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Tuesday, 30th December 1913: Grand Jury Indicts Near-beer Dealers, The Atlanta Journal

By Historical Librarian / December 17, 2024
The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 30th December 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Three Charged With Failure to Pay State1913Special TaxThree near beer dealers, Henry...
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Thursday, 25th December 1913: South Georgia Man To Get Pottles Place, The Atlanta Journal

By Historical Librarian / December 17, 2024
The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 25th December 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.Governor Says He Has Not Decided Whom He Will AppointIt is quite...
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Tuesday, 23rd December 1913: No Attack On Dorsey In New Frank Case Brief, The Atlanta Journal

By Historical Librarian / December 17, 2024
The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 23rd December 1913,PAGE 9, COLUMN 1.Arnold Makes It Clear That Paper Contains No PersonalitiesIn discussing the supplemental...
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Monday, 22nd December 1913: No Beer On Christmas Chief To Enforce Law, The Atlanta Journal

By Historical Librarian / December 17, 2024
The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 22nd December 1913,PAGE 4, COLUMN 5.NO BEER ON CHRISTMAS.CHIEF TO ENFORCE LAWSection 1651 of the city code,...
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Sunday, 21st December 1913: Judge Pottle To Quit State Court Of Appeals Feb 1, The Atlanta Journal

By Historical Librarian / December 17, 2024
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 21st December 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Sam S. Bennet, of Albany,Will in All Probability Be AppointedNew JuristPottle to...
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Friday, 19th December 1913: Broyles Seeks Place On Court Of Appeals, The Atlanta Journal

By Historical Librarian / December 17, 2024
The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 19th December 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.Recorder Announces He Will Oppose Judge in Campaign Next YearThe executive prediction...
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Tuesday, 16th December 1913: Franks Fate Rests With Higher Court Arguments Closed, The Atlanta Journal

By Historical Librarian / December 17, 2024
The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 16th December 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.Rosser Ends Supreme Court Battle by Declaring Frank Was Not Convicted of...
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Monday, 15th December 1913: Attorneys Make Final Fight Over Leo Frank S Life, The Atlanta Journal

By Historical Librarian / December 17, 2024
The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 15th December 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.Reuben Arnold and SolicitorGeneral Have Tilt Over Charge of Misstatements in FrankCase...
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Sunday, 14th December 1913: High Court Ruling Won’t End Fight For Life Of Leo M. Frank, The Atlanta Journal

By Historical Librarian / December 17, 2024
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 14th December 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Extraordinary Appeal, Writs of Habeas Corpus, Attempt to Reach Federal Tribunals,All Will...
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Saturday, 13th December 1913: Both Sides Ready To Begin Argument In Case Of Frank, The Atlanta Journal

By Historical Librarian / December 17, 2024
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 13th December 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Filing of State's Brief in Famous Murder Trial Final Act Before Hearing...
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Friday, 22nd August 1913 In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police. Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank

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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
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Sunday, 27th July 1913 State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley’s Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show that Negro Alone is Guilty

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The 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
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Sunday, 17th August 1913 Frank Should Know Fate Before The Week Passes Is Opinion Of Attorneys

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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
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Page 8 of 8: Rare, Alonzo Mann Affidavit, March 4th, 1982

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until it was too late to save Leo Frank's life. They will say that being young is no excuse. They will blame my mother. The only thing I can say is that she did what she thought was best for me and the family. Other people may hate me for telling it. I hope not, but I am prepared for that, too. I know that I haven't a long time to live. All that I have said is the truth. When my time comes I hope that God understands me better for having told it. That is what matters most.
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Page 7 of 8: Rare, Alonzo Mann Affidavit, March 4th, 1982

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girl's money and grabbed her. I do not think sex was his motive. I believe it was money. Her pay was never found in the building after she died. Many times I have thought since all of this occurred almost 70 years ago that if I had hollered or yelled for help when I ran into Conley with the girl in his arms that day that I might have saved her life. I might have. On the other hand, I might have lost my own life. If I had told what I saw that day I might have saved Leo
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Page 6 of 8: Rare, Alonzo Mann Affidavit, March 4th, 1982

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the building and saw Conley with the body. When Frank went to trial and I was called as a witness, my mother tole me I would have to go and testify. She repeated to me what she already had told me the day of Mary Phagan's murder. She told me to keep to myself what I had seen. She said if it were not asked a specific question I did not have to give a specific answer. Jim Conley was the chief witness against Leo Frank. He testified that Frank had called him to his office a little after noon
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Page 5 of 8: Rare, Alonzo Mann Affidavit, March 4th, 1982

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the shaft would have been open. Conley could have dumped her down the empty elevator shaft. I believe for some reason, Jim Conley turned around toward me. He either heard by footsteps coming or he sensed I was behind him. He wheeled on me and in a voice that was low but threatening and frightening to me he said: "If you ever mention this I'll kill you." I turned and took a step or two--possibly three or four steps--up toward the second floor, but I must have worried about whether the office upstairs was closed. I did hear some movement
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Page 4 of 8: Rare, Alonzo Mann Affidavit, March 4th, 1982

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She had told me that if she was unable to come, for me not to worry. I waited for her for a few minutes. Since I didn't care that much about seeing the parade I went back to work. I can't be sure as to exactly how long I was gone, but it could not have been more than half hour before I got back to the pencil factory. I had no idea that I was about to witness an important moment in a famous murder case--a moment that has not been made public until now; that I was about
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Page 3 of 8: Rare, Alonzo Mann Affidavit, March 4th, 1982

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My job required that I open the mail, file papers, keep the office orderly, run errands and the like. Leo Frank arrived in the building that morning shortly after I did. He came into the office and spoke to me. I always called him "Mister Frank" and he referred to me by my given name, "Alonzo." I do not know whether Leo Frank had seen Jim Conley on the first floor when he came into the building that morning. A substitute secretary worked for Leo Frank that morning. As I remember, it was routine Saturday morning for me at the
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Page 2 of 8: Rare, Alonzo Mann Affidavit, March 4th, 1982

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practically nothing. I was nervous and afraid that day. There were crowds in the street who were angry and who were saying that Leo Frank should die. Some were yelling things like, "Kill the Jew!" I was very nervous. The courtroom was filled with people. Every seat was taken. I was interested mostly in getting out of there. I spoke with a speech impediment and had trouble pronouncing the 'r' in Frank's name in those days. The lawyers put their heads together and said that it was obvious I knew nothing and since I was so young they would let
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Page 1 of 8: Rare, Alonzo Mann Affidavit, March 4th, 1982.

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A F F I D A V I T IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, COUNTY OF SULLIVAN The undersigned, being duly sworn, deposes as follows: My name is Alonzo McClendon Mann. I am 83 years old. I was born near Memphis Tennessee, on August 8, 1898. My father was Alonzo Mann, who was born in Germany. My mother was Hattie McClendon Mann. When I was a small boy my family moved to Atlanta where I spent most of my life. In 1913 I was the office boy for Leo M. Frank, who ran the National Pencil Co. That was the
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number One

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Mary Phagan Family Position Paper July 2021 My name is Mary Phagan-Kean and I am the great-niece and namesake of “Little Mary Phagan,” the thirteen-year-old girl who was raped and murdered on April 26, 1913, by Leo Max Frank, the president of Atlanta’s B'nai B’rith Lodge No. 144. Leo Frank was the general superintendent of the National Pencil Company — a sweatshop factory where over a hundred children labored, and where the Sam Nunn federal building stands today. Little Mary Phagan was 12 years old when she started working there in 1912, and Frank admitted he was the last person
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Video: ADL Behind the Empty Mask of Respectability

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Download Video Introduction to the video: ADL Behind the Mask of Respectability. The initials A.D.L., stands for Jewish Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. ADL was founded in September 1913, not long after Atlanta B'nai B'rith president, Leo Max Frank was convicted on August 25th 1913, in the Fulton County Superior Court of Atlanta, Georgia. Leo Frank, 2-term president of the Atlanta Georgia, Gate City Lodge, Number 144, Independent Order of Bnai Brith, from 1912 to 1914, is the convicted serial pedophile-rapist and homicidal sex killer who sodomized, mutilated and strangled 13-year-old, factory girl, Mary Anne Phagan. Leo Frank lynched the
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Fannie Phagan Coleman and John William Coleman’s letter to Radical Leftwing Populist Politician, Tom Edward Watson, published in the Jeffersonian Weekly, July 15th, 1915

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Page 9 of the July 15th, 1915, issue of the Jeffersonian Weekly, regarding the June 21, 1915, Death Penalty Commutation of Leo Frank to life in prison by former Governor John Slaton. Transcription of Letter: The Mother and the Stepfather of little Mary Phagan Write To the Honorable Thomas E. Watson: Dear Sir:  As the mother and father of Mary Phagan, our poor daughter, we feel it our duty to write you a letter expressing our sincere thanks for your noble efforts in the publishing in your paper the truth about the Frank case. While we know our advantages in
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Report of Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott: April 28, 1913

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The following pages contain a correct copy of the report of the said assistant superintendent Harry Scott, dated April 28, 1913, and sent to the National Pencil Company on May 2, 1913. Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott Reports: Atlanta, Georgia, Monday, April 28th, 1913. Late this afternoon, I held a conference with Mr. Leo M. Frank, Superintendent, and Mr. Darley his assistant and the officers of the National Pencil Co., #37-39 S. Forsyth st., Atlanta, Georgia Mr. Frank stated that on Saturday, April 26th, 1913 the factory of the National Pencil Co., was closed down and that only two of the
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Testimony of Helen Kerns

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Testimony of Helen Kerns, at trial of Leo M. Frank. Direct Examination: I work for the Dodson Medicine Company as stenographer. My father works for Montag. I took shorthand under Professor Briscoe last winter. I have seen Mr. Frank in his factory. I went there with Professor Briscoe to get a job, I didn't get the position. I was working on the 26th day of April for Bennett Printing Company. That day I got off about 12 o'clock. I then went around in town to the different stores and did some trading. I had an appointment to meet a girl
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Thursday, 28th August 1913 Despite Death Sentence Frank Sleeps Nine Hours

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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
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Tuesday, 26th August 1913 Frank Sentenced To Hang On October 10th, 1913, But Fight For New Trial Will Stay The Execution For Many Months

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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
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Monday, 25th August 1913, Leo M. Frank’s Fate Is Now In Hands Of The Jury. Motion For Mistrial Is Denied By Judge L. S. Roan. The Atlanta Journal.

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  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
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Sunday, 24th August 1913, Leo Frank’s Fate Will Soon Be Known Dorsey Will Finish His Speech In Few Hours. The Atlanta Journal.

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  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
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Wednesday, 20th August 1913 Testimony May Close Wednesday – Both Sides Are Anxious To Begin Argument And Send Case To The Jury

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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
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Monday, 28th July 1913 State Opens Its Case Against Leo M. Frank

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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
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Monday, 28th July 1913 No New Testimony Will Be Given to Jury by Newt Lee

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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
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Monday, 28th July 1913 Mrs. Leo Frank and Her Mother Cheer Prisoner at Courthouse

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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
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Monday, 28th July 1913 Former Suspect Will Be Happy No Matter How Frank Case Ends

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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
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Monday, 28th July 1913 Court Scenes at Frank Trial; How It Looks Inside and Out

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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
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Sunday, 27th July 1913 Plennie Minor Faces Task in Handling Court Room During Trial of Leo Frank

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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
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Sunday, 27th July 1913 Pinkerton Detective Replies to Lanford

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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
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Sunday, 27th July 1913 Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed

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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
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Sunday, 27th July 1913 Here is Conley’s Confession Around Which Bitter Fight is Expected in the Frank Trial

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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
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Sunday, 1st June 1913 Conley is Unwittingly Friend of Frank, Says Old Police Reporter

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Atlanta Georgian Sunday, June 1st, 1913 By AN OLD POLICE REPORTER. Developments came thick and fast during the past week, and one is able to approach consideration of the Phagan case to-day with more assurance and ease of mind than heretofore. Distinctly have the clouds lifted, so I think, from about Leo Frank, and if not yet are they "in the deep bosom of the ocean buried," they have, nevertheless I take it, served to let a measure of the sunshine in. Leo Frank, snatching eagerly at that faltering ray of blessed and thrice-welcome light, may thank the negro Conley
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Sunday, 1st June 1913 Confession of Conley Makes No Changes in States Case

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Atlanta Georgian Sunday, June 1st, 1913 Negro Will Be Used as Material Evidence Against Frank, Says Solicitor Dorsey LEE LIKELY TO BE FREED Sweeper Sticks to Story Accusing Head of Pencil Factory of Phagan Slaying. The startling confessions by Jim Conley of the part he played in the Phagan murder mystery have not changed the State's case in any of its essential features, according to an announcement from Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey, at the close of a long examination of the negro yesterday. Stormed at for several hours by the Solicitor and the city detectives, Conley's story was unchanged
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Saturday, 31st May 1913 Special Session of Grand Jury Called

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Atlanta Georgian Saturday, May 31st, 1913 Will Reconvene Next Tuesday for Routine Business Only, Declares Foreman Beck. Lewis H. Beck, foreman of the Fulton County Grand Jury, which has been called to meet in special session at 10 o'clock next Thursday morning, said Saturday afternoon that the Grand Jury positively would not take up either the Phagan case or the Felder-Beavers row. The purpose of the special session, Mr. Beck said, was to appoint certain committee. Mr. Beck went a step furthere and said the Grand Jury had been called for no other purpose except to appoint these committees and
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Saturday, 31st May 1913 Silence of Conley Put to End by Georgian

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Atlanta Georgian Saturday, May 31st, 1913 That The Georgian played a conspicuous part in obtaining the latest and most important confession from Jim Conley, the negro sweeper, in which he admitted his complicity in the crime, was the declaration of Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford late Friday afternoon. Chief Lanford, in telling of the cross-examination of Conley on Thursday afternoon which resulted in his confession, said that Conley for a long time persisted in maintaining that he knew no more of the crime than what which he had related previously. After several hours of futile questioning the chief showed him
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Saturday, 31st May 1913 Plan to Confront Conley and Frank for New Admission

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    Atlanta Georgian Saturday, May 31st, 1913 Police Hope Meeting Will Prove Whether Negro Will Stick to Latest Story Under Eyes of the Man He Accuses—Ready to Pay Penalty. A determined effort is being made by the police department to bring Leo M. Frank face to face with his accuser, Jim Conley, the negro sweeper. The detectives wish to learn how Conley will go through the ordeal of confronting the man he accuses of directing the disposal of the body of Mary Phagan, and dictating the notes that were found her body. They desire also to give Frank an
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Saturday, 31st May 1913 Conley Star Actor in Dramatic Third Degree

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Atlanta Georgian Saturday, May 31st, 1913 In all the grim annals of Atlanta's criminal history an illiterate negro, Jim Conley, stands out to-day the principal figure in one of the most remarkable and dramatically impressive "third degrees" ever administered by the city police. A chief of police, ordinarily stolid and unmoved, and chief of detectives and members of his force, a Pinkerton operative—all men in daily touch with every sort of crime and evil—hung with tensest interest on each word as it came from the lips of the negro, and watched, as wide-eyed as any tyro in man-hunting, the negro's
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Friday, 30th May 1913 Negro Conley Now Says He Helped to Carry Away Body

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    Atlanta Georgian Friday, May 30th, 1913 Chief of Detectives Lanford admitted Friday morning that Jim Conley, under the rack of the third degree, had made the astounding confession that he had assisted Leo M. Frank in disposing of the body of the murdered Mary Phagan. His new statement is believed to contain even more startling admissions than have not yet been made public. If the negro sweeper is to be believed after his long series of deceits and lies, this forms the most damaging evidence that has been brought against Frank since suspicion was first pointed in his
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 I Feel as Though I Could Die, Sobs Mary Phagans Grief-Stricken Sister

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Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Among all the hearts that are bowed down in sorrow over the murder of Mary Phagan, the 14-year-old factory child found dead in the National Pencil factory Saturday, there is none who feels the suffering and the anguish of the separation so keenly as her sister, Ollie, 18 years old, her companion since childhood. For with her it is the suffering of youth, when the rose-veil of life has been lifted to show its tragic and terrible side in all its fullness for the first time. And it is all the more pitiful for
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Friday, 22nd August 1913 Arnold Ridicules Plot Alleged By Prosecution And Attacks The Methods Used By Detective

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The Atlanta Constitution, Friday, 22nd August 1913. Page 2. When Attorney Frank A. Hooper had made the opening speech of the prosecution, Attorney Reuben R. Arnold prepared for the first speech of the defense. It had been announced that he would review the entire history of the case and when he started at noon the pasteboard model of the pencil factory was brought In. A large diagram giving a synopsis of the case was also brought in, but was not unwrapped when Mr. Arnold first started, "Gentlemen of the jury, we are all to be congratulated that this case is
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Monday, April 28th, 1913: Arthur Mullinax Blundered in Statement, Say Police. Atlanta Georgian.

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    Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Arthur Mullinax was arrested by detectives late in the afternoon in Bellwood Avenue, near the viaduct, as he was on his way to his boarding house. His positive identification by E. L. Sentell, of 82 Davis Street, a clerk for the Kemper Grocery Company, as the man he saw with the little Phagan girl in Forsyth Street about 12:20 o'clock yesterday morning, and alleged discrepancies in the statement of the prisoner led Chief Beavers and Chief of Detectives Lanford to order him locked in a cell and held on suspicion. Sentell, who
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