1915 May 31 Atlanta Constitution 8 Pages Georgia
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1915 May 31 Atlanta Constitution 8 Pages Georgia
Author: Atlanta Constitution
Year: 1915
PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 1 LEO FRANK’S PLEA FOR COMMUTATION TO BE HEARD TODAY Solicitor Dorsey Has Not Yet Announced Whether He Will Make Oral Argu- ment Against Clemency. COMMISSIONERS HERE READY FOR HEARING Large Number of Delega- tions Will Appear to Make Appeals for the Prisoner. Chicago Party Arrives. PLEA FOR FRANK. “The 200,000 women I represent do not argue the innocence or guilt of Leo Frank. Our Plea is purely Humanitarian. We feel that there is an element of doubt in the Case, and we are supported by the expression from Judge Roan. We think that Frank should be given time to prove either his guilt or innocence. We plead that Georgia should not slay a man who is likely to be innocent of the crime with which he is charged. It is no time to quibble about the technicalities of the law.— Mrs. M. DeLaney Fisher, of Chicago. Georgia’s Prison Commission will meet this morning at 10 o’clock at the Capitol for the Purpose of giving a Hearing to the Petition for Commutation from Death to life imprisonment of the Sentence of Leo M. Frank, condemned to die for the murder of Mary Phagan. The length of the Hearing is undetermined. Frank’s Attorneys believe it may be finished in a day, but ot