00:00Frank's trial set for next Monday. The Atlanta Constitution, Tuesday, June 24, 1913. Indications
00:06our case will begin on that day jury panel not yet drawn by Judge Rohn. The trial of Leo M.
00:12Frank,
00:12superintendent of the National Pencil Factory, now under indictment for the murder of Mary Fagan on
00:17April 26 in the factory, has been definitely set for next Monday. This was the announcement of
00:23Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey last night, after he had been working upon the court calendar for
00:28the coming week. Solicitor Dorsey announced Sunday upon his arrival from New York City where he had
00:34spent the past two weeks that he intended to set the case for that date unless something unforeseen
00:39should come up. While he did not complete his calendar on Monday, he reached the Frank case
00:44and placed it definitely upon the docket. The defense has indicated that it is ready to go to
00:49trial and it appears now that the case will actually be taken up on that day. Should it be postponed,
00:55it will be after a showing has been made in open court and a postponement granted by Judge L.S.
01:01Rohn presiding in the criminal division of the Superior Court where Frank's fate will be decided.
01:06Panel not yet drawn. The panel of Van Eyermann from which the jury to try Frank will be selected
01:11is expected to be drawn sometime today or Wednesday. This is the duty of Judge Rohn. It was rumored that
01:18the panel would be drawn from the jury list Monday afternoon, but this was not done. The list of
01:23prospective jurymen will not be made public after the drawing and only after their names are called
01:28when the trial has started and the task of picking the jury has begun will it be officially known who
01:33are the men who compose it. It is expected that a special veneer will be drawn containing the names
01:39of about 150 citizens as it is expected that many names will be stricken off the list before lawyers
01:46for the state and the defense are finally satisfied. Picking jury important. Both attorney Luther Z.
01:53Rosser and attorney Ruben R. Arnold have wide reputations for their skill in choosing the jury
01:59and solicitor Dorsey has also made this a study in the course of his criminal prosecution so that it is
02:05believed that this will be one of the longest and most important features of the trial. It is expected
02:10that it will take one or more days to choose the jury. Since the return of solicitor Dorsey to Atlanta,
02:16he has been busily engaged in working on the case, despite the fact that he has announced that the
02:22case is ready as far as the state is concerned. On Monday, he and his assistant E.A. Stevens were
02:28in
02:28conference with J.M. Gantt, who was one of the first white men to be arrested as a suspect.
02:33Gantt was formerly an employee of the pencil factory, and according to testimony, he returned to the
02:39factory to get an old pair of shoes on the day that the girl was killed. He appeared before the
02:44coroner's inquest and also before the grand jury following his release from custody. He stated that
02:51when he returned to the factory that Frank was preparing to leave and sent Newt Lee, the night
02:55watchman, upstairs with him to get his shoes. He was questioned closely as to Frank's demeanor at
03:00that time. The solicitor also had James Conley, the Negro sweeper, who has declared in a statement
03:06that Frank paid him to aid in hiding the girl's body before him on the day after his return.
03:10I think they were pensando mostly on the one in the mirror, but he was the one in the mirror,
03:10and he was the one in the mirror. So, he was the one in the mirror, that they were
03:10looking for him to pull him out of his face, and he was looking for him, and he has one
03:10in the
03:10I think if he was first of all, it was a matter of a couple of years.
03:10and he was writing about it.
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