Author: Mary Phagan
Monday, 4th August 1913 Frank on Stand Wednesday Week
Atlanta Constitution August 4th, 1913 Defense Intimates Trial Will Run Into Middle of Third Week With Defendant Final Witness. It will probably be Wednesday or Thursday of next week before Leo Frank takes the stand to explain his actions on…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Frank Witness Nearly Killed By a Mad Dog
Atlanta Georgian August 4th, 1913 Deputy Sheriff W. W. ("Boots") Rogers, witness for the State in the Frank trial, is taking the Pasteur treatment at the State Capitol Monday after being bitten half a dozen times on the right ankle…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Jim Conley Tells An Amazing Story
This diagram is reproduced so that readers can compare the negro's story, as he told it on the stand, with his pantomime illustration of the crime in the presence of the officers some weeks ago. In the numerical sequence the…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Jim Conley’s Story as Matter of Fact as if it Were of His Day’s Work
Atlanta Georgian August 4th, 1913 By O. B. Keeler. Jim Conley, hewer of wood and drawer of water. On the witness stand at the Frank trial this morning, Jim unfolded a tale whose lightest word—you know the rest. It was…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Jurors Strain Forward to Catch Conley Story; Frank’s Interest Mild
Atlanta Georgian August 4th, 1913 Dramatic in its very glibness and unconcern, Conley's story, if it failed to shake or disturb Leo Frank, at least had a wonderful impression upon each member of the jury. Conley told of seeing Mary…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Leo Franks Trial Is Attracting Universal Interest in Georgia
Atlanta Constitution August 4th, 1913 By Britt Craig. There has never been a trial in Georgia's records rivaling the Frank case in general interest throughout the state even the Grace case being a poor second. The Myers trial—the famous Will…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Many Discrepancies Between Conleys Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives
Atlanta Journal August 4th, 1913 Negro Swore Previously That He Never Saw Mary Phagan Enter Factory—Many Other Changes in Story—Fourth Time He's Changed Narrative James Conley's story as he told it on the witness stand Monday morning differs in many…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Ordeal is Borne with Reserve by Franks
Atlanta Georgian August 4th, 1913 Wife and Mother of the Accused Pencil Factory Superintendent Sit Calmly Through Trial. By TARLETON COLLIER Women are brought into a court room, as all the world knows, for one of two purposes. Their presence…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Rosser’s Grilling of Negro Leads to Hot Clashes by Lawyers
Atlanta Georgian August 4th, 1913 A bitter, determined cross-examination of Jim Conley by Luther Rosser was marked by a prolonged battle between counsel for the defense and State over the method of questioning the negro. The defense won a complete…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Their Testimony Is Important In The Trial Of Leo M. Frank
The Atlanta Constitution,Monday, 4th August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.EMIL SELIG.DETECTIVE D. L. WAGONER.DR. H. F. (ROY) HARRIS.CHIEF NEWPORT LANFORD.Photo by Francis E. Price. Staff Photographer.Chief interest in the Frank case today centers int eh appearance at this afternoon's session of…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Amazing Testimony of Conley Marks Crucial Point of Trial; Says Frank Admitted Crime
Atlanta Constitution August 5th, 1913 The crucial point of the entire case of the state versus Leo M. Frank, charged with the murder of little Mary Phagan, an employee in the National Pencil factory, of which he was superintendent, came…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Conley Grilled Five Hours By Luther Rosser
Atlanta Constitution August 5th, 1913 REMARKABLE STORY IS TOLD BY NEGRO IN ACCUSING FRANK OF PHAGAN MURDER Chief Witness for State Admits, Under Cross-Examination, That He Has Been Under Arrest Seven or Eight Times, and That Many Statements Made in…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Conley Is Mercilessly Grilled At Afternoon Session of Court
Atlanta Constitution August 5th, 1913 ARRESTED 7 TIMES, HE ADMITS Jim Conley remained on the stand throughout the afternoon session. Attorney Rosser continuting his cross-examination after the noon recess. "Who saw you, Jim, at police headquarters?" "Chief Beavers." "Who else?"…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Conleys Charge Turns Frank Trial Into Fight To Worse Than Death
Atlanta Georgian August 5th, 1913 By JAMES B. NEVIN. Black and sinister, depressing in its every aspect and horrible in its gloom, the testimony of Jim Conley in the Frank case was given to the court and the jury under…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony
Atlanta Journal August 5th, 1913 ON GROUNDS OF IRRELEVANCY ATTORNEY ARNOLD MOVES TO STRIKE PART OF TESTIMONY He Asks That Conley's Statement That He Acted as "Lookout" for Frank, and Part of Testimony Attacking Frank's Personal Character Be Blotted From…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Flashlight in The Constitution Introduced in Trial of Frank
Atlanta Constitution August 5th, 1913 Police Sergeant L. S. Dobbs was the witness who followed Grice. The officer had already testified on the first day of the trial and was brought back for only a few minutes. "Did you find…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Frank Very Nervous, Testifies L. O. Grice
Atlanta Constitution August 5th, 1913 Witness Had Gone to the Pencil Factory After Reading The Constitution Extra L. O. Grice was the first witness put on the stand when court convened Monday morning. He was kept there but a few…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Handsome Woman Seeks in Vain For Witness at Franks Trial
Atlanta Constitution August 5th, 1913 Shortly after the courtroom had been cleared of women during the trial of Leo M. Frank Monday, Detective Harper entered the room with a handsome woman and the two took a leisurely survey of those…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied With Conley
Atlanta Journal August 5th, 1913 "They Haven't Shaken Him a Particle," Says Dorsey—"He Has Told About 240 Lies Already," Declares Attorney Reuben Arnold Both the state's attorneys and the counsel for Leo M. Frank Tuesday at noon expressed satisfaction with…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Many Discrepancies To Be Bridged in Conleys Stories
Atlanta Georgian August 5th, 1913 The defense of Leo Frank will bring out vividly before the jury Tuesday that the striking feature of Jim Conley's dramatic recital on the stand Monday was that it differed not only from the first…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Mrs. Frank Breaks Down in Court
Atlanta Georgian August 5th, 1913 Judge, Favoring Defense, Reserves Decision as to Striking Out Testimony CONLEY CONTINUES TO WITHSTAND FIERCE ATTACKS OF ROSSER Reuben Arnold created a sensation at the opening of Tuesday afternoon's session of the Frank trial by…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night
Atlanta Journal August 5th, 1913 Jim Conley Grilled for Many Hours By Frank's Attorney Who Fails to "Rattle" Him Luther Rosser Makes Negro Admit Lies and Terms in Prison, but Sweeper Remains Good Witness for State—Women Excluded From Court Room…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Rosser Goes Fiercely After Jim Conley
Atlanta Georgian August 5th, 1913 The determined onslaught against Jim Conley, his string of affidavits and the story he told before the Frank jury had its real beginning Monday afternoon. Luther Rosser, starting with the avowed purpose of breaking down…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Scenes In Courtroom Monday While Conley Was On Stand
The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 5th August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3."JIM. CAN YOU PUT THIS CORD AROUDN YOUR NECK LIKE YOU FOUND IT ON MARY PHAGAN'S BODY?"SOLICITOR DORSEY.WOMEN SPECTATORS.JIM CONLEYOn the STAND.Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Scenes In Courtroom Monday While Conley Was…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Stanford Recalled By Solicitor Dorsey
Atlanta Constitution August 5th, 1913 Declares There Were Bars Across Door on Second Floor on Day Before Murder. Following Sergeant Dobbs, Mell Stanford, a factory employee, who had previously testified, was recalled for a few minutes. "Was the door on…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Traditions of the South Upset; White Mans Life Hangs on Negros Word
Atlanta Georgian August 5th, 1913 By L.F. WOODRUFF. Sinister as a cloud, as raven as a night unaided by moon, planet or satellite, Jim Conley is to-day the most talked-of man in Georgia. His black skin has not been whitened…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Witnesses in Franks Trial In Role of Marriage Witnesses
Atlanta Constitution August 5th, 1913 While T. Y. Brent, notary public and ex-officio justice of the peace, was waiting in the witness room of the Frank murder trial yesterday, the "big and little of it" came to him to pronounce…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Women of Every Class and Age Listen With Morbid Curiosity To Testimony of Negro Conley
Atlanta Constitution August 5th, 1913 By Britt Craig. There was a chorus girl who sat next to an aged and withered woman who is undoubtedly a grandmother—a great-grandmother, maybe; there was a painted-cheeked girl with hollow eyes who bore the…
Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Accuser of Conley is Ready to Testify
Atlanta Georgian August 6th, 1913 Deplores Newspaper Publicity, but Poses Merrily for the Camera Brigade. W. H. Mincey, the school teacher and insurance solicitor who made an affidavit that Jim Conley confessed to him that he had already killed a…
Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Can Jury Obey if Told to Forget Base Charge?
Atlanta Georgian August 6th, 1913 By James B. Nevin. "Gentlemen of the jury, having heard from James Conley, the blackest, most damning story ever told in Atlanta by one human being against another, having sat there and listened as he…