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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 •!*•*.* -!• • • *i* • ~!* +•+ +•+ •!•••!• 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- EE, NEXT SUNDAY The American Sunday Monthly Magazine, contain ing the first chapters of Jack London’s new story, is GIVEN FREE with every copy of the next Sunday American. 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. T i m [OHM'S ■JlaFes/3tkI Grviiert S'/tnr/ffl've/ ihescmm/m FREE MAGAZINE GIVEN - WITH NEXT SIMM A wonderful magazine given FREE with every copy of the next Sunday American. 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 (Ujwno, A remarkable article about the wonderful sculpture found in one of t lie (’lirist ian tombs in Asia. uwe m 0Q o Are You Growing As Atlanta Grows? 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 choice building lot will have been snapped up, and when you try to get one of them, you will find you will have to pay two or three times the present price. If you wanttogrowwith Atlanta- If you want one of the prettiest home lots in Atlanta in the HIGHEST CLASS RESIDENCE SECTION the city offers, and- At ROCK BOTTOM PRICE and on attractive terms— Buy Now In Peachtree Heights Park And Watch Its Value Grow ! GO AND LOOK AT THIS PROPERTY—see for yourself—-see the natural beauty of it,the well paved roads and driveways, the cement sidewalks, the parks, the many home ad vantages it offers, then— See Your Own Real Estate Agent About It. Or, see us. One of our men will be glad to show it to you. We are willing to rest on your judgment. [. Rivers Really Co. 8 West Alabama Street Lewis-Seabrook Co., Advertising.