Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-03-08

Atlanta, March 7--I4eo M Frank. alleged slayer of May phagan, the factory girl. was today Hvl.tenced by Judge Ben Hill 10 die on the gal lows on April r..
 Frank was secretly brought Into court at 10 o'clock and stocally ac- Gepted his fate after making a state ment which lawyers declare to be the most remarkable ever uttered by d prisoner. He spoke calmly and steadily and asserted that if his life is forfeited, lie would be "blood sacrifice At the night of his ad- dress his language was eloquent.
 If the State and law will that my fife De taken as blood atonement for the poor little girl who was ruth lessly killed by another," he said, then it remains for me to die with whatever fortitude my manhood may allow l am innocent of this crime and the future will prove it. l am now ready for your sente"2e."
 Frank folded his arms and looked the magistrate squsrey in the eye. He showed no emotion while sen- tence was being pronounced. As he was leaving the courtroom he re- marked to friend:
 1T in Paris, Texas, so if the sentence ia carried out, I will die on the aAAi- versary of the day I was brought in,o the world.'
 Frank joked on his way to the Full ton Tower; the coincidence appealed to him as humorous.
 Attorneys representing the accused would not comment on the sentence. It is said that they did not expect the date to be set so soon. Franks re- markable statement in the court in reply to the formal question:
 Have you anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced" was:
 May it please your Honor, trust your Honor will understand that speak impersonally addressing my word more to the bench as represent ing the magesty of the law of Georgia than to the gentlemen now on the bench I will know that your Honor has naught to do with the various vissicitudes of my case.
 "In your Honor's presence repre- senting human law and in the pres ence of the Supreme Judge who at this very moment is casting the light of his omnipotent and omnipresent eyer from his throne on high, I as- sert l am innocent of little Mary Phagan's death and have no know ledge of how it occurred.
 Law, as we know it, your Honor, is but the expression of mans legal experience. It is but relative. It tries to approximate justice. In the name of the law many grevious er- TOTS have been committed, errors that were colossal and irretrievable. I declare to Your Honor now that the State of Georgia is about to make such an error.
 Your Honor, an astounding and outrageous state of affairs prevailed previous and during my trial. On the street rumor and gossip carried vile, vicious and damning stories concern ing me and my life. These stories were absolutely false and did me great harm, as they beclouded and assecced the public mind, and out ragged it against me.
 Beased Against Him.
 "From public state of mind the jury that tried me was chosen. Not alone were these stories circulated on the streets, but to the same of our community be it said, these vile in- situations crept into my very trial, in the courtroom, creeping in insidi- ously like a, thief in the night"
 Solicitor Hugh Rorsey made public the details of an affidavit made by George w. Epps in which he s.r-:ears that the affidavit given by his son to the defense is absolutely untrue. According to Solicitor Rorsey Epps states that his son was taken to Bir-