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New Britain herald., 1915-06-01

Franks counsel stated, obvisl necessity of extending argun{
 Frank Not Present.
 Frank did not attend Che ings, but his wife was present \ out.
 w. M. Howard. who c1 Franks application, subrnift2 records, petitions from ler' and societies and letters fron inent lawyers, jurists and Several we'll known Georgia and judges made oral pleas fn' behalf and arguments were p by ex-Governor Foss of Masxa< heading a delegation of the | dtnt Sons of Irsraei; 5onn M. TOT. chief justice of the crimif| of Cook county, Illinois, repr the Chicago Frank commiff<> Mary Delaney Fisher of Chics rcsenting 2oo,00 woner from the country. whose petftIon s sented. and others.
 Analysis of Court Rooop'
 MT. Howard offered ia evids analysis of the court record ing the murder notes'' found Mary Phagan,s body, ana played an important part in kh This analysis, MT. Howard 6< Nas introduced to show that Conley. who is serving pr4s. tence as accessory after the Il conceived and wrote the notes ley testified Frank dictated tho
New Britain herald., 1915-06-01

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New Britain herald., 1915-06-01
AMERICANS LEAVING GERMANY

London. June 1, 3:16 a. m. Dur ing the past few days positive exo- dus of Americans from Germany to Switzerland has been taking place, says the Morning Posts Berne correspondent. Many of the ,arrivels have been residents of Germany for years. They declare that the popular feeling against Americans in some places makes it intolerable, if not unsafe, for them to remain"
New Britain herald., 1915-06-01

restricted and limited, according to my interpretation of tine decisions of the reviewing court, I allowed the 1ury's verdict to remain undisturbed. T had no way of knowing it was erroneous.
 After many months of continued collaboration I am still uncertain of Franks guilt. This state of uncer- tainty is largely due to the character of the negro Conley's testimony, by which the verdict was evidently reached.
 Judge Promised Aid.
 Therefore, I consider this case in which the chief magistrate of the state should exert every effort in as- containing the truth. The execution of any person whose guilt has not been satisfactorily proven to the constituted authorities is too horrible to contem- rlate. I do not believe that a person should meet with the extreme penalty of the law until the court, jury and governor all shall have been satisfied of that persons guilt. Hence. at the proper time. I shall express and en- large upon these views directly to the governor and to the prison commis- sion.
 However. if for any cause, I am prevented from doing this, you are at liberty to use this letter at the hear ing"
 Letter Was Surprise.
 The reading of Judge Roan's letter was attended with unusual interest as :ts existence had not peen publicly kpcur ,Intil Guuday and fha cortents had not been divulged previous to the hearing yesterday.
 The hearing on Franks petition was concluded late yesterday and the prison commission took the matter under advisement. A decision is not expected under a week. No one ap- pcared in opposition. to the petition.
 Production of Judge Roan's letter,
New Britain herald., 1915-06-01
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 STRAW MATTINGS

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New Britain herald., 1915-06-01

ce ded by all to be un-American and intolerable.
 Prof. Stevenson's Article
 If the Colorado record were not sufficient to give us the color and bent of the mind of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. we should still have perfect record of his mental processes in the erticle by Professor Stevenson which he endorsed as one of the soundest and most formidable presentments upon the subject of cap.ral and labor he had ever seen. MT. Rockefellers persistent effort to conceal from the rublic his true thought has failed as z. result of this revelation. It does TO injustice to the spirit of the article which MT. Rockefeller so lavishly lraiscd to call attention ro that por- ton af it in which Professor Steven sen conceded, for the sake of argu- ment, that 100000 little children die annually in America on account of under-nourishment of themselves or their parents, and asserts that their deaths must be conceded to be bless ing to themselves and to the com nnunity, adding that such children should not have been born and that ] labor Is mere animated ina- cEinery.'
 With the record of the Colorado before them, rne Ameri- can people will be blind indeed, if they fail to see the folly of trusting to ths good intentions and the philan- thropic impulses of men like the Messrs. Rockefeller, and if they do not realize that the men who lead q strike, such as that of the miners ia Colorado, are fighting the same old fight for liberty and democracy, against an enemy as powerful and menacing as any ever faced by our evolutionary fathers
 Tn introducing his statement, Mir. Walsh said
 Records Open to Public.
 With the close of the Washington hearing the commission has practical ly completed it's investigation of the Colorado strike. The American peo- pie now have access to a public record which for the first time i'll the history cf the country tells the whole story of how monopolistic property interests go about when they wish to crush a revolt against industrial despotisn1, and thus retain their arbitrary power over the lives of men, women and children.
 T favored the commission probing to the bottom this particular social cancer because realized that the struggle in Colorado was not local or peculiar in character, but presented as 1t were, great laboratory in which every angle of the 1apor problem could be observed and studied, and, in my opinion, the indispuraple facts de- veloped furnish striking illustration Of what happens anywhere when the workers In their struggle for economic freedom run counter to the financial interests and to the love of arbitrary power of such men as Messrs. Rocke- feller.''
 To Report on Findings. Chairman Walsh announced that the commission had completed it's hearings on industrial conditions throughout the country and would as- semble in Chicago within the next ten days to prepare report of it's findings "No experts will prepare this report. The commission will write It, said he.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-01
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New Britain herald., 1915-06-01
Real Worth Us. Low Cost

If you asked your but cher for a port erhouse steak and he handed you a cut of the flank and said, "This doesn't cost as much and is just as good," you wouldn't believe him, would you?
 Yet the butcher's stat ement Is just as truthful as the asser- tion that inf erior baking pow ders made of alum or phosphate of lime are as good as Royal, which is made from cream of tartar. Alum is mineral acid salt, declared by many medical authori- ties unsafe to use in food.
 Royal Baking Powder is as pure and who'll es one as the vineyard grapes from which it's cream of tartar is derived.
 The only reason for using such substitutes as alum and lime phosphate is because their cost Is less to the manuf acturer.
 ROYAL BAKING POWDER co.
 New York
New Britain herald., 1915-06-01
TRIAL JUDGE WROTE
 APPEAL FOR FRANK
Late Judge Roan Expressed Doubt
 Of Condemned Mans Guilt

Atlanta, Ga, June IA letter written by the late Judge L. s. Roan, who presided at Leo M. Franks trial, urging clemency for Frank. was pre- sented at the opening session yester- day of the hearing on Franks ap- riication for commutation of sentence before the state prison commission The letter, dated in December, 1914, was addressed to Luther z. Rosser and Reuben R. Arnold, Franks principal counsel at his trial. Juoge Roan died in New York last March. The letter said:
 After considering your communi- cation asking that I recommend clem- ency in the punishment of Leo M. Frank, wish to say that at the proper time shall ask the prison commis- sion to recommend and the governor to commute Franks sentence to life i'm prisonment.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-01
SWAMP. ROOT.

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 Address pr, Kilmer q CO. ninr1| N. Ys and enclose ten censs. slss r| the New Britain Daily Herald.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-07-01
TIE .JEFFERSONEAN


qcouzd be, that she entered Franks office
and did not go into the inner room where
Frank claimed to have been at work.
THE only way to reconcile her evidenced
Reconcile 1t qoith aohot?
Nobody contradicted her, and no attempt
was made to impeach her.
On the contrary, the Burns gang, and
Burns himself, made every effort to persuade
and scare her into changing it.
Frank did not dare to positively contra
dict Monteen; and he, therefore, invented
that unconscious" fve-minute stay In the
water closet.
But Slaton manufactures a reconciliation
between a positive witness and an imaginary
contradiction, by supposing that Monteen
went to the outer office, only, and did not
see Frank, III the open inner office.
She had come for her money, and was so
anxious to get it that she qcaited an the
office fee minutes; but she couldn't hear
Frank or see him. in the next room, whose
door was open! Such is the hypothesis OF
John NJ. Slaton, whose partner cross-exam-
med Monteen on this very point and brought
out her answer
Il went through the first office into the
second'-the inner office
Partner Rosser heard the girl swear pos
itivey that she searched for Frank in both
his Offices; but Partner Slaton surlnises that
she stopped in the first, and did not 90 into
the second.
In other words, Partner Szaton ar6it1m.5zy
rejects the testimony Of an uoin2peacbed
c5tness, AND DISCARDS TIE HOST
FATAL EVIDENCE ~ THE CASE.
The jury took it and believed it: but
Partner Slaton reconcizes IL out Of existence.
Is Governor honest, when he violates the
law in that astounding manner?
IgE his theory Of rncOnci1 iafion 5GoI,fy1nT
Slaton gave to his law firms client, chance
for his life which no other human agency
had dared to propose.
If Frank was in his office, at the time that
Monteen swears he wasn't, then he is ac-
counted for at the very time that Mary was
being killed.
Monteen having been eliminated, and
Frank placed back in his office, it is neces-
sariy Conley who attacks Mary
Thus the gubernatorial partner Of the law
firm Of Rosser, Slaton & Phillips, clears
their client, by the simple method Of de-
stroying the evidence qohich connected him.
Judge Roam couldn't do it, the jury
couldn't do it, the two Supreme Courts
couldn't do it; but Partner Slaton could.
William J. Burns, Sam Boorstein, Rabbi
Marx, G. W. Burke and Dan Lehon put
themselves to lot of unnecessary trouble in
trying to persuade, and to brighten Monteen
into changing her evidence.
Partner Slaton argues that Mary got to
the factory after Monteen left. This would
place her in Franks office at about 1912,
Slaton thinks.
But Frank had already fixed the time
THRICE, before he hneao Of Nonteen's visit;;
and in each of Franks positive statements,
so made, Mary goes into his office qoAize
Nontoem IS there, looking for, and aoaiting
for, the absent Frank
Frank not only told Scott and Black, and
then Chief Lanford about Mary Phagan
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-07-01


gave the world ''the gist Of the States case,
emitting many incidents which the State
claims would confirm Franks guilt when
taken In their entirety"
What are these many incidents?
Surely, we could have dispensed with the
Declaration of Independence, and with the
discarded stories of Coney-in fact, we
could have dispensed with Conley altogether,
If thereby we could have put before the
public, in the Governors official document,
the many incidents which confirm Franks
guilt
AS set forth by Governor olaton, the facts
proved by the State made no case of circum-
stantial evidence at all!
If Governor Slaton's document had been
prepared by one OF the attorneys for the
prisoner, it could not have more slurringly
skinned over the white folks evidence, the
undisputed facts, and the physical circum-
stances which convicted and will always
convict, Leo Frank
In his official defense of himself, Governor
Slaton uses more than tacozue closely printed
columns In the Atlanta Georgian, and about
one-hazf of this space, is taken up with his
attack on the negro. Jim Conley.
But there is one fact Slat0n never men
tons, and that fact outweighs his fve=col-
umn attack on the negro. It is this:
Leo F1u1h knee, on Saturday, April Goth,
1913, that Jim C0n1ey, the negro, qoas the
only other man IN that building arho could
d0re assaulted and killed the gir1' and he,
Leo Frank, never once limited suspicion
against the negro, until after the negro con-
fessed, and told how Mary was murdered.
Why did John NJ Slaton never allude to
that tremendous fact?
Harry Denham and Arthur White were
ON the fourth floor, tearing down an old par
luton and putting up a new one. They
could not have committed the crime
Newt Lee, the negro night-watch, was at
home asleep, and he could not have done it.
Jim Conley on the street-hoor, and Frank
on the next floor above, were the only two
men who could have seen Mary Phagan
come into the factory.
If Frank did not kill her, Conley did if
Conley did not Frank did: and neither Of
the taoo could hare done 1t, WITHOUT
TIE OTTER KNOWING IT.
There you have the case in ut-shell, but
Slaton would not see it. Wig not?
Harry Scott knew, on Monday following
the crime, that Mrs. White had seen negro
on the first floor, and Frank told Scott, on
the same day, the negro was jim Conley
Scott Qiko Burns) did not at first suspect
Conley, because he knew, from the c708eness
Of the t1co men to one another in the buj2d-
ing, Conley could not have committed the
crime without Frank being in it, also
Frank knew that Conley could write and
he knew Conley's handwriting; but Frank
never limited word on that subject, leaving
Scott to find out, Independently Of the fac
tory people, that jim could write.
When Scott learned this important fact,
and pieced it together with Conley's pres
ence in the factory on Saturday, his sus-
picions fixed themselves on both Conley and
Frank; and, as this fact became evident to
Frank, and Haas, the honest detective qoas
Discharged from the case!
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-07-01
PAGE TWO

the trial error of law and determined as a mat
ter of law, and correctly in my judgment, that
there was sufficient evidence to sustain the
dict.
Tt is an extraordinary thing that man
who claims to be good lawyer, should SO
wantonly misstate the law of Georgia. In
every volume of our Supreme Court Reports,
you can find the evidence that Governor
Slatons assertions concerning the powers of
our Supreme Court are untrue.
Ex-Governor Joseph NJ Brown, in speak
ing to Governor Saton himself, said
Another point to which I desire to call your
particular attention is, the fact that it has been
repeatedly alleged by newspapers published out
side Of the State of Georgia. that the courts of
review never passed upon the merits of the case,
but decided merely legal technicalities in throw
ing it out Of court.
This is entirely incorrect. The Supreme Court
Of Georgia. in its decision, used the following
words; We have given careful consideration
to the evidence, and we believe that the is
sufficient to uphold the verdict
And in the decision Of the Supreme Court Of
the United States, you will find Justice Pitney
stating, at the very outset, that the obligations
rested that court to look through the form
and into the very heart and substance of the
matter" not only in the averment in Franks
petition but in the trial proceedings in the
State Courts, themselves
Hence, THIS CASE HAS BEEN ADJUDI-
GATED ON ITS MERITS BY ALL THE COURTS
I do not see how, ON THE IDENTICAL EVI
DENCE THEY HEARD, AND REVIEWED, the
executive office Of Georgia try this
If it has the right to try it, that evidence,
IT HAS THE RIGHT TO REVERSE ALL THE
COURTS. The very genius of our Constitution,
permit me to say, does not even suggest that it
has that right. The precedent of this procedure
threatens vital blow to the Judicial system OF
Georgia.
Are we Georeians asking too much Of out
l. J.
listen to the truth, as shown by official
records?
Volume III of the Reports Of the SUI
preme Court of Georgia contains the de-
cison in the Frank case. What will be
your opinion of SlatOn, when [ tell you
that thirty-seyen pages Of that book are
filled with the Courts review of the evil
dence in the case?
Can you believe that Governor Slaton was
ignorant Of this? Wasn't the decision de-
livered in the same building in which the
Governor has his office? Didn't ex-Gov-
ernor Brown direct his attention to that
very point?
Tie tells the world that two of the Justices
dissented, and leaves the impression that
these two favored Frank
What will you think of Slaton, when I
u, tell you that Justices Fish and Beck based
their dissent on a point Of law, and ex-
pressed the opinion that Judge Roam should
not have allowed Conley and others, to tes-
tify to independent acts of lewdness, on the
part Of Frank!
You can see at once, that this evidence
was not OF a contradicting nature, and that
there was enough without it.
Therefore, Justices Fish and Beck dis
sented on a comparatively unimportant mat
ter.
(See Ga. Rpts, Vol. 141, pages 285 ct
seq
The country must be brought face to
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-08-26
BEETLE EATS CARPETS.

What can be done to control the
buffalo carpet beetle?'-Mrs. G. R.,
Milwaukee county.
You are probably aware Of the dam
age which the brown, woolly larvae
of this beetle cause to carpets, rugs
or other woolens. The adult stage is
a small black and red-spotted BEETLE,
often seen in flowers. Many of these
tiny beetles are brought into the house
with bouquets. When they drop off they
lay their eggs around baseboards or
the edges of carpets or rugs.
would advise the careful and thor
ough application of mixture of kero-
sene, half and half to all infested
rugs, carpets or cracks in floors or
baseboards 4 small oil can, with a
spout, will be found useful in applying
the mixture Great caution against
fire must be taken. Thorough screen
ing of doors and windows will aid in
preventing the beetles from entering
the house-James G. Sanders.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-08-26
NICOTINE KILLS PLANT LICE.

My currant bushes have been at
tackled by an insect pest, an example
of which | inclose Paris green does
not seem to hurt these insects in the
least. What is the insect, and how may
l rid my bushes of them?-C. H. g.,
Milwaukee county.
There is a class of insect that chew
and swallow portions of the plant.
These can be controlled by such ar
senical poisons as paris green. An
other class have piercing and sucking
mouth parts, or bills" and live on the
juices of plants. These cannot be poi
soned, but must be killed by conta ct
sprays, such as oily emulsions, or mic
otine sprays.
The plant lice on your currant bushes
belong to this second class; hence the
paris green did not hurt them. | would
advise a ten per cent kerosene emul-
sion, thoroughly applied with a spray
pump, or of commercial nicotine
preparation, or a homemade tobacco
solution, prepared by sleeping mot
boiling) one pound of tobacco, or to-
bacco stems, in three gallons of wa
ter in a covered vessel for an hour
James G. Sanders,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-08-26
Fielder & Fielder, Attorney.

ORDER FOR HEARING PETITION FOR CONVEYANCE
STATE of Wisconsin, Iowa County Court
~ ss.-In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Joseph 7.
Slang, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Nels 9
Johnson representing that Joseph L. Spang,
deceased, in his lifetime by his contract in
writing agreed to sell and convey to the petit
toner certain real estate therein described up
on the terms and conditions therein stated that
he has fully performed said conditions and paid
the purchase money for said real estate, and is
now entitled to a conveyance thereof; and pray
ing that the administrator of the estate of said
oseph II. Spang, deceased, be authorized and
directed to convey the same to him.
1t is ordered, that said petition be heard at
regular term of said county court, to be held IN
and for said county, at the court house in the
city of Dodgeville, on the first Tuesday, (being
the 18th day. OF September, A. D., 1915 at ten
o'clock a. IN.
And it is further ordered, that notice of the
tendency Of such petition, and of the time and
place of hearing the same, be published at least
three successive weeks before tie day fixed for
such hearing in the Iowa County Democrat,
weekly newspaper published at the city OF Min
eral Point, in said county, and that the last
publication be not more than ten days before
the day SO fixed
Dated this 10th day of August 1915
By the Court.
ALDRo jerks, County Judge
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-08-26
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE
T. M. Priestley, Attorney.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE.
CTATE of Wisconsin: Iowa County: In
~ Circuit Court
Bank of Linden, a corporation, Plaintiff.
VS..
William thinner Ella thinner and the John
Spry Lumber Company, a corporation, De-
PENDANTS.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue of and
pursuant to a Judgment Of foreclosure and sale
rendered on the 24th day Of June, A. d. 1914, in
the above entitled action in favo" Of the plaintiff
and against the defendants for the sum of
S58820 damages and costs | the undersigned,
Sheriff Of the County of Iowa, will on the 10th
day of August A. ID. 1915, at two O'Clock in the
afternoon of said day at the front door of the
Bank Of Linden in the village of Linden, in Iowa
County, Wisconsin, offer for sale and sell at
public vendue to the highest and best bidder
for cash to satisfy the amount OF said Judgment,
costs, interest and costs of sale, the following
described real estate situated in Iowa County,
Wisconsin, to-wit: =,
Lot No. sixteen Q6) in the village of Danv1l!s
(now village of Cobb according to the recorded
plat or map thereof.
Dated June -, 1915.
ROBERT M. HILLARY,
Sheriff of Iowa County, Wisconsin.
Fielder & Fielder. Attorneys.