The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-06-23
STATE TROOPS
Y ARE WITHDRAWN
I Report That Crowds From Over
the State Were Bound for
Atlanta Untrue.
FRANK TO BE PROTECTED
News From MiIledgeviIIe Says
He Is Not Yet Physically
Able to Begin Work on the
Prison Farm.

Al LANA, June AI.-Nn ME the
militia still was on. guard at Governor
Slaton's country home, quiet pre-
vailed both there and in the city to-
day and there was no indication of a
repetition of the exciting scenes of
yesterday and last night, which came
after announcement O. the commu-
tation of l.. M. Franks death SEN
tence.
In the city the near-l er saloons,
which wer closed by the authorities
yesterday, were allowed to reopen
this morning and there we're no
crowds in the streets.
Two battalians of Georgia militia
and the governors horse guard troops
under the personal command of Adju-
tant General Nash early today were
patrolling the country estate of Cover
nor Slaton, near here. The troops had
been called out after a crowd Of sever
al hundred men and boys had march
ed there late last night and made a
demonstration in. protest against the
Communication of l.. M. ranks death
sentence to life imprisonment.
The crowd was quickly dispersed
by the soldiers after the governor
in Laa1 n
mile of his home under martial law.
When first ordered to leave some of
the demonstrators called to the SOL
diers to "shoot," accompanying their
retort with a bombardment OF the
troops with missiles.
After midnight reports were re-
ceived of crowds coming from nearby
towns and a second battalion of in
fantry and the governors horse guard
were called out. A Gordon of troops
was thrown around the estate and
outposts were stationed to report any
movement of crowds in the surround
ing territory. None was seen. All
was quiet in the city and at the gov
ernor's home today.
Officials of the state and city in
sisted that last nights demonstra-
tion probably had ended the possibil-
ity of menace to the governor among
the people most bitterly opposed to-
the Communication of Franks sentence.
A state of preparedness was main
tanned today, however, both by the
police and military authorities. The
soldiers stationed at Governor Slaton's
suburban home attracted attention
from passersby today, but time hung
heavily on their hands for there ap-
peared no further evidence of the
gathering of a crowd in that vicinity.
One of the reasons given for main
tanning the guard were the reports
which persisted throughout the night
to the effect that crowds of men had
started for Atlanta from neighboring
towns. These, it was thought, might
arrive this morning. None appeared,
however, and efforts to verify the re-
ported invasion failed.
The Frank case still was discussed
on the streets today, but the groups
were those ordinarily seen on the
buster street corners The calm of
today was in striking contrast to th 7
tension of yesterday and it apparent
" was welcomed by the majority of
We residents of the city The local
newspapers give very little space to
the case today
A summary of the arrests made
yesterday in the city and last night
in the neighborhood of the Slaton
home showed a total of "a persons
taken into custody They were most
ly young men, some without occupa-
tion, while some said they were
clerks. All were held on a charge of
failing to move on" when directed
by the police to do So
Word received from the state
prison farm at Milledgeville today
was to the effect that Frank was not
yet in physical condition to take up
active work. His long confinement
and the strain of the past few days
OF uncertainty, taken in conjunction
with the midnight ride by train and
automobile to Milledgeyille. seemed
to have completely unnerved the man
who had shown a remarkable stoicism
up to this time.