The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-08-19
LEO N. FRANK IS
HANGED BY MOB
NOTED LIFE TERM CONVICT RE.
MOVED FROM PRISON.
THE WARDEN is. OvERPOWtRED
Prisoner is Rushed Away in Automo-
bile by Crowd VariousIy Esti-
mated at From IS to rs.
Body Found on Tree,

Atlanta, Aug. 17-With Leo NJ
Frank dangling from a tree in the
coarse prison night-dress, manacIed,
barefooted and smeared with his own
blood, in the outskirts Of the neigh
boring town of Marietta and his
widow at Milledgeville close to death
from grief and horror at the dreadful
end suffered by her husband, Atlanta
experienced a revulsion of feeling to-
day.
The very men bitterest in their de.
InunCiatiOn of former Governor Stay
ton, who saved Frank from execution
a few weeks ago were demanding
IYengeanCe- unnn- the man who Iynahad
him and more particularly upon the
prison farm officials VINO permitted
without a blow and scarcely word in
his behalf, their helpless and wound
ed prisoner to be dragged from their
very sight to his death.
That there will be clean sweep of
the Milledgevlle prison officials was
considered iOTegone conclusion.
Many persons expressed astonish-
ment that such an affair cORld occur
at penal institution where heav-
! lily armed guard of forty men is in
trenched in buildings strong enough
to withstand a siege.
After waiting for hours for infor-
nation, Governor Harrison left At
lanta for Fitzgerald, Ga, where he
was scheduled to address a Confeder-
late Veterans reunion. Before leav,
ing the governor issued the following
statement:
Il am both shocked and grieved
and in common with all the good peo-
pie Of Georgia who stand for law and
order, | feel that a great wrong has
been done and that our state will not
look with approval upon such an act"
To add to the nights horrors, Sher-
iff Hicks or Cobb county, in whose
jurisdiction the affair occurred, could
not be found and in his absence the
coroner refused to take any steps to
having the corpse taken down. At
ten-thirty the body was still hanging
in full gaze of hundreds of curious
people. The news travelled fast and
soon automobile parties from Atlanta,
Roswell Marietta and other towns
began arriving. The roads soon be-
came impossible and by II o'clock 1t
was estimated 5000 people were
gatherer around the tree from which
Franks body hung.
Frank Hanged by Mob.
Atlanta, Ga, Aug. 17.-Leo NJ. Frank
was lynched near Marietta, it was
learned here by long distance tele-
phone this morning Franks body was
found hanging to tree seventy-five
feet from the public highway near
Frey Grin on the Roswell road two
miles east of Marietta.
The scene of the lynChing was but
a short distance from Mary Phagans
birthplace.
Handouts were on his wrists and
the rope around his neck had broken
open the wound where he was slasifed
recently by his fellow prisoner, VIII
liam Green. and the blood had stream
ed down the prison suit he wore. He
was barefooted.
Warden and Guards overpowered.
Milledgeville. Ga, Aug. IA mob |
estimated at between 25 and |
as in number oyerpowered. warden, |
and guards at the |
Georgia state prison farm, near here
at IL O'Clock last night and immedi, !
ately got Leo NJ Frank and rushed
him away In an automobile.
First reports that 1t might be
friends of Frank were dispelled when
A prisoner said he had heard a mem
Der OF the mob say that Franks body
would be placed today on the grave of
Wary Phagan ut Marietta, Frank was
serving a life term for the murder OF
he girl.