Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case.
Atlanta Georgian
August 11th, 1913
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
The third week of the most remarkable murder trial ever known in Georgia opened to-day with no apparent lessening of the acute interest and grim appeal heretofore attaching to it.
The public has come to realize thoroughly and completely that the issue is a battle not only between the State and the defendant, Leo Frank, but between Leo Frank and the negro Jim Conley.
Presumably, the defense will take the entire week rounding out its case and perfecting its undermining of Conley’s story.
If it does get through within the week, it will have employed approximately the same amount of time in telling its story that the State employed in telling the other side.
The first powerful and bewildering shock of Conley’s tale, unanticipated in its full sinister detail, has passed away in a measure, it seems.
It is but the simple truth to say that the day of and the day following Conley’s awful charge, in addition to the one of murder, marked the climax of the State’s case and the zenith of feeling against Frank.
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