The Atlanta Journal,
Wednesday, 24th September 1913,
PAGE 18, COLUMN 3.
From Cell in Tower Man
Con-
demned to Hang
Operates
Affairs of
Organization
Leo M. Frank has been re-elected president for another year
for another year of the local branch of the B'nai B'rith, the Jewish
charitable organization.
Other officers elected for the ensuing year are Arthur
Heyman, law partner of Hugh M. Dorsey, Frank's prosecutor, vice
president; Milton Klein, monitor; Dr. B. Wildauer, treasurer, and B.
Kaufman, warden. The secretary of the organization is not elected
at the same time with the other officers, and Sam P. Cronheim
remains in the position.
Frank was named to head for another term the order, which
is said to be the most important of all Hebrew organizations, not
only after he was arrested and charged with the murder of Mary
Phagan, but after he had been convicted of the crime and
sentenced to death.
The action of the local branch of the order, which is
composed of more than 500 of the most prominent Jews in
Atlanta, is regarded as a remarkable demonstration of the fact
that the conviction of Frank's friends in his innocence has not
been at all shaken by the verdict of the twelve men who listened
for more than a month to the evidence in the case.
Frank, who has been sentenced to be hanged on October 10,
but whose execution is certain to be stayed at least for many
months, is said to be not only conducting the affairs of the B'nai
B'rith from his cell in the tower, but is also said to be supervising
to a certain extent the affairs of the National Pencil company, of
which he is superintendent.
The amendment to the motion for a new trial for Frank is
being prepared by Luther Z. Rosser, his leading counsel, and it is
expected will be filed within the next week. It is then extremely
probable that Solicitor Dorsey will on October 4 ask for a
postponement of the hearing of the motion, on the ground that he
has not been given sufficient time to study the contentions of the
defense.
Should Frank's motion for a new trial, when it is finally heard,
be denied, then the case will be appealed to the supreme court,
and there is little probability of its finally being disposed of during
the next six months.
PAGE 18, COLUMN 5
NOMINATES
DONEHOO
FOR ATLANTA
MAYOR
Pensacola, Fla., Sept. 22, 1913.
Editor The Journal: Reading The Journal after an absence of
nearly three months is like getting a letter From home.
What pleased me most was the article about Paul
Donehoo.
May I have the pleasure of nominating him to be the next
mayor of Atlanta?
He is clean through and through, and his capabilities are
beyond question.
Yours truly,
G. W.
HIMEBAUGH