1913 October 23 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia
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- 1913 October 23 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia
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1913 October 23 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia
Author: Atlanta Constitution
Year: 1913
PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 2 CROWD CONDUCTED FRANK TRIAL SAYS PRISONER’S LAWYER Tried and Convicted by the Courtroom Spectators and Not by the Judge and Jury, Declares Rosser. TODAY’S HEARING MAY LAST UNTIL MIDNIGHT Fight Is Bitter Over Conley’s Testimony, Defense Declar- ing That It Should Never Have Been Considered. Declaring that the crowd and not the judge and jury tried and convicted Leo M. Frank of the murder of Mary Phagan, Luther Rosser, senior counsel for the prisoner, yesterday urged the many demonstrations for the solicitor general as sufficient reason why the convicted superintendent should have another trial. This was, however, but one of the forty grounds argued Wednesday when the hearing began before Judge Roan in a little anteroom in the state library at the capitol. As 115 objections have been noted to the rulings in the case, it will be several days at least before a decision will be reached. The proceedings are as tedious as the original trial was dramatic and thrilling. Both the solicitor and counsel for the defense fight bitterly and desperately over every detail. Wrangling and debate occupied more than two-thirds of the first day’s session. The hearing had hardly begu