Friday, 14th November 1913: P. H. Brewster. Albert Howell, Jr. Hugh M. Dorsey. Arthur Heyman. Dorsey, Brewster, Howell & Heyman. Attorneys-at-law, The Atlanta Constitution

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PAGE 7, COLUMN 5

TRIAL OF

JIM CONLEY

POSTPONED TO MONDAY

Court

Thought to Be Awaiting

Action of Court of

Appeal.

Without explaining this cause, Judge

Ben Hill, on Thursday, postponed the trial of Jim Conley, as accessory after

the fact in the murder of Mary Phagan, until Monday.

Conley was ready for trial but when he

was called to the bar in the Thrower building and as Solicitor General Dorsey

arose to address the court, Judge Hill said:

I have decided to postpone this case

until Monday.

A hurried conference between Judge

Hill, Dorsey and the negros attorney, William M. Smith, followed but none of

the three would say why the trial was put over.

It was rumored about the courthouse

that Judge Hill was awaiting the action of the appeal court on the motion for a

rehearing of the Frank trial before proceeding with the Conley litigation.

Should Conley be tried as accessory

after the fact in the Phagan murder he could not then be tried for principal in

the murder; according to court room attaches and it is believed that if the

appeal court does not make some decision on the Frank retrial hearing motion

before Monday, Conleys trial might again be put over.

Solicitor

General Dorsey was chagrined at the postponement Thursday, it was recalled that

Dorsey had declared during the Frank trial that he would never, in his capacity

as solicitor, prosecute Conley as principal for the Phagan murder. Judge Hills

action temporarily blocked Dorsey in his effort to flly dispose of the negros

case.