1914 April 19 Atlanta Constitution 64 Pages Georgia
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1914 April 19 Atlanta Constitution 64 Pages Georgia
Author: Atlanta Constitution
Year: 1914
PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 6 TESTIMONY HE GAVE AT TRIAL WAS TRUE, DECLARES M’KNIGHT Negro Witness for Prosecu- tion Now Repudiates Affi- davit He Gave to Leo M. Frank’s Attorneys. PRISONER AT STATION ON HIS OWN REQUEST Detective Burns Has Not Yet Returned to Atlanta. Report Is Not Expected Before Tuesday. Albert McKnight, state witness in the Frank case, now repudiates his repudiation. ‘He says that his testimony on the stand is true, and that his denial of it was false.’ He declares he signed his repudiation affidavit in order to “get rid of C. W. Burke, a private detective attached to the office of Luther Z. Rosser, senior member of the Leo Frank case.” McKnight is in police headquarters, occupying an entire corridor of cells, and has a special cot. His principal occupation is eating, sleeping, and awaiting developments. Last Wednesday he appeared at headquarters and asked Chief Beavers if the chief wouldn’t put him in a cell so that he could enjoy the peace and tranquility that naturally accompany imprisonment. Says He Was Pestered. He told the chief that he had been “pestered unmercifully” since having signed the repudiating document, and that he was so tired of it all that he was perf