Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-22

for the party TO Macon. Frank was
the heavy spectacles he generally wore
| A black slouched hat was pulled down
over his face. The few persons who
were in the railway station at the time
failed to recognize him. and it was more
than an hour after midnight before the
report was circulated that he had been
removed from the cell he had occupied
! for many months.
TELEPHONE CONNECTION
| WITH JAIL CUT OFF
| AT Griffin. Ga, the Pullman conduc-
| tor of the train on which Frank and
! his guards rode said ne had recognized
Frank in his car. Efforts TO confirm
| this report here were futile for some
| time afterward. The telephone connec-
! ton with the county Jail here had been
cut off, and the Jail officials refused 10
/ verify the report. Governor Slaton
was at his country home several miles
from the city, and the telephone CON
| nection with his home also had been
! cut off.
| When the train reached Macon sew
eral persons at the station saw the
sheriff and his prisoner alight from
the Pullman. and Frank was posi-
lively identified. Frank was reported
TO be very nervous. needing the sup
port of Sheriff Mangum when he was
! transferred from the coach TO A wait
! ing automobile for the last leg of the
| journey to the farm. Tho party started
Immediately for Milledgeville. distance
of thirty-one miles. arriving at the
! % a A. ~
So secretivc had been the officials
here as TO their plans that not even
the superintendent OF the prison farm
had been notified that Frank would
be taken there to-day
MRS. FRANK IGNORANT
OF PLAN TO MOVE HIM
Mrs. Frank declared she knew moth
ing OF any movement to take her hus-
band TO Milledgeville. and Franks at
torneys said they had not been notified
! OF such plan. Solicitor Dorsey. who
prosecuted Frank, also said early this
morning that he had not been informed
of the plan to remove the prisoner
! AT the prison to-day Frank changed
his demeanor, assuming the outward
calm that had marked his two-ycar
! fight for life. He again protested his
/
| ernor Slaton, and said that he had in
tuitively believed he would at least get
communication of sentence. He was
given No. 965, donned a suit denotinG
the lowest grade prisoner. and tonight
apparently had begun the routine of
prison life
EXPLAINS HIS REASONS
FOR CONSULTATION
Tn ie
planning his reasons for committing
Franks sentence, Governor Slaton re-
viewed the circumstances surrounding
The murder of Mary Phagan in the Ma
tional Pencil Factory here on April 90,
1913; the conviction of Frank and his
appeal for clemency.
Continuing, the statement reads:
The murder was most heinous
one, and the offender deserves the pun
ishment Of death. The only question
is as to the identity of the criminal
The responsibility is upon the people
OF Georgia to protect the lives OF her
citizens and to maintain the dignity Of
her laws. and If the choice must be
made between the appreciation of cit
liens of other States and the enforce
ment of our laws against offenders, we
must choose the latter alternative
1T is charged that the court and
jury were terrorized by a mob. and that
the jury were coerced into their verdict.
When Frank was indicted and the air
was filled with rumors as to the MUIR
der and mutilation of the girl, there
was intense feeling. and to such an
extent that my predecessor, Governor
Brown. stated in argument before me
that he had the militia ready to pro-
tect the defendant If any attack was
made. Some weeks later the de-
PENDANT was put on trial"
The Governor then referred to
Georgia's laws relating to change Of
venue. declaring the provisions most
broad in behalf Of the defendant to
insure one n fair trial. Frank, he said.
went to trial without asking a change