The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-04-30
THE eJEFFERSONIAN
The Frank Case; the Great Detective: and the
Frantic Efforts of Big Money TO Protect Crime
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t1loo0 A1OoU SIdII1yI discoveries IN New
York, in Philadelphia, and in other Northern
cities!
Were those "most gratifying" discoveries
merely a location of few more of the child
rem Of Israel who were willing to invest con-
fdence and cash in William j. Burns?
It would seem so.
headers Of this paper will remember that
my first article was not written until after
the Atlanta Journals infamous and illegal
assault upon our people and our courts
The Journal denounced the Supreme Court
and Judges L. S. Roam and Benjamin H. Hill
as being acconplices IN judicial murder
The case was then pending, the sentence not
having been carried out, and notice of an
Extraordinary Motion having been given.
If Judge Ben Hill had immediately ordered
the arrest Of John Cohen, Louie Goldstein
and James r. Gray, Of the Journal, he would
in my Judgment have done exactly right
The direct tendency of such an editorial
was to bring odium upon the courts, block
the orderly processes of the law, and to excite
a popular outbreak. Infinitely more con-
te1nptuous, seditious and dangerous was this
editorial IN the Journal, than was the COM
paritively harmless "card" in the C0nstitaS-
hoaa for which Judges Hill, Russell and Pot
tie fined Judge A. W. Fite $500.
1t was not until after the Joau7aa1s inflama-
tory and incendiary editorial, that I wrote
line about the case. But it had become evil
dent that all the papers in Atlanta wore
muzzles and that none of them would defend
the good name of the State, nor the integrity
of the judiciary from the base attack of the
Journal; and it did seem to me that some
body who knew the law and who had had
experience IN weighing evidence should speak
out against the well-laid plans Of Big Money
to save one Of the vilest Of criminals from
the just punishment Of the Law.
Ii 1t has come to pass IN this State, that a
man Of the employing class, buttressed by Big
Money, can trample upon the poor, and the
children of the poor-in devilish defiance Of
law, human and divine-then we are but a
step short of revolution. God knows, would
deplore such a dire calamity; but if the
Atlanta papers, and such lawless detectives"
as Burns, can work in successful collision with
the INSCRIPTIONS lawyers, and the Capitalists
who boast that Big Money can buy aa1yt15ing,
THEN WE ARE DREADFULLY CLOSE
TO Il POPULAR REVOLT!
Woe to those who provoke it,
In that first editorial, you will remember
my position, that the only question in the case
was
The e@tent to which the two men, Frank
and Conley, had co-operated in the commits
sion of the terrible crime on little Mary Pha-
gan.
That they aoere both implicated, no trained
lawyer could doubt. That they acted
together, was legally clear: the only possible
debate was over the part which each took.
Was it reasonable to suppose that the
employer of the negro followed his lead in
the crime? Or was it the more reasonable to
suppose that the negro servant followed the
lead Of his ach5te master?
Put that to your common sense, and the
answer is prompt: the white employer led