Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-20
FIVE REWARDS OFFERED
FOR sLAYERs OF FRANK
Georgia Will Pay $500 Each for Firs,
Five Members OF Mob
Convicted.
MAXIMUM ALLOWED by LAW
Governor Prepares Statement Bit
teriy Condemning Crime-Cham-
ber of Commerce Urges Every Eff
fort to Apprehend Murtlerers.


ATLANTA. GA, August lo.-Five re.
wards OF $500 cach-the largest al
io"eo 3y law-were offered by the
state Of Georgia to-day for the arrest
and conviction of the first five mem
bers OF the mob that took Leo NJ. Frank
from the prison farm at Milledgeville
ana ivnched him. This was announced
following an hours conference between
Governor Harris Attorney General
walker and the members OF tho prison
commission
Will. Use EVERY EFFORT
TO METE OUT JUSTICE
Governor Harris declared he would
do all in his power to bring to ius,ica
the perpetrators Of the "unfortunata
occurrence HIS statement points out
the fact that the State prison farm at
MtiledGcville was not constructed viii,
inc !dea OF withstanding an attack from,
the outside. The farm was intended
only Tor sick or feeble convicts unable
10 90 work with the chain gangs on
the country roads There is no stock,
ade about the farm. and the only pro-
tection from without the buildings is
wire fence
The question Of providing additional
guards at III. prison af;e, Frank was
sent there had been considered with the
prison commission. Governor Harris
said. hut the idea in mind was 10 nro
tect Frank from his fellow prisoners
rather than from an outside attack.
ihe danger of such an attack IL is
stated. was thought remote after the
hrst month OF Franks confinement had
passed
\ month ago Governor Harris said
he received secret message 10 the
erect that an attack was to be made
on the prison farm on given night
This was the time when he ordered :;
company of militia held at AIilledge-
Vile Armory. The Governor declares
his action al that time, although ir
brought censure upon him in certain
quarters, postponed the lynchinc for
n month The censurc is said by the
Governor to have come from persons
who thought the Governors action a
reflection upon them. and il is said AN
Indignation meeting was planned at
Marietta, near which place on Tues
day morning last the hfeless body of
Frank was found dangling from the
lower limbs OF a big oak tree
STILL IN HOSPITAL
WHEN SEIZED by MOB
Governor Harriss statement makes
il clear that Frank had not been re-
moved from the hospital when he was
abducted last Monday night 1t had
been supposed he was sleeping with
the other prisoners in one OF the big
dormtories when he was awakened by
members OF the armed band which af-
terwards put him to death almost
within view of the Phagan home. Still
weak from the wound in his throat
inflicted by a fellow prisoner. Frank
was dragged from the place by four
men In their haste the men let the
scantily clad and frightened prisoner
fall in the prison corridor after they
had taken him from the room of which
he was the sole occupant. Later they
dragged him humping down the front
steps of the institution and hurled him
into one of the waiting automobiles
The reward proclamation is carefully
drawn to avoid stating the exact place
where the lynching occurred 1t is
generally supposed Frank was put to
death on the oak tree near the Frey
Gin in Cobb County. two miles outside
Marietta. The belief has been ex-
pressed in some quarters recently how
ever, that the lynchcrs may have
stranEled Frank further down the road
toward Nfilledgeville and saved the
body for final disposition until they
were we'll within the Cobb County line
1t was in Cobb County that the Phagans
formerly lived, and 1t is generally ac-
cepted that the lynching plans were
laid there.
In view of the doubt as to the exact
location of Franks death, the reward
proclamation is made to read that the
prisoner was violently taken from the
hospital OF the State penitentiary in
Baldwin County and found dead In the
County of Cobb on the morning OF Au-
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