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The Atlanta Georgian,
Monday, 18th August 1913,
PAGE 59, COLUMN 7.
Atlanta has a brand new club. It is called "The Club of Temporary Widows."
Its membership, as its name indicates, is made up entirely of women. There are just eleven of them. All were brought to their temporary widowhood by the trial of Leo M. Frank. All are wives of jurors in the great murder case, or, at least, they were before the trial began. All are thoroughly tired of the tedious processes of the law which have kept them in their somber weeds for three long weeks.
Mrs. Jeffries, "widow" of W. M. Jeffries, a real estate man, who is serving on the Frank jury, has been elected the "forewoman." They do not have a president in the Club of the Temporary Widows.
They Meet Every Day.
Every night the eleven widows may be seen at Alabama and South Pryor streets as the jurors file by under as close a guard as though they were prisoners, and very dangerous prisoners at that.
They are privileged only to wave their handkerchiefs-the young bride of the club throws kisses-as the men go by on their way to the Kimball House for the night. This same young bride-or young widow-rushed up to the line the first day of the trial and tried to speak to the husband of whom she had been bereft.
A stern look from one of the deputies repulsed her. Softening, the officer explained that it would be worth as much as his job if he should let her or any of the widows say just one little word to one of those jurors.
There's One Associate Member.
Several times another young woman has been noticed on the edge of the little group making up the widows' club. She has had eyes only for the bachelor of the jury. He has had eyes only for her. It is said that she is to be taken into associate membership in the club. Report also has it that she will qualify for full membership soon after the trial.
None of the widows knew each other before the trial began. Now a number of strong friendships have been formed. In addition to the daily gatherings at Alabama and South Pryor streets, meetings are to be held each week during the life of the club, which its members hope to perpetuate for years. The meetings will be held at the members' homes, and the regained husbands may be permitted to attend once in a while.