Show FUNK BI GEORGIA MOB MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER OF MARY PHAGAN 18 HANGED TO A T TREE R EE armed band of twenty five men dragged frank from jail and after driving across state miles lynch their prisoner atlanta oa ga leo M frank cou vict e 1 0 ot f the murder of 0 mary Il agan lagan ind and ser serving v fiig a life sentence at mil 1111 ledge ville was wait taken from prison mon I 1 lily day night and ami lyn lynched clied by a mob frank was waft dragged front from ville jail by nn armed band ot of twi five men inen who had previously cut wires lending leading to the prison and tile theu tit at the point of pistols and shotgun shot gunt had overpowered the warden and lilt hit staff a t aff of assistants ile he was wa s hurried acre acroca be the state miles to w two miles of marietta the homo home and burial place of mary phagan victim ol 01 0 the pencil factory murder for frank was convicted at daybreak hf li was hanged at alithe the end of fifteen feel of rope in ao an ak ak grove the body was discovered at e ac tuesday morning orning ni anil ami a mob quickly gathered women and children wort wen prominent in the throng willie while tit th body still tangled dangled in the air threatt of 0 cremation on oil the s spot it ot were mad by members of the throng cool coun sel prevailed and the body was cut cul down and brought brou glit to atlanta not escaping vicious kicks from froin tit th boot of a manla maniac c in the mob as it wat being carried to tile the undertake ri wagon no arrests have yet beer made leo at franks body was brought brou glit tc atlanta tuesday afternoon and so created in a barn until a crowd search ing for it aln serious earlous trouble it then was taken from the barn to ar undertaking establishment where a steady stream of persons passed tc view it il the temper ot of the people seemed beeme not so much to 0 o wreak vengeance upon the lifeless form jilt but personally tc assure themselves them selves that it really was the body of frank prison officials at milledgeville Milledg eville are beld to be blameless in connection with the of leo M frank from the state prison farm in IL a state ment given out tuesday by R E da avidson chairman of the state prison commission leo it prank frank was found guilty ol of the murder of mary phagan on oil august 25 1913 1013 and sentenced to be hanged lie ile was the superintendent all perin tend en t of tile the na tiomai rencil pencil factory in atlanta in tile th basement of which the girls body wal wa found by a night watchman on tin night of april 25 A few weeks ago an attempt wat vat made by J william creen another life term convict to kill frank by cut ting his throat franks cotilli condition tion was wae serious for some days |