1914 October 10 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia

1914 October 10 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia

Author: Atlanta Constitution

Year: 1914

PDF PAGE 5, COLUMN 3 NO ATTACK ON DORSEY, SAYS WILLIAM M. SMITH Conley’s Former Attorney De- nies Stories to That Effect. Attorney William M. Smith, Jim Conley’s former counsel, but now his accuser, stated to a reporter for The Constitution Friday afternoon that he did not intend, contrary to reports, to make an attack upon Solicitor Dorsey or upon the prosecution of Leo Frank. He asserted that he had no secrets to expose, and that he did not propose to score the methods under which the man in the Tower was prosecuted. His plans, he stated, were to convince the people of Frank’s innocence through evidence and through facts he had unearthed by an exhaustive study of the case. “I have no secrets of the prosecution to lay bare,” he declared, “and neither do I expect to arraign anyone connected with it. If I accused Frank’s prosecution, I would accuse myself.” It was rumored Friday that Conley’s former attorney has come into possession of a piece of evidence against the Negro in shape of a handprint which has been discovered on the back door of the basement of the pencil factory. It is reported that the print fits concisely with the Negro’s hand and fingerprint. Smith was non-committal