New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-20
point, having proceeded on to the house

on Underhill Avenue.
About dozen persons were gathered
in front of the undertakers shop when
four men opened the doors OF the
hearse at the rear and, gripping the
copper handles fastened at the. ENDS
and sides, lifted the box out and took
it to a freight elevator which raised
it to the third floor, where 1t renamed,
pending instructions from the family.
No marks were on the box. When II
was taken into the undertaker's build
ing, with it went the two long and two
short boxes of flowers that rested on
it when the train brought it IN.
The three story brownstone house at
152 Underhill Avenue is on the west
side of the street, between Park Place
and Sterling Place. The dark green
shades had been drawn down almost 70
level with the window sills. Mrs.
Rudolph Frank was on the stoop when
the machine containing her daughter
in-law approached the house. She ran
down and opened the door of the car
before the chauffeur could reach
around to do it, and sprang in beside
Mrs. Leo Frank. They embraced so
fullheartedly and without restraint that
minute later both women were near
a breakdown. Relatives assisted them
from the automobile and up the steps
into the house.
About a half hour after this the
sidewalks within a block and half or
the house were congested with curious
persons. Children gave up their play
to sit on nearby stoops and curbs and
gaze in fascination at the house. More
than a score Of nursegirls found the
section a desirable one for their
wheeled charges. An afternoon paper,
with brief record of the body's arrival,
was hawked in the neighborhood, and
the principal purchasers were the small
boys whose interest in the case had by
this time become feverish.
One Of Mrs. Storms two young chill
dren sat at front window on the third
floor, surveying the crowd in wonder
ment and apparently trying to puzzle
out an explanation for the un-
usual conditions. A hurdy-gurdy man
strolled onto the block but the police
chased him before he had turned out
more than half his first tune. A man
curled up on stoop across the way
from the Frank house and went to
sleep. Passenger automobiles and
trucks stopped near the corners and
the chauffeurs, inquiring the cause for
the crowds, decided to wait around for
an hour or so in hope of seeing the
body brought to the house.
By noon-the intervening hours had
dragged without a stir-the number OF
spectators had so mounted that addi-
>tional policemen were needed. Police
lines were formed at Sterling and
Prospect Places and every person who
passed through had to assign reason
more cogent than curiosity. Gradu-
ally it became possible for some of the
curious, nurse-girls principally, to
work into positions quite close to the
house, and there they placed them
selves and their attractive faces on ex-
hibtion.
The Frank home showed a quiet ex-
terror. Hours passed and saw no one
leave or enter. Late in the morning
few kilograms of sympathy were
brought. An undertaker's wagon ap.
preached the block and the crowds
tried to close in, thinking 1t carried
the body. But it passed on ana the In
terest temporarily relaxed. At the
corner of Underhill Avenue and Ster-
ling Place the crowd swelled out to the
edge of the curbstone and waited as pa
tiently as if for great parade.
Groups of men engineered their way
past the police lines and walked by the
house, which they scanned as eagerly
as if it were the box of the dead itself
Mrs. Rudolph Frank saw reporters
in the morning. She said she had not
the slightest hope that the men who
murdered her son would ever b(
brought TO justice. and she regard:
the movement to prosecute them as
| farcical
Beyond that" she said, 81 do no
care to discuss this tragedy. 1t wa:
nothing but political frsme-up
Nothing earnest will ever be done tC
make them pay for what they hav'
| done.
"What was Leo will be buried to
morrow in Cypress Hills. | shall no
say anything about our funeral plans
anyway, thus far we have none.
want privacy in the last moments tina
the body Of my boy is above thu
ground
Finally, want to thank the man!
friends who have given US their sym
pathy through all of our troubles
And those thanks do not go alone t
Jews: many of our friend were Gen