Author: Mary Phagan
Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Rosser’s Examination of Lee Just a Shot in Dark; Hoped to Start Quarry, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian July 30th, 1913 By JAMES B. NEVIN. If Mr. Luther Z. Rosser's bite is one-half so dangerous as his growl undoubtedly is disconcerting and awe-inspiring, there will be little save shreds and patches of the prosecution left when…
Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Sergeant Dobbs Resumes Stand At Tuesday Afternoon Session, The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Constitution July 30th, 1913 Sergeant L. S. Dobbs took the stand again at the afternoon session. "Did you help take the girl's body from the basement?" Attorney Rosser questioned. "I was there when the undertakers came," answered the sergeant.…
Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Three Witnesses Describe Finding Mary Phagan’s Body, The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Constitution July 30th, 1913 NEWT LEE STICKS TO ORIGINAL STORY DESPITE ATTEMPTS TO CONFUSE NEGRO Striking Feature of Day's Proceedings Was the Evident Effort on Part of Luther Rosser to Connect Watchman With Crime, or Show He Knew More…
Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Trial is No Ordeal for Me, Says Frank’s Mother
Atlanta Journal July 30th, 1913 She Declares Her Confidence in Son's Innocence Makes It Easy for Her "My son never looked stronger than at this moment," said Mrs. Ray Frank, of Brooklyn, Wednesday morning. "The trial isn't telling upon him…
Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, The Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Journal July 30th, 1913 Tuesday Afternoon's Session Hears of Beginning of Police Investigation Into Mystery of Mary Phagan's Murder Following in the sequence which it began with the introduction of the first witness, the prosecution of the murder charge…
Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Uncle of Frank, Near Death in Far-Off Hospital, Is Ignorant Of Charges, Against His Nephew, The Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Journal July 30th, 1913 Moses Frank Has Been Given No Inkling of Circumstances That Now Are About Frank Family—He Is Seriously Ill in German Hospital Lying at the point of death in a hospital in far-off Germany is the…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Bearing of Black and Lee Forms a Study in Contrast, The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Constitution July 31st, 1913 By Sidney Ormond Comparisons are odious, but to the close observer of events following the Mary Phagan murder and the trial now in progress one cannot help contrasting the impression made on the jury by…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Collapse of Testimony of Black and Hix Girl’s Story Big Aid to Frank, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian July 31st, 1913 Although the State's witnesses were on the stand all of Wednesday the day was distinctly favorable for Frank, partly because nothing distinctly unfavorable was developed against him—the burden of proof being upon the State—but most…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Crimson Trail Leads Crowd to Courtroom Sidewalk, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian July 31st, 1913 By L. F. WOODRUFF. The sun's heat is broiling. No man can stand it without suffering. And still men stand, not one man, but scores of them, on a blistered pavement gazing on a red…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Daintily Dressed Girl Tells Of Daily Routine of Factory, The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Constitution July 31st, 1913 Grace Hicks, a sister-in-law of ‘Boots' Rogers, whom he carried to the factory the morning of April 27 to tell if the dead girl was an employee of the factory was put upon the witness…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Defense Riddles John Black’s Testimony, The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Constitution July 31st, 1913 SLEUTH CONFUSED UNDER MERCILESS CROSS-QUESTIONS OF LUTHER ROSSER Just Before He Left the Stand He Confessed That He Was "Mixed Up" and That He Could Not Recall What He Had Testified a Moment Before—Tangled on…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Detective Black Muddled By Keen Cross-Examination Of Attorneys for Defense, The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Constitution July 31st, 1913 Detective John R. Black, the officer who went in Rogers' machine from the factory to Frank's residence on the Sunday morning that Mary Phagan's body was discovered, was next put up by the state. He…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Gantt, Once Phagan Suspect, On Stand Wednesday Afternoon, The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Constitution July 31st, 1913 J. W. Gantt, who once was a suspect in the famous case, followed Mrs. Coleman to the stand at the afternoon session. "Have you ever been connected with the pencil company?" "From January 1st, 1918,…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Holloway Accused by Solicitor Dorsey of Entrapping State, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian July 31st, 1913 Here are the important developments of Thursday in the trial of Leo M. Frank: Harry Scott, Pinkerton detective, is accused of having "trapped" the prosecution by Solicitor Dorsey, when he testifies that Frank was not…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Idle and Curious Throng Court Despite Big Force of Deputies, The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Constitution July 31st, 1913 In spite of the largest force of deputies that has ever been brought together in Fulton county for a similar purpose, the greatest difficulty is being experienced in keeping out the idle and morbidly curious…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope On Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered, The Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Journal July 31st, 1913 BLOOD SPOTS AND HAIR FOUND ON DAY FOLLOWING DISCOVERY CRIME HAD BEEN COMMITTED Pay Envelope Was Found Near Machine Used by Mary Phagan Some Days Later—Find of Strands of Hair on Lathe Was Reported to…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Mrs. Coleman Is Recalled To Identify Mary’s Handbag, The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Constitution July 31st, 1913 Mrs. J. W. Coleman was recalled to the stand for only a moment's interrogation regarding the mesh handbag which she carried with her upon leaving home on the day of the tragedy. Attorney Rosser asked,…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Photo By Francis E Price, Staff Photographer, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 31st July 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Miss Grace Hicks, an employee of the National Pencil factory, and a friend of Mary Phagan, who testified on Wednesday morning; Detective John Black (Wearing derby), who was put through severe cross-examination…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Red Bandanna, a Jackknife and Plennie Minor Preserve Order, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian July 31st, 1913 He Raps With the Barlow Blade and Waves the Oriflamed Kerchief Judiciously. Plennie Minor, chief deputy sheriff, has a man's sized job on his hands and he handles it with the aid of a red…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Rogers on Stand Describes Visit of Frank to Undertakers, The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Constitution July 31st, 1913 When court convened and before the jury had been brought in Attorney Luther Rosser entered an objection to the drawing of the pencil factory which Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey had rehung upon the wall after…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Rosser Riddles One of the State’s Chief Witnesses, The Atlanta Journal
Solicitor Dorsey is shown in a characteristic attitude as he questions the state's witnesses. To his right the defendant, Leo M. Frank, is shown. Atlanta Journal July 31st, 1913 Detective John Black "Goes to Pieces" Under Rapid-Fire Cross-Questioning of Frank's…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Scott Trapped Us, Dorsey Charges; Pinkerton Man Is Also Attacked by the Defense, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian July 31st, 1913 FRANK NOT IN OFFICE JUST AFTER 12 ON DAY OF SLAYING, SAYS GIRL The deliberate charge that he had been "trapped" by Pinkerton Detective Harry Scott was made by Solicitor Dorsey at the trial of…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 State Balloon Soars When Dorsey, Roiled, Cries ‘Plant’, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian July 31st, 1913 By JAMES B. NEVIN. Poor John Black! With this unwitting assistance of the Solicitor General and the assistance of Luther Rosser, he furnished all the "punch" there was in Wednesday's story of the Frank trial.…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 William Gheesling First Witness Today, The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Constitution July 31st, 1913 Harry Scott, Pinkerton Detective Will Also Be Called to Stand During Day William Gheesling, the P. J. Bloomfield undertaking attachee who made the first examination and emblamed the body of Mary Phagan will probably be…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, The Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Journal July 31st, 1913 At First It Was Picnic for Them, but Now It's Only a Long, Long Wait, in a Crowded Room Under a Burning Roof The witnesses in the trial of Leo M. Frank undoubtedly have had…
Friday, 1st August 1913 Acquitted In The Same Court, She Believers Is Innocent, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution, Friday, 1st August 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMN 7. Photo by Francis E. Price. Staff Photographer. Mrs. Callie Scott Appelbaum, who was tried before Judge Roan for the murder of her husband. Jerome Appelbaum, and declared "not…
Friday, 1st August 1913 Attorneys for Both Sides Riled by Scott’s Testimony; Replies Cause Lively Tilts, The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Constitution August 1st, 1913 When court convened on Thursday morning, J. M. Gantt, formerly employed in the bookkeeping department of the National Pencil factory, was placed on the stand for two questions, and he was followed by Harry Scott,…
Friday, 1st August 1913 Blood Found by Dr. Smith on Chips and Lee’s Shirt, The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Constitution August 1st, 1913 Dr. Claude A. Smith, the medical expert who made microscopic examinations of the blood-spotted chips chiseled from the floor of the pencil factory and of the bloody shirt discovered in Newt Lee's home, was next…
Friday, 1st August 1913 Conley Takes Stand Saturday, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 1st, 1913 Lawyers Wrangle Over Frank's Nervousness DORSEY WINS POINT AS ROSSER BATTLES TO DEFEND ACCUSED Jim Conley, accuser of Leo Frank, will take the stand Saturday morning, according to all indications Friday, to repeat the remarkable…
Friday, 1st August 1913 Defense Not Helped by Witnesses Accused of Entrapping the State, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 1st, 1913 By JAMES B. NEVIN. Has the State succeeded in thoroughly establishing the fact that little Mary Phagan's tragic death was effected on the second floor of the National Pencil Factory, in Forsyth street? It has…