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Show x LEO M. FRANK AND THE MOB. ' "The people of the United States," j said an Ogden attorney, "must not t I point the finger of scorn at any Euro- j pean nation accused of barbarism, ; J while lynchings continue to multiply A in their own country." i The lawyer was speaking of the l ' Leo M. Frank outrage at Milledgevlllo ( t and Marietta, Georgia. j 1 1 He is right. These southern Iynch- !i Mj ings are noucu m mu n""u "- , ah least a part of the American people i Hi! are intemPerat and caPab,e ot com jp 1 mitting horrible crimes. f I i The ends of justice have not been 1.1 j: served, even though Leo M. Frank I be pronounced guilty of murdering I little Mary Phagan. - The very law. l the dignity of which the lynchers pre- j? j tended to uphold, was outraged by jl j? this fiendish act. One murder does l $ jj not justify a second murder. ! jJ. j. There was a groat doubt in the f HI J ' minds of many impartial judges as to - flf I j the guilt of Frank. Even the governor i Pfiji ! of the state, facing strong public sen- M i tirnent, was forced by his conscience un ,V tq declare he was not convinced Pi Frank was the murderer of Mary wL Phagan, and he made that announce- 11. ment after he had gone in to every j J ' phase of the sensational case. if I f Without encountering serious oppo- mt K aitlon. the mob forced an entrance if , i to the state prison at Mllledgevllle. If j Warden Smith had been handcuffed ! It at his home, and J. M. Burke, super- fk j' Intendent of the prison, was also re- f.OL'rt strained at his house, while the main jw1'! body of the mob commanded that the , 1 ' gates of the prison be opened. Not I I a shot was fired when the lynchers M a gained entrance to the room of the 1 SI I condemned man. If there was not If il collusion, then breaking In to Geor- II 1 as Pena institution is less difficult rfa than the forcing of a county jail. lji Franjt is dead, bbt his lifeless mill I corpse does not restore Mary Phagan B 1 1 to her mother or teach any great les-l les-l j son except the brutality of tho mob. rtrtl An assassin having filled the Mary Hf ) Phagan home with deepest sorrow, a III ' Bang of assass'ns Proceeds to inflict IS on Uie we and le famlv f L60 flf ' Frank angulsh incurable, and all JM i those living victims of the two atrocl- B ties are innocent of any wrongdoing. |