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  The Atlanta Constitution, Saturday, 16th May 1914, PAGE 3, COLUMN 1. Detective, in Answer, Explains Why Negro Witness Was Taken Away. Dan S. Lehon, the William J. Burns aide, filed with his attorneys yesterday an explanation of his action in removing Annie Maud Carter, the negro woman witness in the Frank case, from the jurisdiction of Fulton county superior court. Lehon appeared before Judge Ben Hill Friday morning to answer to the demand to show cause why he should not be adjudged in contempt of court for the removal of the Carter woman. The hearing was postponed indefinitely on

The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 28th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Detectives Are Charged With Operating in Atlanta Without Permission of the Police Board and Chief.CITY'S LAW IS ATTACKED BY PRISONER'S ATTORNEYJudge Powell Declares Or Dinance Is Unconstitution Al Cases Against Mc Worth and Sears Are Dismissed.W. W. ("Boots") Rogers, an operator of the local Burns Detective Agency, who has been assisting Dan S. Lehon, southern manager of the Burns International Detective Agency, in investigating the alleged illegal and "frameup" methods said to have been pursued by the Atlanta Police in securing evidence against Leo M. Frank, convicted of the murder of Mary

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 27th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Burns Detective Will Take Case to Higher Courts to Test the Constitutionality of the City Ordinance.CONTEMPT CASES ARE DISMISSED BY HILLMotion to Upset the Frank Verdict Will, in All Probability, Be Again Postponed When Case Comes Up.Dan S. Lehon, southern manager of the Burns International Detective Agency, was fined $100 or thirty days in the City stockade by Judge Nash Broyles, Tuesday afternoon, for violating sections 2025, 2026, and 2027 of the City code, prohibiting the operating of private detectives in the City without first securing the consent of the board of

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 19th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.# Negro Witness for Prosecution Now Repudiates Affidavit He Gave to Leo M. Frank's Attorneys.PRISONER AT STATION ON HIS OWN REQUESTDetective Burns Has Not Yet Returned to Atlanta. Report Is Not Expected Before Tuesday.Albert Mc Knight, state witness in the Frank case, now repudiates his repudiation. 'He says that his testimony on the stand is true, and that his denial of it was false.'He declares he signed his repudiation affidavit in order to "get rid of C. W. Burke, a private detective attached to the office of Luther Z. Rosser, senior member

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 26th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Detective Burns Declares They Are Conclusive Evidence That He Was Author of the Murder Notes."I have just come into possession of evidence that is proof conclusive that the murder notes found by Mary Phagan's body emanated from the brain of Jim Conley, and, therefore, that Jim Conley slew the girl.""This evidence is in the form of a number of love letters that were written by Conley in jail to Anna Maude Carter, the Negro woman, who was also a prisoner in the Tower, and who has made an affidavit that Conley confessed

The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 5th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.If Anna Maud Carter Is Not in Atlanta Within Five Days, Her Evidence Will Not Be Considered.Charges of bribery, perjury and coercion of witnesses will be thoroughly investigated by Solicitor Dorsey and then a number of prosecutions will follow, according to a statement by the solicitor on Monday night."Prosecutions will certainly follow later on," he said. "It will be my duty as a prosecuting officer to see that justice is done. Outside of that, I can say nothing else, except that the scope of my prosecutions will include all who have been

The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 2nd May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.W. J. Burns and Dan Lehon Summoned by Solicitor Dorsey To the Frank Retrial Hearing Subpoenas Served Upon the Noted Detective and Assistant After Their Return From Marietta J. E. Duffey Arrested and Held as Witness for Resumption of Hearing Monday Morning.STORY OF MARY RICH DENIED IN AFFIDAVIT GIVEN TO SOLICITORDevelopments in the Leo Frank case last night included the serving of subpoenas upon Detective William J. Burns and his lieutenant, Dan S. Lehon, demanding their presence before Solicitor Dorsey at the Frank new trial hearing before Judge Hill, and the arrest

The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 1st May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Evidence on Which He Was Convicted Was Utterly Insufficient," Says Detective in Card.MY WORK IN THIS CASE NEARLY DONE, HE SAYSBurns Makes Absolute Denial of Any Connection With Bribe Offer Retrial Hearing Resumed Today.William J. Burns returned to Atlanta last night from Chattanooga, and upon his arrival here he gave out a written statement to The Constitution in which he made absolute denial of any connection with the alleged bribe offer of $200 to Rev. C. B. Ragsdale in return for an affidavit from the preacher to the effect that he heard

The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 24th April 1914,PAGE 9, COLUMN 1.Rumored That Defense Will Present Today the Full Report of Detective William J. Burns on Case.C. W. Burke, a private investigator in the employ of counsel for Leo M. Frank, it is reported, will be the object of a scalding attack today by Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey, when the prosecution opens fire with its counter showing in the retrial hearing before Judge Hill. Mr. Dorsey will not talk, but he intimates strongly that a mass of evidence has been accumulated by detectives against Burke. Burke has been one of the most

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 22nd April 1914,PAGE 9, COLUMN 1.William J. Burns Leaves City Without Seeing Documents Charging Perversion.Detective William J. Burns called for the first time at police station late Tuesday afternoon to see Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford for the purpose of gaining knowledge of the perversion affidavits against Leo M. Frank, said to be in the possession of the Chief of Detectives, and his request was flatly refused by Chief Lanford.Burns remained in Chief Lanford's office only a few minutes, and then called upon the chief of police, James L. Beavers. With Chief Beavers Burns did not discuss

The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 2nd December 1943,PAGE 4, COLUMN 3.By BOYD TAYLOR.If former Governor John M. Slaton had any special knowledge on which he acted when he commuted the death sentence of Leo Frank to life imprisonment, as intimated by Judge Arthur G. Powell in his widely discussed book, he will take the secret with him to the grave."Whatever I might say now with regard to the Frank case would add fuel to the fires of controversy," the former Governor told The Constitution. "No good purpose can be served by such a statement now and I do not want to quarrel

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 1st December 1943,PAGE 2, COLUMN 7.By CELESTINE SIBLEYThe gentle, brown-eyed woman who married Leo Frank 30 years ago spent the anniversary of their wedding day yesterday as she spends every Tuesday sewing for the Red Cross.But as she sewed in a backroom in her church, hope which has smoldered in Lucille Frank's heart for 28 years flamed anew the hope that after her years of misery her husband will be proved innocent.The basis for Mrs. Frank's hope is the recently published statement of Judge Arthur G. Powell that he knows who killed Mary Phagan, and that it

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 4th January 1942,PAGE 11, COLUMN 1.Burns Detective Agency Manager Here Figured in Frank Case.L. P. Whitfield, 61, Atlanta manager of the Burns Detective Agency and chief investigator for the defense in the famous Leo Frank case, died Friday at his residence, 362 Augusta avenue, S. E., after an illness of several months.Born in Kennesaw, Ga., he moved to Atlanta and joined the agency in 1913. Three years later he became head of the Atlanta office with the agencies of seven southern states under his direction. Until his death he maintained the innocence of Frank, who was lynched

The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 12th August 1930,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.Candidate Charges "Special Interests" Are Attempting To Lower Exemption; Senatorial Candidates Speak.Plans and promises of Georgia's gubernatorial candidates for financial relief from the state were supplanted momentarily Monday by a vigorous attack on a plan for lowering gross sales tax exemption, delivered by E. D. Rivers, one of the five men seeking the state's highest office.Charging that certain "special interests" were attempting to lower the sales tax exemption from $30,000 to $5,000, Rivers at Alma, Ga., said he was "calling upon the people of Georgia, especially the merchants, to unite and fight

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 24th February 1929,PAGE 13, COLUMN 1.Milledgeville, Ga., February 23. (Special.) Bill Creen, aged prisoner at the state prison farm, who won nation-wide publicity when he cut the throat of Leo Frank, convicted murderer of little Mary Phagan, will next October have completed 15 years of service at the farm.Sentenced in Muscogee county on a murder charge June 6, 1913, he was brought to the state prison farm here on October 16, 1914. After he had attempted to murder Leo Frank, who was afterward taken out and lynched by a mob that raided the prison, Creen was put

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 16th July 1930,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.GAINESVILLE, Ga., July 15. (AP) Answering a question from the floor, former Governor John M. Slaton departed from the text of a political address here Tuesday night to tell a Hall county audience that he commuted the death sentence of Leo Frank 17 years ago as a matter of duty imposed by the constitution and the law."I have neither regret nor apology to offer," he said. "I merely discharged the duty imposed upon me by the constitution and laws according to my honest opinion, and if I had not done so I

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 5th March 1922,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Decision of the Supreme Court in Instance of Alleged Prejudiced Juror to Be Brought Up.ALLEN PLANS ATTACK ON TWO MORE JURORSWill Be Ready to Reveal Names When Hearing Is Resumed in Court on Monday Morning.Leo M. Frank's case, the greatest cause clbre ever tried in Fulton county, will be revived Monday afternoon when Judge J. D. Humphries again takes up the hearing conducted to determine whether or not certain jurors in the case of Frank B. Du Pre, the Peachtree bandit, were prejudiced, as charged by H. A. Allen, counsel for the

The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 17th January 1919,PAGE 6, COLUMN 6.Jim Conley, a state witness in the Leo Frank case, who lives at 92 Tattnall Street, was yesterday held under $3,000 bond for the grand jury for burglary after a preliminary trial before Judge Johnson. Conley admitted at the trial that he was guilty of entering the store of Will Conn, 377 West Fair Street, a little after midnight Monday. He was shot by Conn, who was lying in wait for the burglars though not badly injured. He appeared in recorder's court without counsel.Friday, 17th January 1919: Jim Conley Admits Attempt At

The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 14th January 1919,PAGE 7, COLUMN 2.Jim Conley, the negro who figured prominently in the Leo Frank case, lies at the Grady hospital, seriously injured by a load of bird-shot, which, it is alleged, he received while attempting to rob the Conn Drug company, at the corner of West Fair and Chestnut streets, early Monday morning. Conley was shot by Will Conn, the proprietor, who was sleeping in the store, because it had been robbed several times within the last few weeks.Conn claims that Conley and another negro pried open the door, and were preparing to enter the

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 2nd April 1916,PAGE 3, COLUMN 7.Former Governor Lauds People of His State in an Address Before the Beacon Society of Boston.Boston, April 1. (Special.) Former Governor John M. Slaton, of Georgia, tonight told the members of the Beacon Society, an exclusive organization of leading merchants and professional men, that there were no fairer people in the world than Georgians. Speaking on the subject, "Georgia and Massachusetts," he deprecated such interstate antagonism as was shown by a Boston newspaper that urged a boycott of Georgia's products and by a Macon newspaper that printed an editorial on "To Hell

The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 15th February 1916,PAGE 7, COLUMN 2.Jim Conley, notorious negro witness in the Leo Frank case, was given a fine of $25.76 by Recorder Johnson in police matinee Monday afternoon, when arraigned by Officer Hollingsworth on charges of wife beating.Jim and his wife, Kate, whom he married in the recorder's court several weeks ago, both appeared before Judge Johnson. The latter requested that the judge not bind Jim over to the higher courts.Tuesday, 15th February 1916: Jim Conley Is Fined For Beating His Wife, The Atlanta Constitution

  The Atlanta Constitution, Tuesday, 22nd July 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMN 3. Will Be Called Monday, But May Be Postponed if as Hot as Last Saturday. Continued From Page One. That the trial of Leo M. Frank depends to a great extent upon the weather was the indication given last night by Judge L. S. Roan, who will preside when the case is called next Monday. When the temperature went over 99 degrees last Saturday Judge Roan stated that he would not like to hold court in such weather and should it prove that hot next Monday he would be