Show MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER OF MARY PHAGAN IS HANGED TO A TREE armed band of twenty five M dragged frank from jail and after driving across state miles lynch their prisoner atlanta ga leo M frank co ot the murder of mary phagan and serving a life sentence at HO was taken from prison mo day night and lynched by a mob 1 frank was dragged from milled valle jail by an armed band of twenty five men who had previously cut 1 wires leading to the prison and thea at the point of pistols and shotgun i had overpowered the warden and ahli staff of assistants he was hurried across the state miles to two miles of marietta the home ana burial place of mary phagan victim 0 the pencil factory murder for which frank was convicted at daybreak in was hanged at the end ot fifteen feet of rope in an oak grove the body was discovered at 8 ft tuesday morning and a mob gathered women and children we prominent in the throng valle th body still dangled in the air of cremation on the spot were mad by members of the throng cool sel prevailed and the body was cul down and brought to atlanta not escaping vicious kicks from ux boot of a maniac in the mob as it wai being carried to the undertaker wagon no arrests have yet beer made leo M franks body was brought te atlanta tuesday afternoon and se created in barn until a crowd search ing for it threatened serious trouble it then was taken from the barn to as undertaking establishment where s steady stream of persons passed tc view it the temper of the people beeme not so much to wreak vengeance the lifeless form but personally to assure themselves that it really w the body of frank prison officials at ut held to be blameless in connection with the of leo M frank from the state prison tann in a stator ment given out tuesday by R EL da eldson chairman of the state prison commission leo M frank was found guilty c the murder of mary phagan on august as 1913 and sentenced tobe banged he was the superintendent ot the N pencil factory in atlanta in th basement of which the girl s body wax found by a night watchman on tt night of april 25 A few weeks ago an attempt wai made by J william creen another life term convict to kill frank by cut ting his throat franks condition wai earlous for some days |