The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-06-22
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Governor SIaden Is Hanged In
Effigy, Labeled Traitor and
Angry Mobs March Menaoingly
Upon the Executive Mansion
FIXED BAYoNETS PRICK j,
BACK FOREMOST RIOTERS
National Guard Called Out In
Hast To Restore Order Is
Stoned and Several MiIitiamen
Are Hit BY Flying Missiles
tASsociated Press BY Federal wirslsss.l }

tAssociated Press by Federal WirslsssJ
n TLANTA, Georgia, June a.
~ Leo NJ. Frank will not die upon
= - the gallOws today, as ordered by
the court and the sentence upheld by
the supreme court of the state and the
supreme court of the United States.
The death sentence was commuted yea
terday by Governor Slaton into irhpris-
onment for life. .u
The announcement Of this action by
the Governor resulted In demonstFa.
tiOns in a number of the towns Of the
state. In Marietta the former home of
Mary Phagan the young girl for whose
murder Frank was convicted, q crowd
hung Governor Slaton in effiRy. A
dummy figure, labeled Georgia Z Trai-
tor Governor, was hoisted by the neck
to telephone pole on the main street
of the town remaining there some hours,
hOOted at by the crowds. ~ Sd
Feeling in Atlanta High Eh y
In Atlanta, popular feeling ran high.
A crowd estimated at twenty thousand
pefsons met in the ,Chpifols gf6lfnds ut
I night, and, after a number Of infam-
matory speeches had been made, passed
resolutions condemning the GOvsrnor
for his act of executive clsmency.
There was much disorder at this meet
ing and the police made a number, Of
arrests "-''- IN
These arrests further inhamed the
temper of the crowd, which surged from
the capitol grounds to the home Of Gov.
eruor Slatoh, threatening personal vio.
Ience to the chief executive. The po-
lice soon found themselves helpless in
the face of the gathering thousands and
a call for the militia was sent out. D
Martial Law Declared |. ..
One company Of guardsmen answered
the call and q Gordon WIS established
around the Governor 3 residence. Mar.
tial law was declared in a district ex.
tending for half a mile In all tdiree.
tions from the executive residence.
Despite the presence Of the militia
the crowd persisted in its demonstra
tions and bricks and rocks were thrown
by the rioters. TIE militia men fixed
/ bayonets and pressed the rioters back
It One lieutenant of militia was hit OF
= the head with u brick and seriously
e injured, while a number of othe
J. guardsmen were struck with stones. /,
g Governor Statement
-, Announcement of the Governor . de
:, cision was made after Frank had beei
y secretly taken from the jail where b
- has been incarcerated ror severa
weeks and hurried to the state pFisol
u farm mill at Edgeville, away from u
:" Atlanta crowds which are alleged /
T 'f have dominated the jury when Il foup
- the young factory manager guilty .
the brutal murder of the girl employ.
- Crowds gathered on the streets q
- soon as it was learned that Frank
'' sentence had been conimuted. tn
police closed the "near-beern ~ saloon
and one hundred policemen were kef
on extra duty all day. ".fa I.
In his statement explaining the con
mutation the Governor said; ( b" ~
Feeling as | do about the case,
I would be murderer IL / allowe
Frank to hang, The murder was
l most heinous one and the offender d
serves death. 1t is only questio
of identifying the criminal."
10. History Of Case .,,gy 49, .l"'lgsyly p
,t. t Leo NJ. Frank s fight for life i,
". taken u place among the cslebfAtt
IN murder trials of recent years Thr,
ed times the supreme court Of Georgia =
,r fused to interfere with the sentence
st. death. Two appeals were made TO Il
ly supreme Court of the United State
he Both were unsuccessful. "a ~:
he Frank, a young man Of educatio
al whose home had been In Brookly
RS New York, was superintendent Of
pencil factory in Atlanta, when Ma
Phagnn was murdered on April
1913; Mary Phagan was fourteen yea
"a old aud pretty. Her body was -four
- in the cellar of the pencil factory wi
cord tied about her neck and physiciaj
testified at the trail that she had be,
%o Sc, choked to death after an attempt at .
Nv sault "."'
"J eJ Jim Conley, a negro sweeper OF q
Ha S" factory, the prosecution = chief Witne,
,ar accused Frank of the crime and prinl
nd pally upon the negro's Testimony
n' inrN rntnrmph a Nardict nf nnilfV