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Tuesday, 19th August 1913 Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally. Witness Swears Dorsey Refused To Free Minola Fearing City Detectives

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The Atlanta Journal, Tuesday, 19th August 1913. (Page 1, Column 6) Attorney George Gordon, Summoned by the State, Identified Affidavit as Having Been Assented to by Cook at Frank's Home, but Says Solicitor Dorsey Was Informed at the Time That Negress Was Being Illegally Held. BOY SAYS FRANK TALKED TO MARY PHAGAN, BUT COULD NOT DESCRIBE THE LITTLE GIRL. Daisy Hopkins' Character Impeached, but Court Refuses to Hear Indirect Testimony Against Frank's Character - Witnesses introduced to Bolster Up Dalton's Character. Physicians Will Support Dr. Harris Attorney George Gordon, who was counsel for Minola McKnight, the negro cook at the Read More ...

Friday, 22nd August 1913 In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police. Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank

The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 22nd August 1913.PAGE 1DALTON EXCORIATED, CONLEYANNIHILATED AND SOLICITORCHARGED WITH PERSECUTIONMr. Rosser Defends the Character of the Pencil Factory,Declares That Few Men Could Have Stood the TestPut to Frank by a "Horde of Spying Police, Generated by Dorsey,"and Ridicules the "Suspicious Circumstances"Against Frank.EVERYTHING FRANK DID OR SAID WAS DISTORTED,MAGNIFIED AND VIEWED WITH SUSPICION, HE SAYSMr. Rosser Was in the Midst of His Speech When CourtAdjourned for Recess-When He Has Finished SolicitorDorsey Will Make the Concluding Argument, the JudgeWill Deliver His Charge and the Case Go to the Jury.Attorney Luther Z. Rosser, making the closing argument for the defense, Read More ...

Tuesday, 19th August 1913 Jim Conley To Be Recalled

The Atlanta Georgian,Tuesday, 19th August 1913.PAGE 1DORSEY ADMITS HE MADE ERASURE ON FACTORY TIME SLIPWith the State determined to make a desperate fight to broad down the impressive story told by Leo M. Frank in his own behalf the trial of the man accused of Mary Phagan's murder was resumed Tuesday morning.The defense added a few finishing touches to its case calling Mrs. Emil Selig, the prisoner's mother-in-law to identify a suit of brown clothes worn by Frank on Memorial day.Wiley Roberts, assistant jailer at the Tower was called but did not answer to his name and proceedings were held Read More ...

Friday, 22nd August 1913 Rosser Begins Final Plea

  The Atlanta Georgian, Friday, 22nd August 1913. LEADING COUNSEL FO FRANK IN FULL SWING Rosser's work on the Frank case has taxed even his remarkable physique. He has lost 25 pounds in weight. Luther Z. Rosser Closes Arguments For defense. CLOSING ARGUMENTS MAY TAKE ENTIRE DAY; DORSEY TO END CASE Quietly but impressively, Luther Z. Rosser began the final pick in the defense of Leo M. Frank, accused of the murder of Mary Phagan, Friday morning. He spoke without heat in the introduction of his speech. He said that but for his profound PAGE 2 FRANK TRIAL NEARING END; Read More ...

Sunday, 17th August 1913 Frank Should Know Fate Before The Week Passes Is Opinion Of Attorneys

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The Atlanta Journal, Sunday, 17th August 1913. While Defense Has About Forty Character Witnesses, It's Not Believed That Their Testimony Will Take More Than One Day, and Frank Himself Will Probably Tell His Self to the Jury Some Time Tuesday. REBUTTAL EVIDENCE WILL TAKE TWO DAYS AND THE ARGUMENTS OF ATTORNEYS TWO MORE This Will Put the Case In the Hands of the Jury at the End of the Week - All Interest is Now Centered in the Witnesses That the Solicitor Will Put on the Stand In an Effort to Break Down Fine Character Showing Made by Frank. The Read More ...

Wednesday, 20th August 1913 State Closes Frank Case Near Jury Defense Begins Its Sur-rubettual. Hopes To Conclude Quickly

The Atlanta Georgian,Wednesday, 20th August 1913.Page 2Solicitor Dorsey announced the close of the State's case against Leo M. Frank at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. There remained only the presentation of some documentary evidence by the State before the defense would be permitted to proceed on the sur-rebuttal.Attorney Arnold estimated that the defense would not be more than half an hour on the presentation of the sur-rebuttal in the even the cross-examination of witnesses was limited.Judge L. S. Roan said he thought the amount of time allotted for the arguments would be practically unlimited, although he hardly regarded it so likely Read More ...

Thursday, 21st August 1913 Mass Of Perjuries Charged By Arnold Centers Hot Attack On Conley. Ridicules Prosecution Theory

The Atlanta Georgian,Thursday, 21st August 1913.PAGE 1In a cold, cutting arraignment of the methods used to build up a case against Leo M. Frank, accused of the murder of Mary Phagan, Reuben Arnold, of the accused man's defense, Thursday afternoon unsparingly flayed Jim Conley as a perjurer and willing tool in the hands of men determined to convict an innocent man.Arnold's attack minced no words. It bristles with scathing denunciation and bitter ridicule. Its impassioned appeal was interspersed with sardonic humor that made a hostile court room laugh. But its humor was only in flashes. Otherwise it fairly rang with Read More ...

Sunday, 24th August 1913 Solicitor Reasserts His Conviction Of Bad Character And Guilt Of Frank

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The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 24th August 1913.Page two."What I had to say yesterday," began Mr. Dorsey at the opening of Saturday morning's session, "with references to character, I think I have demonstrated by law to any fair-minded man that the defendant is not a man of good character.""In failing to cross-examine these twenty young ladies who claim his character was bad, is proof, of itself, that if he had character that was good, no power on earth would have kept him and his counsel from plying countless questions in his behalf.""That's common-sense, gentlemen, a proposition that is as fair and a Read More ...

Friday, 22nd August 1913 Arnold Ridicules Plot Alleged By Prosecution And Attacks The Methods Used By Detective

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The Atlanta Constitution, Friday, 22nd August 1913. Page 2. When Attorney Frank A. Hooper had made the opening speech of the prosecution, Attorney Reuben R. Arnold prepared for the first speech of the defense. It had been announced that he would review the entire history of the case and when he started at noon the pasteboard model of the pencil factory was brought In. A large diagram giving a synopsis of the case was also brought in, but was not unwrapped when Mr. Arnold first started, "Gentlemen of the jury, we are all to be congratulated that this case is Read More ...

Saturday, 23rd August 1913 Rosser Makes Great Speech For The Defense. Scores Detectives And Criticizes The Solicitor

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The Atlanta Constitution, Saturday, 23rd August 1913. Page Two. In a quiet yet concentrated tone Attorney Luther Zeigler Rosser, Friday morning at 9 o'clock made the final plea of the defense for the life of Leo Frank. The beginning of the speech was impressive, it was almost whispered at times, but the voice that delivered it rose above the maze of ozonators and electric fans, and seemed to carry a body message about it. The life of a man was at stake and the message, pleading for his life, was opened almost as a prayer the subject being fate. Later Read More ...

Dear ADL and SPLC, what was the real reason why the bona fide racist and misogynist, Leo Frank, was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging?

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Originally published during the month of October 2018 — the Anti-defamation League of B’nai B’rith’s 105th anniversary, when ADL‘s founding was announced by B’nai B’rith in 1913 at its Chicago Illinois headquarters. Newsletter of the announcement from October 2nd, 1913, is provided herewithin. Addendums: Feb & April, 2019 Image: Founder of Amazon Books, Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest man that has ever lived (with the exception of John D. Rockefeller, relatively speaking). Under his tutelage, thousands of books have been censored from his eCommerce platform because they were considered politically incorrect. Jewish “civil rights” groups have been working at the vanguard Read More ...

Wednesday, 13th August 1913 State Calls More Witnesses; Defense Builds Up an Alibi

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Atlanta GeorgianAugust 13th, 1913 In anticipation of the close of the defense's case, the State Tuesday afternoon subpenaed a number of new witnesses to be called in the event that Frank's character was put in issue. It was said that Solicitor Dorsey had prepared against this move by the defense by getting affidavits from many persons who claimed to know the defendant. An effort by the State to obtain testimony reflecting on the morality of Frank was resisted strongly by the superintendent's attorneys Tuesday. Solicitor Dorsey failed to get the answers he desired from the witness, Philip Chambers, a 15-year-old Read More ...

The Leo Frank Trial: Week Three

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The trial of Leo Frank (pictured) for the murder of Mary Phagan ended its third week 100 years ago today. Join us as we break through the myths surrounding the case and investigate what really happened. by Bradford L. Huie AS THE THIRD WEEK of the trial dawned, the prosecution had just made its case that National Pencil Company Superintendent Leo Max Frank had murdered 13-year-old laborer Mary Phagan — and a powerful case it was. Now it was the defense's turn — and the defense team was a formidable one, the best that money could buy in 1913 Read More ...

The Leo Frank Trial: Week Four

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Join The American Mercury as we recount the events of the final week of the trial of Leo Frank (pictured) for the slaying of Mary Phagan. by Bradford L. Huie ON THE HEELS of Leo Frank's astounding unsworn statement to the court, the defense called a number of women who stated that they had never experienced any improper sexual advances on the part of Frank. But the prosecution rebutted that testimony with several rather persuasive female witnesses of its own. These rebuttal witnesses also addressed Frank's claims that he was so unfamiliar with Mary Phagan that he did not Read More ...

The Leo Frank Trial: Closing Arguments of Hooper, Arnold, and Rosser

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The American Mercury continues its centenary coverage of the trial of Leo Frank for the slaying of Mary Phagan with the closing arguments presented by the prosecution and defense. by Bradford L. Huie IT'S A LONG READ — but an essential one for everyone who wants to consider himself well-informed on the Leo Frank case: the closing arguments from indefatigable Fulton County Prosecutor Hugh Dorsey and his assistant Frank Hooper, and from Leo Frank's brilliantly skilled defense attorneys Reuben Arnold and Luther Rosser. Here we present their final arguments in full — practically the length of a sizable novel — Read More ...

The Leo Frank Trial: Closing Arguments, Solicitor Dorsey

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by Bradford L. Huie THE AMERICAN MERCURY now presents the final closing arguments by Solicitor Hugh Dorsey (pictured) in the trial of Leo Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan — a powerful summary of the case and a persuasive argument that played a large part in the decision of the jury to find Frank guilty of the crime. It is also riveting reading for modern readers, who have been told — quite falsely — that the case against Frank was a weak one, and told, equally falsely, that "anti-Semitism" was a major motive for the arrest, trial, and conviction Read More ...

Tom Watson: The Official Record in the Case of Leo Frank, a Jew Pervert

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by Thomas E. Watson (pictured), Watson's Magazine, Volume 21 Number 5, September 1915 IN NEW YORK, there lived a fashionable architect, whose work commanded high prices. He was robust, full of manly vigor, and so erotic that he neglected a handsome and refined young wife to run after little girls. As reported in the papers of William R. Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer, and Adolph Ochs, the libertine architect had three luxurious suites of rooms fitted up for the use of himself, a congenial company of young rakes, and the young women whom they lured into these elegant dens of vice. (Listen Read More ...

Tom Watson: The Celebrated Case of The State of Georgia vs. Leo Frank

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by Thomas E. Watson (pictured), Watson's Magazine, Volume 21 Number 4, August 1915 THE LAWS OF Georgia are extraordinarily favorable to a person accused of crime. He is not only protected in all of his rights under the Constitution of the United States, but he enjoys privileges far beyond those limits. No indictment against him will stand, if it can be shown that a single grand juror was disqualified, or failed to take an oath on that particular case. (Listen to this article as an audio book by clicking the play button below:) Therefore, our grand juries are bound in Read More ...

Tom Watson: A Full Review of the Leo Frank Case

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by Thomas E. Watson, Watson's Magazine, Volume 20 Number 5, March 1915 ON THE 23rd page of Puck, for the week ending January 16, 1915, there is, in the smallest possible type, in the smallest possible space, at the bottom of the page, the notice of ownership, required by law. Mankind are informed that Puck is published by a corporation of the same name, Nathan Strauss, Jr., being President, and H. Grant Strauss being Secretary and Treasurer. You are authorized, therefore, to give credit to the Strauss family for the unparalleled campaign of falsehood and defamation which Puck has persistently Read More ...

Wednesday, 13th August 1913 Franks Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial

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Atlanta JournalAugust 13th, 1913 Questions Asked by Dorsey Of Office Boy at Factory Ruled Out After Argument Attorney Reuben R. Arnold Declares That Any Further Testimony Along Lines of That Sought by the Solicitor During Examination of Philip Chambers Will Tempt Him to Move for a New Trial in the Case With the calling of Emil Selig, Frank's father-in-law, the defense began their endeavor to prove Frank's statement in reference to his movements on the day of the tragedy. Mr. Selig's testimony bore principally upon the time Frank arrived at his home to dinner, the midday meal, and his appearance Read More ...
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