Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-07-03
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sion He died on February 3, 1909, a
venerable and respected man who was
loved by a host of friends throughout
the state.
Governor Dorsey was born on July 10.
1871, in Fayette county, before his ia
Their moved to Atlanta. Coming here
at the age of eight years with his fam
lily, he entered the public schools of the
city and began his education.
He attended Crew street school, Walk
err street school, Prof. John Isom's pri-
vate school, Prof. Nj. L. Parker's pri-
vate school at Hartwell, Ca, and enter
ed the University of Georgia in 1889.
CLASSMATES OF GOVERNOR.
Among the class and college mates OF
Governor Dorsey at the University of
Georgia were the following:
Harry A. Alexander, of Atlanta; Har-
ry Hodgson, of Athens; Walter A War
rem, of Atlanta; George Hillyer, Jr., of
Atlanta; Eugene Dodd, of Atlanta;
Louis Camak. of Athens; Sam l.. Olive,
of Augusta, president of the state SEN
ate just convened; John n. Holder, - of
Jefferson, speaker of the house of rep
resentatives just convened.
Mr.. Dorsey graduated from the UNI
versity of Georgia in the class of 1898,
taking the A. B. degree. Afterwards he
took a course in law at the University
of Virginia and entered the employ Of
his fathers law firm of Dorsey, Brew
ster and Heyman After some years in
this connection he was admitted into
partnership in the firm together with
Arthur Heyman, and the firm name be-
came Dorsey, Brewster, Howell e. Hey
man..
On the death of Judge Dorsey in 1909,
Governor Dorsey became the head of
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withdrawal in August, 1916.
Following the death of the late
Charles d. Hill in 1910, Governor Dor
sey was appointed solicitor general of
Fulton superior court to serve his uE-
expired term. the appointment coming
from Governor Joseph NJ. Brown. At
the next election he was elected for The
full term.
Previous to his appointment as solicit
tor general, Mr.. Dorsey had taken quite
an active and frequent part in politics
in behalf of his friends but had never
offered for public office.
During his occupancy of the office
of solicitor general he prosecuted four
of the most famous criminal cases in
the history of the state.
First was the Grace case, in which
Mrs Daisy Opie Grace was tried on the
charge of shooting her husband, Eugene
Grace, who was paralyzed by the shot
and afterwards died. Mrs. Grace plead
ed guilty to firing the shot, but claimed
1t was accidentally fired in a scuffle
with her husband, and the jury acquit-
ted her. She left Atlanta soon after
wards and went back to Philadelphia,
where Grace had married her.
Next comes the case of Mrs. CaNie
Scott Applebaum, charged with'the muir
der of her husband, Jerome Applebaum,
a travelling, man who was shot and kill
ed in a hotel at the corner of North
Pryor street and Houston street. In
this case the jury also returned ver-
dict for the defendant.
FAMOUS FRANK CASE.
After the Applebaum trial came the
famous case of Leo NJ. Frank, tried and
convicted of the murder Of little Mary
Phagan. Solicitor Dorsey's prosecute OF
this case not only brought him promi-
hence throughout the state, but carried
his name all over the country. No
other criminal case in Georgia or the
south has ever attracted such wide
spread attention. The trial lasted a
month and aroused the most intense