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trial will be filed in due order, and it will be duly heard. It
is now my duty to pronounce the formal sentence of the law
upon you, which I will read in open court, Indictment for
murder, Fulton superior court, May term, 1913, Verdict of
guilty, July term, 1913. Whereupon, it is considered, ord-
ered and adjudged by the court that the defendant, Leo M.
Frank, be taken from the bar of this court to the common
jail of the county of Fulton, and that he he there safely kept
until hie final execution in the manner fixed by law. It is
farther ordered and adjudged by the court that on the tenth
day of October, 1918, the defendant, Leo M. Frank, shall be
executed by the sheriff of Fulton county in private, witnessed
only by the executing officer, a sufficient guard, the relatives
of such defendant, and such clergymen and friends as he may
desire; such execution to take place in the common jail of
Fulton county, and that said defendant on that day, between,
the hours of 10 o’elock.a. m. and 2 o’clock p. m. be by the
sheriff of Fulton county hanged by the neck until he shall be
dead, and may God have mercy on bis soul.

The following protest was issued by the prisoner’s attorneys and
published in the Atlanta newspapers of August 26:

‘We deem it not amies to make a short statement, a8 the attorneys
of Leo M. Frank, to the public. The trial which has just occurred
and which has resulted in Mr, Frank’s conviction, was a farce and
not in any way a trial. In saying this, we do not make the least
eriticism of Judge Roan, who presided. Jndge Roan is one of the
Dest men in Georgia and is an able and conscientious judge. The
temper of the public mind was sueh that it invaded the court room
and invaded the streets and made itself manifest at every turn the
jury made; and it was just as impossible for thia jury to escape the
effeeta of this public feeling as if they had been turned loose and
had been permitted to mingle with the people. In doing this we are
making no eriticiam of the jury. They were only men and uneon-
acionsly this prejudice rendered any other verdict impossible. It
would have required a jury of stoies, a jury of Spartans to have with-
stood this situation. The time ought to come ~when this man will get
a fair trial, and we profoundly believe that it will The final judg-
ment of the American people is a fair one. It is sometmes delayed
in coming, but it comes, We entered into this case with the profound
conviction of Mr. Frank’s innoeence. The result has not changed our
opinion. Every step of the trial has intensified and fortified our pro-
found conviction of his innocence. .

L Z. Rosser,

BR. R. Amold.

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