Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09

ing on earth would ever have in
duced me TO admit that ! had seen
and talktd with Mary Phagin only a
few moments before the time when
the prosecution claims she was killed.
If, therefore. | did not hesitate TO say
that | had seen her and talked with
her, what object could / have had in
misstating the time?"
Didn't Hurry Mrs. White.
Concerning the assertion of the
State that Frank was eager to get
Mrs. White out of the factory and
that he did not mention in his state
ment to the police that Lemmie Quinn
had been in his Office he says:
Il was in no hurry to get Mrs
White or anyone else out of the fac
tory that afternoon. | merely told
her that she would have to go unless
she wanted to be locked in with the
two worSmen then at work on the
fourth floor, as was going home to
lunch and was going TO lock up the
factory. | said nothing about haste
AS to the visit of Lemmie Quinn,
and my failure to mention it to the
police the matter simply had slipped
my mind, although it was circum-
stance favorable to me. AS soon as
Quinn referred to the fact himself, !
recalled it oat once. So far from
telling him to say nothing to the po-
lice until | had consulted with my
lawyers, l told him to tell the truth
told him | would report the fact to
my lawyers. and | did so, because
was not certain just what the police
were claiming at that time, and did
not know what bearing Quinn's visit
would have as evidence"
And here is a point that has been
talked about as much, probably, as
any other in, the trial Again and
again 1t has been asked, "If Frank
was innocent of any misconduct. why
did not his lawyers cross examine the
character witnesses put on by the
State, who sWore that. his character
was bad?'
This is what Leo Frank says him
self
Tells of Dalton's Testimony.
MY experience with Dalton. the
first character witness against me.
had given me and my attorneys fair
warning what To expect from the So
called character witnesses. Here was
man upon whom ! never had laid
eyes before he took his seat in the
witness chair, and of whom had
never heard, and yet he swore SOL
EMMY 10 acts and doings with me
that were utterly and absolutely un
true and without the slightest foun
dation.
My lawyers decided that il they
cIoSs- examined these so-called char
acter witnesses against me, it would
merely be a way of allowing these
hostile people to tell all they. had
heard about me in the way OF vile
slander--not what they knew, which
was nothing. My lawyers felt that
these witnesses had been loaded with
ISLANDERS about me just for the pur-
poses Of cross examination. They did
hot want to give them the chance l."
repeat malicious tales against me
which they had no opportunity to in
VeStigate or answer"
As TO the terms prejudice" and
persecution" Frank asserts that the
prosecution of himself became perse-
cution from the moment of discovery
of a negro brute" with knowledge of
the crime, admitting that he wrote
the notes found by the dead girls
body, after steadily denying that he
could write at all, and finally, after
repeated visits by detectives and the
solicitor" inNenting a "preposterous
and unbelievable tale putting the
crime ON the man previously arrested
ir order TO save his own neck.
And MS for prejudice" said Frank.
81 should say that the influence OF
prejudice was evident from the mo-
meut that it was sought to convict
NE, at all costs, after il was shown
that another had full opportunity to
commit the crime"