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FRANK'S THROAT CUT BY PRISONER | MARY PHAGA>*S MURDERER DA>fiKKAFfiTT \VOr\T)FT> Life Termer, Attacked From Behind By Fellow Prisoner, May Survive Dangerous. Stab. Milledgeville, Ga., July 18.?Doctors completed sewing up the wound in Frank's throat at 1:15 o'clock this j morning. They !had joined the jugular rein and they believe the operation was successful. Frank was taken to the hospital. He was still conscious. | i Millegdeville, Oa? July 17.?Leo M. Frank, doing a life term for the murder of Mary Phagan, was attacked in . the Starte prison at 11:10 o'clock to- ' night by a fellow prisoner. His head ( was cut half off with a prison made ; butcher knife that convicts had used , during the day in killing hogs. Frank , was still on the operating table an . S?niiT aftpr fho nnnsfinus but I Weeding from the wounds. According to three doctors who are;, "working on Frank, the wounded pris-!! oner has a chance to recover. < The attack was made from behind, the left jugular vein being severed.! ^ The spinal chord was not touched "find neither was the windpipe. The ^ wound, however, is a deep one, and . Frank had suffered tfie loss of a great VV a f/v y* A A/lf S\Y*& flinuum vm uiuuu uciuic uwtvi o i wvu- r ed bis side. j William Creen, 45 years old, who is doing a life term from Columbus, Ga., ^ on a charge of murder, is accused by ^ the prison authorities of cutting Frank's tUroat. Creen has been put:\ in a dungeon. Frank was attacked in the dark at the prison, according to the officials of the State farm. He had not been on good terms with many of the pris- . oners since his arrival here, and yet prison officials believed to at he was perfectly safe inside the walls of the i ^ prison. / j The inmates of the prison occupy j one large room at night, a sort of a | dormitory, where the strictest of rules are observed by the prisoners. All are allowed tie freedom of the floor up to 8 o'clock, but after that hour ^ a prisoner is not alowed to move with- * cut permission from a guard. The attack on Frank tonight came : so quickly that no guard had time toj interfere. <jreen is alleged to nave | drawn the knife from ftis prison cloth- j 1 ing, where he had secreted it for the' < murderous attack, and, uttering a j curse, thrust it across the throat of y Frank, the attack being from behind. Prank fell forward to the floor ut- 2 tering a cry of pain. The lights were ^ quickly switched on and the guards saw Frank prostrate on the floor, _ blood spurting from his wound, wihile a prisoner was trying to make his way ? back to his bed. Knife Made of File. < A knife, made of a file, which the j convicts used in killing hogs during the morning, was found on the floor ( oi ue pnsun wnere me auacA w- ^ curred. How the knife was smuggled ^ into the prison is a mystery. ^ The guards found Frank's condition alarming. Prisoners were excited. Dr. George B. Compton, the prison surgeon, was immediately called, but before he could reach the prison dor mitory, two well-known Georgia sur- 1 geons who are serving terms in prison were at Frank's side administering i first aid to the wounded man. One 1 of tfnese physicians is Dr. J. W. Mc- A Naughton of Waynesboro, who is doing a life term for murder, having < been sent to prison after four trials, < and the other physician who attended him first was Dr. L. M. Harrison of 1 Columbus, doing a long term. c "I guess they've got me," Frank is t quoted as having uttered to the doc- < tors who stood over him. ] Frank was conscious from the first and continued to talk. He suggested ? to tfte doctors how the flow of blood could be stopped. He was gradually growing weaker. Aided by Convicts. 1 Within a few minutes Frank was placed in the operating room in the 1 hospital department of the prison. Dr. t uompton, tne prison surgeon, assisted by the two doctors who are serving terms there, started to sew up tie s wounds. ] William Creen, who attacked Frank, ? was sentenced to a life term from Muscogee (Columbus) on June 13, ' 1913. Leo M. Frank was brought to < the State farm in the early morning " of June 21, after a midnight flight from "the Fulton county jail in Atlanta, by ] train to (Macon, Ga., and thence by automobile to the prison. A ?ew hours after his arrival here 1 :t "was officially announced to at the 3 then Gov. Slaton had commuted his i sentence to life imprisonment. < After his arrival here Prank insisted 3 that he "would in time prove to the 1 world tfaat he was innocent of the charge of having murdered Mary Phagan, the 14-year-old Atlanta pencil * factory girl. * < , \ . v w . J * ' Less 'than a week ago the State militiamen here and at Macon were ordered held in their armories, a report 'laving reached the ears of State officials that an attempt would be made to force an entrance to the State prison, get Frank and lynch him. "Sorry I Did This." While Frank was on the operating!] ".able Warden Smith and other prison I officials Cad Creen brought before j them and his statement was taken. "I'm awfully sorry that I did this," he said. "At the moment I thought that I was doing w^at was right. I thought that I was doing someting that ought to be done. "If I had to do it again I wouldn't do it for anything in the world. I am qct\o/h'q1 1T7 cnrrv ffhat T attnrlrad "RVanTr ! WW** J M. ^vvvv.avu ? * " "?*) now that I realize the seriousness of the crime. I am sorry because of 'the criticism that it may bring on the officials of s the State farm, especially of Warden Smith. I would not do a thing in t!:e world to injure him in his posl-i tion. He had confidence in me, and [ have violated that confidence. I am j ready to suffer the consequences.'* Creen was questioned as 'to how he I ittacked Frank. He said that Frank ay asleep in the bed in the dormitory >f tf':e Drison where there were- a hun Ired others. He slipped up behind Frank in the darkness and slashed his J ;hroat. There was only one knife' ivound. Frank was asleep when atacked. Immediately after Creen had made ns statement he was 'taken to the jasement of the prison where he was i jiai'Cu iu ouiilo.IJ' nt: , vas also put in irons. The cell in1 vhich he is confined is of concrete1 md steel. It is practically a dungeon, ilthougb not so termed by prison offijials. Leo Frank Lives and May Recover. Milledgeville, Ga., July 19.?-The conlition of Leo M. Frank, who was serirnsly injured late Saturday night at he State prison farm here, when Wiliam Oreen, a fellow convict, cut his ; ;hroat, was reported by the physician jrison officials ?to be favorable at 1:15' "hie mnrnitier "FranTr had hilt a slight ever and his pulse was said to be t jractically normal. [25,000,000 "A YEAR SAVED FOR CAR OWNERS In an interview, Mrs. E. C. Tibbitts, Advertising Director of The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, had the fol- j owing to say regarding $25,000,000 a rear saved for car owners this year: "There are 1,923,951 automobiles iow State-licensed, and running, in j j:e united aiaies. i Of these, 1,803,951 are pleasure cars, g ?i. e., exclusive of trucks, etc. More than 90 per cent of them, or ibout 1,623,555, use pneumatic tires. Each car will wear oud and replace, g >n average, about one set of four tires j n Der year. o: Therefore, the interests of each car- C )wner, as well as each car-manufaciiwax AAW'ti ^ nnl Apmor? f r* i 1 e .uici, cau.i ucti -UT:aici cliiu aciicojuia.11, is i* vitally and personally affected by the ii )rice of tires to consumers. ti Because?tires and gasoline are the t( ;wo big item-s of consumption in the 11 >peration of motor cars. ei The owner who uses his car 1,000 niles less per year, than Hie would P ave done, because of "the high price c )f tires and gasoline," received that Q nuch less return from his entire in restment in the car proper. I ^ ' c* The potential, or prospective, car- u >wner, who fails to buy a car because ^ )f "the high cost of tires and gasoline" ?he who sells his car and does not ^ 3uy again because of "the foigh cost of ires and gasoline"?or he who, for 1( he same reason, stores his car and ioes not run it during a considerable part of the year, is a direct loss to? ti ?ist?AuiomoBiie manuiactuxers as " l class. P ?2d?Automobile dealers as a class. ?3d?Garage owners, as a class. t< ?4th?Lubrication and gasoline nanufactuers, as a class. P "Rut?is n pTPater loss to TIRE C. nanufacturers, and dealers, as a class, P J:an to any others. Because? M ?Gasoline and lubricans, for in- s stance, can be sold .to the owners of g notor boats, stationary and other mo- n :ors. (' But?automobile tires can only be n sold, in the ultimate, to the man who j s 3WNS a car, and who wears out tires "hrough using it. t< Every mile float each automobile runs means an automatic sale of tires G :o replace that mileage with new tires, s: .But, all the salesmanship, and all 0 the advertising under the sun, could ^ not increase, bv a single itire. the total i d sales of tires beyond tfne number o! , e [jars owned by consumers, and the! 0 aumber of miles each consumer runs j o lis car yearly. D The market for tires is therefore P limited, inflexibly, to the number of cars running, and the mileage whicHieach owner is induced to run yearly, a i EXCURS TO Asheville. Wavi / V Henderson ville, B Lake T oxaway, N. "LAND OF THE y rv i VIA Southern PREMIER CARRIER OF TH urrrvwron x v iitiv ?V DUilUJUn 1 , JUL. 1 Ashe- Henderville sonville Prosperity, S. C $3-oo $2.50.. Newberry, S. C 3.00 2.50 .. Silver Street, S. C 3.00 2.50 . Old Town, S. C 3.00 2.50.. Thappells, S. C 2.75 2.25.. Dyson, S. C 2.75 2.25.. Ninty-Six. S. C 2.75 2.25.. Excursion tickets will be good on nesday, July 21, 1915. Excursion tickets will be good r< regular trains to reach original sts midnight, Monday, July 26, 1915. GLORIOUS OPPORTUNITY FC SUMMER VACATIOl mmmmmmammmmmmmmmummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmBmmmmammmm Enjoy the beauties and the wond< vironment of the mamouth mount lakes and the cool breezes that sprc from the wooded peaks coming fr< of 6000 feet above sea level. High-class coaches on all trains i tne excursionists. For further information apply to a of Southern Ry. Therefore, we opine that to promote our expense reater sales, and greater use, of auto- manufacture mobiles, fewer better incentives can be we ask c PPat*a/3 +'V? o n *v\ o wVn/?lir_l />Trnrn/1 nrvc-f TA _ x iJLvi tiiau uiai iitui j tv/ot * w SUIIlcrS, 111 I OXSUMERS, for tires and gasoline, j that no "imp Just as we recognize that the only! ity in Good jgitimate expansion open to foe tire j lenged?just ldustry, as a whole, would be due to j their intere le sale of more automobiles each year j through our > consumers, with a greater average: Because o lileage USE, per year, of each car by List" propa ach owner. i who buys an That is why we favor tine lowest now saves, < ossible price for {ires?to consumers,' average of a onsistent with maintenance of hign j ?Every c uality and a fair profit to dealer and tires of any So this, then, is a leading reason why ! the Goodricl FE initiated and propagated tibat! an average o oodrich "Fair-list" Movement which tires. ' e publicly announced in the press on Every a an. 31, 1915, and which caused prac- tireg now cally every pneumatic tire manufac- ricll '?pair_L irer in this country to follow our age about ?ad and bring his prices down to a other size lirer leve1' . The 1,623,: This is also the reason why some owners who re manufacturers, who could not, or -naye about rould not, "meet" our BASIC prices lagt year paj or pneumatic tires (even though our th? Pair-List" propaganda obligated them ing. brands? y make heavy reductions off -their ^ ^ >rmer lists) might erroneously sup- , ose that "GoodridV tires have been . * n ' 0n t . ing to car-o^ ueapened in quality, as well as in ? . ed to the pi nee. . ft! Hence this explanation (to the pub- ^ uriTngA,<J? - , . , Fair-List c, to car-manufacturers, dealers, car. . , perative tha alesmen, garages, and tire dealers enerally) that we deem it "good busi- consumei ess" to sell the best Goodrich tires usmess t0 of fabric construction) we naive ever ?ut' lade, at the fairest price possible for fact ^~nich uch quality. TIRn, USER tt a _ _ xt .r ~ n ~ im.ipim -? I cent to 40 nenoe, lou, me wuuwmg ixliox uucr ? > consumers. exists betwe< ?We will cheerfully pay for any non-skid toodrich Safety "Non-Skid" Tire, sold that money ince our ''Fair-List" price reduction rubber facto announced on January 31, 1915), ^0 rhiclh1 when cut open shows any re- an^ ot!:ie;! uction in quality, in number of layrs of convas, in thickness, or qualfiy f rubber, when compared with any 0 ther Goodrich Safety "Non-Skid" Louisville C lade by us, and sold at our IMgher "Auntie, c rices current before tbe Goodrich posal?" Fair-List" movement. "Once, de And?this is further to authorize me to marr; ny tire-user to extend this offer (at but he foad 1 I ION C nesville, | JjjjjJk ' . Long Distance RY. radius of severa I E SOUTH I , ? 1,1 *"s uia of Hour at a tot 21, 1915 i n ,;??? 'he" _____ ; Bell Telephone Brevard 1 most profitable Waynes and Lake ratCS ?ire reaSOT ville Toxaway in OflC Long D $3 25 $3 00 a doien letters'1 . :2c 1 00 ! 325 3oo jsoUTHERN E 3-25 3-00 ; .. 3-0? 3-75 | AND TELEG1 .. 3-0? 2.75 .. 3 ?? 2-75 BO] all trains WedI ^turning on all ARE irting point by I ' * -a short Panama * 1 irrui scenic enain peaks and sad their ozones | . Qati F >m an altitude O&H T Die ; to accomodate ? VARIAB1 ii oowitc ii wiv^vw o ^ v ) to any tire dealer, or If so, write I, ????? onj ,ltI ?An fares, folders an n r-fi wti pre ctrin i.itp pati- * ;heir own. interest, to see Excursion i ilication" of lowered qualricfa tires goes unchal- I famously attrac as we have protected is:, for our own sake, "Fair-List" propaganda. f that GOODRICH "Fairganda, every car-owner General Pass y make of tire sized 37x5, on each set of 4 tires, an ^ ^ bout $46.27. Atla ar-owner who uses 54x4 make, now saves, through The Stai i "Fair-List" propaganda, i about $26.15 per set of 4 ir-owner who uses 30x3 */& saves, through the Good- EJRNEST ISENHOWER ist" propaganda, an aver- CHAINED ^ $14. 7n riAr spf rvf 4 tires t ? w rv* w- - ?- i? s in proportion. Coroner's Jury Finds Tl 555 State- licensed car- Shot That Killed B use pneumatic tires now 20 per ceEt of what they The State. id for 'ANY make and size, iWinnsboro, July 12.?r y be Goodrich or compet- eigh Boulware met his -equal to more than $25,- hands of Ernest Isenho1 ear. verdict of the coroner's jt forget that this giant sav- Quest held 'here todaj. nnrvfi/\n n? A T C/irn* ivners was never mention- yjL iblic by other itire manu- nesses testified that Ise: ncerns until tJ^e Goodrich *^e fatal shot. Mr. Scru^ propaganda made it im- ma^e a positive stateme; t they extend the saving Dr. James Douglas d rs on their tires, or lose wounds of the dead run the Goodrich Co. who suffered one wound i'thstanding all this?tfre men> causing six or se should loom largest to tionsS is the contrast of 10 per The county superinten ir nent in nrices. that still cation, W. W. Turner, v m the low price of the best on tJae stand, he makin ?s (of fabric construction) statement that Ernest Is< can buy, or the largest Boulware, adding that 1 ry in the world produce? last shot fired. Jefferson I ODRICH Non-Skid Tires) John Stone, one of the < "responsible" tires in the S. Y. Rose all testified tl was victim of Ernest * bullet. The dead officer nly a Ring-Off. 'PuI1 his Sun out> they ourier-Journal. efforts were fruitless, o1 lid you ever get a pro- woun^- Ernest Isenho-' from 'behind the first < ar. A gentleman asked fir ^> the witness testified y him over the telephone, The first of his broth< :he wrong number." reach the stricken Booil1 Experience y Lionvinced Ma J|||| of its Value f "One of our sales- I men demonstrated th? value of the Long Distance Telephone to us. He was at Huntsville, Ala., and upon his own mi# ?* "J'v.nnvmi^ yt vi % AM calls far fifteen merchants within 1 hundred miles. n one hour he had sold 2100 barreto al cost to us of less than six dollars. 1 we have applied the Long Distance j to every feature of our business with mk tl. icaiill5. A lie 5C1V1LC 15 1111C, U1C table and there is more satisfaction ^ istance Telephone talk than in half ? ' (ELL TELEPHONE f?\ JAPH COMPANY wKkD ? 163, COLUMBIA, S. C. : YOU GOING to the -Parifif F.YnnQitinnc A MVU1V UAJIVVIUVUV at i rancisco and San !go, California i i* 11 Dy one 01 ine many ? PREDIRECT ROUTES , 9 the undersigned for low excursion d all particulars regarding your trip, tickets permit stopovers at many j j :wve aiiu scenic pumis anu resurbs, C. WHITE, ienger Agent, Wilmington, N. C.' t ntic Coast Line adard Railroad of the South. C. iCaurJhen. He ?aid that Boulware iVITH DEED told him "Ernest Isenhower shot me, get me to the doctor quick." J. H. lat He Fired Gibson, who came to the aid of the onlware. wounded man shortly following Mr. Cauthen, repeated the conversation passing betwen him and Boulware, rhat J. Ral- which was as follows: "Mr. John, I death at the am shot and shot bad, get me a docjver was the tor. Ernest Isenhower shot me, for lry at the in- what I don't know, just because 2 With the ex- was dome mv dutv. I asked him not ggs the wit- to shoot me. I can't stand it. I am uhower fired wounded badly." ^ ;gs could not Four physicians shortly arrived on J nt. the scene and gave Mr. Boulware M escribed the medical assistance. % il policeman, Later the coroner's jury rendered in the abdo- the following verdict: "We, the coroven perfora- ner's jury, find "that J. Raleigh Boulr ware came to his death in the disdent of edu- charge of his duty as deputy sheriff pas nexit put from a gunshot wound at the hands g the direct of Ernest Isenower, inflicted on the ?nhower shot 14th of June, 1915." ;nis was tne Soulware and Economical Landlord deputies, and "That landlord is certainly an enlat Boulware terprising fellow." i Isenhower's "How now?" ' attempted to "He has installed outside roller said, hut his towels that run the full length, of a wing to his three-story hotel. Guests on every i xer stepped floor can lean out of the window and J !olumn and wipe their Ibands." I. "'But why have the towels outside?" it officers to "Ok, that's so the rain can wa?h m *are wafl 0. 'em." ~ h'iiubi a mm ^