0239 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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crimes, but a man of high intellect and wonderful endowments
which, if directed in the right line, bring honor and glory if
those same faculties and talents are perverted and not controlled,
as was the case with this man, they will carry him down. Look at
Vdue, the mayor of Charlottesville, a man of such reputation
that the people elevated him to the head of that municipality; but
notwithstanding that good reputation, he did not have rock bed cha-
racter, and becoming tired of his wife, he shot her in the
bath tub, and the jury of gallant and noble and courageous
Virginia gentlemen, not withstanding his good character, send
him to a felon's grave. Richeson, of Boston, was a preacher, who
enjoyed the confidence of his flock. He was engaged to one of the
wealthiest and most fascinating women of Boston, but an entangle-
ment with a poor little girl, of whom he wished to rid himself,
caused this man, Richeson, to so far forget his character and
reputation and his career, as to put her to death; And all these
are cases of circumstantial evidence. And after conviction, after
he had fought, he at last admitted it, in the hope that the
Governor would at last save his life, but he didn't do it, and
the Massachusetts jury and the Massachusetts Governor were cour-
ageous enough to let that man who had taken that poor girl's life
to save his reputation as the pastor of his flock, go, and it is
an illustration that will encourage and stimulate every right th-
inking man to do his duty. Then, there's Beattie, Henry Clay
Beattie, of Richmond, of splendid family, a wealthy family
proved good character, though he didn't possess it, took his
wife, the mother of a twelve month's old baby, out automobileing,
and shot her; yet that man, looking at the blood in the automobile,
joked, joked, joked. He was cool and calm, but he joked too much;
and although the detectives were abused and maligned, and slush
funds to save him from the gallows were used, in his defense
a courageous jury, and honest jury a Virginia jury, measured up
to the requirements of the hour and sent him to his death; thus
putting old Virginia and her citizenship on a high plane.
And he never did confess, but left a note to be read after he
was dead, saying that he was guilty. Crippen, of England, a doctor
a man of high standing, recognized ability and good reputation,