Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-19
BEST Of HIS
FORCE PUT
On CASE
"We're Going to Go Deep, No
Matter Whom 1t Hits" De-
cIares Famous SIeuth.

The entrance eof William ]. Burns,
regarded by many as Americas great
est detective, into the South's most
battling murder mystery was the SUD-
iect of interested comment Thursday
wherever the Frank case was under
discussion.
Coming just as the Supreme Court
of the State had handed down it's SOL
emn announcement that Leo Frank
had been accorded a fair trial under
the laws of Georgia and was not en-
titled to another chance for his life,
the startling news that Burns had
been engaged on the case had an ele-
ment of the dramatic and spectacu-
lar
Ii also furnished food for the spec
ulation as to what he could hope 10
accomplish or what he might aim to
uncover after the mystery had been
scrutinized, overhauled and fine
tooth-combed by Atlanta's entire de-
tective department and part of he
police department, the Pinkertons,
special operatives from outside. the
Solicitors office, the Coroner's jury
and the Grand Jury, jury in the Su-
perior Court Judge Roam, and, finally,
the Supreme Court of the State.
viii Make Thorough Probe.
Detective Burns made his attitude
in the case plain at once in conver-
sation with The Georgian. He said;
1T is true that I have been inter-
ested in the case by friends of Frank,
but wish to say at the outset that l
have not been engaged to clear Frank.
The terms on which l have under
taken the work are only that / shall
make a thorough and impartial IN
yestigaton, regardless of whom i
may hit
Something may have been over
looked or neglected in the original m
vestigation and l may be able to tind
this. 1t may help Frank or it may
serve more surely to condemn him.
| shall work without any fear or IA
Vor. whatever my Investigations may
develop The experience has not
been unsual for me and my operatives
to find that the very clients who were
engaging US, themselves, or those IN
Nhom they were interested, were the
ones whom our investigation uncoV-
cred as the real culprits. This never
has deferred us. We do not propose
TO trim because our own client or
ms friends are the ones hit.
We hope to have the cooperation
OF the Atlanta detective force and the
Solicitors office 1t is not at all our
intention to tear down their work SO
long as we are convinced hat they
have been correct in their premises.
On the contrary, our investigation
viii serve to reinforce what they have
done If Frank is the guilty man.
Can Not Predict Result.
If he is not, they would be as un-
wiling as anyone else that an inno-
cent man should be punished and
would be the first to offer assistance
IN finding the real murderer.
II is impossible to predict What
our work on the case may add to it
You may be sure that we are not
gong to do anything uncanny. We
snail approach it in a common sense
hatter-of-fact manner, and try to
Sausty the public as to the eprson
VINO slew Mary Phagan. We shall
review the case from IT'S beginning
we shall endeavor to overlook moth
'hg, however slight, which may throw
any light on the mystery, if it proves
10 be mystery"
MT Burns will have personal
Sharge Of the investigation. He will
return to Atlanta the early part of
next week, after he fills several lee
tlfe dates in other Southern cities.
he viii have with him in the direc-
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