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SUNDAY AMERICAN,
ATLANTA, GA„ SUNDAY, AUGUST 24. 1012.
DEATH PENALTY DEMANDED FOR LEO M. FRANK
\ TENSE i mm. ni m tin court mom yi'stcrday when Solicitor Dorsey was denouncing Frank in his dramatic plea to the jury. Numbered in the picture are (1) Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey, (2) Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford, (3) Attorney Reuben
+~\ Arnold of conns. 1 for tl > <1 f. use, (4) Luther Z Rosser, who has had charge of the battle for Frank’s life; (5) Mrs. Leo M. Frank, wife of the defendant; (6) Leo M. Frank, whose rate will soon rest with the jury; (7) Mrs. Ilea Frank, his mother, and (8)
Judge L. S. Roan.
DORSEY CHEERED AFTER
HAT CLOSING SPEECH
been attacked and strangled to death was Mrs. J. W. Coleman,
mother of Mary Phagan, that she collapsed utterly and wept.
Frank’s young wife was affected by the scene and she laid her
head upon the shoulder of her accused husband and cried for sev
eral minutes.
The very manner,in which Frank
had borne himself during; the long
trial was used by the Solicitor against
him. Such remarkable nerve and
effrontery ho declared he never had
witnessed before in a court of justice
Dorsey thought it merely was one of
the outcropping characteristics of tin*
defendant s perverted moral and in
tellectual nature He compared him
to the brilliant Wilde, whose effron
tery and Insouciance in the midst of
charges of unspeakable conduct was
h mater »*f world-wide knowledge.
When he was Interrupted by ad
journment, the Solicitor was far from
Ibd • nd of h is arguraent ! !•• had
taken longer than he expected. lit*
hail paused longer on certain aspects
of the cast than he had lnteded. It
seemed probable that he would re
quire most of Monday forenoon to
conclude his address.
Scoffs at Frank’s Alibi.
Attacking the main points of
Frank's defense, he came out boldly
with the declaration that Frank’s
alibi was no alibi at all. H e said
that the whole of Frank's alibi prac
tically hinged on the testimony of
Miss Helen Curran, of No. ltU) Ashby
street, who had testified that she saw
the young factory superintendent
waiting for his car at Whitehall and
Alabama streets Saturday afternoon
At
l<<
ant Dorsey dramatically
h the statement of Frank
id made on the first day
detained at police head-
this," he said shaking the
the eyes of the jurymen.
>ted front Frank's state-
read :
ook the door that morn-
nail was coming up. 1
hen 1 left for lunch at
Makes Charge of Perjury.
-There goes your alibi, said the
Solicitor. “It was punctured by your
•wn statement made before you real
ized the Importance of the time ♦ le
nient."
Dorsey characterized as perjuries
the statement of the Curran girl, that
of Miss Fleming, a former stenogra
pher; that of K. F. Holloway, day
watchman, and that <>f Charley l,ee.
He threw the suspicion of wrong
doing upon the character of the young
Newt Lee’s house, the pay envelope,
the rope and the club on the first floor
of the factroy were plants.
He said that Frank's statement in a
letter to his unable, written the aft
ernoon of the crime, that “nothing
startling had happened,” while in
tended to be self-serving, was In real
ity self-accusing.
Referring to the notes found by the
girl's body, hi* called attention to the
use of the word "did." He said that
Conley always said "done," and that
if ■’did" was used in the notes they
must have been dictated by someone
He added that the reference In the
notes t ■' the toilet on the second floor
was a strong indication that the mur
der had teen committed there.
The Solicitor charged that Frank
had been endeavoring to force his at
tentions upon the Phagan girl for
weeks and that his advances culmi
nated in the brutal attack of Memo
rial Day.
Gives His Theory of Crime.
Resisted again. Frank, in brutish
fury, struck donw the girl, accom
plished his purpose, and then, realiz
ing his position, sought to escape
being identified with the attack by-
winding a rope about the girl’s neck
and strangling her to death, accord
ing to the graphic words of the pros
ecutor.
As the hour passed noon, the Solic
itor began to show signs of fatigue.
His spirit was as indomitable and
fiery as ever, but his features grew a
bit haggard and the weeks of tire
less work on the case began to dis
play themselves more plainly on his
face
At 1:30 he asked if there might not
he a recess, as he was about ex
hausted. There was a side bar con
ference between the attorneys foi
both sides, and Judge Roan an
nounced that adjournment would be
taken until Monday.
It was thought likely that Dorsey
would finish about noon. The judge’s
charge probably will occupy an hour
or more, and then the case will go
into the hands of the twelve jurors.
AUTOIST IS RUN OVER
BY HIS OWN MACHINE
Policewoman Uses
Her Stare as Club
Declares She Has No Trouble With
Mashers After One Stern
Glare.
CHICAGO, Aug 23.—Squelch the
masher with a look. You don’t need a
whistle like the Boston women; hatpins
do not make good weapon*, and a
club should be used only In a tight
squeeze.
This Is the opinion of two of Chi
cago’s policewomen, both long in the
business of protecting women.
"1 haven’t had any trouble with men
on the beach this year, even those who
didn’t know I was a policewoman," said
Officer Mary Boyd, who Is In charge of
the Thirty ninth street bathing beach.
“All you have to do when a man speaks
to you Insultingly Is to look at him.
He turns and runs.*'
Woman Toper Has
Thirst Amputated
Obstruction In Her Throat Was Be
lieved Cause of Her Longing
For Alchohol.
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LIMA, OHIO, Aug 23 Mary Cala-
han. 22, submitted to a surgical opera
j Hon In the Chief of Police’s office to
day, and it is hoped Mary’s thirst was
j cut out. literally and figu ratively.
Several years ago she was shot In
J the Jaw. A splintered bone lodged
against her palate, creating a contin
uous desire for drtnk. She Insists the
I desire was for strictly alcoholic drink
| and that she had tried g*ape juice tn
vain. Since that time Mary and her
I tickling bone have given the police a
ticklish time.
Chief Ernest May consulted with City
Physician Steer. Between them they
decided on the operation.
Offers to Serve Out
Hawthorne's Term
—
Pastor-Classmate of Author-Convict
Says It Would be ‘Utmost
Pleasure.’
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tion of
and ha
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looked
' Dors#
nocence on
I her will!
The Soli,-
ending to
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them to do it.
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ould ensue.
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JOLIET. ILL., Aug. 2S. Because
s cranked his automobile while it
as in gear, Harry Lewis, a Joliet
inker, was run over and badly in-
irt'd. Lewis was in a hurry to take
•me friends to the Union station and
•gleeted to inspect his gears, the
aehine would not spark th*» first
w whirls of the crank, so ho opened
ie throttle wider, one of the friends
tie exhilarator to help mat-
now Lewis has been two
the hospital.
BOSTON, Aug. 23 —The Rev. Wil
liam Davis, of Everett, a member of
the class of 1867 of Harvard and an
evangelistic clergyman, has written
! his classmates, Julian Hawthorne
! and William James Morton, in the
Federal Prison at Atlanta, offering to
serve the remainder of their sen-
j tenues, and states to d<* so would give
j him "the utmost pleasure."
EX-BANDIT GETS RELIGION;
COLE YOUNGER CONVERTED
I.EKS SUMMIT. MO.. Aug. 23.—
Dole Younger, once a bandit, became
a member of the Christian Church at
Ju revival meeting to-night.
Dorsey’s Closing Address a
Scorching Attack on Frank
Hurls Charges of Perversion and Murder in Face of Defendant While
Wife Bows Head and Weeps.
Probably a more stirring, denun
ciatory, and at the same time incis
ive and analytical argument, has nev
er been heard in a Georgia court
than Solicitor Dorsey’s closing ad
dress In the case against Leo M.
Prank. Here it is as tlie Solicitor de
livered it;
Dorsey moved over to the railing
of the Jury box as he opened his
speech.
"Your honor and gentlemen of the
Jury." he said. "I was speaking to you
yesterday of the charac ter of this de
fendant. This defendant has not a
good character. The conduct of the
counsel in this case in failing to
cross-examine, in refusing to cross-
examine these twenty young ladies,
refutes effectively and absolutely the
claim of the defendant that he has
a good character.
Says Defense Had
Right to Refute Charge.
"As l said, if this man had a good
character, no power on earth could
have kept him and his counsel from
asking those young girls where they
got their information and why they
dsai what they did. Now that’s a
common sense proposition.
“You know as twelve men seeking
to get at the truth that they did not
ask those hair-brained fanatics, ts
Mr Arnold calls them, questions
about Frank’s character because they
were afraid, and those witnesses, as
good as any the defens * put up, were
unimpeached and are unimpeachable.
And you tell me that because the good
people come here from Washington
street and testify to his good charac
ter is that he has one!
“!t verv often happens that a man’s
wife is the last person to know his
wrongdoing. Sometimes the man uses
charitable and religious organizations
to cover up and hide his evil self
Very often his guilty conscience turn-#
him* that way. Many a man Is a wolf
in sheep’s clothing
"Many a man is a white sepulcher
on the outside and absolutely rotten
within. , But suppose he has a good
character David had a good char
acter until he put Uriah-in the fore
front of.battle that he might be killed
that he could get his wife. Judas Is
cariot had a good character Among
those Twelve Men until he accepted
those 30 pieces of silver.
•*l have shown >ou that under the
law they had a right to bring out all
those things. You saw they dared
not do it. Let’s see what the law
says. I’ll read here from the Eighty-
third Georgia Report:
" 'Whenever any persons have evi
dence in their possession and they
fail to produce it, the strongest pre
sumption arises that it would be
hurtful if they did, and their failure
to produce evidence Is a circumstance
against them.
You don't need any lawbook to tell
you that. It’s plain common sense.
! Recalls Case of
Oscar Wilde.
"Benedict Arnold was brave. He
enjoyed the confidence of all the peo-
i pie and those In charge of the Revp-
I lutionary War until he betrayed his
* country. Since that day hi» name
has been a synonym for infamy. Os
car Wilde, an Irish knight, a bril
liant author, whose works will go
down through time, gave us ‘De Pro- ,
fundis.' which he wrote while in jail—a
remarkable work—yet when the Mar
quis of Queensberry discovered that
there was something wrong between
Wilde and his son, Wilde had tne ef
frontery and the boldness to sue him
for damages. A suit in retal'atlon re
sulted In the conviction of Wilde for
criminal practices. Yet. wherever the
English language is spoken the ef
frontery of the testimony on crows-
examination of this man—an effront
ery typical of this sort (turning to
Frank)—will always be a matter for
deep study for lawyers and for peo
ple Interested in that sort of degen
eracy.
“He had a wife and two children.
His shame probably never would have
been brought to light but for the fact
that he had the effrontery and the
boldness to start a suit. It ended in
his being sent to prison. »
"And the prosecution of Oscar!
“He was a man who led the esthet
ic movement, lie was a scholar and
a literary man. His cross-examina
tion was a thing to be read with
pride by every lawyer. The whole
world took notice of his prosecution,
and yet wh^u Oscar Wilde was an
old man. g.ay-haired and tottering to
the grave, he confessed to his guilt.
Prominent? Why, he was one of the
most prominent men in the world!
WJiy, he came to America and found
ed the esthetic movement here. He
raised the sunflower from a weed io
the dignity of a flower. He was
handsome—one of the handsomest
men to be found. He had moral
courage, yet he was a pervert, proved
and confessed.
"There was a handsome man in
San Francisco, a member of this de-
tendant’s sect—Abe Ruef. a man who
possessed all of the faculties of high
est intelligence, yet he corrupted even
Smith, and his corruption of the pool
girls wdth whom he came in contact
brought him to the penitentiary. I
have already referred to Durant. His
character did not prevent the jury
from convicting him. This defend
ant’s character, like Durant’s, is not
worth a cent when the case is proved.
“And crime is alike with the rich
and poor, ignorant and learned. Take
an ignorant man Mke Jim Conley He
is the man who commits the petty
crimes, but take a man with high in
tellect, Mke this defendant—this intel
lect, when put to the right use. leads
to glorious accomplishments; but if
these faculties be put to the wrong
use, it brings ruin to the man in the
commission of the most diabolical
crimes Look at McCue, the Mayor
of Charlottesville, Va, He was a man
of broad Intellect and high education,
but. despite his intellect, despite his
splendid character, he tired of his
w ife and shot her. and the jury, com
posed of Virginia gentlemen, broad
minded and fair, despite McCue’s
good character, found him guilty and
sent him to a felon’s grave.
“Take the case of Richeson, the
preacher of Boston. Here was a man
of highest intellect and with a br*l-
liant future. He was engaged to one
of the wealthiest and most beautiful
girls of Boston, but entanglement
with a poor little girl caused him t*.
fear for his good name and he so fa.-
forgot his good character as to put
this poor little girl to death. Even
after his conviction in the last davs
of his hope he committed an act upon
himself which he thought would draw
the pity of the Governor and save his
life. But a Massachusetts Jury and a
Massachusetts Governor were cour
ageous enough to let that man s lif^
go. They had the courage which will
make every right-thinking man rignt
by the -law’s of God and man and of
his <'ountry.
"Take Beattie—Henry Clay Beattie,
of Richmond. He was of splendid
family, of wealth and proved a good
character, though he did not possess
it. He took the mother of his 12-
month-old baby out in an automobile
and shot her. He was cool, calm and
deliberate. He laughed and he Joked,
but he joked too much, and although
the detectives were maligned and
abused and a large slush fund w as j
used, a courageous, honest Virginia
jury upheld justice and sent that man
to death. And he n^ver confessed,
hut he left a note saying he was
guilty.
Likens Frank
To Dr .Crippen.
"Orippen, of England, a man of high
standing and recognized ability, killed
his wife because of infatuation for
another woman. He hid her where
he thought she would not be found, as
this man (pointing to Frank) thought
the body of that little girl would not
be found. But murder will out, and
be It said to the glory of old England
this man paid the penalty of death.
“Gentlemen, you have an opportuni
ty that comes to few* men. Measure
up to it. Will you do it? If not, let
your conscience say why not.
“But you say you’ve got .an alibi.
Let’s examine that proposition. Here’s
an authority: ‘An alibi as a defense
Involves the Impossibility of the pris
oner’s presence at the scene of the of
fense at the lime of its commitment,
and the range of evidence must be
such as reasonably to exclude the pos
sibility.’
"The burden of carrying this alibi
rests on the shoulders of this defend - 1
ant. They must show t-o you that it i
was impossible for this man to have |
been at the scene of the crime—an !
alibi, while the best kind of evidence
if properly sustained, otherwise Is ab-
solutely worthless I am going to
show* you that this man’s alibi ! s
worse than useless. It is no defense
at all.
"I want to give you the definition
of an old darky of an alibi. It illus
trates my point. Rastu.« asked old
Sam. ‘What is this hyar alibi I hear so
much about?’ Old Sam says. ‘An alibi
is provin’ that you was at the prayer
meeting where you wasn’t, to prove
you wasn’t at the crap game where
you was.’
"Let’s see the time table of the de
fense. I want to turn it around for
half a minute. Then I want to turn
it to the wall and let it stay forever.
" One p m.—Frank leaves the fac-
vvall. That statement is refuted by !
the defendant himself when he didn’t
realize the importance of this time
proposition.
"Frank's statement at police head- j
quarters, taken by G. C. Febuary on ;
Monday, April 28, says, ‘I didn’t lock ;
tne door that morning. The mail w as
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 I
realize its importance. Yet these j
honorable gentlemen for the purpose '
of impressing your minds print in big
letters on this chart he ieft the fac- j
tory 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 j
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 law
yer, Mr. Luther Z. Rosser.
"I quote: ‘I left at 1:10.’ Right
here let me Interpolate. This man
never made an omission from the be
ginning to the end of this case. Where
he knew a person was aware that he
was in the factory at a certain time
he admitted it. He proved, or at
least attempted to prove, an alibi by
the little Curran girl. They had her
get up on the stand and say that she
saw Frank at 1:10. Yet here is his
statement made to the police April 28
in the presence of his attorney, Mr.
Luther Z. Rosser, in which he said
that he did not leave the factory until
1:10.
"The saddest thing in this case—I
don’t know who caused it, 1 don’t
know who introduced it, and I hope 1
will go to my grave without ever
learning who brought this little Cur
ran girl into this case—the saddest
thing in this case is bringing in this
little girl who is connected with Mon
tag's and placing her upon the stand
here to protect this red-Jianded mur
derer.
"Jurors are sworn, and his honor
has the right under the law* to charge
you to consider the truthfulness or
the reasonableness of that which any
w’itness swears to. And. gentlemen
of the jury, anyone who looked upon
that little girl noticed her bearing up
on the stand, the slightly unusual
manner and her connection with*
Montags—consider the fact that this
little girl, like the little Bauer boy,
had been riding in Montag’s auto
mobile—and if you can not tell just
why and how she was brought here,
then I am unable to understand your
mental operations.
"If Frank locked that door at 1:10,
how could she have seen him at Ala
bama and Whitehall street at 1:10?
How could she be so positive that it
was him. if she really saw* anyone
there? For, mark you, she had never
seen him but once. She comes into
your presence and tells you the un
reasonable and absurd story of see
ing him, which is in direct contra
diction to Frank’s story.
"On this time proposition, l want f
to read you this. It made a wonder *
ful impression on me when I read it.
It’s from the speech of a wonderful
man. It’s from a man in whose pres
ence even lawyers of the type of Ar-
Continued on Page 4, Column 1.
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