Thursday, 6th November 1913: Dorsey Spent $1,145.39 In The Leo Frank Case, The Atlanta Constitution

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Itemized Expense Account Is Filed

With the County

Board.

Revealing

in a new light the wide probe made by the state in its successful effort to

convict Leo Frank of the murder of Mary Phagan, the itemized account of

Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey was filed for payment with the county

commissioners on Wednesday afternoon.

Among

the items which appear on the expense account were fees of $25 to R. A.

Flakman, finger-print expert, who examined the finger marks on the Phagan

girls bloody garments; another of $100, paid to Albert S. Osborn, the noted

New York hand-writing expert, who compared the handwriting of Frank, Conley and

Newt Lee with the notes found at the side of the murdered girls body; another

of $100 paid to Dr. Roy Harris, the secretary of the state board of health,

whose testimony, on the witness stand, regarding the lapse of time after the

Phagan girl ate her dinner and the time of her death, made such a great

sensation during the Frank trial.

The

total expense account of the solicitor general reaches $1,145.39. Smaller items

in the account are for auto hire, telegrams and private detective work.

A

charge of $4 was for the purpose of renting a safety deposit box int eh Fourth

National bank, where the notes found by the murdered girls body were placed

before they were introduced in evidence at the trial recently closed.

According

to action by the county commissioners, the solicitors bill will be paid at

once.