Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-22
SPIRIT OF MOB SPENT;
GOVERNOR, UNGUARDED,
RETURNS TO CAPITOL
Slaton Finds kilograms
Congratulating Him for
Committing Death Sen
tence of Leo Frank Piled
on Desk.

ATLANTA, Ca, June %. - Governor
slaton was at his desk In the Capitol
again this afternoon.
He made the trip from his home In
an open automobile but there was no
hostile demonstration. No guard accom-
panied him.
Nobody awaited him in his office On
his desk, however. was huge stack of
kilograms. They were CONGRATULATIONS OH
his action in the Leo NJ Frank case
Among those who telegraphed were
the Governors of West Virginia and
Kansas,
Georgia's citizen sodiery was in con-
troll OF the situation resulting from the
| communication of the sentence Of Leo NJ.
! Frank, today. Frank was under sentence
of death for the murder of 15-year-old
Mary Phagan, employe of the pencil fac
tory of which Frank was superintendent.
The sentence was commuted to life Inn
prisonment. The mob spirit was almost
| spent.
A battalion of the 9th Regiment had
| dispersed all demonstrations in the vicin-
| ity of Governor Slaton's home. The
sheriff had control of the situation about
| the State Prison Farm, where Frank Is
confined. The remainder Of the 9Th Regl-
| ment was held in reserve in the armory
ready for any service that might be
| required
In evidence of their confidence that the
worst was over. the authorities today per-
mitted the near-beer saloons and drink
| ing clubs to reopen.
The militia guard about the Governors
Il hi pot tvIth1ra MIA
tonight were undecided.
Reports continued to come In of trouble
at other points. At Woodstock, as we'll as
at Marietta, Governor Slaton was hanged
| in efTlgy and at Newman images of both
| Slaton and Frank were burned, Citizens
of Valdosta were subscribing 81 each for
a monument to Mary Phagan.
The Atlanta officials have taken the
utmost precautions to prevent any fur
| ther demonstrations In the city All the
city police are on duty. They have been
instructed to keep all persons moving and
to arrest all intoxicated persons on sight
GOVERNORS HOUSE A FORT.
Last night was one of the most critical
| in the recent history of Georgia
throughout the afternoon crowds. mostly
of the rougher element, had been gather
ing about the home of the Governor.
few miles outside of Atlanta. Twenty
county policemen, armed with riot guns,
| had been on duty about the place, while
the Governor and a number of friends
all heavily armed, were in the house.
After dark the crowd was augmented by
| a large number Of Atlantans, who ar
rived in automobiles. The men and half
grown boys in the crowd at first con-
tented themselves with hooting and jeer-
ing As the night wore along their tenn
per became more ugly. Finally one OF
the leaders made a speech in which he
urged that, as Frank had been spirited
away, the crowd should hang the Gov
ernor.
With cries of. 1--WE want Georga's
traitor Governor" in his ears, the Gov
ernor telephoned to the major command
ing the LIST Battalion of the 9th Regi-
ment which had been held in reserve
at the armory, The troops were rushed
to the scene in automobile trucks that
had been in readiness. Bayonets were
fixed and the troops thrown out to COM
mand the tract of half mile in front
of the Slaton residence, which marked
the limit within which the Governor de-
clared martial law.
The mob was still ugly, apparently
realizing that the Governor had issued
orders that no shots were TO be fired
except in the last extremity, The throng
stood fast in the face of the bayonets
lbI a hAAAiSs many ~ 6ofN "@S N4'@
then showered the soldiers with stones.
TROOPS CHARGE MOB.
Obeying the command to charge with
fixed bayonets, the soldiers dispersed the
mob, and small details OF troops cleared
the neighborhood of scattered parties of
the crowd, driving them In all directions.
For a time 1t looked as though the
troops would have to fire, but at last
the mob dispersed The troops then
had more trouble with the people in
the automobiles who dehed them for
time. 1t was early today before the last
Of the mob had left the scene and the
Governor could retire.
While the State soldiers patrolled the
grounds about Governor Slaton's house
today the Governor remained indoors.
with him were several of his close
friends, all OF them armed and ready TO
repuIse another mob, should 1t appear
again in the neighborhod of the country
home. In Atlanta today hundreds OF
plain clothes policemen and uniformed
officers mingled with the crowds on the
streets, and with the mounted police
Gathering along the principal streets, dis
persed every kind of street gathering.
The policemen were under orders to Keep
very one moving. and to make arrests
In every instance in which the order
was not compiled with at once. The
local authorities were doing their utmost