Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-25
JURYMAN IS
At Tackled AS
PLOT TER
Attorney Arnold, for Frank, Says
Juror Planned to Get on Panel
to Hang Accused,

A recess in the hearing ON a
new trial 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-
olared, 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 Arnold laid great stress
upon the fact that a 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
is not complete until every man has
been polled and that the verdict was
vitiated "by the savages who stood
outside on the street and shouted and
cried for blood and leaped with joy
because man was to be condemned
to DEATH
Arnold's reasons and narration Of
the facts of the case repeatedly were
illumined by blazes Of wrathful de-
nunciation of the manner in which
the case against Frank had been con-
Quoted by Solicitor General Dorsey
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
the grandstand; with corrupting and
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 jury" 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 a 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-
yict this man. Russia isn't much
worse than this. The Solicitor was
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 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, q tramp
| has a better chance of justice than
a man of moderate means and unim-
| peachable reputation. It has come to
| a pass that a man of means is worse
! off in a court Of Justice than a bum
and a tramp, so fearful are juries
IF public opinion.
THE attitude Of the prosecution
! Continued on PAGE 2, Column 5.