The Washington times., 1915-08-18

farm. much emphasis being laid on the
contention that he acquiesced In what
today as tSs
stabbing Of Frank.
Officials generally are busy issuing ex-
plantations and denials.
Following the statements by Warden
Smith and Superintendent Burke, Of the
Milledgeville farm, Prison Commissioners
Dawson, who was on the place at the
time, declared that no responsibility
rested on either the commissioner or
Mayor Dobbs, Of Marietta. denied that
Marietta officials knew something Of the
Enching party's departure from the city
ns shers s before a tss sanx varoa. hanss
through which the mob passed with Its
prisoner on the return trip from MILL
edgeville to Marietta are publishing. as
sertions that they did their utmost to
effect rescue but were taken too much
by surprise to intercept the party.
To Call Grand Jury.
The Cobb county coroner Is pushing
his investigation. 1t Is expected that
a special grand jury will be called to
take up the case. and specially engaged
detectives are already at work under
the Cobb county commissioners d.
rection.
There are many evidences that off,
cial Georgia failed to estimate correct
ly yesterday what the countrys view
of the lynching would be. Their In
vestigations were started at once, but
with no such energy as Is manifested
today.
Another huge volume Of editorial ex-
coriations Of the affair telegraphed into
Atlanta last night produced DECIDED
impression. There was the naturally 10
be expected response from many qaurt-
ers that the incident was no business OF
any outsider, but many officials plainly
are considerably moved by the unanim-
ity Of non-Georgian criticism.
For all this. there are many preolc-
ed the lynching. that the culprits never
will be found.
or the circumstances Of Franks last
100-mile ride. from Milledgeville to Mar
lynchers. From the violence with
which he was dragged from the prison
and hurled into the waiting automobile
and the suggestive brutality with which
one OF his captors dangled a rope be-
fore his face as the automobiles drove
away, it seems evident that no regard
was paid to his physical weakness and
that every effort was made to impress
on him, throughout the trip, the ter
rors Of the fate which awaited him at
His body bore no marks when It waa
. found dangling from the tree in Mari
etta's outskirts to indicate than any
actual torture was applied up to the
time the moose was adjusted. obviously
with view to ending the agony quick
ly. and the prisoner was swung of
into eternity.
Police Defend Action.
If Frank behaved throughout the trir
-. ~
refused to beg for his life. His groans
Of pain. for 1t was evident, in his
wounded condition. that he suffered
terribly from the roughness Of hi:
handling. he could not suppress, but he
spoke not a word from the moment he
was awakened for the last time until he
and his captors disa appeared into the
niRht.
The police today defend their action
IN permitting the crowd in Atlanta ia
see Franks body on the ground that II
was the only means Of preventing Sc
rious disorder.
The CORPSE had been hidden in q
stable. and the mob. In its determina.
tionto find It. had interfered with several
funerals and threatened to search the
houses Of leading Hebrews in the city
quest.
When the body was first exposed ir
the Atlanta undertaking room. abou
5000 people were waiting to see 1t
About two-fifths were women.
At first none Of tho women were ad
mitted. Presently. however. some ono II
authority allowed two pretty girls t
climb In through a window. At thi,
about 100 more rushed the fifteen police
men on duty. the mon and boys WHIT
were regularly lined ZIP to entcr were
brushed aside. and he women crowded
in ahead Of them.
Police re-cnforcemcnts finally restored
order. but agreed to admit mon ane
women alike. with the un'erstan ndln:
that the women form in line with thu
men. .
A business man Of Marietta in sis
cussing the lynching Of Frank. said
The public will never know th'
identity Of the twenty-five brave ant
loyal men who took into their owl
hands the execution of law that hat