Sunday, 9th May 1915: Frank Probably Will Be Sentenced Monday, The Atlanta Journal

### Judge From Past, Date of Execution Expected to Be About June 18

Leo M. Frank will be sentenced to death for the murder of Mary Phagan for the fourth time, probably on Monday. Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey's petition for habeas corpus, asking that Frank be brought into court and the date for the execution of the sentence fixed again, is already in the hands of Judge Ben H. Hill.

Judge Hill is generally expected to sign the writ bringing Frank into court on Monday when, it is thought, he will be resentenced and the date of execution set. The law allows the presiding judge a wider latitude on the resentencing of a prisoner than it does when the original sentence is imposed. Judge Hill has already resentenced Frank twice; once he fixed the date for 39 days from the date of resentencing, and the second time for forty-three days from the date he was arraigned. As a result, it is generally believed that he will sentence Frank to death on or about Friday, June 18.

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### ASK EARLY HEARING IN CASE OF LEHON

Associated Press dispatches from Washington state that attorneys for the City of Atlanta have joined with attorneys for Dan S. Lehon in asking that the United States Supreme Court grant an advanced hearing on the validity of the Atlanta city ordinance requiring private detectives to be licensed.

Lehon was charged with violating this ordinance while gathering evidence on the Frank case. The ordinance was sustained in the recorder's court, appealed to the superior court and sustained, appealed to the state court of appeals and again sustained, and then appealed to the United States Supreme Court.