Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-24
TOWN, IOWA, TUESDAY, AUGUST "a, 1915.
Perhaps half a Dozen"
''Do you know who they were?"

Yes sir
please name them,' replied Mr.
Gam.
"As came up two men were running
out of the woods. One Of them was
Joe Carter and the other was n man
tn ~ told me was representing the As
sociated Press. I also saw w. j. Frey.
Il. L. Robinson, and w. A. Sans"
Was Frank dead?"
Yes sir; the death rigor had not set
in, however"
WAS there any mutilation Of the
body?"
mo sir. The only mark 1 saw was
the cut In the neck that had been
opened by the rope"
Death Due to StranguIation.
Dr. w. NJ. Kemp, another physician,
testified that Franks death was due
to strangulation.
j. Bart Wing, a Cobb county COM
missioner, was the next witness. He
also was among the first to reach the
scene of the hanging after the body
was found.
do you know anything about the
hanging!" he was asked.
;"Nothing'
rs there anything you would like
to say to the jury!"
Wing hesitated moment, then he
said:
Nothing. except that that morning
on the road l saw several autos on
the Roswell road going in the direc-
tion of Marietta
Gould you say who were in them?"
mo, sir, l could not tell whether
they were negroes or white people,"
Star Witness Called.
w. ]. Frey, owner of the place on
which Frank was lynched, and re-
garded the star witness of the in
quest, next was called and sworn. Mr..
Frey, an ex-sherin Of the county, took
the stand in his shirt sleeves He Is
a large man of As years, with a short,
brown muStache and forid complex
ion.
Mr.. Frey" asked Acting Collector
Gorsey, were you among the first to
discover the body!"
When 1 got there with Judge Gus
Benson and Walter Gam there was
no one there in the grove but Leo
Frank
When did you first know anything
had happened that morning."
About o'clock that morning my
brother phoned me the state prison
had been broken into and Frank ta-
ken out. Walter Gam, travelling
salesman from Augusta, was at my
place. 1 live right on the main road.
Mr.. Cam and I were in the field at
$3.50 or o'clock when three or four
autos came whizzing by. Having heard
about the break at the prison farm. it
popped right into my mind that there
was something doing in the way Of
Frank"
Didn't Recognize Any One.
Frey said Frank was seated in the
back seat Of one of the autos with a
man on each side.
did you recognize any OF the men
in tho carl" q
No, sir"
do you know now who they were?"
mo, SIR
Were the men masked?"
NO. sir, but they wore goggles"
Frey continued:
81 turned to Gam and said: Let's
go to the house: there's something
doin'. We went to the house and
Mrs. Frey had breakfast ready in
about minutes. We ate and got my
car started and we put out for Mar
ietta.''
Frey said he passed the actual scene
of the hanging without noticing any
thing out of the way. He continued.
II came on to town but did not see
anything. l went to the cemetery
where Mary Phagan is buried but
there was nothing there. I came back
into Marietta and met Gus Benson,
who said: Bill, those autos turned in
the road by your gin I drove right
back to the gin and when we got to
the oak tree there was the body Of
Frank hanging"
"Is there any farther light you can
throw on this incident!"
mo, SIR
Frey was excused.