Show MOB THREATENS GEORGIA GOVERNOR ATTACK MADE UPON CHIEF E EX HOME AND STATE MILITIA IS CALLED OUT I Jl Governor Commutes Sentence of Leo Leo- M. M Frank t to Life Imprisonment and Incurs Enmity of Georgians Who Believe Frank Guilty Atlanta Ga With With several hundred men and boys clamoring to get in Into the front gates of his country homo home TC on Peachtree road which had hall been R barricaded with barbed wire entanglements entanglements en and threatening to over o power twenty ty country i armed with riot guns Governor Slaton called out the militia late Monday night for protection The Tho governor proclaimed martial la law at exactly 11 o'clock and by midnight mid mid- night the cr crowd yd had virtually been dispersed There was no firing The ass assembling of the mob followed the action of Governor Slaton In commuting com corn muting the the- sentence of Leo M. M Frank who had been condemned to death o 0 on JunO June 22 for the alleged murder of Mary Iary Phagan In the National Nation l pencil penen factory In Atlanta on April 26 1913 n The governor govern r commuted rank Franks asen a sen sentence nce t to life me Imprisonment and Frank was taken talen to the state prison farm at Milledgeville secretly and before the public had been made 1 aware of the governors governor's action At his home Monday night Governor Goy Gov Slaton said S f The mob can come and tear me to pieces he said but I will know that t tI i I have done what should be done to follow the right course and uphold the honor of Georgia and the office 7 t I occupy The ones who are howling the f c loudest now are tl the e very ones who six months from now will be the first to toa a approve prove my action of today l I could not hang a man when there was wasa a doubt douht as to his guilt gunt t tI I could not sit here like Pontius Pilate Pilat and amI turn Frank over to be exe exe- I had to do what was right it The whole thing is just this T The e people who are doing all the talking have not read the evidence in inthe the Frank case Y- Y 5 |