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EEO M. PRANK. 418

At daybreak on August 17th, two miles northeast of Mari-
etta, in Cobb County, Georgia, Frank was lynched by a mob.
Mary Phagan’s body was buried in the eemetery of this
town, A number of men in automobiles arrived at the State
Prison farm where Frank was serving his commuted life
sentence, after dark on the evening of August 16th. These
men eut the telephone wires, overpowered the guards, en-
tered the hall where Frank was sleeping, carried him into
one of the automobiles, and the journey was made during the
night all the way to Marietta, Cobb County, a distance of
some 125 miles. Frank was hanged to a tree by this mob..
The mob was dissuaded from burning the body by some citi-
zens who arrived on the seene after the hanging.«. The body

«Marietta, Georgia, The scenes at the place where Leo M. Frank
was hanged, were nerve wrecking. ‘he crowd gathered with
rapidity. They swarmed the road from both directions. They
seamed {o rise up out of the ground, so fast they came, The automo
biles came careening, recklessly disregarding hfe and limb of oecu-
pants. Horse-drawn vehicles came at a gallop, Pedestrians came
Tunuing. Women came, children came—even babies in arms, The
sight of the body swaying in the wind ‘with the red gaping wound in
the throat, made some of the women sick, and they would utter little
shrieks and groans and turn their heads away. Other women walked
up to the packed mass of men, pushed their way into the pack and
looked on the dead body without the quiver of an eyelash... One of
the first arrivals was a man in a frenzy of passion. He waa bare-
headed, eoatless, his eyes blazing like the eyes of a maniac. He ran
through the erowd, ran up to the body, threw up his hands, clinched
his fist and shook them at the body. Then his hands opened and his
fingers writhed, His fists closed again, and he shook them at the
body. “Now we've got you,” he screamed. “You won't murder any
more innocent little girls, We've got you now, They won't put any
monument over you. They are not going to get you. They are not
going to get a piece of you as big as a cigar.” The crowd yelled, and
packed closer. At this juncture, » short, thiek-eet man ran up to the
crowd, jostled his way through and pushed up to a place beside the
man who was cursing the body. He climbed up on something so that
he could see over the heads of the crowd, “Men, hear me,” he said,
It was Newton A. Morris, former Judge of Blue Ridge district, who
had just arrived from Marietta, with Attorney John Wood, of Can-
ton, They were attending at court, heard the news early Tuesday
morning, and came at top speed te the scene. “Hear me, men,” said
Judge Morris. The crowd became quiet except for a mumbling by
the man beside the body. “Citizens of Cobb County, listen to ma,
will you?” said Judge Morris. They gave a murmur of assent,

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