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188 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

again manifested their resentment towards the prisoner;
they applauded the State counsel more than once, end the
erowd in the streeta cheered the prosecuting attorneys as
they entered and left the court house. And when the jury
was ready to deliver the verdict, the judge requested that
both the prisoner and his counsel should be absent from the
court room when the verdict was rendered, in order to avoid
any possible demonstration in the event of an acquittal.

The jury returned a verdict of guilty, which was received
with cheers by the waiting crowd in the streets, who carried
the prosecuting attorney, when he left the court house, to his
office on their shoulders, The next day Frank was sentenced
tobe hanged. Then began a long fight in the courts, from the
trial court to the Supreme Court of the State and finally to
the Supreme Court of the United States. But every court
he appealed to refused to disturb the verdict of the jury.
So did the State Board of Pardons. The Governor, however,
after a long and carefal study of the evidence, came to the
conclusion that there was a reasonable doubt of his guilt,
and commuted his sentence to imprisonment for life.

After he was taken to prison he was attacked by a fellow-
eonviet who stabbed him in the neck, the wound being almost
fatal. He had barely recovered from this when, on the
night of Angust 16, 1915, a number of men broke into the
prison, overpowered the guards, and carried him in an auto-
mobile a distance of 125 miles to Marrietta, where little Mary
Phagan was buried, and there in the early morning hanged
him to a tree.

THE TRIAL.”

In the Superior Court of Fulton County, Atlanta, Georgia,
July, 1913.
How. Leonarp 8. Roan," Judge. Jrdy 28.

Leo M. Frank, having on May 24, 1913, been indicted by
the grand jury of the County for the murder of Mary Pha-

13 Bibliography. "In tho Supreme Court of Georgia, Fall Term,
1913. Leo M, Frank, Plaintiff in Error, vs. State of Georgia, De-

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