Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case.
Atlanta Journal
Sunday, June 8th, 1913
In One of These Letters He Reopens His Controversy With A. S. Colyar About the Dictograph Episode
SAYS LANFORD CONSPIRED TO TAKE HIM TO S. C.
He Also Makes Another Personal Attack Upon Detective Chief—Declares Beavers Is Unfitted for His Office
Thomas B. Felder, the attorney who was dictographed by the city detectives, Saturday afternoon gave out open letters addressed to James R. Gray, editor of The Journal, Chief of Police James L. Beavers, and Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford. These letters purported to be an exposure of what Mr. Felder has characterized as the dictograph frame up. The letter addressed to James R. Gray is largely an attack upon A. S. Colyar, the man who assisted the city detectives in dictographing Mr. Felder. In the letter to Chief Beavers, Mr. Felder declares that he has never charged the chief with being corrupt, but states that he regards him as unfitted for the office of chief of police. In the letter to Chief of Detectives Lanford, Mr. Felder again attacks that official’s character and charges that he is in a conspiracy with Governor Cole Blease, of South Carolina, to kidnap Felder and carry him across the state line.
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