Tuesday, 9th September 1913 Judge Roan Urged For New Judgeship

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Governor Slaton Tells Committee

He Intends to Keep the

Place Free of Politics.

A committee composed of many of the prominent members of the Atlanta Bar association called upon Governor Slaton at the state capitol Monday afternoon urging the appointment of Judge L. S. Roan to the fourth superior court judgeship, created by act of the last legislature for the Atlanta circuit.

Speaking in behalf of Judge Roan several of the city's best known attorneys declared him to be the man most fit for the position.

Eugene R. Black, chairman of the bar association committee, touched upon the "opposition to Judge Roan's appointment," and declared it to be based solely on the theory that Judge Roan was not an Atlanta man and that the members of the bar association who had signed a petition asking that Judge Roan be not named had signed it for that reason only.

In naming a man for the vacant judgeship the governor declared that he desired above all things to have an unanimity of action on the part of the Atlanta Bar association behind such an appointment.

"It would be humiliating," said the governor, "for such a judge to have to appear before the people seeking their votes against opposition. There has never been opposition to judges here and it should not begin now."

The governor thanked the committee for calling upon him and asked their further co-operation in the matter of filling the vacant bench.

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FRANK JURY BIASED,

CLAIMS THE DEFENSE

Sensational Charge Against One

of Jurors May Be Made by

Prisoner's Attorneys.

While the attorneys for Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil factory, who is sentenced to hang October 10 for the murder of little Mary Phagan, a 14-year-old employee, are keeping quiet about their efforts to secure a new trial, it has been known for some time that they claim that the jury which convicted Frank was biased.

It was even declared that the attorneys for the defense will introduce an affidavit which purports to show that one of the jurors, when he learned that he was one of the 144 men on the venire, declared that he would sit out until Christmas before he would turn Frank loose.

Other claims will be made by the defense, among which will be charges that the verdict was not supported by the evidence, and that the jury was influenced by the spectators, who, several times, showed their approval of Solicitor Hugh Dorsey's fight to convict the prisoner.

Judge L. S. Roan has set October 4 as the date for a hearing before him and it is known that should he refuse a new trial that a supersedeas will be asked and the matter taken to the supreme court.

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WILL REAR MONUMENT

TO LITTLE MARY PHAGAN

Atlanta lodge No. 720, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, headed by J. M. Burton, secretary, has inaugurated a movement to erect a monument to the memory of Mary Phagan who was slain in the National Pencil factory, and for whose murder Leo M. Frank has been sentenced to hang.

Resolutions passed by the trainmen order to set forth that the type of womanhood represented by the slain girl, weak in physical strength and bowed down by the weight of poverty, barred from opportunity and pleasure, holds the priceless jewel of virtue at the stake of her life and, that in memorial of her death, a befitting tribute should be erected.

The resolutions will be presented to the next meeting of the Atlanta Federation of Trades.