The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-03-10
FRANK SENTENCED
FOR SECOND TIME
His Execution is Set for
April IL.
STILL DENIES HIS GUILT
Immediately After Decree is Read,
Condemned Man Again Protests
His Innocence.

Atlanta, Ca, March LEO M.
FRANK was resentenced to death here
today for the murder OF Mary Pha-
gan, a factory girl. His execution
was set for April, II.
The date set for the execution is
the prisoners 30th birthday. This
ract was not known until sentence
was pronounced, whom Frank, turning
to friend; remarked that the 18th
would be his birth anniversary.
Frank was born in Quero, Texas on
April IT, 1884
Judge B. II. Hill OF the superior
court In pronouncing sentence mere
ly carried out the order OF
the supreme court OF Georgia.
which on February IT approved the
conviction. Frank previously had
been sentenced to be executed Octo-
Der 10, 1913, but sentence was suspen
ding suspending decision of motion
for new trial. an appeal to the su-
preme court, and q motion of these
efforts to save the life OF the young
factory superintendent was defeated
by decision of the supreme court on
February 25.
PROTESTS INNOCENCE.
Immediatly after the FORMAL decree
~,
the condemned man made brief
statement to the court, protesting his
innocence. He spoke with composure,
varying his tone OF voice only to en-
phasize various points touched upon
in his statement
Attorneys for Frank already have
announced their Intention of filling an
extraordinary motion for a new trial
on ground OF newly discovered evil
dence. This action, it is expected.
will be delayed several weeks and
Vending disposal Of the motion by the
superior court. the date of execu-
tion may be still further deferred
While no definite announcement
has been made of the nature OF allie
gatiols to be incorporated i'm the ex-
traorGinary motion, it Is expected to
touch upon several affidavits recent
ly made public by counsel for Frank.
These include sworn statements from
two State witnesses at the trial of
Frank last autumn that they testi-
fed falsely in regard to the move
ments OF the 14year-old factory girl
and Frank on the day of her muir
der, April 26, 1913. Two other affi-
davits purport to establish an alibi-
for Frank. Another charges a con-
spiracy of evidence against him.
Judge Hill, who pronounced SEN
tence today, recently succeeded
Judge L. s. Roam, who presided at
Franks trial sentenced him to death
on August &c on October 13 de-
MED him IA motion for a new trial.
In his statement to the court today
Frank charged that popular clamor
for a "blood sacrifice" had been re-
sponsible for his conviction.
To- Nrrhn haa
lost his life through violence Of an
other" he said, that perpetrator of
the deed must answer with his own.
But the law does not say that where
on has been killed a blood sacrifice
must be made OF the next convenient
individual Previous to and during
my trial gossip on the streets carried
vile, damning stories concerning me
and my wife. From public in this
state OF mind the jury that tried me
was chosen. The virus OF these vile
insinuations entered the minds OF the
IL men and stole away their judicial
frame OF mind The issue involved
was law, but the poison of the un-
speakable things took its place.
But If the State will that my life
be taken as the blood atonement for
the little child who was ruthlessly
killed by another, then 1t remains for
me only to die with whatever forti-
tude my manhood may allow"
In a card addressed to the public,
Frank, tonight reiterated his inno-
ceace and declared that he believed
he was entitled to a new trial.
The shadow of physician death does
not dismay me-" he said. "If such
be my end / shall so TO IT without
fear and without qualm. I am man.
born to face and endure that which
the chance of my fate may bring.
"In the sight OF God and His name,
by the honor which l hope will be
restored TO me. by everything which
a man may hold sacred, swear that
l am innocent of crime"