Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-20
LE0FRANK'S BODY
BURIED IN BROOKLYN
Funeral Moves at Rapid Pace
From Home to Mount
Carmel Cemetery.
SMALL CROWD WATCHES
LAST RITES AT GRAVE
Gov. Harris of Georgia Offers 81 500
Reward for Conviction of
Three Lynchers.

NEW YORK. August 20.-The body of
Leo NJ Frank. who was lynched at
Maristta, Ga, was buried today in
Mount Carmel cemetery. Brooklyn. The
automobile hearse and the cars carry
ing the immediate relatives of the dead
man Travelled at a high rate of speed
over the six-mile route from the home
Of Franks parents to the cemetery in
and photogra piers.
Franks parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Ru-
dolph Frank, the widow and Frank s
sister, Mrs. Otto Stern, and her hus-
band. occupied the automobile that fol-
lowed the hearse. A dozen other rela-
lives and friends occupied three addi-
tional automobiles. A crowd of scarce
ly more than 4 hundred people was in
front of the Frank homo when the
body was carried out at 9:10 o'clock.
Twenty minutes later the hearse had
arrived at the cemetery and within
thirty minutes from the time they
started the last burial services were
concluded About forty curious per-
sons We're in the cemetery when
Franks body arrived, and they crowded
close to the grave during the services.
Perfect order was maintained, both at
the Frank home and at the cemetery,
and the police on hand at both places
found nothing to do.
Mrs. Lucille Frank. the widow, ap
peared calm and restrained until the
burial service had concluded. Then
she collapsed, and was carried to an
automobile. The services were con-
Quoted by Rabbi Alexander E. Lyons
of Brooklyn and Rabbi David Marx of
Atlanta.
Governor to Call Conference.
ATLANTA, August 20.-Having Of
fered a reward of $1,000 for the first
three persons convicted" in connection
with the 1ynching of Leo NJ. Frank, 1t
was announced today that Gov. Nat E.
Harris would call a conference in At
lanta of the officials of Baldwin and
Cobb counties to consider what further
steps shall be taken The state prison
farm, from which Frank was abducted,
is located in Baldwin county, while his
body was found swaying from the limb
of an oak tree near Marietta, in Cobb
county
1t has been reported that the officials
of these two counties have been at
loggerheads as to which should take
the initiative in an attempt to bring
TO punishment persons connected with
the lynching.
This situati ton has been further COM
plicated by more recent reports that
FRANK may nave Deen QOne TO QedtH III
a third county at some point along the
Milledgeville-M Marietta highway, the
body being carried later to the out
skirts of Marietta for a more conspic-
uous display.
A conference of the county officials
involved. it was said today. might bring
about an agreement as to the future
conduct of the investigation. Gov.
Harris said he would ask to this con-
ference the sheriff.. the solicitor and
ia
IT will ask the judges to charge the
grand juries especially on this subject,
and will ask the solicitors to make
every effort to ascertain the guilty
operate fully with the solicitors and
judges" said the governor. THE lynch
ing of Franck was blot upon the fair
name Of our state that can never be
erased until the guilty men are pun
ished to the limit of the law"
So far as the public Is aware nothing
has been learned by the state officials
a. to the identity of the lynchers.
Governors Statement.
lynching of~Ieo NJ. Frank, published
today. said that he would do all in his
power to discover and bring to justice
the perpetrator. believing that the
people at large do not Justify the
spreading through the state"
In concluding his statement, which
was given in the form of an interview,
the governor said:
There is no man in the bounds OF
the state that regrets more deeply than
l do this unfortunate occurrence.
shall do all, in my power to discover
and bring to justice the perpetrators,
believing that the people at large do
not justify the wave Of lawlessness
that seems to be spreading throughout
the state. Mob law should never take
the place Of statute law. There will be
no safety to life, liberty or property
until this is recognized by our people.
ut was especially distressing to me,
because the attack was made upon the
states own prison, built, not to resist
the violence of its citizens outside, but
to keep in confinement the weak and
helpless convicts who were unfit for
service in the chain gangs Of the coun-
ties"
Thought Prison Safe.
The statement. which was devoted