Why Should I Hang? Leo Frank and the Murder of Mary Phagan (pt. 6)

In the defense's opening gambit, Reuben Arnold stated that Leo Frank was the victim of prejudice.  "I'll tell you right now," Arnold asserted, "if Frank hadn’t been a Jew there would never have been any prosecution against him. I’m asking my own people to turn him loose, asking them to do justice to a Jew, and I’m not a Jew, but I would rather die befor…