Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-17

!. The crowd increased rapidly as the
day wore on. BY 10 o'clock many
women and children were mingling
with the crowd in the woods, at the
edge of which the body still hung.
At that hour no effort had been made
to dispose of the body, although Cor
oner Booth had been summoned.
Franks body was cut down at 1o.i5
o'clock, but not until one Of tihY-
crowd had advocated mutilstion II
the body.
Former Judge Newton A. Morg il
Immediately pleaded with the thronE
to allow an inquest to take its prof 1er
course. A vote was suggested ilnd
taken. It was overwhelmingly in
favor Of allowing the coroner to Take
/ charge of he body. 1t then way cut
down and the two-mile trip to MARI
eta started. The inquest was set for
II o'clock.
| At the suggestion of Judge Morris
! the body was taken from the under-
takers wagon in which it was placed
at the lynching scene and put into
an automobile on the outskirts of the
| town. The automobile started toward
Atlanta.
Judge Morris telephone1 from
| Smyrna to an Atlanta undertaken TO
meet the automobile and take charge
of the body,
Souvenir Hunters Tear Shirt.
| When the body was cut down. parts
of Franks shirt were torn away by
souvenir hunters. The body was
roughly handled before it was nut
into the undertaker's wagon.
Within short time after the body
was started for Atlanta. excitement
here subsided and the town presented
almost normal appearance befofe
| noon
| After a special session of the Cobb
| county commissioners at which the
| employment of special attorney to
assist the coroners jury was author
! ized, Coroner John A. Booth empan-
| elled n jury and began an investiga-
| tion of the lynching.
MILLEDGEVTLLE, Ga, Aug. IT,
A we'll organized party of armed men,
who came in five automobiles, at
tackled the Georgia state peniten-
tiary here last night. took Leo M
Frank, serving a life term for the
murder of Mary Phagan at Atlanta
from dormitory and escaped with
him.
| For hours after the attack no trace
of the automobiles bearing the party
could be found, but at about daylight
| newspaper men picked up the trail
at point on Little river, near Eaton
ton, Ga. G.. X. Jackson, white
farmer, living near a bridge over Lit
| tie river, said that shortly after mid
night he heard several automobiles
stop there. Soon afterward he said
he heard loud talking and then many
shots. He heard the automobiles
| leave in the direction of E,atonton
after the firing. A hurried search of
| the immediate vicinity failed TO reveal
anything that would indicate that
Frank had met summary vengeance
! there. The armed men arrived in the
vicinity of the prison farm practically
unnoticed and proceeded methodically
to its business. All means of wire com
municaton from the institution to
Milledgeville, three miles away. were
destroyed and all wires, except one
telephone line from Milledgeville, also
were cut. te
Make Warden Prisoner.
Five men went to the house Of
Warden j. 7. Smith awakened him
and made him prisoner At the same
time a small squad of men went TO
the home Of J. NJ. Burke. superin-
! tendent of the farm. Burke was
nearest the dormitory. where il was
| believed Frank was kept The tvs
guards on duty there were ordered
while guns were levelled on them. to
| open the gates.
| The party then rushed in, uuickiv
| got Frank and hurried him to one
| of the waiting automobiles. He was
| forced down into the car, while 4
member of the party is said to have
! flourished a rope in front of him.
| Without delay those who had been
| guarding Warden Smith left him anil
| Joined the party at the gates. This
automobiles then started off swiftly
| in a northerly direction.
| With only a limited number of