1915 June 03 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia

1915 June 03 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia

Author: Atlanta Constitution

Year: 1915

PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 2 FRANK AND CONLEY WILL NOT TESTIFY Negro Goes to Jail, But the Attorneys Had Agreed in Mrs. Coleman’s Suit Against Pencil Factory. Agreement on the part of Luther Z. Rosser, Counsel for the National Pencil Factory, to accept the evidence of the Leo M. Frank trial in the Suit for $10,000 damages against his Client by Mrs. J. W. Coleman, mother of Mary Phagan, resulted yesterday in the abandonment of the proposed hearing scheduled at the County Jail. It was proposed that Jim Conley and Leo Frank give testimony before a Deputized Commissioner to the effect that Mary Phagan was slain in the Pencil Factory Building. Attorney Rosser, on behalf of the Pencil Plant, had objected to the acceptance of the trial evidence. Conley and Frank, therefore, were subpoenaed to testify to the Fact that the girl had been killed on the Pencil Factory premises, and to circumstances surrounding her death. The Hearing was set for 3 o’Clock. Conley left the Office of Solicitor Dorsey in time to reach the Hearing, but was told at the Jail that the Session had been called off. Conley was released from Bellwood Convict Camp Tuesday night. He appeared at Dorsey’s Office Wednesday morning, de