The Atlanta Georgian,
Sunday, 12th October 1913,
PAGE 6, COLUMN 2.
Daily Sunday - Georgian American
October 4th 1913.
At the request of the management of The Atlanta Georgian
and The Sunday American, I personally examined on Friday after
noon their various circulation statements, in detail. This work
required sometime, but it was willingly given, because I regard
these newspapers as enterprises of which all Georgia should be
proud. The figures the papers furnish, under oath, to the postal
authorities show a marvelous growth for the time The Georgian
and Sunday American have been in Mr. Hearst's hands"
particularly The Sunday American, which is only six months old.
These circulation figures I have checked up and verified in
person. I have examined the sworn statements of the circulation
and the cashier of The Georgian corporation, and cross
questioned them in detail about the circulation figures. I believe
the figures to be absolutely correct.
Purely from a business man's viewpoint, both The Georgian
and The Sunday American, in points of quality and quantity of
circulation, should be, and I have no doubt are, highly satisfactory
and effective advertising mediums. Certainly, they are most
excellent newspapers, and should commend themselves to
merchants for business purposes.
The fine circulation showings furnish me ample foundation
for warm congratulations. I sincerely wish for Mr. Hearst and his
Georgia newspapers the fullest measure of prosperity and
success"both of which seem assured. I am persuaded this great
publisher means to be consistently a firm and powerful friend of
Atlanta, Georgia, and the whole South, and I well know his ability
to do big things in a big way.
PAGE 7, COLUMN 1
DORSEY MAY
ASK FOR
DELAY
IN FRANK
CASE
Information From
Valdosta Is That
Solicitor Needs Week
More
of Preparation.
HENSLEE IN
CONFERENCE
Juror Under Fire
Declares His
Visit to South
Georgia Was
Unimportant.
That Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey will ask for a still
further postponement of the hearing of the motion for a new trial
for Leo M. Frank, convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, when it
is called before Judge L. S. Roan on next Saturday, October 18, he
indicated by information received in Atlanta Saturday night from
Valdosta, where he and his assistant, A. E. Stephens, are working
on the answer the defense's lengthy petition for a new trial.
Solicitor Dorsey issued a positive statement that he will
require at least another week in which to complete his answer,
and express doubt that he will be able to have his case ready by
next Saturday. Both he and Mr. Stephens have been working on
the case twelve and fifteen hours a day, and Solicitor Dorsey said
this hard work would be necessary up until the time of the
hearing.
He said he had made more rapid progress than he would
have been able to make had he undertaken the preparation of his
case in Atlanta, but even under these favorable circumstances
hardly expects to complete his work within another week.
There was nothing in Judge Roan's ruling Saturday, in which
he postponed the hearing for another week which excludes the
possibility of a still further delay, and it is thought that further
time will be granted the Solicitor should her request it. The
execution of Frank is stayed automatically by the order delaying
the hearing.
Juror A. H. Henslee, who was so violently attacked by the
defense in its motion for a new trial, spent Saturday in Valdosta,
and was closeted for several hours with the Solicitor. It is thought
that deep significance attaches to the visit, although Henslee
would give out no inkling of what his conversation with the
Solicitor General was. He stated that he had dropped into
Valdosta on his accustomed trip to the town, and that his
conference with the Solicitor was merely incidental.
Henslee, while in Valdosta, reiterated his innocence of the
charges brought against him by the defense in its motion, and
stated that he was absolutely unprejudiced one way or the other
before the trial. His statements regarding Frank's guilt, he said,
were made after the trial, when he thought he had a right to talk.
PAGE 15, COLUMN 6
TWO HELD AS
ROBBERS
UNDER $1,000
BOND EACH
Oscar Wright and Sam Reid, two negroes charged with
robbing Attorney Frank Hooper of a gold watch, were bound over
for highway robbery in the Recorder's Court Saturday. Bond was
fixed at $1,000 in each case.