Tuesday, 24th August 1915: Boycott Started Against Atlanta By Boston Firm, The Atlanta Constitution

Now comes Harry L. Bond & Co., a Boston concern, which has furnished the City with caulking yarn and tools for the past two years, with the following letter, which was received Monday morning by W. E. Chambers, City Purchasing Agent: "Answering your letter of the 17th, we do not care to quote prices on caulking, and we do not wish to further solicit any of the Business of the City of Atlanta until the State of Georgia has taken Official action looking to the apprehension and punishment of those men who murdered Leo Frank." The letter was signed Harry L. Bond, as President of the Company, and was in reply to a letter from Mr. Chambers asking for prices on materials for the Waterworks Department. Mr. Chambers said that he felt quite certain that the City of Atlanta, as well as the State of Georgia, could continue to exist without any further Commercial Relations with the Boston concern. He stated that he would answer Mr. Bond to the effect that "we are sure that following the Receipt of your letter of the 23d, the State of Georgia will immediately apprehend and punish the Party that committed the Crime of which you write."

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Coroner to Resume Investigation Today Into Frank Lynching

Coroner John A. Booth, of Cobb County, will resume his inquest into the Leo Frank lynching this morning at 10 o'clock in the Marietta undertaking parlors. The Superior Court Investigation will be held next Tuesday morning, a Special Session of Court having been called. The Moving Pictures of the Funeral of Leo M. Frank, which also included Pictures of the crowds at the Scene of the lynching and at the Greenberg & Bond undertaking establishment, were barred by the Board of Censorship yesterday afternoon, after Manager Logan, of the Georgian Theater, had run them three or four times. An Advertisement on the Street of the Picture was stopped by the Chief of Police W. M. Mayo, who, with Mayor Pro Tem. I. N. Ragsdale and City Clerk Walter Taylor, made protests against the Frank Pictures to Harrison Jones, President of the Board of Censorship, and W. L. Percy, Chairman of the Censorship Committee. Mr. Jones and Mr. Percy immediately visited the Georgian Theater and watched the Frank Pictures, which, according to their Statements, were a part of the Pathe Weeklies. After seeing one run of the Frank Pictures, Mr. Percy and Mr. Jones ordered Manager Logan to cut out that part of the Pathe Weeklies which showed anything about the Frank lynching or funeral. Mr. Logan willingly acquiesced to their demands. In a Statement to The Constitution, Chairman Percy explained the action of the Censorship Board as follows: "Prominent Officials and Citizens complained to us about the Pictures, and declared that their being run would be a lack of consideration for the feelings of many people in Atlanta. We, therefore, on the grounds of Public Policy, decided to cut them out." The Pictures did not include the Scenes of Frank's body hanging by the rope to a tree near Marietta, where he was lynched.

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ARTHUR THURMAN AGAIN IN THE TOILS OF THE LAW

Lawyer Is Charged With Borrowing Money on Fake Collateral Slips.

Arthur Thurman, a former Atlanta Attorney, who was indicted by a Fulton County Grand Jury on the Charge of aiding in bribing Barbour and Ragsdale, two witnesses in the Frank Case, to change their testimony, the Jury exonerating him, is again in the toils of the Law. Thurman, according to City Detectives Bass Rosser and C. O. Cochran, has been working a swindle in Atlanta, borrowing money on fake Collateral Slips, supposedly representing money in the Colonial Trust Company, a Corporation, said by the Detectives, never to have existed. Thurman was arrested at the Candler Building last night by Detectives Rosser and Cochran on the complaint of J. H. Falks, the Restaurant Man, that he (Thurman) had secured $50 from him, giving as Security a Deposit Slip on the Colonial Trust Company, representing $500 of Deposits in that Firm. Falks and the Detectives claim that, while a Charter for the Colonial Trust Company was once taken out, that such a Firm has never actually existed and done Business. Thurman will face Recorder Johnson this afternoon on the Blanket Charge of Disorderly Conduct. He has been released under bond of $500. Detective Rosser also states that there is a Warrant, charging a Misdemeanor, for Thurman's arrest, and that notwithstanding the outcome of today's trial, he will take Thurman under arrest on the Warrant. Thurman's arrest recalls his sensational trial here several years ago when, at the Ansley Hotel, he slapped the jaws of the young son of Harry Poole, and, when taken into custody by Detective Rosser for his act, declared that the young boy had insulted his wife. Newspaper accounts of this sensational arrest reached the eyes of his real Father-In-Law, of Elberton, Ga., who the following day showed up in Atlanta with Thurman's real wife.