Sunday, 16th May 1915: Pardon Board To Fix Date For Frank Case, The Atlanta Journal

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### Conference Will Be Held Monday Morning to Decide When It Shall Be Heard

Members of the State Prison Commission will hold a conference Monday morning, to decide on the date for hearing arguments on the petition of Leo M. Frank, for a commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment.

The commissioners have not been called into special session for this conference, but when Frank's attorneys learned that all three of them would probably be in Atlanta on Monday, they decided to ask them to agree on a date for the hearing.

The next regular session of the commission will be held during the week beginning Monday, June 7. Whether the commission will wait until that time to hear the Frank case or whether it will hold a special session prior to that time for that purpose will be determined Monday.

It is expected that the hearing on Frank's petition will require about two days and that because of the lengthy record, the commission will take several days, perhaps a week, to consider it after the hearing is held, although the commissioners have been in possession of copies of the record ever since Frank filed his petition about two weeks ago, and it is understood they have all read through the record one or more times.

On account of the time expected to be required by the commission in hearing arguments and studying the record, it has been thought that the commission might call a special session in advance of its June meeting to dispose of the case.