Category: AMERICAN STATE TRIALS VOLUME 10, NINETEEN EIGHTEEN


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

364 . AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.her husband, who wouldn’t have gone to him through snap-shotters, reporters and over the advice of any Rabbi underthe sun. And you know it. Frank says in his statement,with reference to these notes written by Conley,…

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

LEO M. FRANE,. 865You know why. Ah, you did know that Conley couldwrite. You knew it, not only because he wrote the notes foryou, through which you sought to place the responsibilityfor this crime on another man, but you knew…

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

866 %. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.that man decline to face him. And there never lived withinthe State of Georgia, a lawyer with one-half the ability ofMr. Luther Rosser, who possessed a consciousness of hisclient’s innoeence, that wouldn’t have said ‘‘Let this…

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

LEO H. FRANK. 867The Covet. 1 know; go on.Mr. Dorsey. They see the force of it.. Mr, Rosser, Is that a fair comment, Your Honor, if I make areasottable objection, to say that we see the foree of it? =The…

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

368 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.murder, that any lawyer, Rosser or anybody else, could keepyou from confronting him and nailing the lie? No lawyeron earth, no lawyer that ever lived in any age or any climeeould prevent me, if I were…

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

LEO H. FRANK. 360had been there but two or three weeks,—three weeks,Frank could have told you that the detectives stressed thefact that couples went in there holidays, Saturdays and atnights, at all times and at any time when other night…

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

370 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.shown up white, as it showed up then, but it would haveshowed up either pink or red.”’Now, first, contrast that statement for a moment withthis statement with reference to the condition of the floorwhere Barrett worked.…

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

LEO U. FRANK. 871tify themselves on that point, os against the evidence of allthese witnesses who have told you that that was blood, andagainst the evidence of Doctor Claude Smith, the City Bacte-iologist of the City of Atlanta, who tells…

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

372 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.her, even if he had been auch a fool and so unlike the othermembers of his race, by whom brutal murders have beencommitted, should have taken time to have tied a cord aroundher neck, a cord…

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

LEO M. PRANK. 373down, according to his own statement, Lemmie Quinn hadto come and ask him ‘back to eee the blood spots on the sec-ond floor, found by this man Barrett,Is that the conduct of a man, the head of…

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

374 X¥. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Mr, Dorsey. Rogers said he never did look at that body.Mr. Arnoid. 1 insist that isn’t the evdence. Rogers said he didn'tknow and couldn't answer whether he saw it or not, and Blaek saidthe same thing.I’m…

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

LEO M. FRANE. 375tures accounts for the nervousness which he displayed; andyet we find him going, like a dog to his vomit, a sow to herwallow, back to view the remains of this poor little innocentgirl. And I ask you,…

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

376 X¥. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.the electricity might innocently electrocute some members ofthe fire department in case of fire. I ask you, gentlemen ofthe jury, what was the necessity for leaving the box openwhen a atmple turn of the lever would…

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

LEO M, FRANK. 377Mr. Rosser. He doesn’t claim that. He says the point is it wasessily gotten in the office, but that’s not what he said.The Count. You claim that’s 2 deduction ycu are drawing?Mr. Dorsey. Why, sure.‘The Court. Now,…

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

378 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.though I didn’t look at her and couldn’t have resognized herif she was in the dirty, distorted condition,’’ he tells you inthis statement, she really was, “‘but I know it was MaryPhagan.’” ,And he corroborates in…

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

LEO M. FRANK. 370asked them not, ‘‘has there been a fire,”’ but ‘‘has there been.a tragedy?’’ But Starnes, the man who first went afterNewt Lee, the negro night watchman, because he pointed hisfinger of suspicion at him,—Starnes, the man who…

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

880 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.had been up there, he innocently called Newt up to find out,he said, if Gantt had gone and Newt said to find out if every-thing was all right at the factory; and you know that thereason…

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

LEO M. FRANK. 381this man Frank had stepped out of his office to answer a callof nature, that he would have remembered it, and if hewouldn’t have remembered it, at least he wouldn’t havestated so repeatedly and unqualifiedly that he…

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

382 &X. AMERICAN 8TATE TRIALB,you were in your offcet”’ and Frank said ‘‘yes.’’ And notuntil he saw the wonderful capacity, the wonderful ability,the wonderful devotion of this man Scott to the truth andright did he ever shut him out from…

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LEO M. FRANK. 383man Mr. Kelley, who rode on the same car with Hollis, thesame car that Hollis claims or Matthews claims that he redeon, knew the girl, knew Matthews, tells you and he’s nnim-peached and unimpeachable, and there’a no…

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

334 - X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Hr. Arnold. I move to exclude that as groesly improper, He sayshe is arguing that some physician was brought here because he wastbe physician of some member of the jury, it’s grossly unfair and it'sgrossly…

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

LEO, M. FRANE. 885know anything about the action of the gastric juices onfoods in the stomach, this man of the short experience ofseven years, this gentleman, splendid gentleman though heis, from Michigan, can put his opinion against the eminentSeeretary of…

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

386 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.was that he dared not say, because he couldn’t then say,that he sew that man also sweeping them out; then it wasthat he said “all right, Newt, go up with him and let himget them,” and…

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

LEO M. FRANE. 387the language, ‘Completely unstrung,”’ and now he changedit in your presence and said ‘‘almost completely unstrung.””You tell me that this man that called for breakfast athome, as Durant called for bromo selizer in San Francisco,this man who…

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

388 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.man Scott, one of the most material witnesses, although thedetective of this defendant’s company, might also throw medown. Scott says this man Frank, when he went thereMonday afternoon, after he had anxiously phoned Schiff tosee old…

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

LEO H. FRANK. 389death of Christ on the Cross, says thet, when He sufferedthat agony, He said to the thief, ‘‘This day shalt thou bewith Me in Paradise ;’’ and unless our religion is a fraud anda farce, if it…

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

390 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS. ~to impeach thie man, Dalton, you could have found it out.And I submit that the man that did it, whoever he was, theman who had the charity in his heart to dress that negro up,—the…

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

LEO M. FRANK. 391of the night, offering him sandwiches and whiskey andthreatening his life, things that this sheriff, who is as goodag the chief of police but no better, couldn’t guard against‘because of the physical atructure of the jail, Jim…

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

392 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.police force of the City of Atlanta, he would have been a lib-erated man, when he stepped into this Court to swear, or hewould have been spirited out of the State of Georgia so hisdamaging evidence…

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

LEO M. FRANE, 393came, when these girls were in there reclining and loungingafter they had finished their piece work, and tells of the sar-donic grin that lit his countenance, sustains Jim Conley.Miss Kitchens, the lady from the fourth floor, that,…