Sunday, 29th August 1915: Arrests Follow Row Over Frank Picture, The Atlanta Journal

### Police of Columbus Have Busy Time When Merchant Objects to Exhibition of Photograph

COLUMBUS, Ga., Aug. 28. Joseph Lee, J. Sokelew, a Merchant, and several other men were arrested here tonight as the Result of an Altercation between Lee and Sokelew resulting from Lee's showing in Sokelew's Store a Photograph of the body of Leo M. Frank as it hung from a tree near Marietta August 17. Extra Police were called when a crowd, estimated at several hundred persons, gathered around Sokelew's Store, and assumed a threatening Attitude. According to bystanders, Sokelew attempted to take the Photograph away from Lee. A Policeman was called and placed Lee under arrest. After Lee was arrested, it is charged, Sokelew struck him with a Soda Water Bottle, inflicting a Scalp Wound. Those under arrest, besides Lee and Sokelew, are held as the Result of Threats against Sokelew. The Police reported that an attempt was made, after the trouble, to burn Sokelew's Store. The Extra Police remained on guard throughout the night.

### Strangers in Marietta Shipped Out of Town

MARIETTA, Ga., Aug. 28. Eight men whose actions aroused suspicions of Citizens of this little Town and who did not give satisfactory explanations of their presence here, were rounded up late last night, placed in a Box Car attached to a Freight Train ready to leave, and sent away. No Arrangements, as far as could be learned today, had been made with the Railroad to transport these persons out of Town, but the Car was guarded safely until the Train left Town Limits. Since Leo M. Frank was lynched near here on August 17, several persons whose Business in the Town was not known have been invited to leave. Five men who had the appearance of Laborers and said they were seeking employment here, were ordered away yesterday, and today could not be found. In the Opinion of the Police, they did not seem to make a serious attempt to get work. The eight men sent away last night also appeared to be Laborers. These events and the continued Receipt of Letters threatening various sorts of vengeance because Frank was lynched, caused Police Officials here to increase the number of Officers by fifteen. The Letters are being received from all parts of the Country by Town and Cobb County Officials and by persons who have given interviews to Newspapers outside the State on the Frank Case. Some of the Letters have been turned over to Post-Office Inspectors at Atlanta.

### Sale of Frank Pictures Stopped in Mobile, Ala.

MOBILE, Ala., Aug. 28. Chief of Police F.W. Crenshaw issued instructions tonight for the arrest of any person selling, displaying or possessing a Photograph of the body of Leo M. Frank, as taken after the Hanging at Marietta. The Order resulted from numerous Complaints that Picture Postcards of this Character were being sold here.

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