1914 October 04 Atlanta Constitution 56 Pages Georgia
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1914 October 04 Atlanta Constitution 56 Pages Georgia
Author: Atlanta Constitution
Year: 1914
PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 1 WILLIAM SMITH TELLS WHY HIS OPINION HAS CHANGED AS TO GUILT OF LEO FRANK In Exhaustive Statement, Former Lawyer for Negro Picks Many Alleged Flaws in Story Sweeper Told on Stand, and Gives Number of Instances in Which He Says He Departed From Truth—Never Believed Pervert Story, He Asserts. TELLS OF TRAP LAID FOR CONLEY WHEN NEGRO WAS IN FULTON JAIL Smith Now Allies Himself With Frank Defense And Confidently Expects Prisoner Will Secure Liberty—Believes Conley Guilty, But He Is Now Free From Further Penalty of the Law. Lanford Says He Is Open to Conviction. Attorney William M. Smith, counsel for Jim Conley, whose statement in Saturday’s Constitution that he believed Leo M. Frank innocent of the murder of Mary Phagan created the newest Frank case sensation, has issued a public statement in which he explains his change of opinion. He attributes it to constant and exhaustive study of the case, in which he catalogued, card-indexed and filed for research purposes huge volumes of Frank evidence. In this he was aided by his wife, who had never fixed a definite belief in the famous case, and who was instrumental in influencing her husband to the changed attitude. In his