Saturday, 2nd August 1913 State Hopes Dr. Harris Fixed Fact That Frank Had Chance to Kill Girl
Atlanta Georgian August 2nd, 1913 By JAMES B. NEVIN. The testimony of Dr. Roy Harris, chairman of the State Board of Health, and one of the most learned and approved physicians in Georgia, was dramatic, both in its substance and…
Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Roan Holding Scales of Justice With Steady Hand
Atlanta Georgian August 2nd, 1913 By L. F. WOODRUFF. Emotion's entire gamut is daily run on the screen of faces watching the Frank trial. A student of facial expression can find anything he seeks by watching the throng of spectators…
Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Frank Juror’s Life One Grand, Sweet SongNot
Atlanta Georgian August 2nd, 1913 O. B. Keeler. The juror's life is not unmixed with care. Look him over next time you attend the Frank trial. Size up his little job. Weigh his responsibility. Consider his problems. And then, if…
Sunday, 3rd August 1913 First Week of Frank Trial Ends With Both Sides Sure of Victory
Atlanta Georgian August 3rd, 1913 Solicitor Dorsey Indicates That Real Sensation Will Be Developed for State in Closing Days of Famous Mary Phagan Mystery Case. ANOTHER WEEK OF ORDEAL IN THE HEAT IS EXPECTED Routing of Detective Black and Surprise…
Sunday, 3rd August 1913 Conley to Bring Frank Case Crisis
Atlanta Georgian August 3rd, 1913 Negro's Testimony Now Supremely Important Both Sides Stake Their All on His Evidence STATE FORGES CHAIN TO TAX ALL THE INGENUITY OF DEFENSES LEGAL ARRAY First Week of Battle Has Fixed the Time Almost Exactly…
Sunday, 3rd August 1913 Leo Frank’s Eyes Show Intense Interest in Every Phase of Case
Courtroom Studies of Leo Frank: Three typical poses of the defendant in the famous Phagan case are show, while in the upper left of the picture is a study of Luther Rosser, his leading counsel. Here is what a study…
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 Conley’s Story In Detail; Women Barred By Judge
Atlanta Georgian August 4th, 1913 There was a murmur of excitement following the calling of Jim Conley; there was a wait of several minutes, officers having just left the police station with the negro a minute or two before he…
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 Boiled Cabbage Brings Hypothetical Question Stage in Frank’s Trial
Atlanta Georgian August 4th, 1913 By JAMS B. NEVIN. When a prospective juryman is on his voir dire in a given criminal case, he is asked if his mind is perfectly impartial between the State and the accused. If he…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Envy Not the Juror! His Lot, Mostly, Is Monotony
Atlanta Georgian August 4th, 1913 By L. F. WOODRUFF. A policeman's life is not a merry one. The thought was expressed and event set to music in those dim days of the distant past when people heard the lyrics and…
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 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 Frank Calm and Jurors Tense While Jim Conley Tells His Ghastly Tale
Atlanta Georgian August 4th, 1913 During the long wait for Conley to appear, Frank, his loyal wife and his no less loyal mother gave no sign of fear. Accuser and accused were about to face each other, a dramatic situation…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Dramatic Moment of Trial Comes as Negro Takes Stand
Atlanta Georgian August 4th, 1913 L. O. Grice, a stenographer in the offices of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, was the first witness called. He said that he saw Frank on Sunday morning after the murder and Frank attracted…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Dorsey Tries to Prove Frank Had Chance to Kill Girl
Atlanta Georgian August 4th, 1913 NEGRO SPRINGS NEW SENSATION, ADDING TO STORY.James Conley, the negro sweeper in the National Pencil Factory, was called to the stand in the trial of Leo M. Frank, whom he accuses of the murder of…
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…
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 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…
Monday, 28th July 1913 Frank Jury
Atlanta Georgian July 28th, 1913 Here is the Frank jury complete: A. H. Henslee, 74 Oak street; salesman. F. V. L. Smith, 481 Cherokee avenue, manufacturer's agent. J. F. Higdon, 108 Ormewood avenue. F. E. Winburn, 213 Lucile avenue, claim…
Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Defense Wins Point After Fierce Lawyers’ Clash
Atlanta Georgian July 29th, 1913 STATE TRIES TO SHOW GIRL WAS STRANGLED ON THE SECOND FLOOR Here are Tuesday's important developments in the trial of Leo M. Frank on the charge of murdering Mary Phagan in the National Pencil Factory,…
Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Lee’s Quaint Answers Rob Leo Frank’s Trial of All Signs of Rancor
Atlanta Georgian July 29th, 1913 By L. F. Woodruff A page was ripped from a story of Harris Dickson. "Old Reliable" was paraded in the life in as somber a setting as was ever conceived and the temper of the…
Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Tragedy, Ages Old, Lurks in Commonplace Court Setting
Atlanta Georgian July 29th, 1913 Outwardly Quiet and Singularly Lacking in Excitement, Frank Trial is Enactment of Grim Drama. By JAMES B. NEVIN. One of the most commonplace things in the world—crime—is riveting the attention of Atlanta and Georgia to-day.…
Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Gantt Has Startling Evidence; Dorsey Promises New Testimony Against Frank
Atlanta Georgian July 30th, 1913 STATE ADDS NEW LINK TO EVIDENCE CHAIN BY BOOTS ROGERS' STORY Sensational testimony by J. M. Gantt, discharged pencil factory employee, was promised Wednesday by Solicitor Dorsey and Frank A. Hooper, who is assisting him.…
Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Rosser’s Examination of Lee Just a Shot in Dark; Hoped to Start Quarry
Atlanta Georgian July 30th, 1913 By JAMES B. NEVIN. If Mr. Luther Z. Rosser's bite is one-half so dangerous as his growl undoubtedly is disconcerting and awe-inspiring, there will be little save shreds and patches of the prosecution left when…
Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Flashes of Tragedy Pierce Legal Tilts at Frank Trial
Atlanta Georgian July 30th, 1913 By O. B. KEELER. The trouble is, plain human emotions won't stick at concert pitch all the time. And so the Frank trial, after the first twenty minutes, say, becomes much like any other trial.…
Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Frank’s Mother Pitiful Figure of the Trial
Atlanta Georgian July 30th, 1913 Defendant Perfect in Poise, His Wife Picture of Contemptuous Confidence. By L. F. WOODRUFF. Arm akimbo; glasses firmly set, changing position seldom, Leo M. Frank sits through his trial with his thoughts in Kamchatka, Terra…
Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Defense Plans Sensation, Line of Queries Indicates
Atlanta Georgian July 30th, 1913 That a sensation is be sprung by the defense by the production of the mysteriously missing ribbon and flowers from the hat of the murdered girl was repeatedly indicated by Attorney Rosser's line of questioning…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Scott Trapped Us, Dorsey Charges; Pinkerton Man Is Also Attacked by the Defense
Atlanta Georgian July 31st, 1913 FRANK NOT IN OFFICE JUST AFTER 12 ON DAY OF SLAYING, SAYS GIRL The deliberate charge that he had been "trapped" by Pinkerton Detective Harry Scott was made by Solicitor Dorsey at the trial of…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Collapse of Testimony of Black and Hix Girl’s Story Big Aid to Frank
Atlanta Georgian July 31st, 1913 Although the State's witnesses were on the stand all of Wednesday the day was distinctly favorable for Frank, partly because nothing distinctly unfavorable was developed against him—the burden of proof being upon the State—but most…