Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-11
DEATH SENTENCE
IS AGAIN PASSED
0NLE0 N. FRANK
Prisoner Faces Court Calmly
and Once More Protests
That He Is innocent of Muir
der of Little Mary Phagan

lpy MORNING lousnAl sreciAt leAsrp wtssl
Atlanta. Ga. May f0.--Leo NJ
Frank today was re-senlenced to be
hanged on Tuesday. June 22. for the
murder OF Mary Phagan.
When Judge Hin asked Frank II
he had anything to say, the prisoner
stood erect and without referring t.
his written statement detained II
with emphasis. Mrs. Frank, who sat
at a table with her husbands attor-
neys. bowed herehead upon her arms
on the table and sobbed
Franks statement follows:
Again ! stand before you Again
can but reiterate that am inno-
cent OF the murder OF Mary Phagan.
] have absolutely no guilty knowledge
Of that tragic occurrence.
Says Record Proves Innocence.
II am innocent OF this charge and
] assert that the record of the evil
dence oonclusively proves this. No
appellate tribunal has ever passed
upon this evidence The only Judge
who has ever heard It stated that he
had the most serious doubts as TO my
guilt.
MY execution will not avenge
Mary Phagans death. A life will
real culprit will not have paid the
penalty. | will suffer for another's
crime.
My trust is in God, who knows
that my protestations OF innocence
are the truth. AT some future date.
the whole mortal world will realize
it, II is the knowledge that God
knows it now and that the world will
know it some day, that inspires me
as I stand before your honor and as
! face the future.
Position Is Prccarious.
Anything else ! might say at this
time would be but IAN elaboration of
my words TO the court. Yet | am
fully alive 10 the fact that my posi-
ton Is most precarious II Is n sit
uation which is so far removed from
anything that my life and mental at
titude could have bespoken. 1t is
hideous but at the same time so un-
real. so homogeneous
1T is fundamental in human life to
want to live. This desire to exist is
lngrained in all of us-it is the basic
of all who live. To those
who have the proper ideals of living,
life without honor Is insufferable.
This is the message OF theology and
ethics.
in the light of the whole truth L
Snow--and the Almighty knows
hat the morality of my position I'M
his case is unassailable This being
80, my complete exoneration of this
terrible charge lies in the future
When that day arrives, shall be
If / am alive ] will
,e enabled to enjoy freedom and
honor. Therefore, | want to live.
World VIII Some Day Know.
The full truth and all of the facts
n the case, when they come to light.
rs some day they will, will prove toI
he world that my assertion Of inno-
'ence is the truth.
1.-THE legal arena is closed to me. !
rhe bar Is placed forever against
urther legal process. Yet the issue |
II guilt or innocence has been before
me court, that in which the jury sat
III subsequent appeals were made
lpon alleged legal and judicial err
ors, not upon the facts or the evil
ence
'Sinee the jury heard the case no
curt of inquiry or review has stiff
d the evidence. No decision Of anyl
ppeals court undertook to predicate
n opinion on the record Of the tes-
lmony and evidence. The doubt Of
he trial judge as to my guilt still
emans."