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THE ATLANTA C!EOT?(1 TAN AND NEWS.
FRANK AND HIS WIFE HEAR JURY'S VERDICT
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Interesting Account of Work of;
Frank's Judges Is Unfolded by
One of Them.
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his lifetime there to make a wonder
ful speech when he opened the State’s
argument. We were half expecting'
one. His reputation was known to
us. And when he ended there was
some disappointment. We said he had
not done his best.
“Then we saw his sacrifice He had
n!y made a plain statement of the
Slate’s case and left for tbo Solicitor
General whatever fame and fortune
ihere was to be won by the State’s
counsel.
"The jury heard none of the cheer
ing for Dorsey outside the courtroom
at any time. We heard the crowds in
the courtroom laugh at times, and we
laughed, too, but that had no effect.
“Probably the hardest job we had
was to sit there and face Frank's mo
ther and his wife with the slowly
growing feeling of the defendant’s
guilt. Some of the jurors cried when
Frank’s wife broke down following
his speech. It was an impressive
thing to us. Yet it didn’t effect the
evidence.
Frank’s Speech
Caused Wonder. *
“The trouble with Frank’s speech
was the ^ame as the trouble with the
entire defense. The evidence declared
to us that he was guilty and no words
of his could disprove that fact. Every
body felt the weight' his wonderful
calm and dispassionate manner car
ried while he was talking. Yet the
marvel was that a guilty man could
do It. That was all.
“The defense made a wonderful
fight with the evidence they had. Mr.
Arnold was admired for his skillful
work by every member of the jury
We saw every point that he brought
out, and yet they all lacked weight.
“Probably nothing else in the whole
case was of more interest to us than
Luther Roeser’s cross-examination of
Conley. We thought it was a mas
ter’s display of human engenuity. Yet
in the jury’s mind it was like a sky
rocket. soaring up into the heavens
to cast its fountain of brilliance about
and then die out. The negro’s story
remained as he had told it. That had
f a tremendous effect in the verdict.
“Then there was that cabbage. It
was astonishing the amount of knowl
edge was displayed by the members
of the jury when the technicalities of
medicine were brought out. We un
derstood it all. The specimen of cab
bage taken from the little Phagan
girl’s stomach was passed around
amongst us in the Jury room and we
could easily see that it had not been
digested.
“That also had its effect. There
were men amongst us who luckilv
were well up on digestion. The ex
perts said very little that we did not
understand. But I will venture to say
that few of the men of that jury will
ever eat cabbage again.
Full Force of
Duty Strikes Home.
“It is a terrific thing to be on a
jury which holds a man’s life in Its
hands. The weight seems heaviest
during the early days of the trial.
You are struck with the somber faces
of your fellow jurymen first; then in
the mirror you see that your own
face is as somber as the rest, and
the full force of the duty in front of
you strikes home. You realize that
before you become a free man again
you shall have disposed of the life o?
a fellowmsn.
“Yet, strange to say, there wasn’i
one among us who tried to flinch from
his full share of the work. Each
seemed eager from the start to <}o
what he had’sworn to do, and the de
termination seemed to grow* as the
days passed. When we left the court
room this afternoon with the judge’s
charge there wasn’t a doubt in the
mind of anyone of us that justice
would be done. I think that thought.
In a great measure, was the cause
for our quick decision.
“Of course, we didn’t dream that
the case would last as long as it did.
Some of us hadn’t prepared for it. It
meant a loss of a great deal of money
to many of the men. Yet when this
w'as brought up along In the second
week, when no end was In sight, it
took only one mention of the task be
fore us to mak£ all else look infin
itesimally small. Jurydorn is a sphere
where money is not known.
First Week W«g
Longest of All.
“The first week of the trial was
longer than all the rest put togeth
er. It was a bit difficult for us to get
acquainted. We were all a little bit
suspicious of each other. Outside of
a few comments on immaterialities,
practlbally nothing was said about
the case. We didn't care to t alk
about it, even to our roommates.
■'Then somebody brought in a
checker board and someone else a
deck of cards. The social life in jury-
quarters blossomed out in full blast.
"It was a most welcome diversion,
too. We had little enough exercis
aVi It was and there was nothing left
but to brood on the case.
"And by the middle of the second
yveeK there wasn’t a more sociable
and jolly set of men this side of
Frank
received
the news
with fortitude
and appeared
to be mere
concerned,
about his
wife than
himself.
The
verdict of
the jury
was
announced
to Frank
and his
wife by
Rabbi Marx
and
Dr. Rosenberg.
heaven. I don’t believe. There were
checker matches and setback tourna
ments and a great rivalry for the
championships. I don’t believe that
there was an amateur among the
bunch which went into that jury who
didn’t come out an expert. With
nothing else to do much at night one
can learn a great deal about cards
and checkers in three weeks.
“Theer was no gambling. And each
Sunday we read from .the Bible and
sand religious songs. In fact, we held
regular services every Sabbath day.
It didn’t matter w hat churches we
belonged to, each was as fervent as
the other. While in Rome we did
as the Romans do. Seriously, though,
I think that the proposition we were
up against in judging of a man’s life
had a good deal to do with that
fervor.
Same Word On
TOUjlF
LOME ON BET
Conyers Banker and Merchant
Walk to Asheville in Ten Days,
Winning Their Wager,
Each Jury Slip.
“As for the judgment \> . ..^sed,
there is little to say. As weighty as
the task may seem, it was simple.
There was but one ballot and on the
twelve slips which were handed into
Foreman Winburn the single word
‘guilty’ was written. Yet, no one
seemed surprised. There was a
unanimity of feeling amongst us.
“Don’t think that we had not con
sidered the case fully. And don’t
think that there was a man amongst
us that wanted to do what we did.
Yet. day after day, the pressure grew
heavier, as the case was put before
us. From a slight dread it became
an oppression; then a nausea and at
last a sickening sense of the grim
f ac t—that Frank was guilty and we
were going to give the world that
verdict.
“It was horrible—that time we
spent in deliberation. Everyone
knew what was going to be done,
though hardly a w'ord was spoken,
until we had agreed. We were
spellbound with dread. Then some
one suggested a drink. That en
livened us and we began to breathe
again.
“You ask what brought us to our
verdict so readily? 1 have told you.
It was the only thing that coulfa be
done, and we knew it, even as we
ascended the stairs to the juryroom
this atfernoon. No argument was
needed.’’
ISLANDS GOVERNOR QUITS.
MANILA, P. I., Aug. 26.—Governor
General W. Cameron Forbes, execu
tive head of the Philippines since
Novembere, 1909, to-day sent his res
ignation to Washington to take effect
September 1. Francis B. Harrison
has been nominated to succeed
i Forbes.
ASHEVILLE, Aug. 26.—Tramping
through the mountains of North
Georgia and Western North Carolina
for just six hours less than ten days,
F. Paul McDaniel, cashier of the
; Bank of Conyers, of Conyers, Ga., and
i Louis C. Summers, a merchant of
that place, have arrived In Asheville.
Mr. McDaniel and Mr. Summers
walked to Asheville following the
posting of a wager with two other
Conyers residents that they would not
resort to the use of train or automo
bile.
Upon their arrival here the Georgia
hikers were tendered an informal
dinner by J. F. McDoogal and L. H.
Pope, both of Atlanta, and other
friends. While walking is fine, they
will return home in a parlor car.
The trampers left Conyers on Au
gust 16 and followed the mountain
highways and byways in reaching
Asheville. They had no maps nor
charts to guide them, trusting to good
fortune and advice from residents
along the route. They stopped at
several Georgia and North Carolina
towns, secured photographs along the
line and getting testimonials from
mayors and bankers to the effect that
when last seen they were “footing it”
and there wasn’t a train or auto
mobile in sight.
1,200 Mlies In Hack.
DALTON. Aug. 26.—Having trav
eled 1,200 miles in a hack from Okla
homa City, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. War
ren. Miss Pearl Warren and Ed War
ren reached here Mrniday afternoon.
The party is en route to Asheville.
N. C., their home. They left Okla
homa City June 4 and have made the
long ride by easy stages, camping out
at night and stopping en route for
hunting and fishing trips.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.
DUBLIN.—The Laurels County
Sunday School convention will meet
with Mount Zion Church, several mil ‘‘s
from this city, Thursday and Friday.
A general meeting of the association
will be held Friday, Saturday and
Sunday with Pleasant Hill Church.
Asks U. S. for $990
Stolen 50 Years Ago
WASHINGTON. Aug. 26.—Nearly a
half century ago George Chorin, then
• dashing young soldier In the First
Jassachusetts* Volunteer Infantry,
lost 1990. Now he wants the Gov
ernment to reimburse him.
He has appealed through Represen-
lutive Mitchell. He s*ays he was
robbed while on guard duty.
Frees Boy Who Found
Gun of Toting Charge
That a person may carry uncon
cealed a weapon not his own when
no malicious intent is snown was the
opinion handed down by Justice Rus
sell, of the Court of Appeals, in the
case of Casper against the State.
The defendant, a boy 18 years old,
picked up a pistol on the road and
carried it home unconcealed.
The jury returned tt verdict of
guilty on the grouud that the boy was
“carrying a dangerous weapon with
out a license.” The court reversed
this decision on the point that the
gun was carried openly and uncon
cealed and apparently without mali
cious intent.
Statistics Bulletin
Issued by Chamber
The first Issue of the Bulletin of In
dustrial Statistics, which will he pub
lished semi-monthly by the Chamber of
Commerce, will go to press Tuesday.
The bulletin will contain a foreword,
explaining the purpose of the new In
dustrial Bureau* of the Chamber; a
transcript of the “blue sky” law re
cently enacted by the Legislature; an
article on the Manufacturers’ Exposi
tion and various statistics about Atlan
ta’s manufacturing plants. Tt will be
sent to all members of the Chamber of
Commerce, to business men over the
State who are interested in the “blue
sky’’ law and to manufacturers all over
the country.
The data for the bulletin was pre
pared by W. H. Leahy, who Is In charge
of the Industrial Bureau.
Buckingham Palace
Employees on Strike
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. Aug. 26.—All the electri
cians in Buckingham Palace and the
war and admiralty offices to-day I
joined the general strike of Londtn j
builders.
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it is ideal, tending to prevent
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“ What made you
reject that man?”
1 asked an army sergeant
on recruiting service, as a
broad shouldered would-be
soldier was turned away.
“Bad teeth!” replied the ser
geant. You would be surprised
to know that from six to eight
percent, of the recruits apply
ing for enlistment in the U. S.
Army within one year were re
jected beca use of defective teeth
alone. And that thirty-five per
cent.ofthe catarrhal cases in the
U. S. Army were directly trace
able to diseased oral conditions.’*
Perfect cleanliness of tho
teeth is absolutely essential to
Good Health. A pleasant, suro
way to perfect cleanliness is the
twice-a-day us© of Colgate’s
Ribbon Dental Cream, and the
twice a year visit to your
dentist.
You too
should use
COLGATE'S
RIBBON DENTAL CREAM
Girl Is Scalped By
Windmill; Will Die
LA PORTE, IND., Aug. 26—Mi S3
Clara Hutton was scalped when her
hair caught In the shaft of a wind
mill. She will die.
1 The scalp stopped the mill.
ETROIT
2 TRAINS DAILY
Lv.7:12AK.,5:J0PM.
The Plot For
the Pennant
Hatched by the celebrated arch-schemer
of baseball fiction, Hugh S. Fullerton, is un
der way in the
SUNDAY
AMERICAN
The second installment of this enthrall
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opsis of what has gone before, so it is not too
late to become a fiction fan. Incidentally
one may read in the same issue of
Lily Elsie’s
Shattered
Romance
It’s a story of how this noted beauty de
fied all superstitions which surround newly
weds only to find that she just could not give
up her old stage friends to please a mere
husband. There will be another tale which
proves that songbirds are
Not Above the
Law After All
For it reveals the agitation of emotional
ly unrestrained tenors and prima donnas
who are cruelly worried by the sentencing
of Carl Burrian to a month’s imprisonment
for stealing another man’s wife. These are
but a few of the things which go to make
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