00:00New theory is offered in Fagan Mystery, Atlanta, Georgian, Tuesday, May 13, 1913.
00:05Detectives not centering all their efforts on Frank and Lee now.
00:09Detectives in Fagan Mystery are not centering all their efforts upon Frank and Lee.
00:14New theories have been advanced, new clues examined, and every possible theory is being
00:18investigated. It was because of these rumors on the streets today that a report was spread that
00:23an entirely new lead was being followed by Solicitor Dorsey that might eliminate both Frank
00:27and Lee. Solicitor Dorsey paid very little attention to the reports.
00:32There are no developments so far, he said, which would tend to swerve the prosecution from its
00:37present course. The cases of the two men held will be placed before the grand jury as soon
00:41as the evidence against them can be properly shaped, unless other developments justify a change.
00:48New theory investigated. The new theory alluded to has been submitted by a private detective
00:53employed by the Solicitor's office. The man, whose identity has not been revealed,
00:58has been working along lines entirely at variance to those pursued by the prosecutor.
01:03Mr. Dorsey stated that while as yet no evidence has been produced to substantiate the proposed solution,
01:09that his investigators have taken the matter up and will go to the bottom of it.
01:13Every available means will be used to prove or disprove the detective's theory.
01:17An important affidavit was added Tuesday to the great mass of evidence already collected by
01:22solicitor Dorsey. Another affidavit considered of importance was that made by Miss Maggot Wyatt,
01:2744 Pickett Street, who formerly was employed at the pencil factory. Miss Willie M. Ross,
01:33259 Crew Street, who is said to have heard screams in the pencil factory at 4.30 on the afternoon
01:39of
01:39the tragedy, appeared at Mr. Dorsey's office in the morning and made an exhaustive statement which
01:44she signed, Dorsey will welcome Burns. When asked later what she knew of the case, Miss Ross declared
01:50she had absolutely no knowledge of it. Solicitor Dorsey, when asked about the report that Detective
01:55Burns was coming to Atlanta to take charge of the investigation, declared that he would welcome
02:00Mr. Burns. Colonel Felder, whose correspondence with the great detective gave rise to the report
02:06that he would enter the investigation, stated Tuesday morning that he would know positively by
02:11Wednesday whether Burns would comply with his request. Mr. Burns is due to arrive in New York from
02:17Europe sometime Tuesday. The grand jury probably will hold an extra session this week to clean up the
02:22routine docket, in order that there will be nothing to interfere with the Fagan case when it is presented
02:27by Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey. Consider extra session. The solicitor and his assistant, F.A.
02:34Stevens, discussed Monday the advisability of an extra session for one day before Friday, the regular
02:40meeting day, and may issue a call to the jurors to assemble Wednesday. The solicitor explained, however,
02:45that it probably would take the two sessions this week to dispose of the routine, and the Fagan case might
02:50not reach
02:51the jury until Friday of next week, or an extra session to be called the first part of the week.
02:56Mrs. Rudolph Frank, mother of Leo Frank, was seen for the first time at her home in Brooklyn Monday by
03:01the
03:02newspaper reporters. Sheida Burns, called in Fagan case, is nearing U.S. New arrest is expected Tuesday in the
03:08baffling factory crime mystery, continued from page one, cleared her belief in her son's entire
03:14innocence. She has been greatly affected by the shadow which is hovering over her son's life,
03:19but had said nothing of his plight to her neighbors until Monday, as she had been hoping against hope
03:23that he would be liberated by the coroner's jury. Mother thinks he is innocent.
03:28My son is entirely innocent, she is quoted as saying, but it is a terrible thing that even the
03:34suspicion should fall on him. I have every confidence that he will be proved guiltless of
03:38the terrible crime. He is suspected merely because he was the last one who is known to have seen her
03:43on the day she was killed. I know it will be shown that he had no knowledge of who put
03:47the girl to
03:47death. Mrs. Frank has not seen her son since nearly three years ago, when she and her husband came to
03:53Atlanta to attend the marriage of young Frank to the daughter of Emile Selig. It is understood that
03:59she is planning to return to Atlanta to be with Frank in the event that he is indicted by the
04:03grand jury. She always has been proud of her son and happy at his rapid rise in the business world.
04:10Although only 29 years old, he has been the superintendent in charge of the National Pencil
04:15Company's plant for several years. Before coming to Atlanta about five years ago, he was with the
04:20National Meter Company of Brooklyn. He is a Cornell graduate. Burns leaves New York. The arrival of
04:26William J. Burns is expected in New York Tuesday afternoon. As announced in the Georgian Monday,
04:31the great detective has been engaged to work personally upon the Fagan mystery. He is expected
04:36to come here at the solicitation of Colonel Thomas B. Felder, who is representing the friends and
04:41relatives of the slain girl. Colonel Felder interviewed Raymond Burns, son of the famous
04:46detective, in New York, and a cable was at once dispatched to England, where Burns had been looking
04:52for J. Wilberforce Martin, the wealthy Memphian whose mysterious disappearance stirred two continents.
04:58Burns quickly found that Martin was safe and unharmed and withdrew from the case. The detective will be
05:03in Atlanta Thursday on his way to Macon, where he has been invited to speak before the Georgia State
05:08Bankers Association. Chief of Detectives Lanford just smiles when Solicitor Dorsey's mysterious sleuth is
05:14mentioned. Mr. Dorsey announced several days ago that he had the best detective in the world on the job.
05:20Who is mysterious sleuth? The sleuth is either Detective John Starnes or Patrick Campbell,
05:26said Chief Lanford. Both of these men are attached to the local staff and are working under the
05:31solicitor. The solicitor continued to deny that the man was a local detective. I intend to withhold his
05:37name until the proper time, he said. He is out of the city at present, working on several new phases
05:43of the Fagan case. Upon his return I may be able to give out some startling information.
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