The Ely miner., 1915-08-20
HANGED IN SIGHT
OF PHAGAN HOME
STATES PRISONER DRAGGED
FROM CELL AND HANGED.
BY MOB.
HUNDREDS VIEW REMAINS
Women and Children MinsIe With
Crowd-No Effort Made to Cut
Down Body-Many Urge Mu-
tiIation of Corpse.

Marietta, Ga, Aug. 1s.-Leo M.
Frank was Iynched $40 miles out
side of Marietta, within sight of the
home of Mary Phagan, the little fac.
tory hand Frank was found guilty OF
numbering.
Cheated by the law and governor
with a conscience of its prey, the
mob spirit of the Middle Ages tri-
umphed against justice by overrid-
ing spineIess bunch of prison guards,
who permitted the night riders to en-
ter the state prison, seize the cow
ering pale and injured man and drag
him off to his Cavalry without firing
a SHOT.
Dragged from Prison.
A mob dragged him from the dormi-
tory on the Milledgeville prison farm
just before midnight. OF all the
armed guards on the farm, not one
raised a hand to protect him.
By automobile the mob rushed their
prisoner to the spot where they had
chosen to kill him.
OF his last hours none but those
who hanged him knows anything
That he was dead was not even
known until his body was found dang
ling from tree a short distance off
the highway into Marietta.
Wrenched by the rope which stran-
gled him, the cash recently cut in
his throat by William Green, the fel-
low convict who tried to murder him,
had gaped open horribly. From the
wound blood had gushed in torrents,
staining his prison suit crimson.
Not Touched by Bullets.
The corpse was not touched by bull
lets. Evidently the fusillades fired by
his lynchers as they fed from the pri-
son farm were merely to scare off pur-
suit.
The lynching's scene was more than
100 miles from the state prison farm.
The Marietta chief of police said
that he had no clue to the lynchers.
He was doing his best, he declared, to
find and arrest them. The police have
been unable to learn the identity of
the lynching party from Superintend-
times to get him over the telephone,
but cannot locate him.
Think Mob from Marietta.
Little doubt was entertained here
that the mob was from Marietta Sig
nificance was seen by the authorities
in the fact that several well loaded
automobiles left town with about
enough of a time allowance to en-
able them to reach the prison farm
little before midnight by fast driv.
ing.
News that the body had been found
spread rapidly and within short time
hundreds of persons were crowding to
the scene. No immediate effort was
made to cut the body down, as Sher-
iff Hicks was not in town and the
coroner took no action.
The crowd rapidly increased as the
day wore on. BY 10 o'clock many
women and children were mingling
with the crowd in the woods along the
edge of which the body still hung.
Urges MutiIation.
The body was not finally cut down
until after speeches had been made
by a number of persons in the crowd.
One address was by Marietta man,
who was said to have slapped Detec-
tive William J. Burns face when
Burns was investigating the Frank
case here. He urged that the body be
mutilated. Judge Morris spoke in op-
position to this, urging that order be
maintained.
After the entire crowd had voted
Ngainst mutilation, the body was low
cred from the tree and lifted, in bas-
ket, into wagon which started for
Marietta, where it was announced an
inquest would begin at once.
During the progress mutterings in
favor of mutilation began to be heard
again, SO Judge Morris ran his auto
mobile alongside the wagon, lifted the
corpse into the car and sped, not to-
ward Marietta, but in the direction of
Atlanta.
Some 200 automobiles gave chase.