The Leo Frank Case: The State's Chain - Inside Story of Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery

This is the fifteenth Chapter in the 22-part series of 'Leo Frank Case: Inside Story Of Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery'.
Solicitor Dorsey began to build a chain of circumstantial evidence around the prisoner, Frank. R. P. Barrett, a machinist in the metal room where Mary Phagan was employed, testified of finding blood spots near the water cooler and hair wrapped around a lathe handle several feet away. He said that the spots were smeared over with hascolene, an eyelet machine substance. Barrett was later corroborated by James Conley, who said he dropped the body of the little girl on the spot where blood was found when he carried her from the second floor to the basement at Frank's direction. Barett also told of finding a portion of a pay envelope on the floor on the Monday morning after the murder.

Sergeant L. S. Dobbs, one of the party leading to the dead girl's side on the morning of the discovery of the body, testified of the marks of dragging on the basement floor. The defense sought to show that the distinct track did not begin at the elevator but a few feet away at the foot of the ladded leading from the scuttle hole in the first floor. City Detective J. N. Starnes, the formal prosecutor of the case, testified to many important facts regarding the investigation of the city police.

Frequent wrangles marked the first few days of the case, with legal points constantly under debate and the jury being excused multiple times during the first week and later in the trial. Detective John Black occupied the stand several hours, and was subjected to criticism and ridicule by Attorney Rosser. Through him, Solicitor Dorsey brought out the fact that the finding of the bloody club and supposed spots on the floor near the scuttle hole leading to the basement had never been reported to the police by the Pinkerton agency, although the information had been placed in the hands of the defense attorneys. Continue on listening to the grueling duel between the State and the Defense where each side cross-examines the other side over minute details and trivial facts till the very end. The arguments going back and forth make great drama to quantify a whole Law and Order season.

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