016 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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ernor, however, did not set Frank free. He sentenced
him to imprisonment for life. But if Frank murdered
Mary Phagan was there one extenuating reason why
he should eseape the gallows? the evidence shows
none; his friends, his counsel, he himself never sug-
gested one. If, as may be the case, the Governor's
intention was to keep him in prison until the public
excitement had gone down and he could be safely re-
leased, then the state of Georgia was pledged to pro-
tect him against the mob. And when it was not strong
enongh to do this, Justice received its final wound and
lay stricken to death.

The causes of the ‘Boston Massacre” which led to
the trial of the British Soldiers, Weems and seven
others (p. 415), Captain Preston (p. 509), and Edward
Manwaring and others (p. 511) are set out in the nar-
rative (p. 415.)

The funeral solemnities of those who were killed by
the fire of the soldiers were conducted with great
pomp and splendor. Crispus Attucks, a mulatto, and
James Caldwell, who were strangers in Boston, were
borne from Faneuil Hall, Samuel Maverick, a youth of
seventeen, from his mother’s house in Union Street
and Samuel Gray from his brother’s in Royal Ex-
change Lane. The other, Patrick Carr, was still alive,
although mortally wounded and died a few days aft-
erwards. The four hearses formed a junction in King
Street at the place where the deceased fell and thence
an immense procession marched in columns of six
deep through the main street to the central (Granary)
burying ground where the four bodies were deposited
in one tomb, amidst the solemn tolling of all the bella
in Boston and the neighboring towns.