1915 May 28 Atlanta Constitution 10 Pages Georgia
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1915 May 28 Atlanta Constitution 10 Pages Georgia
Author: Atlanta Constitution
Year: 1915
PDF PAGE 7, COLUMN 3 DORSEY’S COURSE STILL UNDECIDED Solicitor Has Not yet An- nounced Whether He Will Appear Before Prison Com- mission in Frank Hearing. Committee Coming to Atlanta. Chicago, May 27.—Representatives of Leo M. Frank Committee and the Anti-Capital Punishment Society today appointed a Committee to wait upon the Governor of Georgia in the interest of Clemency for Frank, Sentenced to Death. On the Committee are Judge John M. O’Connor, Chief Justice of the Criminal Court; Rev. Johnstone Meyers, Pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, and Mrs. Mary Blaney Fisher, representing women’s Organizations with a membership of 200,000. The Committee will leave tomorrow night. It all depends upon the attitude of the Prison Commission toward his Reply to the Appeal for Commutation, and the Attitude of the lawyers for the doomed man, whether or not Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey will appear before the Board to combat the move to give Leo Frank Life Imprisonment instead of Death. Dorsey himself is non-committal, except to say that he is undecided. It is understood that if the Prison Board gives his written Reply to the Frank Appeal full and thorough consideration, and if the Attorneys for Frank