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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) SEWS. SOLICITOR DORSEY MAKES GREATEST SPEECH OF HIS CAREER Likens Frank to Beattie, Richeson, Wilde and Other Noted Criminals DORSEY STRESSES EAC1 THAT DEFENSE DIDN’T GO Continued From Page 2. ly platonic? I know enoueh about human nature—I know enough of the passions which surge in the breast of mortal man—-to know that this poor woman's anxieti i to put her neck into the noose to save him were bo**n of something besides platonic love. “When you see a woman so pas sionately devoted to her employer — so anxious to dL for him—you may know and you can gamble on it that there is somethih" stronger there than platonic love. It must be a passion bom of something beyond the relation which should exist between a married man—an employer—and his wom>r. employee. “Ah, gentlemen of the jury, we could have got witness after witness who would have '’’one upon the stand and sworn things about this man. There were people who would have perjured themselves. There were wit nesses who came upon th.s stand for th defendant who on the f„ce of their testimony perjured themselves “Take this little aBuer boy. Re member his testimony before he took that automobile ride with Montag o the office of Arnold & Arnold. Be fore dinner he could remember earn detail, but after dinner, after he had taken that ride with old Sib Montag, he had a lapse of memory. Old man Sig must have told this little boy about the Hard ~hell preacher down in South Georgia who h l.is con gregation pray for rain. They prayed and prayed, and after a while, like old Sam Jones would have «aid, the Lord sent a trash mover, a gully wajher. Boy Must Have Overdone It.” “It rained and it rained until they had omre water than they knew what to do with. Then th£ old hardshell preacher skid: ‘Brethren, it looks like we have aleetle overdone it.’ So Montag must have whispered into Bauer’s ear. You have a leetle over done it.’ “And, after dinner, this little boy didn’t know’ anything. But was that all? Why, gentlemen of the jury, be fore dinner that boy even remember ed where his watch lay. „ “Do you believe that? Talk about perjury! Wilfull foolishness because an honest jury knows that it was not true. They brought in that ma- swear to anything and there was not a man in the sound of his voice that didn’t know he was telling an un truth. He wrote and signed a state ment about Duffy’s injuries. I brought it here and it was written in type writing and didn’t even have his name on it. “They thought we could not find Duffy and thought you didnt’ have sense enough to know the first thing you do in a case like that is to rap something around it to stop the loss of blood. "I have never seen a case yet where women were so suborned as in this. Take this woman Fleming, his ste nographer. They put her up and she swore Frank had a general good character. She only swore to what he had done in her presence when they cross-examined her. We don’t contend Frang tried to seduce every girl in the factorwy. But he did pick them out. He picked out Mary Pha- gan and was called. "Gentlemen, he got the wrong girl The best materials when you paint your house. STERLING is highest quality possible in PAINT It is a paint with a pur pose. “It is cheaper to paint than not to paint.” Phones: Main 1115, Atlanta 329. DOZIER & GAY PAINT CO. 31 South Broad Street. and he was called. And this stenog rapher said she only knew what he did to her. She testified that Frank's business Saturday morning was to make out the financial sheet. Mr. Ar nold said immediately he didn’t have time and she jumped at it like a duck at a June bug. Mr. Arnold was so nervous, he would not let me finish the cross-examination, and interpo lated that Remark to guide her. “It was unfair and not according to law and practice. But he got away with it. And then she turned right around and in the next breath said that she had never said Frank was working on the financial sheet Saturday morning. Says Perjury Charge Has Not Been Proved. “Oh. genjtlemen, can you let a poor little girl go to her death and set her murderer free on such evidence as this? If you do, it is time to stop going through the process of sum moning a jury. “Perjury! When did old man Starnes and Pat Campbell stoop to that. And suspicions! Why didn’t we get old/ man Lee and Gantt in stead of Frank? Why didn’t we get Conley? We tried it, but there was absolutely no case against either. But there is a perfect case against this man. But, oh, you cried ‘Perjury.’ But it is not worth fifteen cents until you put your fingers on something specific. “And here, gentlemen, right before your very eyes, in black and white, the testimony ofthis woman, Flem ing, shows that they perjured her. “Do you tell me when that factory closes on Saturday afternoons that this man with the handsome wife that he possesses, this college gradu ate, who likes to read and play cards, who likes to see baseball games, would spend his time there, using the data that Schiff prepared on Satur day afternoons when he could do it Saturday morning? No. sir. Miss Fleming was right. She didn’t stay there to work often on Saturday aft ernoons.” The jury was allowed to retire for a few minutes. When they returned, Dorsey resumed his argument. “Now, gentlemen, I submit that this man made that lnance sheet Sat urday morning. I am not going to fatigue you with my reasons. It is unnecessary. If he did make that sheet on Saturday afternoon, he did it thinking of an alibi. But don’t tell me that because he might have done this on Saturday afternoon with a penmanship that showed no nervous ness proves an alibi. 'If he could go home into the bosom of his family after such an atrocious crime, he could have made that sheet. But he wouldn’t have done it If Schiff had not gotten up the data. H© had done it fifty-two times a year for five or six years. If he would do ad ditional work on that Saturday aft ernoon, It could only have been with a sinister purpose. Witness Afraid Even to Identify Handwriting. “In speaking of perjury, Ms mother said anybody ought to identify hts handwriting.” Dorsey held up the photograph of th© sample of handwriting Frank wrote for the police. “Yet the man they put up to identi fy his handwriting was so afraid he might do Frank an injury that he wouldn’t venture a guess. Grant that he did go home to his wife and those old people—his parents-in-law—and maintain a stoical countenance. Grant that he did make that sheet, which he could make up with his eyes shut. Grant that he did unlock the safe, a thing that he hod done every day for years. “But when he went to run the ele vator; when he went to nail up that back door; he wavered; he paled when he talked to the police, and trembled on Darley’s knee as he rode to the polic© Rtatlon. “He could sit in the hall and read a joke about a baseball umpire, but the frivolity annoyed the visitors at his home. It whs the same kind of frivolity Henry Clay Beattie displayed when he stood beside the automobile that was stained with the blood of his wife. His Joke was uttered only in annoyance; it jarred. “But whether or not he made up that financial sheet, while waiting for old Jim to come and burn the body, one thing I grant he did. Don’t for get the envelope; don’t forget the way the letter was quoted, that letter he wrote to his unci© in Brooklyn, that letter that begins: 'I trust that this finds you and dear Tante well.’ He had no wealthy relations in Brooklyn! That old millionaire uncle was mighty near there when Frank told old Jim Conley: ‘Why should I hand? I have wealthy relatives in Brooklyn!’ Dorsey finished reading the letter Dorsey Attacks Frank’s Statement “ ‘1 p. m.—Frank leaves the factory.’ It looks mighty nice on the chart. Turn that chart to the wall, Mr. Sheriff. Let it stay turned to the wall. That statement is refuted by the defendant himself when he didn't realize the importance of this time proposition. ‘‘Frank’s statement at police headquarters, taken by G. C. Febuarv on Monday. April 28, says. ‘I didn’t lock the door that morning. The mail was coming up. I locked it when I started home to lunch at 1:10 o’clock.’ “Up goes your alibi, punctured by your own statement when you didn’t realize its importance. Yet these honorable gentle men, for the purpose of impressing your minds, print in big letters on this chart he left the factory at 1 o’clock. If he swore when he was on the stand the other day that he left the factory at 1 o’clock it was because he saw the importance of this time point, and had to leave there ten minutes earlier than he said he had at the police station before he had had time to confer with his lawyer, Mr. Luther Z. Rosser.” and then said: “Here Is a sentence pregnant with significance. It bears the eararks of a guilty conscience. He wasn’t trem bling when he wrote. He Is capable and smart, but here Is a sentence that la a revelation. Here is a document 1 concede was written after little Mary Phagan. who died for virtue's sake, was lying mutilated in that dark cold basement.” At this juncture Mrs. J. W. Cole man, mother of Mary Phagan, began to cry. Dorsey read from the letter: “ ‘It is too short a time since you left for anything startling to have developed down here.’ “These Are the Words That Incriminate.” " ‘Startling’ and ‘too short a time.' Those are the words that incrimi nate. That little sentence itself shows that the crime was committed in an incredibly short time. “Tell me, honest men. courageous men of Georgia, that this phrase penned to his uncle that, afternoon did not come from a stricken con science. ‘Too short a time since you left for anything to develop down here.’ “What do you think of that, honest men? Then notice what he writes about the thin, gray line of veterans facing the chilly weather, as If that ild millionaire uncle of his traveling around Germany for his health, as If he cared for these old heroes In gray! Ample and reliable authority says that over-expression Is an indication of guilt. Tell me that this old man, who was just preparing to sail for Europe, cared for these old heroes In gray—this wealthy old man who wanted to see the financial sheet. Too short a time’—yes, he said it was too short a time for anything to de velop down here. But, gentlemen of the Jury, there was something start ling to develop, and it happened with in the space of 30 minutes. ‘There Is nothing new in the factory to report, but there was something new in the cellar. There was something to re port. and the time wasn’t too short for it to happen. ‘‘You tell me that letter was written In the morning? Do you believe It Why. they haven't even tried to say that. I tell you that that letter shows on its face that something startling had happened, and I tell you that that rich uncle did not care the snap of his finger about the thin, gray line of veterans. '■Ah. yes, he had wealthy relatives in Brooklyn. That's what old Jim Conley said he told him. And his people lived In Brooklyn, and old Jim never would have known that If Frank had not told him. And they had at least $30,000 in cool cash In the bank; and he had a brother-in- law employing two or three people, at least, and we don’t know how many more. And If his rich uncle was not In Brooklyn, he was near there. "All right, let’s go a step farther. On April 28 he wired Adolph Mon tag at the Imperial Hotel in New York: ‘You may have read In At lanta [tapers of faotory girl found dead Hunday morning In cellar of pencil faotory.’ ’’Yes, gentlemen of the Jury, In the cellar of the pencil faotory. There’a where he placed her, and that Is where he expected her to be found. And the thought of It welled up In his mind that Monday morning, April 28. before he had been arrested, and he wired Montag forestalling what he knew would certainly and surely hap pen unless the Atlanta detectives were corrupt and would suppress it. Compliments Detectives. “But, be It said to your credit, Starnes; to your credit, Campbell, and you, too, Rosser and Black, that you had hte manhood and the courage to do your duty and roll the charge up to thlR man. protected as he was by wealth and Influence. “And notice what else he paid In this telegram. Notice the credit he gives to the police: ‘The police will eventually solve it.’ And be It said to thee red It of the Atlanta police department, they did solve it, ‘As sure my uncle I am all right In case he asks. Our company has case well In hand.’ Maybe he did think when he got that fellow Scott that his com pany had it well in hand. “I tell you there is an honest man— this fellow Scott. If there was a slush fund In this case—and wit nesses have said there was no such fund—this man Scott could have got ten It. Not at first, maybe, but he could have gotten it later on. But Scott knew his duty, and he has done it. No wonder Frank could telegraph that his company had the case well In hand, for Scott’s first words could not have suited him better had he wished for them. They were. ‘The Pinkerton’s always work arm and arm with the police.’ This suited Frank well. It was Just what he wanted. He wanted to know what the police thought he wanted to know what they were going to do, and this worked well, until the chain began to tighten. “And Haas—and he is nobody’s fool —when he sa wthe trend of the case, he opened the negotiations: he gave Scott the opportunity by saying, ‘Now let us have what you get first.’ “But let us pass on from that. You ell me that letter and that telegram are not significant? That the work pn this financial sheet is no signifi cant? That Schiff's testimony as to the work on that financial sheet Is not significant? "Frank himselt was not satisfied. He is as smart as his lawyers, too. Solicitor Dorsey’s fiery speech to the Jury began at 3:30 Friday after noon and was halted by ad journment about 6:15. The Solicitor was not slow in entering into his attack against the prisoner and his criticism of the manner in which the lawyers of the defense had conducted the case. H e seemed carried away by his earnestness. His impassioned words as he shouted to the Jury that the people would have to get another So licitor General if they wanted to put the rope around Jim Conley's neck for the crime deeply stirred all within range of his voice. The Solicitor declared that Conley was not guilty of the murder, and had no more part in the crime than he had told right on the stand. “Conley is the self-confessed ac cessory after the fact,” he said; “only that and nothing more. If you try to put a noose around his neck it w r ill have to be under another Solicitor General, for right there sits the man guilty of this crime!” Shows Defense Wrong On Durant Case. Dorsey took the Durant case*, of which Attorney Arnold had made much the day before, and converted it into a boomerang against the de fense. Arnold had related it as show ing the terrible mistake that may come from circumstantial evidence. He had said that Theodore Durant was convicted of the brutal slaying of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Wil liams $and was executed for the crime. Several years later the minister in whose churchyard the body of Durant found sepulchre himself confessed to the murder, according to Arnold. Dorsey tried to read a letter and a telegram he had received from San Francisco to controvert Frank's law yer, but was prevented by objections. He was permitted to state from his own information, however, that no such confession ever took place, and that no man ever was guiltier than Durant, no Jury more courageous and no community more satisfied with a verdict. “1 don’t know where my friend Ar nold found the authority for hl§ strange statements about this Durant case,” said Dorsey. “If he Is no more accurate than this In his state ment that you have heard the testi mony of every girl on the fourth flojr of the factory as to Frank’s good character, I fear there are a lot yet o hear from.” The Solicitor laid particular etress on the failure of Rosser and Arnold to cross-question the character wit nesses against Frank that the State had placed on the stand. In his opin ion this raised a strong presumption that Frank was the Immoral man that the prosecution had represented him to be. "If charges are made that can be explained or controverted,” he said, and there Is no effort made by the defendant to do so. it Is reasonable to suppose that he 1 guilty of the ac cusations. ” The Solicitor maintained that the State had been practically helpless in this respect. He said he had been able only to bring "'trig into the courtroom to swear to Frank’s gen eral character and to his general at titude toward women. He had been estopped by court ruling from show ing particular acts of alleged im morality and improper conduct, he said. Why Did Frank Not Refute Charges. But, ne maintained, If Frank were innocent of the acts of Immorality charged auglnst him, it was most un likely that he would have let his law yers be silent when those girls were on the stand testifying against him. He would have insisted on his law yers finding out exactly how much those witnesses knew and where they got their Information, the Solicitor declared. “Now. gentlemen ’ he argued, “If you were of good character and twen ty witnesses were brought here to tes tify that your character was bad, would you sit supinely and not make your attorney* insist upon specific instances? No; I know you wouldn’t Yet three able counsel let twenty girls tell the court that Frank's char acter was bad and that his character for lasciviousness, which, uncontrolled and uncontrollable, led him to kill Mary Phagan, was bad, and nev r asked them how they knew.” Dorsey, in spite of the indignant dentals made on the stand by Miss Rebecca Carson, related that she was one of the women who had gone Into the dressing room on the fourth floor with Frank. “What did they go in there for?" he asked. “Probably to see If th*) girls were flirting out of the windows. The Judge would not allow me to ask how long they stayed in there. What the Judge says Is law, although I do not always understand it. Anywav, Frank went in with her and came out with her." Dorsey gave up much of the early part of his address to the emphasis of the value of circumstantial evi dence and a definition of a “reason able doubt.” He said that circum stantial evidence, when It Involved such a connected train of circum stances In this case, really was of more value than direct evidence. The matter of a reasonable doubt, he asserted, appeared to have been hedged with great mystery, although In reality it was as plain as the nose on a person’s face. Rosser’s Closing Speech Eloquent. A reasonable doubt, he said, was j opposed to an unreasonable doubt. It ' wa> baaed on reason and was one for , which a reason could be given. It was such a doubt as to leave the mind in an uncertain and wavering condition and to preclude the possi- ] bility of possessing the moral cer tainty that the defendant was guilty. Attorney Rosser, famed as a cross- examiner and speaker, probably never made a more eloquent address than he did Friday In arguing for the life and freedom of Leo Frank. His words were full of sarcasm for the police, the detectives, the Solicitor, Conley and Dalton—Conley, “the black prince of liars," and Dalton, “the white prince of liars.’' With cutting satire he character ized the methods of the detectives as constituting a school in which Conley was drilled and trained in his ever- shifting, ever-changing story of his part in the crime. He dubbed the Solicitor and De tectives Starnes. Black. Campbell. Rosser and Scott as "professors." Chief Lanford happened to walk In to the courtroom just at this moment. “Ah, there’s the dean himself,” re marked Rosser with a mock bow. Jim Conley was their pupil, he Said, only they probably called him James.” “Stand up, James, and re cite,” he mimicked. Conley’s story he branded as a tis sue of lies—admittedly lies as it ap peared in his first and second af fidavits. and party He* as it was con tained In his third affidavit. Defends Character Of the Accused. He defended the character of Frank which he said had been blackened only by the lies of the perjurer Con ley and his white ally, Dalton. He declared the conditions at the National Pencil Factory were no bet ter and no worse than at any other factory employing about 100 women and about as many men. He argued that the charges of immorality against Frank were preposterous as he could not have been on terms of criminal Intimacy with any number of his young women employees with out the factory going to pieces in ahort order. If the conditions In the faotory were as they were represent ed by the prosecution, it would have been a matter of general knowledge and the people would have torn down the faotory. stone by stone, the law yer contended. Rosser charged that the whole rase against Frank was founded on flimsy suspicions and that there was not one direct or weighty piece of evidence from first to last. He ex hibited the time chart that Attorney Arnold had used and showed that it would have been impossible, from th© viewpoint of the defense, for Farnk to have committed the crime and to have done all that Conley related. [ Girl Reads in The Georgian That Edward Hogan Is Detained by Police—They’ll Marry Soon. The second chapter of the mystery of Edward Hogan, the New Orleans man taken Into custody in Atlanta Friday, after losing ihe address of his fiancee, has been written. Hogan and Miss Marie Byrd, of 310 Angier avenue, have been united. The romance was consummated by The Georgian story Friday. Miss Boyd, who resides at the home of J. S. Sutherland, saw' the story and went Immediately to the police sta tion with Mrs. Sutherland. There was an affectionate greeting and then all went to th* 1 Sutherland home, following Hogan’s release. Miss Byrd missed a train connection and failed to meet Hogan. Miss Bvrd and Mrs. Sutherland told the police they would take good care of Hogan until he was completely well, and. then there will be a wed ding. Hogan was taken into custody Fri day afternoon because of his queer actions. BOYISH DORSEY El CASE By JAMES B. NEVIN. Luther Rosser perhaps never made a more Impressive speech in all his long and distinguished career at the Town Dynamited, Gun Battle Fought In Georgia Race War MOULTRIE, Aug. 23.—Enraged be cause of an attack made on John Davis, a young white boy, by a negn merchant named Bradley, a mob of about 50 white men, armed with Winchester rifles and carrying a big* supply of dynamite, swooped down on the town of Greenough, in Mitchell County, dynamited Bradley’s two- story brick store and set fire to a two-story frame building occupied as a negro store and lodgeroom. Both buildings were destroyed. The mob then opened fire on negro residences. The negroes returned the fire and the clash between the races continued for more than an hour. Just how many people were killed or in jured. i fany, is not yet known. Greenough is inhabited only by ne groes. The white mob was from the countryside. bar than he made on Friday when closing the argument for the defense In the Frank case. It was not such a speech as might be termed a finished oration. It was not characterized by many of the tricks of eloquence so frequently em ployed. It was not polished, and It was not rhetorically magnificent. It rang "like a bell in the Alps” with sincerity, however—and in that it w’as a compelling great speech, and It surely must have gone home, as the speaker intended. It carried a large measure of con viction, I think, to every man that heard it—Rosser believes Frank inno cent, though all the world take Issue with him! And does real oratory achieve any higher end than convincing those to ward Whom It is directed of the ear nestness and Integrity of its pur pose? It was the last word for Frank—the final plea before his fate, so far as the defense was concerned, wa* given into the keeping of the Jury. The speaker seemed to realize heavily, the tremendous weight of re sponsibility upon him—Just as he showed all too plainly the wear and tear inflicted upon his physical make up by the long trial. Luther Rosser’s speech may not clear Frank—maybe it ought not to clear him—but if so, nothing human. I think, COULD clear him. If Frank still was doomed when Rosier finished, lie surely must have been doubly doomed when Rosser be gan! No Stronger Than Dorsey's. As appealing as Mr Rosser's ad dress to the Jury was. however, it was not one whit more moving or forceful than was Dorsey's—the clos ing argument for the State, and the last speech before the Judge’s charge. The young Solicitor General knew he was to follow two of the most adroit and aggressive speakers in Georgia. He knew that it was to be no child’s play to batter down the wall of de fense set up by the combined genius of Reuben Arnold and Luther Ros ser! Leaves Aged Wife He Beat Injured on Floor, Goes to Work After attacking his wife. D. H. Kent, 64 years old, No. 84 Lindsay street, left her lying on the floor with her right arm broken above the elbow Saturday morning, and went to his work at the Jones & Kennedy Furni ture Company, where he is employed as a collector. He was arrested there half an hour later. He was released on $100 bond and his hearing set for next Friday before Judge Broyles. The woman, who is 60 years old. was sent to the Grady Hospital by Policeman Anderson, who answered the call. Besides the broken arm, she is severely bruised about the body, where she says her husband struck her. Kent refused to talk about the trouble with his wife, except to say that the quarrel Involved two sets of children and was of long duration. Negroes’ Holdings Worth $700,000,000 PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23.— The achievements of the negro race dur ing the 50 years since it was liber ated from slavery- were emphasized here by statistics of thg National Ne gro Business League, which show’ed that the negroes in the United States own chattels and real estate valued at over $700,000,000. Negro With 20-Year Term Tries Suicide DA NIELS VILLE, Aug. 23.—Lind sey Moon, a negro, confined in the county pail here, attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, which had been slipped to him in some mys terious way. The negro was charged with burn ing a barn at Carrollton some time last year. He was convicted and giv en a twenty-year sentence. He was almost dead from loss of blood when the Sheriff arrived at the Jail. from that particularly, it has been, I think, the defense. For one thing, the defense went far beyond the hounds of reason and common sense, so many people think. In attacking Dorsey as viciously as it did. One can not say how that attack Impressed the Jury—for the member ship of that body may or may not be so well acquainted with Hugh Dorsey as the general run of Atlanta people are—but It may well be doubt ed that It listened with any particu lar degcee of patience when the charge of "conspiracy" was hurled at the head of the Solicitor General so vehemently! Those people who have pleaded and begged for fair play all the way around—who have insisted that Frank be given an absolutely impar tial and unprejudiced trial—have laid much stress upon his heretofore un blemished business career. That was all right, for previous good character is an asset any man possessing it has a right to lean upon when as sailed. But if Hugh Dorsey, the Solicitor General, a man of utterly unlm- peached integrity throughout a life time in Atlanta, were a willing party to the maliciously wicked and inhu man "frame up” charged by the de fense, he would be as completely unworthy of the respect and esteem of this community as any person could be! "Frame Up” Charge a Mistake. When, therefore, the defense asks the public to believe, and the Jury to believe, that Dorsey and Hooper— the latter for years a most honorable and approved prosecuting attorney in South Georgia—were deliberately and designedly parties to a “frame up" of evidence against Frank's life and lib erty, is to ask the one to believe something it most certainly will NOT believe, and to ask the other some thing it should not, and likely will not, believe! It will be rated no more right to clear Frank through unsustained and unfair charges than to convict him that way, I take it! Solicitors General in Georgia are not to be criticised for aggressively and vigorously prosecuting indicted criminals—that's what they are there for—and they are entitled, In good faith, to seek the truth unmolested and in their own way and after their own fashion, unless it can be shown categorically that they are basely un worthy—and nothing approximating He realized, however, that he was that has been sherwn, or likely can be ated by many as rather a novice in ; shown, of Dorsey and his associates the art of criminal practice, despite his tenure of office as the State’s rep resentative in prosecutions hereto fore He had heard Rosser laugh at his youihfulness and had heard himself called “son” and “bud’’ too often not to know that every effort to belittle him was being made, and that every means to discount in advance what he might say was being put forth! Nevertheless, his sworn duty was plain. He was chosen some months ago by the people of the Atlanta Cir cuit to he their Solicitor General. He was on his mettle—the critical eyes of all his friends were upon him. and the eyes of the people whose repre sentative he was—and he was spokes man for the mighty majesty of the law! And Dorsey rose to the full de mands of the occasion! That much may be said of him, sin cerely and in all truthfulness. From start to finish of the Frank trial Dorsey has been the aggressive, faithful and tireless agent of the State—and it is altogether and en tirely to his credit that he has been that and all of that! Both Showed Heavy Strain. Like Mr Rosser, too, Mr. Dorsey shows the heavy strain he has been under for the past four months—for he has been employed almost exclu sively on the Frank case that long. When he had finished he evidently wa* exhausted utterly in his physi cal being. He had waged a long and gallant fight—from his point of view' —and it had taken tremendous toll of his energy and nervous system. Opposing counsel have snapped ano sneered at one another, hard things have been bandied back and forth, much bitterness has been manifest and much feeling displayed. Indeed, I should say far more bit terness has crept into this case than was in anywise necessary—from both sides—but if either side has suffered U. S. Votes $50,000 For Knoxville Fair WASHINGTON. Aug 23—The Senate to-day passed a bill authoriz ing the Federal Government to par ticipate in the National Conservation Exposition to he held in Knoxville, Tenn.. next fall. The bill authorizes the expenditure of $50,000 for this purpose. in this case. If the defense finds eventually that its attack on Dorsey has been resent ed. it will have nobody to blame but itself! The Frank case has been a most complex and strange proceeding. It has Involved so many emotions, so many opinions, so many theories, and so many peculiar attributes, that it is ail but impossible to make an in telligent forecast of the jury’s finding Opinion in the street is varied, and generally not aggressively expressed. It is perhaps true that a plurality of thus© people who have kept the run of the trial, believe a mistrial is the best that may be hoped for. Th^ case has been so long drawn out, so badly mixed up. and so hotly contested, that it seems likely the jury may hardly know exactly where the truth does dwell. It has been an expensive trial to Fulton County—it has cost well over $10,000—but that doesn’t matter so much in the public mind as that a just and righteous verdict be found. There are those who look for a quick verdict of acquittal. Just so* there are those who look for a quick verdict of conviction. Few Expect a Quick Verdict. And yet there are relatively few who look for a quick verdict, one way or the other. People generally would be glad to see a verdict one way or the other returned—and the case disposed of. To think of going over all the Frank case again is appalling to most parties connected with it—and yet a mistrial would mean that, and noth ing more or less. The general opinion Is thatjithis has been a fair trial—as fair aC human Intelligence and the most proved forms of law can make it—-and that a verdict should result. While this is generally admitted, however, it is admitted simultaneous ly that the jury may have rather a difficult time getting at the exact truth, whatever it is, obscured as it has been by so many issues and argu ments, both ways, not altogether relevant or in point. The story has been told in its entirety, however—all but the last and closing chapter. The jury has the telling of that— and all the public is asking is that the jury’s story speak the TRUTH of the matter, and the public general ly 1r prepared to accept the jury's verdict as the truth, I think, what ever it may be. DINING CARS WITH A’LA CARTE SERVICE TO CINCINNATI & LOUISVILLE