Show i ow THREATENS GEORGIA m mA GOVERNOR I MADE UPON CHIEF EXECUTIVES EXECUTIVE'S EX EX- I F'S HOME AND STATE a MILITIA IS CALLED OUTI OUT I Commutes Sentence of Leo mar Governor Frank to Life Imprisonment andI and i II M. M Who Enmity of Georgians GeorgIan I curs Believe frank Frank Guilty With Ith several several hundred hundred n AtI and Ws 1 bOYS cla clamoring or ng to get into v gem of his country home homo front t gates the be road which had been e P 01 on with ith barbed barbed wire en- en ments and bUd threatening to overpower over- over 6 tw twenty nty country policemen power ol er ed with riot guns ns G Governor vernor Slaton late Monday called out the militia pro for night proclaimed martial Time The I Tat exactly 11 o'clock and by midi mid mid- la la crowd had virtually been nIght i ht the There was no firing The assembling of the the mob mob followed the j action n of ot G Governor vernor Slaton in commuting com com- muting soling the sentence of Leo M. M Frank been condemned to death on had June Me 22 for or the alleged murder of or in the National pencil Phagan arY factory factory 1 in Atlanta on n April 26 26 1913 The governor commuted Franks Frank's to l life e imprisonment and Prank Frank was taken to the state prison f arm at Milledgeville secretly and before the public had been made ware aware of the governors governor's' action I At his home Monday night Gov Gov- emor Slaton said The The mob can come and tear me to pieceS ie said but I will know that I Hare have hare done what should b done be-done done to blow fonow the Tight right course and uphold the honor of Georgia and the office I occupy I r The ones who are howling the loudest ouest now are the very ones who t fir months from now will be the first I Ito to approve my action of today II I I could not hang bang a a man when there was wast wasa a t a doubt as to his guilt I could not sit here like Pontius Pilate and turn Frank over to be exec exe exe- I had to do what hat was was right c The whole thing is just this I I The people who are doing all the I talking have hare not no not read the evidence in inthe inthe the Frank case ase I |