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The Atlanta Journal,
Sunday, 23rd January 1916,
PAGE 23, COLUMN 2.
Attorneys for Robert Barrett Make Application to Governor for $200
A formal application for the $200 reward offered by the state of Georgia for evidence sufficient to bring about the conviction of the man who killed Mary Phagan in the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta, April 26, 1913, was made to Governor Harris Saturday by Attorneys Lawton Nally and Thomas E. Scott, on behalf of their client, Robert Barrett.
Barrett, who was a latheman in the pencil factory, pointed out to the authorities certain alleged blood spots on the second floor of the factory and some hair which was found upon a lathe handle. It was the contention of the state that both the blood and hair were Mary Phagan's and it was on this evidence that the state largely relied to establish its contention that the murder was done on the second floor and to convict Leo M. Frank of the murder.
Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey called on Governor Harris Saturday morning to say that if any one was entitled to the reward offered by the state it should go to Barrett, as it would have been very difficult, if not impossible, to have convicted Frank without the evidence supplied by Barrett.
Barrett, through Attorneys Nalley and Scott, brought suit against the city of Atlanta to collect a reward of $1,000 offered by the city in the Phagan murder case. This suit is pending before the state supreme court, attorneys for the city having demurred to it on the ground that the city of Atlanta was without a charter right to offer such a reward.