Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-17

HIS WIFE; COLLAPsES'
Victims Mother Glad AlPs Over and
That Sufferings of Her Son Are
at an End.

Atlanta, Aug. 1.-THE body ol
Leo Frank, who was kidnapped from
the State prison camp at Milledge'
vile by party Of armed men in au
tomobiles at midnight. was found
hanging today to tree about seventy
five feet off a public highway two
miles from Marietta, the home OF
Mary Phagan, Of whose murder he
was convicted.
F|ranh's wrists were locked in
handouts in front of his body.
The rope about his neck had brok-
en- open the wound in his throat and
blood streamed down the prison suit
in which he was dressed.
He was barefocted.
Mrs. Frank, who has remained at
the prison since her husbands throat
was slashed last month, was told
shortly after midnight of the danger
Gus plight of her husband. Before the
prison official had completed his first
sentence Mrs. Frank swoonetf anu
went into convulsions. She was re.
vived with considerable difficulty
Physicians at the prison were called
to her aid, and it was learned that
her condition was extremely critical.
All effort to revive her failed for ar
hour, and a hurry call was sent tc
Athens for trained nurses to corr
with al possible haste.
At about O'Clock it was stated thai
Mrs. Frank was on the verge of
death and that slight hope for he
recovery was entertained. At Q
o'clock, however. she had change for
the better and physicians hoped for a
gradual improvement.
According to advices from Marietta
the convicted murderer of Mary Pha
gan, fourteen-year-old factory work
er who was saved from the moose on
ly a few weeks ago by the action OF
then, Governor Slaton in commutinS
his sentence:to life Imprisonment, was
roughly handled before being hanged
Reports from Marietta did not con,
firm statements that Marietta citi.
zen composed the squad of kidnapers
Authorities at Marietta said none OF
their citizens appeared to be missing
at least none of those particular!
active in earlier efforts to mob Frank
Governor Harris this morning or
dered every agency of the State eg-
listed in; an effort to trace the kid
naping party. !
He has ordered Warden Smith te
submit a full report. Smith is ex-
pected here for a personal conference
with the governor.
Atlanta was agog with excitement
over the kidnaping1 of Frank, 3fs.1at
there were no disorders with which
the police were not, able to cope.
This morning small groups or per
sons congregated on street. corner;
and excitedly discussed,the case. A
few hotheads made curbstone speech
es but the popular demonstrations
were at a minimum.
An earlier dispatch from Lynch
burg quotes j. X: Jackson, living
near the Putnam-Baldwin county line
as saying that he heard a body O
men rush past his home about mid
night and shortly afterward heard {
hundred shots. Empty cartridg'
shells were picked up this morning
near Jackson's home.
An automobile. carrying newspa
per correspondents, was dispatched
to the bridge spanning Little rive
at once, and found scores of empt.
revolver and shotgun cartridges. TIL
bridge was Scared with shots an,
bullets and empty shells were scat
tered for hundred yards along tn
roadway. but there was no .evidenc
of the body. Not even a drop of bloo
could be detected on the bridge wher
the bullets entered the woodwork.
Ground in that immediate vicinit
was searched for the body but n
trace of it could, be found.