Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-27
DORSEY CHARGED
WITH HEAD
HUNTING
Arnold Declares Solicitor and
Police Appealed to Mob Spirit
for Conviction.
Continued From Page I.

in one case where he had denied being
in Albany on July s it conclusively
had been proved by the hotel regis
ter and by a carbon copy of an order
which Henslee himself had signed,
that he was there on that date.
Arnold contended that he had made
out a plain and indisputable case of
prejudice and bias against Henslee
by persons of unblemished reputation
and standing in their respective com
munlties.
II am arguing this point of Hens
lees prejudice" he said, Just the
same as though II were before the
trial and / were resisting the selec-
ton of Henslee as juror and | want
your honor TO consider it in the
same light If at that time you would
have considered him incompetent to
serve because of the plainly indicated
prejudice and bdas, then you can do
nothing less now than to decided that
he was incompetent and that the YER
dict, therefore, was vitiated by his
selection and by the probability that
he poisoned the minds of the other
jurors against the defendant.
Rosser Interrupts Arnold.
III your honor turns us down on
this ground there never will be a
ground of this sort that will be good
any more"
Luther Rosser, chief of counsel for
Frank, interrupted Arnold at one
point to make the charge that the
pencil memorandum purporting to
have been made by Henslee of his
daily movements about the state as
a salesman had been entered all at
one time by HenSee after the charges
had been made against him. The
memorandum was submitted by Dor
sey as an exhibit in Henslee's de-
Tense.
Police Are Attacked.
) THE Solicitor and the detectiv IS
!. were just going to get Frank nolens
Volens," was the opening declaration
Of Attorney Arnold when the hear
ing on a new trial resumed Monday
morning. THE indictment against
Frank was brought before the Grand
Jury ever knew about Conley's con-
fession before there ever was any
thing to warrant tn" indictment !
just want to show the spirit that has
pervaded the investigation all the
way through.
"The Solicitor contends that Con-
leys story damns Frank. but this
indictment was drawn and returned
before ever the grand jurors were
aware of the negro's statements and
before there was anything to connect
Frank with the crime except his free
and voluntary admission that he was
in the factory at the time Mary Pha-
gan came in to get her pay.
Question OF Perversion.
People have been only too eager
to believe Frank a pervert. But from
what source did they get their infor-
person, the miserable lying Jim Con
ley, who knew his own neck was at
stake. am making no charges but
it required only the merest sugges-
ton from the detectives to persuade
Conley to utter this infamous and
diaboiical lie against Frank in order
to save his own neck.
What we've the detectives doing
with Conley all the time they had
him? The States own witness, De-
tectiye Harry Scott, admitted that
and prompted the negro and pointed
out to him the weak spots in his
story and made him revise II.
THE Solicitor claims that all the
circumstances and all the testimony
of the case sustain Jim Conley's story,
but the fact of the matter is that
Conley's story never was corroborated
except in the facts which the detec-
tives knew before they had Conley's
confession and to which the confess
sion itself was made to conform.
THE jury was taking sound, and
not sense. in this trial. Conley was
not sustained by Monteen Slower.
Far from it. His story was patched
up to At her testimony"
The lawyer went over each incl
dent and each particle OF testimony
by which the Solicitor argued during
the trial that Conley was sustained.
Arnold contended that Conley was
supported by none of the citations of
Dorsey. and advanced his reasons.
Arnold laughed at the idea that
Conley watched at Franks direction
while women visited the pencil fac
tory office.
ITO have a Waterman involved
taking another man into his conf
dence in his alleged immoral prac-
tice," argued Attorney Arnold,