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Show FRANK CASE CAUSES MUCH EXCnfM Detective Burns Mobbed at Marietta, Ga., Home of Little Mary Phagan. MARIETTA, Ga., May 1 William J. Burns, the detective, was the center of an angry demonstration when he' came here today, presumably in connection with an investigation of tho case of Loo M. Frank, the xUlantn factory superiu-tendent. superiu-tendent. under sentence of death for the murder of 14-year-old Mary Phagan. . Ouo man iu a crowd that surrounded Burns struck tho detective in the face. Others, threaten pd tho , detective with violenco if ho made hny niovo to resist the mau. The detective espaped to a hotel, while C. W. Burke, who accompanied accom-panied him here, summoned deputy sheriffs. Xo arrests were made. This was tho homo of tho slain factory fac-tory girl and many of her relatives still live here. Tho detective's assertion that Frank was not guilty and that James Conley, a negro factory sweeper, convicted as an accessory after tho murder, mur-der, alono was responsible for tho crimr, has aroused intouso feeling hero. Burns returned to Atlanta touight. ATLANTA, Ga.. May 1. Attacks bv state's attorneys ou methods employed by the defense in obtaining evidence for their plea today marked resumption of the hearing of 'arguments od the extraordinary motion for a now trial for Leo M. Frank, under death sentence for the murder of Mary Phagan. Privnto dotcctives wore chargod with using misrepresentations and other im- ?iroper influences in obtaining affidavits, Iugh M. Dorsoy, solicitor general, assorted as-sorted ho "believed some of tho affidavits affida-vits -wero forgaries. |