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Sunday, 17th August 1913: Various Distances To Factory Measured By Civil Engineer, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 11, COLUMN 4.A. Thomas, a civil engineer, who measured the distance from Marietta and Forsyth streets along Forsyth to the pencil plant and who also timed himself in walking the distance, was put on…
Sunday, 17th August 1913: Trials Third Week Replete With Sensational Incidents, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 6, COLUMN 3.:: Pretty Girls Who Testified Friday ::MRS. J. G. WARDLAW,Who testified to Frank's good character. MISS LOVEY HAYES,Who testified she saw Frank a few minutes after murder was committed.PAGE 6, COLUMN 3TRIAL'S…
Sunday, 17th August 1913 Supreme Test Comes As State Trains Guns On Frank’s Character, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.Defendant Will Take the Stand Early in Week to Give His Account of His Movements on Day Mary Phagan Was Killed.ATTORNEYS SEEKING TO PROVE A COMPLETE ALIBIBelieved That Case Will Stand or…
Sunday, 17th August 1913, That Pinkertons Double-Crossed Police, Dorsey Tries to Prove, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 11, COLUMN 3.Worth, the Pinkerton detective who discovered the blood spots on the first floor near the trap door and the bloody club and pay envelope nearby, came the verification of a rumor that…
Sunday, 17th August 1913: Summary Of Frank Evidence At End Of The Third Week, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.SUMMARY OF FRANK EVIDENCE AT END OF THE THIRD WEEKDefense Has Attacked the State's Case at Every Point, Considering No Detail Too Small to Raise a Reasonable Doubt Against It.WHEN the third…
Sunday, 17th August 1913: Slender Little Factory Woman Eulogizes Frank While On Stand, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 16, COLUMN 6.The most fluent and probably the most ardent witness as to the good character of Frank was Mrs. Cora Barnes, who when placed on the stand Saturday morning, proceeded into such an…
Sunday, 17th August 1913: Serious Blow Is Dealt The Defense By Its Own Witness, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMNS 1 AND 7.GIRL SAYS FRANK OFTEN LOOKED IN DRESSING ROOMSMiss Irene Jackson Testifies That Superintendent Stood in Door While Girls Were Partially Disrobed.PINKERTONS ACCUSED OF DOUBLE-CROSSINGMrs. Cora Barnes, Factory Employee, Declares Frank…
Sunday, 17th August 1913: Reporter Tells How Conley Went Through Pantomime, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 16, COLUMN 6.The last witness to be called to the stand on Saturday was Harlee Branch, a reporter for the Atlanta Journal. He was called upon to testify in regard to an interview he…
Sunday, 17th August 1913 Prisoner’s Mother Questioned As to Wealth of Frank Family, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 6, COLUMN 3.Mrs. Rae Frank, mother of Leo Frank, resumed the stand at the opening of the morning session Saturday. Under cross-examination by Solicitor Dorsey, she was forced to tell much of her business…
Sunday, 17th August 1913: Leo Frank Is Ready To Reveal His Story, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.Accused Superintendent to Appeal to Reason of the Men Who Will Decide His FateCOUNSEL FOR DEFENSE DECLARE HE ALONE HAS PREPARED STATEMENTDefendant Will in No Way Try to Stir Emotion of Jurors,…
Sunday, 17th August 1913: Immobile Faces Of The Jurors Beginning To Show Weariness Of Three Nerve-racking Weeks, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 16, COLUMN 1.(By Britt Craig.)Sol Higgins, who is something of a philosopher as well as an interested spectator of the Frank trial, emerged from the courtroom yesterday at noon, blinked one eye at the…
Sunday, 17th August 1913: Employee Of Pencil Factory Furnishes Dramatic Incident Of Day-dressing Room Evidence Is Brought Out., The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 2, COLUMN 5.More than one hundred witnesses had been called to testify in defense of Leo M. Frank's character when the third week of the factory superintendent's trial concluded shortly after 1 o'clock Saturday.Character…
Sunday, 17th August 1913: Girl Employee Shouts She’d Die For Frank, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 25, COLUMN 1.Another Tells How Defendant Peered Into Room Where Women Dressed in FactoryLAWYERS FAIL TO HALT PRAISE OF THE ACCUSEDDramatic Incident Comes When Witness Heaps Encomiums on Superintendent on Trial.More than one hundred…
Sunday, 17th August 1913: Frank’s Mother Denies Family Is Wealthy, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 24, COLUMN 3.WE are not wealthy and Leo has no rich relative in Brooklyn. My husband is broken in health and has retired from business. We have about $20,000 which is loaned out at…
Sunday, 17th August 1913: Frank To Tell His Own Story Monday Afternoon To Jury, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 11, COLUMN 1.Which Will Decide His FateThat Leo Frank will take the stand Monday afternoon is the statement of his attorneys Saturday afternoon, who predicted that the defense would be able to close its…
Sunday, 17th August 1913 Frank Should Know Fate Before The Week Passes Is Opinion Of Attorneys, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.FRANK SHOULD KNOW FATE BEFORE THE WEEK PASSES IS OPINION OF ATTORNEYSWhile Defense Has About Forty Character Witnesses, It Is Not Believed That Their Testimony Will Take More Than One Day, and…
Sunday, 17th August 1913: Could You Qualify As Juror In Case Hinging On Circumstantial Evidence?, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 26, COLUMN 6.By O. B. KEELER.Putting it somewhat abruptly Would you hang a man on circumstantial evidence?This is with some small reference to the Frank trial. Nearly everything has a Frank trial trend these…
Sunday, 17th August 1913: A Million Words Of Testimony, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 17th August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.THE trial of Leo M. Frank, charged with the murder of Mary Phagan, is believed to have broken at least three records in criminal prosecution in the south.More witnesses have been called…
Saturday, 16th August 1913 Witness, Called by Defense, Testifies Against Frank, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 16th August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.MADE A TEMPORARY WIDOW BY FRANK TRIAL-Staff Photo by Winn.MRS. F. V. L. SMITH.She is one of the eleven wives who will be happy when the trial ends, no matter what the…
Saturday, 16th August 1913 Traveling Salesman for Montags Tells of Conversation With Frank, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 16th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 3.Harry Gottheimer, a traveling salesman for the Montag firm and the pencil factory, took the stand to tell of an engagement he had made with Frank on the afternoon of the murder."Do…
Saturday, 16th August 1913: Too Much Noise To Suit The Sheriff, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 16th August 1913,PAGE 2, COLUMN 2.As the afternoon session began, Sheriff C. Wheeler Mangum arose with dignity from his seat near the witness stand and rapped for order. As silence settled down over the buzzing courtroom, he…
Saturday, 16th August 1913 Still Another Office Boy Swears He Never Saw Women With Frank, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 16th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 5.B. J. Nix, of Marietta, an office boy for Leo Frank from April to October, 1912, was the first witness, outside of those testifying to character, who was put on the stand…
Saturday, 16th August 1913 Says Frank Broke Baseball Date Shortly After Girl Was Killed, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 16th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 5.Annie Hicks, a maid in the home of Charles Ersenbach, testified to having received a telephone call from Frank to Ersenbach breaking a ball game engagement for the afternoon of April 26."Do…
Saturday, 16th August 1913 Pencil Factory Model is Damaged in Fight, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 16th August 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 5.Lamar Rucker and Max Swain, Reporter, "Scrap" Adjoining Court RoomA fight between Lamar Rucker, an attorney from Athens, and Maxwell Swain, representative of the Atlanta Star, at the trial of Leo M.…
Saturday, 16th August 1913 Never Saw Any Women in Office of Frank Says Negro Witness, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 16th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.Walter Pride, a negro employee in the National Pencil factory, who is named in Jim Conley's story, was put on the stand in the middle of the afternoon."Where do you work on…
Saturday, 16th August 1913 Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Sons Defense, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 16th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.Identifies Letter Written By Frank to N. Y. Kinfolks On the Day of the MurderBy Asking Pencil Factory Forelady If She Saw Frank Talking to Mary Phagan, Solicitor Dorsey Indicates That He…
Saturday, 16th August 1913 Mrs. Rae Frank Goes on Stand in Defense of Her Son, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 16th August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1 AND COLUMN 4.Many Witnesses Testify to His Good CharacterThe best likeness of Leo M. Frank ever published. Drawn by Gregg from a photograph made yesterday by Price, staff photographer, when the…
Saturday, 16th August 1913 Mother of Frank Takes Stand to Identify Letter Son Wrote, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 16th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 3.The more or less listless curiosity of the courtroom spectators was scarcely aroused during the afternoon until the last witness was called, who was Mrs. Rae Frank, of Brooklyn, N. Y., the…
Saturday, 16th August 1913 Miss Mary Perk Tells Jurymen She Believes Conley Is Guilty, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 16th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.Miss Mary Perk, a forelady in the polishing department of the pencil factory, followed Mrs. Carson to the stand."Do you know Frank and his general character," she was asked by Mr. Arnold."Yes,…
Saturday, 16th August 1913 Maid in Schiff Home Tells of Phone Message From Frank, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 16th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 3.Emma Hill, a maid in the Schiff home, was called to tell of a telephone message for Herbert Schiff made by Frank on the morning of the tragedy."Do you remember anybody trying…