Thursday, 17th December 1914: New Yorkers Sign Pardon Petition For Leo M. Frank, The Atlanta Constitution

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The Atlanta Constitution,

Thursday, 17th December 1914,

PAGE 3, COLUMN 4.

New York, December 16. (Special.) A petition "in the name of justice, common sense, and humanity" to Governor J. M. Slaton, of Georgia, for the pardon of Leo M. Frank, who is awaiting the death penalty for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, is to be sent throughout Brooklyn for signatures of the residents. Joseph Goldstein, a lawyer, has drawn up the petition. He has already obtained 50,000 signatures which, he says, will make up but a small part of the finished petition.

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