Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19
NO URGENT DEMAND
MADE FOR JUSTICE
People of Georgia Seemingly
Content With Tragic Outcome
of Frank Case.
GOVERNOR Is DETERMINED
He Will Use Every Power to
Have Lynchers Brought to
Punishment.
GOVERNOR IS DETERMINED

OF Leo VI. Frank went forward stcadily
to-day. Governor Harris announced a
thorough inquiry would be made and
that rewards would be offered for the
arrest and conviction Of the men who
took Frank from the State prison at
MillcdG Gevillc and hanged him near
Marietta.
am incXp-cssibly shocked" said
the Governor This affair has nlaced
blot upon the fair name OF ou. state
that can never be wiped out The
lynchinE will b" probed to the bottom
and avery effort within my power Will
be made TO bring the guilty members
OF the mob to Justice At the proper
time I will offer rewards for the arrest
and conviction Of the men and will
urge the judge, the solicitor and the
sheriff to make di!ignnt efforts to an
prehcnd them"
Governor Harris will have confer
ence with the STATE Prison Commission
tomorrow morning. The three COM
missioners all were in Warden Smiths
home the night Frank was taken away.
II is not unusual for them to be there
on Monday. as they make weekly in
spections Of the prison
HOPES TO IDENTIFY
SOME; OF THE LYNCHERs
The Governor hopes to obtain in
formation from the commissioners and
possibly some OF tho prison officials
who We're overpowered that will lead to
Identification OF some Of tho men
Nothing was done at Marietta TODAY
in the way OF an investigation The
CfrH 7n~-sc
sion yesterday adjourned until Tuesday
Ihat the prison commission would
not make an independent inquiry was
further Indicated to-day when another
member. f. l. Rainey. stated that he
aid not think any one connected with
the prison was To blame. The prison
commission has absolute power in
handling prison affairs, and in the
conference tomorrow, the commits
sioners Will act only in an advisory
capacity.
The three Atlanta newspapers OF this
date print strong editorial condemna-
tions Of the lynchins. and call upon
the State authorities TO go 10 the limit
in revealing the identity OF the mem
bers of tho mob, and bring them TO
justice. This is the editorial attitude
OF the State press in general.
With the official statement Of Gov
ernor Harris. the people of Atlanta
and Of Cobb County--wh.ch now is
generally regarded as the home of ;he
lynchc:s-secmed very well content
NO ESPECIAL PUBLIC
DEMAND IN EVIDENCE
In fact, there was no especial public
demand in evidence, outside Of the
press. for executive activity. After the
huge crowds of Yesterday. Atlanta was
very quiet to-day. Franks body was
taken under guard of police escort
to the terminal station last night in
time for the midnight train over the
Southern Railway; but the escort was
the hearse at the station. but no crowd
assembled there.
Mrs. Frank had recovered from her
prostration sufficiently to come to At
lanta and accompany the body Of her
husband. With her were Rabbi David
Marx. Herbert Haas, her brother in
law: Alexander Marcus and Harry
the attorney who put up
such a valiant fight in behalf of the
famous defendant.
There was grim touch of irony in
evidence at the station. Just across
from the baggage car into which the
Frank coffin was placed stood the Pull
man ear 'Naldostat' in the stateroom
of which Frank made his journey to
Macon the night of June 20. when his
sentence of death was commuted by
Governor Slaton TO life Imprisonment,
and, taken secretly from the Tower in
Atlanta. he had made the journey in
the high hopes that at last he was on
the road 10 vindication and freedom
MARY PHAGAN'S MOTHER
is GLAD THAT IT'S OVER
Mrs. j. W. Coleman. mother of Mary
Phagan, to-day made to n reporter her
first statement on the lynching of Leo
Frank.
It's all over now and I'm perfectly
satisfied with the manner in which It
ended" she said as she sat in the
home from which her daughter went
forth to her death in the pencil fac
tory.
81 hope I never will hear that name
again (meaninG the name Frank). |
hope this will be the last of 1t all He
was sent to the prison farm by one
man, but his taking away was the wish
OF more than one. That's all have to
say. only that I'm glad the end has
arrived and there will be no more of
this terrible affair"
In Marietta, near where the final act
OF the long tragedy took place. every
thing was strangely calm and quiet.
Even Tuesday night was free from
noise or demonstration. Perhaps half
a hundred men were on the public
square at 0 o'clock. They stood in
groups and talked quietly.
What information was extant con-
cerninY the motor mob and it's work
was to be found, as 1T were, in tho air.
vou couId hear tbInps-but Won oould