New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-20
High Temperature Falls
Great Danger Now Is
Infection.
"CALLED" TO CRIME,
SAYS ASSAILANT
Green Declares Summons from
on High" Impelled Him to
Attack Prisoner.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.l

Atlanta, July 19.-Blood poisoning
from infection is the greatest danger
Leo NJ. Frank faces in his fight for life
at the state prison farm at Milledge-
vile. An alarming temperature OF
102 2-5 degrees at o'clock this morn
ing had fallen two degrees by noon,
encouraging the physicians to believe
Frank would recover.
William Green, the life-term convict
who cut Franks throat, is still in chains
and under guard. His punishment is
luuestion to be determined after the
Prison Commission acts. Green insists
he alone is responsible for the attack
and that he was called" in dream
to do it.
Green, questioned further by prison
officials to-day, said he believed he
had been called "from on high" to
kill Frank.
Prayed for More Strength.
"I only wish that had had more
strength" Green said. 81 think | have
done my duty in this matter as we'll
as my strength allowed. | believe
that God has helped me. don't think
hat I ever did wrong in my life"
Green, although he weighs 166
pounds. is partly paralyzed in his leit
trm. The physicians believe that TINS
saved Franks life, as Green was un,
able to seize his victim while ne used
Warden Smith said Green had spent
much time recently reading the BlDle'
other prison attaches said that Green
recently had shown tendency TO dls-
cuss religion.
r. f. Dawson, chairman Of the
State Prison Commission. in Atlanta
to-day said the only punishment the
board can infict on Green II Frank
recovers is to remove his eligibility 10
parole. A life-termer can be paroled
after ten years. If Frank should die
Green could be tried for murder and
hanged.
See Hope for Prisoner.
Dr.JH. Rosenberg, of Atlanta, Franks
family physician. who was called 10
Milledgeville Yesterday. said on hls re-
turn to-day that the wound was very
serious, but not necessarily fatal. lie
declared that the main danger was
infection. that Franks temperature
this forenoon was not unnatural IN
crisis of this kind and that Frank had
a GOOD chance to live. This opinion is
shared by DR.. Harry Morris. of Macon.
who has examined the wound, and Dr.
G. d. Compton, the prison physician.
The prison commission will go to
Milledgeville next Saturday to conduct
a full inquiry into the circumstances
of the attack. No angle will be left
untouched, according to Judge Dawson,
chairman of the board. Although the
prison authorities have reported they
Rave been unable to find evidence that
any one besides Green was involved IN
the plan to take Franks life, the COM
mission will make a thorough investl-
cation.
Did Green Act Alone!
Among the points in which they seek
light is whether Green committed the
sct of his own initiative or whether he
was prompted by persons outside the
prison. connected with the institution
or any of his fellow prisoners.
Should it be found that Green alone
conceived the plan to Kill Frank. the
commission will try to learn what
prompted him. This phase of the inves-
tigation will include the question
whether infammatory literature on the
Frank case has been circulated on the
farm and whether there has been any
animosity shown by the prisoner.
Judge Dawson says Green was not
a butcher and had not been engaged
in killing hogs, but that his work was
in the kitchen, where he obtained the
knife used to cut salt meat.