The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-08-20
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eFRANKIAT MORGUE
Crowds Gaze on Victim Of Geor-
: ! gia Lynchers.
IFoUN1 HANGING IN TREE
Forty Policemen Stand Guard at At
:. ianta Undertaking ParIor to Stop
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Wife I'll,


Atlanta, Ga, Aug. 1s.-The body o1
Le>o NJ. Frank was being guarded by "A
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 rs knched the noted prisoner. the
rough CONN was taken TO 2 barn to
secret 1t from tho crowds.
But the curious sought II out and
the police. fearing serious trouble. then
removed 1t to an undertaking estab'
hshment where curious thousands
Viewed It during the afternoon. 81.
~ Franks body was placed on public
exhibition at an Atlanta undertaking
shop in the afternoon, and thousands
Of persons filed through q narrow hall
Way and viewed the mutilated face.
Crowds File BY for Hours.
The crowd had waited for hours ia
get a glimpse of the body. It went
wild with excitement when the doors
Of the establishment we're opened.
Women fought fpantically to get In,
and two tainted In the crash. J
The police then got control Of the
crowd and for four hours and hall
there were two steady streams Of per.
sons passing on either side Of the body,
which was laid out IN q plain black
casket,
j. The body was prepared for shipment
to Brooklyn, N. Y, the boyhood home
of Frank, on q train leaving at mid
night. -
It 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 statement that the lynching was
rthe climax of series of most notori.
Gus outrages against justice and the
foulest of MURDERS l~-. ..s -~
Body Found In Tree. s..
Marietta, Ca, Aug. 18.-The body of
Leo M. Frank was found hanging to a
tree two miles from here ION the Ros-
well road at $3.50 Tuesday morning.
The mob which took him from the
Mifledgeville 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 a
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, few weeks ago
at the prison farm.
officials bound and handcuffed, they in
formed Superintendent ]. N. Burke
that Franks body, would be found near
the grave of Mary Phagan.
It 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 appraised of this fact,
for when they reached the. s1ampy
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
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 81. M. 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