| 词条 | C. P. Connolly |
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Christopher Patrick Connolly (1863–1935), better known as C.P. Connolly, was a radical American investigative journalist who was associated for many years with Collier's Weekly and the muckrakers. Connolly was a former Montana prosecutor. He is remembered in particular for his extensive reporting on the case of Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman who was convicted and sentenced to death in August 1913 for the slaying of a thirteen-year-old girl. "I feel satisfied that the US Supreme Court will be moved to give us some relief," Frank wrote on January 4, 1915 in a series of letters he wrote to Connolly. "I receive a great deal of mail and many of the writers compliment your articles in Collier's.[1] Connolly also covered the Idaho trial of the leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, who were accused of the assassination in 1905 of a former Idaho governor, Frank Steunenberg, putatively in retaliation for Steunenberg's calling of federal troops to suppress what he called a union "reign of terror." Clarence Darrow defended the miners. In a surprise turn of events, the defendants, who included the union's most visible leader, one-eyed Big Bill Haywood, also a founder of the new Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), were acquitted by the jury. Connolly wrote of the case:
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