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Show I FRANK'S BODY IS 1 ALMOST MOBBED W I1 H i i Great Crowds Gather and At- II ' i tempt to Enter Under- fi J ' taker's Room. Ki! 1 Ml it I Hi? I :, Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 18. The body or raj' Leo M. Frank, under a heavy police 9j t guard, was placed aboard a Southern B K railway train which departed at 12:01 j! o'clock thlB morning. The funeral par- 1 j; t, including- Mrs. Frank and several n j i Atlanta friends of the family, who .1 ; j' -n ill accompany the body to Brook- J ,; I1 lyn, was guarded carefully by the po- I ' I' lice until the train left the terminal j J,,,' ji station. Mrs. Frank appeared at the j mm . train unassisted and showed no serl- , wfli J ous effects of her ordeal, H ! 1 Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 17. The body Wli. If, of Leo M. Frank tonight was being ft i guarded by forty policemen in an un- fljl J ' dertaking establishment here to pre- jS J . vent further demonstrations, tollow- IK j ing disorders by a crowd which at I flii i ' times mounted up to 5000, attracted ifl by an operpowering desire to make Ml I sure for themselves that the work H of the lynch mob which kidnaped the , ': noted prisoner and hanged him had j been thoroughly done.- ifl ' , Bent on viewing the remains of ! ) Frank, several hundred men, when I W '. j ' they discovered the place where the I m j body was being secreted before being j I; j j : taken to the undertakers, gathered "!'' at tne automobile garage on Pied- I !: wont avenue at Ellis street and ' ; j : threatened to break down the doors 1 t unless permitted to enter. 'Mi After a window had been smashed 1 j by the mob plain clothes police- men under command' of Captain of Police L. S. Dobbs realized that the crowd would not be denied and a hearse was summoned. ,Escorted by mounted police Frank's body was then removed from the garage to the undertaker's chapel, where from 2:30 o'clock until 7 o'clock tonight thousands thou-sands of people tiled through the hallway hall-way and viewed the body. Prepared for Shipment. At 7 o'clock Chief of Police Mayo, In order to permit the undertakers to prepare Frank's body for shipment at midnight to Brooklyn, N. Y., doubled dou-bled the cordon of police on guard at the front door of the undertaker's establishment. Frank was dragged from Milledge-ville Milledge-ville jail by an armed band of twenty-five men who had previously cut all wires leading to the prison and then at the point of pistols and shotguns shot-guns had overpowered the -warden and his staff of assistants Ho was hurried across the state 140 miles to within two miles of Marietta, the home and burial place of Mary Pha-gan, Pha-gan, victim of the pencil factory murder mur-der for which Frank was convictedJ At daybreak he was hanged at tho end of fifteen feet of rope in an oak grove. The body was discovered at 8:30 this morning and a mob quickly gathered. gath-ered. Women and children were prominent in the throng. While the body still dangled in the air throats or cremation on the spot were made by members of the throng. Cool counsel prevailed and the body was cut down and brought to Atlanta, tnough not escaping vicious kicks from the boot of a maniac In the mob as It was being carried to the under- tnlror'c wonn xt , . ..afaUll. .nu arrests nave vet been made. Governor Harris has instructed officials offi-cials of Cobb county to exert every erfort to apprehend tho lynchers, but as yet no state or county rewards have been offered. The governor was at Fitzgerald. Ga today attending the reunion of the Confederate veterans of the state when the news reached him He announced that he would cut short llSf!?y QJld return t0 Atlanta at once to take charge of the Investigation. nr a moTttt'" said the govern-Z'vJi govern-Z'vJi d amMdet.ermined to make the fullest investigation of the entire af- wl take such steps as will bring the guilty to Justice." Regarding charges that vigilance at the prison farm was lax, thus making easy the task of the kidnapers, th? fn VfemL8id that h0 had Personally Instructed the prison commission to spare no expense to protect Frank. He stated emphatically that the people are entitled to all the facts of the ynching and that he purposes to see that they have them Investigations Under Way Three investigations are now under way. The prison commission, aided by the governor, today Instituted an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding sur-rounding the jail delivery. Sheriff Hicks Is bending his effort toward' discovery of the personnel of tho mdb. ?nr?iroiT V5?7 began gathering information in-formation looking to an inquest to be opened probably tomorrow nfJi!lecgencralee,llns ln Atlanta to-nJShtlB to-nJShtlB one of relief. Comment gen- erally was condemnatory of the act tlJZl7lCleTt' and mauy hso sentiments sen-timents had been against Frank in "V6 out8Pken in their regret ,at the manner of his taking off. In S?nf 36S th,0rs heard condone SfL tUG JynchlnK as well as condemnation con-demnation of the act. It was t. UoToV? hapPn' rta" laSnSL 6 8tate would 8ufer and hT thlnf3 TO to b0 leplored-but ali ai & W3B 8ettlod for Sa and SllS J"?.? a, d,st,nct 9en " moved ' Urden had been re- ih80aTdthn,C0Urta. f0UDd F At T,?dn? Scene Enacted, are almost past Wet whlcb r , ' . t , sidos They seemed to rise out of the ground, so fast they camo. Tho automobiles came careening recklessly reckless-ly disregarding Hfo and limb of occupants. oc-cupants. Horse-drawn vehicles came it a gallop. Pedestrians came run- Women came, children camo. Bvon babes in arms. The sight of the body swaying in tho wind with tho gaping wound in the throat made some of the women sick. Many uttered little shrieks and groans and turned their heads away. Other women walked up to tho packed mass of men, pushed their way into tho jam and looked on the dead body without tho qulvor of an eyelash. . One of the first arrivals was a man In a frenzy of passion. He was bare-headod. bare-headod. coatloss, his eyes blazing like those of a maniac. Ho pushed through the crowd, ran up to the body, threw up his hands and clonch-od clonch-od his fists and shook thorn at the body. Then his hands would open and his fingers would writhe and his tfsts would closev again, and he would . shake them at the body. "Now we've got you," ho screamed. "You won't murder any more little innocont girls.y Wo'vo got you now I Wo'vo got you now!" "They won't put a monument over you," he cried. "Thoy aro not going to get you, they aro not going to get a piece of you as big as a cigar!" The crowd yelled and pressed closer. clos-er. At this junoturo a short, thick-set man ran up, jostled his way through the crowd and pushed to a place be-sldo be-sldo the man who was cursing the body. He climbed up on something so that ho could see over tho heads of the crowd. "Men, hear me," ho said. It was iNowt A. Morris, former Judgo of tho Bluo Ridge circuit, who had Just arrived in an automobile from Marietta with Attorney John Wood of Canton. They were attending court, heard, tho news .early this morning and came at top speed to tho scone. "Hear me, men," said Judge Morris. The crowd grew quiet except for a mumbling In an undertone by the man besldo the body. "Citizens of Cobb county, listen to me, will you?" said Judgo Morris. Thoy gave a murmur of assent "Whoever did this thing " Tho man besido tho body broke In with a shout: "God bless him, whoever who-ever he was!" Judgo Morris laid his hand on tho man's shoulder and asked him please to be quiet for a few minutes. "Whoever "Who-ever did this thing," said Judgo Morris, Mor-ris, "did a thorough job." Tho crowd whooped. "They shore did," chorused tho crowd. "Whoever did this thing," said Judgo Morris, "left nothing more for us to do. Little Mary Phagan is vindicated. vin-dicated. Tho foul murder Is avenged. Now I ask you, I appeal to you as cltlzons of Cobb county, in tho name of our county, not to do more. I appeal to you to let the undertaker take It" Tho man by the body broke In again. "Wo are not going to let the undertaker under-taker have It," ho shrieked. "Wo are not going to let them erect a monument monu-ment over that thing! Wo aro not going to lot them have a ploce of It as big as a cigar! We are going to burn it! That's what we are going to do! We are going to burr it! Come on boys! Let's burn the dirty thing!" Judge Morris raised hia voice. "Men, I appeal to you'" he shouted. "Don't do anything to this body. Let tho undertaker have it. This man has a father and a mother, and what ever we think or him, they are entitled entitl-ed to have the body of their son. Men, men! I appeal to you for tho good of our country, xjet all who are for giving this body over to the undertaker under-taker say 'aye.' " There was a chorus of "ayes." "Now let all who opposo it say 'no,' " said Judgo Morris. Tho hand of the man besido the body was raised alof,t, trembling with excitement. Judgo Morris got down and ran back through the crowd and began to call for an undertaker. While he was calling somebody laid a knife on the rope and Frank's body dropped to the ground with a thud and tho crowd packed around It in a solid mass, with the excited man standing at the head. A negro ran up to Judgo Morris. "Horo I am, judge," ho said, "and here's my wagon." Judge Morris gave orders and tho negro opened tho back of the wagon and pulled out a1 long undertaker's basket and started with it toward the body. "Bring the body on, men!' shouted Judge Morris, "bring it on. Quick, for God's sake." But none of them would pick it up and Judge Morris, beckoning to tho negroes, finally got hold of it and started to the undertaker's wagon. The man who voted "no" reached out and struck at the body, and the negroes ne-groes dropped it and when It hit the ground the man stamped upon the face and ground his heels into the dead flesh, and stamped again and again until the crowd intervened to stop the ghastly work. |