1914 March 28 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia
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1914 March 28 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia
Author: Atlanta Constitution
Year: 1914
PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 3 JIM CONLEY’S STORY ASSAILED IN MOTION OF FRANK’S COUNSEL Solicitor General Dorsey Is Served With Formal No- tice New Trial Petition Will Be Filed Within Twenty Days. WITNESSES FOR REPUDIATE TESTIMONY Solicitor and Detectives At- tacked in Notice—Dalton Repudiates Testimony. New Witness to Alibi. Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey was served Friday with formal notice of the extraordinary motion for a new trial for Leo M. Frank, to be made within the next twenty days. A large number of sensational grounds are set forth in the notice, many of which have never before been made public. One of these is a statement from Mary Rich, a woman who operated a lunch stand in the vicinity of the pencil factory building, who swears that she saw Jim Conley, the convicted Negro accomplice, emerge from the alleyway in the rear of the pencil plant about 2:15 o’clock on the afternoon of the tragedy. Which, it is contended by the defense, is an explanation of the broken bolt on the back door of the basement in which Mary Phagan’s body was discovered, and which was an impregnable mystery throughout the trial and investigation. The Rich woman further swears that Conley bought a lunch fr