The Washington times., 1915-03-14
Solicitor Dorsey Follows Franks Own Story
of Murder with lmpassoned Plea
for the Death Penalty
ADDS THEORIES TO THE EVIDENCE

Leo M Frank might have been acquitted of the murder of
Mary Phagan the National Pencil Factory Atlanta could his
have gone the jury without argument Immediately after
he finished his remarkable statement to the court.
His friends and lawyers entertained substantial hope of a
verdict of guilty when they noted how greatly the spectators
and jurors had been moved by the straightforward and impressive
account the prisoner of his movements the day the pretty
factory girl slan
Luther Rosser, che the Defense ii.
his eyes when he remarked to the reporters after Frank
down from the stand e didn't need lawyer boys That was
better plea and better argument than any lawyer in the world
could have made for him."
But Franks friends, in noushng this hope for acquittal
taking Dorsey account-Dorsey, the Solicitor Cen
era whose closing argument the jury makes the greater part
of this the ninth nsalmen of the Frank trial proceedings Their
optimism had obcured the fact that Dorsey out to hang the
prisoner and prepared every particle of logic and
nenave strategy his command bring the jury his
way of thinking, if they not already there.
The missing links in the States chain of circunstania evil
dence the Solicitor readily supplied with his theories and
positions and they sufficiently plausible seemed to become
at once part of the jurys theory of the crime.
.. FRANKS LAWYER REPLIES
Reuben R. Arnold associated with Rosser in the Defense
made the most thorough reply to Solicitor Dorsey in his argument
the motion for trial. submitted months after
Franks convictions 1t the only argument made by lawyer for
the defense taken Senographically. $780,.
The eighth stallment of the Frank trial proceedings pub
Sed this last week. contained the conclusion of Frank
statement to the jury and the beginning of Doey bitter attack
the prisoner Frank admitted he and unung
the morning the girls body found He had been taken the
morgue to identify the victim of the tragedy and the spectacle
he said enough to drive any to distraction.
The supposed blood spots the second floor which played
prominent part in establishing the States contention that the
murder committed there, and not the basement Frank
declared probably not blood spots all they he
asked, why that the States chemist unable to find any
trace of blood three of the chips taken from the floor at the
point the dark spot ound And granting that blood
he argued that might have been there for months years.
cordng to the States Witness and that might have been
caused by of the nnumerabe injuries that happening
the factory
The prisoner went minuey into his movements the day
f the tragedy and concluded with impressive denial that he
had knowledge of how Mary Pagan to her DEATH
Dorsey called attention at the opening Of his ecodbeakng
argunen-t the longest delivered in criminal trial in
Geogato the in which, he sd the attorneys for the
defense had abused and magned him. and indicated that the time
had for him reply AS his first act of repra he held
to dcue the proessed indignation of Franks lawyers at the