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The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 14th January 1915,PAGE 5, COLUMN 6.It is not expected that a Decision will be handed down by the Supreme Court in the Frank Case until about the middle of February. It was considered possible that the Case might be reached and settled at the present term of the Court, but this has been rendered out of the question now by the absence of Chief Justice Fish, who was compelled to go to Florida with Mrs. Fish on account of her ill health. He will not return to Atlanta until the latter part of the week.Thursday, 14th January

The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 15th January 1915,PAGE 4, COLUMN 1.That Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey will not make reply to the latest supplemental Brief filed by Attorneys for Leo M. Frank before the Supreme Court was stated on apparently good Authority Wednesday. Mr. Dorsey, himself, declined to discuss the matter, but it is believed that he holds that the points made in the additional Brief were thoroughly covered by his other Briefs.The action of the Supreme Court is expected to be made known either on February 16 or March 15. The members of the Court are now considering the Case which

The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 16th January 1915,PAGE 5, COLUMN 7.The Leo Frank Case is now formally ready for the United States Courts in Washington. The final step in the Federal District Court of Atlanta was taken yesterday afternoon when Attorneys for the Defense filed with Clerk O. C. Fuller the Petition for an Appeal, which was certified and which was mailed last night to Washington.Attorneys here say it will be at least sixty or ninety days before Arguments will be heard. The Record of the Case has been compiled and is ready for use. No move has yet been made by

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 17th January 1915,PAGE 21, COLUMN 2.Attorney General Warren A. Grice is planning to go to Washington during the latter part of this week to plead with the Supreme Court of the United States to advance the Appeal of Leo Frank on the Docket so that it may be heard within the next sixty or ninety days instead of twelve months. Solicitor Dorsey will not go to Washington, it has been announced. He and the Attorney General have been in several Conferences preparing their battle against the Habeas Corpus Appeal, and he will remain on the ground while

The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 19th January 1915,PAGE 5, COLUMN 2.The motion of the Leo M. Frank prosecution to advance the Hearing on the Habeas Corpus Appeal to the United States Supreme Court was docketed yesterday, and it is probable that Attorney General Warren Grice will go to Washington next Monday. In event the motion for advancement is granted, the Frank Case should be argued in Washington within the next sixty or ninety days.Tuesday, 19th January 1915: Frank Motion On U.s. Court Docket, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 20th January 1915,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Asked if he would like to see Frank hang, Negro says, "That's his business and God's, not mine." Will be star witness in trial of Tedder for subornation of perjury. Girl investigator from Grand Rapids pays own expenses here to make probe with ministers present, she quizzes Jim Conley.A frail young woman with deep black eyes and an ambition to solve the Frank Case, who has been a girl of mystery around the courthouse for days, caused Jim Conley to spend one of the most eventful days yesterday since he was arrested

The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 21st January 1915,PAGE 10, COLUMN 3.Mrs. J. W. Coleman, mother of Mary Phagan, has filed suit for $10,000 damages against the National Pencil Factory, naming Leo M. Frank and Jim Conely as the slayers of her daughter. The suit was filed yesterday in Superior Court and will be given an early hearing. Mrs. Coleman alleges that both of the accused men, having been employees of the National Pencil Factory, the concern is therefore liable for damages for having failed to protect the life and welfare of her child. Mrs. Coleman is represented by Attorney James L. Key.Thursday,

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 24th January 1915,PAGE 4, COLUMN 7.The United States Supreme Court has advanced the Frank Appeal for Hearing on February 23, according to an Announcement made on Saturday. The Petition for Advancement was presented by Attorney Marshall, of New York, for Frank, and the State joined in the Petition.Sunday, 24th January 1915: Leo Frank Appeal Is Set For Feb. 23 By Supreme Court, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 26th January 1915,PAGE 4, COLUMN 6.By John Corrigan, Jr.Washington, January 25. (Special.) Counsel for Leo M. Frank, convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, made a formal application to the Supreme Court today to advance the date for a hearing argument on the habeas corpus proceedings, begun before Judge W. T. Newman in Atlanta.It was stated in the application that Warren Grice, Attorney General of Georgia, was willing to have the hearing set for any day after February 22, as he would be busy in other courts until then. The Supreme Court took the application under advisement.Tuesday,

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 27th January 1915,PAGE 12, COLUMN 2.First Day's Hearing Results in Securing of Only Six Jurors. Testimony to begin Today. That the fight of Dan S. Lehon and Carlton C. Tedder against prosecution for subornation of perjury, as a result of the W. J. Burns investigation of the Frank Case, will be one of the most spectacular of recent legal battles in Fulton County is evinced by the stubborn progress made in the first day's proceedings. It is anticipated that the trial will require the most of the week. Although four panels of seventy-six prospective jurors were exhausted,

The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 30th January 1915,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.Shows checks for $500 and for $1,000 given representatives for work done in the Frank case.Jim Conley on stand for just five minutes. Denies that he ever confessed to murder of Mary Phagan. Father's mind unsound, says Ragsdale's son.With the testimony of Herbert Haas, who handled the funds for the Leo M. Frank Defense, the State rested its case yesterday afternoon in the trial of Dan Lehon, Arthur Thurman, and Carlton Tedder before Judge Ben Hill, on charges of subornation of perjury. Haas was preceded upon the stand by Jim Conley. The

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 31st January 1915,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.After Jurymen Had Been Out for One Hour, Judge Ben Hill Orders Them Locked in Kimball House for the Night. PARTICULAR CARE URGED AS TO MATTER OF DOUBT IN CASE AGAINST LEHON. Jurymen Instructed to Consider Law and Evidence and Have No Thought of Any Other Crime Mentioned During Hearing.A GREAT SPEECH! Perhaps as great a compliment as Solicitor Dorsey ever had paid him was given to him last night by C. C. Tedder. The Case had gone to the Jury. A group of men were talking to Solicitor Dorsey while waiting

The Atlanta Constitution,Monday, 1st February 1915,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.JURY DEADLOCKED FOR NEARLY SIXTEEN HOURSVerdict of "Not Guilty" brought in before Judge Ben Hill at the Courthouse at 1:50 O'Clock on Sunday Afternoon. PLEASED BY VERDICT JUDGE POWELL LAUDS PERSONNEL OF JURY Prosecution of Rev. C. B. Ragsdale and of R. L. Barber Will Be Vigorously Pushed During the March Term, Declares Solicitor Dorsey.The Jury in the Case of Dan Lehon, Southern Manager for the Burns Detective Agency; C. C. Tedder, a former Burns Operative, and Attorney Arthur Thurman, charged with Subornation of Perjury in the C. C. barber and Rev.

The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 2nd February 1915,PAGE 10, COLUMN 6.Decision, in All Probability, Will Be Handed Down Before Next June. The Leo Frank Case has been set for Hearing by the United States Supreme Court, February 23, and a Decision will, in all probability, be handed down before the Court declares its annual June recess.The receipt of this announcement in Atlanta created renewed efforts on behalf of both the Defense and the Prosecution to prepare their Arguments for the Hearing. The State will be represented by Solicitor Dorsey, Attorney General Warren Grice and E. A. Stephens, Dorsey's Assistant. Frank will be

The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 4th February 1915,PAGE 7, COLUMN 6.Run down by overwork on the Frank Case and the recent prosecution of Dan S. Lehon, C. C. Tedder, and Arthur Thurman in the noted Subornation of Perjury Cases, Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey has been forced to seek health in Hampton Springs, Fla., for which he quietly left a day or so ago. It is not definitely known when he will return. He is accompanied by Mrs. Dorsey, and will be back in time to take a part in the Frank Case Proceedings before the United States Supreme Court in Washington

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 10th February 1915,PAGE 5, COLUMN 4.Solicitor and Attorney General in Conference All Day Tuesday. Active work has been begun by the State in preparation of its fight against the Supreme Court Appeal of Leo Frank's Counsel. Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey and Warren Grice, Attorney General, were closeted throughout yesterday afternoon and for a large part of the morning. The Conference was held in the State Capitol in the Offices of the Attorney General and in the State Library, in the latter of which the Solicitor and Attorney General delved into volume after volume of Constitutional Law. This

The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 13th February 1915,PAGE 5, COLUMN 2.It will be weeks, maybe months, before Victor E. Innes and his wife, accused of the murder of the Nelms sisters, can be brought to Atlanta for prosecution under indictments by the Fulton Grand Jury on charges of Larceny After Trust. This became definite yesterday, when it was announced by counsel for the man and woman that their appeal to prevent extradition to Georgia would be taken to the United States Supreme Court. The Court of Appeals in Austin, Texas, refused this appeal, likewise declining yesterday to grant a Writ of Error,

The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 18th February 1915,PAGE 6, COLUMN 6.Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey and Attorney General Warren Grice were again closeted in secret conference yesterday on the preparatory work for the fight in the United States Supreme Court against the Leo M. Frank appeal. One of the new points developed by the prosecution is the contention that a question of law and validity once having been adjudicated, as alleged in the Frank case, cannot be revived in an application for writ of habeas corpus.Thursday, 18th February 1915: Grice And Dorsey Again In Conference, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 19th February 1915,PAGE 7, COLUMN 2.An opinion was handed down yesterday by the Court of Appeals sustaining the Judgement of Judge Pendleton, of Fulton Superior Court in refusing to sanction a Certiorari of the Case of Dan Lehon, Southern Manager of the Burns Detective Agency, from the Recorder's Court, where he was fined $100 or sentenced to serve 30 days on the Charge that in connection with his investigation of the Frank Case, he had violated a City Ordinance by performing Private Detective work without the proper local Authority.Friday, 19th February 1915: Lehon Must Pay Fine, Rules

The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 20th February 1915,PAGE 6, COLUMN 6.Attorney General Warren Grice and Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey were busy all Friday getting ready the papers in the Leo M. Frank Case. The final preparations of the State's Case were concluded Friday afternoon. Some minor details will be made Saturday morning and on Saturday evening they will leave Atlanta for Washington.They will be ready and fully prepared, they state, to present the State's side of the Case when it is heard before the United States Supreme Court.Saturday, 20th February 1915: Grice And Dorsey Go To Washington For Frank Hearing, The

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 21st February 1915,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.State's Right to Enforce Own Criminal Laws Upheld by Hugh M. Dorsey and Warren Grice. SAY DISORDER CHARGES ARE GREATLY ENLARGED. Frank's Brief Filed Saturday in Washington, Pronounces Trial a Travesty of Justice.Asserting the right of every State of the Union to make and enforce its own criminal laws, free from interference or supervision by the Federal Courts, and citing the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States itself to support this contention, the brief of the State of Georgia in the Leo M. Frank Appeal to the Supreme Court

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 24th February 1915,PAGE 12, COLUMN 4.By John Corrigan, Jr.Washington, February 23. (Special.) Because of the number of other cases preceding it on the day's calendar, the appeal of Leo Frank for a writ of habeas corpus was not heard Tuesday. It is probable that the case will not be reached before Thursday or Friday.Attorney General Warren Grice and Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey, for the State; Attorney Louis Marshall, of New York, for Frank, and Sheriff Mangum were present in the Supreme Court. The brief of the State was filed.Wednesday, 24th February 1915: Postpone Hearing Of Frank Appeal,

The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 27th February 1915,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.Hearing Before the United States Supreme Tribunal on Writ of Habeas Corpus Completed Friday. Washington, February 26. Arguments on the Northern Georgia Federal Court's decision refusing a Writ of Habeas Corpus to Leo M. Frank, under Death Sentence for the murder of Mary Phagan, the Atlanta Factory girl, were concluded before the United States Supreme Court today. A decision probably will not be given for at least several weeks. Should the Supreme Court affirm the decision of the Georgia Federal Court, nothing would stand in the way of carrying out the death

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 10th March 1915,PAGE 10, COLUMN 4.Judge R. B. Russell, of the State Court of Appeals, has certified to a Writ of Error to the United States Supreme Court in the Case of Dan Lehon, Southern Manager of the Burns Detective Agency, in his fight against his Conviction of violating a City Ordinance of Atlanta in working as a Private Detective in the Frank Case without obtaining the permission of the Police Board and reporting to the Police Chief. His Case was certioraried to the superior Court, where Lehon lost and appealed to the State Court of Appeals,

The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 23rd March 1915,PAGE 12, COLUMN 3.Washington, March 22. Leo M. Frank's case remained undecided when the Supreme Court of the United States recessed today until April 5. During the recess, the Court will prepare opinions on cases pending and the date of reassembling is the first on which a decision in the Frank case may be announced.Tuesday, 23rd March 1915: No Frank Decision For Three Weeks, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 24th March 1915,PAGE 3, COLUMN 2.Funeral Will Take Place in Fairburn, His Former Home, Thursday.Sadness reigns in Atlanta Court Realms over the death of Judge L. S. Roan, in the Polyclinic Hospital, New York, Tuesday morning from a cancerous growth beneath the left eye. The body is en route to Georgia, and will be carried to Fairburn, his former home, where the funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the First Method church. The interment will also be in Fairburn. The Funeral Ceremonies will be delivered by his former Pastor, Rev. H. C. Emory,

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 4th April 1915,PAGE 10, COLUMN 4."Knows What It Is to Suffer Unjustly," He Says in Letter.With the words, "Knowing what it is to suffer unjustly and having a deep sense of sympathy for our co-religionists who are innocent sufferers," Leo M. Frank has sent from the jail a check for $5 for 500 Jewish Relief Stamps for war victims. Frank's letter was written recently to Harry Fischel, Treasurer of the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews suffering in the war zone. Enclosed with the check was the following letter:"I feel that when these stamps were sent

The Atlanta Constitution,Monday, 5th April 1915,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Generally believed that U.S. Supreme Court will hand down opinion. Washington, April 4. Many of the seventy-five cases pending before the Supreme Court are expected to be decided when the Court resumes sessions tomorrow after a two weeks' recess devoted to writing opinions.The case which has been under consideration longest involves the constitutionality of the Oklahoma Suffrage "Grandfather Clause" case. It also will determine the validity of an Annapolis, Md., law, under which the right of Negroes to vote is said to have been more or less restricted. The case has been

The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 8th April 1915,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.Dan S. Lehon, Superintendent of the Southern Offices of the William J. Burns Detective Organization, has filed an Appeal in the United States Supreme Court at Washington from his conviction in Atlanta for violation of the City Ordinance requiring private Detectives to be licensed. This was brought to Atlanta in Associated Press Dispatches received Wednesday. Lehon's contention is that the Ordinance not only deprived him of Constitutional Rights but Abridged the Constitutional Rights of Leo M. Frank, by whose friends Lehon and Burns were employed.Lehon was arrested during the Burns investigation of

The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 13th April 1915,PAGE 4, COLUMN 1.Washington, April 12: No decision in the Leo M. Frank murder case was announced today at the Supreme Court. The next Decision Day is next Monday.Tuesday, 13th April 1915: No Frank Decision For At Least Week, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 20th April 1915,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Solicitor General Dorsey and Attorney General Grice Hold Long Conference Over Noted Case. CONFIDENT OF WINNING, ASSERTS THE PRISONER If Case Goes to Governor It Is Probable That Judge Harris Will Act Instead of Slaton.For more than two hours Monday, Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey and Attorney General Warren Grice conferred in the former's Office in the Court House to determine the prosecution's move to combat a prospective effort of the Leo M. Frank's Counsel to apply for a new Hearing before the Supreme Court in Washington following the Court's refusal to interfere.

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 21st April 1915,PAGE 3, COLUMN 2.Thought That No Time Will Be Lost in Taking Last Step in Fight for the Condemned Man's Life. The first active steps toward the Appeal to the Prison Commission and Governor to spare the life of Leo Frank were taken last night in a Conference held between the condemned man's lawyers in the Office of Leonard Haas in the Fourth National building. Luther Rosser and Reuben Arnold, Chief Counselors for Frank, in his trial before Judge L. S. Roan, were present at the Consultation. Others in the Conference were Harry A. Alexander,

The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 22nd April 1915,PAGE 9, COLUMN 4.The preparation of the Petition for Leo Frank's life to be presented to the Prison Commission and Governor by the Counsel will be completed, it is thought, within the next few days. The first Conference between Attorneys was held in the Office of Leonard J. Haas Tuesday night. A Second Conference was held last night, in which were included H. A. Alexander, Luther Rosser, and Reuben Arnold.Much interest is being centered on the Selection of Counsel to argue the Petition before the Commission. It is generally believed that Reuben Arnold, who delivered

The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 23rd April 1915,PAGE 9, COLUMN 1.Condemned Man Reiterates Innocence and Says He Was Convicted on Questionable Evidence.Attorneys for Leo Frank have filed with Captain Goodloe H. Yancey, Secretary of the State Prison Commission, his Petition for Executive Clemency in a last effort to spare his life. He asks commutation to life imprisonment. The Petition was signed by Frank and filed at the Capitol early Thursday afternoon, at least two days earlier than was expected. Frank's chief contention is that he is absolutely innocent of the crime for which he stands convicted, and that the evidence on which

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 28th April 1915,PAGE 9, COLUMN 4.Letters Pour Into the Governor's Office From Every Section of the Country. Over fifteen thousand letters have been received in Governor Slaton's Office within the past month in regard to the Case of Leo Frank, under Sentence of Death for the killing of Mary Phagan, on April 26, 1913. With a very few exceptions, the Writers of the Letters plead for a Commutation and ask that Frank be given a life sentence in the Penitentiary.A few letters have been received by the Prison Commission asking that Frank be saved from the Death

The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 29th April 1915,PAGE 9, COLUMN 5.Asks Commission to Neither Delay Nor Hurry Consideration of Case Would Stop Letter Writers. Macon, Ga., April 28. (Special.) Governor-elect Nat E. Harris candidly admits that he wishes his Correspondents would let up on him relative to the Frank Case. Today a Reporter called on him in his Office and found him buried in a mass of letters nearly chin high, some calling on him to pardon Frank if the Case comes before him after he assumes the Governorship and others just as insistent that he let the law take its course.Judge

The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 30th April 1915,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4."We Have Never Been Shaken in Our Belief in His Innocence," Says M. Frank. "Eventual Exoneration Certain.""We believe that our boy will be eventually exonerated. He will not hang unless Georgia hangs an innocent man. We have never been shaken in our belief in his innocence. Our faith has grown stronger day by day, and now, at the crisis, we feel renewed hope." These are the words of M. Frank, of Brooklyn, the aged father of Leo Frank, who arrived in Atlanta early Thursday morning accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Rae Frank.