Author: Mary Phagan
0777 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 62.Picture of the Selig home taken from the outside of the back door of the kitchen. It shows the entrance kitchen and also the door leading into the dining room. It shows…
0778 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 70.Picture of the corner in the basement where body was found,around the left corner behind the partition as shown on the picture.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 71.Picture showing passage way leading to the back door…
0779 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 80.Picture showing elevator box on the first floor.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 81.Picture showing elevator wheel at the top of the fourth floor.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBITS 82, 83, 84.Pictures showing view of the metal room on the…
I STRAUSS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 78th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video I. STRAUSS, sworn for the Defendant.I was at the home of Mrs. Selig, Saturday night, playing cards. I got there about 10:30. Mr. Frank let me in. While we played he was sitting in the hall…
078 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:46 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Anyone who has made advancements in the field of science cannot help but be impressed by the great truth that "man is wonderfully and fearfully made."Insanity can be detected by…
0780 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 88a,b,c,d,eFive jars containing contents of stomach taken from different parties who had eaten cabbage and bread.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 89.Extract from the minutes of Walton Superior court showing three indictments for larceny from the…
0781 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 90.Testimony of Lewett Lee before the Coroner's inquest as follows;"The (Mr.Gantt) says 'I would like to have them(shoes) because I got to go to work Monday.'I says 'I can't let you in…
0782 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: (defendant's exhibit 91 (cont'a)came there, he told him that it would not be necessary for himto work just at that time, that he could go out onthe street and enjoy himself for four hours,…
0783 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Defendant's exhibit 92 (Cont'd)they had gotten through, Mr. Frank left the factory about 1 P.M. Saturday, while white and Denham were still on the top floor. Mr. Frank Chen went to his home, to…
0784 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 94.Court proceedings under which Jim Conley was released fromFulton County Jail upon petition of Solicitor Hugh H. Dorsey:"The State,vs,Leo M. Frank, ) No.) In Fulton Superior Court, May Term, 1913.) Indictment for…
0785 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: The above and foregoing petition read and considered,Let the said James Connelly be taken into custody by theSheriff of said County or Fulton, and be confined in the commonJail of said County, until discharged…
0786 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Georgia,Fulton County.Read and considered, it is ordered that this petition and order be filed and duly entered upon order that said named suspects in connection with the Phagan murder, and now held in common…
0787 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 3. Respondent shows to the court that the city police prison is so arranged and so officered, that respondent is absolutely safe as to his physical welfare, that any attack that might be made…
0788 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Placed about, it is an absolute impossibility for the best glass in the world or the best trained deputies to know exactly what is going on at any and all times or any reasonable…
0789 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: the State there was necessity for same,Wherefore this Respondent agrees to the passage of an orderrevoking former orders in this case, and waives his presence atthe Court, upon a hearing of same.(signed) wm. i.…
SIGMUND MONTAG, Sworn In For The Defendant, 79th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video SIGMUND MONTAG, sworn for the Defendant.I am engaged in manufacturing stationery. I am treasurer of the National Pencil Company. The company receives its mail at my office, which is two blocks from the pencil factory. Frank…
079 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. © 47The joint report of all the physicians concluded that the prisoner was certainly insane at the time of the killing.The case provided an excellent opportunity for the "looking" test of…
0790 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: bend all their power and ingenuity in holding him to his present statement, adding to and taking therefrom only such things as will aid its plausibility. I am informed that Lemford is a fair…
0791 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: my first statement. I made the statement that I went to the pencil factory on Friday, April 25th, and went in Mr. Frank's office at five minutes to one, which is a mistake. I…
0792 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: The within and foregoing pages are hereby approved as a true, correct and complete brief of the evidence in the case herein referred to. October 31, 1913.(signed) L. S. Roan,J.S.C. - St. Jt. Ct.Filed…
0793 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: STATE OF GEORGIA,County of Fulton.I Hereby Certify, That the foregoing pages, hereunto attached, contain a true Transcript of such parts of the record as are specified in the Bill of Exceptions and required, by…
0794 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
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0795 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Leo M. Frank,Plaintiff in Error,vsState of Georgia,Defendant in error.3311 of October Term,From Fulton Superior Court.Hon. Geo. E. Gordon, Judge.Petition for affirmance on February 17th,1914.Motion for Re-Hearing.And now comes Leo M. Frank, Plaintiff in error…
0796 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: testimony was offered that the same was material, illegal and incompetent, to testify substantially as follows: The ladies' dressing room on 1 have seen Miss Rebecca Carson come into the ladies' dressing room on…
0797 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 135 to 137 of the Brief filed in this case.4. Because the court in rendering the decision in said case, overlooked the following material facts in the record, to-wit: ground two of the motion…
0798 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: to 141 of the brief filed in this case.6. Because the court in rendering the decision in said case, overlooked the following material facts in the record, to-wit:16 of the motion for new trial,…
0799 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: disclosed from an inspection of the ground hereof, was material.The facts alleged herein to be overlooked in this ground were discussedin the brief filed by the plaintiff in error, as will appear from pages213…
Tom Watson: The Celebrated Case of The State of Georgia vs. Leo Frank, Watson’s Magazine the Jeffersonian Monthly, August 1915
by Thomas E. Watson (pictured), Watson's Magazine, Volume 21 Number 4, August 1915 THE LAWS OF Georgia are extraordinarily favorable to a person accused of crime. He is not only protected in all of his rights under the Constitution of…
080 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:48 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,Gentlemen, the legal test of insanity laid down by the prosecution is not law. Our own Supreme Court has repudiated it in the case of Baldwin. Knowledge of right and…
TRUMAN MCCRARY, C, Sworn In For The Defendant, 80th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video TRUMAN Mc CRARY, (colored), sworn for the Defendant.I am a drayman on the streets of Atlanta. I work for the National Pencil Company. I have hauled for them. I have drayed for them most every Saturday…