Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16
FINDS
NEW FRANK
EVIDENCE
Solicitor Declares Prosecutions
Plans Are Unchanged-Doesn't
Expect ConIey Indictment,

That affidavits as sensational and
| direct against Leo NJ. Frank, accused
Of numbering Mary Phagan, as the
! Mincey statement was against the
negro. Jim Conley, are in the hands
of the State and will be substantiated
! by witnesses at the trial, July %,
was admitted by Solicitor General
Hugh NJ. Dorsey Wednesday morning
The Solicitor and Frank A. Hooper,
associated with him in the prosecu-
ton. made it plain that in their opin-
ion the Mincey ahidavit had in no
| way hurt the States case against
| Frank, and that they could anticipate
no development that would make Con-
| ley instead of Frank the principal in
| Atlanta's greatest murder mystery.
They say they do not expect the
Grand Jury to indict the negro beeora
the trial of Frank, and do not hest
/ tate to say that any move in that di-
rection will meet with opposition from
| the Solicitor, who would necessarily
| have to introduce witnesses to secure
| the indictment.
States Case Complete.
"The States case is complete and
viii not be changed said Solicitor
Dorsey we investigated the allega-
tons in the Mincey affidavit before
! and after Conley made the confess
sion that he helped Frank dispose Of
the body of Mary Phagan. The de-
Tense has not looked into Conleys
past and the possibility of his being
the guilty man any more thoroughly
| than has my office. We have even set
up a theoretical case around the ne
gro, but it would not hold water when
we weighed the evidence.
We had several anonymous COM
municatiOns similar to the Mincey
statement, and we investigated each
one thoroughly. Our search always
led to the same point and the same
conclusions. We will go into the trial
with Frank and not the negro as the
accused. and on the eve of what will
unquestionably be the greatest legal
battle in the history of Georgia Grim
inal courts we are confident our case
Will stand the strain"
The Solicitor put a corps of ste
nographers at work on the documen-
| tary evidence Wednesday From the
I vg1vr #v~vn wi lrn hEA Of
than 100 pages each he has edited the
statements and cut out what would
not be used at the trial
Courtroom Set for Trial
From the statements he selected the
witnesses and the order in which he
would introduce them, and the first
of next week will call them again to
his office 10 go over the ground with
them thoroughly. Many of the wit
nesses who were examined at great
length at the Coroner's Investigation
and one or two that went before the
Grand Jury will not be used, because /
their evidence, while of value then
will be Of no Importance at the trial
While the Pinkerton detectives are
not actively at work on the case any
longer, Solicitor Dorsey has kept two
city detectives, Campbell and Starnes |
constantly engaged.
Deputy Sheriff Plennie Miner, who
will have charge of the courtroom
during the trial. Wednesday began
making his preparations.
He announced that he would not
put any additional seats in the court
room nor make any change except to
arrange a table tor the newspaper
men, who. with the lawyers directly
interested in the case, will be the only
ones allowed inside the Enclosure Of
the judges bench.
The benches outside the Enclosure
will not accommodate more than 300
spectators, and when this number is
in the courtroom the doors will be
closed