Thursday, 29th April 1915: Nat Harris Talks About Frank Case, The Atlanta Constitution

Asks Commission to Neither Delay Nor Hurry Consideration of Case Would Stop Letter Writers. Macon, Ga., April 28. (Special.) Governor-elect Nat E. Harris candidly admits that he wishes his Correspondents would let up on him relative to the Frank Case. Today a Reporter called on him in his Office and found him buried in a mass of letters nearly chin high, some calling on him to pardon Frank if the Case comes before him after he assumes the Governorship and others just as insistent that he let the law take its course.

Judge Harris says he doesn't know that the question of pardoning Frank will come before him and this afternoon said: "While in Atlanta a day or two ago, I saw E. L. Rainey, a member of the Prison Commission, and requested him to ask the Commission in my name to allow the Frank Case to take the ordinary course; to give it the same consideration they would give to any other Case of that Character; to let it have its regular place on the Docket; not to hurry or delay it. If it falls to me, to handle it, of course I will do so."