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Saturday, 28th November 1914: Frank’s Plea Goes To The Entire U. S. Bench, The Atlanta Journal

The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 28th November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Supreme Court of U.S. Will Hear Motion for Writ on Monday. Leo M. Frank's Petition for a Writ of Error, denied by Justices Lamar and Holmes, of the United States Supreme Court,…
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Saturday, 28th November 1914: Jury Was On Trial, Says Leo M. Frank, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 28th November 1914,PAGE 7, COLUMN 1.Condemned Man Asserts That His Sympathy Is With the Twelve Men Who Composed the Jury.Leo M. Frank, following his second reverse at the hands of a justice of the Supreme Court of…
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Sunday, 29th November 1914: Frank Motion Goes To Supreme Court Monday, The Atlanta Journal

The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 29th November 1914,PAGE 7, COLUMN 4.Full Bench of U.S. Jurists Will Pass on Petition for Writ of Error(Special Dispatch to The Journal)WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 " Formal motion will be submitted in the Supreme Court when it meets…
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Sunday, 29th November 1914: Marshall Will Make Final Plea For Frank, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 29th November 1914,PAGE 6, COLUMN 7.Representatives of the Prisoner Hold Conference in Washington. The final plea for the life of Leo Frank to be made in the United States Supreme Court will be made by Louis Marshall,…
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Monday, 30th November 1914: No Delay Expected In Leo Frank Case, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Monday, 30th November 1914,PAGE 5, COLUMN 3.Remittitur Will Probably Be Sent Down Either Today or Tomorrow.The Supreme Court remittitur in the Leo Frank case is expected to be sent down to the Superior Court late this afternoon or…
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Monday, 30th November 1914: U.s. Court Is Asked To Review Frank Case, The Atlanta Journal

The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 30th November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Attorney Alexander Makes Point That Georgia Court Erred on Federal Law(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. Leo M. Frank's application for a Review of his conviction in Georgia Courts for the…
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DR CLARENCE JOHNSON, Sworn In For The State, 193rd To Testify

Stream Video Download Video DR. CLARENCE JOHNSON, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I am a specialist on diseases of the stomach and intestines. I am a physiologist. A physiologist makes his searches on the living body; the pathologist makes his…

192 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

Here is the translated text as follows:160 & AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.An insane delusion of a character that tends to steal will not excuse a homicide. The act is to be judged always by the nature of the delusion, and of…
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DR GEORGE M NILES, Sworn In For The State, 194th To Testify

Stream Video Download Video DR. GEORGE M. NILES, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I confine my work to diseases of digestion. Every healthy stomach has a certain definite and orderly relation to every other healthy stomach. Assuming a young lady…

193 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELLTHE VERDICT AND SENTENCEThe jury retired to consider their verdict. They were out for about an hour, and when they returned, the foreman pronounced the words: "We, the jury, find the prisoner…
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DR JOHN FUNK, Sworn In For The State, 195th To Testify

Stream Video Download Video DR. JOHN FUNK, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I am professor of pathology and bacteriologist. I was shown by Dr. Harris sections from the vaginal wall of Mary Phagan, sections taken near the skin surface. I…

194 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

Here is the translated text as follows:162 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.He was afterwards tried and acquitted. He was taken back to Leavenworth, where he attempted to desert a second time.THE EXECUTIONMr. Clark Brown of Union, Mo., who has compiled a…

195 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

Here is the translated text as follows:THE TRIAL OF JOHN HODGES FOR TREASON, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 1815THE NARRATIVEDuring the War of 1812, while the British army was retreating from Washington, four stragglers and a deserter were captured by the people of…
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T Y BRENT, Sworn In For The Defendant, 196th To Testify

Stream Video Download Video T. Y. BRENT, sworn for the Defendant in sur-rebuttal.I have heard George Kendley on several occasions express himself very bitterly towards Leo Frank. He said he felt in this case just as he did about a…
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M E STAHL, Sworn In For The Defendant, 197th To Testify

Stream Video Download Video M. E. STAHL, sworn for the Defendant, in sur-rebuttal.I have heard George Kendley, the conductor, express his feelings toward Leo Frank. I was standing on the rear platform, and he said that Frank was as guilty…

196 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

Here is the translated text as follows:164 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Today, a jury was duly impaneled, and a plea of not guilty was made.Elias Glenn, District Attorney, for the Government.William Pinkney, Thomas Jennings, Upton S. Heath, and John E. Hall…
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MISS C S HAAS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 198th To Testify

Stream Video Download Video MISS C. S. HAAS, sworn for the Defendant, in sur-rebuttal.I heard Kendley two weeks ago talk about the Frank case so loud that the entire street car heard it. He said that circumstantial evidence was the…

197 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

Here is the translated text as follows:JOHN HODGESIn George County, some residents of the town of Upper Marlborough captured four stragglers who were following the army. These individuals, along with a deserter, were sent into the interior of the country.…
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N SINKOVITZ, Sworn In For The Defendant, 199th To Testify

Stream Video Download Video N. SINKOVITZ, sworn for the Defendant, in sur-rebuttal.I am a pawnbroker. I know M. E. Mc Coy. He has pawned his watch to me lately. The last time was January 11, 1913. It was in my…

198 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSTHE WITNESSES FOR THE PROSECUTIONWilliam CatonLast August, I was sent by the governor to Queen Anne on business. There, I saw John Randall guarding some prisoners and a deserter. The two…
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S L ASHER, Sworn In For The Defendant, 200th To Testify

Stream Video Download Video S. L. ASHER, sworn for the Defendant in sur-rebuttal.About two weeks ago I was coming to town between 5 and 10 minutes to 1 on the car and there was a man who was talking very…

199 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

Here is the translated text as follows:JOHN HODGESBlood would be at our door; I do not know that Hodges was present when this one was stated to be a deserter.Never were people so universally alarmed on God's earth as the…
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ORAL STATEMENT OF LEO M. FRANK.

Stream Video Download Video Gentlemen of the Jury: In the year 1884, on the 17th day of April, I was born in Cuero, Texas. At the age of three months, my parents took me to Brooklyn, New York, and I…

200 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

Here is the translated text as follows:168 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Thomas Holden: I came to Marlborough when the army was halting at Nottingham. I met two gentlemen whom I told I was a deserter from the British; they took me…
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ADDITIONAL STATEMENT MADE BY DEFENDANT, LEO M. FRANK.

Stream Video Download Video In reply to the statement of the boy that he saw me talking to Mary Phagan when she backed away from me, that is absolutely false, that never occurred. In reply to the two girls, Robinson…

201 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

Here is the translated text as follows:JOHN HODGES169Thomas Sparrow was solicited by F. Rendall to help guard the prisoners. Rendall, Benson, Wells, and myself mounted guard that night. At 12 o'clock, Lansdale came in with a deserter. The next morning,…

202 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

Here is the translated text as follows:170 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Mr. Pinkney: There is no law in this prayer, for it excludes that which is the essence of the offense—intention—and if it were otherwise, the court has no right to…

203 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

Here is the translated text as follows:JOHN HODGES. 171Given the principles upon which the prosecution was founded, I do not think it necessary to trouble the jury with a refutation of them. I will confine myself, therefore, to a few…

204 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

Here is the translated text as follows:172 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,In the realm of civil liberty and the law of treason, you will find him perpetually contending, and contending with effect, that although the crown had proved the facts charged,…

205 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

Here is the translated text as follows:JOHN HODGES. 173A man acquitted of treason may not be the enemy of the king, nor the friend of any man who is his enemy.Consider the case of a man who, in time of…