Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-08-28
What Happened When Crowd
Found the Body of Leo Frank

Inc following account of what hap
pened after the people of Cobb county
Georgla, had discovered the body of LeC
frank, was written by a staff CORES
pondent of the New York Times:
1t appears from the facts known. that
Frank was hanged between 7 O'Clock
and $50. From the road the body wa.
screened by the trees.
A horrible sight met the ewes of the
first arrivals at the grove, and still
more horrible was the spectacle that
greeted later arrivals. who found r6t
only the body swaying in the wind
with the gaping red wound in the
throat, but surging around it a closely
packed mass of men all but mad with
excitement and hate.
A brown grass rope about half an
inch thich had been thrown over the
limb of an oak tree, near the trunk
One end of this rope was thrown around
the neck of Leo NJ. Frank, tied with a
hangman moose, and the other was
tied to the base of sapling twenty
feet away.
Frank hung with the top of his head
near the limb, his feet about four feet
above the ground. A white handker.
chief was over his face, the corners
kGotted at the back or his head. The
hangman S knot lay against his right
jaw. The wound in his throat, where
William Green attempted to kill him
at the state farm a few weeks ago.
was torn open. Tne rope was above
the wound, but toward the front of the
throat, where the wound ranged up
ward, the rope lay in the wound.
Sleeves Clipped for Souvenirs
Frank S body from the waist up was
clothed in thin white paiama jacket.
Worked in the jacket on the left side of
the chest were the letters "L. NJ. F."
in red thread, The sleeves of the pa.
jamas had been clipped away with
pocket knives by souvenir hunters un.
til both sleeves were gone as far as
the elbows.
The arms, thus exposed, hung straight
with the wrists handcuffed in front.
The arms, hands, and fingers were blue
while the left thumb showed the heal
ing cut where Frank had defended him.
self from Green's knife attack at the
state tarm'
Ihe BODY, from tn waist down, was
wrapped IN dirty piece OF brown cloth
that looked like khaki, stretched across
the front like a shirt drawn tight, and
tied by the corners behind. The edges
of the cloth barely meeting on the left
side: -
viewed Dy women WIN BABES
Around the ankles mad been a piece
OF grass rope, put TINS rope was cut
away by souvenir hunters soon atter
'he crowd gathereu,
betore S:5o O'Clock the crowd at the
scene had reached great proportions,
considering the lsolateu nelghporhood,
ana more than loo persons were there,
including a number OF women, several
or whom carried babies IN arms, Au-
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