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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
GEORGIA’S GREATEST
MURDER TRIAL NEARS
ITS FATEFUL CLOSE
FORMER EMPLOYEES
WHO ATTACK FRANK
MISS MYRTICE CATO.
By JAMES
The evidence in the Frank case all
has been delivered; the last word has
been spoken, both for and against the
defei^ant, so far as the witnesses are
concerned.
It only remains for the lawyers to
argue the matter to the jury—and
then, after the court has given the
jury the law in charge, there will re
main only the verdict to record.
The most complex, difficult, elusive
and mysterious murder case in the
entire criminal history of Georgia is
nearing its end!
It is doubtful whether any of us
ever shall see the like of the Frank
trial again.
Lawyers give it as their opinion
that It has been, in a dozen or more
ways, the most extraordinary pro
ceeding ever coming under their ob
servation—and certainly the news
papers of the State never have been
called upon to handle a story so
amazingly strange in its varied and
sometimes astonishing ramifications.
The Phagan case—for as such it
Will go down in history, rather than
as the Frank case—has combined
within itself all that goes to make
for intense and insistent heart in
terest.
It has revolved about a sweet little
working girl, tragically, and cruelly,
and brutally killed—murdered in the
first flush of young and promising
womanhod, who probably nevpr knew,
and if knowing, still not comprehend
ing, why that awful fate should have
come upon her so suddenly and so un
avoidably!
It has involved the honor and the
home happiness of a young business
man, theretofore of unblemished in
tegrity and standing in one of the
most cultured cities in the world; it
has stormed about two households,
equally unoffending within them
selves; it has concerned itself with
the love of two mothers, and it has
made to bleed the heart of a wife, and
has brought sorrow unspeakable to
the minds of hundreds of loving
friends, both of the accused man and
the dead girl.
Sleeping Prejudice Aroused.
It has, with sordid emphasis, sup
pressed but unmistakable, made man
ifest deep-seated prejudices and opin
ions—gathering as it swept along
many things foreign to the real point
in issue, until the one big stake the
cards must settle presently has, at
times, been completely lost sight of,
and even now is not easy to locate
vith certainty.
The Phagan case has run the en
tire scale of human emotions—there
is little by way of sinister or grim
appeal that has not been, somehow
and sometime, injected into it!
But, after all is said and done, per
haps the matter has been thrashed
out thus far in the light of the best
inteligence that might have been ap
plied to it.
At times, fate has seemed all too
unkind to the defendant; at times the
State has seemed unduly estopepd
from proceeding as it thought it had
a right to proceed.
Undoubtedly things have been saiA
and done by both sides to the Frank
B. NEVIN.
trial that, as strict matters of law
and Justice, never should have been
said or done.
Frank has had to answer not to
the charge of murder alone—as the
indictment contemplated he should—
but to two charges.
The one means an ignoble death If
sustained; the other means a worse
than ignoble life thereafter in the
penitentiary.
In a measure ,too, the charge of
murder has been swallowed up
obscured by the other monstrous
thing—and yet one can hardly se?
wherein the defense may complain of
that, in that the second charge got
into the record with the consent of
the deefnse, if not almost by its In
vitation.
Scales Held With Even Hand.
Judge Roan—and in this, at least,
—I think the public is agreed, has
tried his level best to hold the bal
ances even. If there be error in his
rulings, they have been errors of the
head and not of the heart, I take it.
And, error or no, he has maintained
an impartial average of judicial fa
vor, so to speak, and he will come
through unsullied and uncriticised.
What effect upon the jury the evi
dence will have is highly speculaive
and problematical.
If the jury were not composed of
human beings and could confine ?t-
self to those things alone it has been
legally held to, the pathway to ac
quittal of Frank might seem brighter.
But the trial has been so long
drawn out, so full of perplexing de
tail, so worrying and fretting to sim
ple analysis, so mixed as to isBue*?,
and so disconcerting in sequence • jf
testimony, that one is at a loss to
Imagine just what the jury MUST
think of it all now.
In its strict legal aspect, the case
against Leo Frank, while wonderful
ly well held together and set forth by
the Solicitor General, still is not such
a case as would promnt one to pre
dict sure conviction. /
Neither, however, has the defense
been of a nature warranting a pre
diction of sure acquittal.
If-the technical^* legal case could
be differentiated in the mind of the
jury from the psychological case—;f
the pleadings could be confined strict
ly to the primary issue, murder, and
not in any manner confused with the
other unmentionable issue brought
into the case—the probable finding of
the jury would be easier to antici
pate and forecast.
If Frank might have be,en tried for
murder, pure and simple, NOW’, and
LATER tried for the other thing, the
problem of the jury might, and
doubtless would, be simplified im
mensely.
But to expect the jury to separate
in its mind entirely the two things
Frank is answering for is almost *c
expect of it the impossible—the su
perhuman!
Jury but a Part of the Public.
It has been seemingly impossible
for the r*ublic to do that—and, after
all is said and done, the jury is but
a portion of the public, made more
careful in forming its opinions, to
be sure, by the solemn oath it has
: Rancher Buried Alive
By Mexican Rebels
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Aug. 21.-
Among the recent arrivals from Mex
ico is Sydney M. Sutherland, from
Mexico City. He said:
“Deeds are daily committed in
Mexico which it would be difficult to
credit in this country. The so-called
revolutionists, who are nothing but
outlaws, have done things to their
own countrymen and to foreigners
which Americans can scarcely believe
possible in this age.”
He told of seeing an ; ged ranch
owner buried alive by Zapatists.
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taken, but merely a portion of the
great public nevertheless!
The big card played against Frank
was the negro sweeper, Conley.
Upon his astonishing story turns
the State’s entire case, from every
point of view.
Conley it was who first pointed the
direct finger of accusation toward
Frank and fixed upon him the awful
charge of murder, and Conley it was
who first spoke the word of unspeak
able scandal that has made Frank’s
road to acquittal a thousand times
harder to journey. •
Pitted against Conley is Frank, al
most and pathetically alone!
He made a remarkable statement—
it carried with it every indication, so
far as the surface of things seemed
to show, of truth and straightfor-
wardnes.
If it was a sustained misstatement
of fact, told to save himself, it was
the most wonderful piece of work 1
ever witnessed.
In his own behalf Frank was far
and away the very best witness the
defense put forward.
If it shall so fall out that he be ac
quitted, that statement must and will
be credited with a tremendous shire
of the responsibility thereof.
It has behind it, too, some things
that the Conley statement has not—
among other things, a long record of
respectability, integrity and business
standing, vouched for by an abun
dance of v8y high-class evidence as
to Frank’s character.
And yet—It was not delivered on
oath, and It certainly carried a load
of self-interest.
Undoubtedly much has crept into
the cas'\ or been Digged in, that is
Irrelevivvi, but—v ell, . and that
Is tbs end of it, perhaps!
If Frank is convicted there will be
grounds innumerable for asking a
new trial; and if that is refused,
there will be an abundant assignment
of error whereby a reversal possibly
may be had later and a new trial or
dered.
AH Staked on Acquittal.
Frank, how r ever, has staked ihs all
and everything on acquittal—to be de
nied that is to be denied the hope
of all hopes that sustain him to-day!
And so, after the evidence all is in,
and the public at last is face to face
with the forthcoming verdict—after
four months of nerve-racking sus
pense, swung this way and that, and
MISS MARIE KARST.
never knowing exactly what to think
—there is but one thing human be
ings of normal minds and poise can do
to-day. \
They must await the verdict with
minds prepared to accept it as the
truth—the very best human ingenuity
and the forms of law can establish by I
way of justice and right.
Either an acquittal or a conviction
—the one final, and the other a matter
to be reviewed—would be the finish
of this trial most satisfactory to the
public.
All that any man SHOULD de*ire—
all. indeed, that any honest man CAN
desire—is that the truth be recorded
in the Frank case, in the light of rea
son, common sense and justice, as
man is given the iight to see!
/ Both the defendant and the State
have much at stake—the owe has his
life and his liberty, the other has the
majesty of the law, which is the pro
tection of the l«ves and liberties of all. |
It is easy to find fault, to say th;
mistake was made here and there;
that sins of commission and sins of
omission marked the progress of the
trial from both sides.
But that, and none of that, gets us
away from the fact that the trial has
been as fair and square as might have
been expected—and whatever the ver
dict, no man will have' the right to
say that undue favor has been shown.
The verdict of the jury—“twelve
good men and true”—that the public
should be prepared to accept, loyally
and sincerely, as the TRUTH of the
Phagan murder, in so far as Leo
Frank is concerned therein.
Hail Ruins $59,000
North Dakota Crops
Queen Mary Won’t
Let George Run Club
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 21.—A committee
of the exclusive Marlborough (Hub de- j
cided recently to have a ladies night j
once a week, on which members j
might bring ladies to dinner, with a
j quiet little game of cards afterward.
A resolution was submitted to King
George, who has absolute authority in
all such’ matters, as the club was
founded by King Edward, and he ap
proved it.
Last week, however, the King noti
fied the club that on second thought
he withdrew bis approval.
It is said Queen Mary caused the
King to change his mind.
WASHINGTON, AOg. 21.—The need
of reciprocity with Canada wap Strik
ingly shown in a report issued to
day by the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce.
This report sets forth that despite
the high tariff wall between the
United States and the Dominion that
territory during the fiscal year just
ended was the world’s largest pur
chaser in the market of the United
States.
The total value of United States ex
port* for 1913 was $415,000,000 against
$216,000,000 in 1910.
“Manufactures,” says the report,
‘ form about two-thirds of the Ameri
can merchandise exported to Canada,
and were the chief factor in the re
markable gain by waich trade has
practically doubled in three years.”
Under the broad reciprocal agree-
| ment urged by Mr. W. R. Hearst three
years ago, tariffs on the mutual ex
change of the commodities of the
United States and Canada would have
been lessened to such an extent that
the Dominion imports would have far
exceeded the 1913 fiscal year figure.
A Clinching Argument.
Step* were taken to-night to bring
this report to the attention of Con
gress as the most convincing argu
ment yet advanced for the enactment
into law of an agreemet between the
United States and Canada.
It was pointed out that inasmuch
as the Hearst reciprocity agreement
adopted in an amended measure by
the Taft administration, called only
for decreased duties on commodities
mutually exchanged, the manufac
tured exports of the United States
would have remained practically the
same, while Canada’s purchases from
the American farmer would have
greatly increased.
Through the drastic reductions it)
the prepent tariff bill, Canada will
virtually get all the advantages pro
posed in the reciprocal agreement,
without making return to the United
States. '
She will be able to purchase more
cheaply than ever in the United
i States, while the American consumer
will still have to pay Canadian duties
| on goods imported from the Dominion.
The report in part follows:
“Passenger and freight car* im-
prted from the United States in-
| creased in value from $500,000 to
$5,333,000 in the past three years, and
the export of automobiles to the
Dominion nearly tripled, increasing
1 from $3,333,000 to $9,250,000.
Gains by Millions.
“Other gains were copper pigs,
bars, etc., from less than $1,000,000
to more than $6,500,000; steel rails,
from less than $1,000,000 to nearl>
$4,000,000; cotton cloths, from $760,000
to $2,500,000; locomotives, from
$250,000 to more than $1,000,000;
lumber, from $5,000,000 to $13,333,000,
structural iron and steel, from less
than $3,000,000 to more than $9,000,-
000: metal working machinery, from
$333,000 to $2,333,000; agricultural
implements, from $3,333,000 to practi
cally $7,000,000.
“The gain in raw materials and
foodstuffs was less pronounced.
“The actual gain in exports from
the United States to Canada in the
fiscal year, 1013, was $86,000,000; that
in exports to the United Kingdom.
$33,000,000; Germany. $35,000,000,
Netherlands. $22,000,000; Belgium,
$15,000,000; Italy, $11,000,000; Europe,
a^ a whole. $138,000,000; to all South
America, $14,000,000; to all North
America, except Canada. $15,000,000.
“According to Canadian figures the
United Stales supplied 63 per cent of
the imports of Canada in 1912, against
58.4 per cent in 1902.
“The growth in the import trade*
with Canada is less striking, the total
being $95,000,000 In 1910, compared
with only $121,000,000 in 1913.”
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‘Minute Men’ Gujtrd
at 1 !; j U. S. Flag to Germany
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—Selected
as a guard of honor for the American
flag that will accompany the mem
bers of the German Patriotic Society
of America to the fatherland, ten offi
cers of the “minute men” of Washing
ton, a semi-military organization,
have departed with the flag, the gift
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
They joined the society delegates
on board a specially chartered liner
for the voyage to Bremen.
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MINOT, N. D„ Auk. 21.—Fifty to
seventy-five thousand dollars’ dam
age to crops of Renville County re
sulted from a terrific hailstorm. The
damage extends from Tolley across
the international boundary.
The path of the storm was five
miles wide and more than thirty miles
loll”-.
LOWRY NATIONAL BANK
Capital $1,000,000
Surplus
Savings Deparlnrcn!
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AMERICA’S
CHAMPION
HUSBAND,
NAT GOODWIN
has come to the rescue of downtrodden
men who dare not speak their minds, and
reveals all the joys and heartaches of mat
rimony in
“WHAT i THINK OF
MY FIVE WIVES”
This daring actor in his new role ex
plains how he found wife No. 1 “Like a
Mother,’’ No. 2 “An Obligation,” Maxine
Elliott a “Roman Senator,” Edna Good
rich “An Error,” and No. 5 his “Life Pre
server.” This wdll all appear in
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SUNDAY’S AMERICAN
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lowers with a description of
MARRIAGE MARKET
GOWNS
•with which far-seeing mothers enhance
the charms of their debutante daughters.
And coming down to the doings of fash
ionable Atlanta you will find that
POLLY PEACHTREE
was among those present at all the func
tions of the inner circle, and will tell
about them in her usual sprightly style.
Moreover, baseball fans, as well as those
who never see a game, will find a fascinat
ing story in •
THE PLOT FOR
THE PENNANT
by Hugh S. PYillertonj which begins in
this issue. So, why worry about your
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