Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-25
FRANK VERDICT
PERSECUTION,
SAYS ARNOLD
Russian 0utrages on Jews Sur
passed by Atlanta Case, He
Declares to Judge Roam.
Continued From Page I.

would have disgusted the court aud
the spectators. The jury would have
returned verdict of not guilty with
out leaving their seats. Why was it
different in this case?
Have we taken leave OF our senses?
on as fimsy fabrication as ever
TX 80, man was condemned to death
was devised. No man in darkest
Russia ever suffered more unjustly. l
would not have believed it.
Lies From Beginning"
Lies were circulated from the first.
1t is not pleasant to admit it, but
falsehood travels faster than truth.
People like to believe the unusual. the
strange the revolving. Lies were
sworn TO that make me shudder. But
he prince of all the liars was Con-
ley IL that black wretch had any
conscience he some day would con-
Tess. But there's no wolf, no bear,
no hyena as devoid of conscience as
that niger A man never had a bet
Ter opportunity than was given, him 10
shift the crime he had committed on
10 the shoulders of another. All he
had to do was to answer the leading
questions that were fired at him by
the detectives. Why. Detective Scott
testified that they even went so far
a to point out the weak points in his
wierd tale and he forthwith patched
them up.
He made one affidavit Then he
made another, another and still an
other, each one differing from the one
that preceded There were the four
affidavits and then came the seven
interviews with the Solicitor TO which
The negro admitted on the stand, And
when he came to testify, his story no
more compared with that fourth af-
fidavit--his finale true, unalterabl
statement--than anything in the
world
rs your honor going to believe that
monstrous fake, or will you say that
it. at least is so incredible that you
will not forever pass on II by affirm
ing the verdict, but, instead, VIII grant
a new trial."
AT the outset nothing was found
against Frank. Nothing would have
been found against him had he not
voluntarily offered the information
that he was in the factory at IL
o'clock and that Mary Phagan came
in to get her pay from him..
1T was not until many days after
that the States own witness ad-
mitted that he was there, and many
others had the opportunity to be in
the factory at the time without the
tives had few facts that amounted
knowledge of anyone else. The detec-
10 nothing. Instead of using the facts
10 corroborate or disprove Conley S
story, they fixed up his story to fit the
facts.
''The most remarkable story tina
he negro tsed came a tthe last as
a climax In none of the four ar
tidavits had. Conley said anything
about the purse of Mary Phagan. To
reporters and others he had denied
Nver seeing il. He was on the stand
for hours under the direct examination
of Solicitor Dorsey and never men
Toned it. He was under the cross
examination of Mr.. Rosser two days
and there never was hint that he
had seen it.
Finally. when Mr. nors"'1 had him
on the redirect, he said: Well, what
about the purse, JIM and Jim said
oh. yes, / seen it laying on Mr.
Franks desk and he taken 1t and
put ii in the safe.
Says He DID Break Con'ey Down:
Some people have said: Why
didn't YOU break Conley down. The
ignorance OF some persons is astound-
ing. They think that in order to
break a witness down you have to
make him collapse on the stand.
They think that in order TO dlscredit
witness you have to knock him
down from the witness chair as you
would with an AK, but II any inteli-
gent person will look at the mass of
conflicting statements made by Con-
ley, his palpable lies and his instant
loss when he was asked about any
thing in which he had not been drill
ed, they will see whether or not he
was broken down. If there is lame
place in the jury system it is in the
gullibilty of the ordinary run Of
human beings; it is in the ease with
which jury may be hoodwinked and
the ease with which fraud may be
put over on them.
so plastered over with lies and
Contradictions was the negro that it
monstrous to say that he was dis
credited. Had he not been taken
away from the Jail to the police sta
ton, where he was drilled in his fan.
tastic tale, his fabrications would
have been still more apparent.
Scores Prosecutor Dorsey.
If Leo Frank is hanged. had rath-
er be Leo Frank dead and in my
grave than to be in the place OF Hugh
Dorsey who sent him there. 1t Is
certain that he led the jury off the
track, blinded their eyes with preju-
dice and the innuendo and accusation
IF every crime on the calendar. UP
10 the murder never a charge had
oeen made against the defendant. The
violence rose up out of the miasma
pf prejudice and came to confront us
nydraheaded throughout the trial,
When | think OF the thirst for
blood. the JOY that fills peoples hearts
o see some man swing from the glib
BET, feel ashamed for this nart of the
Iuman race. When man gets worked
10 into a frenzy of hatred, he is the
most Yenomous animal in the world"
Attorney Arnold was interrupted in
lis address by the closing Of the hear
ng. Before he concluded he charged
hat the controversy between Attor-
ley Thomas B. Fielder and Chief Il
Detectives Lanford had more TO do
with the stirring up OF prejudice
against Frank than any other single
Incident during the Investigation