Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Georgian Thursday, July 10, 1913 Georgia Suffragists Adopt Resolution Indorsing Chief’s Course in Atlanta. Chief of Police Beavers’ fight against vice was enthusiastically indorsed at the Thursday morning session of the convention of the Georgia Woman Suffrage Association. The following resolution, introduced by Continue Reading →
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Journal Wednesday, July 9, 1913 MYSTERY’S LOST LINK IS FOUND NEAR WHERE CONLEY SAYS HE SAT Finding of Portion of Salary Envelope Bearing Victim’s Name Expected to Strengthen Defense’s Contention CONTENTS OF ENVELOPE HAVE NEVER BEEN FOUND Find Was Made by Pinkertons Just Continue Reading →
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Journal Tuesday, July 8, 1913 Habeas Corpus Proceedings May Bring Frank and Conley Face to Face Petition for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of Newt Lee, the negro night watchman at the National Pencil factory who has been held in jail Continue Reading →
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Journal Tuesday, July 8, 1913 Hattie Smith, Now Penitent, Will Make Confessions in Open Court Resolved to quit the life into which she so recently drifted, Hattie Smith, the Atlanta young woman whose revelations of vice “from the inside” gave the police some Continue Reading →
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Journal Monday, July 7, 1913 The entire board of twelve police commissioners, including the mayor and the chairman of the police committee of council as ex-officio members, is expected to be in attendance Tuesday evening at the trial of the eight policemen recently Continue Reading →
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 Continue Reading →
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Journal Saturday, July 5, 1913 Bernard Chappell, His Lawyer, Expects to Bring Habeas Corpus on Monday Bernard L. Chappell, attorney for Newt Lee, the [negro watchman], who found the body of Mary Phagan, declared Saturday that he had been unable to complete all Continue Reading →
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Journal Friday, July 4, 1913 State Certain to Fight Chappell’s Effort to Secure Release of Watchman Bernard L. Chappell, attorney for Newt Lee, the negro night watchman, who found the body of Mary Phagan in the National Pencil factory basement, declares that Saturday Continue Reading →
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Journal Friday, July 4, 1913 It was reported Thursday morning that Bernard L. Chappell, attorney for New [sic] Lee, the negro watchman held in connection with the Mary Phagan case, would take steps to release him from jail by swearing out a writ Continue Reading →
The article published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in June of 2000 regarding the Leo Frank case. A notable publication due to the admission by Steve Oney that the lynchers of Leo Frank were not motivated by anti-Semitism, as so commonly believed, but by their need to carry out the court’s sentence and restore justice. atlanta-journal-constitution-june-11-2000-leo-frank-case
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Journal Thursday, July 3, 1913 Beavers Stirred by Details Reported by Physician—Assigns Men to Report Following the charges of a prominent Atlanta physician regarding vice conditions and alleged police protection in this city, Chief of Police Beavers despatched an officer to confer with Continue Reading →
This article is transcribed from the February, 1961 issue of The Thunderbolt, the official newspaper of the White racialist and anti-Jewish National States Rights Party. Its editor was, and is today, Dr. Edward R. Fields. In the 1980s, Dr. Fields organized a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) march to Mary Phagan’s grave in remembrance of her and in protest of the Jewish Continue Reading →
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Journal Tuesday, July 1, 1913 Rumor About Negro in Phagan Case Not Confirmed—Grand Jury Is Through The publication to the effect that the negro sweeper, Jim Conley, probably would be indicted by the Fulton county grand jury for the murder of Mary Phagan, Continue Reading →
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, July 1, 1913 Grand Jury Declines to Indict Colyar for Reply to Attack of Colonel Felder […]charging A. S. Colyar, of Nashville, with libel, the Fulton county grand jury at its session on Tuesda ymorning [sic] refused to indict the Tennessean, Continue Reading →
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Journal Saturday, June 28, 1913 Former Solicitor of Southwestern Circuit and Popular Atlantlan [sic] Join Firm Frank A. Hooper, who is to assist the solicitor general in the prosecution in the Phagan case, and M.F. Goldstein, a well known young attorney, will join Continue Reading →
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Journal Friday, June 27, 1913 Attorney Who Will Aid Solicitor Hears Negro Sweeper Recite His Story Frank A. Hooper, the attorney who will assist Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey in the prosecution of the case against Leo M. Frank, indicted for the murder of Continue Reading →
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Journal Friday, June 27, 1913 GRAND JURY RETURNS BILLS AGAINST EACH; THE CHARGE IS LIBEL Cards Written by Chief of Detectives and Attorney and Published in the Atlanta Newspapers Form the Basis TWO BILLS FOUND AGAINST FELDER, ONE ON LANFORD Both Men Who Continue Reading →
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Journal Friday, June 27, 1913 (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) MACON, Ga., June 27.—Two members of the Atlanta detective department left Macon last night after searching all the week her for a negro who is thought to be connected with the Phaga [sic] Continue Reading →
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Journal Thursday, June 26, 1913 There Are Many Little Reasons, of Course, but the Biggest of These Is the Simplest—Judge Roan Just Had to Keep Promise to His Charming Wife—And Nobody’s Kicking, Either The trial of Leo M. Frank, which is expected to Continue Reading →
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. The Atlanta Journal Thursday, June 26, 1913 Case Will Be Heard in Courtroom Now Used by Judge Pendleton The trial of Leo M. Frank on July 28 will be held on the first floor in the old city hall building, at the corner of South Continue Reading →