Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-27
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At Tackled
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Attorney Arnold, for Frank, Says
Juror Planned to Get on Panel
to Hang Accused.

A recess in the hearing on a
new tria3 for Leo M. Frank was
taken at 3 AS O'Clock Saturday
afternoon as Attorney Reuben
Arnold was in the midst of a
scathing denunciation of A. H.
Henslee. who, the lawyer de-
clared, had lain in wait in cold
blood to get on the jury that he
might use his influence in con-
victing the defendant.
"He got there for no other
purpose, asserted the lawyer.
"The afidavits show that Hens
lee deliberately went into the
jury box with his mind poisoned
against Frank and that the virus
of his prejudice very easily might
have spread to other members of
the jury
Attorney A-ncld laid great stress
upon the fact lnaL q great outbreak
Of cheering and shouting had taken
place about the courtroom before the
polling of the verdict had been COM
pleted. He declared that Judge Roam
under the law must give the defend
ant a new trial on this ground, If
there were no others to be considered.
/ He held, and read legal citations to
support his contention, that a verdict
rs not complete until every man has
been polled and that the verdict was
INITIATED "by the savages who stood
outside on the street and shouted and
cried for blood and leaped with Joy
because a man was to be condemned
to DEATH
Arnold's reasons and narration of
the facts Of the case repeatedly were
illumineJ by blazes of wrathful de-
nunciation of the manner In which
the case against Ere nix had been con-
Quoted by Solicitor General DORIS sy
and Of the "scowling. vicious crowd .
which he represented as crying like
ravening wolves for the life of the
defendant.
"All the Solicitor had to do" he
shouted, was to pour blood down
their threats and they were satisfied"
He charged Dorsey with playing to
warpIng the evidence so as to draw
the most ridiculous and fantastic con-
illusions with which to gull the jurors,
and with being a party to the gigan-
tic conspiracy to send an innocent
man to the gibbet.
The jurv," he observed. was per-
fectly willing to swallow anything
the more improbable and grotesque,
the better. No evidence was worth a
bauble before that scowling. vicious
mob. They were pack of wolves
thirsting for blood"
Says Dorsey Misrepresented.
Did you ever hear of case" Ar
mold asked, where so many outside
things entered to damn a man? The
Solicitor was willing to use any
means, no matter how unfair, to con-
vict this man. Russia isn't much
worse than this. The Solicitor was
a party to the inquisition which was
forced on Minola Mcknight Illegal
methods were used to get this hys-
terical negro woman to agree to the
horrible story her husband had fixed
up. And this was after the Solicitor
already had one affidavit from her in
which she denied every detail of that
fabrication of her husbands.
The Solicitor defiantly admitted
that he did it and was proud of it
But he and the detectives committed
crime against her so great that II
she had taken a pistol and killed ev-
cry one of them, manslaughter would
have been the worst charge that
could have been lodged against her.
Tramp Surer of Justice.
Why. before some juries, tramp
has a better chance of justice than
man of moderate means and unim-
pcachable reputation. 1t has come to
a pass that a man of means Is worse
off in a court of justice than bum
and a tramp, so fearful are juries
of public opinion.
The attitude of the prosecution
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