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1913

April 28, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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April 28, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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April 29, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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April 30, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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April 30, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
April 30, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
May 1, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 1, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
May 2, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 3, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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(Atlanta Journal)
May 4, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 5, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 6, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 7, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 8, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 9, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 10, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 11, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 12, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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(Atlanta Journal)
May 13, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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(Atlanta Journal)
May 14, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 15, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 17, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 18, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 19, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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(Atlanta Journal)
May 20, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 21, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 22, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 23, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 24, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 25, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 25, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
May 26, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 27, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 28, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 30, 1913: Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated (Atlanta Journal)
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May 31, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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May 31, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
June 1, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 1, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
June 2, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 2, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
June 3, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 4, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 5, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 6, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 11, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 12, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 14, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 15, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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(Atlanta Journal)
June 16, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 17, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 18, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 19, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 20, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 21, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 22, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 23, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 24, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 25, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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June 26, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 1, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 4, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 5, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 8, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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(Atlanta Journal)
July 9, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 10, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 11, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 12, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 15, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 16, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 17, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 18, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 19, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 20, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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(Atlanta Journal)
July 21, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 22, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 23, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 24, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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(Atlanta Journal)
July 25, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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(Atlanta Journal)
July 26, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 27, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 28, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 29, 1913: After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind" (Atlanta Journal)
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July 29, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
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July 30, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 31, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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July 31, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
July 31, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
August 1, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 2, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 3, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 4, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
August 5, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 5, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
August 6, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 6, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
August 7, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 8, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 8, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
August 9, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 10, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 11, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 12, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 13, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 13, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
August 14, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 14, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
August 15, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 16, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 16, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
August 16, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
August 17, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 18, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 19, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 20, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 21, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 22, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 23, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 23, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
August 24, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 24, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
August 25, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 26, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 26, 1913: (Atlanta Journal)
August 26, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 26, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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August 27, 1913:
Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict, J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained by Police: Detectives Building Case on Theory That Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery, Three Handwriting Experts Say Negro Wrote the Two Notes Found by Body of Girl, Negro Watchman Tells Story of Finding Girl's Body and Questions Fail to Shake Him, Reward of $1,000 Is Appropriated by City, Use of Dictaphone on Frank and Negro Is Denied by Police, Detectives Eliminate Evidence in Conflict with Theory That Phagan Girl Never Left Factory, Did Murderer Seek to Burn Slain Girl's Body, And Did the Watchman Interrupt Him?, Solicitor Dorsey Is Making Independent Probe of Phagan Case, Detectives Confer with Coroner and Solicitor Dorsey, Girl in Red Dress May Furnish Clue to Phagan Mystery, Coroner's Inquest Resumed 2:30 P.M.; Frank Will Testify, L. M. Frank's Complete Story of Where He Was and What He Did on the Day of Mary Phagan Murder, Paul Bowen, Held in Houston, Known Here But Left Atlanta in October; Hasn't Been Back, Two New Witnesses in Phagan Mystery to Testify Thursday, Mr. Frank's Treatment of Girls Unimpeachable, Says Miss Hall/Miss Hattie Hall, Stenographer, Left Pencil Factor at Noon, Phagan Inquest in Session: Six Witnesses Are Examined Before Adjournment to 2:30, Here Is Testimony of Witnesses Given at the Final Session of Coroner's Jury in Phagan Case/Detective Scott's Testimony as Given before Coroner's Jury, Superintendent Frank Is Once More Put on Witness Stand, With Two Men Held in Tower, Mystery of Murder Deepens, Public Now Knows All Facts in Murder Case, Says Detectives, City Detectives' Theory of Phagan Murder Outlined, Rumor That Frank Married in Brooklyn Not True, Says Eagle, Solicitor Dorsey Is Working New Theory in Phagan Mystery, New Theory Fails to Change Course of Murder Probe, No Phagan Trial Before the Last of June Declares Solicitor, Books and Papers in Phagan Case in Grand Jury's Hands, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury in Present Form, Phagan Theory Is Unchanged After Three Weeks' Probe, Burns' Investigator Outlines His Theory of Phagan Murder, Phagan Case Goes to Grand Jury in Present Form, Finger Print Expert Works with Dorsey to Solve Mystery, Phagan Case Will Go to Grand Jury at 10 A.M. Friday, Grand Jury Fails to End Its Probe of Phagan Murder, Leo M. Frank Is Indicted by Grand Jury for Mary Phagan's Death; Negro, Newt Lee Held, Negro Sweeper Tells Officer Frank Asked Him to Write Some Notes Day Before Tragedy, Chief Lanford Calls Felder's Charges False, "Felder Is the Mouthpiece of the Vice Gang," Declares Chief of Police Jas. L. Beavers, "Lanford Is the Controlling Genius of Conspiracy to Protect the Murderer of Little Mary Phagan", State Didn't Show Its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, Chief Beavers Will Ask Grand Jury Investigation: Through Probe of Charges Against Felder and Latter's Charges Against Police Asked, "I Have No Proof of Bribery in Phagan Case," Says Chief, Colonel Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives' Charges, Conley Tells in Detail of Writing Notes on Saturday at Dictation of Mr. Frank, Conley, Taken to Factory, Shows Where Girl Was Found — How They Put Body In Basement: Gruesome Part Played by Him Illustrated, Conley's Confession Is Given in Full, Conley Goes Over His Story With Solicitor Dorsey, Grand Jury Called to Meet Tuesday in Special Session, Conley's Statement Analyzed from Two Different Angles, Lanford Tells Why Conley Was Placed in Police Station, Frank's Defense Is Outlined: Mary Phagan Met Death on First Floor, Is Claim, Negro Girl Is Arrested in Phagan Murder Case, Attorney Retained for Negro Servant at Frank's Home, Felder Exonerates Beavers, But Says Lanford Is Corrupt, Sensational Affidavit Made by Minola M'Knight, Negro Cook at Home of L. M. Frank, Negro's Affidavit Not Given Much Credence, Conley Sticks to His Story, Declares Detective Chief, Conley's Status in the Phagan Case May Be Changed Wednesday, Court's Order May Result in Meeting of Negro and Frank, Luther Z. Rosser Declares Detectives Dare Not Permit Jim Conley to Talk Freely, Conley Is Prisoner of City Detectives, Not State, Now, Solicitor H. M. Dorsey Leaves for New York, Frank A. Hooper to Aid State in Frank Trial, Hooper Wants a Rest for Public from Case, Guessers See a Mystery in Dorsey-Hooper Trips, Will Reuben R. Arnold Aid Frank's Defense?, Hooper Returns and Takes up Phagan Case, Frank Case May Not Be Tried June 30, Date of Frank Trial Still in Much Doubt, Arnold Declares Frank Innocent and Enters Case, Solicitor Will Fix Frank Trial for June 30, He Says, July 28 Is Date Agreed Upon for Trial of Frank, Both Sides Are Ready for Trial of Frank, Call of Cool Sea Breezes and Promise of Judge to His Wife, Facts Do Not Indicate Indictment of Conley, Lee's Lawyer Expects Delay in Frank Case, Fight for Newt Lee's Freedom Is Delayed, Newt Lee's Attorneys Seeking His Freedom, Mary Phagan Pay Envelope Found: Mystery's Lost Link Is Found Near Where Conley Says He Sat, No Finger Prints Found by Experts on Phagan Envelope, Agent Claims Conley Confessed to Murder, Conley Again Quizzed by Prosecutor Dorsey, More Affidavits to Support Mincey's Claim, Mincey Affidavit Not New to the Solicitor, Second Phagan Indictment Probable: Conley Negro May Be Indicted over Dorsey's Protest, Effort Being Made to Indict Negro Conley, Grand Jury Called to Take up Matter over Dorsey's Head, Pinkertons Now Declare Leo M. Frank Is Innocent: Grand Jury Is Called Monday to Indict Jim Conley: Noted Sleuths Who Had Accused Frank Now Change Theory, Jury Is Determined to Consider a Bill Against Jim Conley, Dorsey Is Seeking to Be Grand Jury and Solicitor Too, Says Frank's Counsel; Solicitor Scored for His Attitude in Conley's Case, Will Not Indict Jim Conley Now, Jury's Decision, Was Mary Phagan Killed With Bludgeon?: Bloody Stick Now in Possession of Frank's Attorneys, Fight Expected Over Effort to Defer Frank Case, Frank's Trial May Be Postponed until Early in the Fall, Frank Will Likely Face Trial Monday for Phagan Crime, Leo Frank Expects Acquittal and Asks an Immediate Trial, Chronological Story of Developments in the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery, Leo M. Frank Will Go to Trial Monday, It Is Now Believed, State Will Build Case Against Frank Around Conley Story; Defense Will Undertake to Show That Negro Alone Is Guilty, Court Scenes at Frank Trial: How It Looks Inside and Out, State Opens Its Case Against Leo Frank, After Rosser's Fierce Grilling All Negro, Newt Lee, Asked for Was Chew of "‘Bacca — Any Kind", Frank Trial Will Last One Week and Probably Two, Attorneys Say, Lawyers Hammer Lee for Two Hours at Monday Afternoon Session, Mother's Sorrow and Newsie's Wit Play on Emotions at Frank Trial, Questions Directed at Negro Indicated an Effort to Throw Suspicion on Watchman, Defense to Claim Strands of Hair Found Were Not Mary Phagan's: Grace Hix Testifies That Girls Frequently Combed Their Hair Over Machines, Trial Thus Far Has Only Established Murder of the Girl, Machinist Tells of Finding Blood, Hair and Pay Envelope on Second Floor, Where State Claims Girl Was Murdered: Blood Spots and Hair Found on Day Following Discovery Crime Had Been Committed, Rosser Riddles One of the State's Chief Witnesses, Witnesses of Frank Trial Have Tedious Job of Merely Waiting, Lawyers Battle Over Testimony of Frank's Nervousness; Witness Swears Negro Was in Factory about 1 O'clock, Watchman Swears Elevator Was Open; Changes Evidence, Defense Claims Members of Jury Saw Newspaper Headline; Dr. J. W. Hurt, Coroner's Physician, Gives Expert Testimony, Dr. Harris Collapses on Stand as He Gives Sensational Evidence, Conley's Glibness May Prove Unfortunate for His Testimony, Defense Will Introduce Many Witnesses; Frank Trial Will Run into Third Week; Defense Will Begin Testimony Wednesday, State's Case Against Frank as It Stands After Week's Testimony Is Shown Here, Jim Conley Tells an Amazing Story; Many New and Sensational Features Added to Tale as Originally Given to Police, Many Discrepancies Between Conley's Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives, Defense Moves to Strike Most Damaging Testimony, Lawyers on Both Sides Satisfied with Conley, Negro Sweeper Remanded to Solitude in Jail Over Night, Judge Roan Reverses Decision on Conley Testimony: Conley's Whole Testimony Will Be Allowed to Stay in Record of Frank Case, Judge Roan Rules Out Most Damaging Testimony Given by Conley Against Frank, Dr. Harris' Testimony Is Attacked by Defense Expert: State Finishes Testimony and Dr. Leroy Childs Begins Expert Evidence for Defense, Judge Roan Decides Conley's Testimony Must Stand, Defense Attacks State's Case from Many Angles; Motorman and Conductor Say Newsboy Epps Was Not on Car That Brought Mary to City, Defense Begins Introduction of Evidence, Schiff Refutes Jim Conley and Dalton: Witness in Midst of Dorsey's Grilling When Court Adjourns until Nine O'clock Monday, State Confronts Watchman Holloway with Previous Affidavit, Conley's Story Is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, Witness Found Who Saw Phagan on Way to Factory, Many Experts Called by Defense to Answer Dr. H. F. Harris: Dr. George Bachman Gives Testimony to Show Harris Simply Hazarded a Guess, C. B. Dalton's Character Shown up by Frank's Defense; Four Witnesses Swear They Would Not Believe His Oath: Dalton Admits He Served a Chaingang Sentence for Theft of a "Shop Hammer", Ethics of Dr. H. F. Harris Bitterly Attacked by Reuben Arnold, Frank's Character Made Issue by the Defense, Frank's Lawyers Again Threaten Move for Mistrial, Court Stirred by Outburst from Leo Frank's Mother, Frank's Story of Before and After the Crime Corroborated; Defense's Motion to Strike Sensational Questions Fails, All Georgia Records Broken by the Frank Trial, Leo M. Frank Ready to Tell His Own Story to Jury, Mrs. Rae Frank Takes Stand in Son's Defense, Pencil Factory Model Is Damaged in Fight, Witness, Called by the Defense, Testifies Against Frank, Frank Should Know Fate Before the Week Passes Is Opinion of Attorneys, Summary of Frank Evidence at End of the Third Week, Dies Dreaming of Little Phagan Girl, Frank Takes Stand — Tells His Story, Attorney Swears That Witness Was Held Illegally, Here Is Frank's Story Word for Word as Told to a Jury of His Peers, Testimony May Close Wednesday, Two Men Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory on April 26, Arnold Charges Giant Frame-Up to Convict Frank: Not Enough Evidence to Warrant Trial, Asserts Attorney, Both Sides Concluded Their Cases Wednesday Afternoon, Hooper Says Conley's Story Stood Test of Grilling, In Scathing Terms Rosser Scores Dalton, Dorsey, Police; Dorsey Will Conclude, Summing Up Case Against Frank, "Prejudice and Perjury Constitute the State's Case", Frank Trial Adjourned Until Monday Morning With Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Midst of Impassioned Speech, Solicitor Dorsey Says Circumstantial Evidence Is the Best; Luther Rosser Says Last Word in Behalf of Leo M. Frank, Frank's Fate Will Soon Be Known, High Lights of Dorsey's Speech, How Frank Is Regarded by His Own and the State's Attorneys, Judge Roan Charges Jury That They Are Sole Judges of Witnesses' Credibility, Leo M. Frank's Fate Is Now in Hands of the Jury; Motion for Mistrial Is Denied by Judge L. S. Roan, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, Frank Sentenced to Hang on October 10, But Fight for New Trial Will Stay the Execution for Many Months, Frank Trial Cost County of Fulton Nearly $6,000; Jurors Got Only $2 a Day, New Trial Motion for Leo M. Frank Set for October 4, Frank Will Reply to Dorsey in Long Public Statement

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