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Conley and Leo Frank: the doomed girl was
tetween the two.
The. doors were open bet wen Frank and
the. negro: the girl, in going down stairs,
would have had to pass some few yards
from where Mrs. White saw the negro sit’
ting.
If the negro had seized her, there would
certainly have been the sound of a scuffle; if
he had struck her, there would certainly have
been the sound of a blow, and a fall; and
it would have been a miracle if she did not
scream-—and the scream would have rung
up the stairway into Frank's open office.
7s it not so?
But if Frank went with her. 200 feet back
to the metal room, and closed the door, as
Monteen testified, the scream woud not have
been heard by the workmen, two floors
above, hammering, and tearing down a par
tition.
Jim says he heard the scream; but as
nothing more followed, he naturally took it
to mean that the girl had given in, as
women often do. after a squeal of resistance.
I remember that when General John B.
Gorden was in the United States Senate, his
noble wife was misled by one of these
squeals; and she pushed a couple of her
male friends into an awkward interference
with Congressman Acklin, of Louisiana.
Airs. Gordon honestly believed that the
woman’s squeal was a sincere resistance to
intended violence—but she was mistaken.
Next day. the woman was riding around
in a carriage with the amorous statesman
from Louisiana: and Airs. Gordon's male
friends had to bear a considerable amount
of ridicule.
I merely mention this to explain how Jim
failed to rush up stairs, and put himself be
tween a white man and-a white woman.
What negro would have done it?
Suppose that the men who rushed in on
the privacy of Congressman Acklin had been
negroes, what would Acklin have done to
them?
Negroes don't like to meddle in white
folks' fusses —especially their fights and
their scrapes with white women.
Jim Conley was too much of a common
negro, and was too used to Frank's dealings
with the girls who worked for him!
Conley heard the scream, but as he heard
only one, and as that was followed by si
lence. be believed that Frank was doing
with Alary what he was in the habit of do
ing with Rebecca Carson —or with Daisy
I lopkins.
This theory is absolutely credible, and is
the oidy one which explains.
ONE OF THE SAMPLE LIES.
As an illustration of the methods used to
deceive honest people about the Frank case,
I a-k your patience, while I quote what was
told by Dan Lehon. who is the dirty rascal
that attempted to palm off on the Court, the
bought affidavits of Rev. C. B. Ragsdale and
E. L. Barber:
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LIFE HANGS ON LOCK
HE SAYS WAS ‘PLANTED’
Hurns’ Detective Deciares Hair Was Placed by
Deported to Get ‘Scoop’ in Frank
Case.
Special to The Washington Herald.
San Francisco, March 20. —Evidence which it
is claimed will clear Leo M. Frank of the charge
cf murdering ! ttle Mary Phagan in Atlanta on
April 26, 1913, is in possession of Dan Lehon, a
New Orleans detective, now in San Francisco.
Lehon, who was i istrumental in the discovery of
faults in the State’s case against Frank, was
indicted in Atlanta for his activity in obtaining
perjury in the Frank trial, but later was ac
quitted. __
“One of the most startling bits In the chain of
evidence which the State wove about Frank was
& strand of hair found on the second floor of the
factory,’” said Lehon today.
“I am prepared to prove that the lock of hair
THE JEFFERSONIAN
was placed* on the handle of a lathe by a news
paper reporter for the sake of a sensational
“scoop.”
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Dan Lehon was fired from the Police De
partment of Chicago for blackmailing a
woman of the town, just as his brassy Boss,
AV. J. Burns, was fired from the National
Association of Chiefs of Police, for being
such an all-round humbug and crook..
Lehon told the AVest that lie was e-rd,
to prove that a reporter planted the hair on
the handle of R. P. Barrett's machine!
Yet, during all the months and months the
case hung before the courts, the Prison Com
mission, and the Governor, this shameless
liar. Lehon, made no effort whatever to show
up that reporter.
He said it was one of the most startling
bits of evidence in the case, and so it was;
and he vowed that he was “prepared to
prove that the lock of hair was planted &c.”
AVhat became of his proof ?
AA hy didn’t he produce it before the
Prison Commission, and explode the State's
case ?
AVhy didn’t he produce it before Gov
ernor Slaton, and save him from so much
sitting up of nights?
If Lehon had produced the evidence that
he was “prepared” to fetch forward, Slaton
would not have needed a war-zone, and a
barbed wire chevaux de frise, and a machine
gun.
The reporter who planted that hair might
have needed a war-zone, but that's another
matter.
IFW are the people of a State to do,
when outside sentiment is 'maliciously worked
up against them, by such. a system of lies;
and. when their own papers are gagged into
silence?
GET THE FACTS RIGHT!
For the honor of Georgia, for the vindica
tion of her laws, her courts, and her people,
get the facts RIGHT.
AATien they tell you that a mob influenced
the grand jury which accused Leo Frank
of this hellish crime, fling back the answer
that four of those official accusers were
Jews!
Fling back the answer that those four
Jewish accusers of this most guilty Jew
could not be softened by the Haas brother
hood, could not be coerced bv the B'Nai
B'rith, could not be moved by Rabbi Alarx,
could not be persuaded by Nathan Straus.
Tell them that after all the excitement
naturally attendant upon such a crime had
died down; and after the two-year propa
ganda in behalf of the guilty Frank had
done everything that Money could buy. those
four Jewish accusers of Lo Frank stood as
in flex iby as did the nineteen Gentiles!
AVhen you hear them say that the “mob
atmosphere" convicted Leo Frank, fling back
the answer that those twelve jurors sep
arated, after their work was done, and that
those twelve men are now scattered —one of
them being a hotel-clerk in Houston, Texas;
but no amount of pressure has ever suc
ceeded in getting a single member of that
jury to ask for clemency for the man he
condemned: nor to express anything but the
firmest conviction of Frank’s guilt.
AVhen they tel] you, that Georgia had no
other evidence against Leo Frank than that
of a negro, fling it back in their teeth that
7Us wife must have had something more, for
she knew nothing of what the negro would
swear, but knew enough “of her own
knowledge.” to so completely fill her with
horror, that for three weeks, all the power
of all the rich Atlanta Jews could not force
her to go to her guilty husband in jail.
When they tell you that Judge Roan ex
pressed a doubt as to Frank’s guilt, fling
back the answer, that the official record con
tradicts the statement; and that the Aletho-
dist pastor who was the closest friend of the
Judge, made affidavit that Roan told him,
that ''according to the evidence. Frank was
VNQ VEST IO NA ELY GVI LT Y.”
And if you want to become aggressive on
that phase of the case— that shameful phase
where four unprincipled, lawyers play tricks
on a. dead man! just remind them that The
Jeffersonian accused Rosser and John AV.
Aloore of a ghastly fake, of which Slaton
had full knowledge; and. that none of the
dastards have had the pluck to meet the
issue.
AVhen they tell you that our Supreme
Court could not review and weigh the evi
dence against Leo Frank, fling back the
answer that the 141st volume of the Georgia
Reports shows that the Supreme Court de
voted thirty-odd pages of closely printed
matter to reviewing and weighing the evi
dence in the case; and that, after having
weighed it in the scales, they did not find it
wanting.
On the contrary, the court held that it was
amply sufficient to demonstrate Frank's
guilt.
AVhen they tel] you that two Justices dif
fered from the majority, ask them to look ,
into the 141st Georgia Reports, and Jearn
what the dissenting opinion was based on.
The imperishable record shows, that the
difference between the Justices was not on a
controlling matter.
Justices Fish and Beck thought that Judge
Roan should have rifled out some evidence
which was merely cumulative, and which did
not go to the merits of the case.
In brief, the two Justices thought that the
evidence of sodomy, and of the Rebecca Car
son conduct, should not have been admitted.
This was comparatively so small a point
that neither Patterson nor Slaton referred,
to it, at all!
AATien they tell you that two out ot nine
Justices of the Supreme Court of the United.
States differed from the majority, answer
back, that those two Justices went no fur
ther than to say, that if a mob. was in court,-
howling at the jury, threatening the judge,
the lawyers, the jurors, the witnesses, &c.,
the Federal Courts should intervene.
But, the seven Justices not only declared
that Frank’s lawyers had failed absolutely
to furnish evidence of mob violence, but that
the record showed, that the State of Georgia
had given to Leo Frank the fullest measure
of his legal rights.
AATien they tell you that Prison Commis
sioner T. E. Patterson recommended com
mutation. it will be a sufficient answer to
say, that Patterson leaned upon the fake let
ter of Judge Roan, which never did have
any legal right to lie considered at all.
If letters can be raised from the dead to
wash away the crimes of the living, Pat
terson, and Aloore, and Rosser might quit
everything else, and go to raising letters,
from the dead.
A bunk epistle, purporting to be written
by a dying man, and which hides itself un
til the alleged author is dead, is just such a
letter as deserves prominence among the in
famies of this monstrous case.
If the record shows Frank's innocence,
Roan's word should not have been needed:
if the record shows Frank’s guilt, Roan’s
word should not have been heeded.
The record is here, and speaks for itself:
Roan is not here, and cannot speak for him
self.
Obviously, then, the safe course is, to
abide by the record.
In that connection, may I ask you to read
the following letter?
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Crown Point, Fla., July 3, 1915.
Dear Sir: It is too late now, but I have just
learned something that I wish I had known
sooner. I have a son living in Tampa. A short
time after Frank’s trial, one of Judge Roan’s ’
daughters was rooming at my son’s, and Judge
