Bowen is held on suspicion, the charge being based on telegrams from the Atlanta, Georgia, police, saying that Bowen may be wanted in connection with the murder of Mary Phagan in Atlanta. From Bowen's trunk the police obtained a woman's vest which they say was blood-stained, copies of Atlanta newspapers and photographs which they identified as that
  • Wednesday, 7th May 1913 Bowen Given Liberty, Makes Full Statement

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, May 7th, 1913 P. P. Bowen, who was arrested here yesterday on suspicion in connection with an Atlanta case and who was released last night, made this statement today: "My father is S. C. Bowen. He lives at Newnan, Georgia I told the detectives that they had made a mistake at the time they arrested me, and knew that they would soon find this to be so, if they investigated my references and letters. Of course, I was scared when they entered my room. I did meet them at the door with an open knife, and before
  • Wednesday, 7th May 1913 Fourteen Houston Policemen Fired on Bowen’s Account

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, May 7th, 1913 BY KENNETH TODD. HOUSTON, Tex., May 7.—Although young Paul P. Bowen, arrested in Houston Monday as a suspect in the Mary Phagan case, has been released by the chief of police, the release was ordered against the wishes of the chief of detectives and the latter has been summarily discharged for opposing his superior in spite of the telegram from Chief Beavers, of Atlanta, to Chief Davison, of the local department. Bowen was released twenty-four hours after the message was received. Chief of Detectives Peyton stubbornly refused to let the youth go free, so
  • Wednesday, 7th May 1913 Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, May 7th, 1913 Detectives Said to Attach Much Importance to Testimony That Two Girls Will Give When Inquest Resumes INQUEST WILL BE ENDED THURSDAY, SAYS DONEHOO Paul P. Bowen Has Been Released by Houston Officials—Chief Detective and 14 Policemen Are Discharged Two new witnesses, whom the detectives have recently located, are expected to give testimony of importance at the final session of the Phagan inquest Thursday. One of the witnesses is Miss Grace Hix, of 100 McDonough road, daughter of James E. Hix. Miss Hix worked at the same machine with Mary Phagan, but has not been
  • Thursday, 8th May 1913 J. L. Watkins Says He Did Not See Phagan Child on Day of Tragedy

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, May 8th, 1913 J. L. Watkins, called to the stand after Miss Hall, the stenographer, was excused, clarified his former testimony that he had seen Mary Phagan on the street near her home on Saturday afternoon, April 26, by declaring that he is convinced now he was mistaken about it. "Mr. White , on last Thursday did you not swear before this inquest that between 4 and 5 o'clock on the afternoon of Saturday, April 26, you saw Mary Phagan walking along Bellwood avenue toward her home?" asked the coroner. "Yes, that's so," answered the witness. "I
  • Thursday, 8th May 1913 Lemmie Quinn Grilled by Coroner But He Sticks to His Statement

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, May 8th, 1913 L. A. Quinn was called to the stand. He lives at 31B Julliam street, he said, and is foreman of the metal department at the National Pencil factory. Mary Phagan worked in his department, he said. The last time he saw her was on the Monday preceding the murder, he said. She left the plant about 2 o'clock that Monday, said he. That was earlier than usual, but she left because the metal with which she worked had run out and she wanted to hurry to the matinee. He didn't know any of her
  • Thursday, 8th May 1913 Miss Daisy Jones Convinces Jury She Was Mistaken for Mary Phagan

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, May 8th, 1913 Miss Daisy Jones, identified by J. L. Watkins as the girl whom he had mistaken for Mary Phagan on the afternoon of April 26, appeared before the coroner's jury dressed exactly as she was on that afternoon, and testified that she had been just where Watkins said he saw Mary Phagan at the hour when Watkins thought he saw the girl, and that she had crossed a vacant field just as Watkins described Mary Phagan as having done. In short, with Mr. Watkins' new testimony, she proved conclusively that it was not Mary Phagan
  • Thursday, 8th May 1913 Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factory at Noon

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, May 8th, 1913 Miss Hattie Hall, a stenographer, was called to the stand after Quinn was excused. When Miss Hall was excused, shortly before 12:30 o'clock, she was told to return at 2:30 o'clock, as she probably would be recalled then. Miss Hall's testimony revealed nothing not already known, and was vague upon a number of points already testified to by others. It bore mainly upon the period when she was in the office of the National Pencil company on the morning of Saturday, April 26. According to her, she was there from about 11 o'clock until
  • Thursday, 8th May 1913 Mr. Frank’s Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, May 8th, 1913 Miss Corinthia Hall, an employe in the factory, was the first of the young women employed there to testify before the coroner from their viewpoint regarding Mr. Frank's attitude and demeanor toward them. She declared his conduct toward the young women in the factory to be irreproachable. She works in the varnish department on the fourth floor of the pencil factory, and lives at 19 Waverly street, Kirkwood, she told the coroner. She has been working at the factory about three years, she said. About 11:45 o'clock on the morning of April 26, she
  • Thursday, 8th May 1913 Phagan Inquest in Session; Six Witnesses are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30

    Lemmie Quinn, foreman, who testified that he visited the factory and talked to Mr. Frank just after Mary Phagan is supposed to have left with her pay envelope. He was given a searching examination by the coroner Thursday, but stuck to his statement. Atlanta Journal Thursday, May 8th, 1913 Lemmie Quinn, the Factory Foreman, Was Put Through a Grilling Examination, but He Steadily Maintained That He Visited the Factory Shortly After the Time Mary Phagan is Supposed to Have Left With Her Pay Envelope FRANK'S TREATMENT OF GIRLS IN FACTORY DESCRIBED AS UNIMPEACHABLE BY ONE YOUNG LADY EMPLOYEE Mr. Frank's
  • Thursday, 8th May 1913 Stains on Shirt Were Not Made While Shirt Was Being Worn

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, May 8th, 1913 A number of new witnesses had been summoned for the inquest, and the indications were said to be that the session (promised as final in the coroner's investigation) might last all day. It became known, before the inquest convened, that several witnesses whom the detectives have discovered would not be introduced there at all. The evidence that they can furnish, whatever it may be, will not become public until some later time, it was said. It was stated further Thursday morning that the report by Dr. Claude A. Smith, city bacteriologist, upon the analysis
  • Friday, 9th May 1913 Character Witnesses are Called in the Case by City Detectives

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 9th, 1913 Tom Backstock, of 21 Hightower street, a youth of about sixteen or seventeen years, testified that he worked at the pencil factory about a year ago. He didn't know Mr. Frank personally, he said, but knew him when he worked at the factory. "Did you have any opportunity to observe his conduct with the women there?" the lad was asked. "I saw him ‘pick' at the girls," was the reply. "Who were they?" the coroner asked. "I couldn't tell their names now," he said. "I didn't work there long enough to get very well
  • Friday, 9th May 1913 Coroner Donehoo Points Out the Law to the Jurors

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 9th, 1913 The coroner's charge to the jury was in part as follows: "You have heard the statement of the county physician. You have seen what caused death. You have seen the body and have heard the evidence in the case. "It is your duty to inquire diligently as to how Mary Phagan came to her death. That was your oath. In case of unnatural death, you were to determine at whose hands death came. "You have heard the county physician say strangulation caused death. In determining who is guilty of the murder you turn to
  • Friday, 9th May 1913 Detective Harry Scott’s Testimony as Given Before Coroner’s Jury

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 9th, 1913 An unexpected turn was given to the coroner's inquest into the mysterious murder of Mary Phagan, Thursday afternoon, when Harry Scott, the Pinkerton detective who has been representing that agency in its work on the case, was called to the stand by the coroner. Mr. Scott was in the room at the moment. One new detail that he revealed was in a reply to a direct question from the coroner, when he stated that Herbert Haas, attorney for Leo M. Frank and attorney for the National Pencil factory, requested him and superintendent of the
  • Friday, 9th May 1913 Detective John Black Tell[s] the Jury His Views on the Phagan Case

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 9th, 1913 Detective John Black followed Detective Scott on the stand. He was questioned about the finding of the bloody shirt at Newt Lee's home. He said that on the Tuesday afternoon after the murder he went with Detective Fred Bullard to Newt Lee's house at 40 Henry street. They searched the premises, he said, and found the bloody shirt in a clothes barrel in Lee's room. The shirt was near the bottom of the barrel and was covered with scraps of old clothes, he said, the barrel apparently being used as a dumping place for
  • Friday, 9th May 1913 Here is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner’s Jury in Phagan Case

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 9th, 1913 Full Story of Hearing Thursday Afternoon When Frank, Newt Lee, Detectives Black and Scott and Several Character Witnesses Were Placed on the Stand The verdict of the coroner's jury that Mary Phagan came to her death by strangulation and its recommendation that both Mr. Frank and Lee be held for investigation by the grand jury was rendered at 6:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon and marked by the conclusion of one of the most remarkable inquests ever held in this state. Deputy Plennis Minor carried the news of the coroner's jury verdict to Mr. Frank and
  • Friday, 9th May 1913 Investigation Just Begun Says Detective Lanford

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 9th, 1913 General satisfaction was expressed Friday morning by the detectives working on the Phagan case at the action of the coroner's jury. Chief of Detectives Lanford, however, declares that the work of his department is just now getting under way. "We are going to continue right on with the investigation," said the officials, "and try to dig down to the truth of this matter." "We have a theory as to who committed the crime, but we are ready to change it if we can possibly unearth any evidence, which will prove that theory wrong. We
  • Friday, 9th May 1913 Newt Lee Tells of the Talk He Had in the Police Station

        Atlanta Journal Friday, May 9th, 1913 Newt Lee, the negro night watchman, was recalled and asked to tell about any conversation he had with Mr. Frank at the jail or the police station. Lee said he has not talked to Mr. Frank at the jail, but that he had talked with him at the police station. Mr. Frank came into the room, where he was, Lee said, and asked, "How are you feeling, Newt?" "Not so good, Mr. Frank?" Lee said was his answer. Lee said that he then told Mr. Frank that it was mighty hard on
  • Friday, 9th May 1913 Superintendent Frank is Once More Put on Witness Stand

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 9th, 1913 Leo M. Frank general superintendent of the National Pencil factory, was recalled to the stand. He was questioned regarding the elevator. The coroner wanted to know what kind of a door there is to the shaft on the office floor. The witness replied that it is a heavy door solid, that slides up and down. "Where was the elevator on Saturday, April 26?" he was asked. "I didn't notice." "Where was it on Friday night?" "I didn't notice." "Was the door open on Saturday?" "I didn't notice." Asked whether it would not be possible
  • Friday, 9th May 1913 With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 9th, 1913 Belief That the Detectives Had Positive Evidence, Which They Were Withholding, Dissipated by Admissions SCOTT AND BLACK REFUSED TO NAME MAN SUSPECTED Case Now Goes to the Grand Jury but No Action Is Expected for a Week—Search for Evidence Will Continue Coroner Paul Donehoo and the six jurors who investigated the murder of little Mary Phagan in the National Pencil factory on April 26, concluded Thursday the most thorough and exhaustive probe of a violent death ever conducted in this county and probably in the state. The jury recommended that Leo M. Frank, superintendent
  • Saturday, 10th May 1913 Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Say Detectives

    Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 10th, 1913 Pinkertons Declare the State Has No Evidence of Importance That Hasn't Been Given to the Newspapers IDENTITY OF SOLICITOR'S DETECTIVE A MYSTERY Chief Lanford Believes He Is One of Sheriff's Capable Deputies—Gantt Questioned, Newt Lee Has Lawyer The probe into the mystery of little Mary Phagan's death two weeks ago still goes on. The small army of professional, amateur, city, state and private detectives which took up the chase of the murderer soon after the horrible details of the crime became known still pursues the investigation with unabated vigor. Solicitor Dorsey's detective, heralded as
  • Sunday, 11th May 1913 City Detectives Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 11th, 1913 The Journal Presents First Complete Statement of Case Solicitor and His Investigators Seek to Build HOW DETECTIVES THINK CRIME WAS COMMITTED They Maintain That Mary Phagan Was Left Unconscious in Factory Near Midday and Killed Later in Afternoon For the first time since the lifeless body of pretty fourteen-year-old Mary Phagan was found in the basement of the National Pencil factory, this morning two weeks ago, The Journal is enabled to make public the theory of the city detectives and others investigating the murder mystery as to how the crime was committed. HERE IS
  • Sunday, 11th May 1913 Grand Jury to Consider Phagan Case This Week

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 11th, 1913 Interets in the investigation of the mysterious murder two weeks ago of little Mary Phagan centered Saturday in the grand jury. Two men, Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the pencil factotry , where the tragedy occurred, and Newt Lee, negro night watchman, have been ordered held by a coroner's jury, but no intimation has been given as to the time when bills against the two men will be presented to that body. The jury is not due to hold a session until next Friday, but the solicitor general or the foreman can call the
  • Monday, 12th May 1913 Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle

    Atlanta Journal Monday, May 12th, 1913 At Request of The Journal, One of Numerous Reports About Man Held in Phagan Case Is Investigated TWO ‘NO BILLS' NECESSARY TO FREE PRISONERS Solicitor's "Famous" Detective Has Left City-Character Witnesses Not Likely to Be Used At the request of The Atlanta Journal, the Brooklyn Eagle, one of the most conservative and reliable newspapers in the whole country, has investigated the most serious of numerous rumors which are being persistently circulated about the character of Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil company, who is held in connection with the death of Mary
  • Tuesday, 13th May 1913 Solicitor Dorsey is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery

    Atlanta Journal Tuesday, May 13th, 1913 He Will Not Disclose Its Nature, but He, Lanford and Beavers Declare No Arrests Are Contemplated SOLICTOR WOULD WELCOME HELP OF BURNS But Says He Knows Nothing of Effort to Bring Him Here, Miss Ross, a New Witness, Talks With Dorsey A new theory about the mysterious murder of Mary Phagan has been presented to Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey in such a convincing manner by an unknown criminologist that the chief prosecuting officer of Fulton county has turned the Phagan investigation towards working out the new idea. While Mr. Dorsey states that there
  • Wednesday, 14th May 1913 New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, May 14th, 1913 "A Local Celebrity" Is Working Out the New Theory and He Had Not Reported to the Solicitor on Wednesday GIRL'S HANDWRITING GIVES IMPORTANT CLUE Grand Jury to Take Up Case May 22 or 23, Says Solicitor, Criminal Court Postpones Session at Dorsey's Request At 2:10 Wednesday afternoon Solicitor Dorsey announced that the grand jury would take up the Phagan case on Thursday, the 22d, or Friday, the 23d, unless something intervened to make it inadvisable. At that time bills will be presented against Leo M. Frank and the negro, Newt Lee, for the grand
  • Thursday, 15th May 1913 No Phagan Trial Before Last of June Declares Solicitor

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, May 15th, 1913 If Indictments Are Returned by Grand Jury When Bills Are Presented There Will Be No Immediate Trial WM. J. BURNS COMING, SAYS THOS. B. FELDER He Calls Upon the Public to Subscribe a Fund to Pay the Expense of Bringing Great Detective to Atlanta Should the Fulton county grand jury, when it meets next Thursday or Friday, return a true bill against either one or both of the men held by the coroner's jury in the Mary Phagan murder investigation, the state will not attempt to bring them to trial before the latter part
  • Friday, 16th May 1913 Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jurys Hands

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 16th, 1913 Two Employes of Pencil Company Appeared Before Grand Jury Friday in Answer to Subpenas FELDER RAISING FUND TO PAY W. J. BURNS The Journal Subscribes $100, Mr. Felder Declares a Burns Investigator Will Be Put On the Case at Once By means of a subpoena duces tecum Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey Friday obtained possession of a number of books and papers of the National Pencil company. The subpoena was served on Herbert G. Schiff and M. B. Darley, two officials of the pencil company, by Deputy Sheriff Plennie Minor, and the two men
  • Saturday, 17th May 1913 Phagan Case Will Go To Grand Jury in Present Form

    Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 17th, 1913 State Is Apparently Ready, as Solicitor Says That He is Not Expecting Any New Evidence for Some Time BURNS' INVESTIGATOR ON THE JOB, SAYS FELDER Attorney Declares Fund for Employment of the Famous Sleuth Has Reached $1,500, About $5,000 is Needed That the state considers its case as practically complete and is ready to definitely charge the Mary Phagan murder to an individual and to start the legal machinery moving towards a superior court trial is believed from a very significant statement made Saturday by Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey. "I haven't learned anything
  • Sunday, 18th May 1913 Phagan Theory is Unchanged After Three Weeks’ Probe

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 18th, 1913 Most Searching Investigation Ever Conducted in a Criminal Case in Georgia Brings No New Developments STATE WILL STAND BY THEORY AS OUTLINED Fund to Pay Detective Burns is Mounting—Greeks Sent In Subscription Saturday, Grand Jury Acts Soon The hunt for the murderer of Mary Phagan has now been in progress for three weeks. Never before has there been such a thorough, exhaustive and efficient probe made of a crime committed in this state. And now the authorities are back to the theory which the city detective have claimed since a few days after the
  • Monday, 19th May 1913 Burns Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder

    Atlanta Journal Monday, May 19th, 1913 It Coincides In Practically Every Feature With Theory Held by Solicitor Dorsey, Detectives and Pinkertons MYSTERY CAN BE SOLVED, INVESTIGATOR DECLARES He Holds Long Conerence With Solicitor, Who Has Welcomed Him Into Case, Urged to Contribute to Fund The theory of the murder of Mary Phagan entertained by the city detectives and outlined in The Journal first on Sunday a week ago is the theory in which C. W. Tobie, manager of the criminal department of the William J. Burns agency, believes. Mr. Tobie, who has been employed by Attorney Thomas B. Felder, has
  • Tuesday, 20th May 1913 Phagan Case Goes to the Grand Jury in Present Form

    Atlanta Journal Tuesday, May 20th, 1913 Solicitor and Detectives Are Ready With Evidence and Will Present Bills for Jury's Consideration Friday CAN FRANK INTRODUCE WITNESSES IN DEFENSE? This Question Is Being Considered by Solicitor—Another Report That Mary Phagan Was Seen Saturday P. M. The Fulton county grand jury will commence its investigation of the murder of Mary Phagan on Friday, not Thursday morning, according to an announcement from the solicitor general's office. Unless there is an important development before that time, and none is considered likely, the names of only two suspects, Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil
  • Wednesday, 21st May 1913 Finger Print Expert Works With Dorsey to Solve Mystery

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, May 21st, 1913 P. A. Flak, of New York, visits Scene of Crime and Also Takes Finger Prints of Men in the Tower BURNS INVESTIGATOR INTERVIEWS NEWT LEE He is Said to Be Convinced That Negro Is Innocent—Pinkertons Still Busy in Search for Additional Evidence The employment by Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey of one of the best known finger print experts in the world on the Phagan mystery was Wednesday's principal development in the sensational case. P. A. Flak, of New York City, noted criminologist, and a recognized expert on finger prints, was brought to Atlanta
  • Thursday, 22nd May 1913 Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A. M. Friday

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, May 22nd, 1913 Names of Leo M. Frank and the Negro, Newt Lee, to Be Presented by State as the Accused DORSEY TO CONCENTRATE EFFORT AGAINST FORMER Improbable That Evidence Favorable to Mr. Frank Will Be Attempted—Experts Ready on Various Phases The Phagan investigation will go to the grand jury on Friday and the state will use every effort to introduce sufficient evidence against the two suspects ordered held by the coroner's jury to secure true bills. Solicitor General Dorsey announced late Thursday that there had been no development which would change his plan to present the
  • Friday, 23rd May 1913 Col. Felder Confirmed His Offer in a Midnight Conversation by Telephone, Says A. S. Colyar

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 23rd, 1913 A. S. Colyar has given to the police the following affidavit: STATE OF GEORGIA. FULTON COUNTY. Personally appeared before me a Notary Public in and for the above State and County, A. S. Colyar, who being duly sworn says: "At 11 p. m. on May 18th, 1913, I called ttelephone number Ivy 3508, which is the phone of T. B. Felder's residence on the Howell Mill Road, about seven miles from Atlanta, and after waiting several minutes, some one finally answered the phone and lasked the question, ‘Is Col. T. B. Felder there?' and
  • Friday, 23rd May 1913 Col. Felder Denies Offering $1,000 or Any Other Sum for Affidavit Held by Detectives

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 23rd, 1913 At the Request of The Journal He Left Trial of a Case in Marietta and Came to Atlanta Friday Afternoon, Where He Dictated a Statement Without Having Read the Dictographed Interview Which Is Given Elsewhere in This Paper. WELL-KNOWN ATTORNEY GIVES HIS VERSION OF WHAT HE SAID TO SECRETARY G. C. FEBUARY Col. Felder Declares He Told Febuary and Colyar He Would Introduce Them to Some Gentlemen Who Might Be Interested in Getting Possession of Evidence on the Detective Department—Says He Never Claimed He Had Been Employed by the Colemans. The Atlanta Journal has
  • Friday, 23rd May 1913 Detective R. S. Ozburn Swears to Phone Talk

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 23rd, 1913 Says He Overheard Col. Felder Offer $1,000 for Phagan Papers State of Georgia, County of Fulton. Personally appeared before me the undersigned notary public, for the state and county aforesaid, R. S. Ozburn, who makes oath, in due form of law, and says he is a citizen of Atlanta, GA., and a member of the detective department of the Atlanta police force; that he was in J. M. Hewitt's office, 1409 Fourth National Bank building, in said city, on Tuesday, May the 20th, 1913, at 11:43 a. m., and that at that time there
  • Friday, 23rd May 1913 Dictograph Set by Detectives to Trap Col. Thos. B. Felder; Here is the Dictograph Record

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 23rd, 1913 In Interview With G. C. Febuary, Secretary to Chief of Detectives Newport Lanord, in Room 31 of Williams House No. 2, Heard by Dictograph and Taken Down in Shorthand, Col. Felder is Alleged to Have Offered Bribe "I CONTROL MAYOR, SOLICITOR AND JUDGE," HE IS QUOTED AS SAYING IN ASSURING FEBUARY PROTECTION East Lake Was Agreed Upon as Place for Transfer of Papers, Although Colonel Felder Suggested the Transportation Club, According to Stenographic Report of Conversation That Occurred—All of Alleged Interview That is Printable is Given Below The Atlanta Journal has in its possession
  • Friday, 23rd May 1913 Febuary and Colyar Swear That Felder Offered Big Bribe

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 23rd, 1913 Affidavit, Detailing Conversation Which Is Alleged to Have Occurred in Col. Felder's Office, Is Given Below "GO AND GET EVIDENCE,' COL. FELDER IS QUOTED "Lanford Couldn't Detect an Elephant at Five Points," He Is Alleged to Have Said, Both Chiefs Are Denounced The city detectives have in their possession an affidavit sworn to by G. C. Febuary, secretary to Chief Lanford, and A. S. Colyar, a private investigator, detailing the alleged conversation which it is claimed took place between Colonel T. B. Felder, Colyar, and Feburary , on Monday night at Colonel Felder's office
  • Friday, 23rd May 1913 Here is Coleman Affidavit Which Officers Say Col. Felder Offered to Purchase for the Sum of $1,000

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 23rd, 1913 STATE OF GEORGIA: FULTON COUNTY: The affiant, J. W. Coleman and wife, citizens of Atlanta, Georgia, who reside at 146 Lindsay St. The affiant is the step-father of Mary Phagan, deceased, the child who was foully murdered by a hellish brute on April 26, 1913. The affiant is in the employ of the City of Atlanta in the Sanitary Dept. The affiant, while at the Police Station during the Coroner's inquest, the exact day he does not remember, was approached by a man somewhat under the influence of liquor, and said to the affiant,
  • Friday, 23rd May 1913 How Dictograph Was Installed in Williams House No. 2 to Trap Colonel Thomas B. Felder

    A dictograph from 1907 Atlanta Journal Friday, May 23rd, 1913 Instrument Was Put In by Lawrence O. Surles of the Southern Bell Telephone Company—George M. Gentry, Took Down the Conversation in Shorthand The dictograph, through which was recorded the conversation held by agents of the city detectives with Attorney Thomas B. Felder, was most ingeniously arranged and installed by Lawrence O. Surles, chief clerk of the traffic department of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph company, who is the Atlanta representative of the Dictograph Manufacturing company. Just behind the lower portion of a dresser front board in room No. 31
  • Saturday, 24th May 1913 Charlie C. Jones Shown by Dictograph to Have Been Foxy; Detective Miles Talks Freely

    George M. Gentry, stenographer who heard dictograph conversation in adjoining room and took it down in shorthand. Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Proprietor of "Rex" Near-Beer Saloon and Private Sleuth Are Quoted as Having Negotiated With Febuary for Papers in Phagan Case—Jones Was Very Cautious in His Utterances MILES WAS QUITE POSITIVE MAYOR WOODWARD WOULD SEE TO IT THAT FEBUARY WAS PROTECTED Following the alleged dictographed conversations of Colonel Thomas B. Felder and Mayor Woodward Wednesday afternoon an engagement was made by A. S. Colyar for Charles C. Jones, proprietor of the "Rex" near-beer saloon, and E. O. Miles,
  • Saturday, 24th May 1913 Chief Lanford Replies to Col. T. B. Felder

    Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 "Where Is Col. Felder's Fee in Phagan Case Coming From?" He Asks Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford told The Journal Saturday afternoon that he doesn't want to make any formal statement at this time regarding the charges of Colonel Thomas B. Felder. The charges were absurd, as any one familiar with the workings of the detective department would know, he said. The "personal attacks" were entirely unwarranted, he said. "I want Felder to answer this question," the chief said. "Why was he working without fees? Ask him where were his fees coming coming from."
  • Saturday, 24th May 1913 Dirty Gang Filled Out Record or Else Fooled Dictograph Mayor Woodward.

    Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Big Part of Published Record Absolutely Untrue, Declares Mayor, Though "There's Nothing In It," He Says "WHOLE THING AMOUNTS TO HIRING DETECTIVE" "It's all a frame-up of a dirty gang," declared Mayor James G. Woodward, in commenting Saturday afternoon on the published dictograph record of the conversation alleged to have been held between him, A. S. Colyar, G. C. Febuary and E. O. Miles in Room 31 of the Williams house, No. 2, on Wednesday afternoon. "The dictograph record has been filled out by some one," he declared. "I don't know who. Some one
  • Saturday, 24th May 1913 Dorsey Steers Clear of Felder Controversy

    Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Says He Will Not Allow Himself to Be Drawn Into Row of Attorney and Detectives Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey said Saturday morning relative to the Felder affair: "This controversy will have no bearing on the prosecution of any one who may be indicted in the Phagan case. I have no reasons to question the good faith and sincerity of Colonel Thomas B. Felder. Also, I am certain the city detectives are not ‘double-crossing' or misleading me as has been suggested." Mr. Dorsey would make no statement relative to the grand jury following Chief
  • Saturday, 24th May 1913 Franks Attorneys Make No Comment

    Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Neither L. Z. Rosser Nor Herbert Haas Had Any Statement to Make "Not a word to say," was Attorney Luther Z. Rosser's comment when informed by a Journal reporter that his client, Leo M. Frank, had been indicted by the grand jury for the murder of Mary Phagan. Mr. Rosser held in his hand a Journal extra telling of the affidavit by the negro, James Connally , that on the day before the tragedy Mr. Frank called him into his (Frank's) office and asked him to dictate two notes, and that he believes the
  • Saturday, 24th May 1913 Graft and Corruption are Charged to City Detectives and Police by Col. T. B. Felder

    Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Attorney Who Was Dictographed by the Detectives Gives Out a Statement, Additional to the One He Made Friday Afternoon, in Which He Goes After Police and Detective Departments, and Intimates That More Is to Come in the Sunday Papers SAYS DETECTIVES ARE DESTROYING EVIDENCE AGAINST FRANK IN THE PHAGAN MURDER CASE Attorney Thomas B. Felder, who has been charged by city detectives with attempted bribery of Chief of Detectives Lanford's secretary, G. C. Febuary, has made statement additional to one he made Friday afternoon before reading the dictograph records in The Journal. The attorney's
  • Saturday, 24th May 1913 Leo M. Frank is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagans Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held

    Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 True Bills Against Pencil Factory Superintendent Returned Less Than Ten Minutes After Evidence Was Closed, at Noon, Saturday — Authority Quoted That He Will Be Tried During Third Week in June—Negro to Stay in Jail SOLICITOR DORSEY DID NOT ASK JURY TO ACT ON BILL PENDING AGAINST NIGHT-WATCHMAN Grand Jury's Session Began Friday Morning — Many Witnesses Examined, but Not All That Solicitor Has Were Introduced Into Grand Jury Room—Charge Is That Frank Killed Mary Phagan by Choking Her With a Cord That He Tied Leo M. Frank , superintendent of the National Pencil
  • Saturday, 24th May 1913 Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy

    Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 He Thinks These Notes Are the Same as Those Found by the Body of the Murdered Girl, but Had Not Seen the Original Notes When He Made His Sensational Statement to the Detectives Saturday Morning NEGRO STUCK TO HIS STORY THROUGH GRUELLING EXAMINATION IN SOLICITOR'S OFFICE SATURDAY Conley Voluntarily Sent for Detectives to Make His Statement, It Is Declared — He Told the Detectives That He Wanted to Confess the Whole Truth, That Frank Called Him Into His Office and Told Him He Wanted to See His Writing Saturday morning, James Conley, the negro
  • Saturday, 24th May 1913 Newt Lee Will Give Convicting Evidence Attorney Indicates

    Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Bernard L. Chappell, Lawyer for Negro Suspect, Declares His Client's Testimony to Be Invaluable to the Case Bernard L. Chappell, attorney for Newt Lee, the negro night watchman held as a suspect in connection with the murder of Mary Phagan, gave The Journal a statement Saturday indicating that his client will give practically convicting evidence as to the identity of the murderer. "I consider his testimony the strongest known to the public against the guilty party," said Mr. Chappell. "Before I would see him released and give the guilty party a chance to get
  • Saturday, 24th May 1913 Residents of Bellwood Ask The Journal to Say That Mr. Felder Was Not Employed by Them

    Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Certain residents of Bellwood, the part of Atlanta where live Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Coleman, the parents of little Mary Phagan, wish The Journal to put them publicly on record in denouncing as absolutely untrue certain published reports to the effect that a subscription has been collected from them to employ Attorney Thomas B. Felder or any other lawyer, to assist in the prosecution of the alleged slayer. Saturday morning, J. W. Hammond, of 161 Bellwood avenue, delivered the following statement to The Journal: "There is absolutely no truth in the report that
  • Saturday, 24th May 1913 The Journals Big Story of Dictograph and Alleged Bribe Has Stirred the Whole City

    G. C. Febuary, Secretary to Chief of Detectives N. A. Lanford. Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Chief Lanford Stated Saturday That Mayor Woodward, C. C. Jones and Others Were Also Dictographed on the Same Day That Col. Felder Was—The Complete Dictograph Record of These Conversations Appears in Today's Journal "I HAVE DONE MY WORK," DECLARES CHIEF LANFORD, "IT IS NOW UP TO GRAND JURY FOR FURTHER ACTION" The exclusive story in The Journal's home edition Friday afternoon, describing how the city detectives and their representatives dictographed Colonel Thomas B. Felder in an alleged offer of $1,000 for the theft
  • Saturday, 24th May 1913 We Have Enough Votes if We Get the Evidence, the Mayor is Quoted by the Dictograph

    Main portion of drawing shows how dictograph transmitters were installed in a dresser in room No. 31, where conversations were held. Inserted drawing shows stenographer in room No. 32 recording the conversations brought by dictograph from room No. 31. Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 The Journal is Presenting Below the Complete Stenographic Report of the Interview in the Williams House, In Which Mayor Woodward, E. O. Miles, G. C. Febuary and A. S. Colyar Took Part, While the Dictograph Recorded the Conversation That Mayor James G. Woodward was dictographed by the city detectives on Wednesday afternoon, shortly after Colonel
  • Sunday, 25th May 1913 Chief Lanford Calls Felders Charges False

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 25th, 1913 Denies That Police Have Suppressed Evidence in the Phagan Mystery Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford when apprised of Colonel Felder's statement as issued Saturday afternoon to the effect that the police had plotted to protect and shield the slayers of Mary Phagan, pronounced the charges as absurd as they were false. In replying to Colonel Felder's assertion that Chief Lanofor and some of the men on the detective force hda leagued themselves with the Pinkertons to suppress evidence in the Phagan case the minute Leo M. Frank and Newt Lee were placed under arrest,
  • Sunday, 25th May 1913 Citizens Deny Authority for Using Their Names

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 25th, 1913 Capt. English, Robt. F. Maddox and Others Comment on Dictograph Interview Captain James W. English, president of the Fourth National bank, Saturday gave The Journal a statement to the effect that he has had no connection whatever with Attorney Thomas B. Felder's investigation of the Mary Phagan murder mystery. Robert F. Maddox, vice president of the American National bank, made a similar statement. Captain English said: "I don't know what Mr. Felder could have had in mind when he made the statement, if he did make it, that I, among other citizens, was backing
  • Sunday, 25th May 1913 Colyar Imputes Arrest to Felder Conspiracy

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 25th, 1913 Knoxville Charge Against Him Not Pressed for More Than Four Years A. S. Colyar was detained late Saturday afternoon on the request of E. D. Conners, chief of police of Knoxville, Tenn. to face an indictment charging forgery returned four years ago by the grand jury at that city. The amount involved is $90. Colyar hotly maintains that his arrest is a plot of Colonel T. B. Felder's to get him out of town. He declares that the Knoxville official was prompted to press the old charge against him by a friend of Felder's.
  • Sunday, 25th May 1913 Colyar Tells Where He and Col Felder Ought to be for Good of Society

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 25th, 1913 Editor The Journal: I herewith hand you a telegram in answer to one that I got Chief of Police Beavers to send, which explains one of Thomas B. Felder's visions, which appeared in the Morning Eye-Opener of Saturday, and from my relations and connections with this astute and would-be bribe giver, my conscience tells me that society at large would be better off if T. B. Felder and myself were both in Sing Sing. (Signed) A. S. COLYAR. The telegram referred to follows: Ossining, N. Y., May 24, 1914. J. L. Beavers. Chief of
  • Sunday, 25th May 1913 Felder is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang, Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 25th, 1913 "This is the First Gun in a Fight to Oust Me From Office," Says the Chief in an Interview Given Out Saturday Afternoon — "This Issue Is Between the Decent People and the Allies of Vice Who Have Controlled the City Politically for Years" MAYOR WOODWARD SAYS HE'S AGAINST BEAVERS, BUT NOT IN ANY CONSPIRACY TO REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE Says He Differs With the Chief on Policy, Not Personally. The Mayor Says Recent Dictograph Episode Has Destroyed His Belief in the Efficacy of That Ingenious Instrument — Charles C. Jones Denies Any Part
  • Sunday, 25th May 1913 Here Are Affidavits Submitted by Col. Felder

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 25th, 1913 Following are five affidavits submitted to the newspapers by Colonel Thomas B. Felder, of Atlanta, for publication with his statement answering the dictograph quotations. First appears the affidavit of C. W. Tobie, representative of the Burns detective agency investigating the murder of Mary Phagan. Second is that of W. A. Milner, an attorney of Cartersville. Third, comes that of W. D. Rhea, formerly of Nashville. Fourth, is the deposition of C. R. Atchison, formerly of Nashville. And fifth, comes the affidavit of E. W. McNeal, formerly of Nashville. Following is Mr. Tobie's affidavit: MR.
  • Sunday, 25th May 1913 Lanford is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan

    Thomas B. Felder Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 25th, 1913 So Declares Colonel Thomas B. Felder in Scathing Arraignment of Chief of Detectives and Those Assisting Him. Says Lanford and the Pinkerton Detectives Are Doing All They Can to Hamper the Phagan Investigation — Refers to Lanford as the "Lieutenant Becker" of the Department CHARGES A. S. COLYAR WITH BEING A SELF-CONFESSED FORGER AND BLACKMAILER Colonel Felder Says He Met Colyar Two and a Half Years Ago. During His Controversy With Governor Blease, and That Colyar Palmed Off Forged Affidavits on Him — Declares Colyar Came to Him With Tales of
  • Sunday, 25th May 1913 State Didnt Show its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 24th, 1913 No Documentary Evidence Was Placed Before the Grand Jury and James Conley, the Negro Sweeper Who Made Sensational Affidavit About Writing Certain Notes at Frank's Dictation on Day Before Tragedy, Was Not Examined by the Jury DR. HURT COULD NOT SAY POSITIVELY THAT MARY PHAGAN HAD BEEN ASSAULTED BEFORE DEATH Both the Other Two Witnesses Gave Their Opinion in the Affirmative—Complete Summary of Evidence on Which the Grand Jury Decided That Frank Must Stand Trial for Death of Girl—Has Lee Given New Evidence to His Attorney? While Solicitor General H. M. Dorsey will make
  • Sunday, 25th May 1913 Woodward Hoots at the Idea of Plot to Oust Beavers

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 25th, 1913 Mayor Woodward last night was interviewed by a Journal reporter in regard to Chief Beavers' statement. Among other things, the mayor said: "I haven't read the chief's statement; but if he charges or intimates that I am connected with or in sympathy with any conspiracy to throw him out of his job, then he is simply mistaken. "I have not been a supporter of Chief Beavers since I became mayor, but everybody's known that. There's been no secret about it so far as I was concerned. I've got nothing personal against him. I simply
  • Sunday, 25th May 1913 You Went to Williams House Like a Lamb to the Slaughter, Colyar Tells Felder in Letter

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 25th, 1913 Former Tennesseean in Open Letter Tells Colonel Felder That He Was Never Caught With Goods Until Last Wednesday—Colyar Says He Strayed From the Path He Should Have Followed When He Went to Wash Attorney's Political Linen in a State in Which Colonel Felder Could Not Set Foot A. S. Colyar has addressed the following open letter to Colonel Thomas B. Felder: Colonel Thomas B. Felder. Sir: Knowing you as I do, I anticipate your promised attack on me in the press of Sunday, as you have announced you intended to make, and were I
  • Monday, 26th May 1913 Five Good Men Say if Charges Are Untrue, Says A. S. Colyar to Col. Felder

    Atlanta Journal Monday, May 26th, 1913 … if I did introduce you to my wife and you make the remark that you had had the pleasure of meeting her in Chattanooga? And yet one of our alleged newspapers that has been very busy defending your good name, and painting mine blacker than hell in this community, has the audacity to publish in their Sunday morning edition a statement that my wife became so disgusted with me that she separated with me a year ago. This statement is without any foundation whatever, and an alleged representative of this alleged newspaper had
  • Monday, 26th May 1913 I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case, Says Chief

    Atlanta Journal Monday, May 26th, 1913 Chief Detective Declares He Has No Direct Evidence of Attempt to Influence Witnesses, as Published CONLEY STICKS TO STORY UNDER SEVERE GRILLING His Statement That He Wrote Notes at Frank's Dictation a Disturbing Element—Search for Evidence Continues Chief of Detectives Lanford positively denied to The Journal Monday afternoon that he has secured any proof of efforts to bribe witnesses in the Phagan case proper. The official made this statement, when questioned about the numerous rumors and reports of bribery of witnesses, some of which have been published and given general circulation. Chief Lanford states
  • Monday, 26th May 1913 Thorough Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latters Charges Against Police Asked

    Atlanta Journal Monday, May 26th, 1913 "I Shall Lay Evidence Gathered by the Detectives and Col. Felder's Charges of Graft and Corruption All Before the Grand Jury," Says the Chief, "Asking That a Searching Investigation Be Made So That the Whole Truth Shall Come Out" "ONE CROOK FREQUENTLY TURNS UP ANOTHER," DECLARES CHIEF IN STATEMENT MONDAY MORNING Mayor Woodward Gives Out Interview, Answering the Chief and Denying That He Has Hampered Him in His Crusade. He Says Chief Should Clean Up Center of the City—Hints of an Investigation by Police Board—Col. Felder Has No Statement Monday After giving out a
  • Monday, 26th May 1913 Tobie Tried to Kidnap Incubator Baby, Says Topeka Police Official

    Atlanta Journal Monday, May 26th, 1913 That the past career and record of C. W. Tobie, the Burns investigator who came to Atlanta to probe the Phagan mystery for Colonel Thomas B. Felder, is being investigated by the local police is shown by a telegram received by Chief of Police J. L. Beavers Monday morning. The telegram was from the chief of police of Topeka, Kan., and reads as follows: "Tobie tried to kidnap incubator baby at Sedan, Kan., but failed, being employed by Detective Tillotson. Subsequently Tillotson kidnaped the child at Topeka and was convicted, but Tobie was not
  • Tuesday, 27th May 1913 Col. Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives Charges

    Atlanta Journal Tuesday, May 27th, 1913 Declares Chief Beavers Is Only Bluffing, and That if All the Allegations Made by the Police Were True, It Wouldn't Be a Case for the Grand Jury, as He Has Violated No Law in Seeking Evidence of Corruption In Police Department CHIEF BEAVERS CONFERS WITH SOLICITOR DORSEY IN REFERENCES TO LAYING WHOLE MATTER BEFORE JURY He Expects the Solicitor's Co-operation — James Conley Is Identified by Mrs. Arthur White as the Negro She Saw Lurking Near the Elevator of the Pencil Factory on Day of the Tragedy—"This Is H— of a Family Row and
  • Tuesday, 27th May 1913 Felder Barely Missed Being Trapped by His Own Dictograph

    Atlanta Journal Tuesday, May 27th, 1913 Last week, when the detectives were laying their plans to trap Colonel Thomas B. Felder with a dictograph, they came very near trapping the colonel with his own instrument. The amusing incident, which has just come to light, revolves about Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey. Before a dictograph was installed in the Williams house room the city detectives told the solicitor that the attorney was negotiating for the purchase for $1,000 of certain papers in the Phagan case. The solicitor said nothing about the confidences of the detectives, and a short time later Colonel
  • Wednesday, 28th May 1913 Carl Hutcheson Again Attacks Chief Beavers

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, May 28th, 1913 Calls Rim "a Contemptible Liar" and a "Pig Head." Chief Asks for That List Attorney Carl Hutcheson renewed his attack on Police Chief Beavers Wednesday when he gave out an open letter referring to the chief as a "malicious and contemptible liar," a "pig head," and asserting that he didn't have "enough brains in his head to rattle in a gourd after the water was turned off." Mr. Hutcheson objects to the chief's reference to him as "small fry" and "only a cog in the gang machine." The first open letter written by Mr.
  • Wednesday, 28th May 1913 Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, May 28th, 1913 Negro Declares He Met Mr. Frank on the Street and Accompanied Him Back to the Factory, Where He Was Told to Wait and Watch—He Was Concealed in Wardrobe In Office When Voices Were Heard on Outside, It Is Claimed NEGRO LOOKED UPON AS A TOOL NOT PRINCIPAL DECLARE DETECTIVES WHO HAVE QUESTIONED HIM Chief Beavers Confer With Judge Roan In Reference to Taking Conley to Tower to Confront Frank but Is Told That It Is a Question for Sheriff to Decide—No Effort In This Direction Likely Until Mr. Rosser Returns to City "Write ‘night-watchman,'"
  • Thursday, 29th May 1913 A. S. Colyar Released From Bond on Thursday

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, May 29th, 1913 Tennessee Authorities Failed to Forward Requisition Papers on Date Agreed A. S. Colyar, the Tennessean, who figured conspicuously in the recent dictograph sensation involving bribery charges and countercharges of graft between Colonel Thomas B. Felder, Mayor Woodward and others, on the one hand and Chief of Police Beavers and Chief of Detectives aLnford , on the other was released from his bond Thursday at 2 p. m. by Chief Beavers. Colyar's name jumped into the news when the dictograph matter became public and the following day there came a wire from the Knoxville police
  • Thursday, 29th May 1913 Chief Asks Hutcheson for Protected List

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, May 29th, 1913 Lawyer Not Ready Yet, Is Answer—Beavers Says He Is Disappointed Chief of Police James L. Beavers called Attorney Carl Hutcheson over the telephone Thursday morning and asked if the list of "protected disorderly houses," which Mr. Hutcheson promised in a card several days ago was ready. Mr. Hutcheson is said to have replied that the list is not yet ready and that he will telephone the police official when it is completed. Chief Beavers in the telephone conversation is said to have reminded Mr. Hutcheson that Thursday is the third day since the publication
  • Thursday, 29th May 1913 Detectives Seek Corroboration of Conleys Story

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, May 29th, 1913 They Declare That They Are Anxious to Get at the Truth of the Murder Case, Regardless of Who Is Guilty Little if any credence is placed by the city detectives in the theory of the officials and employes of the National Pencil factory that Mary Phagan was killed by James Conley, the newro sweeper, and that his motive was robbery. The detectives have accepted as true Conley's second affidavit, in which he swears that he wrote the notes found by Mary Phagan's body, and that he did so about 1 o'clock on the day
  • Thursday, 29th May 1913 Former Pencil Worker Outlines His Theory

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, May 29th, 1913 Gustave Haas, of 165 Pulliam street, who at one time worked at the National Pencil factory, and is familiar with the arrangement of the building, has furnished The Journal with his theory of the Phagan murder. He believes the motive was robbery, and it was done by a negro who laid in wait for some of employees to get their pay. Little Mary Phagan happened to be his victim, and according to Haas, he threw the body down the elevator shaft after a scuffle. Then he strangled the almost lifeless body to death. He
  • Friday, 30th May 1913 Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found—How They Put Body in Basement

    Atlanta Journal Friday, May 30th, 1913 Gruesome Part Played By Him Illustrated In Presence of Detectives, Factory Officials and Newspaper Men, the Negro Goes Over Every Point of His Statement From the Time Frank is Alleged to Have Directed Him to the Metal Room Until Girl's Body Was Left in the Basement "MR. FRANK AND HIS FRIENDS HAVE FORSAKEN ME AND I DECIDED TO TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH," HE DECLARES He Says His Statement Is Voluntary, That He Has Not Been Browbeaten Nor Mistreated by the Detectives—Full Story of His Confession to Being an Accessory After the Fact and His
  • Friday, 30th May 1913 Conleys Confession is Given in Full

    Jim Conley Atlanta Journal Friday, May 30th, 1913 "On Saturday, April 26, 1913, when I came back to the pencil factory with Mr. Frank I waited for him downstairs like he told me, and when he whistled for me I went upstairs and he asked me if I wanted to make some money right quick, and I told him, yes, sir, and he told me that he had picked up a girl back there and had let her fall and that her head hit against something—he didn't know what it was—and for me to move her and I hollered and
  • Saturday, 31st May 1913 Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session

    Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 31st, 1913 Meeting Called by Foreman Lewis H. Beck, but He Declined to Say What the Jury Will Investigate WILL FELDER'S CHARGES BE SIFTED BY JURY? Chief Beavers Silent—Colonel Felder Not Informed About Meeting, but Says It's Matter of Indifference to Him A special session of the Fulton county grand jury has been called for next Tuesday morning at 10 o'clcok, the purpose of which is unannounced and unknown. The call was issued by the foreman, Lewis H. Beck, who declines to state what matters will be considered by the grand jury. The impression is general
  • Sunday, 1st June 1913 Conleys Statement Analyzed From Two Different Angles

    At the top is a photograph of the note written by James Conley, the negro sweeper, at the factory Friday afternoon after he had pantomimed his part in the murder of Mary Phagan. He wrote from memory and without prompting. At the bottom is a portion of one of the notes found by the dead girl's body and which Conley admits he wrote. Atlanta Journal Sunday, June 1st, 1913 The Weak Points in the Negro's Story Are Shown in One Analysis and the Points That Would Seem to Add to Its Reasonableness Are Weighed in the Other. Below are given
  • Sunday, 1st June 1913 Grand Jury Meeting Remains a Mystery

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, June 1st, 1913 Foreman Will Not Say Whether Beavers-Felder Controversy Will Be Considered There is still much speculation over the probable action of the Fulton county grand jury on the Felder-Beavers -Lanford controversy, and it is not yet known whether or not the grand jury will make an investigation. Foreman L. H. Beck, who called a meeting for next Tuesday morning, has refused to commit himself on the matter, although repeatedly asked whether or not the Felder-Beavers controversy would be investigated. The present grand jury has little more than a month to serve, and none of the
  • Sunday, 1st June 1913 Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, June 1st, 1913 Chief of Detectives Gives Out Statement Relative to Transfer of Prisoner From the Tower to Headquarters FURTHER QUESTIONING IS PLANNED BY DETECTIVES No Arrangement Yet Made for Negro to Confront Frank—Report of Finding Girl's Purse Proves Without Foundation The prosecuting officials connected with the Phagan case all denied Saturday evening that the state's theory of the murder has been changed by anything that the negro sweeper Conley has said, but the fact that the negro was transferred t police headquarters, where he can be freely examined by the detectives, seems to show that the
  • Monday, 2nd June 1913 Franks Defense is Outlined

    Atlanta Journal Monday, June 2nd, 1913 Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim Defense Will Endeavor to Show That Conley Struck Her in Head and Threw Her Down Elevator Shaft ELEVATOR WAS NOT MOVED APRIL 26, IT IS CONTENDED Blood Spots on Second Floor Explained by Fact That Employes Frequently Cut Fingers—Theory in Detail From apparently reliable authority it was learned Monday that the theory to be advanced in defense of Leo M. Frank, the pencil factory superintendent, who has been indicted for the murder of Mary Phagan, will be that James Conley, the negro sweeper, and he
  • Monday, 2nd June 1913 Grand Jury Ready to Investigate Charges

    Atlanta Journal Monday, June 2nd, 1913 Foreman Beck States Position, Probe Awaits Request From Chief Beavers The Fulton county grand jury will investigate the Felder-Beavers controversy if any of the interested parties ask an investigation, according to Foreman L. H. Beck. Mr. Beck has not yet been approached on the matter by Chief J. L. Beavers, who has declared that he will ask a grand jury investigation of the charges made against him and his department by Colonel Thomas B. Felder, and unless the police officials make a formal request for an investigation there is little likelihood of the grand
  • Monday, 2nd June 1913 Negro Girl is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case

    Minola McKnight Atlanta Journal Monday, June 2nd, 1913 "I Am Going to Hang and I Don't Know a Thing About It," Shouts Viola McKnight When Questioned by Solicitor Viola McKnight, who lives in the rear of 351 Pulliam street, a negro girl, is said to have entered the Phagan mystery in a sensational matter. The woman was brought to Solicitor Dorsey's office Monday afternoon by Detectives Starnes and Campbell, who are working exclusively on the Phagan mystery, and was examined by the solicitor. The girl was then carried to police headquarters, where she was docketed and the charge of suspicion
  • Tuesday, 3rd June 1913 Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Franks Home

    Atlanta Journal Tuesday, June 3rd, 1913 George Gordon Represents Minola McKnight as Attorney and May Seek Habeas Corpus During Afternoon NEGRESS DECLARES HER HUSBAND HAS LIED She Swears Leo M. Frank Was at Home at Time He Testified Before the Coroner's Inquest It became known Tuesday morning that Attorney George Gordon had been retained to represent Minola McKnight, the negro cook employed by Mr. and Mrs. Emil Selig, parents-in-law of Leo M. Frank, held for the murder of Mary Phagan. Who employed the lawyer could not be learned, but the fact remains that Mr. Gordon is representing the negress, whose
  • Tuesday, 3rd June 1913 Grand Jury Told of Vice Conditions

    Atlanta Journal Tuesday, June 3rd, 1913 Carl Hutcheson Names 30 Places In His Testimony He Declares He Obtained Information First-Hand by Visiting Places Mentioned and Registering LENGTHY LIST GIVEN JURY BY COL. FELDER He Declined to Make Public His Information—Grand Jury Begins Probe of Charges About Disorderly Houses Decidedly the most sensational evidence submitted to the grand jury Tuesday in its investigation of vice conditions in Atlanta, which investigation is said to have grown out of the recent charges published by Colonel Thomas B. Felder and Attorney Carl Hutcheson, was the testimony of the latter. After emerging from the grand
  • Wednesday, 4th June 1913 Cook Is Released on Signing Paper

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, June 4th, 1913 Minola McKnight, the negro cook at the home of Leo M. Frank, was released from custody by the police late Tuesday afternoon, after she had signed the sensational affidavit now in the possession of the detective department. The woman had previously retained an attorney, who threatened habeas corpus proceedings. * * * Atlanta Journal, June 4th 1913, "Cook Is Released on Signing of Paper," Leo Frank case newspaper article series
  • Wednesday, 4th June 1913 Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford is Corrupt

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, June 4th, 1913 Witnesses Summoned in Dictograph Controversy, Although Foreman Says Vice Probe Is Not Complete BEAVERS AND FELDER ASK INVESTIGATION Felder's Charges Against Lanford to Be Heard With Dictograph Case—Felder Says the Records Are Forged Four witnesses were called Wednesday morning by the Fulton county grand jury to testify in regard to the existence of vice in Atlanta. They were Colonel Thomas B. Felder, who was on the stand but a few minutes Tuesday; A. J. Young, a real estate man; J. E. Skaggs, agent of the Southern Express company, and Police Chief James L. Beavers.
  • Wednesday, 4th June 1913 L. M. Franks Trial Will Occur Week of June 30

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, June 4th, 1913 Although no definite decision has been arrived at by Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey, the indications are that Leo M. Frank, the pencil factory superintendent, who is under indictment for the murder of Mary Phagan, will be put on trial during the week beginning June 30, instead of the week of June 23, as had been expected. It is understood that the solicitor will be ready with the prosecution for the later date, and that if the defense does not ask a delay the trial will begin at that time. For several days Solicitor
  • Wednesday, 4th June 1913 Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola MKnight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, June 4th, 1913 In This Affidavit Minola Tells of Conversation That Occurred Between Mrs. Frank and Mrs. Selig, In Which Mrs. Frank Is Alleged to Have Said Frank Was Drinking on Night of Tragedy, and That He Wanted a Pistol to Kill Himself MRS. FRANK SAID, SO NEGRO COOK SWEARS, THAT FRANK MADE HER SLEEP ON THE FLOOR THAT NIGHT Negro Says Further That Frank Came Home at 1:30 o'Clock on Fatal Saturday, but Remained Only About Ten Minutes, and That He Left Without Eating His Dinner—Affidavit Is Vague and Confused—It Is Given Here In Full An
  • Thursday, 5th June 1913 Colyar Arrested Again on Knoxville Warrant

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, June 5th, 1913 Deputies in Sheriff's Office Take Him in Custody When He Appears as Witness A. S. Colyar, waiting upon the grand jury's summons as a witness, Thursday morning at the court house, was arrested by deputies from the sheriff's office, adjoining the grand jury room. The deputies exhibited a warrant from Knoxville, Tenn., charging forgery alleged to have been committed several years ago. No requisition accompanied the warrant. The sheriff wired to Knoxville that a requisition must be filed and approved within a reasonable time or he will release Colyar. Colyar was not jailed. He
  • Thursday, 5th June 1913 Grand Jury Probe of Vice Conditions Finished Thursday

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, June 5th, 1913 Jury Adjourned Until Next Tuesday Without Drawing Any Bills—Inquiry Not Likely to Be Resumed, It Is Said LANFORD TELLS JURY OF COL. FELDER'S ENMITY Declares It Dates Back to Case He Made Against Charlie Jones and Was Accentuated by Dictograph Episode The most interesting testimony given to the Fulton county grand jury Thursday was that of Detective Chief N. A. Lanford, who a few minutes before he was called to the stand had engaged in a near-fight with Colonel Thomas B. Felder. Chief Lanford is himself authority for what transpired in the grand jury
  • Thursday, 5th June 1913 Lanford and Felder Come Near Fighting

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, June 5th, 1913 Deputies Step Between Belligerents Before a Blow Is Struck by Either A physical encounter between Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford and Colonel Thomas B. Felder, attorney, was averted narrowly by the interference of bystanders in the grand jury ante-room at the court house Thursday morning at 10:30 o'clock. Colonel Felder was sitting in the ante-room, awaiting the grand jury's pleasure, taking with others there. He declared that he had received an anonymous letter warning him that he was going to be assaulted Thursday morning. During the morning, said he, a telephone message had
  • Thursday, 5th June 1913 My Husband is Innocent, Declares Mrs. Leo M. Frank In First Public Statement

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, June 5th, 1913 Wife of Accused Penil Factory Superintendent Arraigns Solicitor General Dorsey for What She Terms the Torturing of Witnesses Into Making Desired Affidavits—Says Treatment of Her Negro Cook by Solicitor and Detectives Taxed Patience DECLARES MR. FRANK'S DEMEANOR HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT OF AN INNOCENT MAN Says Many Slanders Have Been Circulated Concerning the Alleged Unhappy Married Life of Herself and Her Husband—"He Could Not Have Been the Good Husband He Has Been to Me if He Were a Criminal," Asserts Mrs. Frank For the first time since her husband, Leo M. Frank, was arrested
  • Thursday, 5th June 1913 Negros Affidavit Not Given Much Credence

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, June 5th, 1913 Even the City Detectives, It Is Said, Attach Very Little Importance to Document Very little importance, it is said, is attached by the city detectives to the sensational and incoherent affidavit of Minola McKnight, the negro cook at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Selig, 68 East Georgia avenue, where Leo M. Frank, the pencil factory superintendent, and his wife reside. Attorney Luther Rosser, chief counsel for the indicted superintendent, read the affidavit with apparent amusement. He had no comment to make, but it was evident that Mr. Rosser did not regard the
  • Friday, 6th June 1913 A. S. Colyar Is Again Released From Custody

    Atlanta Journal Friday, June 6th, 1913 Tennessee Requisition Papers Not Forthcoming, So Judge Orders His Release A. S. Colyar, who was arrested by a sheriff's deputy Thursday while waiting to be called as a witness before the Fulton county grand jury, was released from custody by Judge J. T. Pendleton Friday afternoon. Colyar was arrested on a warrant from Knoxville, Tenn., said to be the same warrant upon which he was arrested several days ago by the police. Sheriff C. W. Mangum wired the chief of police of Knoxville to send the necessary requisition papers. Not having heard from his
  • Friday, 6th June 1913 Conley Sticks to His Story; Declares Detective Chief

    Atlanta Journal Friday, June 6th 1913 Report of a Confession, Different From One Given to the Detectives, Is Ridiculed by Chief Lanford DORSEY MAKES REPLY TO MRS. L. M. FRANK No More News of Phagan Case to Be Given to Newspapers Except Through Head of Detectives Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford gave out a statement Friday morning in which he characterized as absurd the rumor that James Conley, the negro pencil factory sweeper, had ever made any confessions other than those contained in the affidavits given the detectives. The chief stated that he had questioned Conley on this subject
  • Friday, 6th June 1913 Jail Sentence for Woman Convicted in Vice Crusade

    Atlanta Journal Friday, June 6th, 1913 Mrs. N. Powell, Charged With Operating Disorderly House on Spring Street, Gets Heavy Sentence HAD ENJOINED CHIEF FROM RAIDING HOUSE Case is One of Few on Record Where a Woman Is Sentenced to Jail Without Alternative of Paying Fine Mrs. N. Powell, of 95 Spring street, was convicted in the city criminal court Friday on the charge of operating a disorderly house, and was sentenced to serve a term of four months in jail by Judge A. E. Calhoun. This is one of the few cases on record where a woman, charged with operating
  • Friday, 6th June 1913 Probe of Grand Jury Goes Over One Week

    Atlanta Journal Friday, June 6th, 1913 Only Routine Matters Up Tuesday—Dictograph Controversy Not Considered It will be week after next before the Fulton county grand jury resumes its investigation of the vice situation in Atlanta, if any further investigation is to be made at all. This was made plain Friday afternoon by Foreman Lewis H. Beck, who stated that Solicitor Dorsey had advised the grand jury that he had sufficient routine works ahead to engage its attention for at least three days next week. Mr. Beck feels that three days a week is sufficient to ask the members of the
  • Saturday, 7th June 1913 Torture Chamber Methods Charged in Getting Evidence

    Atlanta Journal Saturday, June 7th, 1913 In Card to The Journal, Wife of Factory Superintendent Declares Solicitor Dorsey Has Approved Third Degree "WE ARE SUFFERING NOW, BUT WHO WILL BE NEXT?" Her Statement in Full—Conley Will Not Be Indicted as Accessory, but if Frank is Acquitted, He Will Be Tried Mrs. Leo M. Frank, wife of the indicted pencil factory superintendent, Saturday afternoon sent The Journal a second statement in which she renews her charge that Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey and the city detectives are obtaining evidence in the Phagan murder case by torturing witnesses into giving testimony. Mrs.
  • Sunday, 8th June 1913 Scathing Replies Made to Letters Attacking Them

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, June 8th, 1913 Colyar Addresses Felder as "Dictograph Tommy" and "My Dear Co-conspirator in Crime" SEND HIM TO CREMATORY, SAYS DETECTIVE CHIEF J. R. Gray Said: "I Have No Comment to Make—Mr. Felder's Controversy Is With A. S. Colyar" Replying to the open letters of Thomas B. Felder, attacking them, A. S. Colyar and Chief of Detectives N. A. Lanford last night gave to The Journal statements, denouncing Mr. Felder in unmeasured terms. Chief of Police James L. Beavers, who was also the subject of attack, was out of the city and, therefore, could not be given
  • Sunday, 8th June 1913 Solicitor Makes No Reply to Mrs. Frank

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, June 8, 1913 Hugh M. Dorsey Has No Comment to Make on Mrs. Frank's Letter Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey has declined to make any answer to the published statement of Mrs. Leo M. Frank, charging him with allowing the use of "torture" to force people to make false statements against her husband, who is charged by a grand jury indictment with the murder of Mary Phagan. In her statement, Mrs. Frank flayed the solicitor general, charging that it is evident from his card that he believes that he is perfectly justifiable in using testimony procured from
  • Sunday, 8th June 1913 Three Open Letters Given Out Saturday by Thos. B. Felder

    Atlanta Journal Sunday, June 8th, 1913 In One of These Letters He Reopens His Controversy With A. S. Colyar About the Dictograph Episode SAYS LANFORD CONSPIRED TO TAKE HIM TO S. C. He Also Makes Another Personal Attack Upon Detective Chief—Declares Beavers Is Unfitted for His Office Thomas B. Felder, the attorney who was dictographed by the city detectives, Saturday afternoon gave out open letters addressed to James R. Gray, editor of The Journal, Chief of Police James L. Beavers, and Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford. These letters purported to be an exposure of what Mr. Felder has characterized
  • Monday, 9th June 1913 Defense to Make Next Move in Phagan Case

    Atlanta Journal Monday, June 9th, 1913 Apparently Prosecuting Officials Consider Their Investigation Complete Chief of Detectives Lanford has announced that Jim Conley, the negro sweeper, who is the state's principal witness in the case against Leo M. Frank, indicted for the murder of Mary Phagan, will not be cross-examined again unless he voluntarily sends for the officers to make a statement. It is known that no developments have changed the theory of the prosecuting authorities, and it is apparent from the remark of Chief Lanford and other statements that the officials consider the investigation of the Phagan murder as complete,
  • Tuesday, 10th June 1913 Luther Z. Rosser, Attorney for Frank, Trains His Guns on City Detective Chief

    The Atlanta Journal Tuesday, June 10, 1913 SAYS CHIEF LANFORD IS NOT SEEKING FOR TRUTH OF MURDER He Charges That the Detective Chief Has Banked His Sense and Reputation on Proving Frank Guilty "WHY HASN'T CONLEY BEEN BEFORE JURY?" Attorney Declares Evidence All Points to Negro—Says Felder-Lanford Controversy Unfair to His Client Luther Z. Rosser, chief counsel for Leo M. Frank, the pencil factory superintendent, who is under indictment for the murder of Mary Phagan, Tuesday afternoon broke his persistent silence regarding the case and gave out a statement for publication. Mr. Rosser gives as a reason for this statement
  • Wednesday, 11th June 1913 Conley’s Status in Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday

    The Atlanta Journal June 11, 1913 Petition Will Be Presented to Judge Roan by Solicitor Dorsey but Its Nature Is Not Made Known ROSSER'S CARD CAUSES ACTIVITY BEHIND SCENES Negro May Be Put Back in the Tower – Solicitor Dorsey Says: "I Am Trying to Run State's Case Myself" The report became current Wednesday afternoon shortly after 3 o'clock that the new development in the Phagan case would be a withdrawal by the state of its petition in court whereunder James Conley, the negro, is held as a material witness. Shortly before 3 o'clock, William Smith, attorney for the negro,
  • Wednesday, 11th June 1913 Gentry Now Says Dictograph Record Was Tampered With

    Atlanta Journal Wednesday, June 11th, 1913 Detective E. O. Miles Gives Out Affidavit From Young Stenographer Repudiating Transcript He Swore to AFFIDAVIT OBTAINED IN WASHINGTON D. C. G. C. Febuary Gives Out a Statement, Telling How Notes Were Transcribed and Affidavits Made The accuracy of the now famous pictograph records of alleged conversations between Thomas B. Felder, Mayor Woodward, C. C. Jones, E. O. Miles, G. C. Febuary and A. S. Colyar is attacked in an affidavit which E. O. Miles has turned over to Mayor Woodward and which he says he obtained from George M. Gentry, the young stenographer
  • Wednesday, 11th June 1913 T. B. Felder Accounts for Subscriptions Received

    The Atlanta Journal June 11, 1913  Says Only $102 Was Paid Into Fund to Employ Burns Detectives Attorney Thomas B. Felder Wednesday morning issued a card to the public in which he accounts for the funds subscribed to employ the Burns detectives to work upon the Phagan murder case. He reports that but $102 was collected. Mr. Felder announces that all subscriptions paid in have been returned to the subscribers and that those who have subscribed but have not yet paid are not expected to do submits a letter and detailed statement from C. N. Anderson, the treasurer of his
  • Thursday, 12th June 1913 Chief Beavers Unable to Locate Gentry

    The Atlanta Journal June 12, 1913 He Wires Chief Lanford That Young Stenographer Can't Be Found All efforts on the part of Detective Chief Lanford to locate George M. Gentry, the stenographer who wrote the famous dictograph records, have failed. Following the publication Wednesday of an affidavit from Gentry made in Washington, D. C., in which the young stenographer charged that the dictograp records were padded after he had written them. Chief Lanford wired to Police Chief James L. Beavers, who is attending the police chief's convention in that city, to locate Gentry. Thursday afternoon, Chief Lanford received the following
  • Thursday, 12th June 1913 Courts Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank

    Atlanta Journal Thursday, June 12th, 1913 Jim Conley, Negro Sweeper, Accusing Witness in Phagan Case, Sure to Appear Before Judge Roan Friday A. M. STATE MAY DEMAND THAT FRANK APPEAR THERE TOO Through Judge's Order, Defense Gets Chance to Quiz Negro—State Then May Force Long-Sought Meeting The probability that Leo M. Frank, accused of the murder of Mary Phagan, and Jim Conley, negro witness against him, may face each other Friday, developed Thursday morning from the acute situation which arose Wednesday when Judge L. S. Roan issued a rule niel calling on any one to show cause why the negro
  • Friday, 13th June 1913 Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely

    Luther Z. Rosser, leading attorney in the defense of the indicted pencil factory superintendent. He was snapshotted Friday morning while on his way to the court house to protest to Judge Roan against James Conley, the negro sweeper, remaining in the custody of the city detectives. The Atlanta Journal Friday, June 13, 1913 "Conley and His Counsel Are Wise—Their Hope Is That the Detectives Will Save Negro From a Confession, Giving Him Immunity, Provided He Continues to Put Guilt on Frank" Several sensational points are contained in the written answer which Rosser & Brandon, attorneys for Leo M. Frank, made
  • Friday, 13th June 1913 Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Wins in First Clash; L. Z. Rosser Declares Procedure a Farce

    Atlanta Journal Friday, June 13th, 1913 Conley is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not of State, Now Conley Says His Attorney Believes Idea of Transfer Originated With Friends of Frank, to Harm Him JUSTICE WARRANT MAY ROB DORSEY OF VICTORY As Negro Is Held Simply on Suspicion, Any Citizen Might Secure Transfer to Tower on J. P. Warrant James Conley, the negro sweeper, passed from the custody of the superior court Friday morning, and Solicitor General Dorsey won the first legal point in the prosecution of Leo M. Frank, who has been indicted for the murder of Mary Phagan. Judge L.
  • Saturday, 14th June 1913 Asks Jury to Resume Probe of Dictograph

    The Atlanta Journal Saturday, June 14, 1913. Attorney Felder Wants Gentry Affidavit Weighed—Foreman Beck Non-committal Thomas B. Felder, the attorney, is said to have requested Foreman L. H. Beck, of the Fulton county grand jury, to take up an investigation of an affidavit alleged to have been signed by George W. Gentry in which it is charged that the famous dictograph records were padded. Mr. Felder took up the matter with the grand jury foreman by letter, it is said, and stated that he was ready to produce young Gentry whenever the jury needs him. Gentry is said to be
  • Saturday, 14th June 1913 Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York

    The Atlanta Journal Saturday, June 14, 1913 Declares Visit Has Nothing to Do With Phagan Case, Which Is Complete Hugh M. Dorsey, solcilictor general of the Atlanta circuit, left Atlanta for New York and Atlantic City on Saturday afternoon at 2:45 o'clock. Mr. Dorsey states that he will be away from the city for a week, and is going simply to get a needed rest, and vacation from the duties of his office. He denies that his visit to New York has anything to do with the case against Leo M. Frank, who is charged with the murder of Mary
  • Sunday, 15th June 1913 Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial

    The Atlanta Journal Sunday, June 15, 1913 Former Solicitor at Americus Engaged to Assist Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey That the trial of Leo M. Frank will be a legal battle as brilliant as any ever fought in Atlanta is assured by Solicitor Dorsey's announcement that Frank A. Hooper, Atlanta lawyer and former solicitor general of the southwestern superior court circuit, has been retained to assist the prosecution. With the case of the state in the hands of Solicitor Dorsey and Mr. Hooper and the defense resting with Luther Z. Rosser and Herbert Haas the contest is certain to be replete
  • Sunday, 15th June 1913 Gentry, Found by Journal, Says Notes Will Show Enough to Justify What Was Sworn To

    The Atlanta Journal Sunday, June 15, 1913 "Upon Reading My Notes Before the Court It Will Be Proven That There Is Enough of It There to Justify What Was Written and Sworn to be Me as Being Practically the Gist of What Was Said," Says Young Stenographer of Dictograph Records Transcribed by Him "I WAS ALLOWED TO READ PROOF OF WHAT WAS PUBLISHED ABOUT FELDER CONFERENCE," HE SAYS "As Far as What The Journal Published, Will Say, as Far as I Can Remember, What They Printed Were the Facts In a General Way, and the Changes Were Immaterial." Located by
  • Monday, 16th June 1913 Felder Leaves Atlanta on Trip to Cincinnati

    The Atlanta Journal Monday, June 16, 1913 Thomas B. Felder, the attorney, left Atlanta for Cincinnati Sunday afternoon to be away from the city on a business trip for several days. The absence of Mr. Felder from the city is taken as indication that the grand jury will not take up an investigation of the famous dictograph episode this week, if it makes such a probe at all. Mr. Felder declared that his trip has nothing to do with the dictograph case. He stated that he expected to return within a week. The foreman of the grand jury, L. H.
  • Monday, 16th June 1913 Hooper Wants a Rest For Public From Case

    The Atlanta Journal Monday, June 16, 1913 Attorney Associated With Prosecution, Says State Is Ready for Frank Trial With Solicitor General Dorsey away on a short vacation, the state's case against Leo M. Frank, who is charged with the murder of Mary Phagan, is now in charge of Frank A. Hooper, the well known attorney, who is associated with the solicitor. "The state's case is complete," Mr. Hooper said Monday morning, "and we are waiting quietly for the trial on the 30th of the month to come." "If the defense will stop writing cards," continued Mr. Hooper, "and stop having
  • Tuesday, 17th June 1913 Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips

    The Atlanta Journal Tuesday, June 17, 1913 Speculation About Departure of Phagan Case Figures Not Credited, However What is believed to be but a coincidence in the unheralded out-of-town trips of Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey, Attorney Frank A. Hooper, who is to assist the solicitor in the prosecution of Leo M. Frank, and Attorney Thomas B. Felder, has given rise to a rumor that these lawyers really have gone on a secret mission of importance and one connected with the Phagan case. Solicitor Dorsey left Atlanta Saturday afternoon, saying he was going to Atlantic City and New York for
  • Wednesday, 18th June 1913 Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank’s Defense?

    The Atlanta Journal Wednesday, June 18, 1913 Mr. Arnold and Luther Z. Rosser Both Decline to Discuss Report Circulated The rumor that Reuben R. Arnold, famous Georgia lawyer, will be associated with the defense of Leo M. Frank, indicted for the Mary Phagan murder, is persistent. Luther Z. Rosser, who has been retained in the case since Frank was first arrested, refused to deny or affirm the rumor. It is intimated, however, that negotiations are not complete as yet. Mr. Arnold himself, when questioned about the rumor, refused to discuss it in any way, and his silence has added weight
  • Thursday, 19th June 1913 Hooper Returns and Takes Up Phagan Case

    The Atlanta Journal Thursday, June 19, 1913 Declares Trip to Cincinnati Had Nothing to oD With Murder Mystery Frank A. Hooper, the experienced prosecutor, who has been engaged to assist Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey in the trial of the case against Leo M. Frank, returned Thursday from a three days' trip to Cincinnati, and set at rest the rumors that he went to the Ohio city on a matter connected with the investigation of the Phagan murder mystery. Mr. Hooper declared that his private business called him to Cincinnati, and that his trip was in no way connected with the
  • Friday, 20th June 1913 Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30

    The Atlanta Journal Friday, June 20, 1913 Dorsey Expects to Be Ready, He Says, but Postponement Seems Probable That Leo M. Frank will go on trial for the murder of Mary Phagan on June 30th is not a certainty, although it is generally conceded that Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey will set the case on the court's calendar for that date when he returns to the city from New York. Solicitor Dorsey will return to Atlanta on Sunday. In reply to a telegram from The Journal relative to the time of the trial he makes the following statement: "Cannot say definitely
  • Saturday, 21st June 1913 Date of Frank Trial Still In Much Doubt

    The Atlanta Journal Saturday, June 21, 1913 Belief Grows That Case Will Not Come Up Before July 14 or 28 Interest in the Phagan case still centers on the time of the trial of Leo M. Frank. Indications still are that the case will not be tried the week of June 30. Solicitor Dorsey has never finally committed himself on the matter but Colonel Frank A. Hooper, who is associated him, still expects the case to be set for that date. Mr. Hooper expects the trial to last a week. The jail will not have been cleared by June 30,
  • Sunday, 22nd June 1913 Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case

    REUBEN R. ARNOLD, Able attorney, who declares he would not have entered case were he not firmly convinced of Leo M. Frank's innocence. The Atlanta Journal Sunday, June 22, 1913 Famous Lawyer Says He Wouldn't Defend Man Accused of Such Crime Unless Sure of His Innocence SCORES CITY DETECTIVES FOR HOLDING TO THEORY Mr. Arnold Says Detectives Have Tried to Prejudice the Case by Unfair Means—Has Studied Evidence Reuben R. Arnold, famous Georgia lawyer, has officially entered the Phagan case in the defense of Leo M. Frank, as exclusively forecasted by The Journal last Thursday. Mr. Arnold comes into the
  • Sunday, 22nd June 1913 Rosser & Brandon Join With Slaton & Phillips

    The Atlanta Journal Sunday, June 22, 1913 Two Big Atlanta Law Firms Go Into Partnership Beginning July 1 The law firm of Rosser & Brandon and Slaton & Phillips have formed a partnership beginning July 1, and will be known by the firm name of Rosser, Brandon, Slaton & Phillips, with offices on the seventh floor of the Grant building, the Slaton & Phillips suite being enlarged to accommodate the new firm. There will be in the new firm the following: Luther Z. Rosser, Morris Brandon, John M. Slaton, Ben Z. Phillips, J. H. Porter, Stiles Hopkins, Luther Z. Rosser,
  • Monday, 23rd June 1913 Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says

    The Atlanta Journal Monday, June 23, 1913 Unless "Showing" Is Made in Open Court Why the Case Should Be Deferred, Trial Will Proceed MONTEEN STOVER AGAIN FIGURES IN THE CASE Detectives Question Her With View to Attacking Theory That Girl Was Slain on the First Floor Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey, it was definitely learned Monday, will set the case of the State against Leo M. Frank, charged with the murder of Mary Phagan, for June 30, and the solicitor will insist that a legal "showing" be made by the defense before a postponement is allowed. During the day Monday
  • Tuesday, 24th June 1913 July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank

    The Atlanta Journal Tuesday, June 24, 1913 Judge Names Date After Statement From Reuben R. Arnold, In Which He Said Trial Would Last Two Weeks DEFENSE TAKES STEPS TO GET STATE'S EVIDENCE Subpenas Duces Tecum Issued, Demanding Production of Affidavits and Popers in Possession of Solicitor Leo M. Frank, accused of the slaying of Mary Phagan, will not be tried before superior court Judge L. S. Roan next Monday. The judge in a conference with attorneys at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon formally set the trial for Monday, July 28, and no attempt to reopen the questions of arraignment will be
  • Wednesday, 25th June 1913 Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank

    The Atlanta Journal Wednesday, June 25, 1913 Few Developments Expected Between Now and July 28, Conley Is Grilled The statements made by Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey and by Reuben R. Arnold and Luther Z. Rosser, the counsel for the defense before the postponement of the trial of Leo M. Frank from June 30, the date set by the solicitor, to July 28, indicate very strongly that neither side expects further developments of importance in the investigation. Mr. Dorsey told the court that his case was complete and that he was ready for trial. All of the statements by Attorneys
  • Thursday, 26th June 1913 Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Secrets of Frank Trial Delay

    The Atlanta Journal Thursday, June 26, 1913 There Are Many Little Reasons, of Course, but the Biggest of These Is the Simplest—Judge Roan Just Had to Keep Promise to His Charming Wife—And Nobody's Kicking, Either The trial of Leo M. Frank, which is expected to be the most brilliant legal battle in the history of the state, has been postponed for a month. There are many little reasons why the trial could not come up on June 30. And, then, there is one great big reason. The biggest reason, when analyzed, is also the simplest, as are most big things.
  • Thursday, 26th June 1913 To Hold Frank Trial in the Old City Hall

    The Atlanta Journal Thursday, June 26, 1913 Case Will Be Heard in Courtroom Now Used by Judge Pendleton The trial of Leo M. Frank on July 28 will be held on the first floor in the old city hall building, at the corner of South Pryor and East Hunter streets. Solicitor Dorsey, Judge L. S. Roan and court attaches formally decided upon this room as the proper place to conduct the trial. The court room designated is at present occupied by Judge John T. Pendleton, of the motion division of superior court. Judge Pendleton will adjurn his court for the
  • Friday, 27th June 1913 Col. Felder and Chief Lanford Indicted

    The Atlanta Journal Friday, June 27, 1913 GRAND JURY RETURNS BILLS AGAINST EACH; THE CHARGE IS LIBEL Cards Written by Chief of Detectives and Attorney and Published in the Atlanta Newspapers Form the Basis TWO BILLS FOUND AGAINST FELDER, ONE ON LANFORD Both Men Who Have Criticised Each Through Atlanta Press Must Face Jury on Criminal Libel Charge The Fulton county grand jury on Friday returned two true bills against Colonel Thomas B. Felder, lawyer, and one bill against Chief Newport A. Lanford, of the city detective department, all bills charging libel. The action of the grand jury insures the
  • Friday, 27th June 1913 Hooper Sees Conley for the First Time

    The Atlanta Journal Friday, June 27, 1913 Attorney Who Will Aid Solicitor Hears Negro Sweeper Recite His Story Frank A. Hooper, the attorney who will assist Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey in the prosecution of the case against Leo M. Frank, indicted for the murder of little Mary Phagan, interviewed James Conley, the negro sweeper, for the first time on Friday morning. The attorney talked with the negro in the office of the police board for nearly an hour. Detective Starnes, who has been working under the direction of the solicitor, was the only officer with him. Mr. Hooper simply made
  • Friday, 27th June 1913 Seeking For a Phagan Suspect in Macon?

    The Atlanta Journal Friday, June 27, 1913 (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) MACON, Georgia, June 27.—Two members of the Atlanta detective department left Macon last night after searching all the week her for a negro who is thought to be connected with the Phaga murder in Atlanta last April. A white woman was arrested here and put through an examination, but she could give no evidence against parties now under arrest for the crime. When acquainted with the contents of the above dispatch Detective Chief N. A. Lanford stated that none of his men had been to Macon and that
  • Saturday, 28th June 1913 Hooper and Goldstein Join Little & Powell

    The Atlanta Journal Saturday, June 28, 1913 Former Solicitor of Southwestern Circuit and Popular Atlantlan Join Firm Frank A. Hooper, who is to assist the solicitor general in the prosecution in the Phagan case, and M.F. Goldstein, a well known young attorney, will join the law firm of Little & Powell on July 1. The senior members of the firm are John D. Little and Judge Arthur Powell. After July 1 the firm will be styled Little, Powell, Hooper & Goldstein. Mr. Hooper served in the southwestern circuit for twelve years as solicitor general, but removed from Americus to Atlanta
  • Tuesday, 1st July 1913 Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley

    The Atlanta Journal Tuesday, July 1, 1913 Rumor About Negro in Phagan Case Not Confirmed—Grand Jury Is Through The publication to the effect that the negro sweeper, Jim Conley, probably would be indicted by the Fulton county grand jury for the murder of Mary Phagan, is apparently without any justification. The grand jury, according to its foreman, Lewis H. Beck, will make its presentments to the court Wednesday morning and in all probability will be discharged then. It is not likely, therefore, that the jury will consider any further bills. Mr. Beck declined to comment on the publication and referred
  • Thursday, 3rd July 1913 Police Chief to Probe Vice Protection Charge

    The Atlanta Journal Thursday, July 3, 1913 Beavers Stirred by Details Reported by Physician—Assigns Men to Report Following the charges of a prominent Atlanta physician regarding vice conditions and alleged police protection in this city, Chief of Police Beavers despatched an officer to confer with this physician Thursday morning. The officer will endeavor to obtain even more information than has been furnished the chief and will try to substantiate that already given. He will pay especial attention to the statement of the physician that he reported a disorderly house to the police and that the proprietors of it were "tipped
  • Friday, 4th July 1913 Lee’s Attorney Seeks to Gain His Release

    The Atlanta Journal Friday, July 4, 1913 It was reported Thursday morning that Bernard L. Chappell, attorney for New Lee, the negro watchman held in connection with the Mary Phagan case, would take steps to release him from jail by swearing out a writ of habeas corpus. Attorney Chappell is said to have come to the conclusion that Lee knew nothing about the case other than finding the body and that the state has no right to hold him. * * * The Atlanta Journal, July 4th 1913, "Lee's Attorney Seeks to Gain His Release," Leo Frank case newspaper article
  • Friday, 4th July 1913 Lee’s Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case

    The Atlanta Journal Friday, July 4, 1913 State Certain to Fight Chappell's Effort to Secure Release of Watchman Bernard L. Chappell, attorney for Newt Lee, the negro night watchman, who found the body of Mary Phagan in the National Pencil factory basement, declares that Saturday he will bring habeas corpus proceedings to secure the release of his client. According to the attorney, the negro is being held on the recommendation of the coroner's jury, which concluded its inquest before James Conley figured in the case. The grand jury has failed to act on Lee's case, and Attorney Chappell says that
  • Saturday, 5th July 1913 Fight for Newt Lee’s Freedom is Delayed

    The Atlanta Journal Saturday, July 5, 1913 Bernard Chappell, His Lawyer, Expects to Bring Habeas Corpus on Monday Bernard L. Chappell, attorney for Newt Lee, the , who found the body of Mary Phagan, declared Saturday that he had been unable to complete all of his work in connection with his proposed filing of a habeas corpus writ in an effort to liberate his client. Mr. Chappelle said that he had expected to file the writ Saturday, but was delayed, and is now certain he can file it by Monday morning. Mr. Chappell asserted that sensational developments might be expected
  • Monday, 7th July 1913 Accused Policemen Will Face Commission Tuesday

    The Atlanta Journal Monday, July 7, 1913 The entire board of twelve police commissioners, including the mayor and the chairman of the police committee of council as ex-officio members, is expected to be in attendance Tuesday evening at the trial of the eight policemen recently suspended by Chief J. L. Beavers. Chairman Carlos Mason, who has missed only one meeting during his five years' service on the board, returned Monday from a vacation especially to attend the trial, and all other members are expected to be there. The eight suspended policemen are involved in the police scandal revolving around the
  • Monday, 7th July 1913 Young Woman Tells Startling Story of Vice From “Inside”

    The Atlanta Journal Monday, July 7, 1913 Confessions to Chief of Police Beavers Involve Downtown Hotel, Mention Names of Other Women and Men IMMEDIATE PROBE OF HER CHARGES ORDERED Police Again Arrest Mrs. Frierson, Recently Pardoned by Mayor Woodward in Controversy With Judge Broyles Revelations of vice conditions from the inside were laid before Chief of Police Beavers Monday morning by the confession of a young woman who gives her name as Hattie Smith and says that her parents live at a certain number on Marietta street. Chief Beavers immediately detailed men to investigate the disclosures, and the indications were
  • Tuesday, 8th July 1913 Girl to Tell Her Story of Vice to Recorder

    The Atlanta Journal Tuesday, July 8, 1913 Hattie Smith, Now Penitent, Will Make Confessions in Open Court Resolved to quit the life into which she so recently drifted, Hattie Smith, the Atlanta young woman whose revelations of vice "from the inside" gave the police some startling information Monday, will appear in police court on Tuesday afternoon and repeat in detail the story which she has recounted to the police. Upon the strength of that story Lena Barnhart, a white woman, and Elijah Murray, a negro bellboy, were arrested in the Cumberland hotel Monday and will be arraigned with Hattie Smith
  • Tuesday, 8th July 1913 Newt Lee’s Attorneys Seeking His Freedom

    The Atlanta Journal Tuesday, July 8, 1913 Habeas Corpus Proceedings May Bring Frank and Conley Face to Face Petition for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of Newt Lee, the negro night watchman at the National Pencil factory who has been held in jail since the Mary Phagan murder as a suspect, has been drawn up at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon by the negro's attorneys, Graham and Chappell, and the firm then was seeking the signature of the nearest available judge of the Fulton superior court to a writ fixing the time and place for a hearing upon the
  • Wednesday, 9th July 1913 Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found

    The Atlanta Journal Wednesday, July 9, 1913 MYSTERY'S LOST LINK IS FOUND NEAR WHERE CONLEY SAYS HE SAT Finding of Portion of Salary Envelope Bearing Victim's Name Expected to Strengthen Defense's Contention CONTENTS OF ENVELOPE HAVE NEVER BEEN FOUND Find Was Made by Pinkertons Just Three Weeks After the Murder, but Was Kept a Secret Until Wednesday. The pay envelope, which was the quest of Mary Phagan's visit to the National Pencil factory on April 26, when she met her death, has been found. At least enough of the envelope to definitely identify it is in the hands of the
  • Thursday, 10th July 1913 Chief Traces Vice Conditions to Men; Promises Arrests

    The Atlanta Journal Thursday, July 10, 1913 Beavers Puts Police on Trail of Men Blamed By Girl Guests for Situation in Downtown Hotels GIRL VICTIM BARES HOTEL CONDITIONS TO RECORDER Judge Broyles Hears Sensational Expose of Vice Situation Said to Exist in Many Atlanta Rooming Houses As the outcome of the dramatic confession made by Hattie Smith in the recorder's court Wednesday afternoon Chief Beavers announced Thursday morning that he will open a war against the men who, he asserts, are ruining girls. Following the trial in court Wednesday the chief says that Hattie Smith gave him more details than
  • Thursday, 10th July 1913 No Finger Prints Found by Expert on Phagan Envelope

    The Atlanta Journal Thursday, July 10, 1913 Examination of Portion of Slain Girl's Pay Envelope Fails to Throw Any Light on the Murder Mystery FLETCHER, AT FEDERAL PEN MAKES EXAMINATION Fight for Release of Newt Lee on Habeas Corpus Resumed and Hearing Will Be Given Saturday Morning That the murderer of Mary Phagan can never be identified by finger prints on the pay envelope found in the factory, and the "re-setting" of Newt Lee's habeas corpus for 10 o'clock. Saturday morning, were two important developments of the sensational murder mystery Thursday. According to Attorney Bernard L. Chappell, of Graham &
  • Friday, 11th July 1913 Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder

    The Atlanta Journal Friday, July 11, 1913 Detectives Deny That Mincey Told Them of Alleged Confession of Negro In the possession of the attorneys for the defense of Leo M. Frank is an affidavit of William H. Mincey, formerly an insurance agent working in Atlanta, who declares that the negro, James Conley, while drunk on the afternoon of April 26, admitted and even boasted to him that he had killed a girl that day. The admission is alleged by Mincey's affidavit to have been made when he met Conley, whom he knew, in the negro quarter, and attempted to sell
  • Saturday, 12th July 1913 Chief Beavers Orders Sleuths to Find Vice

    The Atlanta Journal Saturday, July 12, 1913 Hattie Smith Reluctant Before Judge—Says She Was Just Talking Friday For the first time since he has been at the head of the police force, Chief James L. Beavers addressed the assembled members of the detective department behind closed doors at hadquarters Friday afternoon, instructing them to unearth vice conditions. Heretofore the vice squad under Chief Beavers' immediate direction has been almost alone in its activity along that line. Not previously had the chief addressed the detectives on any subject. In regard to the detectives' participation in the crusade against vice, he told
  • Saturday, 12th July 1913 Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey

    The Atlanta Journal Saturday, July 12, 1913 Solicitor and Hooper Grill Negro at Police Headquarters for Three Hours For two hours and a half Solicitor Dorsey did practically all of the ques- Phagan case, Frank A. Hooper, quizzed Conley at police headquarters Friday afternoon. Two detectives stood guard on the outside of the door of the police commissioner's room in which the questioning was done, but no one except the officials and the negro were inside the room. Conley was grinning when he emerged from the room. The questioning ended shortly before 7 o'clock, and Solicitor Dorsey and Mr. Hooper
  • Saturday, 12th July 1913 More Affidavits to Support Mincey Claimed

    The Atlanta Journal Saturday, July 12, 1913 Frank's Attorneys Said to Have Corroborating Evidence, Newt Lee Denied Freedom Joseph H. Leavitt, an attorney, with offices at 422 Grant building, the man who secured the affidavit of W.H. Mincey, who alleges that James Conley confessed to the killing of a girl on April 26, the day Mary Phagan was murdered, declares that a number of affidavits fully corroborating every word that Mincey has said, are in the hands of counsel for the defense of Leo M. Frank. Mr. Leavitt states that the Mincey affidavit is really much stronger than the published
  • Tuesday, 15th July 1913 Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor

    The Atlanta Journal Tuesday, July 15, 1913 State Officials Refuse to Consider Seriously Statement of Insurance Agent Despite the claim that many witnesses to corroborate the assertions of W.H. Mincey, the insurance agent and school teacher who claims that Conley confessed to him can be produced by the defense of Leo M. Frank, state officials refuse to consider seriously Mincey's testimony as an important element in the case. Details of the Mincey affidavit are corroborated by E.F. Holloway, an employe of the National Pencil factory, who states that he remembers Mincey's visit to the scene of Mary Phagan's murder on
  • Wednesday, 16th July 1913 Second Phagan Indictment Probable

    The Atlanta Journal Wednesday, July 16, 1913 *Editor's Note: A small section of text is missing from the article due to scanning blur near a page fold. CONLEY NEGRO MAY BE INDICTED OVER DORSEY'S PROTEST New Grand Jury Will Take Up Case and Make an Effort to Get a True Bill Against Negro as Principal NEGRO HAS ALREADY ADMITTED COMPLICITY Solicitor Dorsey Is Expected to Vigorously Oppose Jury's Move—Negro Sweated Again by Detectives It was learned Wednesday by The Journal, on reliable authority, that there is a strong probability of the Fulton county grand jury which was recently organized by
  • Thursday, 17th July 1913 Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley

    The Atlanta Journal Thursday, July 17, 1913 Foreman Beattie of Grand Jury, However, Says He Knows of No Such Move W.D. Beattie, foreman of the grand jury, declares that "so far as he knows" there is no intention on the part of the grand jury to consider an indictment of Jim Conley, the negro sweeper, who figures so prominently in the Phagan murder mystery. The Journal has learned, however, on excellent authority, that a determined effort is being made to have the Conley case passed upon by the present grand jury. Whether the effort will or will not be futile
  • Friday, 18th July 1913 Broyles Comes Back at Mayor Woodward and Mayor at Him

    The Atlanta Journal Friday, July 18, 1913 *Editor's Note: Small sections of text are missing due to scanning near a crease. Recorder Says Mayor Is Defeating Justice and Impeding Officers in Their Attempts to Check Crime MAYOR STYLES BROYLES "A POLITICAL ACCIDENT" Says Recorder Plays Golf on Sunday and Then Fines Boys for Their Sunday Baseball Games Another direct statement by Recorder Nash R. Broyles, Friday morning, of his opinion of Mayor Woodward's clemency toward criminals convicted in police court, was issued by the recorder in writing, coupled with a verbal comment that the mayor "tells so many falsehoods that
  • Friday, 18th July 1913 Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley

    The Atlanta Journal Friday, July 18, 1913 *Editor's Note: Small sections of text are missing due to scanning near a crease. GRAND JURY CALLED TO TAKE UP MATTER OVER DORSEY'S HEAD Foreman W.D. Beattie Calls Body to Meet Monday and Take Up Evidence Against Negro in Phagan Girl's Case derer SOLICITOR REFUSED TO ISSUE THE CALL Notwithstanding the Solicitor's Protest, Foreman Calls a Meeting Anyhow—Dorsey Issues a Statement Over the vigorous protest of Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey, the foreman of the grand jury has called a meeting for Monday for the specific purpose of considering an indictment against James
  • Friday, 18th July 1913 Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent

    The Atlanta Journal Friday, July 18, 1913 *Editor's Note: Small sections of text are missing due to scanning near a crease. NOTED SLEUTHS WHO HAD ACCUSED FRANK NOW CHANGE THEORY Harry Scott, Field Chief of the Pinkertons, Refuses to Discuss the Agency's Change of Theory. AGENTS HAVE WORKED ON CASE ALONG WITH POLICE The Pinkertons Were Employed by the National Pencil Factory Immediately Following the Murder That the Pikerton detectives, who for so many weeks held to the theory that Leo M. Frank is guilty of the Mary Phagan murder, now lay the crime to the door of Jim Conley,
  • Saturday, 19th July 1913 Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley

    The Atlanta Journal Saturday, July 19, 1913 Protest of Solicitor Fails to Stop Session to Consider Phagan Evidence on Monday DORSEY STILL BELIEVES JURY WON'T INDICT Solicitor Says Frank Defense Wants Jury to Try Him Drawn From the Grand Jury List Grand Jurors Who Will Consider Conley's Case This is the Fulton county grand jury which has been called to meet Monday over the protest of the solicitor to take up the case of Jim Conley, the negro sweeper at the National Pencil factory: W.D. Beatie, foreman. T.C. Whitner. John S. Spalding. W.C. Carroll, East Point. H.B. Ferguson. Garnet McMillan,
  • Sunday, 20th July 1913 Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury And Solicitor Too, Say Frank’s Counsel

    The Atlanta Journal Sunday, July 20, 1913 SOLICITOR SCORED FOR HIS ATTITUDE IN CONLEY'S CASE Rosser and Arnold Charge Dorsey Seeks to Convict Frank, Guilty or Innocent, Out of Professional Pride "SHUTTING EYES TO TRUTH, DORSEY PROTECTS NEGRO" Attorneys Intimate That Dorsey Fears to Let Truth Be Known – Attitude Throughout Case Is Criticised The attitude of Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey throughout the Phagan investigation, and especially in his attempt to block a grand jury indictment of Jim Conley, is scored in an interview made public by Luther Z. Rosser and Reuben R. Arnold, counsel for Leo M. Frank.
  • Monday, 21st July 1913 Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury’s Decision

    The Atlanta Journal Monday, July 21, 1913 Solicitor Dorsey Makes Brief Announcement to This Effect After Grand Jury Session Lasting Over an Hour NO ANONYMOUS LETTERS WANTED BY THE JURORS Solicitor Dorsey Will Now Concentrate Efforts Against Having Frank Jury Drawing From Grand Jury List Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey has for a second time blocked an attempt by members of the grand jury to indict James Conley, the negro sweeper, who confessed complicity in the Mary Phagan murder. The grand jurymen who had called a meeting over the protest of the solicitor to consider taking up a bill against
  • Tuesday, 22nd July 1913 Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?

    Atlanta JournalJuly 22nd, 1913 BLOODY STICK NOW IN POSSESSION OF FRANK'S ATTORNEYS Was Found on May 10 by Two Pinkerton Detectives on the First Floor of the Pencil Factory DEFENSE TO CLAIM NEGRO WIELDED THE INSTRUMENT It Was Sent to Chemist Outside of State for Examination—Subpenas Issued for State's Witness In the possession of the defense of Leo M. Frank is a bloody bludgeon with which it will be claimed at the trial, in all probability, that James Conley, the negro sweeper, struck Mary Phagan over the head while she battled on the first floor of the National Pencil factory
  • Wednesday, 23rd July 1913 Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case

    Atlanta JournalJuly 23, 1913 No Witnesses for Defense Have Been Called for Monday, and Indications Are They Will Not Be CRAWFORD CASE CHECKED TO DATE OF FRANK TRIAL Attorney R. R. Arnold May Go to Covington to Request Judge L. S. Roan to Postpone Case While the position of the defense of Leo M. Frank has not been announced, Attorney Luther Z. Rosser and Reuben R. Arnold have indicated clearly that they desire to postpone the trial of case from next Monday, when it is set. Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey, on the other hand, has announced the state's position.
  • Thursday, 24th July 1913 Frank’s Trial May be Postponed Until Early in the Fall

        Atlanta Journal July 24th, 1913 Judge L. S. Roan, Who Will Preside at the Trial, Returns to Atlanta Thursday Afternoon and Is Ill SOLICITOR SAYS STATE WITNESSES ARE READY Reuben Arnold, One of Frank's Attorneys, Returns After Conference in Covington With Judge Roan Judge L. S. Roan, who will preside at the trial of Leo M. Frank when he is arraigned for the murder of Mary Phagan, returned from Covington Thursday afternoon quite ill and went immediately to his home. He will be unable to go to the court house during the afternoon, but announces that the venire
  • Friday, 25th July 1913 Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime

    Atlanta JournalJuly 25th, 1913 Defense Subpoenaes 150 Witnesses, and If Any of the Chief Witnesses Are Ill, Continuance Can Be Asked JUDGE ROAN, WHO WAS ILL, IS REPORTED IMPROVED Indications Now Are That Defense Will Make No Effort to Have Trial Put Off—144 Veniremen Summoned The stage is set for the trial of Leo M. Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan on April 26. Veniremen and witnesses for the defense are being summoned. The witnesses for the state are already under subpoena. Judge L. S. Roan, who was ill Thursday, is better and ready for the trial. Solicitor General
  • Saturday, 26th July 1913 Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial

    Atlanta JournalJuly 26th, 1913 Pencil Factory Superintendent Declares the Sooner He Faces a Jury the Sooner He'll Gain His Freedom ACCUSED OF PHAGAN CRIME, HE WELCOMES TRIAL DAY Wife is Regular Visitor to the Tower—Frank's Time In Prison Is Spent in Reading and Playing Chess Leo M. Frank is ready and anxious to go on trial for his life before Judge Roan in the superior court next Monday morning, according to statements he has made to friends who visited him in his cell in the tower. "The sooner I face the jury, the sooner I will gain my liberty," he
  • Sunday, 27th July 1913 Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery

    Atlanta JournalJuly 27th, 1913 April 27—The dead body of Mary Phagan is found in basement of National Pencil factory at 3 a. m. by Newt Lee, the negro night-watchman. Police hold Lee, who yater in the day re-enacts discovery of the remains before city detectives. April 27—Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the Pencil factory, called from bed to view Mary Phagan's body at April 27—Arthur Mullinax arrested on information given the police by E. L. Sentell, who declared he saw the murdered girl in the former's company at 1220 o'clock on the morning of the murder. April 28—Coroner Donehoo empanels
  • Sunday, 27th July 1913 Frank’s Story of His Moves on Day of Crime

    Atlanta JournalJuly 27th, 1913 Accused Superintendent's Story Is Unbroken by Any Save a Negro Leo M. Frank's sworn statement of his whereabouts each hour on the day of April 26, when Mary Phagan met her death, is of unusual interest in the case, especially since no witness except Conley had been found, at least as far as the public knows, who can break his story. Frank's statement of his whereabouts as given at the coroner's inquest, when he was under oath, follows: SATURDAY APRIL 26. 7 o'clock a. m.—Arose and dressed at home. 8—Left home for the factory office. 8:20—Arrived
  • Sunday, 27th July 1913 Here is Conley’s Confession Around Which Bitter Fight is Expected in the Frank Trial

    Atlanta JournalJuly 27th, 1913 There is little doubt that the storm-center, so to speak, of the Frank trial will be the testimony of the negro sweeper, James Conley. He will be the principal witness for the state and all of the other evidence of the prosecution will be shaped with a view to corroborating and strengthening his story which places the murder of Mary Phagan upon the factory superintendent. And the defense will chiefly concern itself with the task of discrediting the negro's testimony. It will bend its energies to prove that Conley has lyingly accused Frank and will offer
  • Sunday, 27th July 1913 Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed

    Atlanta JournalJuly 27th, 1913 Indications Were Saturday Night That the Trial Would Begin Before Judge Roan at Hour Scheduled BOTH SIDES READY AND BITTER FIGHT IS CERTAIN Many Well Known Citizens In Venire From Whom the Twelve Jurors Will Be Chosen for Trial If both sides answer ready when the clerk "sounds" the case of the "State of Georgia versus Leo M. Frank" in the criminal division of the superior court at 9 o'clock Monday morning, what is expected to be the most brilliant as well as one of the most bitter legal fights in the criminal history of the
  • Sunday, 27th July 1913 Pinkerton Detective Replies to Lanford

    Atlanta JournalJuly 27th, 1913 H. B. Pierce Declares Lanford Knew of Find of Bloody Stick in Factory H. B. Pierce, head of the local branch of the Pinkerton detective agency, characterizes as absurd Chief Detective N. A. Langford's charge that the Pinkerton sleuth has broken faith with the state in the Pinkerton's investigation of the Phagan case. Chief Lanford charges specifically that the Pinkerton broke faith by failing to report the find by two of his men of the part of a pay envelope and of a bloody stick on the first floor of the factory. The find was made
  • Sunday, 27th July 1913 Plennie Minor Faces Task in Handling Court Room During Trial of Leo Frank

    Atlanta JournalJuly 27th, 1913 Genial Deputy Sheriff Will Have Seats for Only 250 People, and Hates to Think He Won't Be Able to Accommodate Everybody, for That's His Disposition Plennie Minor is going to have the hardest job in Fulton county during the next two weeks. Plennie (he doesn't allow people to call him Mr. Minor, for he is everybody's friend) is a Fulton county deputy sheriff and has the arduous task of keeping order in the court room while the Frank case is in progress. Incidentally, he will have to look out for witnesses and prisoners, and generally be
  • Sunday, 27th July 1913 State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley’s Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show that Negro Alone is Guilty

    Atlanta Journal July 27th, 1913 Defense Will Ridicule Conley's Story and Endeavor to Show That It Was Made to Save His Own Neck MANY WITNESSES CALLED TO CORROBORATE FRANK Though Attorneys Are Silent, The Journal Presents Below Outline of What the Defense Is Expected to Be Complete innocence on the part of Leo M. Frank, the young superintendent of the National Pencil factory, and absolute guilt on the part of James Conley, the negro sweeper at the factory, are the two cardinal points upon which Frank's defense will be based when he is called to trial for the murder of
  • Monday, 28th July 1913 Court Scenes at Frank Trial; How It Looks Inside and Out

    Atlanta JournalJuly 28th, 1913 Three Distinct Crowds Are There, Some Laughing, Some Whispering Speculations on Case There were three crowds at the Frank trial Monday morning; and each had an aspect and characteristic as different as east from west—the crowd in the court room, the crowd around the door and in the street, and the throng of witnesses swarming through the upstairs rooms. As one approached the red brick court house down Hunter street, he could see the corner near Pryor black with people. A car would turn the curve, the motorman clanging his gong vigorously before the packed mass
  • Monday, 28th July 1913 Former Suspect Will Be Happy No Matter How Frank Case Ends

    Atlanta JournalJuly 28th, 1913 J. M. Gantt Is to Be Married Sunday, Provided Trial Is Over—He Has Planned to Elope, but Now He'll Have "Sure Enough" Wedding There is one man connected with the case of Mary Phagan to whom the conclusion of the trial will bring a great happiness. He is J. M. Gantt, at one time a suspect and now a witness. The day that brings the end of the trial will bring to him a wife. Monday morning he sat on the steps leading to the second floor of the courthouse, chewing on the end of a
  • Monday, 28th July 1913 Mrs. Leo Frank and Her Mother Cheer Prisoner at Courthouse

    Atlanta JournalJuly 28th, 1913 Accused Neither Care-Worn Nor Haggard—His Eyes Meet Those of Crowd Without Faltering There was one question on the face of every member of the big crowd in and around the courthouse Monday morning. To those standing without in the street, to those crowding the corridors and hallways, to witnesses flowing through rooms on the second floor, to the packed courtroom, the query was, where is the prisoner. The man to whom the trial meant more than it meant to any other human being, had been brought to the courthouse early in the morning. He was in
  • Monday, 28th July 1913 No New Testimony Will Be Given to Jury by Newt Lee

    Atlanta JournalJuly 28th, 1913 Negro Nightwatchman Says He Doesn't Know Conley, the Sweeper—Merely Will Repeat Story of Finding Body Newt Lee's testimony to the jury, before which Leo M. Frank is to be tried, will repeat his statements to the police. He will add nothing new, and will give no testimony involving Conley, the negro sweeper. To the jury, as to the police, Newt Lee will describe merely how he found the body of the murdered child in the cellar of the pencil factory, and afterward told the police of his discovery. As he waited at the court house with
  • Monday, 28th July 1913 State Opens Its Case Against Leo M. Frank

    Atlanta JournalJuly 28th, 1913 JURY COMPLETED BEFORE RECESS AND STATE WAS READY TO BEGIN INTRODUCTION OF ITS TESTIMONY Last Man In the Last Panel Was Accepted as the Twelfth Juror and Cleared the Way for the Actual Trial of the Case When Court Reconvened at 3 o'Clock—Newt Lee Will Probably Be the First Witness Placed on the Stand BOTH THE STATE AND DEFENSE SEEMED SATISFIED WITH TWELVE MEN CHOSEN TO TRY IMPORTANT CASE Proceeding During the Morning More Like That of a Civil Than a Criminal Case—Court Room Crowded, but Not Uncomfortable—Frank Appears in Court, Showing No Sign of Worry—Full
  • Monday, 28th July 1913 Woman Charges Police Forced Her to Make False Statement

    Atlanta JournalJuly 28th, 1913 Negro Cook in the Selig-Frank Home Repudiates Affidavit She Swore to Against Frank, Will Refuse to Swear to the Paper, She Says Minola McKnight, the negro cook, who signed an affidavit which is to be used by the prosecution against Leo M. Frank, said Monday morning that the police, by three hours' sweating, forced her to sign this affidavit, and that when she is called as a witness that she will refuse to testify to the statements set forth in it. The substance of the affidavit was that, on the morning following the murder of Mary
  • Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Everybody’s a Reporter, Now, Else an Old Time Friend, Says Guardian of Court House Door

    Atlanta JournalJuly 29th, 1913 "They Been 15 Reporters Here in the Last Five Minutes," He Says, "and What's Not Reporters Is Boyhood Friends I Don't Remember" "You are?" said the man who guards the foot of the steps. "Well, son, they been fifteen reporters here in the last five minutes. They represented everything from "Nova Scotia Times" to the "Saskatchewan Gazette." Who do you report for?" And it took a letter of identification from the whole press table to gain admittance to the Frank trial for an unoffending and rather retiring reporter who merely wished to glance over the court
  • Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Factory Girls Eager to Testify for Frank

    Atlanta JournalJuly 29th, 1913 Thirty Girls and Men Are Waiting to Appear as Character Witnesses. Thirty girls and men who are employes of the National Pencil factory are waiting to testify to the good character of Leo M. Frank. "Ever girl employed at the factory believes that Mr. Frank is innocent," said Miss Rebekah Carson Monday afternoon. "He was as kind as an employer could be. There never was a time when he wasn't considerate of every one employed at the factory. But at the same time he was a man with two ideas. And they were his wife and
  • Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Frank Trial Will Last One Week And Probably Two, Attorneys Say

    Atlanta JournalJuly 29th, 1913 Indications Are That Trial Will Be Longest Over Which Judge Roan Has Presided, To Hold Two Sessions Daily Attorneys both for the defense and for the prosecution of Leo M. Frank believe that his trial will last at least one week, perhaps, two weeks. If the trial continues through more than one week it will be the longest over which Judge L. S. Roan has ever presided. But, while he will expedite the trial as fast as possible, he intenrs to give attorneys all the time needed for the introduction of testimony and for argument. He
  • Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Frank’s Undistur[b]ed Face Wonder of the Court Room

    Atlanta JournalJuly 29th, 1913 His Brow Does Not Wrinkle, His Eyes Do Not Quail or Even Flicker—He Is Cool and Quiet Leo M. Frank's expression of quiet confidence has surprised every visitor to the court room where he is being tried for murder. He sites for the most part with his hands crossed, and listens coolly to the testimony or to the argument of attorneys. Not since the trial began has he seemed the least perturbed. His manner has been quiet and contained, like that of one who is sure of himself and sure of his cause. Yet he has
  • Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Frequent Clashes Over Testimony Mark Second Day of Frank Trial

    Atlanta JournalJuly 29th, 1913 QUESTIONS DIRECTED AT NEGRO INDICATED AN EFFORT TO THROW SUSPICION UPON WATCHMAN "We Might as Well Begin to Show the Negro a Criminal Now as Later," Declared Attorney Rosser, In Arguing for Admissability of His Questions—Negro Was Taken Over His Testimony Many Times in Effort to Break Him Down INDICATIONS TUESDAY ARE THAT TRIAL WILL LAST MANY DAYS, PROBABLY AS LONG AS TWO WEEKS Morning Session Enlivened by Clashes Between Attorneys, Every Point Is Bitterly Contested—Frank Keeps Serene and Untroubled Throughout Session—Full Story of Testimony Given by Witnesses During the Morning After a luncheon recess of
  • Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session

    Atlanta JournalJuly 29th, 1913 Negro Nightwatchman Who Found Mary Phagan's Body in National Pencil Factory on Stand—Girl's Mother and Newsboy Examined Newt Lee, the negro nightwatchman who found Mary Phagan's body in the pencil factory basement, was hammered by the defense for over two hours, on the witness stand Monday afternoon. Mrs. J. W. Coleman, mother of the murdered child, and George W. Epps, a playmate who came to town with her on the fatal day, testified in that order. Mrs. Coleman being the first witness called to the stand when the trial started. Newt Lee was the third witness.
  • Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Mincey in Atlanta, But Has Not Been to Trial

    Atlanta JournalJuly 29th, 1913 Agent Who Said That Conley Told Him of Killing "a Girl" May Testify W. H. Mincey, who has made affidavit that James Conley, the negro sweeper, practically confessed to him as being the murderer of Mary Phagan, is in Atlanta but has not yet gone to the courthouse where Frank is being tried. At the time of the murder, Mincey was employed here as an insurance solicitor. On the day of the murder, he says that he met Conley at the corner of Carter and Electric streets. The negro, according to the affidavit, was drinking, and
  • Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Mother’s Sorrow and Newsie’s Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial

    Atlanta JournalJuly 29th, 1913 Each of First Three Witnesses In Case Shows Distinct Personality and Entirely Different Side of Human Nature, Some Character Studies Three of the witnesses who testified Monday afternoon at the Frank trial were more distinct as personalities than the characters you could see portrayed in any theater, except that very tragic one of a criminal court room. Much testimony and such individuality as that of these witnesses, has kept the court room crowded by at least 200 people during every minute of the Frank trial—crowded with well dressed men who lean forward in their seats, intent
  • Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Rabbi Marx Asserts His Belief in Frank

    Atlanta JournalJuly 29th, 1913 Can't Build Case on Pack of Lies Any More Than House on Cards, Rabbi Says In the room directly above the one where Leo M. Frank was on trial for the murder of Mary Phagan Monday afternoon were gathered a score of friends of the accused who eagerly discussed his chances for and against acquittal. Prominent among them was Dr. David I. Marx, rabbi of the Jewish synagogue to which Frank belonged. With other friends of the prisoner he declared emphatically his belief in Frank's innocence. "There is no man in Atlanta," said Dr. Marx, "more
  • Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Spectators at Frank Trial Make an Absorbing Study

    Atlanta JournalJuly 29th, 1913 They Come From Every Station in Life—From the Ragged Newsboy to the Business Man With the Diamond Scarf Pin and the Georgia Lawmaker The personnel of the spectators at the average murder trial is one of the most interesting phases of it, and the trial of Leo Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan is no exception to the general rule. One glance about the court room as the case proceeded Monday afternoon showed an ever-changing kaleidoscope of ever changing faces, holding a single characteristic common to all, a look of intense interest that kept every
  • Wednesday, 30th July 1913 All Newt Wants Now is Freedom and a Hat

    Atlanta Journal July 30th, 1913 Now that Newt Lee has more ‘bacca, as he says, "than Mr. Rosser axed him questions," he needs but a hat to complete his physical comfort, but freedom to set his mind at rest. Newt's only hat is a fur cap, which Newt thinks might have made a "ver' putty Christmas gift when 'twas new, but don't do much fer July." "You see, boss," he explains, "a straw hat jes' naturally looks cool, makes yer feel like you had money in your pocket. But there ain't no use fer a cap and it furry in
  • Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Claims Mincey, When Needed, Will Testify

    Atlanta JournalJuly 30th, 1913 Attorney for Defense Says the State Won't Hurt His Character "Mincey will be Johnny-on-the-spot when the defense needs him to testify." Those were the words of Joseph Leavitt, one of the lawyers for the defense in speaking Tuesday afternoon on the affidavit sworn to some time ago by W. H. Mincey, by which the defense hopes to prove that Jim Conley confessed to Mincey that he killed a girl on the day Mary Phagan was murdered. Attorney Leavitt would not say where Mincey was staying, but declared that he was in town; that he had been
  • Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan’s

    Atlanta JournalJuly 30th, 1913 GRACE HIX TESTIFIES THAT GIRLS FREQUENTLY COMBED THEIR HAIR OVER MACHINES Miss Hix Also Testifies That Magnolia Kennedy, Who Worked Near Mary Phagan, Had Hair of the Same Color and Shade—Important Admissions Lay Foundation for Defense's Claim That Murder Was Not Committed in Metal Room STATE ENDEAVORS TO SHOW THAT FRANK VERY NERVOUS AND DID NOT LOOK ON FACE OF MURDERED GIRL Attorney Rosser Directs His Questions to Combat Claim of Nervousness—Witness Declares She Never Saw Any Red Paint in the Metal Room—State Claims New Evidence Will Soon Be Given—Trial Will Run Into Second Week Four
  • Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Frank Jurors Idle Away Long Hours With Song

    Atlanta JournalJuly 30th, 1913 They Sing Ballads and Tell Irish Tales During the "Recess" Hours Jurors in the Frank trial have organized a singing club. Their purpose is not to give diversity to the trial with a note of song, but to while away the time between sessions of court. When Judge L. S. Roan gives word that the trial has proceded far enough for the day, jurors are taken for a brief, brisk walk, and then to their residence for the nonce, which consists in three rooms thrown together at the Kimball house. There the twelve take up their
  • Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Gantt Still Wears Two Little Devils That Caused Arrest

    Atlanta JournalJuly 30th, 1913 J. M. Gantt, one time suspect in the Phagan case, and now a witness, Wednesday sat on a bench in the room above the one where Leo Frank was on trial for his life and said unpleasant things about his shoes. "There they are," he declared in a peevish tone. "The two little devils that got me into this case and have cost me a hundred dollars in attorney's fees and more worry and care than anything I ever had before." The objects of his wrath were simply two unoffending black boots with a stout pair
  • Wednesday, 30th July 1913 No Shirt-Sleeves for Lawyers in Frank Case

    Atlanta JournalJuly 30th, 1913 For the sake of expediting the Frank trial, attorneys in the case are not permitted the comfort of "shirt sleeves" in the court room which, maintained at temperature Tuesday of 95 degrees. Newspaper reporters and spectators may hang their coats on their arms, roll up their sleeves, and at least feel that they have prepared themselves against the heat. But before the trial began, Judge Roan, in discussing the legal attire, said humorously: "Lawyers must wear coats. If I let them go in shirt sleeves they'd feel so comfortable this trial might never end. Now, for
  • Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Trial is No Ordeal for Me, Says Frank’s Mother

    Atlanta JournalJuly 30th, 1913 She Declares Her Confidence in Son's Innocence Makes It Easy for Her "My son never looked stronger than at this moment," said Mrs. Ray Frank, of Brooklyn, Wednesday morning. "The trial isn't telling upon him because he isn't worrying. He is confident because of his innocence and because of his certainty of an acquittal. "Neither his wife nor myself is anxious. Of course, we feel the heat and it is tiring to sit here in the court room throughout the day. But, like my son, we are not afraid. Why should we be? We know that
  • Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl

    Atlanta JournalJuly 30th, 1913 Tuesday Afternoon's Session Hears of Beginning of Police Investigation Into Mystery of Mary Phagan's Murder Following in the sequence which it began with the introduction of the first witness, the prosecution of the murder charge against Leo M. Frank progressed Tuesday afternoon to the point at which the city detectives began their investigation of te murder mystery. Beginning with Mrs. J. W. Coleman, mother of Mary Phagan, who saw her leave home about noon of April 26, the state established in succession her arrival at the corner of Marietta and Forsyth streets, and departure thence for
  • Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Uncle of Frank, Near Death in Far-Off Hospital, Is Ignorant Of Charges, Against His Nephew

    Atlanta JournalJuly 30th, 1913 Moses Frank Has Been Given No Inkling of Circumstances That Now Are About Frank Family—He Is Seriously Ill in German Hospital Lying at the point of death in a hospital in far-off Germany is the uncle of Leo M. Frank, unknowing that for the last three months his favorite nephew has been imprisoned on the charge of murder and that today he is on trial for his life. This is what an attorney for the defense says. He declares that uncle how regarded Leo Frank almost as his own son, has been too ill for many
  • Thursday, 31st July 1913 Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope On Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered

    Atlanta JournalJuly 31st, 1913 BLOOD SPOTS AND HAIR FOUND ON DAY FOLLOWING DISCOVERY CRIME HAD BEEN COMMITTED Pay Envelope Was Found Near Machine Used by Mary Phagan Some Days Later—Find of Strands of Hair on Lathe Was Reported to Quinn, Who Notified Darley—Mell Stanford and Magnolia Kennedy Also Saw It BARRETT'S EVIDENCE MOST IMPORTANT YET TOWARD PROVING CRIME WAS COMMITTED IN METAL ROOM Mell Stanford and Harry Scott Also Tell of Finding Blood Spots, but Scott's Testimony Is Not Entirely Satisfactory to Either State or Defense—Monteen Stover on the Stand. Will Conley Testify in Rebuttal Only? New and sensational testimony
  • Thursday, 31st July 1913 Rosser Riddles One of the State’s Chief Witnesses

    Solicitor Dorsey is shown in a characteristic attitude as he questions the state's witnesses. To his right the defendant, Leo M. Frank, is shown. Atlanta JournalJuly 31st, 1913 Detective John Black "Goes to Pieces" Under Rapid-Fire Cross-Questioning of Frank's Attorney at Afternoon Session Action characterized the Wednesday afternoon session of the Frank trial, and it was the first time the tedious proceedings had taken on life enough to attract more than passing interest. This action came in the fierce and merciless cross-examination of Detective John Black by Attorney Rosser, leading counsel for the defense. Black has taken a prominent part
  • Thursday, 31st July 1913 Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting

    Atlanta JournalJuly 31st, 1913 At First It Was Picnic for Them, but Now It's Only a Long, Long Wait, in a Crowded Room Under a Burning Roof The witnesses in the trial of Leo M. Frank undoubtedly have had the hardest time of it to date. If they testify they must run the gamut of Luther Rosser's sledge-hammer cross-examination or Solicitor Dorsey's boring-in tactics; if they don't testify they must wait, and the waiting is the hardest part of all. One of them in the upstairs hall above the court-room declared Wednesday, "I can't stay up here, it's too hot.
  • Friday, 1st August 1913 Frank Trial Crowd Sees Auto Knock Down Youth

    Atlanta JournalAugust 1st, 1913 Thronged Streets Prevented Driver Seeing Raymond Roddy—Not Seriously Hurt Raymond Roddy, a thirteen-year-old boy who lives at 66 Williams street, was knocked down by an automobile about 9 o'clock Thursday morning near the corner of Pryor and East Hunger street, not far from the old court house where the Frank trial is taking place. The boy was crossing Pryor street at the time, attracted by the crowd of curiosity seekers gathered around the court house. The automobile was driven by H. H. Hooten, of the Adams Grocery company, who was taking it to the shop on
  • Friday, 1st August 1913 Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank’s Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory About 1 o’Clock

    Atlanta JournalAugust 1st, 1913 DARLEY'S ADMISSIONS ABOUT FRANK'S DEFENSE OFFSET BY HIS EVIDENCE IN REBUTTAL Having Admitted Frank Trembled, That He Was Pale and Seemed "Upset," on Cross-Examination Mr. Darley Said Frank Was Naturally of a Nervous Temperament and Told of Tedious Work He Did on Saturday in Preparing Financial Sheet JUDGE ROAN REVERSES HIS RULING IN REFERENCE TO EVIDENCE ABOUT WHETHER OTHERS WERE NERVOUS Attorneys for Defense Had Intimated That His Refusal to Admit This Evidence Was Good Ground for Appeal—Mrs. White's Testimony That She Saw Negro Lurking Near Stairway at 1 o'Clock Saturday a Feature of Morning Session
  • Friday, 1st August 1913 Mrs. Callie Scott Appelbaum Attends Trial of Leo Frank; Believes in His Innocence

    Atlanta JournalAugust 1st, 1913 A woman sat among the spectators at the Frank trial Thursday afternoon, a pretty blue-eyed woman neatly clad in a white shirtwaist and black skirt. "Four months ago," she was thinking, "I was in the position of that boyish-limbed youth over there. Four months ago, I, too, was accused of murder, was on trial for my life. Four months ago men and women came to stare at me, even as I am staring at him now." The woman was Mrs. Callie Scott Appelbaum, who was freed last spring of the charge of slaying her husband in
  • Friday, 1st August 1913 Picnic and Theories Mark Noon Hour in Frank Trial Court Room

    Atlanta JournalAugust 1st, 1913 Spectators Remain From 5 to 7—Lunch Boys Acquiring Wealth A court room where a man is on trial for his life is a strange place for a picnic, yet from 12:30 to 2 o'clock every afternoon the room where the Frank trial is taking place has all the appearance of the pavillion at Grant park on a hot July Saturday. The benches are spread with boxes and sacks, sandwiches, chicken, cake, all the other essentials of a picnic lunch save ice-cold lemonade, are passed about from man to man, and the noon hour dinner is eaten
  • Friday, 1st August 1913 Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence

    Atlanta JournalAugust 1st, 1913 E. F. Holloway Angers Dorsey When He Testifies Contrary to Affidavit—Had Told Dorsey Elevator Switch Was Locked Court adjourned at 4:58 o'clock until 9 o'clock Friday morning after a day of surprises in the trial of Leo M. Frank, charged with the murder of Mary Phagan, in the National Pencil factory building. That the switch board which controls the motor used to operate the elevator in the National Pencil factory, where Mary Phagan was murdered was left unlocked Saturday morning when he left the building at 11:45 o'clock, and that anybody could have entered and run
  • Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline

    Atlanta JournalAugust 2nd, 1913 WHEN JUDGE ROAN UNWITTINGLY HELD RED HEADLINE IN FRONT OF JURY, DEFENSE MADE POINT Jury Is Sent Out of Room While Attorneys for the Defense Tell the Court That the Jurymen Were Seen Reading Red Headline, "State Adds Links to Chain" — Judge Then Calls Jury Back and Cautions Them FOLLOWING JUDGE'S SPEECH TO THE JURY, TESTIMONY IS RESUMED, NO FURTHER MOTION MADE BY DEFENSE In His Address to the Jury, Judge Roan Declared That They Must Not Be Influenced by Anything They Had Read in the Newspaper, but Must Form Their Opinion Solely on the
  • Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence

    Atlanta JournalAugust 2nd, 1913 Physician Testifies at Frank Trial That Mary Phagan Met Death Half Hour After Lunch—Describes Wounds Secretary of State Board of Health Compelled to Leave the Witness Stand on Account of Illness In the midst of sensational testimony, Dr. H. F. Harris, secretary of the state board of health, collapsed Friday afternoon on the witness stand and was excused until Saturday. Dr. Harris and just testified that his examination of the contents of the stomach of little Mary Phagan showed that the dinner which she had eaten before leaving home was still undigested, and he therefore concluded
  • Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner’s Physician, Gives Expert Testimony

    Atlanta JournalAugust 2nd, 1913 DR. HURT'S TESTIMONY NOT CONFIRMATORY OF EVIDENCE GIVEN BY DR. H. F. HARRIS On Cross-Examination, Dr. Hurt Admits That Cabbage Is Considered Very Difficult to Digest and That Under Some Conditions as Much as Three Hours and a Half Might be Required Before the Process of Digestion Was Completed PHYSICIAN ON STAND GREATER PART OF MORNING AND UNDERWENT RIGID CROSS-EXAMINATION BY DEFENSE He Found No Evidence of Violence, He Declared — Detective Waggoner, Chief Beavers, Detective Bass Rosser, Patrolman Lassiter and Miss Ferguson Testify — Court Adjourns Until Monday Morning at 9 o'Clock Dr. J. W.
  • Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Harris Testimony May Be Stricken by Court

    Atlanta JournalAugust 2nd, 1913 Question Will Be Solved by Physician's Recovery and Return to Stand If Dr. H. F. Harris, secretary of the state board of health, is not physically able to be presented in the court room before the state closes its case, will his testimony be stricken from the record? This question came for informed discussion at the court house Saturday. Dr. Harris was suddenly attacked with illness while in the middle of his direct examination and had to be assisted from the witness stand. The defense attorneys, therefore, had no opportunity to cross-question him. Solicitor Dorsey, when
  • Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Miss Smith Declares Darley Was Incorrect

    Atlanta JournalAugust 2nd, 1913 Miss Mattie Smith has given The Journal a statement in which she says that a part of the testimony of N. V. Darley at the Frank trial in reference to her was not true. Mr. Darley stated that on April 26 Miss Smith told him that her father was dying and asked him to help bear the funeral expenses. Miss Smith says that she merely told Darley that her father was very low and that she said nothing about helping with the funeral expenses.
  • Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Newt Lee Gets Hat; Now He’s Considering What He Wants Next

    Atlanta JournalAugust 2nd, 1913 And Newt Lee gets the hat. The darky who has been the stanchest witness yet examined at the Frank trial has but little more to wish for. First it was watermelon Newt wanted. With his very life in danger as he droned away the long hot days in the Fulton county Tower, Newt lifted up his voice and prayed for "dat juicy watermillion." And they gave him one. Then it was a "chaw of ‘bacca," his first request as he came down from the witness stand. Somebody gave him a plug and immediately there were a
  • Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Smile, Says Gheesling, When Facing Bear-Cat Like Luther Rosser

    Atlanta JournalAugust 2nd, 1913 "Keep smiling on the witness stand." That is the motto of Will Gheesling, of the P. J. Bloomfield undertaking establishment, who testified at the Frank trial Thursday. "When you get a bear cat like Luther Rosser after you," he declares, "the only thing you can do is to laugh at him." Gheesling was one of the few witnesses who came through the ordeal of Attorney Rosser's cross-examination with flying colors. His face wreathed in beatific grins, and he calmly fanned himself with a tremendous palm leaf fan from the moment he took the stand until he
  • Saturday, 2nd August 1913 There Is One Joy in Being A Juror: Collectors Barred

    Atlanta JournalAugust 2nd, 1913 Members of Frank Jury Can Not Communicate With Members of Family and Can Read No Newspapers, Not Even Baseball How does it feel to be shut up with eleven other men for one week, maybe two, possibly three? How does it feel to be the midst of a city and not of it, quarantined from the wife and children just a few blocks away, from business, from leters, from newspapers, from everything except six hours of daily testimony on a murder case? Nobody knows except the Frank jurymen, and they can't tell you, for you won't
  • Sunday, 3rd August 1913 Defense Will Introduce Witnesses

    Atlanta JournalAugust 3rd, 1913 FRANK TRIAL WILL RUN INTO THIRD WEEK; DEFENSE WILL BEGIN TESTIMONY WEDNESDAY Indications Saturday, When Court Adjourned Until Monday Morning at 9 o'Clock, Were That State Would Require at Least Two More Days Before Concluding Presentation of Its Case Against the Factory Superintendent DEFENSE'S DECISION TO INTRODUCE EVIDENCE MEANS THAT THE TRIAL IS NOT YET HALF OVER Dr. H. F. Harris Will Take the Stand Again Monday Afternoon and Will Probably Be Under Cross-Examination for Several Hours—Conley Will Be State's Last Witness, and a Big Battle Will Rage Around His Testimony "IT'S TERRIBLE FOR AN INNOCENT
  • Sunday, 3rd August 1913 State’s Case Against Frank As It Stands After Week’s Testimony Is Shown Here

    Photo-diagram of court room in old city hall building, where Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil factory, is on trial for his life charged with the murder of Mary Phagan. Although the available seats are taken soon after court convenes, the crowd waits without all day for some weary spectator to give up a seat. On the second floor the many witnesses await their turn for a grueling examination by attorneys on either side. Atlanta JournalAugust 3rd, 1913 Most Important Points State Sought to Prove Are That Mary Phagan Was Killed Shortly After Entering Factory—That Crime Was on
  • Monday, 4th August 1913 Conley Thought He Was on Trial, His Attorney Declares

    Atlanta JournalAugust 4th, 1913 Jim thought he was on trial this morning," said W. M. Smith, attorney for James Conley, the negro sweeper at the pencil factory, after the recess Monday noon following Conley's appearance on the witness stand of the Frank trial. Attorney Smith declared that the negro had no idea of his real status in the matter until after the court had recessed. "Then Conley turned to me, after the jury had gone out and he had been taken off the stand and said: ‘Boss, I wonder what that jury is going to do with me?' I said:
  • Monday, 4th August 1913 Conleys Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony

    Atlanta JournalAugust 4th, 1913 Negro's Recitative Manner of Telling His Story Gives Impression That He Has Rehearsed It Many Times Jim Conley Monday morning recited his story to the Frank jury. Newt Lee last week told his. Above all other things, Jim's testimony was glib. Newt's was deliberate. For more than an hour Jim spoke smoothly, evenly, unhesitatingly to the jury, as though his story had been polished by careful rehearsal to himself. Scarcely once was he interrupted. Solicitor Dorsey's only warning was slower speech. Jim's story came so readily to his lips that he spoke faster than the jury
  • Monday, 4th August 1913 Jim Conley Tells An Amazing Story

    This diagram is reproduced so that readers can compare the negro's story, as he told it on the stand, with his pantomime illustration of the crime in the presence of the officers some weeks ago. In the numerical sequence the reader can follow on this diagram the movements of the negro sweeper, Jim Conley, at the National Pencil factory on the day of Mary Phagan's murder, as the negro described them to the police and then re-enacted them before the eyes of the police at the factory itself. (1) Conley sits dozing and half-sodden with whisky and beer on boxes
  • Monday, 4th August 1913 Many Discrepancies Between Conleys Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives

    Atlanta JournalAugust 4th, 1913 Negro Swore Previously That He Never Saw Mary Phagan Enter Factory—Many Other Changes in Story—Fourth Time He's Changed Narrative James Conley's story as he told it on the witness stand Monday morning differs in many important details from the story he told to the detectives in his famous affidavit of confession. In that affidavit he said that by appointment he met Frank at the corner of Forsyth and Nelson streets the day of the murder, and that he first went to the factory on that day when he followed Frank back there. He now says that
  • Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony

    Atlanta JournalAugust 5th, 1913 ON GROUNDS OF IRRELEVANCY ATTORNEY ARNOLD MOVES TO STRIKE PART OF TESTIMONY He Asks That Conley's Statement That He Acted as "Lookout" for Frank, and Part of Testimony Attacking Frank's Personal Character Be Blotted From Record — Attorney Hooper eDclares Defense Has Waited Too Long to Enter Objection MYSTERIOUS "MR. DALTON" MENTIONED BY CONLEY MAY BE CALLED BY SOLICITOR TO CORROBORATE NEGRO It Is Said That Dalton Is Within Reach of State—With Conley Still Under Cross-Examination and Other State Witnesses, Including Dr. Harris, Yet to Be Heard, Indications Are Tuesday That Trial Will Last Three Weeks,
  • Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied With Conley

    Atlanta JournalAugust 5th, 1913 "They Haven't Shaken Him a Particle," Says Dorsey—"He Has Told About 240 Lies Already," Declares Attorney Reuben Arnold Both the state's attorneys and the counsel for Leo M. Frank Tuesday at noon expressed satisfaction with the progress of the cross-examination of James Conley, the negro sweeper. The negro had been on the stand then for more than nine hours, during eight hours of which he had undergone a strenuous grilling at the hands of Attorney L. Z. Rosser. "They have not shaken him a particle," declared Solicitor Dorsey, "and that isn't all. I don't believe they
  • Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night

    Atlanta JournalAugust 5th, 1913 Jim Conley Grilled for Many Hours By Frank's Attorney Who Fails to "Rattle" Him Luther Rosser Makes Negro Admit Lies and Terms in Prison, but Sweeper Remains Good Witness for State—Women Excluded From Court Room During Afternoon Session, Numerous Tilts Between Opposing Counsel Marked With Bitterness. The afternoon session of the Frank trial was marked by many tilts between the solicitor and his assistant with counsel for the defense and toward the end of the session much bitterness was injected into the remarks by various members of opposing counsel. Judge Roan decided with Frank's counsel after
  • Wednesday, 6th August 1913 He Shore Goes After You Says Conley of Mr. Rosser

    Atlanta JournalAugust 6th, 1913 Jim Made for a Newspaper and a Cigarette as Soon as He Left the Stand—He Is Interviewed Through Medium of His Attorney Jim Conley wasn't garrulous after he left the witness stand Wednesday morning, and that's saying the least of it. Perhaps Jim figured that he had done enough talking to last him a few weeks. He went into the reporters' room first and sat down and heaved a sort of sigh. Then he picked up an edition of The Journal and commenced to read about himself. A reporter turned from the telephone and said something
  • Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony

    Atlanta JournalAugust 6th, 1913 Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case State Ready With Corroborating Witnesses, if Evidence Is Held to Be Admissible—Jim Conley Adds New and Sensational Feature to His Testimony, Declaring He Saw Frank Place Mary Phagan's Pocketbook in the Factory Safe SOLICITOR DORSEY APPLAUDED IN COURT WHEN SUSTAINED BY RECORDS AFTER DISPUTE WITH ROSSER Those Responsible for Applause Were Immediately Ejected From the Court Room—Dr. H. F. Harris Expected to Resume Stand During Afternoon—State Will Furnish Presentation of Its Case by Thursday but Hardly Before Judge L. S. Roan, presiding at
  • Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given By Conley Against Leo Frank

    Atlanta JournalAugust 6th, 1913 Solicitor Dorsey in Vigorous Speech Protests Against Striking Evidence, Declaring He Has Witnesses to Corroborate the Negro and That Striking of Testimony Will Prevent His Getting Their Statements Before the Jury Sustaining a motion made by the defense in the trial of Leo M. Frank, Judge L. S. Roan Tuesday afternoon announced that he would rule out all of Conley's testimony charging the accused superintendent with perversion, and the negro's testimony that he acted as a "lookout" for Frank on days previous to the murder. The judge ruled that Conley's testimony that he watched for the
  • Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Mincey Ready to Swear to Conley Affidavit

    Atlanta JournalAugust 6th, 1913 Declares Negro Told Him He Had Killed a Girl—Waiting as Witness W. H. Mincey, the man who has made an affidavit in which he swears that Jim Conley told him on April 26, the day Mary Phagan was murdered, that he had killed a girl that day, appeared at the court house Wednesday morning but did not go into the court room. Mincey was seen by a Journal reporter as he stood across the street from the court house and watched the crowd seeking entrance. He declared that he was ready to take the witness stand
  • Thursday, 7th August 1913 Dr. Harris Testimony is Attacked by Defense Expert

    Atlanta JournalAugust 7th, 1913 STATE FINISHES TESTIMONY AND DR. LEROY CHILDS BEGINS EXPERT EVIDENCE FOR DEFENSE Dr. Childs Characterizes Conclusions Similar to Those Made by Dr. H. F. Harris and Dr. J. W. Hurt as Remarkable Guesses—He Says Cabbage Is Most Indigestible of All Vegetables and Might Stay in Stomach for Many Hours DEFENSE IS EXPECTED TO PUT UP CHARACTER WITNESSES IN VIEW OF JUDGE ROAN'S RULING Dalton Swears He Has Visited Pencil Factory in Company With Women, That Frank Knew of His Presence and That Jim Conley, the Negro Sweeper, Was There—He Tells of Frank's Visitors When recess was
  • Thursday, 7th August 1913 Judge Roan Decides Conleys Testimony Must Stand

    Attorney William M. Smith, who clashed in the court room Tuesday with Attorneys for Leo M. Frank, who didn't want him to consult with client until Conley had finished his testimony. Atlanta JournalAugust 7th, 1913 Defense Asks Mistrial When Crowd in the Court Applauds Announcement of the Decision Judge Roan, However, Refuses to Stop Trial—Dr. Harris on Stand During Afternoon and Again Asserts that Mary Phagan Suffered Violence Just Before Death—Dalton Called to Corroborate Conley But Court Adjourns Before He Testifies Dr. H. F. Harris, secretary of the state board of health, was the first witness called for the Wednesday
  • Friday, 8th August 1913 Defense Attacks States Case From Many Angles

    Atlanta JournalAugust 8th, 1913 MOTORMAN AND CONDUCTOR SAY NEWSBOY EPPS WAS NOT ON CAR THAT BROUGHT MARY TO CITY They Swear That She Left Car at Broad and Hunter Streets at 12:10, the Very Hour Monteen Stover Claims to Have Left Factory—Daisy Hopkins Swears She Never Visited Factory With Dalton and That She Did Not Know Frank NEW THEORY OF HOW CRIME MIGHT HAVE BEEN COMMITTED INTIMATED BY ENGINEER'S TESTIMONY Albert Kauffman Describes Passageway on First Floor Leading to Chute, Through Which He Declares Human Body Could Easily Have Passed—Spots, Said to Be Blood, Found in Passageway A new theory
  • Friday, 8th August 1913 Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence

      Atlanta Journal August 8th, 1913 Afternoon Session of Frank's Trial Thursday Is Without Any Interesting Development Pinkerton Detective Harry Scott Testifies That Conley Never Told Him New Features of Story—Dr. Leroy Childs Testifies in Effort to Break Dr. Harris' Story When court adjourned Thursday afternoon at 5:10 o'clock Detective Scott, called by the defense to impeach Jim Conley, had just concluded his examination by the solicitor. Scott had been put through a long series of questions by Attorney Rosser, the purpose of which was to show the discrepancies between what Conley told Scott and what he swore on the
  • Saturday, 9th August 1913 Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton

    Atlanta JournalAugust 9th, 1913 WITNESS IN MOST OF DORSEY'S GRILLING WHEN COURT ADJOURNS UNTIL NINE O'CLOCK ON MONDAY Assistant Factory Superintendent Refutes Testimony of C. B. Dalton and Jim Conley That Frank Frequently Had Women Callers In His Office on Saturday Afternoons and During Holidays—He Says He Never Saw Conley There Saturday Afternoons DECLARES THAT WIFE OF THE ACCUSED FREQUENTLY CALLED ON HUSBAND AT HIS OFFICE ON SATURDAYS Attorney Arnold Registers Another Objection Against Laughter of Spectators in the Court Room—Solicitor Draws From Schiff Change of Answers Made to Several Previous Statements of His While on the Witness Stand The
  • Saturday, 9th August 1913 State Confronts Watchman Holloway With Previous Affidavit

    Atlanta JournalAugust 9th, 1913 Solicitor Dorsey Fiercely Attacks Evidence Given by the Witness For Defense Afternoon Session He Also Implies That Watchman Was Trying to Fix Crime on Conley to Get Reward. Holloway Admits Signing Statement Produced by the Prosecutor—Other Witnesses for Defense Heard After Solicitor Dorsey riddled E. F. Holloway, day watchman at the National Pencil factory, with volleys of questions regarding former statements made by the witness and which he could not explain or make coincide with his testimony Friday afternoon, court adjourned at 6:45 o'clock until 9 o'clock Saturday. The solicitor also trapped the watchman and the
  • Sunday, 10th August 1913 Conleys Story is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case

    Questions asked witnesses by Attorneys Rosser and Arnold indicate that the defense may attempt to convince the jury that it would have been possible for the little girl to have been killed on the first floor of the factory and her body later disposed of through a chute leading from the first floor to the basement at the rear of the building. According to this theory the girl was met at the foot of the stairs leading from Frank's office, taken toward the back of the building and killed. Her body was then dragged to the trap door leading to
  • Sunday, 10th August 1913 Playing Practical Jokes on Watchful Bailiffs is Pastime of Frank Jurors

    Anybody who has the mistaken idea that it's fine to be a juror in a big murder trial has only to see Artist Brewerton's illustration above, of the way the twelve men who are to decide Leo M. Frank's fate pass their time these days. On them the commonwealth has placed the responsibility of judging the truth of the evidence placed before them day after day in the court room. They are shut off from all communication with the outside world, except what comes to them in open court as sworn evidence and except also what their families write to
  • Sunday, 10th August 1913 Witness Found Who Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory

    Atlanta JournalAugust 10th, 1913 George T. Kendley, Street Car Conductor, Declares He Saw Little Girl About Noon on April 26 as She Stepped From Curb on Forsyth Street Bridge to Cross Alabama Street, Where His Car Was Stopped BOTH SIDES READY TO GRILL EVERY WITNESSES Attorneys Think There Is Little Chance of the Trial Ending This Week—Much Testimony Is Expected in Rebuttal and All Indications Saturday Night Were Trial Would Run Into Its Fourth Week The trial of Leo M. Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan will last from six days to two weeks longer, according to the varying
  • Monday, 11th August 1913 Frank Case Mentioned for First Time in House

    Atlanta JournalAugust 11th, 1913 For the first time this session, mention of the case of Leo M. Frank, on trial for his life for the murder of fourteen-year-old Mary Phagan, was made today in the house of representatives. Representative Slater of Bryan was speaking in favor of the senate resolution of Mr. Irwin of the Thirty-fourth, calling for the appointment of a commissioner of competent lawyers to revive and improve the method of civil and criminal procedure in the state and report to the next session of the legislature, and made reference to the long drawn out proceedings of the
  • Monday, 11th August 1913 Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris

        Atlanta Journal August 11th, 1913 DR. GEORGE BACHMAN GIVES TESTIMONY TO SHOW HARRIS SIMPLY HAZARDED A GUESS Professor of Physiology at Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons Declares Dr. Harris Is the Only Doctor He Knows Who Would Undertake to Express the Opinion That Dr. Harris Did in Reference to Mary Phagan's Death FRANK A NORMAL MAN, SAYS DR. T. H. HANCOCK WHO TOOK WITNESS STAND MONDAY AFTERNOON Herbert G. Schiff, Frank's Young Assistant, Was Under Cross-Examination Several Hours Monday—He Said He Had Never Heard Complaint That Factory Clock Ran Five Minutes Fast and Denied That Frank Had
  • Monday, 11th August 1913 Sunday Proves Day of Meditation for Four Frank Jurors

    Atlanta JournalAugust 11th, 1913 Sunday apparently brought reflection and repentance to one aspiring member of the Frank juror, while three others after due consideration of the heat and other things, spent a part of their $2 per day. Juror Townsend, who has been carefully cultivating a most aspiring and sprouting young mustache, had the first opportunity in seven days to inspect it. After deliberating over its ultimate destiny for the greater part of Sunday, he evidently repented, for when he appeared in the court room Monday morning the thin, dark cloud topping his lips was gone. Three other jurors grew
  • Tuesday, 12th August 1913 C. B. Daltons Character Shown Up by Frank Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath

    Atlanta JournalAugust 12th, 1913 DALTON ADMITS HE SERVED A CHAINGANG SENTENCE FOR THEFT OF A "SHOP HAMMER" Miss Hattie Hall Swears She Was In Frank's Office Between 11 and 12 o'Clock and That Superintendent Did No Work on Finance Sheet During This Hour—Her Testimony Different In This Respect From What She Swore at Inquest MRS. WHITE'S BROTHER GIVES DIFFERENT VERSION OF STORY ABOUT SEEING NEGRO LURKING IN FACTORY Solicitor Dorsey Puts Wade Campbell Through Severe Cross Examination, Calling Attention to Discrepancies In His Testimony and Signed Statement Given to the Solicitor, Frank's Movements on Day of Tragedy to Be Proved
  • Tuesday, 12th August 1913 Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked By Reuben Arnold

    Atlanta JournalAugust 12th, 1913 Sensational Charge Hurled By Physician in Testimony Given at Afternoon Session Dr. Westmoreland, Answering Question of Attorney Reuben R. Arnold, Declares He Never Heard of a Chemist Who Had Made Examination by Himself and Then Destroyed the Organs Without Bringing Them Into Court Three experts took the stand Monday afternoon at the trial of Leo M. Frank to repudiate the conclusions reached by Dr. H. F. Harris to the effect that the condition of the cabbage in the stomach of Mary Phagan showed that she must have died within an hour after eating, and that the
  • Wednesday, 13th August 1913 Franks Character Made Issue by the Defense

    Atlanta JournalAugust 13th, 1913 ACTION A CHALLENGE TO STATE TO PUT UP WITNESSES IN REBUTTAL WHO OTHERWISE COULDN'T TESTIFY Lemmie Quinn, Foreman In Metal Room, Tells the Jury He Visited Factory on Saturday, April 26, and Found Frank at His Desk Writing at 12:20 o'Clock, the Very Minute Almost That State Claims Mary Phagan Must Have Been Killed EFFORTS TO SHOW EXPERIMENTS OF WITNESSES WHO RE-ENACTED CONLEY'S STORY BRING FIGHT Judge Roan Delays Decision Until Both Sides Can Submit Authorities—Dr. W. S. Kendrick Declares Dr. H. F. Harris Was Guessing in Conclusions He Gave About Mary Phagan's Death—Three School Mate
  • Wednesday, 13th August 1913 Franks Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial

    Atlanta JournalAugust 13th, 1913 Questions Asked by Dorsey Of Office Boy at Factory Ruled Out After Argument Attorney Reuben R. Arnold Declares That Any Further Testimony Along Lines of That Sought by the Solicitor During Examination of Philip Chambers Will Tempt Him to Move for a New Trial in the Case With the calling of Emil Selig, Frank's father-in-law, the defense began their endeavor to prove Frank's statement in reference to his movements on the day of the tragedy. Mr. Selig's testimony bore principally upon the time Frank arrived at his home to dinner, the midday meal, and his appearance
  • Thursday, 14th August 1913 Court Stirred by Outburst From Leo Franks Mother

    Atlanta JournalAugust 14th, 1913 Defense Character Witness Is Used by Solicitor to Get Suggestions Before Jury Solicitor Mentions Names of Many Persons, Who Will Probably be Put Up in Rebuttal to Attack Frank's Conduct as Related to Woman Employes of Factory—Mrs. Rae Frank, Mother of the Accused, Creates a Sensation Shouting at the Solicitor. Court adjourned at 5:40 until 9 o'clock Thursday morning. The trial of Leo M. Frank took another sensational turn Wednesday afternoon when Solicitor Dorsey began, through his questions to John Ashley Jones, put up as a character witness by the defense, a vigorous attack upon the
  • Thursday, 14th August 1913 Franks Story of Before and After Crime Corroborated; Defenses Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails

      Atlanta Journal August 14th, 1913 FRANK WAS SEEN BY WITNESSES ON HIS WAY TO AND FROM HOME DAY LITTLE GIRL WAS KILLED Solicitor Declares That Outburst of Yesterday Should Not Be Allowed and That as There Is Further Unpleasant Testimony to Be Heard, He Suggests That Frank's Wife and Mother Do Not Hear It—Judge Issues Caution MOTION OF ATTORNEY ROSSER TO STRIKE OUT SENSATIONAL QUESTIONS IS OVERRULED Solicitor Dorsey's Questions Put to John Ashley Jones Will Stand and the Defense Will Be Forced to Disprove Suggestions Given to Jury by Cross-Questioning Witnesses Whom Solicitor Will Summon in Rebuttal There
  • Friday, 15th August 1913 All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial

    Atlanta JournalAugust 15th, 1913 Testimony up to Thursday Would Fill 500 Newspaper Columns, Says Official Mrs. M. Marcus, M. J. Goldstein, I. Strauss, Who Participated in Card Game, Declare Frank Showed No Signs of Excitement When They Saw Him Saturday Evening and That There Were No Scratches on His Face That all Georgia records for criminal trials already had been broken and that probably there was no southern record approaching it, was the statement of the court stenographer informally Thursday afternoon with regard to the Leo M. Frank murder trial. The stenographer stated that the records of the trial up
  • Friday, 15th August 1913 Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury

      When Herbert Lasker, former roommate of Leo M. Frank, came to Atlanta to testify on the previous good character of the man accused of murdering Mary Phagan, he brought with him several photographs of the class of ‘06, of which both he and Frank were members. The two men, and the half-dozen other professors and former fellow-students who made the journey south simply to testify, spent an hour at the court house Thursday noon gazing at the pictures taken in happier days. The members of the class are scattered over the earth now. One is in France, one in
  • Saturday, 16th August 1913 Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Sons Defense

      Atlanta Journal August 16th, 1913 Identifies Letter Written By Frank to N. Y. Kinfolks On the Day of the Murder By Asking Pencil Factory Forelady If She Saw Frank Talking to Mary Phagan, Solicitor Dorsey Indicates That He Has Witnesses Who May Furnish Further Sensational Testimony Along This Line Mrs. Rae Frank, mother of Leo M. Frank, the accused factory superintendent took the stand Friday afternoon in defense of her boy and was on the stand when trial adjourns, at 5:45 o'clock until 9 o'clock Saturday. Mrs. Frank testified as to a letter which was written by her son
  • Saturday, 16th August 1913 Pencil Factory Model is Damaged in Fight

      Atlanta Journal August 16th, 1913 Lamar Rucker and Max Swain, Reporter, "Scrap" Adjoining Court Room A fight between Lamar Rucker, an attorney from Athens, and Maxwell Swain, representative of the Atlanta Star, at the trial of Leo M. Frank, badly damaged the six-foot long model of the pencil factory introduced by the defense and scanned by numerous witnesses on the stand in illustrating their stories. The model had been stored in the press room, adjoining court. Mr. Rucker, who formerly lived in Atlanta, and Mr. Swain were total strangers to each other until the encounter introduced them. Mr. Swain
  • Saturday, 16th August 1913 Witness, Called by Defense, Testifies Against Frank

    Atlanta JournalAugust 16th, 1913 MISS IRENE JACKSON DECLARES FRANK LOOKED INTO DRESSING ROOM ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS Daughter of Policeman A. W. Jackson Testifies That Frank Opened the Door of Dressing Room and Looked in While Young Lady Was Dressing and That a Complaint Was Registered With a Forelady, Miss Cleland, About It NEWSPAPER MAN TELLS OF JIM CONLEY'S PANTOMIME RE-ENACTMENT AT FACTORY Solicitor Dorsey Attacks the Pinkertons, Charging That They Failed to Report Their "Finds" to Police—Many Young Women Employed at the Factory Testify to Frank's Good Character—Court Adjourns Until Monday Morning With Harllee Branch, a reporter for The Journal,
  • Sunday, 17th August 1913 Frank Should Know Fate Before The Week Passes Is Opinion Of Attorneys

      The Atlanta Journal, Sunday, 17th August 1913. While Defense Has About Forty Character Witnesses, It's Not Believed That Their Testimony Will Take More Than One Day, and Frank Himself Will Probably Tell His Self to the Jury Some Time Tuesday. REBUTTAL EVIDENCE WILL TAKE TWO DAYS AND THE ARGUMENTS OF ATTORNEYS TWO MORE This Will Put the Case In the Hands of the Jury at the End of the Week - All Interest is Now Centered in the Witnesses That the Solicitor Will Put on the Stand In an Effort to Break Down Fine Character Showing Made by Frank.
  • Monday, August 18th, 1913: Leo M. Frank Takes Stand – Tells His Story, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal, Monday, 18th August 1913. Defendant LEO M. FRANK ON WITNESS STAND FACING THE JURY, FRANK ASSERTS HIS INNOCENCE OF MARY PHAGAN'S DEATH All Other Testimony of the Defense Had Been Practically Completed When Court Reconvened Monday Afternoon, August 18, 1913, and the Stage Was Set for the Accused Superintendent to Tell Where He Was and What He Did on Day of Tragedy. MAYFIELD GIRL REPUDIATES TESTIMONY GIVEN ABOUT FRANK LOOKING INTO DRESSING ROOM Solicitor Dorsey by Questions Suggests That He Will Try to Prove That Frank Went to Hapeville With a Young Girl One Week Before Murder
  • Tuesday, August 19th, 1913: Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally Witness Swears Dorsey Refused To Free Magnolia Minola McKnight Fearing City Detectives

      The Atlanta Journal, Tuesday, 19th August 1913. Attorney George Gordon, Summoned by the State, Identified Affidavit as Having Been Assented to by Cook at Frank's Home, but Says Solicitor Dorsey Was Informed at the Time That Negress Was Being Illegally Held. BOY SAYS FRANK TALKED TO MARY PHAGAN, BUT COULD NOT DESCRIBE THE LITTLE GIRL. Daisy Hopkins' Character Impeached, but Court Refuses to Hear Indirect Testimony Against Frank's Character - Witnesses introduced to Bolster Up Dalton's Character. Physicians Will Support Dr. Harris Attorney George Gordon, who was counsel for Minola McKnight, the negro cook at the Frank-Selig home, when
  • Wednesday, August 20th, 1913: Trial Testimony May Close Wednesday – Both Sides Are Anxious To Begin Argument And Send Case To The Jury, Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal, Wednesday, 20th August 1913. A Number of Witnesses, Women and Girls Formerly Employed at the Factory, Swear Frank's Character Is Bad and That His Reputation as to His Relations With Women Is Bad. Defense Objects to This Latter Testimony but is Overruled. THREE EXPERTS CORROBORATE DR. HARRIS IN HIS CONCLUSIONS ABOUT LITTLE GIRL'S DEATH Street Car Men Testify That English Avenue Car Frequently Ran Ahead of Schedule and One Witness Says Mary Phagan Was Not on Car After It Left Marietta Street. Two Witnesses Say They Saw Frank Talking to Mary Introduction of testimony both for and
  • Thursday, August 21st, 1913: [Reuben] Arnold Charges Gigantic Frame-up To Convict [Leo] Frank. Hooper Says Conley’s Story Stood Test Of Grilling, The Atlanta Journal

      The Atlanta Journal, Thursday, 21st August 1913. PAGE 1 Not Looking for Blood, But Seeking the Murderer of Mary Phagan, Says Hooper. FRANK DESCRIBED AS JEKYLL AND HYDE BY STATE ATTORNEY Frank A. Hooper, in Opening Speech for the Prosecution, Declares That Frank Must Have Killed Mary Phagan or Sat Nearby and Permitted a Negro to Attack Her. He Declares Conditions at Factory Were a Terrible Temptation "to a Man With Little Conscience and a Great Lust" Scores Defense For Not Cross-Examining State's Character Witnesses. IN an eloquent speech, replete with word pictures, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes pathetic, sometimes humorous,
  • Friday, August 22nd, 1913: In Scathing Terms [Luther] Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, [Atlanta] Police. Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against [Leo] Frank

      The Atlanta Journal, Friday, 22nd August 1913. PAGE 1 DALTON EXCORIATED, CONLEY ANNIHILATED AND SOLICITOR CHARGED WITH PERSECUTION Mr. Rosser Defends the Character of the Pencil Factory, Declares That Few Men Could Have Stood the Test Put to Frank by a "Horde of Spying Police, Generated by Dorsey," and Ridicules the "Suspicious Circumstances" Against Frank. EVERYTHING FRANK DID OR SAID WAS DISTORTED, MAGNIFIED AND VIEWED WITH SUSPICION, HE SAYS Mr. Rosser Was in the Midst of His Speech When Court Adjourned for Recess-When He Has Finished Solicitor Dorsey Will Make the Concluding Argument, the Judge Will Deliver His Charge
  • Saturday, August 23rd 1913: Leo Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey In Midst Of Impassioned Speech, The Atlanta Journal

      The Atlanta Journal, Saturday, 23rd August 1913. PAGE 1 MRS. COLEMAN WEEPS AND FRANK'S WIFE COVERS FACE WITH HANDS DURING SPEECH Solicitor Was Nearing End of Masterly Address When the Court Ordered a Recess Until Monday Morning-At That Time the Solicitor Will Conclude, the Judge Will Deliver His Charge and the Case Will Go to Jury for Decision FRANK'S TIME ALIBI ATTACKED BY SOLICITOR THROUGH FRANK'S OWN STATEMENT TO POLICE Dorsey Declares Frank First Told Police He Did Not Leave Factory Until 1:10 and That He Could Not Have Been Seen on Whitehall at That Hour-Case of Defense Assailed
  • Sunday, 24th August 1913 Frank’s Fate Will Soon Be Known Dorsey Will Finish His Speech In Few Hours

    The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 24th August 1913.Judge Roan Will Then DeliverHis Charge and the Case IsCertain to Be in the Jury'sHands by Noon Tomorrow.Some Look for a Quick Ver-dict, While Others Predictthe Jury Will Be Out forMany HoursDorsey's Speech, Interruptedby Adjournment, the Great-est of His Career No Trialin Georgia Has Ever BeenMarked by So Many BrilliantArguments -Frank RemainsImpassive Through It AllTERMINING the greatest criminal trial in the history of the south, the life of Leo M. Frank will be placed in the hands of twelve men tomorrow. The case, after four hot, grueling, hard-fought weeks is certain to go to the
  • Monday, 25th August 1913 Leo M. Frank’s Fate Is Now In Hands Of The Jury. Motion For Mistrial Is Denied By Judge Leonard Strickland Roan

      The Atlanta Journal, Monday, 25th August 1913. PAGE 1 JUDGE ROAN CHARGES JURY THAT THEY ARE SOLE JUDGES OF WITNESSES' CREDIBILITY He Discusses "Reasonable Doubt," Declaring That Burden of Proof That Defendant Is Guilty Beyond "a Reasonable Doubt, but Not Beyond All Doubt" Rests Upon the State GOOD CHARACTER IS MATERIAL, HE DECLARES, BUT DOES NOT SUFFICE IF GUILT HAS BEEN PROVEN Judge Roan Was About Twenty Minutes Reading His Charge to the Jury - The Jurors Leaned Forward and Listened Attentively as He Proceeded - Here Is the Charge in Fall, just as It Was Delivered Immediately after
  • Tuesday, August 26th, 1913: Leo Max Frank Sentenced To Hang On October 10th, 1913, But Fight For New Trial Will Stay The Execution For Many Months, The Atlanta Journal

      The Atlanta Journal, Tuesday, 26th August 1913. PAGE 1 TWELVE PEERS OF LEO M. FRANK WHO FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER This photograph of the Frank jury was made a few minutes after Foreman Winburn read the verdict and before say of the jurymen had left their seats. Front row, left to right: A. M. Henslee, M. S. Woodward, D. Townsend, F. E. Winburn (foreman), F. Van, L. Smith, and A. L. Wisbey. Back row, left to right: J. F. Higdon, W. F. Medcalf, M. Johenning, C. J. Basshart, J. T. Osburn and W. M. Jefferies. Secrets of Frank, Mary
  • Wednesday, 27th Day of August 1913, Leo Frank Will Reply To Hugh Dorsey In Long Public Statement, Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal, Wednesday, August 27, 1913.  Page 1, Column 1 Convicted Factory Superintendent Preparing Exhaustive Answers to Solicitor General's Argument to Jury DECLARES ARRAIGNMENT CONTAINS MANY FLAWS Health Unimpaired, Frank Resumes Routine Life in Jail. Indictment of Conley as Accessory May Come Friday . Leo M. Frank sentenced to hang on , October 10, 1913, for the murder of Mary Phagan, is preparing an answer to the closing argument to the jury of Solicitor General Hugh Manson Dorsey. He began work on the statement Wednesday morning and expects to have it ready for publication before the end of the
  • Thursday, 28th August 1913 Despite Death Sentence Frank Sleeps Nine Hours

    The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 28th August 1913.Page 3, Column 2Man Convicted for Murder of Mary Phagan Will Not Make Public Reply to SolicitorDorsey's Arraignment Lawyers Advise Silence Mrs. Rae Frank BidsSon Farewell and Leaves for BrooklynLeo M. Frank, under sentence of death for the murder of Mary Phagan, slept nine hours in his cell in the Fulton County tower Wednesday night. He arose shortly after 7 o'clock, took his bath, went through his usual calisthenic exercises and ate a late breakfast which was brought him by his father-in-law, Emil Selig, a few minutes before 9 o'clock.It was learned Thursday that there
  • Saturday, 30th August 1913 Preacher To Speak On The Frank Case

    The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 30th August 1913.PAGE 3, Column 2In a sermon at the Baptist tabernacle Sunday evening Rev. John E. Barnard, of Asheville, N. C., will discuss the subject of capital punishment, and will touch on the Frank case. At both services last Sunday Mr. Barnard was heard by large audiences, and it is expected that his sermon Sunday night will fill the tabernacle.FRANK WITNESS ISSOUGHT BY POLICEPage 3, Column 5,-----------------------------------------George Epps, Newsboy, Accused of Swindling ManOut of $1.50Little George Epps, witness in the Frank trial, believed to be the last person who talked to Mary Phagan before she entered
  • Sunday, 31st August 1913 Monument To Mary Phagan Proposed

    The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 31st August 1913.PAGE 4Cohutta Pastor Starts Subscription to Erect Statueof Dead Girl(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)DALTON, Ga., Aug. 20 Calling upon the women of the state, with the cooperation of the churches, to "let a system of work be instituted that will culminate in a monument to little Mary Phagan," Rev. J. C. Parrot, of Cohutta, addressed a communication to the Dalton Citizen, saying:"Here is a dollar for the erection of a monument to Mary Phagan, the little factory girl who recently laid down her life for her honor. Most of the monuments that I have ever
  • Tuesday, 2nd September 1913: Atlanta Free From Crime Wave, Judge Tells Grand Jury, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 2nd September 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Charge of Red CrimeWaveIs Injustice to Law-AbidingCommunity, DeclaresJudgeJohn PendletonBEAVERS ISN'TWORRYINGAND NEITHER ISLANFORDWhile Police ChiefDeploresLack of Equipmentin De-partment, He Scoffsat Al-leged CrimsonBlotsIn a strong charge to the new grand jury, Judge J. T.Pendleton Tuesday defended Atlanta against the charge ofexcessive criminality, declaring that statements to the effect thata red crime wave is seeping over the city to be an injustice to acommunity which is, in the main, law-abiding.There is, of course, crime in all cosmopolitan cities, saidJudge Pendleton, but Atlanta is as free from it as any city of itssize in the United
  • Tuesday, September 2nd, 1913: Echo Of Frank Trial In Recorder’s Court, The Atlanta Journal

      The Atlanta Journal, Tuesday, 2nd September 1913. PAGE 3, COLUMN 3 There was an echo of the Frank trial in recorder's court Tuesday morning, G. H. Hargett, of 115 Conley Street, was fined $5.75 for waxing hot in an argument on the famous case. Mrs. Estella Effel, of 98 Conley Street, caused his arrest. She was the opponent in the debate. In the course of the discussion Hargett became so excited that he resorted to profanity, it was testified Wednesday morning. PAGE 5, COLUMN 1 LOST FACTORY GIRL FOUND AT HOSPITAL Mother Feared Another Phagan Case Until Officers Found
  • Wednesday, 3rd September 1913, Board For Frank Jury Will Cost Just $975.06, The Atlanta Journal.

    The Atlanta Journal, Wednesday, 3rd September 1913. Page 7, Column 4. Newt Lee's Attorneys Ask That He Be Paid for Time Lost Fulton County will pay $975.06 for quarters and meals for the jury that heard the trial of Leo M. Frank, found guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan. Bills were presented to the board of county commissioners Wednesday morning. The German cafe asked $289.50 for luncheons furnished during the twenty-nine days of the trial, and the Kimball House, $685.56 for rooms, breakfasts, and dinners. The commissioners approved the bills and agreed to pay them as soon as the
  • Saturday, 6th September 1913 Mary Phagan Home For Girls Suggested

    The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 6th September 1913.PAGE 2, COLUMN 3A "Mary Phagan" home for working girls is suggested in a letter received Saturday morning by The Journal from one of its subscribers in Covington, Ga. The idea grew out of the agitation for the erection of a monument in memory of the little factory girl."Instead of an immense marble shaft," wrote the subscriber, "I would suggest a neat memorial at her grave and a home in Atlanta where working girls can board for a reasonable rate. This also would serve as a retreat for those out of work. I would have
  • Sunday, 7th September 1913: New Pinkerton Chief Arrives In Atlanta, The Atlanta Journal

      The Atlanta Journal, Sunday, 7th September 1913, PAGE 7, COLUMN 1. J. H. Kelly Succeeds J. B. Pierce-Harry Scott Is Assistant J. H. Kelly, formerly assistant superintendent of the Pinkerton detective company's office in Pittsburg, assumed control of the local branch of the agency Saturday. He arrived from the north last Friday and since has met all the city officials. He takes the place of J. B. Pierce, who resigned shortly after the completion of the Frank trial. Harry Scott will remain in Atlanta as assistant superintendent. The order transferring him to Houston, Texas, where he was to have
  • Monday, 8th September 1913: Trainmen Ask Funds For Phagan Monument, The Atlanta Journal

      The Atlanta Journal, Monday, 8th September 1913, PAGE 3, COLUMN 1. Anything From One Cent Up Will Be Acceptable- Resolutions Adopted Atlanta lodge Number 720, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Sunday, appointed a committee to solicit funds for the erection of a monument in memory of Mary Phagan, murdered in the plant of the National Pencil factory. Amounts from 1 cent up will be received. An effort will be made by the trainmen to induce the Atlanta Federation of Trades to appoint a committee to work in conjunction with their representatives in raising the necessary amount. The intentions of the
  • Tuesday, September 9th, 1913: Conley Is Indicted On Two Counts By Fulton Grand Jury, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal, Tuesday, 9th September 1913. One Bill Charges a Felony in That "Knowing Frank Murdered Mary Phagan, He Harored and Concealed Him" FRANK'S ATTORNEY WILL CITE WILL MEYERS CASE Decision in This Famous Case Sure to Figure at Hearing For New Trial-Jurors Charged With Bias Two true bills, one charging Jim Conley with a misdemeanor "in concealing knowledge of the murder of Mary Phagan, and the other charging him with felony in being accessory to the murder after the deed, were turned Tuesday morning by the grand jury. The bills were returned after a brief deliberation only, the
  • Tuesday, 9th September 1913: No Hostility Toward Blease, Says Slaton, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 9th September 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.Friendly Relations Between Georgia and South Carolina Must Be MaintainedUtterances attributed in the newspapers to Governor Blease to the effect that he had cut off relations with Georgia because Governor Slaton declined to grant his requisition for Julian J. Zachry, the young Augusta attorney, and because former governors had declined to grant requisitions for Thomas E. Felder, the Atlanta attorney, brought forth a statement from Governor Slaton Tuesday morning.So long as I am governor of Georgia, said Governor Slaton, the requisitions of Governor Blease will be g careful and courteous considering the
  • Wednesday, September 10th, 1913: Judge Leonard Strickland Roan, The Atlanta Journal

      The Atlanta Journal, Wednesday, 10th September 1913. PAGE 1, COLUMN 1 He is expected to succeed Judge Hill On the court of appeals bench. He is at present judge of the Stone Mountain circuit. NEW ATLANTA COURT WILL SHIFT JUDGES ON SEVERAL BENCHES Judge Benjamin Harvey Hill Probably Will Be Appointed by Governor Slaton to Pre- side Over New Court AT LEAST THREE COURTS ARE EXPECTED TO CHANGE Judge L. S. Roan Likely Will Go to Court of Appeals, and Charles S. Reid Become Circuit Judge Changes in the judgeships of three Georgia courts are expected to come about
  • Wednesday, 10th September 1913: New Atlanta Court Will Shift Judges On Several Benches, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 10th September 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.JUDGE L. S. ROANHe is expected to succeed Judge Hill on the court of appeals bench. He is at present judge of the Stone Mountain circuit.Judge Benjamin Harvey HillProbably Will Be Appointedby Governor Slaton to Pre-side Over New CourtAT LEAST THREE COURTSARE EXPECTED TO CHANGEJudge L. S. Roan Likely WillGo to Court of Appeals, andCharles S. Reid Become Cir-cuit JudgeChanges in the judgeships of three Georgia courts are expected to come about as the result of the general assembly's creation of the fourth division of the Atlanta circuit.Governor Slaton has given no
  • Thursday, 11th September 1913: Frank’s Lawyers Are Hunting For Affidavits, The Atlanta Journal

      The Atlanta Journal, Thursday, 11th September 1913, PAGE 7, COLUMN 1. Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey staid Thursday that he was receiving letters from various towns in the state informing him that the attorneys of Leo M. Frank are canvassing the towns to secure affidavits showing that jurors who convicted Frank were biased. Some of them say, stated the solicitor that they were approached for affidavits but that they declined to give them. Thursday, 11th September 1913: Frank's Lawyers Are Hunting For Affidavits, The Atlanta Journal  
  • Friday, 12th September 1913: Crawford Jackson Indicted Statement On Case Issues, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 12th September 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.Grand Jury Returns Bill Against Minister on Testimony of Girl and Her Parents " Fourteen-Year-Old Boy Indicted for MurderRev. Crawford Jackson was indicted by the grand jury Friday morning for attempted criminal assault, the indictment growing out of the charges made a short while ago by a young girl who was in his office. An indictment for attempted criminal assault was returned also against John T. Mitchell, the white man arrested by the country complaint on the accusation of a young girl living on the Utoy road.A true bill charging murder was
  • Friday, 12th September 1913 Newt Lee Ignored

    The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 12th September 1913.PAGE 7, COLUMN 4It was expected that a bill charging murder which was drawn against Newt Lee, the watchman at the National Pencil factory who figured in the Frank case, would be presented to the grand jury, to be no-billed, but it was not taken up Friday morning.Later the grand jury will take action on it, however, in order to clear the records in the case by formally returning the no-bill.Friday, 12th September 1913 Newt Lee Ignored
  • Sunday, 14th September 1913: Three Judgeships Announced Judge B. H. Hill Appointed To New Atlanta Judgeship, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 14th September 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Journal's Prediction ofWeekAgo Fulfilled inAppointmentsby Governor by WhichThreeCourts Are ShiftedJUDGE ROANSUCCEEDSTO COURT OFAPPEALSCharles S. Reed TakesJudgeRoan's Place on StoneMountain Circuit,George M.Napier Is SolicitorGeneralGovernor John M. Slaton yesterday announced appointmentsincident to the new Atlanta judgeship exactly as The Journalexclusively predicted last Wednesday.His appointments are as follows:To the fourth division of the Fulton superior court, JudgeBenjamin Harvey Hill, chief justice of the state court of appeals.To succeed Judge Hill on the court of appeals, Judge L. S.Roan, of the Stone Mountain circuit.To succeed Judge Roan on the Stone Mountain circuit,Charles S. Reid, solicitor general
  • Monday, 15th September 1913: Thaw Lawyer Uncle Of Mrs. Leo M. Frank, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 15th September 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.Samson Selig, an Atlantian by birth and well known locally.Samson Selig, one of Harry K. Thaw's legal advisers in his fight to prevent extradition from New Hampshire to New York, is an Atlantian by birth. He attended school here in his youth, later moving to the metropolis with his parents, and completing his education there. He is at present a member of the law firm of House, Grossman & Vorhause, of New York City.Samson Selig is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Selig, aunt and uncle of Mrs. Leo M. Frank.Samson
  • Tuesday, 16th September 1913: Veterans Urge Funds For Phagan Monument, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 16th September 1913,PAGE 7, COLUMN 6.Big Meeting ofInterested Or-ganizations Has BeenPro-posed forDecember 10A movement to gain the co-operation of the variousorganizations raising a fund for a Mary Phagan monument hasbeen placed on foot by Camp No. 763, United ConfederateVeterans of Marietta. A meeting of delegates from each of thebodies interested in the work is advocated. J. Gid Morris,commander of Camp No. 763, has offered his home for thepurpose on December 10. It is proposed at the same time tomake tentative plans for the erection of the shaft in time for itsunveiling on Confederate Memorial day, April 26,
  • Wednesday, 17th September 1913: Beavers Passes Up Pleas That He Get In Sheriff’s Race, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 17th September 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Beset by Friends andEnemiesto Try for CountyOffice,Beavers Declares He'sPoliceChief Till He's FiredSAID THAT WATERSWILLBE A FOURTHCANDIDATESince Beavers PrefersViceWar to Sheriffship,Mayo,Wright andMangum AreNow OnlyCandidatesAn effort on the part of some of the friends of Chief of PoliceJ. L. Beavers, who fear that his days in the office he now holds arenumbered, and some his enemies who want to stop the vicecrusade, to get the official to run for sheriff of Fulton county hasfailed.While admitting that a number of people had urged him tobecome a candidate for sheriff at the coming election, ChiefBeavers declared
  • Thursday, 18th September 1913: Detective John Black Jailed In Birmingham, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 18th September 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Such Is UnofficialReport Re-ceived by ChiefBeavers,Is Accused ofFightingUnofficial reports received by Chief of Police, James L.Beavers, Thursday morning from Birmingham, Ala., confirm, it issaid, telegraphic dispatches from that city to the effect thatDetective John Black, of the Atlanta department, had beenarrested there with J. F. Hargrove, also of Atlanta, following a fightbetween the two in the Exchange hotel Wednesday night. Thecharge, that of disturbing the peace, will be aired in the recorder'scourt Thursday afternoon.According to the reports from the Alabama city, the arrestwas made at the insistence of the hotel management, whosummoned
  • Saturday, 20th September 1913: Mary Phagan Case To Be Example For Cops School Of Detection, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 20th September 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 5.Taking the Mary Phagan case as an example, Chief of PoliceBeavers is going to instruct his men just what to do from first tolast in working on similar cases. He will give specific instructionsabout the preliminary steps in detection.The chief's firmest orders will be for the officers first todisturb the body as little as possible. He wants few footprintsaround the corpse. Also he will tell his men not to touch the bodyor clothing any more than possible. This is liable to obliteratefinger prints. The value of this evidence, said the chief Saturday,is
  • Sunday, 21st September 1913: Sheriff Mangum Will Run For Re-election, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 21st September 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 7.Announces as Candidate andReplies to Criticism of HisTreatment of FrankRumors to the effect that owing to advancing years Sheriff C.Wheeler Mangum, would not again be a candidate for publicoffice, are set at rest today be his formal announcement of hiscandidacy before the coming county primary.Although the primary will not be held until next year twocandidates are already in the field against Sheriff Mangum, andtwo others are said to be considering entering the race. In fact,the race is already running full blast.Owing to a recent illness, from which happily he has nowcompletely recovered,
  • Monday, 22nd September 1913: One Of Four Judges Hears Frank Motion?, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 22nd September 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 5.Judgeships Certain toChangeBefore Motion for NewTrial Is BroughtIt was stated on good authority Monday that Judge B. H. Hillof the state court of appeals, recently appointed by GovernorSlaton to the new judgeship in Fulton county's superior court, willresign his position in the court of appeals on October 11; and thatJudge Roan, now presiding in the criminal division of the Fultoncourt, recently appointed to succeed Judge Hill on the court ofappeals, will continue upon the bench of the Stone Mountaincircuit until about the same date.There has been much conjecture upon this point, for
  • Tuesday, 23rd September 1913: Sheriff C. W. Mangum Makes Announcement, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 23rd September 1913,PAGE 6, COLUMN 4.To the Citizens of Fulton County:Now that the wave of excitement and heat of passionincident to the Leo Frank trial has in a measure subsided I deem itadvisable to address a few words to the voters and the people ofthe county relative to the many baseless, unfounded, and unfairrumors which have been circulated about my treatment of thecounty's prisoner, Leo M. Frank.These rumors, many of which are too unreasonable to bedignified with a reply or denial, have largely originated with mypersonal and political enemies, solely for political purposes, butthey have been given
  • Wednesday, 24th September 1913: Leo M. Frank Again Heads B’nai B’rith, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 24th September 1913,PAGE 18, COLUMN 3.From Cell in Tower ManCon-demned to HangOperatesAffairs ofOrganizationLeo M. Frank has been re-elected president for another yearfor another year of the local branch of the B'nai B'rith, the Jewishcharitable organization.Other officers elected for the ensuing year are ArthurHeyman, law partner of Hugh M. Dorsey, Frank's prosecutor, vicepresident; Milton Klein, monitor; Dr. B. Wildauer, treasurer, and B.Kaufman, warden. The secretary of the organization is not electedat the same time with the other officers, and Sam P. Cronheimremains in the position.Frank was named to head for another term the order, whichis said to be
  • Sunday, 28th September 1913: Roan Not Likely To Hear Plea For New Frank Trial, The Atlanta Journal

      The Atlanta Journal, Sunday, 28th September 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMN 2. Although He Would Like to Do So, There Is, Little Probability That Case Will Reach Him in Time While Judge L. S. Roan, who presided at the trial of Leo M. Frank, is ready and willing to hear the motion for a new trial in the case, it still appears unlikely that the motion will be argued for several weeks, or before he becomes a judge of the court of appeals. Saturday the amended motion for a new trial had not been served upon the solicitor by Frank's
  • Monday, 29th Day of September 1913: Paul Donehoo Has Been Bridegroom a Week Now, The Atlanta Journal

      The Atlanta Journal, Monday, 29th September 1913, PAGE 2, COLUMN 2. Paul Donehoo Has Been Bridegroom a Week Now For a week Paul Donehoo, Fulton County's blind coroner, has been a bridegroom. He was married last Sunday to Miss Alverta Benson, and the secret of their wedding was not known except among a very few friends until the happy couple themselves announced it Sunday afternoon, exactly one week after the ceremony. They had intended to keep it secret for at least a month. Dr. S.R. Belk, the pastor of the Park Street Methodist Church in Atlanta, pronounced the words
  • Tuesday, 30th September 1913: Commission Asks Why Jail Is Overcrowded, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 30th September 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Solicitor Replies That 130 Cases Hang Fire for Lack of Judge and CourtThe board of county commissioners has officially called theattention of the solicitor general to the unusually crowdedcondition of the Fulton county jail, and has asked the reason forthe delay in the disposition of felony cases.This is the first time that the county commission has takenofficial cognizance of congested jail conditions and it is causingconsiderable comment.The solicitor general has replied to the board's letter, statingthat he is ready to take up the trial of jail prisoners whenever hecan secure a judge
  • Wednesday, 1st October 1913: Frank Motion Is Served On Solicitor, The Atlanta Journal

      The Atlanta Journal, Wednesday, 1st October 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMNS 4 & 7. PAGE 1, COLUMN 7 NEW TRIAL ASKED ON 115 COUTNS BY FRANK'S ATTORNEYS In Lengthy Document, Attorneys for Leo M. Frank Changes That Innumerable Errors Were Made by Court JURORS JOHENNING AND HENSLEE BOTH ATTACKED They Are Alleged to Have Gone on Jury Prejudiced Roan Now Expected to Hear the Motion Citing 115 separate counts and attacking two of the jurors, counsel for Leo M. Frank on Wednesday served on the solicitor general their amended motion for a new trial for the man convicted of Mary
  • Thursday, 2nd October 1913: Solicitor At Work Preparing Answer To Frank Motion, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 2nd October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.Dorsey Has Dropped All Other Business and Will Devote His Time Exclusively to New Trial FightJUROR JOHENNING SAYS HE WAS UNPREJUDICED He Declares He, Henslee and All the Others Served Only Through a Sense of Duty Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey has dropped all other business and is devoting his exclusive attention to the preparation of his answer to the defense's motion for a new trial for Leo M. Frank.The case is set for argument before Judge L. S. Roan on Saturday, but there is little chance of it being heard then.The
  • Saturday, 4th October 1913: Affidavits Attacking Frank Jurors Made Public Two Jurors Prejudiced, Say Affidavits, And Jury Heard Crowds Cheer And Threaten, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 4th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.Three Men Swear They Were TogetherWhen Juror Henslee Said He Knew Frank Was Guilty, and Five Say They IndiVidually Heard Him Say the Same Thing Three in Same Family Attack Juror Johenning AFFIDAVITS SAY JURYMEN TALKED TO PEOPLE WHILE WALKING ALONG STREETWhen Crowd Cheered for Dorsey Outside Court Room, Declare Affidavits, the Jury Members Looked Out of the Windows and Noticed the Demonstration Cheers in Court Room Also Mentioned.SENSATIONAL affidavits to support the contentions of the defense of Leo M. Frank that two of the jurors, who tried him were prejudiced; and
  • Sunday, 5th October 1913: Two Frank Jurors Firm In Denying Outside Pressure, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 5th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.M. Joehenning and A. H. HensleeHold Long Conference With Solicitor General Hugh DorseyAFFIDAVITS ARE HOTLY BRANDED AS FALSETold Truth When They Swore as Talesmen They Were Not Biased, They Declare Dorsey FramesReplyM. Joehenning and A. H. Henslee, the two Frank trial jurors, who were attacked in the defense's motion for a new trial, it being alleged that they entered upon their duties as jurors with a preconceived bias against the defendant, were interviewed at some length Saturday afternoon by Solicitor Dorsey.The solicitor is understood to have discussed with them the various affidavits
  • Monday, 6th October 1913: Judge Ellis Protests Reckless Auto Drivers, The Atlanta Journal

      The Atlanta Journal, Monday, 6th October 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMN 6. Writes Chief Beavers a Letter Telling of Alleged Violations of Law Judge W. D. Ellis, of the superior court, has written Chief of Police J. L. Beavers a letter requesting the arrest of an automobile driver, and incidentally registering a general protest against the way in which autoists are "fudging on the automobile laws." Judge Ellis declares in his letter that in regard to the law regulating the passing of trolley cars by automobiles that the automobile drivers are acting like baseball players who are preparing to steal
  • Tuesday, 7th October 1913: Dorsey And Stephens Busy In Valdosta, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 7th October 1913,PAGE 7, COLUMN 3.(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)VALDOSTA, Ga., Oct. 7Solicitor General Hugh Dorsey and Assistant Solicitor Ed Stephens of Atlanta, are spending this week in Valdosta, preparing the answer to the motion for a new trial which was made by the lawyers for Leo Frank in Atlanta recently.While Judge Thomas is holding court in Moultrie, Attorneys and Stephens are occupying his office in the county court house, where they have the advantage of his library and can carry on their work without interruption.PAGE 7, COLUMN 4HENSLEE ANSWERSPERJURY CHARGES OF FRANK DEFENSEFight for New TrialNowHinges
  • Wednesday, 8th October 1913: Frank Hearing To Be Postponed Another Week, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 8th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.DORSEY IN VALDOSTA SAYS HE CANNOT BE READY BY SATURDAY"Working Hard," Says Solicitor, "But Will Be Lucky If We Get Ready by 2 Week From Next Saturday"ANOTHER JUROR,ATLANTA MAN, WILL BE ATTACKEDJuror Said He Would Sit "Till Hell Froze Over," According To Affidavit That Defense Will File, It Is Said Special dispatches from Valdosta quote Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey as declaring positively that he will not be ready for the argument on the defense's motion for a new trial for Leo M. Frank on next Saturday."We are making slow progress," Mr.
  • Thursday, 9th October 1913: Judge Roan Tells Solicitor He Will Postpone Hearing, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 9th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.Dorsey Notified That Presence Will Be Waived Saturday,Date for New Hearing on FrankNew Trial MotionHEARING DATE LIKELY TO BE SATURDAYWEEKIn Meantime Machinery Is Clogged in Superior Courts of Two Circuits and in Court of AppealsJudge L. S. Roan, of the Stone Mountain circuit, on Thursday notified Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey that he would be granted the additional time needed to complete his preparation of the state's answer to the motion for a new trial for Leo M. Frank, convicted of the Mary Phagan murder.Solicitor Dorsey is now at Valdosta, and Judge
  • Friday, 10th October 1913: Roan Not To Resign Until After Hearing, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 10th October 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.Judge Hill's Statement Dispells All DoubtThat Roan WillPreside Doubt that the Frank motion for a new trial would be heard by Judge L. S. Roan has been dispelled by a statement from Judge Ben H. Hill, of the court of appeals."I do not know just when I will forward my resignation from the court of appeals," Judge Hill said, "but I presume that Judge Roan and I will continue in our present capacities until we have both disposed of all unfinished business."The hearing of the motion for a new trial for Leo
  • Saturday, 11th October 1913: Dorsey And Stephens To Confer With Henslee, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 11th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.They Hope to Have Their Case Ready by Next Saturday (Special Dispatch to The Journal.)ALDOSTA, Ga., Oct. 11.Solicitor Hugh Dorsey and Assistant Solicitor A. E. Stephens are working on the Frank case today, and will finish the brief tonight.They hope to get through with the motion by Tuesday, and devote the balance of next week to law and facts in the case.They will also have to get affidavits from jurors and others.Juror Henslee is expected here to spend Sunday on a visit to his brother-in-law and incidentally to see Messrs.Dorsey and Stephens.They
  • Sunday, 12th October 1913: Says He Stole For His Wife And Baby, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 12th October 1913,PAGE 10, COLUMN 4.A heart-broken letter from his wife who is in destitute circumstances in Jacksonville, Fla., with their little baby, is given by W. M. Herald, twenty years old, as the reason why he snatched a pocketbook from a well-dressed woman at the corner of Whitehall and Mitchell streets, shortly after 10 o'clock last night.According to the story related to the police, the boy came here a few days ago seeking work in a soda water parlor, but had met with no success.Saturday, he said, the letter came, begging for money and he was
  • Monday, 13th October 1913: Frank Defense Arms To Back Fight On Henslee, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 13th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.Affidavits Are Secured as to Character of Men Who Attack Frank JurorThe work of strengthening their attack upon JurorA. H. Henslee is being continued by the attorneys for Leo M. Frank, the hearing of whose motion for a new trial is now set for next Saturday.Anticipating a possible attack on the makers of depositions who charge that they heard Henslee before the trial make statements showing that he was prejudiced against Frank, the attorneys have secured additional affidavits relative to the character of these witnesses.Recently citizens of Sparta declared that the three
  • Tuesday, 14th October 1913: Henslee Gives Dorsey Material For Defense, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 14th October 1913,PAGE 20, COLUMN 4.Frank Juror Attacked Confers With Solicitor Latter Due Here WednesdayAccording to dispatches from Valdosta, Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey and his assistant, E. A. Stephens, will leave that place for Atlanta Tuesday night.The solicitor refuses to state whether or not he will be ready on Saturday for the argument of Leo M. Frank's motion for a new trial.The solicitor and his assistant have devoted their entire time to working on the voluminous motion, and will continue after their return to Atlanta.However, so many points are involved in the defense's motion and the
  • Wednesday, 15th October 1913: Further Delay Is Needed On Frank Motion, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 15th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMNS 4 & 5.Solicitor,Back From Valdosta, Says He Can't Be Ready Saturday to Answer FullyThe New Trial Motion SolicitorGeneral Hugh M. Dorsey arrived in Atlanta Wednesday morning from Valdosta, where he has spent ten days quietly working on the motion of Leo M. Frank for a new trial.Mr. Dorsey reluctantly states that he does not see how it will be possible for him to get ready for the argument of the motion by Saturday, when it is scheduled for a hearing before Judge L. S. Roan, of the Stone Mountain circuit.The solicitor is
  • Thursday, 16th October 1913: Mounted Traffic Men Are Assigned To Duty, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 16th October 1913,PAGE 6, COLUMN 1.Nucleus of New Mounted Squad Put to Work Thursday by Chief BeaversTwo mounted traffic policemen were put on duty Thursday morning by Chief of Police James L. Beavers.The officers were E. J. Pate and C. T. Maddox.They will form the nucleus of a mounted traffic squad which will be added to from time to time.These men will ride the streets in the center of the city, and their principal duty will be to keep things moving.Their beat will include parts of Peachtree, Whitehall, Forsyth, Marietta and Decatur streets near the center of
  • Friday, 17th October 1913: Juror Johenning Ready For Defense, He Says, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 17th October 1913,PAGE 24, COLUMN 3.Frank Trial Juror in Conference With Solicitor-Confident of VindicationM.Johenning one of the jurors who has been attacked as prejudiced in the defense's motion for a new trail for Leo M. Frank, was in conference with Solicitor H. M. Dorsey on Friday morning.Johenning declares that he is confident that at the hearing of the motion he will be completely vindicated of the charge brought against him.While the former juror would not discuss the case in detail, he intimates that he has already secured affidavits which he believes will result in his complete vindication.In
  • Saturday, 18th October 1913: Frank Hearing Wednesday Motion For A New Trial To Be Heard By Judge L. S. Roan, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 18th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Attorney Luther Z. RosserDeclares Unless Hearing Is Given Immediately He'll Have To Drop CaseTemporarilyDORSEY ANNOUNCES HE WILL BE READY ON DATEJudge Roan FixesDefinite Date for Hearing Defense and Prosecution to Swap Affidavits to Speed ProcedureThe motion for a new trial for Leo M. Frank, convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, was Saturday set for a hearing before Judge L. S. Roan on next Wednesday morning and there is little probability that there will be any further delay.Next Monday morning Attorney Luther Z. Rosser, chief counsel for the defense, and Solicitor Hugh
  • Sunday, 19th October 1913: New Feature In Frank Case Perhaps Tomorrow, The Atlanta Journal

      The Atlanta Journal, Sunday, 19th October 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMN 5. Exchange of Affidavits by State and Defense May Reveal New Attack on Jury It is believed that several surprises will be sprung on Monday when Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey and Attorney Luther Z. Rosser exchange affidavits bearing upon the motion for a new trial made by Leo M. Frank, who is under conviction for the murder of Mary Phagan, the pencil factory girl. Saturday morning, just after Judge Roan had set next Wednesday morning as the date when he will hear the new trial motion, Solicitor Dorsey
  • Monday, 20th October 1913: J.c. Shirley, Marietta Street Furniture Dealer, Named By I. W. Fisher In Phagan Case, Laughs At Accusations, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal, Monday, 20th October 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMNS 1, 3, & 6. NAMED IN PHAGAN CASE BY FISHER, HE TREATS ACCUSATION AS JOKE J. C. SHIRLEY. I. W. Fisher, Who Says He Knows Who Killed Mary Phagan IRA W. FISHER PAGE 1, COLUMN 6 "FISHER IS A LUNATIC AND HIS STORY IS A PIPE DREAM, THAT NOBODY WILL BELIEVE" Informed by The Journal That He Is the Man Named by Fisher as Having Had an Engagement to Meet Mary Phagan on the Day of Her Death in National Pencil Factory, Well Known Marietta Street Merchant Is Astonished and
  • Tuesday, 21st October 1913: Motion To Quash Indictment Gets Judges Approval, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal, Tuesday, 21st October 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMNS 1, 2, & 7. Case Ended Suddenly There Tuesday Morning and Demonstration in Court Was Not Rebuked by Judge Foster S. G. M'LENDON, ATTORNEY FOR WATSON, WINS POINT Charge of Sending Obscene Matter Through the Mails Is Quashed Before Jury Is EmPaneled to Weigh It (By Associated Press.) AUGUSTA, Ga., Oct. 21. The trial here of Thomas E. Watson, charged with sending obscene matter through the mails, ended abruptly at noon today when Federal Judge Rufus E. Foster sustained the motion of the defense quashing the indictment against the Georgia
  • Wednesday, 22nd October 1913: Little Progress In First Session On Frank Trial Motion, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal, Wednesday, 22nd October 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMNS 1, 6, & 7. STRIKER CHEERED AS HE SPEAKS IN COURT Two Men Fined for Alleged Threats Strikes Meet and Parade Three striking operatives of the Fulton Bag and Cotton mills were arraigned in police court Wednesday morning on charges of disorderly conduct. There was a large crowd of operatives in the court room as spectators and Judge Broyles had to rap for order during an impassioned speech of one of the men on trial. R. L. Wood and W. E. Fleming were fined $10 and costs each, it being
  • Thursday, 23rd October 1913: Frank Jurors Like Scared Rabbits Jury Frightened Into Its Verdict, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 23rd October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMNS 3 & 7.JURY FRIGHTENED INTO ITS VERDICT.CHARGES MR. ARNOLD"Did the Jury Hear Applause and Cheering?"Is Big Question for Judge Roan to Pass Upon23 COUNTS CONSIDERED AT THE MORNING SESSIONThree New Affidavits Will Be Introduced by Defense to Show Henslee Was in Albany at Time It Was ClaimedThe twelve jurors who declared Leo M. Frank guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan were compared with "twelve scared rabbits huddled together" by R. R. Arnold, of counsel for the convicted man, Thursday morning during the hearing by Judge L. S. Roan of the defense's
  • Friday, 24th October 1913: Frank Motion Is Almost Ready For The Arguments Now, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 24th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Few More Depositions to Be Read by the Defense-State Will Follow, Then the Arguments Will Begin.READING OF MOTION NOT COMPLETED UNTIL NOONState and Defense Fight Hard Over Latter's Plea for New Trial Trial Conduct and JurorsAttackedThree hours of the Friday morning session of Judge Roan's court, engaged since Wednesday in hearing the defense's motion for a new trial of Leo M. Frank on the charge of murdering Mary Phagan, were devoted to further disputes among the lawyers for the state and defense over points involved in the motion itself, the disputes being
  • Saturday, 25th October 1913: Frank Case To Continue Monday, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 25th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMNS 3, 4, & 7.New Frank Trial Could Not Be Held in Fulton Nor With Roan or DorseyWhen New Trial Is Granted on Grounds of Prejudice, a Change of Venue as to Judge, Jury and Prosecuting Attorney Is NecessaryIf a new trial is granted to Leo M. Frank upon the grounds of prejudice which the defense alleges in its motion along with numerous other grounds, that will mean:First, Leo M. Frank will be tried in another county and another judicial circuit; andSecond, a new judge and a new solicitor will replace Judge Roan
  • Sunday, 26th October 1913: We Want A Trial, Not A New Trial, Says Atty. Arnold, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 26th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.Attorney for Leo M.Frank Says Convicted ManHasn't Had One YetHearing WillJURY POLL NOT COMPLETE WHEN CROWDS YELLED JOYThat Alone Invalidated Trial, Says Arnold LampoonsDr. Harris Says Capital Punishment Is Near EndWhen the hearing of the motion for a new trial for Leo M. Frank, convicted of the Mary Phagan murder, was adjourned Saturday afternoon until Monday by Judge L. S. Roan, Attorney Reuben R. Arnold, of the Frank defense, was in the midst of a most remarkable speech.He was demanding, he declared, not a new trial for Frank, but a trial, for
  • Monday, 27th October 1913: Dorsey Coerced Jury By Fear Of Mob Violence, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 27th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.So DeclaresAttorneyReuben R. Arnold,Who Was Still SpeakingWhen CourtAdjourned at 12:30o'Clock"CONLEY PROTECTED BY SOLICITOR,"ARNOLD SAYSWith additional excoriation of the solicitor general, Hugh M. Dorsey, for his methods in conducting the state's case at the trial of Leo M. Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan, and with additional attacks upon the evidence which the state marshalled against Frank to secure his conviction, Attorney R. R. Arnold, of counsel for Frank, occupied the morning session Monday of the new trial hearing in Frank's behalf before Judge L. S. Roan.Mr. Arnold began his speech about
  • Tuesday, 28th October 1913: Solicitor Dorsey Hammers Frank New Trial Motion, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 28th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.COURTS MUST KEEP RESPECT OF PEOPLE ARGUES SOLICITORFrank Verdict Must Not Be Upset If Administration of Law Is Not to Be Brought Into Contempt, Says DorseyTAKES A BOLD STAND AGAINST A NEW TRIAL Solicitor Denies Racial Prejudice by Henslee or Community Against Frank Opens Hard Upon the DefenseIf the verdict of guilty against Leo M. Frank in the Mary Phagan murder case is set aside upon such trivial grounds as the convicted man's lawyers recite in their motion for a new trial, it will justify very largely the contempt in which authorities
  • Wednesday, 29th October 1913: Frank New Trial Hearing To End This Afternoon, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 29th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMNS 1 & 7.MR. ROSSER NEARS FINISH OF TALK;THEN UP TO JUDGEJudge Roan is Expected to Take Case Under Consideration and Withhold Decision Until Saturday, Perhaps ROSSER ATTACKS HENSLEE AND DERIDES MR. DORSEY"God Deliver Me From Such Sympathy!"He Exclaims,of Emotion Shown by Juror and the Solicitor General Emphatic denounciation of the state's case against Leo M. Frank and all that appertained to it was the burden of Luther Z. Rosser's speech Wednesday before Judge L. S. Roan.Attorney Rosser dwelt with emphasis upon the charge against Juror Henslee, and returned to that subject repeatedly
  • Thursday, 30th October 1913: New Trial Motion Of Frank Will Be Ruled On Friday, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 30th October 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Judge Roan ReservesDecisionUntil Friday Morning to Look Into Certain Matters of Law Involved in CaseWHOLE FIGHT CENTERED ON STORY OF NEGRO, CONLEYRosser's Final Plea Charged That Judge Roan "Destroyed Frank's Life" in Admitting Negro's Story as EvidenceJudge L. S. Roan will announce his decision, granting or denying Leo M. Frank a new trial, on Friday morning.At the conclusion of the final argument on the new trial motion late Wednesday afternoon the judge stated that he would reserve his decision to look into certain matters of law for himself and also that the
  • Friday, 31st October 1913: Leo Franks Lawyers Prepare For Supreme Court Fight, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 31st October 1913,PAGE 1 COLUMNS 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7."I AM NOT CONVINCED OF FRANK'S INNOCENCE OR GUILT,"DECLARES JUDGE ROAN IN REFUSING DEFENDANT NEW TRIAL PAGE 1, COLUMN 3GRAND JURY URGES GREATER SPEED IN TRYING JAIL CASESJudge Pendleton,in Reply,DeclaresFourth Judge Will Make Delay of More Than One WeekUnnecessary"I believe the day has come in Fulton county when no man will be forced to wait in jail more than a week before he has a trial," declared Judge John T. Pendleton, of the superior court, when discharging the grand jury Friday."The remarks of the court were
  • Saturday, 1st November 1913: Judge Hill Discusses Appellate Court Work, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal, Saturday, 1st November 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMN 6. Writes Letter Thanking Gov. Slaton for Appointment to New Bench Judge Benjamin Harvey Hill, who has resigned as chief judge of the state court of appeals to accept the appointment of judge of the new criminal division of the Fulton county superior court, Saturday morning wrote Governor Slaton a letter expressing his appreciation of the appointment. In this letter Judge Hill takes occasion to call attention to the work which is being done by the state court of appeals. His letter, in part, follows: I trust that it will
  • Sunday, 2nd November 1913: Five Judges For New Municipal Court Selected, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal, Sunday, 2nd November 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMN 2. L. F. McClelland, E. D. Thomas, J. B. Ridley, T. O. Hathcock and Luther Ros- ser, Jr., Are Recommended GOVERNOR WILL MAKE FORMAL APPOINTMENT Officials to Succeed Justices of Peace Chosen by Supe- rior Court Judges From Fifty Applicants The five judges of Atlantas new municipal court will be: L. F. McClelland, E. D. Thomas, J. B. Ridley, T. O. Hathcock and Luther Rosser, Jr. They were chosen from among fifty applicants by the four judges of the Atlanta superior court. The circuit judges met yesterday afternoon and determined
  • Monday, 3rd November 1913: Judges Of New Court Are Named, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal, Monday, 3rd November 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMN 4. Four of the five judges of the municipal court, which will take the place in Atlanta of the courts of the justices of the peace, are shown here. At the top on the left is Eugene D. Thomas, and on the right L. F. McClelland. Below are Luther Z. Rosser, Jr., and James B. Ridley, the latter the only justice of the peace to get on the new court. The fifth judge of the municipal court, T. O. Hathcock, is not shown in the picture.       PAGE
  • Tuesday, 4th November 1913: Two Negro Highwaymen Given 20 Years In Pen, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal, Tuesday, 4th November 1913, PAGE 5, COLUMN 1. Extreme Penalty Imposed on Men Accused of Robbing Attorney Hooper Sam Reed and Oscar Wright, negroes, were sentenced to twenty years each in the penitentiarythe extreme penalty of the lawby Judge Ben H. Hill in the criminal division of the superior court Tuesday, when they were found guilty of holding up, assaulting and robbing Attorney Frank A. Hooper June 2. Mr. Hooper, widely known because of his association with Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey in the prosecution of Leo M. Frank, was one of the first witnesses called by the
  • Wednesday, 5th November 1913: Bridge Party For Visitors, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 5th November 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Miss Margaret Bramlett entertained at a bridge partyWednesday afternoon at her home in Inman Park, the occasion assembling a largenumber of her friends to meet two attractive visitors. Miss Grace Lipscomb, ofWashington, D. C., and Miss Elizabeth Lipscomb, of Jackson, Miss., who are theguests of Mrs. Rosser at the Majestic.The house was decorated with a luxuriant growth of palms andferns, with growing plants, and the rooms where the card tables were placedwere illuminated with numbers of pink candles in brass stands on the mantelsand cabinets.The prize for top score was a boudoir
  • Thursday, 6th November 1913: Mrs. Crawford Wants Case To Be Tried Soon, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 6th November 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.Her AttorneyAsks for SpecialSolicitor to Bring Case Be-fore Next Grand JuryAnxious to clear the cloud from her wascharged by a justice court warrant seven months ago with the murder of herhusband, the late Joshua B. Crawford, in 1909, Friday took steps to force atrial of her case.Attorney Burton Smith, representingMrs. Crawford, appeared before Judge W. D. Ellis and asked what a specialsolicitor general be named to bring the Crawford case before the grand jury.Judge Ellis declined to act, as JudgeBen H. Hill is now exercising complete jurisdiction over criminal matters, butJudge Hill
  • Friday, 7th November 1913: Attorney Presents Alibi For Convicted Negro, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 7th November 1913,PAGE 8, COLUMN 3.Attorney Bernard L. Chapel has filed amotion for a new trial for Oscar Wright, one of the two negroes convicted inthe superior court this week of holding up and assaulting Attorney Frank A.Hooper, who was associated with the prosecution of the Frank case.The attorney declares that Wright onthe date of the hold-up for which he was convicted, June 2, was in the countychaingang, and Transfer Guard Aaron-Thompson declares that the negro was notreleased until July 19.PAGE 13, COLUMN 4JOHN Y.SMITH IS CHOSENTO TRY MRS. CRAWFORDSolicitor Dorsey Disqualified inCriminal Case, Which Is toBe
  • Saturday, 8th November 1913: Court Asked To Enjoin Georgia Power Company, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 8th November 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.Right of Eminent Domain At-Tacked in Suit Filed byMrs. S. C. LoebA suit, which, if sustained, my preventthe Georgia Railway and Power company exercising the right of eminent domain,and so prevent it carrying electrical power through tower lines from TallulahFalls and other sites to cities which will consume the power, was filed insuperior court Saturday by Attorney H. A. Alexander.The plaintiff in the case is Mrs. S. C.Loeb, and on her petition, Judge John T. Pendleton, of superior court, issued atemporary order restraining the power company from condemning a right of waythrough
  • Sunday, 9th November 1913: Jim Conley Faces Trial On Tuesday, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 9th November 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.NegroCharged With Being Ac-cessory After Fact in Murderof Mary PhaganJim Conley, the negro sweeper at theNational Pencil factory, principal witness against Leo M. Frank, who is undersentence of death for the murder of Mary Phagan on April 26, will be put ontrial Tuesday before Judge B. H. Hill, of the criminal division of the Fultoncounty superior court.Conley is under two indictments, bothcharging him with being an accessory after the fact in the murder of the Phagangirl. These indictments are based upon his own admission that he assisted Frankin taking the girls body
  • Monday, 10th November 1913: Supreme Court Refuses To Postpone Frank Hearing, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 10th November 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMNS 1, 4, & 6.PAGE 1, COLUMN 1PAGE 1, COLUMN 4DETECTIVESARE PROBINGCAUSE OF GRAYSDEATHMember ofCoroners Jury IsNot Satisfied With Verdictof AccidentA member of the coroners jury whichinvestigated the death of S. A. Gray, the elevator operator who was killed in afall down the elevator shaft of the Austell building Saturday night, telephonedto Chief of Police Beavers that he was not satisfied with the verdict ofaccident and desired the chief to investigate. Chief Beavers refused todivulge the mans name, but immediately assigned two detectives on the casewith instructions to report to him as soon
  • Tuesday, 11th November 1913: Jim Conleys Case May Be Reached Wednesday, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 11th November 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.AllegedAccomplice of Leo M.Frank Not Arraigned Tues-Day, as Was ExpectedJim Conley, the negro sweeper at theNational Pencil factory, who was the principal witness against Leo M. Frank,convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, was not arraigned on the charge ofbeing an accessory after the fact Tuesday morning, as had been expected. Conleywas brought to the court house with other prisoners, but Solicitor Dorseyannounced to newspaper men that he would not be arraigned today on account of apress of business in the court.It is believedConleys case will be reached Wednesday. In the meantime,
  • Wednesday, 12th November 1913: Frank Arguments Will Be Heard December 15, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 12th November 1913,PAGE 20, COLUMN 5.LeoM. Franks appeal from the decision of Judge L. S. Roan denying him a new trialis expected to reach the clerk of the state supreme court on next Monday, andargument on the appeal will in all probability be heard by the court onDecember 15.Wednesday, 12th November 1913: Frank Arguments Will Be Heard December 15, The Atlanta Journal
  • Thursday, 13th November 1913: Judge Halts Trial Of Jim Conley As Dorsey Begins It, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 13th November 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.Bench Gives No Reason, butAfter Conference, Case GoesOver to Monday May Waiton FrankWhen the case against Jim Conley, the negro indicted as an accessory after the fact in the Mary Phagan murder, was called for trial Thursday afternoon at 1:45 o'clock, just fifteen minutes before the regular hour for the court to adjourn. Judge Ben H. Hill announced that he would not begin the trial at this time.Judge Hill did not offer any reasons why he postponed the trial, but it is believed around the court house that he wishes to await
  • Saturday, 15th November 1913: Franks Appeal Is Set For Thirty Days Hence, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 15th November 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Bill of Exceptions Reaches Su-preme Court- Will Conley BeTried Next Week?Leo M. Franks bill of exceptions tothe judgement of Judge L. S. Roan in refusing him a new trial reached the clerkof the supreme court Saturday at noon. The case was placed upon the calendarfor argument on December 15.Murder cases come to the supreme courton what is known as a fast writ, which means that they take precedence overcivil cases in the consideration of the court. It is likely that the supremecourt will render its decision in the Frank case within from
  • Sunday, 16th November 1913: Woman And Daughter Drugged And Robbed, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 16th November 1913,PAGE 2, COLUMN 5.Shows How Real BrotherlyLove Lasts Through BothProsperity and AdversityEditor Firing Line: I never let go faraway but what I think of home and friends. Home influences are the best. Butwhat are friends? Tom Moore said: There was nothing true but heaven.I would love to furnish a story for yourpartner, a true Atlanta story of how a young man struggling for life gained ahome and family, Christian friends who were all pie. A little later whenmisfortune came, those same Christian friends went. And how he struggledagainst adversity without the smile and bows and
  • Monday, 17th November 1913: Franks Appeal Is Set For Thirty Days Hence, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 17th November 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 5.Judge HoldsContract Validand Grants Temporary Re-strainingOrderA novel and interesting point wasraised in Judge J. T. Pendletons division of the superior court Monday morningwhen the court issued a temporary restraining order in behalf of a petitionerwho sought to enforce a contract whereunder the defendant bound himself not toengage in the printing business in Atlanta.The parties to the suit were Mrs. EllenF. Knowles, of Cincinnati, represented by Dorsey, Shelton & Dorsey, Atlantaattorneys, and George Holtman, formerly of Cincinnati, now of Atlanta. In her petitionMrs. Knowles recited that she and the defendant formerly were engaged
  • Tuesday, 18th November 1913: Legal Fight Is Waged Over Mothers Will, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 18th November 1913,PAGE 2, COLUMN 4.Daughters ofMrs. EmmaLee Go to Court to SettleDisputeA bitter fight between three sistersover $50,000 estate left by their mother. Mrs. Emma G. Lee, commenced beforeJudge George L. Bell in superior court Tuesday morning.The youngest of the sisters, Mrs. AnnieLa Rue Lee Mizell, 139 East North avenue, has filed a caveat to the willprobated early this year by her older sisters, Mrs. Maude Lee Thompson, 332Houston street, and Mrs. Claude Lee Stamps, 318 Washington street.The will to which exception has beentaken divides the estate, which consists principally of realty near Covington,where the Lee
  • Wednesday, 19th November 1913: Frank Trial Unfair, Jewish Rabbi Says In Scathing Speech, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 19th November 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Rev.Alexander Lyons, ofBrooklyn, Declares Prison-ers Jewish Nationality In-fluenced Verdict ofGuiltyGIRLSALLEGED SLAYERCOMPARED TOBEILISSConditionsAre Worse HereThan in Czars Domain, HeSays, Because of ChristianPretensesRabbi Alexander Lyons, one of theforemost Jews in America, speaking at the Eighth Avenue temple, in Brooklyn,last Friday night, compared Atlanta and the Frank case with Russia and theBeiliss ritual murder case in an address which is attracting attention over theentire country.Dr. Lyons subject was Americaninterference in Russia, which he advocated, but he devoted considerable time tothe Frank case, urging America to keep her own household in order.At this distance, the rabbi
  • Thursday, 20th November 1913: Conley Trial Put Off At Request Of Dorsey, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 20th November 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 3.Will Not BeHeld During Pres-ent Week-Smith toFileDemandIt was announced Thursday morning bySolicitor Dorsey that the case of Jim Conley, indicted as accessory after thefact for the murder of Mary Phagan, would not be called during the presentweek. The case was expected to come up Thursday. No reason was given by thesolicitor for not calling the case, further than that there was a crush ofcases for trial.Conleysattorney, W. M. Smith, on Friday will file a written demand for a trial on theminutes of the court. This will insure Conley being tried during this
  • Friday, 21st November 1913: Jim Conleys Lawyer Prepares To Demand Trial For His Client, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 21st November 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Attorney W. M. Smith DeclaresHe Will Take Actionin Be-Half of Negro SomeTimeNext WeekAlthough no demand for a trial forJames Conley, the negro who says he assisted in disposing of Mary Phagansafter she was murdered in the National Pencil factory, has been filed, there isevery indication that such action will be taken by William M. Smith, hisattorney, next week.Attorney Smith had a demand for trialwritten and in his pocket Friday afternoon, when the criminal division of thesupporter court adjourned for the week, but did not file it, he says, becauseSolicitor General Hugh M.
  • Saturday, 22nd November 1913: Judge Broyles Explains Why He Fined Woman, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 22nd November 1913,PAGE 2, COLUMN 1.Miss Austin Took Law IntoHer Own Hands and BrokeIt, Says RecorderEditor The Journal:There seems to besome misapprehension about the case of the young woman who was fined the otherday for beating a white chauffeur with her umbrella on the public streets ofthe city.This case waswritten up in sensational style as that woman being fined for defending herselffrom a masher. Whereas, it was a very different case. The evidence showedthat a white chauffeur, driving a taxi-cab for a living, and located near thecorner of Luckie and Broad streets had hollered out to Miss
  • Sunday, 23rd November 1913: Postpone Entertainment For Home For The Blind, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 23rd November 1913,PAGE 52, COLUMN 3.PromotersHave Been Unableto Obtain Theater forDecember 6The entertainment planned to take placeDecember 6 to aid the Home for the Blind has been indefinitely postponedbecause no theater could be obtained for the occasion. S. V. D. fraternity willgive a benefit entertainment for the institution December 17, and it would nothave been feasible to hold a second entertainment for the same cause any laterin December.Those who had the entertainment incharge wish to thank Charles E. Sheldon, Jr., who volunteered to arrange amusical program, and Lamar Hill, who expressed a willingness to look after thedramatic
  • Monday, 24th November 1913: Chief Beavers Is Paid Tribute, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 24th November 1913,PAGE 6, COLUMN 4.BY DR. RIDLEYIn the course of a short talk at theCentral Baptist church Sunday, Dr. Caleb A. Ridley, the pastor, paid a hightribute to Chief of Police J. L. Beavers, whose vice crusades have attracted somuch attention.Jim Beavers is Gods gift to us, saidthe pastor, and we thank God for him.Dr. Ridleysremarks were made after a sermon by Dr. Neighbours, the evangelist, who hasbeen preaching at the Central Baptist church the past week. Sunday there weremore than thirty members added to the church, according to the pastors report.Monday, 24th November 1913: Chief
  • Tuesday, 25th November 1913: Men And Religion Bulletin No. 85, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 25th November 1913,PAGE 11, COLUMN 5.FOLLOW MEI am the good shepherd;the good shepherd layethdown his life for the sheep.He that is a hireling fleeth.John 10-11:12Miss Edith Appleyard died Monday.She was once matron at Agnes ScottCollege.Christ touched her heart.She wished to serve.She said:--Send me to any placeonly put me whereI can reach and help the nethermost.Chief Beavers closed Atlantas housesof shame.Help was offered the fallen; BellSommers was saved; she gave mon-ey to founda home for them.Miss Appleyard came to give her life.She left Agnes Scott College.She became matron of Marthas Home.She went into the hells of earth tosave
  • Wednesday, 26th November 1913: Anti Leaders Quiz Chief On Blind Tiger Policy, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 26th November 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.DuBose and Richards InquireWhy Arrests ArentMade.No Money, Is AnswerA query as tothe attitude of the police and detective authorities toward blind tiger conditionswhich are alleged to exist in Atlanta, was the meat of a conference which Rev.Dr. H. M. DuBose and Rev. J. B. Richards, the former an official of the GeorgiaAnti-Saloon league, and the latter its secretary, had with Chief of PoliceBeavers and Chief of Detectives Lanford in the formers office Wednesday. TheAnti-Saloon leaguers were accompanied to the conference by J. W. Hewitt, aprivate detective.This querydeveloped the answer of the police
  • Thursday, 27th November 1913: Old-fashioned Lawyer Has Departed Forever, Judge Pendleton Says, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 27th November 1913,PAGE 4, COLUMN 3.The old-fashioned oratorical lawyer, inhis Prince Albert coat and with beaver full of papers, is gone forever, JudgePendleton, of the superior court, told the members of the Atlanta Law schoolWednesday afternoon.Successful lawyers of today, the judgesaid, prepare their cases thoroughly and depend on the accurate and skillfulpresentation of facts to convince judges and jurors. The judge said in part:The old-time lawyer was a declaimer.He walked into the court with his meditative, Hamlet style, wearing a PrinceAlbert coat and carrying his papers in his silk hat. His vest was buttoned onlyat the bottom,
  • Friday, 28th November 1913: Beautiful Luncheon, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 28th November 1913,PAGE 13, COLUMN 3.Mrs. L. Z. Rosser, Jr., was hostess atluncheon Friday at the Piedmont club in compliment to Miss Ruth Rosser and herguests, Miss Eva Renfro, Miss Clara Belle Glover, Miss Cynthia Ellis and MissNell Walker, who are college mates at Brenau.Luncheon was servedin the pink room and the group of young girls made a charming picture groupedaround a flower-laden table, the centerpiece of Killarney roses and all theminor details of the luncheon continuing a color scheme of rose pink.Friday, 28th November 1913: Beautiful Luncheon, The Atlanta Journal
  • Saturday, 29th November 1913: Horse Hauls Buggy Right Into Hardware Store After Fodder, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 29th November 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.A small stack of fodder left over froma Thanksgiving window decoration, two plate glass windows and Zeb, the buggyhorse of G. R. Garner, formed the cast of a little tragedy Friday afternoonmuch to the discomfiture of the King Hardware company at 442 Marietta Street.Zeb, who is about as well known asChief of Police Beavers, was standing in front of the Garner store, dozing infront of the Garner store, dozing peacefully when awakened by a passingtrolley. In the window of the King Hardware Company he spied a stack of fodderthat once formed a
  • Sunday, 30th November 1913: Tech Hi Boys Admire Atlantas Police Chief, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 30th November 1913,PAGE 48, COLUMN 2.First Grade C Boys Name So-ciey in His Honor Ex-pect SpeechBY Wm. A. MWHORTER.One company of Atlantas comingcitizens admire the great work of Chief Beavers, for the moral uplift of ourcity. Over at Tech High school the first grade boys of section C have organizeda literary society in honor of Chief Beavers and have named the organizationThe Chief Beavers Literary and Debating Society. The boys are enthusiasticin their support of the society and trust that they will be as successful inthe art of public speaking as the chief has been in his
  • Monday, 1st December 1913: Crawfords Death Not By Poison, Say Doctor Experts, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 1st December 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Dr. Hurt Testifies Patient Was Given Morphine Injections by His Order and This Might Have Left TracesDr. J. W. Hurt, county physician, who attended the late Joshua B. Crawford, said on the witness stand in the civil litigation over the Crawford estate Monday it was his positive opinion that Crawford died of pneumonia, and not from poison administered by Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford or anyone else.The physician swore he did not believe it possible for him to have mistaken the cause of Crawford's death, and further asserted that the symptoms of morphia
  • Wednesday, 3rd December 1913: Capt. West Bound Over And Fined By Broyles, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 3rd December 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.Marine Captain Says He Sought Minister's Aid in Domestic TroublesCaptain Ernest E. West, the marine officer who was arrested Monday on a charge of attacking Mrs. John H. Jones, his wife's mother, was fined $50.75 for disorderly conduct Tuesday afternoon by Recorder N. R. Broyles, who also bound him over to the state courts on a charge of assault and battery.His bond was fixed at $2,500 in the state case.It is expected that as the result of the action of the recorder the warrant in the court of Justice of the Peace
  • Friday, 5th December 1913: Photo Of Chiefs Staff Presented To Beavers, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 5th December 1913,PAGE 6, COLUMN 3.Chief of Police James L. Beavers has been presented with a handsome group picture of himself and the leading officers of his department, together with a photograph album showing pictures of every officer on the force.All of these pictures were reproduced in the current issue of The Detective, the national police journal, and were the gift of A. H. Dunlap, of The Detective staff.Friday, 5th December 1913: Photo Of Chiefs Staff Presented To Beavers, The Atlanta Journal
  • Saturday, 6th December 1913: Frank Papers In Custody Of Court Clerk, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 6th December 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Lawyers Completing Briefs to Be Ready for Supreme CourtDecember 15Solicitor General Dorsey Saturday secured an order from Judge Ben H. Hill, of the criminal division of the superior court, for the return to the clerk's office of the original papers in the case against Leo M. Frank, convicted of the Mary Phagan murder.The original papers were taken from the clerk's office on November 15 through an order signed by Judge Hill, which placed them in the hands of the counsel for the defense for twenty-five days from date.The order was revoked, however,
  • Tuesday, 9th December 1913: Boy Who Posed As Deaf And Dumb And Begged, Is Sent To Jail, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 9th December 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 3.Joe Moore, a white boy, was sentenced to ten days in the stockade Monday by Recorder N. R. Broyles, when he was arraigned on a charge of begging on the streets.It is alleged Moore was engaged in a conversation with City Detective Rosser, and that a short time later he hung a "deaf and dumb" sign on his coat and walked into a bar room soliciting alms.The bartender knew of the conversation and advised the boy to "beat it," but he was arrested before he could get out of the back entrance,
  • Wednesday, 10th December 1913: Turner Admits He Got $525 From Contractors, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 10th December 1913,PAGE 8, COLUMN 2.Smilingly Tells Committee He Used Money to Pay His CampaignDebtsCity Electrician R. C. Turner Tuesday afternoon admitted to the joint bodies investigating charges against him, that the Elektron company, an association of the electrical contractors in Atlanta, gave him $525 last fall with which to pay off debts incurred during his campaign before the people.His explanation of the transaction was the statement, given with a smile, that "the newspapers got all that money for advertising bills. I didn't get a cent of it. I treated all the papers alike, giving them each
  • Friday, 12th December 1913: Dorsey Will Argue No Error Of Court Hurt Franks Case, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 12th December 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.Solicitor General Files Brief With Supreme Court, Pleading for Verdict Not Based on TechnicalitiesGREAT CASE TO BE HEARD NEXT MONDAY MORNINGJustices Probably Will Extend Time Limit for Argument,Owing to Length of Court RecordsA strong plea for substantial justice will feature the brief of the state in the case against Leo M. Frank, which will be filed with the clerk of the supreme court Friday.The state's brief will plead in the main that if any error was committed in the long trial before Judge L. S. Roan, certainly no error really harmful to
  • Saturday, 13th December 1913: Both Sides Ready To Begin Argument In Case Of Frank, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 13th December 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Filing of State's Brief in Famous Murder Trial Final Act Before Hearing in Supreme Court Monday.NUMEROUS PRECEDENTS CITED IN DOCUMENTSJudge Roan's Remark That He Was Uncertain of Prisoner's Guilt Will Be Center of Defense's AttackWith the filing of the state's brief in the case of Leo M. Frank, convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, as plaintiff in error to the state supreme court, the documentary records in that case were completed late Friday night, and nothing remains but the arguments, set for bearing by the court next Monday.In its brief the
  • Sunday, 14th December 1913: High Court Ruling Won’t End Fight For Life Of Leo M. Frank, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 14th December 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Extraordinary Appeal, Writs of Habeas Corpus, Attempt to Reach Federal Tribunals,All Will Be UsedARGUMENTS WILL BEGIN AT CAPITOL TOMORROWTwo Days Will Be Occupied and Decision Hardly Will Be Rendered Before Middle of JanuaryThe supreme court of Georgia will hear arguments for and against a new trial for Leo M. Frank next Monday and probably through Tuesday.The court of last resort in Georgia sits only four hours a day when arguments are being heard, and the fixed rule is to allow two hours to the side in each case.However the volume of the
  • Monday, 15th December 1913: Attorneys Make Final Fight Over Leo Frank S Life, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 15th December 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.Reuben Arnold and SolicitorGeneral Have Tilt Over Charge of Misstatements in FrankCase BriefsTWO DAYS OCCUPIED IN PLEA FOR A NEW TRIALSummary of ArgumentsDelivered Before Supreme Court Monday by Attorneys for Defense and ProsecutionWhen the state supreme court adjourned its session Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock half of the time which the court had agreed to give to arguments for and against the appeal of Leo M. Frank had been consumed.Attorney Reuben R. Arnold, for the defense, concluded his arguments at 11:40 o'clock, having spoken two hours and forty minutes.Solicitor H. M. Dorsey,
  • Tuesday, 16th December 1913: Franks Fate Rests With Higher Court Arguments Closed, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 16th December 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.Rosser Ends Supreme Court Battle by Declaring Frank Was Not Convicted of Murder, but of Other Crimes.DORSEY SAYS DEFENSE USED TRICKER IN BRIEFCelebrated Case Now in Hands of Six Supreme Justices, Who Will Hand Down Decision in About Six WeeksThe greater portion of the hour and twenty minutes consumed by Luther Z. Rosser in his argument before the supreme court Tuesday for a reversal of Judge L. S. Roan's action overruling Leo M. Frank's motion for a new trial was devoted to what he termed the admissibility of illegal and irrelevant testimony
  • Friday, 19th December 1913: Broyles Seeks Place On Court Of Appeals, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 19th December 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.Recorder Announces He Will Oppose Judge in Campaign Next YearThe executive prediction published in the late editions of the Journal Thursday afternoon that Judge Nash R. Broyles was to be a candidate for the state court of appeals against Judge L. S. Roan was confirmed Friday morning by Judge Broyles, who issued a formal announcement of his intention to make the race.Judge Broyles, who has presided over Atlanta's police court for fifteen years, during which time he has achieved a national reputation as an able and fearless magistrate, states his announcement at
  • Sunday, 21st December 1913: Judge Pottle To Quit State Court Of Appeals Feb 1, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 21st December 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Sam S. Bennet, of Albany,Will in All Probability Be AppointedNew JuristPottle to Practice Law in AlbanyTHREE APPELLATE JUDGES MUST GO BEFORE VOTERSJudge Pottle's Successor Will Serve Only Short Time Be For ElectionThree Names ConsideredJudge J. R. Pottle is to resign his place on the state court of appeals early in February to take up the practice of law at Albany and Sam S. Bennet, of Albany, will, it is said, be appointed by Governor Slaton to succeed him on the appellate court.Neither Judge Pottle nor Governor Slaton have made any public announcement
  • Monday, 22nd December 1913: No Beer On Christmas Chief To Enforce Law, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 22nd December 1913,PAGE 4, COLUMN 5.NO BEER ON CHRISTMAS.CHIEF TO ENFORCE LAWSection 1651 of the city code, forbidding near-beer saloons to open on Christmas day, must be strictly adhered to on Thursday, according to an order issued Monday by Chief of Police James L. Beavers.The chief stated that there were some who were in doubt as to whether or not the law would be enforced this year and he wants it distinctly understood that saloons closing Wednesday night must remain so until the following the Friday morning.PAGE 5, COLUMN 2Egglar All Stirred Up OverScantyAttire of Tech TrackSprinterComplaint
  • Tuesday, 23rd December 1913: No Attack On Dorsey In New Frank Case Brief, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 23rd December 1913,PAGE 9, COLUMN 1.Arnold Makes It Clear That Paper Contains No PersonalitiesIn discussing the supplemental brief which the attorneys for the defense of Leo M. Frank are preparing to file with the supreme court, Attorney Reuben R. Arnold made it clear Monday that it contains no personal attack on Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey."While the brief deals solely with mis-statements of the evidence, and misconstructions o f the facts in the state's brief," he said, "we call attention to them only in an analytical manner, and the brief does not charge that there has been
  • Thursday, 25th December 1913: South Georgia Man To Get Pottles Place, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 25th December 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.Governor Says He Has Not Decided Whom He Will AppointIt is quite certain that Governor Slaton will appoint a South Georgia lawyer to succeedJudge J. R.Pottle on the state court of appeals.Judge R. B. Russell, one of the judges of that court, lives at Winder, and Judge L. S. Roan, another, resides in Atlanta.Judge Pottle came from Blakely.It is not to be expected that the governor will give Judge Pottle's place to a north Georgia man, thereby recognizing one section alone in all these judgeships.The announcement of S. S. Bennett, of Albany,
  • Tuesday, 30th December 1913: Grand Jury Indicts Near-beer Dealers, The Atlanta Journal

    The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 30th December 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Three Charged With Failure to Pay State1913Special TaxThree near beer dealers, Henry Boisshardt, Samuel Aaron and H. J. Williams, were indicted Tuesday by the grand jury for their alleged failure to pay the state the 1913 special tax on beer dealers.The cases against the men were presented by Clarence Bell, special attorney for Governor Slaton, appointed to force the collection of the tax.An interesting fact about the three dealers indicted Tuesday is that one of them, Boisshardt, is a brother of one of the jurors at the famous Frank trial, while Samuel
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