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TTTE ATLANTA GEOTCTAN AND NEWS. ————— 3 MOTHER OF ACCUSED IN THE PHAGAN CASE By JAMES When a prospective Juryman is on his voir dire in a given criminal case, he, is asked if his mind is perfectly impartial between the State and the accused. If he answers yes, he is competent to try the case, so far as that is con- corned. If he answers no, he is re jected. How many people in Atlanta and Georgia, having heard part of the testimony i-n the Frank case, still feel themselves to be perfectly impartial between the State and the accused? How many people, having heard part of the evidence, still have re frained from expressing an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of Frank? Not many, I take it—and yet. that jury is supposed to be perfectly poised and as yet impartial between the State and the accused, notwith standing the State’s evidence thus far delivered, and the presumption of in nocence legally established in behalf of the defendant. I venture the opinion that nothing developing in the Frank trial last week so profoundly weighed upon the minds of the people over §junda*y as the question of the digestibility of boiled cabbage—nice, greasy, pal atable, if often shunned, boiled cab bage! It is rather curious* that of all the masa.of matter brought out last week this point should have furnished the greatest amount of food for thought —food as difficult and as varied in its aspects of mental indigestibility as boiled cabbage is in its physical as pect! Everybody Has His Opinion. Everybody has his own private opinion as to the manner and meth ods whereby his, at least, stomach proceeds to the disposing and asslm- . Hating of thi.« not too aristocratic article of common, everyday con sumption. How many people in Atlanta Sun day forsook their usual Sababth day more or less elaborate program of diet in favor of plebeian program of boiled cabbage—Just to see what would happen, anyway? “Is your mind perfectly impartial between the State and the accused?” Perhaps an experiment with boiled cabbage may help you in arriving at a conclusion! „ Remember, in judging F*rank from fhe State’s standpoint, there is noth ing so vitally important as the time element. If Mary Phagan were killed be tween 12:05 and the time Frank is admitted to have left his* office— which narrows the limit sharply and definitely—then the State’s contention that Frank committed the deed may not be true. IP she actually were killed after Frank left his office, of course the case against Frank falls to pieces entirely. Miss Monteen Stover 'swea’rs that Frank was not, to the best of 'her knowledge and belief, in his office from 12:05 to 12:10—and there are’ five minuter, if the girl’s testimony' is conclusive, in which Mary Phagan’s death might have been effected. Defense to Dispute Claim. The defense, to be sure, has sought to*show, and will seek to show' even more definitely yet, that, while Miss Stover nay not have seen Frank in his private office, which is detached from the main office, he ‘■’till might have been there, because of the ar- A Weak Stomach ? <2. Have you indigestion or dys pepsia, a torpid liver or any other of the many ills com ing from a weak stomach f DR. PIERCE’S Golden Medical Discovery for forty years has done a “lion’s share’’ in eliminating these distressing ailments. Order a Bottle from Your Druggist today I Are You Sick, Diseased, Nervous, Run Down? Have You Blood Poison, Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Troubles? 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In addition to this established fact •—if it be established in the minds of the jury—will he the further testi mony of Dr. Roy Harris to the ef fect that Mary must have been dead at least not later than 12:30, and maybe earlier, as disclosed to Dr. Harris’ satisfaction by the contents of her stomach, examined carefully after her death. It looks as if the very heart and soul of the State’s case agafnst Frank, in so far as its entirely the oretical and circumstantial side is concerned, revolves very much about the question of how long boiled cab bage may have been in process of digestion in Mary Phagan’s stomach on the day she yvas killed. Trivial Thing Controls. It Is rather a strange thing that In so many cases depending alone upon circumstantial evidence to sus tain them, unexpected and seeming ly inconsequential things should eventually control. When the Frank trial began, if there was any one thing entirely re mote from the minds and opinions of the people—the judge and the jury men included—it was. I suspect, boiled cabbage! The lawyers for the State, of course, knew what Dr. Harris was going to testify—but beyond them, nobody else knew. When, as the case developed in its preliminary and before trial stages, the newspapers were digging daily in this and that direction for new lines of thought, for new circum stances and suggestions calculated to throw light on the great mystery of Mary Phagan’s untimely and most distressing death, when constantly it was being hinted that either the State or the defense had “something big and sensational up Its sleeve, yet to ■come,’-’ who thought of boiled cab bage ? - j I confess unblushinglv and with no reservations or evasions of mind in me whatever that I never did—not once! And neither did you, reader! And yet, there has been nothing developed by the State thus far one- half so sensational as its point about boiled cabbage—nothing that the de fense so surely and so completely must break down and annihilate! Clash Over Boiled Cabbage. Upon the yet mooted points of the digestibility r»f boiled cabbage, in the average stomach, in Mary Phagan’s stomach, in the weak stomach, in the strong stomach, in the thus equipped stomach and the otherwise equipped stomach—plainly one may anticipate a long, bitter, and badly befuddling battle between experts pro and con fts to boiled cabbage inside the hu man physical make-up. I suspect the Frank case now is getting to that . stage wherein the hypothetical question will , figure se riously and menacingly. ‘Already, of course, hypothetical questions have been asked, on both ! but It is doubtful whether the 1 case really has quite progressed io *hat point wherein the real hypo- fhefical question should be expecte 1 f o make its appearance. But it .s ; very near. In the famous trial of Harry Thau j when there'was mo question what- j ever of who killed Stanford White, I the hypothetical questions asked of [the experts often ran into the thou- j sand9 of words. 'Indeed, one question I was asked, if I remember correctly, that contained over five thousand I words. If the lawyers in the Frank ca3e get to handing those sort of queries around—and both sides likely will plunge heavily into the hypothetical question pool, the water being fine or not, as they individually may vio.v it— the Frank case likely will get so very complex that ordinary folks will find it extremely hard to follow ,ts movements. Jury to Bear Burden. The jury, being on its oath fair and impartial, will undertake, of course, to get its mind exactly right on the questions of boiled cabbage. A human life, an emwhile happy home, a wife’s all and everything, a mother's ltfve and confidence, a man s dearest honor, and the sympathy and loyalty of hundreds of devoted friends —these all are depending, in large measure, upon what the jury in the Frank case finally will conclude In respect of the digestibility of boil2d cabbage! If it were not such a serious mas ter—such a very, very serious matter —one might almost be tempted to smile grimly to himself, that so much should depend upon seemingly so commonplace a thing as boiled cab bage. It would be a frightful thing to send a man to the gallows upon an incorrectly diagnosed condition of the TO BEAR ORDEAL OF ML By TARLETON COLLIER. alimentary canal, dependent entirely upon boiled cabbage, and yet it would be equally as frightful and unfor tunate if justice should gravely mis carry and responsibility for little Mary Phagan’s death fail to be fixed righteously, because the jury missed the vital controlling point in respect of boiled cabbage. It Is upon trifles light as air—not that boiled cabbage ever sat that lightly on human stomach—that grave issues often turn; and thus not infre quently “native hue of resolution sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,” as Hamlet says. Has Jury Tried Experiment? Was the jury progressing satisfac torily toward the acquittal of Frank— or unsatisfactorily, as the case may be—when it ran afoul of boiled cab bage, that to give it serious pause? And Would it be right or wrong, proper or improper, now to feed the jury one meal of boiled cabbage, thus to let It see by personal experience what becomes of that article of diet, once it Is introduced Into the human j stomach ? Would that be dangerous to the State, in that it might breed a variety of opinion in the minds of the jury sure to produce, at least, a mistrial, or an acquittal—or would it so shatter all doubt in the jury’s mind as to pro duce conviction’.' Has - he Frank jury inadvertently been fed some boiled cabbage al ready, and did every juryman partake thereof—and if so, will that, in either event, be grounds for a new trial? Far be it from me even to guess, so hard, is the battle for and against Leo Frp.nk being fought! 26 Swept From Dock By Wash From Liner Special Ca'jle to The Georgian. HAMBURG. Allg. 4.—Two persons were drowned and 24 others wore se riously injured at WTttenburg to-day when they were swept from a dock into the Elbe River by the wash from the great liner Augusta Victoria. The liner was traveling at a fast rate of speed which caused the accident. 3-Cent Fare Fight In Detroit Nears Crisis DETROIT, MICH., Aug. 4.—Interest ing developments in Detroit’s fight for 3-cent street car fares are expected next Thursday. Mayor Mark has advised all pas sengers to refuse to pay more than 3 rents after Wednesday and to de mand transfers. The Detroit United Railway probably will refuse to accept the 3-cent fare. Municipal ownership is what the city seeks, and is likely to attain. The United States Supreme Court has declared the railway has* no rights In Detroit’s streets, as many of the fran chises have expired. New Plan To Spend V, Astor’s Money Special Cable to The Georgian. LONDON, Aug. 4.—A London paper makes the following novel sugges tion: “Why does not Vincent Astor strike a new note in philanthropy? All phil- anthropiots think they have earned praise when they have helped the de serving. They have merely done their bare duty. “Real charity begins only when we have helped the undeserving. “Here is a chance for Vincent Astor to be genuinely original, and at the same time a benefactor of the human race by aiding the undeserving.” Women are brought into a court room, as all the world knows, for one of two purposes. Their presence may have a moral effect in poftenlng the heart of a Juror, particularly if they be young, pretty or wistful of counte nance. Or they may be there on the affectionate mission of cheering and encouraging a beloved defendant. Two women sat with Leo Frank through oil the hot, weary days of last week. Their object was the one or the other. Which? A study of these women was the answer. Everybody studied them. Everybody knew that love and trust inspired them. Whether Frank be innocent or guilty, to his credit be it said that he is loved by the women closest to him. His mother was one of the two, a woman on whose face was written plainly the story of a life in which there was much of grief, much of the tenderest joy, much of loving and be ing loved. Tragedy in Mother’s Face. Her eyes were sad. Her features never lost their tragic composure. But it was plain that smiles had come often to her in the course of her life. The face is* common to mothers. The other woman was his wife, a robust, wholesome young woman. Her face was the placid face of one whose life has been pleasant. No un happy event had come to mar a single feature. None of the troubles that had been the mother’s had come to her, until this calamity. If the younger Mrs. Frank were not so plainly the sane, rational young woman that she is, you would say that she should be overcome by the cir cumstances of the accusation t and trial of her husband. She impresses you as being very young, indeed. But she is too wholesome of mind and body. You see that, as you study her. . She is* reserved, too, In a sort of proud way. It Is not a natural pride, but p. glory In her love for the man on whose chair her arm rests, day after d^y of the trial. This proud reserve is the mother’s, too. These women do not laugh at the not infrequent ludicrous incidents that ari3a. They do not smile, ex cept when the man at whos*e side they sir smiles into their eyes. Neither do they cry. It is this reserve I hat supported them through the ordeal that came Friday and Saturday. Two physici ans were on the stand, and the things they to! ’ was not fit for casual con verse tic n. Other women left the room. Womanly Re^orve—rand Ugly Words. But the two had come to be with Leo Frank. Through all the ghastly, sordid revelations they sat, armed with this quality of womanly reserve. The face of the younger woman quivered at times, involuntarily. But for most of the time the two sat unmoved, as if unconscious that hun dreds of curious masculine eyes were n them, after the unsparing way of masculine eyes*, to see how the ugly words affected them. Through it all the women looked straight ahead, as if seeing nothing. The arm \of Mrs. Frank, the wife, rested on the back of her husband’s chair, encircling his shoulders and lightly touching them. Now and then the hand pressed his arm as a par ticularly revolting bit was uttered. It wap a sublime courage and re serve. You knew then that the presence of these two women in the court room was not for its effect on the jury, not for affectation, but for the encour agement of the man who is on trial for his life. These are not women, is your con clusion, to sit in company with an ac cused man for policy’s sake. You would find your conviction deepened could you see this mother and this* wife with Frank in the ante room of the court during recesses. They are not demonstrative during the trial. There is a smile now and then, for a bare second, and nothing more. The Reserve Is Broken. But when recess i» taken, and the court room is cleared, and the prison er and his wife and mother are to gether in the little room at the side, the reserve breaks*. The wife kisses her husband, freely, tenderly. Then the mother. After that they part, he goes to jail, and they await the call of court. When the trial begins, they usually are In their chairs waiting for him. He enters with the deputy, to be greeted by a smile or merely a look from them. They are a reserved peo ple, these Franks. And it is all very plain why these women come to court, and sit by the side of the man who Is on trial. 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