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Show I MOB THREATENS ' I GEORGIA GOVERNOR H ATTACK MADE UPON CHIEF EX H ECUTIVE'S HOME AND STATE j MILITIA IS CALLED OUT. H Governor Commutes Sentence of Leo Hj M. Frank to Llfo Imprisonment and M Incurs Enmity of Georgians Who H Bellove Frank Guilty. H Atlnntn, Gn. With Bcvoral hundred 1 mori nnd boys clamoring to got Into H tlio front gatos of his country homo M on Pcachtreo road, which had bocn H barricaded with barbed wlro on H tanglcments, and threatening to over H power twenty country pollcomcn H urmed with riot guns, Governor Slaton H called out tho militia lato Monday H night for protection. 1 Tho govornor proclaimed martial H law nt exactly 11 o'clock and by nvid- B night tho crowd had virtually been M dispersed, Thoro was no firing. M The assembling of tho mob followed H tho action of Governor Slaton In com M muting Iho scntonco of Leo M. Frank, H who had been condemned to death on H Juno 22 for tho alleged murder of H Mary Phagan In tho National pencil H factory In Atlanta on April 2G, 1913. B Tho govornor commuted Frank's H sentonco to llfo imprisonment, and H Frank was taken to tho stato prison H farm nt Mlllcdgovillo, secretly and H before tho public had been mudo B nwwo of tho governor's action. B At his homo, Monday night, Gov H oruor Slaton suld: M "Tho mob can como and tear mo to H pieces' ho said, "but I will know that H I havo dona what should bo dono to H follow tho right course and uphold H tho honor of Goorgla and tho office H I occupy. H "Tho ones who aro howling tho H loudest now aro tho vory onos who H elx months from now will bo tho first H to approve my action of today. I H could not hang a man when thoro was H a doubt ns to his guilt, H "I could not sit hero llko Pontius H Pllato and turn Frank over to bo oxe- H cuted. I had to do what was right. H Tho wholo thing is just this: H "Tho pcoplo who aro doing all tho H talking havo not read tho ovidonco In BBj tho Frank caso." |
