Category: TRANSCRIPTS: ATLANTA JOURNAL

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

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

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

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

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

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

Atlanta JournalAugust 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 witness stand.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Atlanta JournalAugust 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 Objected to His

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

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

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

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

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

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

Atlanta JournalAugust 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 were three

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

  Atlanta Journal August 15th, 1913 TAKES WITNESS STAND SATURDAY MORNING; UNDER LAW CANNOT BE EXAMINED BY THE SOLICITOR Defense's Case is Rapidly Nearing Completion, and Indications Are That All Witnesses, Except Frank, Will Have Testified Before Court Adjourns Friday—Forty Atlantians Tell of Accused's Good Character ATLANTA GIRL BROUGHT REFORMATORY IN CINCINNATI TO TESTIFY AGAINST FRANK Miss Dewey Hewell, Sixteen Years Old, Arrived Friday Morning With Matron Bohnefeld—Nature of Her Testimony Is Not Known-Expert in Varnish Department Says Spots in Factory Look Like Varnish Forty Atlantians took the stand during Friday morning's session of the Frank trial and testified to

Atlanta JournalAugust 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 on the

  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

  Atlanta Journal August 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 Atlanta Journal, Sunday, 17th August 1913. (Page 1, Column 7) 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

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

The Atlanta Journal, Tuesday, 19th August 1913. (Page 1, Column 6) 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

The Atlanta Journal, Wednesday, 20th August 1913. (Page 1, Column 6) 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 Frequent- ly 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

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 JEKYL 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, but

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 and

The Atlanta Journal, Saturday, 23rd August 1913. PAGE 1 MRS. COLEMAN WEEPS AND FRANK'S WIFE COVERS FACE WITH HANDS DURING SPEECH 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

  The Atlanta Journal, Sunday, 24th August 1913. Judge Roan Will Then Deliver His Charge and the Case Is Certain to Be in the Jury's Hands by Noon Tomorrow. Some Look for a Quick Ver- dict, While Others Predict the Jury Will Be Out for Many Hours Dorsey's Speech, Interrupted by Adjournment, the Great- est of His Career No Trial in Georgia Has Ever Been Marked by So Many Brilliant Arguments -Frank Remains Impassive Through It All TERMINING the greatest criminal trial in the history of the south, the life of Leo M. Frank will be placed in the hands

  The Atlanta Journal, Monday, 25th August 1913. PAGE 1 JUDGE ROAN CHARGES JURY THAT THEY ARE SOLE JDUGES 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 GUILFT 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

The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 26th August 1913.PAGE 1TWELVE PEERS OF LEO M. FRANK WHO FOUND GUILTY OF MURDERThis 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 WillNever Be Known In Public,Declare the

  The Atlanta Journal, Wednesday, the 27th Day of August, 1913. PAGE one, Column one. Convicted Factory Superintendent Preparing Exhaustive Answer 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, , for the murder of Mary Phagan, is preparing an answer to the closing argument to the jury of Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey. He began work on the statement Wednesday morning and expects to have it ready for publication before the end

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

The Atlanta Journal, Saturday, 30th August 1913. PAGE 3, Column 2 In 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 IS SOUGHT BY POLICE Page 3, Column 5, ----------------------------------------- George Epps, Newsboy, Accused of Swindling Man Out of $1.50 Little George Epps, witness in the Frank trial, believed to be the

The Atlanta Journal, Sunday, 31st August 1913. (PAGE 4) Cohutta Pastor Starts Subscription to Erect Statue of Dead Girl. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) DALTON, Ga., Aug. 20, 1913, 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.

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

The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 2nd September 1913.PAGE 3, COLUMN 3There 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 1LOST FACTORY GIRLFOUND AT HOSPITALMother Feared Another Pha-gan Case Until OfficersFound Miss GriffinWhile city detectives Monday night and Tuesday morning

The Atlanta Journal, Wednesday, the 3rd day of 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, on 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

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

The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 7th September 1913,PAGE 7, COLUMN 1.J. H. KellySucceeds J. B.Pierce-HarryScott IsAssistantJ. H. Kelly, formerly assistant superintendent of the Pinkertondetective company's office in Pittsburg, assumed control of thelocal branch of the agency Saturday. He arrived from the northlast Friday and since has met all the city officials. He takes theplace of J. B. Pierce, who resigned shortly after the completion ofthe Frank trial.Harry Scott will remain in Atlanta as assistantsuperintendent. The order transferring him to Houston, Texas,where he was to have been superintendent, has beencountermanded. He will be actively in charge of the criminalbusiness of the agency here.Sunday,

  The Atlanta Journal, Monday, 8th September 1913, PAGE 3, COLUMN 1. Anything From One Cent Up Will Be Acceptable- Reso- lutions Adopted Atlanta lodge No. 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 Atlanta Journal, Tuesday Evening Edition, 9th day of September, 1913. Conley Is Indicted On Two Counts By Fulton Grand Jury One Bill Charges a Felony in That "Knowing Frank Murdered Mary Phagan, He Harbored 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. Page 1, Column 7. 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,

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

The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 10th September 1913.PAGE 1, COLUMN 1He is expected to succeed Judge HillOn the court of appeals bench. He is at present judge of the Stone Mountain circuit.NEW ATLANTA COURTWILL SHIFT JUDGESON SEVERAL BENCHESJudge 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 Circuit 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

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

The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 11th September 1913,PAGE 7, COLUMN 1.Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey staid Thursday that he wasreceiving letters from various towns in the state informing himthat the attorneys of Leo M. Frank are canvassing the towns tosecure affidavits showing that jurors who convicted Frank werebiased.Some of them say, stated the solicitor that they wereapproached for affidavits but that they declined to give them.Thursday, 11th September 1913: Frank's Lawyers Are Hunting For Affidavits, 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

The Atlanta Journal, Friday, 12th September 1913. (PAGE 7, COLUMN 4) It 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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 28th September 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Although He Would Liketo DoSo, There Is, LittleProbabil-ity That Case WillReachHim in TimeWhile 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 thecase, it still appears unlikely that the motion will be argued forseveral weeks, or before he becomes a judge of the court ofappeals.Saturday the amended motion for a new trial had not beenserved upon the solicitor by Frank's attorneys, and naturally hecannot commence the preparation of his answer and his briefuntil after he has

  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

  The Atlanta Journal, Tuesday, 30th September 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMN 1. Commission Asks Why Jail Is Overcrowded Solicitor Replies That 130 Cases Hang Fire for Lack of Judge and Court The board of county commissioners has officially called the attention of the solicitor general to the unusually crowded condition of the Fulton County jail, and has asked the reason for the delay in the disposition of felony cases. This is the first time that the county commission has taken official cognizance of congested jail conditions and it is causing considerable comment. The solicitor general has replied to the board's

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 Phagan's

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

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

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

  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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 asked

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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,

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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