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Show THE MURDER OF FRANK. (Butte Miner.) Neither bitter words nor revulsion of feeling toward the cold-blooded, merciless and blood-lustful murderers of Leo Frank can do him one iota of good, or allay the pain of his devoted Wlfp nnrl Inv nir nnranfn He has been made the victim of lawlessness- and mob violence. If by his death he awakens Georgia Geor-gia to tho need of its vigorous searching search-ing out of the murderers who lynched Frank and their prompt execution after af-ter due process of law shall have es- tabllshed them as tho guilty persons then he indeed will have died a glorious glori-ous death, for the ban of .American disapproval on rnob rule, mob law violations and mob murders will havo been most impressively emphasized. At this moment Georgia stands disgraced by Frank's murderers and the outragers of American justice, American precents and American ideals. M"1.!? SHch time M Georgia, shall assert as-sert Itself in seeking out and punishing pun-ishing the mob, the plea that tlfe decent de-cent element of that state deplores the occurrence cannot bo taken as an effective alibi for Georgia as a state as up to this time in the Frank af-fair, af-fair, tho lawless crowd has been In control ovon to the consummation of the murder of the man proclaimed Innocent by their former governor who made an exhaustive investigation of the case, and by two judges, one of whom presided at tho oridnn.1 Frank trial. original ofnkb rUle lnfluence(I too trial Tho mob tried to influence the governor, gov-ernor, but there it failed Then came tho attack on Frank by a convict serving a life sentence for murder and who, In light of subset quent events, it seems reasonable presume was Influenced to try to kill Frank. The last act In the persecution of Frank came when the mob unresisted took him out and hanged him How non-resisting would the prison guards have been had Frank's friends been the ones who sought to take him out? Dragged from his cot in dead of night. Suffering keenly from the effects of the attack on him-by the murder ous convict, the prisoner was hurried down tho steps, one of his murderers-to-be clutching him by the hair while others of that miserable crew half carried and half hauled him along. Conveyed a hundred miles and then hanged. Can anyone picture in mind that ride of the badgered, maltreated, harassed victim in tho hands of pitiless, piti-less, cowardly nssasBlns along lonely roads, through the gloom of the night, and feel aught but utmost loathing and resentment against such beings? |