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Show I IB TAKES FRANK I FROM PRISON FARM GUARDS OVERPOWERED AND GEORGIA CONVICT RUSHED AWAY IN AUTOMOBILE. .Left Word That Body of Man Convicted Con-victed of Murder of Mary Phaoan Would be Found on Grave of Murdered Girl. Mllledgovlllo. Oa. A mob variously estimated at between twenty-five and eeventy-Jlvo In number overpowered f warden, superintendent and guards of. the Georgia stato prison farm near hero at 11 o'clock Monday night artd quickly got Leo M. Frank and rushed lilm away In an automobile. A prisoner said ho heard a member of the mob say that Frank's body would bo placed on the gravo of Mary - Fhagan nt Marietta. Frank was serving serv-ing a Hfo term for the murder of the Klrl. Sheriffs posses have been ordered-out ordered-out In all counties surrounding Baldwin Bald-win county, fn which MUledgovilte Is located, In an effort to find Frank and the party which took him. Leo M. Frank waB found guilty of tho murder of Mary Phagan on August 25, 1913, and sentenced to be hanged. Ho was the superintendent of the Xa tlonal Pencil factory In Atlanta, in the basement of which the girl's body. wa9 found by a night watchman on the night of April 25. A few weeks ago an attempt was made by J. William Creen, another life-term convict, to kill Frank by cut ting his throat. Frank's condition was serious for Bomo days, but it was announced an-nounced recontly that he practically had recovered. |