The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-18

less to resist the lynchers. He was
lquoted as saying that in view Of re-
lpeated threats that the place would
be raided and Frank taken from his
lcustodians and lynched, all prepare
tons ought to have been made and the
i lack of them was objectionable.
The executive. was also understood
to be much incensed at the weakness
i Of the Atlanta police in yielding to the
demand of the throng in Atlanta that
they be permitted to view the body
and exposing 1t for thousands to Sc !,
] in local undertaking establishment.
| There is, of course, an element
Throughout the state which condones
1.-THE lynching, but the better class II
lreople are open in the expression OF
/ their opinion not only that the affair
was frightful outrage, but that the
tauthoritiec wherever they figured IN
THE case, made an abominable show,
ting. Judge Morris Of Marietta, who
saved Franks body from mut1lation
and succeeded In getting 1t to Atlanta,
was practically the only person spok-
en- of as having behaved creditably in
connection with the incident.
Franks corpse is in his widows
charge and on its way to Brooklyn -
day for burial.
The governor himself came In for
severe criticism for his action for
leaving the capitol to make speech
at the state encampment. OF confeder-
ate veterans, before the news OF
Franks lynching reached the city.
but after it was known he had been
kidnapped from Milledgeyille. He was
blamed in general, too, for conditions
on the prison farm.
sOfficials generally were busy issu-
ing explanations and denials. Prison
Commissioners Dawson, who was on
the farm at the time, declared no
responsibility rested on either the
commission or anybody at the farm. :"
Mayor Dobbs Of Marietta. was out
witt, a denial of the story that the
city officials there knew Of the lynch
ing party's departure from there the
night before Frank was hanged.
Sheriffs of the various counties
through which the mob passed with
its prisoner, on the return trip from
Milledgevillea satos Marietta, we're pub
fishing assertions that they did their
utmost to affect rescue.
The Cobb county coroner was push
ing his Investigation. It was expect
ed special grand Jury would be
called to take up the case and spe-
cially engaged detectives were al
ready at work on it, under the Cobb
county commissioners direction.
There were many evidences that
official Georgia failed to estimate cor
rectly Tuesday what the country's
view Of the 1ynching would be. Their
Investigations were started at once,
but with mo- such energy as was mani
| tested today.
Apparently the huge volume Of ed.
itorial excoriations telegraDhed into
Atlanta Tuesday night produced de-
cided impression. There was the nat
urally to be expected response from
many quarters that the incident was
no business of any outsider, but the
better class in official circles plainly
was considerably moved by the I'M
animity of non-Georgian criticism.
For'all this, there were many pre-
dictions, even from persons who de-
jnoupced the lynching. that the GU
nr;ts never would be found.
or the circumstances of Franks last
i1oo mile ride from Milledgeville to
Marietta. nothing was known except
/ to the lynchers.
His body, however, bore 40 marks
t,at any actua! torture was applied UP
70 fine time the moose was adjusted
and the prisoner was swung OF INTO
eternity