Negro Shot 
Atlanta, July 11 This morning about daylight, an affray occurred near the corner of Peachtree and Forest Avenue.  The shooting was done by John Cridley, who fired at Bob Henderson with a pistol.  The ball took effect in Henderson s head.  No damage was done, however, further than a flesh wound.  The participants were Negroes and neither of them were arrested.  Dr. Bob Ridley dressed the wound and says it is not dangerous. [The Macon Telegraph July 13, 1888 - submitted by Christina Anthony]

Unknown to fame, Died for his country, all the same.  

Last week Mr. Owens was arrested for selling whisky in Habersham county and sent to Fulton county jail last Saturday.  This morning, he gave a bond of $200 and was released.  Mr. Owens noble act in memory of a dead soldier endeared him to Mr. Travis, and he lacked no attention when in prison.  Mr. Travis came to Atlanta this morning and met Mr. Owens, who, he thought, was a stranger, and discovered to his surprise, that they were old friends in the army.  Mr. Travis invited his old chum out to his home near the waterworks, where they spent the day in talking over old times.  Mr. Owens emphatically denies the charges of selling liquor. [The Macon Telegraph July 13, 1888 - submitted by Christina Anthony]

Disorderly Saints 
Atlanta, July 12
Mother Francis Brown, the matron of the training home of the Salvation Army, and Lieutenant May Miller, of the same command, were up in the police court this morning to answer the charge of disorderly conduct in a saloon on Peachtree street near Decatur street.  The two women, it seems, invaded the saloon and opened up a crusade against the liquor traffic by singing, preaching and denouncing the proprietor and his business.  He ordered them out and upon their refusal to go he escorted them out of the saloon.  When the proprietor was called to prosecute the case he asked that the charges against the two Salvationists be dismissed, as he had no feeling in the matter.  He only wanted them to keep out of his place of business.  He put the two soldiers out of his place because they refused to go out when he invited them to do so.  After an informal investigation of the case in this line the defendants were allowed to go. [The Macon Telegraph July 13, 1888 - submitted by Christina Anthony]

Atlanta. Aug 29 Lee. M. Frank was found guilty late today of the murder last April of Mary Phagan, fourteen old, an employ of the local factory of the National Pencil Company, of which Frank was superintendent
As the news flashed to the crowd outside the courthouse there was loud cheering. Mounted policemen rode through the throng. but the demonstration continued.
As he stepped into the street Solicitor tor Hugh  Dorsey, who conducted the prosecution, was lifted to the shoulders of several men and carried more than a hundred feet through the shouting throng. Judge Roan was also cheered.
Mary Phagan's body was found in the basement of the factory on the morning of April 27. James Conley, a negro sweeper swore he had stood guard outside the factory office while Frank was alone with the Phagan girl and later helped Frank carry the body to the basement.
Source: New-York Tribune (New York, NY)", August 26, 1913, image 1, col. 2.

Atlanta Ga Feb 18 The conviction of Leo H Frank of Brooklyn N Y for the murder of Mary Phagan a factory girl was affirmed by tho Georgia supreme court He is under sentence of death Franks arrest in  April 1913 came two days after the girls body was found by a night watchman In tho basement of the National Pencil factory where she had been employed and of which Frank was superintendent James Conley testified at the trial he helped Frank dispose of the girls body
Source: The Mahoning Dispatch (Canfield, Mahoning County, OH), February 20, 1914, image 4, col. 1.

Atlanta April 16 A possible basis for appeal in the case of Leo M Frank, under death sentence for the murder of Mary Phagan. to the Supreme Court of the United states was made today in the motion for annulment of his sentence, filed in the Superior Court here. The motion charges that the presiding judge at Frank's trial advised lawyers for the defense that in the event their client was found guilty it would be unsafe for him to be in court when the verdict was announced and that this was in violation  of the federal Constitution.
The motion was filed by a local law firm hitherto not connected with the case, and attorney's who have been in charge of Frank's defense said the action  was taken without their knowledge, they having completed preparation's, they said, for filing within a few hours is motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence
In the event of a denial of the motion for annulment, appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court of Georgia, which probably would delay the case several months.
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), April 17, 1914, image 2, col. 6-7.

AUGUSTA, Ga Oct. -The fight for life of Leo M. Frank, young Atlanta factory superintendent, under sentence of death for alleged murder of Mary Phagan, an employee, on April 28, 1918, was again before the Georgia. Supreme Court today.
Two motions of Frank, whose conviction was based almost entirely on circumstantial evidence and the confession of alleged accomplices, and has attracted nation-wide Interest, have been before the court. Arguments were begun today upon the motion to set aside the conviction and death penalty because Frank was absent from the courtroom at Atlanta when the jury brought in the verdict. Frank's attorneys claim this was a violation of his constitutional rights.
Frank's other motion, which was denied October 14, was a request for a, new trial, based upon alleged discovery of new evidence since his conviction. This motion was based chiefly upon the sensational move early this month of William M. Smith, former attorney for "Jim" Conley, an alleged Negro accomplice of Frank's Smith declared he was convinced that his former client, Conley, was the murderer of Mary Phagan and that Frank is innocent.
The Negro, Conley, was the chief witness against Frank, Conley said Frank forced him to aid In disposing of the girl's body by hiding it in the basement after taking it from the second story
Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA), October 26, 1914, Night Extra, page 7, image 7, col. 2.

Atlanta. Nov. 14 The State Supreme Court, to-day refused a new trial to Leo M Frank, convicted here August 25 1913, for the murder of Mary Phagan Frank's motion for a rehearing was based on the ground that his constitutional rights had been violated by reason  of his absence from the courtroom when the jury returned its verdict.
By sustaining the state's demurrer to the Frank motion to set aside the verdict of the lower court the Supreme Court's ruling means that Frank's only appeal now is to the Supreme Court of the United States.
In their arguments counsel for Frank alleged that "the air about the court-room was surcharged with mob violence" while the jury was deliberating and that the trial judge had suggested that Frank be absent when the verdict was rendered. The state argued that the prisoner's attorney assented to his absence.
Frank's attorneys announced to-day that they would immediately appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
The body of Mary Phagan fourteen years old, was found April 27, 1913 in the basement of a local pencil factory where she had been employed. Two days later Frank, superintendent of the factory, was arrested, and on May 8 the coroner's jury ordered him held for the grand jury.
On May 24 James Conley. a negro sweeper in the factory, made an alleged confession, as accessory after the fact of the murder. accusing Frank as the principal. Conley now is serving twelve month on the chain gang for his part in the crime.
After his conviction Frank was sentenced to be hanged October 10, 1913, but execution of the sentence was delayed by the filing of a motion for a new trial. That motion was overruled by the Slate Supreme Court on February 17, 1914, and Frank was re sentenced. However. on Apr. 16an extraordinary motion for a new trial was filed, and again execution was stayed.
That motion was overruled by the Supreme Court, but before that decision was announced the motion to set aside the verdict on grounds of a violation of the constitutional rights of the accused was made.
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), November 15, 1914, page 12, image 12, col. 3.

"WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.The appeal of Leo M. Frank for a review of his case by the' Supreme Court was denied by Associate Justice Lamar, of the Supreme bench, this afternoon
Unless some other Justice should agree the order a review of the case, Frank will be hanged In accordance with the decree of the lower Georgia court, by which he was found guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan'
Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA), November 23, 1914, Night Extra, image 3, col. 6.

Is Leo Frank Guilty?
Probably not in the past ten years has there been as much national interest taken in a murder trial as has been manifested in the case of Leo Frank, who is under a sentence of death at Atlanta, Georgia, for the murder of Mary Phagan a fifteen year old factory girl. The testimony given at the trial which ended a few weeks ago shows the crime to have been a heinous one, well planned and committed by an abnormal brute, and the man who is guilty should hang. But the question of Frank's guilt is doubtful. We have not the time nor the space to give the details of the case, but refer those who are interested to the last two issues of Collier's Weekly, which gives a full account of the trial. We will say, however, that Frank was convicted purely on circumstantial evidence and the testimony of Jim Conley, a negro of the lowest type.
Leo Frank is a Jew. The well meaning people of Atlanta appear to have a dislike for Jews, and when it became known that circumstances pointed towards Frank having committed this awful deed, the citizens of that city and throughout all of Georgia rose up, and as if in one voice, cried for Frank's execution. "Kill the damned Jew," was the most common remark on the streets of that Southern city. The Georgians did not wait to see what would be the outcome of his trial, in their eyes he was guilty. The judge, the jury, and even Frank's attorneys were threatened with death if he was not convicted. Under such conditions is it not more than likely that the laws of justice would miscarry.
The supreme' court, the highest tribunal in the United States, will now review the case and it remains to be seen if Frank will then see that which every good citizen wants to see, "fair play."
If, in the end, Frank dies on the scaffold for the crime of which he has been convicted, the people of Georgia may in years to come discover that they have killed the wrong man. And then won't they blush with shame.
The Leavenworth Echo (Leavenworth, WA), January 8, 1915, image 2, col. 3.

The direct statement that Leo A, Frank is Innocent of the charge of murder and that his conviction Is a frame-up of the Atlanta police, was made last night by William J, Burns, the famous detective. In an address before members of the Merlon Civic Association.
The detective was the guest of honor of the association at a dinner held in the headquarters of the Overbrook Golf Club, at Overbrook. He spoke also of the necessity for an efficient police force this cannot be had while there Is politics in it.
"The conviction of Leo A, Frank, at Atlanta, Ga.," said the detective, "was a deliberate frame-up of the police of that city, who, when they were confronted with the real evidence, waved It aside as Inconsequential. I myself fully Investigated the case, and I know that Frank Is Innocent.
"There are hundreds of men today in jails, serving sentences for various crimes, who are the victims of deliberate frame-ups by the police, in an effort to clear themselves."
The detective declared the hold of the old-time politician on the police forces of large cities Is going fast He declared there can be no efficient police force until politics is thrown out of It. He said the head of a police force today must be honest and efficient or the newspapers would arouse public opinion, and throw him out
Edward Bok, president of the association, and editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, presided at the meeting. He told the members Mr. Burns had been at work some time in Marion.
Among the speakers were Dr. Joseph H. Odell and William J, Conlen, one of the founders of the association.
Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA), January 8, 1915, Night Extra, page 7, image 7, col. 3.

Washington Jan 8 Justice Lamar's approval of an appeal bond In the case of Leo M Frank yesterday
completed the formality of the appeal to the Supreme Court In so far as Justice Lamar is concerned The bond Insures the payment of costs in the event that Frank loses
The next step will be the docketing of the appeal That cannot be done until the clerk of the Georgia federal court In which the habeas corpus proceeding originated certifies a record to the supreme court Georgia cannot ask to have the case advanced for an early hearing until the case Is docketed.
The De Soto County News (Arcadia, FL), January 14, 1915, Second Section, image 14, col. 4.

WASHINGTON. April 19. The Supreme Court refused to set aside the conviction of Leo Frank, the Atlanta Jew, of murdering Mary Phagan.
Frank.faces death unless released by the clemency of the Georgia governor.
The court denied an application of the habeas corpus writ upon which Frank sought retrial.
The court ruled that Frank is not deprived of his constitutional rights when held under the habeas corpus proceedings.
University Missourian (Columbia, MO), April 19, 1915, image 1, col. 5.

FRANKS PLEA IS DENIED BY PRISON COMMISSION
Convicted Man Must Pay Penalty for Murder of Mary Phagan Unless Executive Clemency Is Extended
Atlanta Ga June 10 Leo M Frank must pay the death penalty for the murder of Mary Phagan unless executive clemency is extended between now and June 22 The Georgia prison commission has just refused to recommend that his death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment
Of the three commissioners only one - Commissioner Anderson -  voted to recommend clemency
The only chance for preventing the execution of Frank now lies in action by Gov Slaton who retires from office on June 26 four days after Frank is under sentence to be executed.
The majority report of the commission as submitted to Gov Slaton was signed by R E Davison chairman of the board and Commissioner E L Rainey It follows:
To His Excellency the Governor -
Sir: The prison commission have had under consideration an application for executive clemency In behalf of Leo M Frank who at the July term 1913 of the superior court of Fulton county was convicted of murder and sentenced to hang and beg leave to report that they decline to recommend clemency
None of the grand jurors who found the Indictment none of the trial jurors who heard all of the evidence under oath nor the prosecuting attorneys have asked that the sentence be commuted The judge who presided at the trial and bad the right to exercise the discretion of fixing the penalty at either life imprisonment or death Imposed the latter sentence and overruled a motion for a new trial
Several appeals were taken to the appellate court of the state and the supreme court of the United States all of which were denied and the Judgment of the lower courts affirmed thus assuring the defendant of his legal and constitutional rights under the laws of the land
It further appears that there has been no technical proposition of law or of procedure that has prevented the petitioner from having his guilt or innocence passed upon by a jury or his peers and by the highest constituted appellate authorities and no new evidence or facts bearing upon his guilt or Innocence having been shown we see no reason for taking this case out of the ordinary rules of law and justice and feel constrained not to interfere with the enforcement of the orderly judgment of courts.
The Mahoning Dispatch (Canfield, Mahoning County, OH), June 11, 1915, image 6, col. 4.

A whole lot of good people, in Chicago wondered what all there was behind that Leo Frank case down in Atlanta. When crowds of people go crazy and want to hang a man on little or no evidence we sort of feel we're living in a bughouse world and we don't like it.
This story is about things that happened in Atlanta. Yet it has a straight connection with Chicago. What happened in Atlanta can happen in Chicago.
A. B. McDonald, a veteran reporter for the Kansas City Star, has been in Atlanta. His paper told him : "Find out who made Atlanta, crazy and how." Macdonald, after digging and digging for facts, after talking with hundreds of man and woman of all, classes in Atlanta has written about; ten columns for his paper. All through he points to one man and one man alone as responsible for the wild mob spirit that wanted to see a  hanging of Leo Frank. The one man guilty above all, according to Macdonald, is William Randolph Hearst, publisher of the Atlanta Georgian, the one paper that stood out from first to last against.Leo Frank. Here evidence collected, by Macdonald.
Hearst's Georgian, new to Atlanta, jumped at the Frank case as a chance to build circulation. Mary Phagan was murdered on a Saturday and the body was found on a Sunday. Hearst's  Georgian on Monday ran an extra  all day, fanning the public mind.
The Day Book (Chicago, IL), July 17, 1915, image 1.

Atlanta Ga June 10 Leo M Frank must pay the death penalty for the murder of Mary Phagan unless executive clemency is extended between now and June 22. The Georgia prison commission has just refused to recommend that his death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment
Of the three commissioners only one Commissioner Anderson voted to recommend clemency
The only chance for preventing the execution of Frank now lies in action by Gov Slaton who retires from office on June 26 four days after Frank Is under sentence to be executed
The majority report of the commission as submitted to Gov. Slaton was signed by R E Davison chairman of the board and Commissioner E L Rainey It follows
To His Excellency the Governor -
Sir: The prison commission have had under consideration an application for executive clemency in behalf of Leo M Frank who at the July term 1913 of the superior court of Fulton county was convicted of murder and sentenced to hang and beg leave to report that they decline to recommend clemency.
None of the grand jurors who found the Indictment, none of the trial jurors who heard all of tho evidence under oath nor the prosecuting attorneys have asked that the sentence be commuted The judge who presided at the trial and had the right to exercise the discretion of fixing the penalty at either life imprisonment or death Imposed the latter sentence and overruled a motion for a new trial.
Several appeals were taken to the appellate court of the state and the supreme court of the United States all of which were denied and the Judgment of the lower courts affirmed thus assuring the defendant of his legal and constitutional rights under the laws of the land
It further appears that there has been no technical proposition of law or of procedure that has prevented the petitioner from having his guilt or innocence passed upon by a jury or his peers and by the highest constituted appellate authorities and no new evidence or facts bearing upon his guilt or Innocence having been shown we see no reason for taking this case out of the ordinary rules of law and justice and feel constrained not to interfere with the enforcement of the orderly judgment of courts.

ATLANTA, Ga., August 17. Leo M Frank was kidnapped at midnight from the Milledgeville prison farm by a mob of twenty men, who overpowered the guards, was whisked away in one of seven or eight automobile carrying the lynching party and was hanged from a tree near Marietta the birthplace of Mary Phagan, the girl of whose murder he was convicted. Frank's body, hands manacled in front, was found dangling, barefooted, this morning, just off the highway near the Frey gin on the Roswell road, two miles from Marietta. A clotted crimson line down his prison garments showed that the rope had broken open the wound in his neck, recently Inflicted by William Green, a fellow prisoner. An earlier report that Frank's body had been found in the Little River near Tonton proved erroneous.
A message from Lynchburg says that the body has several bullet wounds and that Frank had been dead several hours when found. The spot where the body is reported found is a few miles north of the intersection of the Little River with the Murder River. The Lynchburg message confirmed the story told by J. K. Jackson, living near the Putnam-Baldwin county line, that he heard a body of men rush past his home about midnight and shortly afterward heard a hundred shots. He believes that Frank was shot to death shortly after the party crossed the Putnam county line from Milledgeville, and that the body was carried along the river.
Lynching 100 Miles From Prison
It is believed today that Frank was not shot, but that the hundred or more shots which were fired In a volley near Jackson's home were Intended to scare off pursuers.
The lynching occurred more then hundred miles from the prison, the chief of police of Marietta said today after his investigation. He has found no clue so far as to the identity to the slayers. It Is thought that Prison Superintendent Burke may be able to recognize some of the members of the party and efforts are being made to reach him. Frank had evidently been dead several hours when the body was found.
Posses scoured the country as the alarm spread, and the wires within a radius of forty miles sizzled with messages in a drag-net effort to apprehend the party and prevent the lynching.
Five men who wore masks bound Warden Smith and left him under guard as the party poured through the prison to Frank's room. Superintendent Burke and two guards on the sleeping porch in the dormitory were overpowered by the quintet. A moment later they reappeared dragging Frank by the heels down the steps, his night clothes in disarray.
Marietta authorities said that no citizens were missing last night Governor Harris ordered every effort to catch the slayers to be made and demanded a full report of Warden Smith.
Atlanta is agog with excitement, but there is do violence.
A negro trusty freed Burke after the party had departed, and the alarm was spread.
Crowds Flock to Scene.
Marietta advices today say that several autos loaded with citizens left there last night Although many Atlantans recently clamored for Frank's life when his sentence was commuted, there has been a reversal of feeling today as the details have become known. Hundreds flocked to the scene in autos to see the body, which was still hanging till 10:30 o'clock this
morning on account of the absence of the sheriff.
Frank's wife swooned at the prison and went into convulsions at the news of his death after hours of suspense. She left at noon for Athens, Ga to visit relatives.
Frank's body was not finally cut down until after speeches had been made by a number of persons in the crowd. One address was by a Marietta man. who urged that the body be mutilated. Judge Morris spoke in opposition to this, urging that order be maintained. After the entire crowd had voted against mutilation, the body was lowered from the tree and lifted in a basket into a wagon which started for Marietta, where, it was announced, an inquest would begin at noon.
During this process, mutterings in favor of mutilation again began in the
crowd. So Judge Morris ran his automobile alongside the wagon and
lifted the corpse Into his car and sped towards Atlanta. Two hundred automobiles gave chase. There were several thousand persons in the crowd about the tree when the body was cut down. Despite the pleadings of Judge Morris several men In the throng leaped forward as the body was laid on the ground and stamped on Frank's face with their heels.
Frank's Mother Is Told.
By United Press.
NEW YORK, August 17. "Thank God, he is dead and through his troubles," sobbed Mrs. Rudolph Frank, the mother, when she was Informed at her home of her son's death.
Slaton Denounces Lynchers.
By United Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. August 17. Former Governor Slaton of Georgia, when informed of the lynching of Leo Frank, bitterly denounced the perpetrators of the crime.
University Missourian (Columbia, MO), August 17, 1915, image 1, col. 6.

Struggles Futile tor Victim, Weakened From Recent Stabbing by Fellow Prisoner Posses' Plans Laid With Grim Sureness Telephone and Telegraph Wires Cut to Prevent Knowledge of Night .Riders Work - State Seeks Assailants
Leo M. Frank, whose sentence of death the murder of Mary Phagan was commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Staton, was taken from the prison at Milledgeville, Ga., by a masked mob and hanged early today within a short distance of the home of his victim.
When the body was cut down from the tree, several men from Marietta jumped upon the dead man' face. Judge Morris had to spirit the body away to Atlanta in his automobile to save it from the mob.
Governor Harris, of Georgia, it personally conducting the efforts of three sheriff's posses and a score of volunteer bands to round up the kidnappers He is holding three companies of militia in readiness to dispatch to the scene in case the murderers of Frank are cornered.
There it no rioting or signs of jubilation in Atlanta. To the contrary, the city which once clamored for Frank's life is sad and is taking steps to have the officials at Milledgeville removed. Connivance with the lynchers is openly charged.
Frank's wife collapsed when she was told of the tragedy and for a time it was feared she would die. His mother said she was glad he was dead, for he might have suffered worse torture if he had been permitted to live. '

MARIETTA, On.. Aug. 17. Leo M. Frank was lynched early today after he had been kidnapped from the State prison farm at Milledgeville and rushed in an automobile almost to Marietta, On., where is buried the body of Mary Phagan, the girl whom Frank was convicted of killing in a pencil factory at Atlanta.
Frank's body was found hanging by the neck to a tree two miles from
Marietta, on the Roswell road, at 8:20 o'clock, this morning, many hours after
he had been carried away from the prison farm by a band that apparently
had been carefully organized to over come any resistance.
The dead man's wrists, were loaded with handcuffs, fastened behind him.

Prisoner Too Weak To Resist
It was believed that Frank fought desperately for his life, but he probably was easily overcome, as he was still suffering from weakness due to the
loss or blood from a wound, inflicted by a fellow convict at the prison farm where Frank was taken after his sentence to death had been commuted to life imprisonment by governor Slaton.
The lynching party that killed Frank went to the Milledgeville prison farm
In eight automobiles and disappeared as soon an they had secured possession of the man they sought. They were next reported on the Roswell road crossing the Little River, and more than 100 shots were heard near there, It was thought the prisoner had been shot to death. Search for Frank's body in the river was instituted and the Atlanta authorizes shortly after 7 o'clock received word that the body had been found in the stream, but this report later learned to be untrue. Nor was any bullet wound found In the body.
Owing to the fact that they had cut the telephone and telegraph wires Into Milledgeville, the lynchers were enabled to gain a good start before news of their attack on the prison farm reached here. After Frank had been hanged the lynchers scattered to their homes. The tree they chose for the execution was apparently as near to the grave of 14-year-old Mary Phagan as the lynchers thought it safe to go.

Judge Morris Pacifies Town folk
The body was not finally cut down until after speeches had been made by a number of persons In the crowd.   One address was by a Marietta man said to have slapped Detective W. J. Bums' face when Burns was Investigating the Frank case here.   He urged that the body be mutilated.   Judge Morris spoke In opposition to this, urging that order be maintained.
After the entire crowd had voted against mutilation, the body was lowered from the tree and lifted In a basket into a wagon which started for Marietta. where it was announced an inquest would begin at noon.
During the progress of this, mutterings in favor of mutilation began to be heard again, so Judge Morris ran his automobile alongside the wagon and attempted to lift the corpse into the car.

Men Stamp Heel Into Dead Man's Face
There were several thousand people in the crowd about the tree when the body was cut down. Despite Judge Morris' pleadings, several men in the throng leaped forward as the body was laid on the ground and stamped on the face with their heels.
The wagon into which the corpse was lifted, the property of a Marietta
undertaker, made the start for the town at top speed, but the crowd took
after it pellmell, in several hundred automobiles and buggies and on foot. It
was then that Judge Morris, speeding his machine alongside, took the body
into his own charge and rushed to Atlanta with IL
Frank's body was brought to the undertaking establishment of
Greenburg a Bond. In Atlanta, by Judge Morris. The body was escorted into Atlanta by
Chief of Detectives Lanford and a squad of detectives, arriving here at

Governor  Will Search for Lyncher.
No trace of the lynchers has yet been found, but Governor Harris announced today that he would use every possible effort to apprehend and Inflict the laws extreme penalty upon the band.
The machinery of the State laws has already been set into operation in an effort to apprehend the lynchers.  Posses which set out to trace Frank after he had been kidnapped are now hunting; for traces of the kidnappers.
No clues have been found to the lynchers. Every effort is being made to apprehend them." the chief of Marietta said.
The police have been unable to learn the identity of the lynching party from Superintendent Burke. They have tried several times to get him over the telephone, but can not locate him.
So quietly was the work of the lynchers performed that people in Marietta did not know for more than two hours that the body of Leo M. Frank had been brought to their very doorstep. When the news reached the Cobb County seat, a throng at once hurried to the mill, near which the body was still hanging to a tree.
At least 20 men recognized the features that had been depicted in papers of five continents. Identification was made doubly positive by the scar of the scarcely healed wound inflicted on Frank by his fellow prisoners, William Capen, a few weeks ago at the prison farm.

Plans Relentless Made
The bringing of the body to Cobb County, where Mary Phagan was born and raised, was but an example of the relentless purpose of the mob members.
As the mob leaders left the prison officials bound and handcuffed, they informed Superintendent J.N. Burks that Frank's body would be found near the grave of Mary Phegan. To insure this and percent any possibility of interruption of their plans by officers of the law, every telegraph and telephone wire out of Milledgeville had been cut, save one, which was seldom used. This one wire, communication with Augusta, flashed the news to the world in the early morning that Frank was at last in the hands of the man whose vengeance he had dreaded since the day he was arrested as the slayer of Mary Phagan.
That single strand and the news is told prevented the purpose of the lynchers from bringing their captive's life to an end in Marietta. Every Sheriff in southern Georgia had been ordered to keep a vigilant watch on all automobiles passing through their section. Long before daylight the sheriffs had drawn their cordons.
The lynchers evidently knew of this. For when they reached the swampy banks of Little River, it was decided to run the risk of being halted by a rescue party. it was then planned that to take the prisoner right to the Marietta Cemetery would be inviting a battle with officers. the mill was then the place selected.
The gin house is 50 yards off the Roswell road, but not visible from the highway. the nearest farm house is 200 yards away. the place is located about a mile and a half from the national cemetery.
Frank in his death ride was not even clothed. He was sleeping in the cell house when the lynchers arrived. And when the throng from Marietta arrived the hanging corpse was clad only in a silken nightshirt, with the initials L.M.F. embroider over the heart.

Clad in Sleeping Garment
Franks eyes were bandaged. His hands were cuffed behind him. A crocus sack had been tied about his hips. His feet were danging about four feet above the ground. There were a number of women in the crowd, many carrying babies in their arms.
The  news spread fast and soon automobile parties began to arrive from Atlanta. Roswell and Marietta and other towns in the vicinity. the road soon became impassable, and by 11 o'clock it was estimated that 5000 people were gathered around the free which frank hang.
The body was still warm when the crowd reached the scene. Not a shot had been fired and there was no sign of mutilation. the wound inflicted by Creen had been opened up on the left side of the throat by the contact with the big grass rope that brought death. Even while the crowd gathered it still poured a small stream of blood, and the men who had thus taken the law into their own hands had disappeared as suddenly as they had arrived at the prison.

Body Left Hanging
To add to the sight's horror Sheriff Hicks of Cobb county, in whose jurisdiction the lynching occurred, could not be found, and in his absence the coroner would take no steps toward having the corpse taken down.
Several hours later it was still dangling at the end of the rope, above the gaze of thousands of eyes. finally, a member of the crowd who had returned to Marietta called on an undertaker there and he took charge of the remains for the time being.
it was commonly supposed that the lynchers came from Cobb County. if they did they had concealed their movements thoroughly. As far as could be ascertained, every man in Cobb County was present and accounted for at his home Monday night.

Georgia prisonor. was drugged from his cell in the dormitory of the Milledgeville State Prison Farm shortly before midnight last night and whisked away by a mob of 25 men.
Efforts to save Frank were directed from Atlanta by Governor Harris, but when the body was discovered it was decided to bend every effort to locate the lynchers.
With three Sheriffs' posses and scores of volunteer searchers on the trail, the authorities were confident of capturing the party of kidnappers, which started with frank, by automobile, in the direction of Eatonton.

NET THROWN  AROUND PRISON.
Motorcars were racing over every stretch of highway around the Milledgeville prison before dawn. Every telephone wire surrounding the prison for 40 miles was in constant use by the county and State authorities. A broad net was thrown around the prison from which it is believed  It will be impossible for Frank's kidnappers to escape.

THE ATTACK ON THE FARM
The attack on the prison farm dormitory, where Frank and the other convicts were sleeping was so complete a surprise that Warden Smith and his force of about 25 guards made not the slightest resistance.
The guards were in their bunks on a sleeping porch at the  rear of the prison building, when the kidnappers, variously estimated at  25 to 100 man, drove up in automobiles, made a dash for the porch, handcuffed the guards, and then turned their attention to the houses of Warden Smith and Superintendent Burke, of the farm.

FIVE MEN MASKED
Five of the men in the kidnapping party wore masks. These five did most of the work.  They bound Warden Smith, while other members of the mob kept their revolvers trained on the warden, tied him, and left two men to watch while the others proceeded to the dormitory where Frank slept.
The same five men surprised Superintendent Burke and the two guards, who are said to have been asleep on the front porch of the dormitory. There was a abort scuffle, in which the guards revolvers were whisked away. They were securely tied Then four men entered the prison.

FRANK DRAGGED BY HEELS
When they reappeared they were dragging Frank by his heels, according to the guards. The prisoner's hair was disheveled, his night clothes were partly torn off, and he made vain attempts to say something to Burke as the mob pulled his off the steps.
Several automobiles, meanwhile, had pulled up in front of the dormitory. Two men threw Frank into the rear seat. Three others returned to the dormitory.
Unknown to the prison authorities the wires to the prison had been cut previously, so that an alarm could not be given immediately.
The Hancock, Putnam and Greene County Sheriffs were the first officers to be notified and, organizing posses, all, three attempted to intercept the party.
The countryside had been aroused also, and farmers were everywhere on the alert.
At first it was conjectured that the kidnappers might be friends of Frank who were trying to get him to liberty.

OFFER TO TAKE BURKE ALONG
"We'll take you along if you want to go" said one of the masked men to Superintendent Burke. "We'll cut you loose after we through with Frank." Burke shook his head. The pair ran back to the automobiles, which already were under way, and disappeared in the darkness.
The leader of the mob, before leaving spoke pleasantly to the warden saying:
"You can come along with us, if you want to. there is plenty of room.
"I'm not going anywhere," the warden replied."
The leader shrugged his shoulders and jumped into the motorcar, at the same time giving the order to go ahead.
A negro trusty, who had hidden in the dormitory when the mob dragged Frank out, freed Burke and then hastened to the home of J.W. Satterfield, one of the prison officials. Satterfield first attempted to telephone the warden, but found the wires cut. Warden Smith drove to a nearby farmhouse, from which he sent out telephone calls to the police of all the surrounding towns.
The kidnappers had been traced early in the search to a bridge crossing Little River. Putnam County, 11 miles below Eatenton.
A  Milledgeville citizen followed the party in his automobile to this river, and learned from a resident near the bridge  that the latter counted five automobiles crossing the bridge. Since it was known that the party which left Milledgeville had seven or eight cars, every effort is being used to locate the two or three cars, which evidently sidetracked their?????
E.H. Jackson, who lived near the Putnam and Baldwin county line reported to ____ that he heard a party, _____ left shortly _____ _____ his estimated to be 100 shots. Numerous empty pistol cartridge shells were picked up later in the vicinity.

SUPERINTENDENT BURKE' S STORY
"I wan called to the door of my house Just as I was preparing to retire," said Superintendent J. M Burke, of the prison farm, and stopped outside.
"The moment I had crossed the threshold, two strong men grabbed me, and in an instant snapped handcuffs on my wrists. Four others stood guard over me with two shotguns, and two with heavy pistols.
"When I remonstrated they said It was no use for me to squirm, as they had come for Leo Frank and we're going to get him.
"I told them Frank was not at my house and they said they knew that, but they were going to take me to where they knew he was quartered

MARCH TO PENITENTIARY
"I was marched up to the penitentiary building by a guard, which was doubled as we proceeded
"When we reached the building a demand was made that the gate be opened, and, when the trusty in charge hesitated, awaiting official orders, the kidnappers began cutting the wires and told the trusty that he would be killed as soon us they got in.
"As the gate was unlocked Night Guard
Hester came forward, but he, was Immediately covered with guns and ordered to throw up his hands.
"Halfway up the stairs I was halted while half a dozen men rushed by me and made a dash for Frank's room

FRANK BRUTALLY TREATED.
"One of the prisoners, who witnessed what followed, said four men seized Frank by his arms and legs, while a fifth grabbed him by the hair, and he was dragged out and dumped down the stairs."
While I looked on Frank never uttered a word, but he evidently suffered intensely, and groaned from the pain the lynchers Inflicted on him by the roughness with which they handled him in his wounded condition.
The members of the mob told me they did not mean to harm any one but Frank

TOOK HARDLY FIVE MINUTES
The whole thing took hardly five minutes. Before we realized the enormity of the occurrence It was a written chapter.
While it was going on I was hand-cuffed and under guard
"When the crowd had dragged Frank outside, and was starting off. I asked the man who snapped the hand-cuffs on me to
unlock them, but he laughed and said if I would accompany them he would take off the irons.
"I replied that I was 'damned' If I would go anywhere with them.
The whole procedure was timed as a well-ordered and methodical proposition and only, a few words were spoken
Only two of the men were masked, but I did not recognize any of them
Just as they were starting away the leader said:
"Now, boys, for the swamp.'
"Then, in less time than it takes to tell it, they were off, and I could see their lights flashing as they went over the hill towards Meriwether, on the road that leads to Atlanta.

WARDEN SMITH'S VERSION
Warden Jame E. Smith, of the prison farm, describing the Frank affair said:
"Nothing of this kind was expected, and I was spending the night at my home, adjacent to the ,main prison building, as I usually do under conditions.
"I had just gone in when I was called to the front door. I asked who it was, and a name was given in a conciliatory tone. I did not understand the name, but as my own name was called. familiarly, I went to the door with a lantern in my hand, and my other hand on my pistol.

CONFRONTED WITH PISTOLS.
I opened the door a half a, dozen men with pistols confronted me and thrust guns into my face. They commanded me to throw up my hands and there was nothing else to do.
"At the juncture my wife rushed up and fell fainting into my arms, and the men ordered me to come on with them to the comp. My wife interposed, but they told her they were my friends and her
 friends and that she need not be afraid but she kept clinging to me.

LEFT UNDER GUARD
Then one of the men told the rest to go on, but in a minute changed his mind and said a few ought to remain with me
"They kept me 'covered' for five or six minutes, then took my pistol, jumped into an automobile and were gone.
"It all happened so quickly that it is hard to say how they carried it out."
"I am completely at my wits' end"
Frank was not in the best of health when he was roughly dragged from his bed and carried off. he had not yet fully recovered from the injuries inflicted upon him by Crean, and was weak and nervous.

FRANK LEFT HOSPITAL MONDAY
Frank had only left the hospital yesterday, where he had been visited daily by his wife.
It was an hour before the prison farm authorities were able to get in touch with the outside world, and this gave plenty of opportunity for the mob to get far away with the prisoner and to deal with him in the way that ___ the ___-of his crimes.
Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA), August 17, 1915, Night Extra, image 1, col. 1.

Leo Frank convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan was taken from the state prison farm at Milledgeville Ga Monday night by a small band of determined men and brought to within a few miles of the Phagan home at Marietta at daybreak where he was hanged to a tree on the Milledgeville highway
The body found at 800 o'clock Tuesday morning dangled from the tree for several hours while a throng from the surrounding countryside gathered about the scene By a vote of the crowd the body was cut down without mutilation and taken in an automobile to Atlanta where another throng congregated to view it
The officials of Cobb county in which the lynching occurred immediately instituted an investigation Coroner Booth empanelled a jury and announced that the county commissioners empowered him to employ additional counsel. Two witnesses appeared before the jury which adjourned its session for one week while the officials collect evidence
While the identity of no member of the band was known to the officials Tuesday night it was suggested that the fact that Frank was
taken nearly 100 miles in an automobile from the prison almost to the outskirts of Marietta would indicate that most of the lynchers came from Marietta.
The body hanging from an oak tree was found clothed only in a silk shirt which Frank wore when torn from bed in the prison dormitory A white handkerchief covered his face his feet and legs were firmly bound and under the right jaw was a knot in a hangman's noose expertly tied to produce a quick death
Franks body was brought to Atlanta Tuesday afternoon and secreted in a barn until the crowd searching for it threatened serious trouble It was then taken to an undertaking establishment where a steady stream of persons viewed it The temper of the crowd seemed not so much to wreak vengeance on the lifeless form but personally assure themselves it was really the body of Frank
The Graham Guardian (Safford, AZ), August 20, 1915, image 1, col. 5-7.