1914 February 22 Atlanta Constitution 52 Pages Georgia

1914 February 22 Atlanta Constitution 52 Pages Georgia

Author: Atlanta Constitution

Year: 1914

PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 6 State Witness Repudiates Testimony Against Frank, Promised Money, He Says Albert McKnight, Who Testified That Prisoner Came Home, Then Left Suddenly, and Who Told of Wife’s Alleged State- ment, Has Made Denial of Old Affidavit. EXTRAORDINARY MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL TO BE NEXT STEP OF DEFENSE McKnight’s Wife, Who at First Stated That Frank Was Very Nervous on Murder Night and Said He Had Had Trouble With Girl at Factory, After- wards Denied Her State- ment. The most startling of new developments in the Frank case, which have come in flurries since the decision of the supreme court last Tuesday, is the announcement that Albert McKnight, a witness for the state, has made an affidavit repudiating his statement on the stand, which involved his wife, Minola, whose original story was one of the strongest links in the state’s chain of evidence. McKnight, in his remarkable affidavit, says that he was induced to make false statements to connect Frank with the crime by an offer of money, and that he now retracts these statements because he has been made to realize the great harm he has inflicted upon Frank. He doesn’t mention the name of the man who made this proposition—t