The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-22
PRISONER CUTS
FRANKS THROAT
LITER sLksHEs GEORGIA sLAY-
Err WHILE HE SLEEPS.
WOUND MAY PROVE TO Be FATAL
Governor Harris Has Ordered An In
Vestigation-Executlve Is Greatly
Incensed and a General Shake
UP is Predicted.


Milledgeville, Ga, July 19.-Leo NJ
Frank was worse today. His tenn
perature rose this forenoon from 995
to 1924 The wound in his neck
was swelling, indicating Infection
He was in great pain.
Governor Harris has ordered a
thorough investigation of the attack
on Frank by William Green, the fell
low convict who stabbed Frank in
the throat, cutting a cash nearly half
way around the neck and severing
the jugular vein.
The executive Is greatly incensed
and general shake-up in the prison
management is predicted
Mrs. Frank was allowed to be with
her husband ana their own family
physician, DR.. Joseph Rosenberg, was
attending him.
The preliminary investigation inr
Dictated that Green's assault was not
instigated from outside the prison,
but that it was his own idea.
Franks temperature had dropped
| to 1912 toward noon and he was
somewhat more comfortable. PLY.
sicians admitted his case was critical
| but said he had chance.
Slashed While Asleep,
William Green, fellow convict al
so serving life term for murder,
slashed Frank as the latter slept in
his bunk in a dormitory late Satur-
| day night.
An investigation Of the attack win
be conducted by the Georgia prison
commission, the same body that re-
fused to recommend that Franks
death sentence for the murder of
Mary Phagan be committed to life
Imprisonment.
| Thought He Did Right.
Green said, when taken from soil
tary confinement long enough to be
| Questioned, that he planned the at
| .ack alone and that no one knew
What he intended TO do. He was not
communicative and gave as his only
excuse that che thought il should be
lone" He said, however, he regret
ed his act
Frank was quartered at night In
lormitory with about 100 other pris-
ners. and occupied bunk about for
! feet from one of the two doors to
| he large room. Green's bunk was
ourth from his. No prisoner is al.
owed to leave his place without per
| mission from one of the two guards
tationed at the dormitory at night.
shortly after IL O'CLOCK Saturday
tight Green called out for permission
o get up and it was granted
Grabs Him by Hair.
He started down the line of hunks
| oWard the one occupied by Frank
rs he reached it he quickly grabbed
| crank by the hair and delivered one
blow with the knife he had concealed.
| guard rushed to the bunk and pre-
,ented Green from striking again.
| Among prisoners who rushed to
franks aid were two physicians, one
| If whom also was serving a life term
or murder. They gave first aid and
reated the wound until Dr.. Guy
Compton, the prison physician, was
summoned from his home, half mile
away. The three men took twenty
five stitches in Franks neck Dr. II.
j. Rosenberg, the Frank family ply
stefan, arrived from Atlanta Sunday
with nurses. He said that, while the
patients condition was precarious, he
had chance for life.
Mrs. Frank was in Milledgeyille at
| he home of ]. M. Burns. She was
lot told of the attack until after the
physicians had finished their work.
She became hysterical, but later was
aimed and was taken to the prison
hospital.
The cut extends from the front of
the neck around the left side to al.
most the middle of the back OF the
neck. Neither the windpipe nor the
spinal cord is hurt, but the jugular
vein is partly severed.