The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-07-21
FRANKIMPROVING
after OPERATION
Stitches Are Removed and
Wound Cleaned of
Poison.
JUGULAR VEIN NOT CUT
Green Willing to Tell Story of Cutting
to Governor-Had Threatened
Life of Prison Doctor.

Milledgeville, July 20.-Leo NJ. Frank
late this afternoon informed the attend
ing physicians that he felt much bet
ter following the removal earlier in the
day Of three stitches in his throat, and
the establishment of free drainage from
the wound. An official statement signed
by Drs Compton. Hall and Rosenberg
declared the patients condition favorable.
Frank has been removed to a private
room and is much more comforta bic. The
physicians today, after their eXamina-
ton of the prisoner, stated that William
Green's knife had severed the external
iugular and Venous conlmunica tons, both
large and important blood vessels. The
internal jugular escaped. The carotid
artery was left exposed but uninjured.
Green, Franks assailant, Tuesday aft
ernoon volunteered the remark that he
would be willing to tell his story to Gov.
Harris The only other man to whom
he would talk, he said. is his former en-
ployer Mr.. Hardaway. of Columbus, al
though he added:
Warden Smith is my friend and I
might make a statement to him, but II
l should do so. it would be when l get
good and ready"
Rabbi Visits Frank.
- Dr. H J. Rosenberg, of Atlanta, re-
turned to MilledgevilIe this morning and
advised with the physicians caring for
Frank. He said that he was not called,
but came only because he had been
Franks family physician and Mrs. Frank
had asked him to come and act In an
advisory capacity in the case.
Rabbi David Marx and H. A. Alex
ander. attorney for Frank in his final
hlf in arrived here this
morning. Rabbi Marx said he came
to comfort Mrs. Frank, who has been
under a terrific mental and physical
strain since the attack on her hus-
band
MIR. Alexander also called to see
Mrs. Frank at the home of Supt.
Smith. of the prison farm.
Cut ION own Hook"
L. E Rainey. of the State prison
commission. talked to Green, but the
prisoner assumed a defiant attitude.
MIR. Rainey asked him what his object
was in attacking Frank. Green re-
piled that he thought it was his duty
t. kill Frank.
Had you any help. or had any one
told you that you should kill Frank"
Lr Rainey asked.
Green smiled and replied:
NO. 1t was my duty. and I did it
on my own hook"
1t developed today that Green, few
days before his attack on Frank, had
threatened to kill DR.. Compton, the
prison physician. DR.. Compton, dur
irE an epidemic. ordered that all con-
victs should be vaccinated Green OBJ
jected strenuously to this, and II was
necessary to hold him while the physt-
clan gave him ar injection of serum.
Green afterward told fellow-prisoners
that he would get" DR.. Compton If
II took him years to do it.
As the result of the attack on Frank.
seventy prisoners at the State farm,
Franks assailant probably among them,
likely will be transferred as soon as prac-
ticable to the various chain gangs
throughout the State.
Green Not Crazy.
State Prison Commissioner Rainey, af-
ter his talk with Franks assailant, ex-
pressed the opinion that Green was not
crazy. Mr.. Rainey said:
Green is not crazy: he is merely a
sullen man. The doctors assured me that
Frank would recover"
Atlanta, Ga. July 20.-Gov. Harris an
nounced here tonight that he would ac-
to MiledEevile Saturday to investigate
the attack on Leo Frank
1t will be complete investigation OF
affairs at the State farm said the gov
ernor. Il want to know how one pris-
oner was able to make an attack upon
another"