1913 November 06 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia

1913 November 06 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia

Author: Atlanta Constitution

Year: 1913

PDF PAGE 8, COLUMN 5 DORSEY SPENT $1,145.39 IN THE LEO FRANK CASE Itemized Expense Account Is Filed With the County Board. Revealing in a new light the wide probe made by the state in its successful effort to convict Leo Frank of the murder of Mary Phagan, the itemized expense account of Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey was filed for payment with the county commissioners on Wednesday afternoon. Finger-print experts, hand-writing experts, medical experts and stenographic experts were employed by the prosecution in their work of ferreting out evidence against the slayer of the little factory girl. Among the items which appear on the expense account were fees of $25 to R. A. Flakman, finger-print expert, who examined the finger marks on the Phagan girl’s bloody garments; another of $100, paid to Albert S. Osborn, the noted New York hand-writing expert, who compared the handwriting of Frank, Conley and Newt Lee with the notes found at the side of the murdered girl’s body; another of $100 paid to Dr. Roy Harris, the secretary of the state board of health, whose testimony, on the witness stand, regarding the lapse of time after the Phagan girl ate her dinner and the time of her death, ma