Category: TRANSCRIPTS: ATLANTA JOURNAL
Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Harris Testimony May Be Stricken by Court
Atlanta JournalAugust 2nd, 1913 Question Will Be Solved by Physician's Recovery and Return to Stand If Dr. H. F. Harris, secretary of the state board of health, is not physically able to be presented in the court room before the…
Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Miss Smith Declares Darley Was Incorrect
Atlanta JournalAugust 2nd, 1913 Miss Mattie Smith has given The Journal a statement in which she says that a part of the testimony of N. V. Darley at the Frank trial in reference to her was not true. Mr. Darley…
Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Newt Lee Gets Hat; Now He’s Considering What He Wants Next
Atlanta JournalAugust 2nd, 1913 And Newt Lee gets the hat. The darky who has been the stanchest witness yet examined at the Frank trial has but little more to wish for. First it was watermelon Newt wanted. With his very…
Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Smile, Says Gheesling, When Facing Bear-Cat Like Luther Rosser
Atlanta JournalAugust 2nd, 1913 "Keep smiling on the witness stand." That is the motto of Will Gheesling, of the P. J. Bloomfield undertaking establishment, who testified at the Frank trial Thursday. "When you get a bear cat like Luther Rosser…
Saturday, 2nd August 1913 There Is One Joy in Being A Juror: Collectors Barred
Atlanta JournalAugust 2nd, 1913 Members of Frank Jury Can Not Communicate With Members of Family and Can Read No Newspapers, Not Even Baseball How does it feel to be shut up with eleven other men for one week, maybe two,…
Sunday, 3rd August 1913 Defense Will Introduce Witnesses
Atlanta JournalAugust 3rd, 1913 FRANK TRIAL WILL RUN INTO THIRD WEEK; DEFENSE WILL BEGIN TESTIMONY WEDNESDAY Indications Saturday, When Court Adjourned Until Monday Morning at 9 o'Clock, Were That State Would Require at Least Two More Days Before Concluding Presentation…
Sunday, 3rd August 1913 State’s Case Against Frank As It Stands After Week’s Testimony Is Shown Here
Photo-diagram of court room in old city hall building, where Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil factory, is on trial for his life charged with the murder of Mary Phagan. Although the available seats are taken soon after…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Conley Thought He Was on Trial, His Attorney Declares
Atlanta JournalAugust 4th, 1913 Jim thought he was on trial this morning," said W. M. Smith, attorney for James Conley, the negro sweeper at the pencil factory, after the recess Monday noon following Conley's appearance on the witness stand of…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Conleys Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony
Atlanta JournalAugust 4th, 1913 Negro's Recitative Manner of Telling His Story Gives Impression That He Has Rehearsed It Many Times Jim Conley Monday morning recited his story to the Frank jury. Newt Lee last week told his. Above all other…
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 Many Discrepancies Between Conleys Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives
Atlanta JournalAugust 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 important…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony
Atlanta JournalAugust 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 Record…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied With Conley
Atlanta JournalAugust 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 the…
Tuesday, 5th August 1913 Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night
Atlanta JournalAugust 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 During…
Wednesday, 6th August 1913 He Shore Goes After You Says Conley of Mr. Rosser
Atlanta JournalAugust 6th, 1913 Jim Made for a Newspaper and a Cigarette as Soon as He Left the Stand—He Is Interviewed Through Medium of His Attorney Jim Conley wasn't garrulous after he left the witness stand Wednesday morning, and that's…
Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony
Atlanta JournalAugust 6th, 1913 Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case State Ready With Corroborating Witnesses, if Evidence Is Held to Be Admissible—Jim Conley Adds New and Sensational Feature to His Testimony, Declaring He…
Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given By Conley Against Leo Frank
Atlanta JournalAugust 6th, 1913 Solicitor Dorsey in Vigorous Speech Protests Against Striking Evidence, Declaring He Has Witnesses to Corroborate the Negro and That Striking of Testimony Will Prevent His Getting Their Statements Before the Jury Sustaining a motion made by…
Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Mincey Ready to Swear to Conley Affidavit
Atlanta JournalAugust 6th, 1913 Declares Negro Told Him He Had Killed a Girl—Waiting as Witness W. H. Mincey, the man who has made an affidavit in which he swears that Jim Conley told him on April 26, the day Mary…
Thursday, 7th August 1913 Dr. Harris Testimony is Attacked by Defense Expert
Atlanta JournalAugust 7th, 1913 STATE FINISHES TESTIMONY AND DR. LEROY CHILDS BEGINS EXPERT EVIDENCE FOR DEFENSE Dr. Childs Characterizes Conclusions Similar to Those Made by Dr. H. F. Harris and Dr. J. W. Hurt as Remarkable Guesses—He Says Cabbage Is…
Thursday, 7th August 1913 Judge Roan Decides Conleys Testimony Must Stand
Attorney William M. Smith, who clashed in the court room Tuesday with Attorneys for Leo M. Frank, who didn't want him to consult with client until Conley had finished his testimony. Atlanta JournalAugust 7th, 1913 Defense Asks Mistrial When Crowd…
Friday, 8th August 1913 Defense Attacks States Case From Many Angles
Atlanta JournalAugust 8th, 1913 MOTORMAN AND CONDUCTOR SAY NEWSBOY EPPS WAS NOT ON CAR THAT BROUGHT MARY TO CITY They Swear That She Left Car at Broad and Hunter Streets at 12:10, the Very Hour Monteen Stover Claims to Have…
Friday, 8th August 1913 Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence
Atlanta JournalAugust 8th, 1913 Afternoon Session of Frank's Trial Thursday Is Without Any Interesting Development Pinkerton Detective Harry Scott Testifies That Conley Never Told Him New Features of Story—Dr. Leroy Childs Testifies in Effort to Break Dr. Harris' Story When…
Saturday, 9th August 1913 Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton
Atlanta JournalAugust 9th, 1913 WITNESS IN MOST OF DORSEY'S GRILLING WHEN COURT ADJOURNS UNTIL NINE O'CLOCK ON MONDAY Assistant Factory Superintendent Refutes Testimony of C. B. Dalton and Jim Conley That Frank Frequently Had Women Callers In His Office on…
Saturday, 9th August 1913 State Confronts Watchman Holloway With Previous Affidavit
Atlanta JournalAugust 9th, 1913 Solicitor Dorsey Fiercely Attacks Evidence Given by the Witness For Defense Afternoon Session He Also Implies That Watchman Was Trying to Fix Crime on Conley to Get Reward. Holloway Admits Signing Statement Produced by the Prosecutor—Other…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Conleys Story is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case
Questions asked witnesses by Attorneys Rosser and Arnold indicate that the defense may attempt to convince the jury that it would have been possible for the little girl to have been killed on the first floor of the factory and…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Playing Practical Jokes on Watchful Bailiffs is Pastime of Frank Jurors
Anybody who has the mistaken idea that it's fine to be a juror in a big murder trial has only to see Artist Brewerton's illustration above, of the way the twelve men who are to decide Leo M. Frank's fate…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Witness Found Who Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory
Atlanta JournalAugust 10th, 1913 George T. Kendley, Street Car Conductor, Declares He Saw Little Girl About Noon on April 26 as She Stepped From Curb on Forsyth Street Bridge to Cross Alabama Street, Where His Car Was Stopped BOTH SIDES…
Monday, 11th August 1913 Frank Case Mentioned for First Time in House
Atlanta JournalAugust 11th, 1913 For the first time this session, mention of the case of Leo M. Frank, on trial for his life for the murder of fourteen-year-old Mary Phagan, was made today in the house of representatives. Representative Slater…
Monday, 11th August 1913 Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris
Atlanta JournalAugust 11th, 1913 DR. GEORGE BACHMAN GIVES TESTIMONY TO SHOW HARRIS SIMPLY HAZARDED A GUESS Professor of Physiology at Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons Declares Dr. Harris Is the Only Doctor He Knows Who Would Undertake to Express…
Monday, 11th August 1913 Sunday Proves Day of Meditation for Four Frank Jurors
Atlanta JournalAugust 11th, 1913 Sunday apparently brought reflection and repentance to one aspiring member of the Frank juror, while three others after due consideration of the heat and other things, spent a part of their $2 per day. Juror Townsend,…