Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-12-27

molly, has had long experience as
practicing lawyer and prosecuting at
torney. lie represented Golfers at
the trial Of Haywood ana Petubone in
Idaho, ana at the trial of the Mac
Namaras in Los Angeles, and IN other
important cASes)
MYTH the finding Of the body Of
w Mary phagan that Sunday
morning there began IN Atlanta a
public deDrum, which has hardly yet
after year and half subsided There
had been some l6 or Is women
murdered in Atlanta in the previous
two or three years, most Of them col
ored women None of the murderers
had been caught Two white women,
charged with tAe murders of their
husbands, had recently been ecquitted
by Atlanta jurita, Hack In 1906 thero
had been a riot, growing out or as
sauts and murders OF white women
i'm which some so negroes had been
shot or beaten TO death on the streets
OF Atlanta.
Immediately after the Phagan mur-
der tho mayor OF the city called a
special meeting Of the city council
10 consider the murder and the coun-
Gil offered n reward of $1,000, ms
rewards offered aggregated $4,000
The mayor ordered the chief OF police
to caution his men to keep th'
crowds moving on the streets and Il
quickly dispcrse gatherings where
the PhaGan tragedy was the topic o.
discussion.
The newspapers had editorials call
,Ffi,KaIa -. ~ fbt
murderer or murderers OF Mary
Phagau, or suffer the political consc
uuences. The Atlanta Constitution
said editorally two days after tn
discovery Of Mary Phagan's body:
THE detective force and the entir'
police authorities OF Atlanta are OF
probation IN the detection and arres
OF this criminal with proof To justif.
the confidence that Is placed In then
and the relation they are assumed L
hold toward law and order they mus
locate this Rrchmurderer
If ever the men who ferret crime an
uphold the Law in Atlanta are to JUS
tify their function, II must be In ap
pretending tho assailant and mur
derer OF Mary Phagan."
Another newspaper expressed IN
same thought in a cartoon In Whic
the spirit OF the community wa
pictured in figure pointing dramatl
Callv and underneath the words
Solve it, This newspaper hysteri
was but ono element in the storr
cloud OF passion and politics whic
surrounded the case.
The police. pauic-strickcn by thei
own sense OF official incompetency a
shown By fun page newspaper &C
counts of Atlanta murders now re
called that had nev,r been traced
and soaded by public clamOr and tn
lidicule BY the newspapers Of the
former failures, sought to appease IN
public wrath by the immediate al
rest Of two men. the one who ha
seen Mary PhaGan last alive and IN
one who had discovered the bod
That al first they believed Newt l,t
guilty is proved by the fact that the
cot access 10 Newt Lees house, an
that on the next day "A bloody
shirt belonging TO Lee was found !
them in a trash barrel in Lees hous
scientific ossWiUatlou of the shl
disclosed hat It had been clumsiI
swonred The police, finally col
viuced of Lees innocence, no
ceulnrrd ,hcjr attention on Fran
ard Jho act mat Frank was Je
add.5 .url 10 the popular indignat'
OF g.. Hour and eliminated In a bla
oi racial prejudice which charred
footprints Of the crime.
''Nu jew In modern times, -
Colonel Peudleton H. Brewster, Ia
partner vi solicitor General Dorse
VINO prosecuted Frank, has be'
persacuted as this Jew has been.
Tom" Watson's magazine, 4
Jsti4rsonian, which is published ne
Atlanta, said
"Our nttle girl-ours by the etern
God, has been pursued to hidoo
death and bloody grave by this INT
perverted jew of New York
Whcn william j. Burns by the de
ferrous ruse Of his southern manage
IAN Iehon. escaped from the IN
saout 10 hang him at Marietta I
former nome OF Mary Phasan, I
leader Of the gathering crowd a
proacied Burns, shouting: rs III
YOU Burns Is that William
Buns. tho man who sold out to I
Java" ard the JefferSonian, tustii
Inc tine action of the mob, said IN
Rrrns came bocstingly confide
and virtually saying that the RI
jews of Atlouta, New York and Cl
cago would not allow Frank to
hanged"
The solicitor general, though adro
E having tribute TO the Jewish race
MS Z tIifll' 10 AAlN JA'lf l''''''
that when Becker wished TO put
death his bitter enemy, IT was men
Franks race no so!,cted.' lie
Cerred to Abe Hummel, tho law!
who went To the penitenuary IN \
York" and Abe Reuf, who went
the pcnitentiary IN san Francisco.
Poicc Methods.
We have seen how there came 10
the stories of witnesses" from
brotheiS and dives A little girl
sent 10 a refOrmatory in Cinclnnl
Tho story was circulated Frank
respousible for her downfall l
police approached another girl "
had fallen and cndcavored 10 get
10 swear that Frank was responsl
FOR her disgrace. \ former 10
woman OF the pencil factory made
fidavit after Franks conviction {
threa of tho detectives prominent
Gathering evidence against FRA
sourht to have her GiNc certain SCI
dalous testimony against Frank.
Another young woman made a
davit that ono Of these same det
,ives tried to get her to tell the ga
story her married sister atterw
Aid tell at the coroners inquest
sardina Frank Many people in
Ianta beiievc that on the walls
Franks office WAS an art gallery
Iewd pictures The only foundat
for this story was business calen
Illuminated with a pretty face. Tn
stories convicted Frank in the pu