Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Loyalty Sends Girl to Defend Mullinax
Miss Pearl Robinson, sweetheart of Arthur Mullinax, the man questioned by the police in connection with the slaying of Mary Phagan. Her story cleared Mullinax of any suspicion of complicity in the crime which has shocked Atlanta. Atlanta…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Negro Watchman is Accused by Slain Girl’s Stepfather
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 That Mary Phagan never left the factory after she entered it at 12:15 o'clock Saturday, the day of her murder, and that she was killed and her body dragged into the basement by…
Tuesday, 30th June 1914: Thurman Divorce Case Is Heard By Court, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 30th June 1914,PAGE 6, COLUMN 2.Wife of Atlanta Lawyer Is Seeking to Obtain Separation and AlimonyThat Arthur Thurman, the lawyer indicted recently on a subornation of perjury charge growing out of the Frank Case, lived at the…
Thursday, 4th June 1914: Second Frank Motion Comes Up On Friday, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 4th June 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.Motion to Set Aside Verdict of Guilty Will Be Heard by Judge HillThe hearing of the motion to set aside the verdict of guilty against Leo M. Frank on the ground that…
Friday, 5th June 1914: Dorsey’s Demurrer In Leo Frank Case Is Heard By Court, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 5th June 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.Solicitor Attacks Motion to Set Aside Verdict Because Defendant Was Absent From Court RoomDECLARES NO DEFECT APPEARS ON RECORDSays Right to Be Present Was Waived and Counsel Told Judge There Would Be…
Saturday, 6th June 1914: Dorsey’s Demurrer In Leo Frank’s Case Sustained By Court, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 6th June 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.Refuses to Hear Motion to Set Aside Verdict Because Defendant Did Not Hear It ReadThe demurrer filed by Solicitor H. M. Dorsey against the latest motion in behalf of Leo M. Frank,…
Wednesday, 10th June 1914: Probe Of County Board Ordered By Grand Jury, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 10th June 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Charges of Graft Made in Recent Campaign Will Be InvestigatedA thorough probe of the charges and counter charges involving acts of the Fulton County board was ordered Wednesday by the Grand Jury.…
Monday, 15th June 1914: Holdups And Attempted Suicides Feature Sunday, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 15th June 1914,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.Police and Hospital Attendants Are Kept Busy by Numerous CallsSunday was a busy day for the police and the Grady Hospital. Attempted suicides, holdups and other disturbances kept the officers and doctors…
Thursday, 18th June 1914: C. W. Burke Indicted For Suborning Perjury, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 18th June 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.Frank Case Employee Tried to Change Girls' Testimony, It Is ChargedAn indictment charging attempt to subornate perjury was returned by the Fulton County grand jury Thursday afternoon against C. W. Burke, employed…
Friday, 19th June 1914: Indictment Is Returned Against Jimmy Wrenn, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 19th June 1914,PAGE 2, COLUMN 4.Attempt to Subornate Perjury in Leo Frank Case Is the Charge. Jimmy Wrenn, an employee of C. W. Burke, special investigator for the defense in the Frank Case, was indicted by the…
Saturday, 20th June 1914: Motion For New Trial Of Conley To Be Heard, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 20th June 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Case of Negro May Be Considered With Others in Court Next SaturdayOrders given Court Attachs Saturday by Judge Hill, of the criminal division of the Superior Court, who has just returned from…
Sunday, 28th June 1914: Pretty Frank Case Witness Elopes And Gets Married, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 28th June 1914,PAGE 3, COLUMN 2.MRS. S. J. MANERMiss Monteen Stover, one of State's principal witnesses, elopes with S. J. Maner, a Savannah printer. Miss Monteen Stover, nineteen years old, a witness in the Frank trial around…
Saturday, 20th June 1914: Burns Is Dropped By Police Chiefs, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 20th June 1914,PAGE 2, COLUMN 2.Action Taken After Chief Beavers, in Speech, Had Denounced the Detective's Work in Frank Case. Grand Rapids, Mich., June 19. (Special.) Following a speech by J. L. Beavers, chief of police of…
Sunday, 28th June 1914: Mrs. Elliot Cheatham Replies To Mrs. Lamar’s Article, Stating Reasons For Anti-suffrage League, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 28th June 1914,PAGE 49, COLUMN 1.In last Sunday's Constitution, there appeared an article by Mrs. Walter Douglas Lamar, of Macon, Ga., a member of the Anti-Suffrage association, of Macon, in which she sets for the purposes and…
Monday, 29th June 1914: Mediation Urged At Mass Meeting To Settle Strike, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Monday, 29th June 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Differences Between Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills and Former Employees Discussed at the Grand. BOTH PARTIES ASKED TO SELECT ARBITERS Addresses on Problems of Capital and Labor Made By Dr. Wilmer, Dr.…
Tuesday, 30th June 1914: Knocks And Boosts From The State Press, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 30th June 1914,PAGE 6, COLUMN 4.Died A-Bornin'.(From The Albany Herald.)We note with great satisfaction that the fight to repeal the present tax act seems to have almost died a-bornin'. True, the measure is still supposed to be…
Monday, 1st June 1914: Perjury Charges Basis Of Sermon, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Monday, 1st June 1914,PAGE 10, COLUMN 3.Referring to Conflicting Affidavits in Frank Case, Dr. Ogden Preaches on "Sanctity of Truth." Taking as a motive for his sermon the multiplicity of conflicting affidavits and the various perjury charges in…
Tuesday, 2nd June 1914: Burns Case Causes New City Ordinance Guarding Witnesses, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 2nd June 1914,PAGE 7, COLUMN 3.As a result of charges and intimations that detectives working under William J. Burns in the Frank case caused witnesses to leave the city before testifying, the Council yesterday decided to safeguard…
Friday, 5th June 1914: Frank Case Motion Will Be Heard Today, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 5th June 1914,PAGE 4, COLUMN 3.Solicitor Dorsey Will Enter Demurrer to Motion to Reverse Verdict, It Is Stated.The stage has been set for the Frank Case motion to upset the verdict of guilty, which will commence this…
Saturday, 6th June 1914: Verdict Is Void, Declare Lawyers For Leo M. Frank, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 6th June 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.John L. Tye Stresses Advantages to the Defendant in Being Present When a Verdict Is Read. ASSERTS THAT JURORS MIGHT HAVE CHANGED Peeples Scores Mobs as Cowardly Says That Would Have Been…
Sunday, 7th June 1914: Another Step In Frank Case Won By State, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 7th June 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Demurrer of Solicitor Dorsey Upheld by Judge Hill. Motion to Set Aside Verdict Dismissed. Within twenty days there will be still another phase of the Frank Case before the Supreme Court, for…
Wednesday, 10th June 1914: Grand Jury To Resume Probe Of Frank Case, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 10th June 1914,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.Operations of Detective Burke and Wrenn Will Be Investigated. The Fulton grand jury will this week resume its investigation into the Frank Case and is expected to probe into the alleged irregular…
Thursday, 11th June 1914: Grand Jury To Probe County Board Charges, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 11th June 1914,PAGE 10, COLUMN 3.The Grand Jury, upon going into session yesterday, decided to begin the requested probe of charges of graft and irregularities that were made during the recent election campaign against the county commissioners.…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 I Feel as Though I Could Die, Sobs Mary Phagan’s Grief-Stricken Sister
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Among all the hearts that are bowed down in sorrow over the murder of Mary Phagan, the 14-year-old factory child found dead in the National Pencil factory Saturday, there is none…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Former Play mates Meet Girl’s Body at Marietta
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 The little town of Marietta, Georgia, where her baby eyes first opened upon the light of day scarcely fourteen years ago, will to-day witness the sorrowful funeral of Mary Phagan, the sweet young…
Saturday, 23rd May 1914: State Cases Are Planned Against Burns Operators By The Police Commission, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 23rd May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Dan Lehon, Charles Sears, and four assistants were placed under bond for appearance before Recorder Broyles on Tuesday. Burns is expected today to defend his course, declares Dan Lehon. Detectives were given…
Sunday, 24th May 1914: Our Record Clean, Asserts Dan Lehon, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 24th May 1914,PAGE 28, COLUMN 1.Says They Could Have Escaped Trouble by Asserting Frank's Guilt, But It Would Have Violated Their Convictions.Asserting that if he and Detective Burns were as questionable as they are accused by the…
Tuesday, 26th May 1914: Council Revokes License Of Burns, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 26th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Recommendation of Police Board Adopted: Broyles Tries Cases Against Detective's Agents Today.Because of alleged failure to cooperate with the local police and for violating his pact with the Police Commission, C. E.…
Wednesday, 27th May 1914: Lehon Is Fined $100 And Costs And Bound Over, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 27th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Burns Detective Will Take Case to Higher Courts to Test the Constitutionality of the City Ordinance. Contempt Cases Are Dismissed by Hill. Motion to Upset the Frank Verdict Will, in All Probability,…
Thursday, 28th May 1914: Three Burns Aides Fined And Bound Over By Recorder, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 28th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Detectives Charged with Operating in Atlanta Without PermissionDetectives from the Burns Detective Agency, including W. W. ("Boots") Rogers, have been charged with operating in Atlanta without the permission of the Police Board…