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EXPERT CONTRADICTS
DR. HARRIS’TESTIMONY
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
i Header, proverbially gentle, if not
[always so, be glad, be joyful, and be
[filled with exceeding thankfulness
[that you have not been summoned,
pio matter which way, as a witness in
[the Frank trial!
I Of course, there is a large, fat
[chance that you have been summoned
I—most everybody has—but be all
A hose nice things aforesaid, if you
[haven’t.
And even at that, knock on wood.
The trial is young yet—it is not
'quite three weeks old, thrde weeks,
count ’em—and there still is time for
somebody or other to remember that
you may know something or other
about something or other that may
have something or other to do with
the c%se.
Anyway, if you can’t bet glad and
all the rest of it, be just as glad and
as nearly all the rest of it as you
can, while the being is good or in
anywise promising.
If you are a witness in the Frank
c?.se,' vou are skating on about the
thinnest ice ever—it makes no dif
ference whatever whose pond you
are skating on.
You are ambrosia and cake to one
side and you likewise are gall and
wormwood to the other—be very sure
of that!
If your wife will have anything at
all to do with you, and if the neigh
bors loVe you any more, when you
get back home, it will be entirely be
cause one side or the other forgot to
mention the fact that once upon a
time you were a horse thief, or some
body said you were a horse thief, or
/that you had an uncle who was a
J horse thief, or some pleasant little
thing like that.
They don’t care particularly wheth
er you ever look like anything any
more, after they get through with
you down there in the big court now
adays.
Cross-Examining Is What Hurts.
ALways on the direct examination,
of course, the sledding is elegant.
The gentlemanly party then asking
i you gentlemanly questions wouldn’t
hurt your feelings for tlje world.
He knows you are a law-abiding
citizen, and worthy of any trust. He
dotes upon you. He loves you. He
is your friend until that thing that
now and then breaks loose in Geor
gia freezes over!
Mighty fine—but you haven’t yet
discovered what’s coming to you!
Wait until the cross-examining at
torney gets you in his demoniac
clutches!
Far be it from him to remember
that you have any kinfolks outside
, the penitentiary, or that you ever told
j a truth in your life,
j He plainly but pointedly is perfect
ly willing to bet, right there, that you
couldn’t tell the truth in three trials,
and h« will lay you big odds on it,
moreover!
Now, of course, the following is not
precisely a sample of what has been
going on in the courthouse of late,
ever since the trial began, In fact,
hut it is about the way it must seem
to many witnesses and spectators to
have been, after the day is over and
they undertake to recall the things
that transpired.
“Mr. Witness,” begins the cross
examiner, “you told the learned coun
sel (sarcastic smile) upon the other
side, I believe, that you saw an owl
sitting on the hack fence about three
minutes and two ticks past 8:34 on
the night of the killing?”
“Mr, Witness" needn’t be the least,
tiny bit fooled by that "Mr.” busi
ness—the cross-examiner would
scorn to call a witness “Mister,” more
than once—after that, it merely is
| “you Smith,” or "Smith," or "Look
here, now," or something snappy and
snortish.
Witness: “I said I thought it was
ah owl—it looked like an owl.”
Begins to Shake Finger.
Attorney “W-H-A-T! Didn’t you
j ,1ust now, in the presence of this eru-
dite jury (shaking finger vigorously
| under witness’ nose), swear positive-
I |y (shake) and without reserve
j (fehake), sir (shake, shake, shake),
I that it WAS (shake) an OWL?”
Witness: “Why-er-um-I couldn't
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swear It was an owl exactly—It has
big eyes, anyhow!”
Attorney .‘‘Big eyes? B-A-H! Also
B-A-H, B-A-H! Likewise B-A-H.
B-A-H, B-A-H!! Then (very sarcas
tically) it might have been a cat, eh?”
Witness: “Well, sir (very apologet
ically), I don’t think it was a cat—It
didn’t say ‘Meow!’”
Attorney: “Come, come, person, I
don’t want to know what you THINK
—how dare you think, anyway?—you
didn’t hank around there to HEAR
whether it said ‘Meow,’ did you?”
Witness: “No, sir (very much
abashed); I admit I didn’t hang
around. Owls make me nervous, any
way!”
Attorney: “I’ve no doubt (sardonic
smile) they make you nervous! By
the way, person, didn’t one of your
honorable ancestors (profound sar
casm) come over to this country with j
Captain Kidd, the well-known pi
rate?”
Witness: “Urn, oh, I ”
Attorney: “Come, come now, an
swer me; speak right out; tell the
truth, if you CAN: did he?”
Dra~s Wife Into Mix-Up.
Witness; “I really can not say, sir.
You see that’s been so long ago, and |
I wasn’t there, either, and ”
Attorney: “Well, you won’t (more j
finger shaking under witness’ nose) |
DENY* that one of your ancestors t
may have been a pirate, will you?” j
Witness: “I-er-hum-can’t say. I’T
ask my wife when I get home. May
be she knows.”
Attorney: “You’ll ask you wife, wil’
you? Is she your OWN wife?”
Here the Pleasant Lawyer gets up,
and says:
“Your honor, I object to that ques
tion. What has a man’s own wife
got to do with this case?”
His honor doesn’t answer right off
the reel, so the other lawyer jumps
up and withdraws the question.
This makes the witness feel pret
ty good, for he knew he had a wife
when he left home that morning, but
he doubts that he can swear positive
ly to any such circumstance now.
Attorney, beginning oross-examina -
tion once more: “Let’s go back to that
owl. What sort of an owl was it,
(more sarcasm) it WAS an owl?”
Witness: “It LOOKED like a
screech owl.”
Attorney: “Well, a screech owl goes
‘screech’ and a hoot-owl goes ‘hotf,’
doesn’t It?”
Witness: “I am not sure, sir. I
think that’s the way it is. I don’t
know much about owls.”
Misleading the Poor Jury? •
Attorney, shocked almost speech
less: “And here you have been telling
this poor, unprotected, orphaned jifry,
these swell, elegant gentlemen, ALL
about owls, and now you say you
don’t know anything about them.”
Witness: “Well, ah. oh, I sup ”
Attorney: “Don’t you know an ow!
is a member of the striges family?”
Witness: “Of the Who-ges fam
ily?”
Attorney: “Come, now, don’t get
gay with me, atom. Don’t you know
the owl is a member of the striges
family?”
Witness: “Never met such a fam
ily. They don’t live on my side of
town.”
Attorney: “Well', if you saw in the
big dictionary that the owl is of 9uch
a family, would you say it was true?”
Witness, perking up a bit: “If I
saw it in t the city directory, I might
believe it, but what’s the dictionary'
got to do with it?”
Attorney, waxing superlatively sar
castic: “Will you. speck on the face
of creation, kindly permit ME to ask
the questions? All I ask of you is
that you let ME do that, then YOU
answer, if you CAN.”
Then the Pleasant Lawyer gets up
again.
It Certainly is a relief to a witness
when the P. L. arises to ejeculate a
few broken observations. He is the
only rainbow in sight, once things
get going.
Pleasant Lawyer: “Your honor. I
submit that the big dictionary itself
is the highest evidence of what the
big dictionary says. If the learned
counsel on th© other side (great
gobs, clusters and festoons of sar
casm) wishes to know WHAT the
big dictionary says about owls,
screech or otherwise, let him tender
the BIG DICTIONARY, and stop
snarling and beefing at this gentle
manly. talented, honest and excep
tionally bright witness!”
The witness thanks the pleasant
lawyer for them kind words, all right.
Dr. George
Bachman,
Who Attacks
Conclusions
of State’s
Expert.
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Bulgarian Heir Is Ill;
Poison Plot Reported
SOFIA, Aug. 12.—A mysterious illness
hus seized Crown Prince Boris of Bul
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the Crown Prince is suffering from a
nervous breakdown due to the rigors of
the recent military campaign.
nl view of Czar Ferdinand’s trepida
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were current in some quarters that an
attempt had been made to kill Boris
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lafs Desosii Bones
for they are the first he has heard in
many hours.
Mean Attorney: “Well, animal,
have you a bis dictionary at home?"
Witness: “No, sir; the one I use
is over in the State Library.”
Pleasant Lawyer: “Now, then,
your honor, since this accommodating
witness has answered the questions.
I move that the able (withering con
tempt) counsel on the other side be
required to bring the State Library
into court, or shut off their questions
about owls. I move to strike from
the record exerything this down
trodden witness has said about owls,
unless the State Library be brought
over and handed to the jury for in
spection.”
Mean Attorney: “Does your honor
mean to tel] me—ME—that I must
bring the entire State Library' into
court, in order to prove that an ow!
is a member of the striges family
merely because this stubborn and
evidently partisan witness will not
say?”
His honor, sighing, patiently: "Well,
gentlemen, what has this aforesaid
and hereinbefore mentioned owl TO
DO WITH THIS CASE, ANYWAY?”
Mean Attorney, getting red in the
face, probably about to explode with
righteous indignation: "Wh^t has it
to DO with the case? Why, your
honor, opposing counsel brought out
the question of owls. Didn’t this
witness, brazenly and w’ith palpa
ble malice aforethought, say to this
grand and magnificent jury that when
he went home last Thanksgiving night
h<i saw an owl sitting on the back
fence ?” ,
Pleasant Attorney': “1 don’t think
the gentleman said Thanksgiving
night; I think it tvas Christmas. It
makes a lot of difference in the mat
ter of seeing things at night, as your
honor may know, or—er—may have
heard, whether it be Thanksgiving or
Christmas. Besides, he didn t say' he
saw an owl sitting on the back fence
He merely' said he w'ent home that
night on an owl car.”
Everything about owls, the owl car
and the back fence is ruled out, and
the Mean Lawyer sits down, evident
ly greatly chagrined and angered.
And the witness?
About all the witness hopes as he
leaves the stand is that his wife a'
home—if she’s still there—loves him.
anyway, and will continue to think
well of him hereafter, notwithstand
ing the fact that he has been a wit
ness in Atlanta’s most famous mur
der trial.
It makes no difference whatever
which side summons you to testify in
the Frank case, it's tough luck! You
can’t win.
You will be made to wish yon
never had been born before they get
through with you—that’s the surest
thing you know!
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People’s Cry for Justice Is
Proof Sentiment Still Lives
By L. F. WOODEUFF.
There Is as much sentiment in the
world to-day a*- there was in 1 SCI
or 1776 or 1492 or 1066 or any other
date that may come to your recollec
tion.
It’s not fashionable to say so, but
it’s true. People to-day are too prone
to accuse themselves and their neigh,
bors of being worshippers of Mam
mon and declaring that the money-
grubbing instinct has crushed out
sentiment, patriotism and honesty.
But right now in Atlanta, there is
a striking example of the goodness
that is man’s to-day, just as much
as it has ever been.
It is the one bright spot in the hid
eous slaying of Mary Phagan and
the terrors of the trial of Leo Frank.
More people are interested in the
case probably than in any criminal
action the South has ever known.
They are thrilled by it, for they knew
that the officers of the law and the
Government of the State are spend
ing thousands of dollars to find the
man guilty of her murder and punish
him.
Had Mary Phagan been of a promi
nent house, had she been wealthy,
had her family or friends been ln-
fluenti.il there would be no room for
comment.
The cynic could say, "Oh, she was
a rich giri, what chance would there
be for a child of the masses?”
But the Phagan case gives this the
lie.
Mary Phagan’s family is not
wealthy. It is not prominent. It is
not influential.
And still the great public has arisen
with a demand that can be heard the
length and breadth of the nation that
her slayer be found and punished.
Had Mary Phagan been a princess
of Peachtree instead of just a little
Atlanta girl—as good as she was
pretty—who had to struggle to make
her living, the sentiment would not
have been half so fervid.
The sympathy that has gone out
to her and her family is a lasting
proof of Atlanta’s and the South’s de
mocracy.
GRADE ADDED TO SCHOOLS.
ACWORTH.—At a meeting of the
board of education to-day it was or
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added to the Acworth High Scho >1
and the Smith Lemon Institute, and
that the school be made to conform
to all the requirements to become a
State accredited school.
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