1914 March 10 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia
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1914 March 10 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia
Author: Atlanta Constitution
Year: 1914
PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 3 FRANK WILL USE ADDRESS BY TAFT Thinks the Ex-President’s Speech Has Application to His Own Case—Dorsey to Combat Affidavits. It is probable that Leo Frank will issue a public statement soon in comment upon the expression of ex-President W. H. Taft, recently in Boston, in which the former executive declared that public clamor often convicts innocent men. The prisoner will compare the demonstrations in his own trial with the expressions of the former president, and, on this basis, will endeavor to explain the necessity of a new trial, for which his attorneys will plead before Judge Ben Hill. “It is proper for the newspapers to comment after judgement in a case,” said Mr. Taft, in his Boston address, “but it is the trial of cases in the newspapers before judgement that has led to much of the criticism of modern courts. Why, when I was president, I had to pardon two or three men who had been convicted by public clamor, when they were really innocent.” The ex-president’s speech was delivered last Friday morning. It created considerable interest in Atlanta among those who had kept in touch with developments in the Frank case, because of its application to the argumen