Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
.R0SSER, DENYING SLUSH
FUND, DECLARES FRANKS
CASE COST HIM MONEY

the only sign OF amity during the
hearing The Solicitor took occasion
to deny that he had charged Arnold
with deliberate falsehood, as he had
been quoted, and Arnold replied that
he had taken no umbrage at the pub
lshed report as he took it for grant
ed that the Solicitor had been misin-
terpreted
MY friend Dorsey's words were
charged with dirty insinuations thai
slush fund had been collected" said
Rosser He sneered at this myth
ical fund and the effort TO lead thu
jury to believe that huge amounts
had been gathered to save Frank
from the gallows.
NO Evidence OF Fund.
Much was said about the pur-
chasing power of money without one
line Of evidence in support. All these
statements were utterly. miserably
and pitiably false.
II do not regret that ! am in this
case. never have regretted it, 1t
has had its hardships, its heartburn
ings and it's drawbacks, but ] do not
regret that | am here.
But so far from hordes of money
coming from the four winds of the
heavens, assert that Mr.. Arnold and
myself are poorer to-day because we
ever heard of this case. For six long
months il has absorbed our life anc
our time. I'll open my books to any
honest, decent man to show that TINS
case has been a financial loss to me.
"My friend Dorsey asserted-and it
was so strange thing to do-that
Mr.. Arnold had attacked the whole
public of Atlanta. Is that what Dor
sey meant? If so, it was not true
Did he mean that Arnold criticised
that mob that howled about the court
house on that last dGy of the trial?
IL so. then make the most of 1t!
did he mean that mob that he so
cringingly represented? Then thank
God that ! don't represent them.
Crowd Not Representative.
There were some people there, but
they were not the people, not the pub
lie. Those people there were scream
ing with delight and qualification be-
cause they thought the blood OF a
human being was to be shed. Is that
the people my friend Dorsey so
bows to?
when the question was up as to
whether the revolving testimony of
Jim Conley was to be admitted and
when your honor permitted the filth
were some people who cheered and
cheered that this filth was to cover
the young man In the prisoners chair.
Is that the crowd that Dorsey so wor-
hips-as every politician worships,
reckon.
81 say this: II Dorsey approves of
all this-and he's my officer as well
as yours-then he isn't fit for his
job"
Praises Franks Character.
Rosser reiterated his belief in
Franks innocence and said that he
was as decent a man as the Solicitor
ever was or as he himself and Arnold
were.
Through Mr. Arnold" said Sollcl-
tor Dorsey in his closing speech, the
defendant in this case has charged
us with all kinds of crimes and trea-
sons. | suggest that Mr. Arnold rid
from his mind and heart all of this
miasma and putrefaction with which
his thoughts evidently are afflicted.
He can not be content with any mild
remedial measure His condition will
require the most drastic treatment.
IF he will purge himself of some
of the unjust suspicious he has eX-
pressed he may regain much of the
disinterestedness that goes with
proper perspective He will regain
the esteem of highly abused and
much maligned public whom he has
vilified without measure. Neither his
whine nor his snort ever will do it.
The public he has maligned knows
well enough whether it is the prose-
cution or the defense that is clean.
1T is monstrous to assume that old
John Starnes is corrupt and cold
blooded headhunter, 1t is monstrous
to assume that Pat Campbell and all