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PAGE 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE December 30, 1983
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Pardon denied
Paroles board drops a bombshell
by Vida Goldgar
By 3:01 on the afternoon of Dec.
22, it was all over, but the stunned,
still not quite believing, muttering
of the crowd and the tough
questions from reporters trying to
discover some logic for the typed
press releases in their hands.
In a decision that shocked the
community, the Georgia State
Board of Pardons and Paroles had
denied a posthumous pardon to
Leo Frank, who, in an atmosphere
of anti-Semitic hysteria, had been
convicted for the 1913 murder of
Mary Phagan; had his death
sentence commuted by then-Gov.
John Slaton and, in 1915, was
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seized from a Milledgeville, Ga.,
prison by a mob and lynched.
The petition for a posthumous
pardon, prepared and submitted
by the American Jewish
Committee, the Anti-Defamation
League and the Atlanta Jewish
Federation, was based largely on
the testimony of Alonzo Mann,
who had been a 14-year-old office
boy at the National Pencil
Company of which Frank was
superintendent and where Mary
Phagan was employed.
Almost two years ago, Mann
had told Nashville Tennessean
reporters Jerry Thompson and
Robert Sherborne that he had
witnessed events which confirmed
what most had long felt—that
Frank was innocent. His sworn
statement, validated by polygraph
and psychological stress evaluator
tests, added to other evidence
accumulated after Frank’s
conviction, failed to convince the
parole board.
A solemn and saddened Alonzo
Mann, occasionally brushing at his
eyes, told reporters he was deeply
disappointed at the decision. “My
conscience is satisfied because I did
the best I knew how.” He added, “I
think the pardoning board is
wrong and I would hope they will
reconsider.”
Gripping his cane, the 85-year-
old Mann, who had come from his
home in Bristol, Va., for what he
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Alonzo Mann expresses shock at parole board decMon.
expected to be a positive result of
the revelation of his long-held
secret, repeated several times, “Leo
Frank was not guilty.” He said, of
the pardons and parole board, “It
was their Christian duty to grant
denies the application for a
posthumous pardon for Leo
M. Frank.”
Asked by a reporter why no
member of the board had come to
make the announcement,
the pardon” and that “they will
have to live with what they have
done.”
The five members of the board,
Mrs. Mamie B. Reese, James T.
Morris, Michael H. Wing, Wayne
Snow Jr., and Mobley Howell,
chairman, declined to appear at
the press conference they had
for 3 p.m. at the gold-domed'
Capitol. Instead, spokesman 4
Moore handed out the three-p'ago preparing the petition, along with
release which ended with: “For the 'Fi
spokesman Moore said, “The
board felt there was no purpose
involved in setting up an adversary
situation” because they realized
that the bulk of feeling would be in
favor of a pardon “and they did not
want to add anything that would
be detrimental to community
relations."
The three attorneys who had
4 (devoted hundreds of hours
Board to grant such a pardon, the
innocence of the subject must be
shown conclusively. In the Board’s
opinion, this has not been shown.
Therefore, the Board hereby
Federation president Dr. Marvin
Goldstein,were clearly not
expecting the board’s action. Dale
Schwartz, who, along with Charles
Continued next page.
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