The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-08-20
Secretary Of Navy Daniels, In
Statement, Defends South
Against Comments Arising
From Deed Of Night Riders
CABINET OFFICER DEPLoRES
ACT IN NAME OF SOUTHLAND
Former Governor SIaton Who
Committed Alleged Murderer.s
Death Sentence, Denounced
Men Who Committed Outrage
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WJAshlNGToN, August ls,-New'
" of the lynching in Georgia Of
Leo Frank has stirred the nation and
there ig almost universal horror expires
sed that such crime could have been
committed on Anne rican soil. So great
has been the flood of comment, direct
ed against the lawlessncss Of Georgia in
particular and Of the South in general,
the list of recent other lynchmgs being
recalled and reviewed, that Secretary
Of the Navy Daniels issued statement,
as a spokesman for the South. '"' ~ "
Secretary Of Navy Shocked
The statsinant dcnounces Iynching
and lymchcfs unsparingly. :" am shock
ed beyond measu~c by the lawlessness
which has Ecen d;spInyed in this af-
fair said the secretary. cit is the
worst hot that has ever fallen on the
name of Georgia, and the South de.
pl"re" the act of this morning more than
any other section of the country. There
is no excuse for lynch law, no justifi-
cation for illegal executions
Equally strong were the structures
pnescd rnon the n tinrs of the Georgian
lvrchers b. Fotm"r Governor Slaton of
Georgia, who is at San Francisco.
An Outrage Upon Georgia
1t was Governor SlatDn who com,
mUted Frank s sentence from death T.
life imprisontnent, despite threats
against his own person and in the ia g
of an Atlanta mob riOting before his
residence.
"The lynching. Of .FTank was the ac'
of towards and an Itrage upon Geor
gia", declared, the former Governor
GAN engaged in this lynching should
hang Good citizens everywhere will
condemn the. act.
Speaking later, at Civic League
convention, Governor Slaton said that
it was better for Frank to have been
lvDched than legally executed.
Gone IL an attack against the bod .:
the other is an attack upon the soul y.
he said. ."The outcome of this case
is the result of the exalted position Of
woman in the hearts of GeOrgians'
Warden Is Exonorated
An investigation of the cir, 1mstnnc $
surrounding the abduction of Frank
from the prison farm Mt Miledgevi lie,
Georgia, by state officials resulted in
a finding generating the warden from
all blame The raid of the twenty-five
lvuchers was without warning and the
raiders were, in such force that suc-
crssful opposition was impossible, says
tn" report.
The dead body of Frank was found
at half-past eight yesterday morning
swinging from tree within sight of
the former home of Mary Phagan, the
young girl whom the pencil manufac-
turrr had been convicted of Outragin 2
and numbering in his factory at A.
lanta. Frank had been taken a hun
dred miles by auto before being pu'
to death. 1t is learned that some of
the lynchers wanted to mutiIato the
dead body, bnt had been dlsuaded by
their comnanions.
Widow Takes Body Home
Early this morning the body left
Atlanta, wither it has been taken ar
ter it was discovered, for Brooklyn,
the home of Frank 8 relatives, accom-
panied by his widow and friends OF
the family.
When first brought to Atlanta it was
secrcted in n barn, but news of ITS
presence leaked out aud n sullen crown
of vindictive Jew baiters and Of the
morbidly curious, fOrcibly, demande,!
permission to view it, in order thar
identification might be established u
their satisfaction and qualification.
The undertaken in charge teIe,
phoued to the police and thirty pa
troImen were assigned to guard the
stable until the body was removed to
the train which is now carrying it
~''ward.