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Child rapist & murder Leo Frank, Mary
Phagan and Jim Conley
Interesting 1914 article in the New
York Times, which was then owned by
the Jew Adolph Ochs, who was
a founding director of the Anti-Defamation League,
a group founded following the the Leo
Frank case.
Frank's lawyers want to use a specialist
in extracting confessions from suspects on
the "negro" Jim Conley
who reported the murder to the police,
but at the same time they complain
witnesses have been coerced.
Attorneys for Leo M. Frank will attempt to force a confession from the negro, Jim Conley, that he murdered Mary Phagan and accused Frank of the crime to sheild himself. To this end Frank's attorneys will make a determined effort to obtain permission for Detective William J. Burns to go to the jail and interview the negro ... Frank's attorneys believe that if the detective is allowed to visit Conley the negro can be induced to confess that he murdered Mary Phagan...
Burns has forced confessions from criminals where many others had failed, and it is believed he will be sucessful if he has a free hand with Conley. ...
Burns will ask a free hand with the negro, and friends of Frank feel sure that if he is not hindered by the negro's attorney and the State authorities, he is likely to obtain a confession, something the assert the police never have earnestly attempted to do. ...
The defense of Frank has repeatedly charged that agents of the prosecution coerced witnesses
