Evening journal., 1915-08-18
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Marx and Herbert Hass and Harry
Alexander. Franks friends and law
yers. Governor Harris returned to
Atlanta Tuesday night.
The governor himself came for
severe criticism II was not alone
his action in leaving the capital to
make a speech at the state encamp-
ment Of Confederate veterans, before
the news Of the lynching reached the
city, indeed, but after Il was known
he had been kidnapped from Mil
lledgeville, that the gravest fault was
found. He was blamed In general
too, for conditions on the prison
farm, much emphasis being laid on
the critics contention that he ac-
/ quiesoed In what was denounced to-
day as whitewash of the manage
ment following the recent stabblng
of Frank
officials generally were busy is
suing explanations and denials.
Following the statements by War
den Smith and superintendent Burke.
OF the Milledgeville farm, Prison
Commissioner DAWSON. who was on
the place at the time. was out with
declaration that no responsibility
rested on either the commission or
anybody at the farm"
Mayor Dobbs, of Marietta, was out
with a denial OF the story that the
city officials there knew something
of the lynching 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
Milledgeville to Marietta. were pub
fishing assertions that they did their
utmost to effect a rescue but were
taken too much by surprise to inter-
cept the party
The Cobb county coroner was push
ing his investigation. Il was expected
a special grand jury would be called
TO take up the case and speeially-en-
gagged detectives we're already at work
on II under the Cobb county commits
sioners' direction
There were many evidences that
official Georgia failed to estimate cor
rectly Tuesday what the county's
view of the lynching would be. Their
investigations were started at once
but with no such energy as was mani
tested today. Apparently the huge
volume of editorial excoriations of
the affair telegraphed into Atlanta
Tuesday night produced a decided inn
preston There was the naturally
to-be-expected response from many
quarters that the incident was nc
business of any outsider. but the bet
I "a ola In infn otr 1af &
b considerably moved by the unanimity
iof non-Georgian criticism
For all this, there we're many pre-.
dictions. even from persons who de-
nounced the lynching. that the cul.
prits never would be found
OF the circumstances of Franks
last 100 mile ride, from Milledgevills
TO Marietta. nothing was known ex-
cept TO the lynchers. From the vic.
lence with which he was dragged
from the prison and hurled into the
waiting automobile and the sugges
tive brutality with which one of his
captors dangled a rope before his
face as the automobiles drove away
b il seemed evident that no regard was
paid 10 his physical weakness anC
that every effort was made 10 impress
on him throughout the trip, the ter
rors of his fate which awaited hin
I at the end of the trip. His body bor'
no marks. however. when Il wal
found dangling from the tree il
Marietta's outskirts. that any actua
torture was applied up TO the tim'
: the nose was adjusted. obviously Will
|. view of ending the agony quickl!
, and the prisoner was swung off int
: Eternity
; The police today defended their ac
!. ton in permitting the Atlanta crow,
= to see Franks body on the groun,
: that It was the only means of pre-
" venting serious disorder
The corpse had been hidden in
=" stable and the mob. in its determine
tion to find IT, had interfered witt
several funerals and threatened q
search the houses of leading Jew
b. in the city for it,
70 When the body was first exposed Il
on a local undertaking room, about nv
O. thousand people we're waiting to SO
'y II. About two-ffths were women.
81 At first none of the women wer
admitted. Presently. however, some