Friday, 1st August 1913 Mrs. Callie Scott Appelbaum Attends Trial of Leo Frank; Believes in His Innocence
Atlanta Journal August 1st, 1913 A woman sat among the spectators at the Frank trial Thursday afternoon, a pretty blue-eyed woman neatly clad in a white shirtwaist and black skirt. "Four months ago," she was thinking, "I was in the…
Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline
Atlanta Journal August 2nd, 1913 WHEN JUDGE ROAN UNWITTINGLY HELD RED HEADLINE IN FRONT OF JURY, DEFENSE MADE POINT Jury Is Sent Out of Room While Attorneys for the Defense Tell the Court That the Jurymen Were Seen Reading Red…
Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner’s Physician, Gives Expert Testimony
Atlanta Journal August 2nd, 1913 DR. HURT'S TESTIMONY NOT CONFIRMATORY OF EVIDENCE GIVEN BY DR. H. F. HARRIS On Cross-Examination, Dr. Hurt Admits That Cabbage Is Considered Very Difficult to Digest and That Under Some Conditions as Much as…
Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Harris Testimony May Be Stricken by Court
Atlanta Journal August 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…
Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Miss Smith Declares Darley Was Incorrect
Atlanta Journal August 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.…
Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence
Atlanta Journal August 2nd, 1913 Physician Testifies at Frank Trial That Mary Phagan Met Death Half Hour After Lunch—Describes Wounds Secretary of State Board of Health Compelled to Leave the Witness Stand on Account of Illness In the midst of…
Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl
Atlanta Journal July 30th, 1913 Tuesday Afternoon's Session Hears of Beginning of Police Investigation Into Mystery of Mary Phagan's Murder Following in the sequence which it began with the introduction of the first witness, the prosecution of the murder charge…
Wednesday, 30th July 1913 Uncle of Frank, Near Death in Far-Off Hospital, Is Ignorant Of Charges, Against His Nephew
Atlanta Journal July 30th, 1913 Moses Frank Has Been Given No Inkling of Circumstances That Now Are About Frank Family—He Is Seriously Ill in German Hospital Lying at the point of death in a hospital in far-off Germany is the…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Witness Saw Slain Girl and Man at Factory Door
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday April 30th, 1913 J. G. Spier followed Newt Lee on the stand. He lives at Cartersville, Georgia Q. Were you about the National Pencil Company plant? A. Yes, sir; we walked over to the Terminal station…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Writing Test Points to Negro
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Experts Declare Note Written by Lee Resembles That Found Near Slain Girl. Handwriting experts said to-day that they were able to determine a resemblance between the handwriting of Newt Lee, the negro watchman…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Policeman Says Body Was Dragged From Elevator
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 R. M. Lasseter , the policeman on the morning watch past the pencil factory, was called at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. He was questioned as follows: Q. Were you in the pencil…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Newt Lee on Stand at Inquest Tells His Side of Phagan Case
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Describes finding of body of slain girl and events at Pencil Factory before and at time of discovery of crime Newt Lee, watchman at the National Pencil Company's factory, who notified the…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Newt Lees Testimony as He Gave It at the Inquest
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Newt Lee, the negro night watchman, was questioned as follows: Q. What is your name? A. Newt Lee. Q. Where do you live? A. Rear of 40 Henry Street. Q. What do…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Girl’s Death Laid to Factory Evils
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Working Conditions Here Wrong, Proved by Phagan Crime, Says McKelway. Dr. A. J. McKelway, president pro tem of the Southern Sociological Congress, declared to-day that if factory conditions in Atlanta were what they…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Great Crowd at Phagan Inquest
A new photograph of Mary Phagan NEW ARRESTS LIKELY; LEO FRANK STILL HELD; CASE AGAINST NEGRO Atlanta Georgian Wednesday April 30th, 1913 Inquest Into Slaying of Factory Girl Begins, and Flood of New Light Is Expected To Be…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Went Down Scuttle Hole on Ladder to Reach Body
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday April 30th, 1913 Previous to Watchman Newt Lee's testimony, three police officers, who were called to the pencil factory when Mary Phagan's body was found, testified. Their testimony, with the exception of such parts as were…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Confirms Lee’s Story of Shirt
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Negro Woman Says Man Accused of Phagan Crime Was Not Home Saturday Night. If Newt Lee, the watchman, went home on Saturday night and discarded a bloody, stained shirt, Lorena Townes, the negro…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Clock Misses Add Mystery to Phagan Case
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Records Purport to Show Watchman Failed to Register Three Times Saturday Night. What does the National Pencil Factory time clock show? It was the duty of Newt Lee, the negro night watchman, to…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Leo Frank’s Friends Denounce Detention
Leo M. Frank, Superintendent of the National Pencil Company's factory, still held by the police. Frank's lawyer says he has given to the police every detail of his whereabouts to account for his time on Saturday and Sunday. Atlanta Georgian…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Mother Prays That Son May Be Released
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Gantt's Mother, for Whom Mary Phagan Was Named, Weeps for Son. In an easy chair in front of an open fireplace in a little Cobb County farm house, sat an aged mother, with…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Sergeant Brown Tells His Story of Finding of Body
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday April 30th, 1913 Sergeant R. J. Brown, the second witness at the inquest, corroborated Anderson's story of the finding of the body. Brown, who was in charge of the morning watch, was one of the four…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Tells of Watchman Lee Explaining the Notes
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday April 30th, 1913 Sergeant L. S. Dobbs was the third witness. He said he answered the call to the pencil company plant Sunday morning. Q.—Did you find an umbrella? A.—No. Lassiter did. Q.—Did you find the…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Tells Jury He Saw Girl and Mullinax Together
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday April 30th, 1913 Edgar L. Sentell, the man who identified Mullinax as being the man he saw with Mary Phagan Saturday night was the first witness to take the stand when the coroner's jury convened at…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Looks Like Frank is Trying to Put Crime on Me, Says Lee
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 A formal statement from Newt Lee, the negro night watchman arrested after he had telephoned the police of the finding of Mary Phagan's mutilated body, was given to the public for the…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Net Closing About Lee, Says Lanford
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Chief of Detectives Lanford was confident this morning that he and his department had completed a strong case to present to the Grand Jury for indictment. He said that the evidence against the…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Machinist Tells of Hair Found in Factory Lathe
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday April 30th, 1913 R. P. Barrett, 180 Griffin Street, a machinist at the National Pencil Company, was one of the witnesses of the late afternoon. He was asked: Q. How long have you worked at the…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Handwriting of Notes is Identified as Newt Lees
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday April 30th, 1913 F. M. Berry, one of the most important witnesses of the afternoon, identified the handwriting on the notes found near Mary Phagan's body as practically the same as that of Newt Lee, who…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Boy Sweetheart Says Girl Was to Meet Him Saturday
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday April 30th, 1913 G. W. Epps, Jr., 14 years old, of 248 Fox Street, who lives just around the corner from Mary Phagan, and who was her boy sweetheart, testified before the Coroner's Jury this afternoon that…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 City Offers $1,000 as Phagan Case Reward
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 At Special Council Meeting Called by Mayor Only One Man Opposes Action. At a special session of city council to-day, called by Mayor Woodward, to give the city's financial aid to the apprehension…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Reward of $1,000 Urged by Mayor
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Brown Offers $200 for Capture of Slayer—C. C. Jones Also Gives $100. Governor Joseph M. Brown to-day offered a reward of $200 for the apprehension and conviction of the murderer of little Mary…