Wednesday, 2nd December 1914: Frank’s Parents Visiting Their Son, The Atlanta Constitution

Supreme Court Remittitur Will Reach Clerk of the Superior Court Some Time This Morning. Proclaiming their unswerving faith in the innocence of their convicted son, M. Frank and Mrs. Rea Frank, parents of Leo M. Frank, have been in Atlanta for several days to remain by his side. They come from Brooklyn, Frank's former home, where the aged father, a man above 60, is a retired travelling man. It is his first trip to Atlanta since the murder of Mary Phagan more than a year ago. The mother has been in the city frequently. She attended the trial of her son. They are spending their time with relatives, and are daily visitors to Frank's cell, in the Tower. Like Frank himself, the father stoutly maintains that the convicted man's innocence will be established, and that he will ultimately be freed.

Remittitur Handed Down. It was learned Tuesday afternoon that the remittitur in the Frank Case to be handed down by the Supreme Court to the Superior Court has been forwarded to the clerk of the Superior Court and will reach his office this morning. This means that Frank will know the scheduled date of his Doom either late this afternoon or some time tomorrow. Habeas Corpus proceedings have already been taken out, and will be served upon him at once, following the receipt of the remittitur. He will be removed from the Tower on the Habeas Corpus Writ and carried before Judge George L. Bell in the absence of Judge Ben Hill for resentencing. It is predicted that he will be sentenced to hang within the next forty days or less. Attorneys Leonard Haas and Harry Alexander, representatives of Frank's Counsel who went to Washington to put the doomed man's plea before the Supreme Court of the United States, returned yesterday after their final plea. They expect a decision from it by next Monday or earlier.