Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-08-20
Crowds Gaze on Victim of Geor-
gia Lynchers.
FOUND HANGING IN TREE
Forty Policemen Stand Guard at At.
Ianta Undertaking Parlor to Stop
Observation-Disclosures Slayer's
Wife III.

policemen last night to prevent further
disorders. When it was brought into
Atlanta after being cut down in the
oak grove near Marietta, where mob
of Is lynched the noted prisoner, the
rough coffin was taken to a barn to
secret it from the crowds.
But the curious sought it out and
the police, fearing serious trouble, then
removed it to an undertaking estab-
lishment where curious thousands
viewed it during the afternoon.
Franks body was placed on public
exhibition at an Atlanta undertaking
shop in the afternoon, and thousands
of persons filed through narrow hall
way and viewed the mutilated face.
Crowds File BY for Hours.
The crowd had waited for hours to
get a glimpse of the body. 1t went
wild with excitement when the doors
of the establishment were opened.
Women fought frantically to get in,
and two tainted in the crash.
The police then got control of the
crowd and for four hours and half
there were two steady streams of per-
sons passing on either side of the body,
which was laid out in a plain black
casket.
The body was prepared for shipment
to Brooklyn, N. Y, the boyhood home
of Frank, on train leaving at mid
night
1t was doubtful whether Mrs. Frank
would be able to make the trip East
with the body.
She suffered a collapse when the
news that Frank had been taken from
the prison by the mob was broken to
her at her boarding house in Mil
ledgeville To newspaper men she sent
out a statement that the lynching was
"the climax of a series of most notori-
Gus outrages against justice and the
foulest of murders
Body Found in Tree.
Marietta, Ca, Aug. 18.-The body of
Leo M. Frank was found hanging to a
tree two miles from here on the Ros-
well road at $3.50 Tuesday morning.
The mob which took him from the
Milledgeville prison farm at eleven
o'clock Monday night made good their
threat to hang him near the grave OF
Mary Phagan, his fourteen-year-old
victim.
So quietly was the work of the
lynchers performed that people in Ma
rietta did not know that Frank had
been brought to their very doorstep
for more than two hours When the
news reached the Cobb county seat
throng at once hurried to the mill. The
body was still hanging to the tree. At
least twenty reputable men recognized
the features that have been printed in
the papers of five continents. Identifi-
cation was made doubly positive by
the scar of the scarcely healed wound
inflicted on Frank by his fellow pris-
oner, William Green, a few weeks ago
at the prison farm.
AS the mob leaders left the prison
officials bound and handcuffed, they in
formed Superintendent ]. N. Burke
that Franks body would be found near
the grave of Mary Phagan.
1t was known that the lynchers and
their victim were in eight cars, and
long before daylight the sheriffs had
drawn their cordons The lynchers
were evidently apprised of this fact,
for when they reached the sTampy
banks of Little river, it was decided
to run no risk of being baked by
rescue party. 1t was then planned
that to take their prisoner right to the
Marietta cemetery would be inviting
a battle with law officers. Frye's gin
was then the place selected.
Clad in SiIken Nightshirt.
Frank in his death ride was not
even clothed He was sleeping in the
dollhouse when the lynchers arrived.
and when the throng from Marietta
arrived the hanging corpse was clad
only in a silken nightshirt with the
initials Il NJ f." embroidered over
the heart. His feet and legs were
bare.
Franks eyes were bandaged. His
hands were cuffed behind him. A
crocus sack had been tied about his
hips. His feet were dangling about
four feet above the ground. An oak
tree was the gallows.
Before 9 o'clock the crowd had
reached great proportions considering
the isolated neighborhood of the
scene More than 1000 persons had
gathered to look on the grim specta-
Gle. The body was still warm when
the crowd reached the scene. The
wound inflicted by Green had been
opened up on the left side of his
throat by the contact with the big
grass rope. Even while the crowd
gathered it still poured small stream
of blood. And the men who had thus
taken the law into their own hands
had disappeared as suddenly as they
had arrived at the prison.
Even after the discovery Of the
body there was no one to make any