Show F all K GEORGIA ran 0 IMAN CONVICTED OF MURDER OF MARY PHAGAN IS 18 HANGED TO A TREE armed band of tw nty alve men man dragged frank from nil and after driving across state 40 mite miles lynch their prisoner Prie oner atlanta ga leo at M prank frank convicted of the murder 0 of phagan jand land fc irving a life ser sentence tence at mil mit led ledger gaville alle was taken from prison monday right and lynched by n s buob frank was dragged from milledge ville jail by t 1 an armed band of twenty five men who had previously cut ajl wires free leading to the prison and thin at the point of and 11 iad bad rued oYe e od the warden and his taff of assistants he lie was ft as hurried across the state miles to within two miles of marietta the home bome au aud burial place of mary ahas Ph agati n victim of the pencil factory for which frank was cow convicted feted at daybreak he waa was hailed at lie tie end of fifteen feet of rope in an in oak grove the body was discovered at tuesday morning and a mob quickly fathered women and atal childre child rL t were prominent in the throng walle the body still dangled inthe nir air threats of cremation on the spot were made by members of the throng cool coun u set prevailed and the body was cut down and brought to atlanta though not os escaping caping vicious kicks from the boot of a maniac in the mob as it was being carried to the undertakers wagon no arrests have hays yet been made leo M franks frnka fr nka body was brought to atlanta Tue tuesday afternoon and se created in a barn until a crowd searching for it threatened serious trouble it then was taken from the barn to an undertaking establishment where a steady stream of persons passed to view yiew it the temper of the people seemed not so much to wreak vengeance anco upon the lifeless form but personally to assure them themselves pelves that it really ua was the body of frank prison officials at all are held to be olai ueless in connect connection irn with the of leo W 1 I frank from the elate state prison fann in a state ment given out tuesday by E da eidson son chairman of the at elite ite prison commission leo M frank found guilty of the murder of mary phagan on august 25 1913 and to be hanged lie ild was the superintendent of a the nr pencil factory in atlanta in tha th basement of which the girls body was found by a night watchman on the night might of april 25 A few weeks ago an attempt was made by J william creen another life term terin convict to kill frank by cutting his throat franks condition was serious for some days |