The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-07-20
FRANKS THROAT
CUT BY PRISONER
MARY PHAGANrS MURDERER DAN
GEROUSLY WOUNDED.
Life Termer, Attacked From Behind
By Fellow Prisoner, May Sur
Vive Dangerous Stab.


vein and they believe the operation
was successful Frank was taken to
the hospital. He was still conscious.
Millegdeville, Ga, July 17.-Leo M,
Frank, doing a life term for toe muir
der of Mary Phagan, wes attacked in
the State prison at 11:10 o'clock to-
might by fellow prisoner. His head
was cut half off with a prison made
butcher knife that convicts had used
during the day in killing hogs. Frank
was still on the operating table an
hour after the attack, conscious but
bleeding from the wounds.
according to three doctors who are
working on Frank, the wounded pris-
oner mas chance to recover.
The attack was made from behind,
the left jugular vein being severed.
The spinal chord was not touched
and neither was the windpipe. The
wound, however, is a deep one, and
Frank had suffered the loss of a great
amount of blood before doctors reach
ed his side.
William Green, 45 years old, who is
doing a life term from Columbus, Ca,
on charge of murder, is accused by
the prison authorities of cutting
Franks Uaroar. Green has been put
in a dungeon.
Frank was attacked in the dark at
the prison, according to the officials
of the State farm. He had not been
on good terms with many Of the pris-
oners since his arrival here, and yet
prison officials believed that he was
perfectly safe inside the walls of the
prison.
The inmates of the prison occupy
one large room at night, sort Of a
dormitory, where the strictest of rules
are observed by the prisoners. All
are allowed the freedom of the floor
up to o'clock, but after that hour
a prisoner is not allowed to move with
out permission from guard
The attack on Frank tonight came
SO quickly that no guard had time to
interfere. Green is alleged to have
drawn the knife from his prison cloth
ing, where he had secreted it for the
murderous attack, and, uttering a
curse, thrust it across the throat of
Frank, the attack being from behind,
Frank fell forward to the floor ut
tering cry of pain. The lights were
quickly switched On and the guards
saw Frank PROSTATE on the floor,
blood squirting from his wound, while
a prisoner was trying to make his way
back to his bed.
knife Made Of File.
A knife, made of file, which the
convicts used in killing hogs during
the morning, was found on the floor
of the prison where the attack oc-
CURED. How the knife was smuggled
into the prison is mystery.
The guards found Franks condition
alarming. Prisoners were excited.
DR.. George B. Compton, the prison
surgeon, was Immediately called, but
before he could reach the prison dor
mitory, two well-known Georgia sur
geons who are serving terms in pris-
on were at Franks side administering
first aid to the wounded man. One
Of these physicians is DR.. ]. w Nc
Naughton of Waynesboro, who is do
ing a life term for murder, having
been sent to prison after four trials,
and the other physician who attended
him first was DR.. L. M. Harrison of
Columbus, doing long term.
'I guess they've got me-" Frank is
quoted as having uttered to the doc
tors who stood over him
Frank was conscious from the first
and continued to talk. He suggested
ITO the doctors how the flow of blood
could be stopped. He was gradually
growing weaker.
Aided by COnvfcts.
Within few minutes Frank was
placed in the operating room in the
hospital department of the prison. DR..
Compton, the prison surgeon, assisted
by the two doctors who are serving
terms there, started to sew up the
wounds.
William Green, who attacked Frank
was sentenced to a life term from
Museogee (Colunbus) on June 13,
1913. Leo M. Frank was brought to
the State farm in the early morning
of June 21, after midnight fight from
the Fulton county Jail in Atlanta, by