The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-07-15
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hearing; and that the employment of de-
tectives, at that desperate stage of the ganae.
was notice to the world that desperate
methods acere meeded to save a guilty man
"a man whose guilt had been proven in
the usual way, by those legal processes Gre
ated by law for that very purpose.
And the reason why Burns and Lehon
aroused such intense indignation was, that
they intimidated and bribed the States wit
ness, George Eppes; that they intimidated
and bribed the States witness, Duffy; that
they paid 5000 to preacher to make
false affidavit; threatened the girl wit
nesses with compromising disclosures of
their private lives, unless they perjured
themselves in behalf of Frank; offered to
buy off r. p. Barrett with "a barrel of
money" and good position In New Or
leans; and used the most extraordinary
means in the effort to get rid of the damning
testimony of the States witness, Miss Mon
teen Stover.
Let me give you the facts as to how
Burns and his crew went after that ire
proachable young lady, the information be-
ing given to me by one of the Oldest mem
bers of the Atlanta bar, thoroughly reli-
able gentleman:
/ had an interview with Mrs. H. w. Edmond
At the request of Mr. Samuel A. Boorstein, at
torney at law, who had been taking interest in
the case about four weeks ago she and her
daughter Miss Monteen Stover went to his Office
After talking about things in general the Mary
Phagan case was incidentally brought in. About
that time, Detective Burns made his appearance
in the AS soon she found out who he
was, she from her chair and started to leave
the room with her daughter when the lady ste
nographer Immediately took hold of her
daughter and tried to detain her; that she jerked
oIn hon or1d tod
the door; that the stenographer tried to prevent
her from going out, and that she pushed her
aside and led her daughter out and returned
home.
About the middle of last week, the wife of Leo
Frank called at her home with Rabbi Marx. This
was in the morning, and took up with her the
matter of her daughters testimony; that she told
them that her daughter had sworn to the truth
in court, and told the same story that she told
her Immediately after the killing of Mary Phagan;
that they then left.
In the afternoon Of the same day they returned
bringing Detective Burns with them. Detective
Burns remarked that he had come to apologize
for what had happened shortly before that time
In the office of MIR. BOOrStein; that Mrs Frank
said to her daughter Monteen Slower, that
little word from her would help her much, and
she again told, that what she in the
court the truth and that she would not
change it. Detective Burns said, ''WeIl, you will
have to bear the thorn"
l have some other information that I will get
the straight of about Daniel Lehon, the detective
that Burns had to come here to take charge while
he was in New York, Chicago and Cincinnati, in
vestigating something about the I hope to
get this information and send oyou at once. 1t
will be copy Of the statement sent here by the
Chief of Police of Chicago.
This reference to Dan Lehon concerned
the Chicago police records, which showed
that BuJns' lieutenant IS as vile scOu1odreJ
as Burns hnaself)
Now, ask yourself this question:
When two so-called detectives one
branded by the United States Government,