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TTTF. ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
FRANK RETURNING TO HIS CELL IN
. TOWER AFTER JUDGE’S CHARGE
AND VERDICT REACHED
The Georgian to-day reveals some of the innermost secrets of
the jury which convicted Leo M. Frank of the murder of little
Mary Phagan. This inside story of the greatest criminal case in
the South's history is an intensely interesting revelation of the
workings of men’s minds. It covers three long weeks and more
throughout which the evidence for and against the pencil factory
superintendent was tediously unfolded, link by link.
It casts upon the various points made by the defense and the
prosecution the light in which they were viewed by the twelve men
who were chosen to act as the judges. It ends with the last memor
able meeting of these men on the top floor of the courthouse Mon
day afternoon which culminated in the fateful verdict: “We the
jury find the defendant guilty.”
The information is given here
with as it was obtained by a re
porter for this newspaper from
one of the jurors late Monday
night while the full weight of
his grim burden still rested upon
him. It is told in his own, im
pressive words.
"It was the only thing we could do.
The evidence was against Frank from
start to finish. And so we did our
duty, as we had sworn to do.
Dorsey’s Youth and
Sincerity Won.
"It would be hard to say what, of
all the trial, made the greatest im
pression on the jury. It was prob
ably the Solicitor General himself.
He was a marvel. His youthful ap
pearance, coupled with his sincerity,
made a wonderful hit. There wasn’t
a minute of the hours that he spoke
that he didn’t seem to mean every
word that he uttered.
"Dorsey is a forceful speaker. He
puts emphasis behind his words. And
, he drives his points clear in anti
clinches them on the other side. They
stuck with us. They had the evi
dence behind them to make them
stick.
“His theory of the murder was the
one we accepted. It was the one the
evidence upheld. That was the way
Frank killed that girl.
“While the negro watched down
stairs. he took the little girl back into
the metal room and struck her, and
then with a cord strangled her to
death. Then those notes were writ
ten as the negro told us and placed
beside the body.
“In Dorsey's argument there was
one little sentence which seemed to
imbed Itself in the minds of every
man on the Jury, when he was speak
ing of the agreement between Frank
and Conley that the negro should
come back to the factory and burn
the body. The sentence {vas this:
'And if the smoke from that little
girl’s burning body had gone curling
up into the air. old Jim Conley would
have hanged for another man's crime.’
Hooper’s Action
Had Its Effect.
“Those words went a long way to
ward keeping Jim Conley from hang
ing. probably. They drew a contrast
between right and wrong which made
us look again into t'he evidence before
us. And the narrow escape which the
negro had made us shudder.
“There was another thing which
impressed that jury. It was Frank
Hooper’s sacrifice ot Dorsey. We call
ed it that. Hooper had the chance of
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
only made a plain statement of the
State’s case and left for tb«f Solicitor
General whatever fame and fortune
there was to be won by the State’s
counsel.
/ “The jury heard none of the cheer
ing for Dorsey outside the courtroom
at any rime. 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 affect the
evidence.
Frank’s Speech
Caused Wonder.
“The trouble with Frank's speech
was the same 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 Rossei^i cross-examination of
Conley. We Mfc»'\ht it was a mas-
>»r * fcmeauity. 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
a tremendous effect in the verdict.
"Then there was that cabbage. It
was astonishing the amount of knowl
edge 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 luckily
were well up on digestion. The ex
perts said very little that we did not
understand. But I will venture to saj
that few of the men of that jury wil.
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 fel'ow 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 of
a fellow man.
“Yet, strange to say, there wasn’t
one among us who tried to flinch from
his full share of the work. Each
seemed eager from the start to do
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
was brought up along in the second
week, when no end was In sight, ii
took only one mention of the task be
fore us to make all else look infin
itesimally small. Jurydom is a sphere
where money is not known.
First Week Was
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,
practically nothing was sa)d 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 exercise
as it was and there was nothing left ■
but to brood on the case.
"And by the middle of the second
week- there wasn’t a more sociabh-
and jolly set of men this side of
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.
“There was no gambling. And each
Sunday we read from the Bible and
sang religious songs. In fact, we held
regular services every- Sabbath day.
It didn't matter what 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
Each Jury Slip.
“As for the judgment we passed,
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 Wlnbum 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
- Frak’s
control of
his
emotions
was never
more
strikingly
shown than
on last
day
of trial.
Leo M. Frank,
convicted
slayer of
Mary Phagan,
on his way back
to his cell to.
await the
verdict of the
jury. He
walked with a
firm, springy
step, and
apparently was
confident that
he would be
acquitted.
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
fact—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 word 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? I have told you.
It was the only thing that could be
done, and we knew it, even as we
ascended the stairs to the jury room
this afternoon. No argument was
needed.’’
Cordele Cotton Men
Fight Tax Ordinance
CORDELE, Aug. 26.—If the threa'.s
of local cotton buyers are carried out,
Cordele will practically be without a
cotton market for an entire week or
more.
The buyers are angered at the City
Council over the passage of an ordi
nance making their annual license $25
and the license on transient buyers a*
$1 per day. On the grounds that the
officials had discriminated and that
the license of local and transient buy
ers should be the same, the loeql cot
ton men requested the Council to re
consider its action, which was re
fused.
REMAINS BY PARCEL POST.
DOVER, N. J., Aug. 26. All the re
mains of Carl H. Wolff, who died here,
are being sent to his parents in Ger
many by parcel post. His body was
cremated and the ashes placed in a
little tin box.
mu
uuO HfiS II SOFT;
A DOG'S LIFE, TOO
Sleeps on Sanitary Couch, Drinks
| Pasteurized iVlilk for Lunch and
Dines on Porterhouse.
CHICAGO. Aug. 26.—Mrs. Jean De-
Vos to-day declared that her English
bull terrier Bijou is better than the
rude dog catchers who dragged Bijou
from in front of his apartment and
tool; him to the dog pond with a horde
of common dogs. To prove that more
care is lavished upon her dog than
the dog catchers lavish upon their
own children, Mrs. DeVos gave the
following routine that is the lot of
Bijou every day:
9 a. m.—Awakens on a sanitary
couch, the linen of which is changed
every 24 hours.
9:30 a. m.—Breakfast of corn flakes
and cream. Distilled water served
with his meal.
10 a. m.—Bath in Bijou's private
bathtub. Teeth brushed and nails
trimmed and polished.
10:30 a. m.—Two-hour romp with
attendant.
12:30 p. m.—Luncheon of pasteur
ized milk.
1 p. m.— Two-hour automobile ride.
3 p. m.—Two-hour nap.
5 p. m.-—Dinner consisting of veg
etable soup, French fried potatoes
and porterhouse steak, all properly
seasoned.
5:30 p. m.—Evening walk.
7 p. m.—Rest on sanitary couch
until lulled to sleep by soft music.
The reason Bijou’s muzzle came off
was because he had not had his bath
and he was hanging his head from
shame until one of the supporting
straps slipped. Mrs. DeVos told the
poundkeeper so when she went to re
cover her pet.
Took Car for Try-out
And Did Not Return
CORDELE, Aug. 26.—The theft of
a big touring car in broad day
light is the latest sensation in Cor
dele. The automobile belongs to Frank
Teuber. The stranger who attempted
to get away with it is not known here.
He told Mr. Teuber h< was going ta
start an automobile hack line, claim
ing to have had two machines al
ready. He took the car for a try-out,
which extended to Tifton, when the
machine got out of order and he put
ft in a garage there. He has not been
heard of since.
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THAWCHflHEES
JEROME WITH
cm
Fugitive Says Former Prosecutor
Shielded ‘Vicious Rich' Men
to Convict Him.
SHERBROOKE. QUEBEC, Aug. 26.
Following the arrival here of former
District Attorney William T. Jerome,
of New York, and the announced de
termination of the attorney to reor
ganize his line of defense to give the
case an international aspect, Harry
K. Thaw', fugitive from the Mattea-
wan (New York) Asylum for the
Criminal Insane, issued an attack
against his former prosecutor to
day, charging that Mr. Jerome shield
ed the identity of “vicious rich” men
during Thaw’s trial in New York f?r
the murder of Stanford White.
Mr. Jerome did not take Thaw’s at
tack seriously, but plunged Into his
preparations for the part he will take
In the fight which will he launched
when arguments are heard to-morrow
morning before Judge Globensky in
Superior Court on Thaw’s petition for
liberty on a writ of habeas corpus.
“I am not worrying over Thaw s
threat to test the constitutionality of
the immigration law’s and attack the
United States treaty governing aliens
and deportation,’’ said Mr. Jerom* 1 .
“Speed and economy are the watch
words of the Canadian courts. They
deal out justice that is not impeded
and tangled with technicalities and
complications.
“Former Governor William Stone is
a mighty poor weather prophet if he
predicted that Thaw would be on Ca
nadian soil when the new snow flies.
I never heard of it snowing in August
before. Thaw will be dumped over
the border and seized In Vermont or
New Hampshire without delay. Ex
tradition into New York will b»
speedy.’’
Thaw’s Interview attacking Mr. Je
rome was given under the same cir
cumstances as that yesterday on his
sanity. He insisted on writing all :he
questions and answers and would
brook no interference from the re
porter.
Senator’s Kin Killed
In Row Over Saddle
RENO, NEV., Aug 26.—William
Billings, son-in-law of former Sena
tor Plum, of Kansas, was killed on
a ranch 100 miles north of Elko, Nev.,
by Frank Huber. Huber was ar
rested.
Billings took a saddle from Huber’s
stable, saying it w r as as security for
a debt.
Thaw, if Freed, to
Visit Mr. Chaloner
SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, Aug
26.—Harry Thaw was In better hu
mor to-day. He telegraphed a re
ply to John Armstrong Chaloner,
of Virginia, a fugitive from New
York, w’ho once was pronounced
insane by the New York courts.
Thaw said he would visit Chal
oner If he got his release.
Chaloner is the author of the
celebrated query, “Who’s looney
now?” this being the question he
telegraphed to his relative, Rob
ert Chanter, after the latter lost
the bulk of his fortune to his fas
cinating wife, Lina Cavalieri, the
singer.
South China Revolt
Completely Collapses
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 26.—The South
ern Chinese revolution, directed by
Dr. Sun Yat Sen and Dr. Wu Ting-
fang, has collapsed completely. Dis
patches received here to-day stated
that the last rebel stronghold at
Nanking has fallen into the hands of
President Yuan Shi Kai’s Federal
troops.
It is believed now that if there is
any more fighting it will be of a
desultory guerilla character between
small roving bands of rebels and out
laws and Federal soldiers.
The Kaiser Becomes
A Total Abstainer
BERLIN, Aug. 26.—The Kaiser has
laid his embargo on beer. His favor
ite drink now is lemonade, with a
dash of orange juice, hut does not
force this beverage upon his guests.
The usual wines are served.
The Kaiser, it is said, did not use
any alcoholic beverage while on his
Northern cruise and became con
vinced that being a teetotaller gives
to him more energy. He believes im
moderate drinking is one of the great
est factors in retarding the develop
ment of nations.
Slaying at a Church
In Middle of Service
Inventor, on His First Vacation in
Two Years, Sleeps Seven
Hours First Night.
LOWELL, MASS.. Aug. 26.—Thom
as A. Edison, while passing through
this city en route to the White Moun
tains on his first vacation in two
years, gave out an interview in which
he branded women’s dress of the pres
ent day as insane.
He also condemned the modern
“trot-tango” dances, scored the graft
ers in politics, and said the talking
machine is in the final state of per
fection.
He praised John Hays Hammond’s
plans for peace by making war im
possible through wireless control of
battleships and torpedoes.
Mr. Edison showed he was on a real
vacation by sleeping seven hours last
night.
He said:
“The modern dances such as the
‘turkey trot,’ ‘tango,’ ‘bunny hug,’ etc.,
are only a temporary state of mind,
from which the sensible American
public soon will recover.
“The peculiarities of dress and the
weird dancing that have of late came
upon the world may probably be call
ed only a ‘craze.’ There seems to be
periodic waves which go all over the
world. They follow’ one another from
time to time and no one can account
for them.
“The people of America and other
advanced countries are far too in
telligent to be swept altogether off
their feet by this passing phase of
insanity In dresses and dancing.” —
YAWN DISLOCATES JAW.
NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—Joseph
Russer yawned so widely that he dis
located his jaw’s—and the dislocation
left the jaws wide open. At the hos
pital Russer w'as put under an anes
thetic and his jaws shoved back into
place.
DOUGLASVILLE. Aug. 26—Luther
Evans shot and instantly killed Seab
Longlno in front of the African
Church here while services were being
conducted.
The Longino negro lived In Camp
bell County, and very little was
known of him here. He had an open
knife clasped in his hands, and it is
supposed he was advancing on
Evans, also a negro, when shot.
Evans made his escape and has not
been captured.
HAVE YOU HEARD
THE Y0DLERS Y0DLE
AT BONITA THEATER
The vaudeville bill put on by the
Bonita is attracting attention on
1 account of the fact that the acts
are high class and entertaining.
If you enjoy yodllng, you should
go to the Bonita, for there you will
hear the best.
The remainder of the bill is
good and you will enjoy every
' minute of the time.
Chamberlin = Johnson = Du Bose Co.
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Some Two Hundred Waists
As startling as the prices below are, and as great as may
be the expectations they will arouse, we venture that women
are going to be pleasantly surprised when they see the
waists these prices stand for.
But two hundred waists in such a waist store are a very
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Batistes and voiles are the
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pretty, net frills—styles
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