1914 March 15 Atlanta Constitution 54 Pages Georgia

1914 March 15 Atlanta Constitution 54 Pages Georgia

Author: Atlanta Constitution

Year: 1914

PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 5 Prisoner in Tower Asks Public For Answers to These Questions By LEO FRANK. I have answered a number of questions put to me in reference to various points in my case. I now wish, in turn, to put the following questions to be answered by the public, all of which are based upon undisputed facts, admitted by the prosecution to be the truth: (1) If, as the prosecution contends, a man had strangled a young girl to death at ten minutes past 12, is it likely that when the murder was discovered, he would come forward, without hesitation, freely and voluntarily, and state that he had seen and talked with her a few moments previous, when there was no witness to the conversation, and there was probably no way for it to be known unless he revealed it himself? (2) When the police discovered and first examined Mary Phagan’s body, dirt and cinders were so ground into her face that they could not tell whether she was a white girl or a negress. They had to lift her dress and examine her skin to decide. Sergeant Dobbs described her face as having been “punctured” by the cinders. There were no cinders in the metal room, but there was a big bank of them in the basement. Conley said