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THt; ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANID NEWS.
Ill DEFENSE OF
LEOM. FRANK
Mrs. Rebecca Brannon Declares
Her Belief in Innocence of
Factory Superintendent.
Mrs. Rebecca C. Brannon, 356 For
rest Avenue, a well known Atlanta
woman, has written a letter to The
Georgian in defense of Leo M. Frank.
Mrs. Brannon, in her communication,
avows a strong belief in the pencil
factory superintendent’s innocence,
and denounces the hardships which
the law has thrust upon him.
In line with its policy to present all
sides, of the Phagan case, The Geor
gian herewith prints Mr a. Brannon’s
letter:
In the name of God. humanity,
and Justice, I beg the public to
suspend judgment in the case of
Mr. Leo M. Frank, indicted for
the murder of Mary Phagan, un
til he has had a fair trial before
a jury of his peers.
I consider Mr. Frank an inno
cent man. Is It because he is a
Jew that the negro’s word is
taken as gospel truth, and reflec
tion cast on his testimony? From
the first, pap seemed to be
put in Newt Lee’s mouth, as well
as that of Conley, to make them
say or hint that Mr. Frank was
suspected by them of committing
the crime.
Calls It Persecution.
What negro, with dread of
lynching or summary justice be
ing meted out to him, would not
swear to a lie. and put the crime
on another if he could thereby
escape the consequences of his
crime? And even so late as
Saturday the negro Conley ad
mitted he wrote the notes found
beside the murdered girl, as he
said, at the suggestion of Mr.
Frank.
Is it not inconceivable to think
that an astute man. planning with
finesse, to kill a little girl who
might possibly call for her pay
envelope the following day,
would take into his confidence the
sweeper Conley and have him
w rite what he contemplated put
ting in a note he intended to lay
before her mutilated body, when
he shall have murdered her the
next day, and exclaiming. “There
is no reason why I should hang
for it! ”
Oh. no! Gentlemen, this i*
entirely too unlikely a thing for
a man of his astuteness and cal
iber to have done or said. There
has been some colossal blunder
on the part of the city detectives
in rounding up the quarry.
It looks very like persecuting
this man simply because he is a
Jew. I like to see fair play and
Class of 19 Girfs Graduated by Miss Hanna’s School CHIEF BEMEBS
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Classic Dances Uilf Feature Commencement Play
Top,
Miss Tommie
Bryan,
one of the girls
who will
dance in the
Hanna School
commencement
exercises.
Below,
Miss
Theodora
Warfield.
justice. This is the first time a
Jew has ever been in any seri
ous trouble in Atlanta, and see
how ready is every one to believe
the worst of him.
In the first place. Mr. Frank,
in his deposition, told the hour he
reached his home for dinner and
supper, was seen by a number
of reputable people assembled at
his home that evening. He had
on the same business suit he had
on at his office that day and
which he wore at the Coroner's
inquest. If he hacf murdered the
girl he must have had some
scratches or blood marks on his
person, as it was said at the time
Mary Phagan had struggled with
her assailant.
Cites Weak Link.
One very weak link in the
State’s chain of evidence is the
fact that Newt Lee testified that
he made a complete round of the
building every half hour, yet he
failed to notice the bloodstains
on the floor of the metal room
in making all those rounds, and
then strangely went down the
trap door to the basement at 3:30
on a flimsy excuse—flimsy, I say,
because no one being there to.
prevent it, if he really wanted to
go to the toilet he surely• would
have used the one on rhe upper
floor in preference to going down
the trap door at 3:30 to the base
ment closet, and in a dimly light
ed place, in which he -could
scarcely see his hand before his
face, and at? an angle that the
detectives at first said they could
not see how he made the discov
ery of Jhe body. He claimed to
have made the find.
Another • thing the detective*
said was that blood was still
flow ing from the body when they
first discovered it—rigor mortis
had not • taken place, two facts
that in my mind are irrefutable
proofs that that girl was not
murdered at 13 in., at 4 or at
6 o’clock in the evening, which
would have been the case if Mr.
Frank had murdered the little
girl any time between 12 m. and
6 p. m.
I do not know Mr. Frank, but
that he is a Jew he holds my es-
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pecial interest and esteem, for
the Jews are good, law-abiding
people.
Calls Frank Innocent.
He must be a leader among his
people, as he is the president of
the B’nai Brith Association of
Atlanta. This society is the high
est Jewish organization in the
world, and you can not persuade
me to believe that such a splen
did lot of level headed men as
the Jews of Atlanta would select
a moral degenerate to head their
organization.
I believe Mr. Frank innocent
and confidently look for his com
plete vindication when tried by
an impartial jury of his country
men, when the mesh of lies shall
have been swept away, that at
present shroud the case. Mean
while, all rrty sympathies are with
him.
70 to Graduate at
Mercer University
MACON. GA., May 28 — Seventy young
men. mostly Georgians, will graduate
from Mercer University next week.
The degree of bachelor of arts will
be given to 45, two will receive diplo
mas in pharmacy, and 23 in law.
The commencement exercises will
start Sunday morning. Rev. W. W. Ar
nold. of Buena Vista, will preach the
annual sermon. On Tuesday Dr. John
E. White, of Atlanta, will deliver the lit
erary address.
Call Custom Broken
By Cabinet Women
WAS HI N TON, May 28.—The Cab
inet women have gone on strike
against the old system of calling
prevalent in Washington. They will
return calls only in Senatorial, diplo
matic and Supreme Court circles.
Mrs. Daniels, wife of the Secretary
of the Navy, one of the women in
rebellion, faced the necessity of irraK-
ing 000 <alls in acknowledgment of
the visits of Wa.shmjfUua *
L.idymion,’ Adapted From Keats'
Poem, To Be Staged at
the Grand.
A class of nineteen girls will be
graduated from Miss Hanna’s School
at 8:30 Wednesday night. The mem
bers of the class are:
Misses Eva Caroline Doyle, Frances
Robena Shaw. Margaret Lucille Cal
lahan, Marie Louise Cox, and Mary
Frances Harper, who * receive full
course diplomas; Misses Marie Bruce
(’obb, Louise Lois Donaldson, Sara
Martha Liddell. Mattie Evelyn Nes
bitt, Julia Margaret Callahan, Helen
Jeff Atkissen, Winnie Davis. Couch,
Mary Bradley. Lyra,-Jane Seymour,
Sara Louise Thrash, Ruby Allen An
chors. Mattie Lou Morris, Frances
Marion Wardlaw, and Frances Louise
Kilpatrick, who have taken special
courses. All are Atlanta girls.
The class officers are: Miss Mary
Harper, President; Miss Mary Brad
ley, Vice President: Miss Marie Cox,
Secretary, and Miss Frances Ward-1
law. Treasurer.
The graduating exercises will be |
held at the Grand Theater. Imme
diately after the presentation of di
plomas, and adaptation by Miss Han-
na from Kcat’s poem, "Endymion” i
w ill be presented by the pupils of the |
school. There arq over one hundred |
girls in the cast, the leading roles be- i
ing taken by seniors. A number or*
graceful dances will be given during
the action of the play, the scenes of)
which are laid in ancient Greece. I
Miss Thelma Harrell, one of last |
year’s graduates, will appear in sev
eral Grecian dances, while Miss Ma- !
mie Clyburn will sing three solos.
A feature of the performance will be I
an original ballet dance by Missi
Theodora Wurfleld, who made such
a hit in the Kirmess last year.
Thursday night at 8:30 the alumnae !
and the senior class of Miss Hanna's j
School will have a banquet at the
Piedmont Hotel. About 200 guests!
are expected at tho banquet, which i
w ill be followed by a dance.
This nas been one of the most sue- i
cessful years of the school. It is
one of th . oldest in Atlanta, and sorm
of the most prominent women in
Geoigia are among its alumnae.
Woman in Alienation Suit Charges
She Enticed Wealthy Grain
Dealer From His Home.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, May 28.—
Mrs. Mae Free Patterson, wife of
the Rev. Gerard F. Patterson, pastor
of the Church of the Incarnation, In
the fashionable East End district, has
been made defendant in a $10,000
alienation suit.
The action was brought by Mrs.
Margaret Lloyd because of the al
leged loss of the affections of her
husband. Martin Van Voorhees Lloyd,
a wealthy grain dealer. Mrs. Patter
son is a eousin of Charles Free, vice
president of the Southern Pacific
Railway.
The suit charges that Mrs. Patter
son enticed Lloyd from his home,
that she wined and dined with Lloyd
in public places, entertained him at
her home and went with him to
cafes, grill rooms, ball games, horse
races and other places of amusement
and “with her artifices, blandish
ments and coquetry and with mali
cious purpose deprived the plaintiff
oi her husband’s society and affec
tion.”
The Lloyds have been separated
►since November 6, 1912.
Jack London’s new story,
“The Scarlet Plague,’’ begins in
the American Monthly Magazine
given free with every copy of
next Sunday's American.
Mystery in Death
Of Woman in Lake
M 1NNKA POLIS. May 28. The body
of the woman supposed to have been
Mr.-'. George F. Gebhart, of Chicago,
who committed suicide by leaping
from a rowboat in Lake Como yes
terday, was taken from the lake to
day.
Raymond Burnham, a salesman
whose address was scribbled on a
note by the woman before she rowed
out into the lake, has left the An
drews Hotel, Minneapolis, where he
had been living.
SCHOOL FETE POSTPONED.
The entertainment which was to
have been given by the Pryor Street
School this week has been postponed
until Monday night and Tuesday af
ternoon. June 2 and 3.
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Declares That He Will “Clean 11
Out” Disorderly Places When
Hutcheson Furnishes List.
Renewed crusades to clean out vice
in Atlanta have been precipitated by i
the publication Tuesday of an open
letter to Chief of Police Beavers by i
Car! Hutcheson, an Atlanta Attorney.
Chief Beavers called up Hutcheson
with a demand for his Information,
asking names, addresses and charac
ter of occupants, and declared Wed
nesday that he would proceed to clean
up if the requested information was
furnished.
Hutcheson is now preparing a list
of the places which he declared are
immoral and told the chief he would
place the list in Reavers’ hands three
days hen* e. Hutcheson was asked
by the chief to swear to the charac
ter of the inmates of each house he
names and to sign his name to his
affidavit, and will be called as a wit
ness in prosecuting the landlords.
“We will have some clean-up sure,”
said Chief Beavers Wednesday.
“When I get Hutcheson's information
1 will prove that I am giving no pro
tection to anybody. 1 would be glad
to have every one report to me any
resort that they might know of. It
will help in the crusade. I will take
speedy action against them all.”
Dorsey to Confer With Felder.
Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey
declared Wednesday that he would
confer with Colonel T. B. Felder rela
tive to the proposed Grand Jury
probe of his corruption charges
against police officials and the coun
ter charges of bribery made against
him by the police.
Colonel Felder would not comment
on the affair at all. other than to say
he was not yet ready to issue his
statement substantiating his sensa
tional charges.
Detective Chief I.anford issued n
signed statement proposing to send
Colyar handcuffed to Knoxville and
Colonel Felder in rhargV of a detec
tive to Columbia, S. C.
Lanford’s Contribution.
“I will make this proposition to
Colonel Felder,” he said. “I will hand
cuff S. Colyar and send him back
to Knoxville, Tenn.. without requisi
tion papers, if he (Colonel Felder)
will aefeompany one of my men »
1 Columbia,' S. C., waiving requisition
papers. Thereby i will g*t rid of
I two nuisances.”
Colonel Felder issued the follow -
ir.g statement, relative to the proposed
Grand Jury investigation:
"No investigation would be too ex
haustive. I would be pleased to go
tefore any committee, organization
or tribunal. T have done nothing
wrong. There is nothing in my whole
[professional career of which I am
ashamed. I wish an investigation
would be started.”
Dutro, Postmaster
In Memphis, Indicted
MEMPHIS. TENN.. May 28. L. W.
Dutro. postmaster here under th* last,
three Republican administrations, to
day was indicted by the Federal
Grand Jury.
He is charged with soliciting cam
paign funds from Government <*m-
l ployees in the Federal building in
Memphis.
Jack London’s new story,
‘ ‘ The Scarlet Plague, ’ ’ begins in
the American Monthly Magazine
given free with every copy of
next Sunday’s American.
White City Fark Now Ojjen
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A remarkable article about
the wonderful sculpture
found in one of t lie (’lirist ian
tombs in Asia.
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There are2,Q00 new homes
built in and around Atlan
ta every year.
This is the statement of the lum
ber mill men of Atlanta. Ask
them.
1,200 of these new homes are
built each year within the city
limits.
This is the statement of the city
tax assessors. Ask them.
With Atlanta growing at the rate
of 15,000 new population every
year, these figures are conserva
tive.
Do you know what this means?
By just the percentage that Atlan
ta increases in population each
year, by just that percentage
grows the DEMAND FOR
PEACHTREE HOMES.
In a year or two every available
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been snapped up, and when you
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