Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case.
The Atlanta Journal
Monday, July 7, 1913
Confessions to Chief of Police Beavers Involve Downtown Hotel, Mention Names of Other Women and Men
IMMEDIATE PROBE OF HER CHARGES ORDERED
Police Again Arrest Mrs. Frierson, Recently Pardoned by Mayor Woodward in Controversy With Judge Broyles
Revelations of vice conditions from the inside were laid before Chief of Police Beavers Monday morning by the confession of a young woman who gives her name as Hattie Smith and says that her parents live at a certain number on Marietta street.
Chief Beavers immediately detailed men to investigate the disclosures, and the indications were that several arrests would follow and that a case would be made against at least one downtown hotel and perhaps against two.
The young woman, who says that she is seventeen years old, told the chief a story replete with startling admissions and placed in his hands the evidence which, if it is corroborated, will convict several people of serious charges.
She had been arrested in a downtown hotel with a man. Her companion was released upon a small bond, being cited to appear in court with her Monday afternoon.
The young woman admitted a joy-riding career during several months past, leading up finally to the day recently when with the aid of another woman more experienced than herself she established a residence in one of the downtown hotels. Her admissions involved that hotel and others, and involved, too, several men whom she named. The other woman arranged the details of her hotel residence, said she registered her on the hotel registry, and otherwise encouraged her.
The charge against her on the police docket is “disorderly conduct.”
The police believe that her arrest and confession together form one of the most important chapters in the crusade against vice in Atlanta.
OTHER ARRESTS MADE.