Show ATLANTA MAYOR CONDONES L YMCa LYNCH LAW fit HANGING 5 OF OF FRANK RINK JUSTIFIABLE n I r L I J. J G. G Woodward Says Mob Murder Is Po Pop Popular lar in His State dA dASAN vw SAN FRANCISCO Aug IS J. J G. G Too Woodward ward mayor of Atlanta Atlanta At At- lanta Ga who vho is visiting this cit city is on record l today todar as s d de declaring claring daring that L Leo o M. M r. r Frank who was lynched 10 1 Monday t day night sufferer suffered the Just pena penalty ty for an unspeakable crime The AtlAnta Atlanta mayor at ac th the same sama time warns warn torm former r Gov GO John JohnM M M. Slaton not to return return to Georgia I 1 k know ov Jack Jaek have known t him for tOI thirty years rears ever Inc he was a young youn nn I have been friends with and while I hate to toy say y It It I would n not nt t advise ise him to re return return re re- turn to Georgia J tor for or a n year yea year year-If if lf ever ever Mayor Woodwind made mado this declaration dec Jaral on at a bar banquet of ot the California California Califor Califor- nia State Assessors Assessors' association and their families In Little or no greeted the h remarks of Mayor Woodward though ho was listened to to with close atten tion Lion In the se coul-se course of ot pf his speech which was entirely Mayor Woodward said I 1 am going t t to take tako occasion tonight to tonight to to- night to tell of or the tho events that have havo put Georgia on tho map in a n very undesirable light I am going to endeavor en endeavor endeavor en- en deavor to set you oU right People throughout tho the United States have obtained their deos dea of ot the Frank Franic case c-aee from a poisoned and subsidized pro press and press reports 8 Common decency prevents me from telling you OU the revolting truths of ot the murder of r Mary Phagan Phagon I 1 wish you all knew the truths as I J 1 know t them em I know kitow them for 1 I have been with this case ase ever er eln since e it st started and 1 I have o read every lino of oC evidence c that that was is Introduced everything that has transpired I Inow know now and I know that there Is not a member of ot the Jury that tried Le Leo LeQ rank Fronk who from the time tImo It ron ren rendered dered dorod the tho tho verdict to this cIa day has any idea that ho would change his I decision if If put to the test again Georgia is Js tho the leading state In the South Its It people cannot be classed sod with tramps ho hoodlums bandits and but things had bad come como toa to toa a tl point w where ere every OVery avenue of ot tho the thol l law w had been exhausted and the judgment of ot tho the courts zet aside h byone by byone one man and th the people felt that it was ui up to tn th them m to take taka the law into their hands hand We VE have hov learned a ft bitter lesson through Jh the vicious practices of ot the negro of f the Sou South h and when the tho ho occasion occasion oc oc- oc Ul casion lon arises in which a f woman has hns been seen wronged our citizenship ig ignores Ig ig- nor nores s th the low law metes out swift punishment While we wo p people of ot Georgia deplore delore de- de lore this deed of ot Monday nl night ht we wo know now what 18 Is behind the feeling feeling- e lIng lIng- that prompted It it and J 1 want it understood that hat it IE is simply emphasizing the fact th that hat t when it to a n womans woman's honor there is 19 no limit we will not go to and to protect There were only two p person non im- im l in tto death of ot Mary tary Pita Pha- on p pago o 2 4 F A ATLANTA t ANTA I MAYOR Continued from page I 1 t- t 1 I know tho the negro did not commit commit com corn mit thed the deed Cd and am m pO positive that 78 jS per pet c cent nt of the tha people eople of Georgia Georg are aro jo co convinced d that the tho man J Inched Monday night e committed the deed and vind th the they y ar are o on th the ground and n nought ought t kno S All AM AB m mayor or ot of Atlanta 1 X received re m eel d t ions na and tons of ot letters letter petitions peti pet and ad requests asking that some some- thing g hin b be done dona for Frank and they haVe 11 t into the waste basket for or like all Georgia 1 people who ar art arf In is B. B B. B position to get at the truth I knothe know kno the facts fact |