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passgr FACTS
11 NEW YORK WORLD PUBUSRES
' SOME OERMAN DOCUMENTS
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!! STARTLING DISCLOSURES
I How Germans are Preventing the Allies
From Getting War Materials?
Huge Propaganda to Alter American
Public Opinion?Enormous
Factory 'Built by Germans.
In the publication of a seriSs of
startling disclosures, fully protected
by the copyright laws of
this country, Tlie New York World
In gradually unfolding one of the
most startling chapters In the hls
tory of the war now raging. The
-World has by some means unknown
come Into possession of tlie
* letters and reports of many Herman
confidential agents and officials
in this country, wliich tend
to show that there is in operation
an enormous propaganda in this
country in the interests of tiermany,
that cash to turn public
favor to the side of Germany litvs
been freely supplieu. and that
some of the facts have been at
least with the knowledge of the
accredited representatives of the
German governemnt, although
they have not yet been directly
implicated in the performance of
a ny of the acts themselves.
On Sunday The World began Its
articles, and In that Issue showed
tOtgat George Sylvester Viereck, editor
and publisher of The Fatherland, an
ardent pro-German paper in New
York, received and acknowledged the
payment of $250, and was expecting
to secure $1,500 more f r tho month
of June.
It seems from the letter published
that the editor fully realized the nature
of his trnnsacton would not
bear the light of day f-r he "suggests
that the payments be made to my
Dersonal frfpnrt nmf ir.iv
Simpson, w'.ose standing as my legal
adviser would rxempt him from any
possible inquiry." Elsewhere in the
same letter he says: "I am sending
this letter by boy. as for obvious reasons
I do not wish it to go through
the mails."
The letter from Viereck was addressed
to Dr. Albert, who The World
claims is a representative of the German
government. His answer v hich
was unsigned expressed the hope of
paying the amount requested in the
next week. It also talked of a financial
control of the paper and an "understanding
rogarding the course in
politics which you will pursue."
Other memoranda are said to show
that the Austrian government placed
several thousand feet of moving pictures
to be displayed in the moving
picture houses of this country. The
Times and Democrat several months
ago received an offer of a picture entitled
"The Galician Drive," and
which was made by the American
Correspondent Film Company, of
which M. B. C'ausson is president.
The World also charges that M. B.
Claussen wrote to Dr. Albert that ho
had a thirty-day option for a controlling
interest in the American
Press Association, a $1,600,000 corporation
located in New Rork and
with branch offices in seventeen
cities. The cost wan expected to be
$900,000, and the idea was to establish
a pews service by means of tiek-ers,
whoso patents are controlled by
the Press Association.
In a long and detailed report made
for Berlin the German ambassador
and Dr. Albert give a careful study
of the plan to estab'sh a news bureau.
and a lectu-o bureau in this
country, with rn estimate as to its
probable cost, and a favorable recommendation
of the scheme. In the
report orcurs the following para
grapn:
"The news sent out must not
make the impression of being put
out for propaganda purposes. Although
its principal value is baset
on it* being pro-Gorman, its success
depends upon the suhlety of
presentation."
It is also stated that the Foreign
office would hcve to lot the bureau
have a permit to telegraph daily by
wireless about 3,000 to 4,000 words.
The writer of tlie report goes on to
recommend the reaching of the rural
communities by furnhihlng news and
pictures to agencies which send electrotyped
plates of "boilerplate" to
jjrr\all papers.
It Is charged, and a 1 tter supporting
the contention, is published
showing that the German chancellor
himself caused to be sent to Ambasjpm&or
Hernstorff a letter recommend^-**lng
that the expenses of Edward
W Lyell Fox, a war correspondent, be
paid by the Cerman Information Service,
because of the fact that he had
been "of great benetlt to us by reason
of his good dispatches."
II la oIoa I . ,. Ik.t ? 1- - r*
.v .up ?>?u >.uui ^,iu i m tilt* ueriiiiiu
governmnet or Oerman interests had
an agent at work trying to buy The
New York Mail, and that another
agent advised the establishment of a
moving picture and lecture bureau,
by means of which such men as Congressmen
Gardner and Hohson, Senator
IJeverldge, Henry Ileuterdahl
and Burr Mcintosh might be used
without their knowledge in creating
Interest in Americanism through the
exploitation of the dangers whicli
this country might face from England
and Japan.
According to The World, the
agents of Germany made many efforts
to foment strikes in domestic
establishments manufacturing munitions
of war, with the connivance of
disloyal labor leaders and ngitators.
- xjt is said that recent strikes at the
works of the Standard Oil Company
at Bayonne, N. J., at the Roraington
Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Company,
in Connecticut, at the Bliss
Torpedo Company in Brooklyn, and
in motor car concerns in Cleveland
and other places were caused by the
work of foreign agents, who were
interested in hindering the fulfillment
of contracts held by enemies
of their enemies.
A letter is published which is said
to be one lent to the Military Attache
of . the Imperial German Em^^^assy,
with an inclosure. The lelter
HSHfeK. Dencker estimates that $50.H
be sufficient to call a
|^^^^^^nong the iron-workers in the
^^^H^^^^holants at Detroit, ClevejH^^HHfl^Hicinnati.
The enclosure
the
M^^H^^^^^Bknogotlatlons between
[! >" inV '' .i 1 i gtefiHasgg
poses of reaching an agreement to
call a goneral strike of aU automobile
workers, who "are very muoh
dissatisfied with the part they are
playing in the European war, and
that with the proper handling they f
would present a mighty protest."
Some of the disclosures centre
about the military attache of the
German embassy at Washington, Captain
von Papen, who took steps to
secure a virtual monopoly upon the
available supply of liquid chlorine,
which is used largely in the new
method of killing the'enemy by asphyxiation.
This captain makes a
most memorandum of his acitivities,
outlining a talk with a representative
of the Goldschmldt Detinning
Company, which is one of the three
companies in the United States which
manufactures the liquid chlorine in
large quantities.
Capt. von Papen says the Allies
have been carrying on negotiations
for three and five-year contracts for
all the available supply, especially
since the battle of Ypres. They were
operating through Dalbrun (Italian) ]
Hl,? " ?l- ~ "-'J
UUI, ovvuiuuia IU TUU I U|lt'U Ulf UU1Uschmidt
company would not sell
them any because of its German origin
In ownership. Of the other two,
which were American concerns, the
Castner Chemical Company of Buffalo,
had closed contracts with
France, and is delivering fifty to seventy-five
tons monthly.
The Electro Bleaching Gas Company
of the same place, bad not up
to the time of Capt. von Papen's report
sold any chlorine to the Allies
but the alluring prospects of the
great profits were becoming so great
that it would not long restrain itself.
The captain suggests a plan for preventing
this, but nothing of the nature
of the suggestion is outlined in
the letter.
The New York paper claims to
have in its possession correspondence
which shows that the German chancellor
and Ambassador von BernstorfT
received regular reports of the crusade
agninst the shipments of arms
and ammunition. This movement has
had various forms but so far has had
no result. In almost every element
of society these agents have appeared,
says the paper. In the form of
labor agitators, peace propagandists,
lecturers, and in certain instances,
officials of the government have aided
the movement. In the South every
effort was made to stir up a feeling
against Great Britain on account of I
her actions against cotton. Senator 1
Hitchcock and Congressman Buchanan
were supposed to bo favorable to
the German idea. A report which
goes very fully into these details
contained this significant sentence:
"I must refrafn from communicating
the above facts in my report to the
ambassador, as the matter could be
too easily compromised thereby. Perhaps
you will find an opportunity to
inform Count von Bernstorff verbally."
Tho report, which is signed by/P.
Reiswitz, tells of an intention to secure
an option on tho Wright aeroplane
plant, and thus by the purchase
of their patent rights prevent
the manufacture of aeroplanes for
the Allies. In the opinion of the
writer $r>0,000 would acquire such
control for a period of one year.
Financial agent Albert also received
reports bearing upon the British
embargo and one of them suggested
tho promotion of the movement recently
started in Texas in favor of
influencing the administration at
Washington to cut off the export of
ammunition or of cotton. Recent advices
from Texas seem to indicate
that the suggestion had been worked
upon, is the opinion of Tho World.
After showing its its issue of Monday
and Sunday the above outline of .
the German activities in efforts to
create sentiment and prevent tho delivery
of munitions to the Allies The
World on Tuesday made public for
the first time that Germany itself
has been secretly planning to secure
munitions, although protesting
against the shipment of such to the
Evidence included In the corre- t
spondence which The World shows
that the German government is fin- t
ancing a plan to insure for itself the t
output of at least one concern in this
country which manufactures shrap- '
nel casings, although the method of *
delivery and shipment are not dls- *
closed. The memoiandum of the
contract between the Bridgeport Pro
jectilo Company, of Bridgeport, Conn.,
which is owned by persons ?
I unknown, and Hugo Schmidt, a rep- t
resentative of the German govern- >
ment. It was referred to and ap- ?
proved by I)r. Albert, Capt. von ?
Papen and N. It. Idndjelm, by Carl \
Hey nan, who is said to be an ngent
of the German government. I
The Projectile Company was negotiating
a contract for all the out- S
put of the Aetna smokeless powder S
from December 23 and in May secur- c
od ofTers of antimony. At no place j
in the contract are the parties re- c
ferred to by their real names, the t
fictitious use of *the letter A and B r
serving as symbols for the principals. 8
One of the most significant paragraphs
in the entire contract is the v
statement that by the purchase of I
all the powder available in the Unit- P
ed States up to January 1, 11)16, all ti
the prospective contractors for com- o
plete shrapnel rounds who applied
ti> the Aetna for powder and were d
advised by them that the Bridgeport t
Projectile company was the only con- c
cern that had powder to furnish-? t
(the only other manufacturers?the s
lu Pont ompany?having all their o
output contracted for into 1916) f
have applied to the Bridgeport Pro- a
jectile company for bids on complete
shrapnel rounds, and such requests t
have come from representatives o' all M
the allied nations." f
i nis seems to snow tliat tlie Rus- p
stan and English governments un- ..
aware of the ownership of the
Iiridgeport concern or of the control
over its output had made offers to 11
secure it and were planning to make K
bona fide proposals. Mr. Heynon !!
said that when proposals were re- '
celved from the governments a coun '
cil of war would havj to be held to J1
discuss whether the company would
accept orders without an Indemnity e
clause for non-fulfillment, the evident
inference being that the pur- r
chasers were to be left In the lurch, f
Mr. Heynan also gives assurances ?
that the presses necessary in the n
manufacture of such stuff had been r
securely tied up and that as a result tl
tho Allies had to contrnct for shrap- ?
nel casings to be manufactured from ?
bar steel by boring instead of forg- h
ing, which is said to be an unsatisfac- ?
tory method. The factory buildings
of the Bridgeport Projectile com- P
pany are nearly completed and oper- w
ations will begin about Repiember 1 f?. .A
The nominal officers of the concern n
are Walter H. Knight, formerly of *
New York, president; Carl Heynan, ?
formerly of New York, treasurer, and ?
Carl Foster, counsel. Its incorporat- t<
ed capital was $2,000,000. paid In
last Jftrch.
j^Hjmafttterentlov doal ia reveal- tl
TORPEDOES LINER
(Continued from first page.) t
ind dead. I
Details of the sinking of the Ara- t
Ac are lacking, (but that the loss of I
ife was not greater doubtless was 1
lue to the fact that tho weather was
Ine and that steamers plying the 1
jerman submarine war zone now f
seep their boats swung out.
The torpedo that sank the Arabic 1
struck her on the statboard side 100 1
'eet from her stern. The vessel had
left Liverpool Wednesday afternoon 1
ind was on a southerly course, well 1
)ff the Irish coast. i
When the vessel was some 50 1
miles west of where the Lusltania i
was sunk in May, the German under- i
water boat rose to the surface and 1
launched a torpedo. The marksman- i
ihlp of the Germnns was deadly ac- I
curate ana the wg Unor settled quick- 1
ly and disappeared from view. I
Some survivors, according to reports,
say that they had Just witness- 1
3d the torpedoing of a British steam- i
jr. presumably the Dunoley, and that i
:liis hr.d caused great alarm on board 1
the Arabic. In their fright the pas- i
sengers had rushed for life preccrv- i
jrs and barely had adjusted them '
when the German submarino turned i
its torpedo against the Arbaic's side. <
Ten lifeboats and p. number of life- 1
rafts were got over the side of the i
Reamer and into tlieso mr.ny pas- i
;engers and members of the "crew
scrambled. Many passengers fell into
the water, but they got hold of the
rafts and later wero rescued. One ,
woman who fell into the sea scream?d
pitifully for help. Two sailors ,
jwam to her and lifted her on to a
raft. !
News of the sinking of tho Arabic J
raused a tremendous sensation in
London. The first reports stated that
,t was feared a large number of the
passengers had lieon lost. Reassur- ,
ng news came shortly, however.
It was that some l.r> or 16 boats ,
ind life rafts had left the steamer
safely and had been picked up and
wero being towed into Queenstown.
Latest private telegrnms brought the
lews from most of the passengers
that they were safe, although some
were injured. The Arabic is the larg- ,
jst vessel yet sunk by the Germans ,
except tho Lusitania.
Washington: Nows of the torpedong
of the White Star liner Arabic, a
British ship, with Americans on
board came as a shock to American
ifTicials, who had hoped since the
iispatch of the last noto to Germany)
there would bo no further aggrava- )
ion or an already tense situation. ,
What the omrse of the United
states would lie no ofTiclal would p relict.
It must lie (Established authoritatively
whether any warning was
{iven and wlietlier the steamer attempted
to eseajie. If no American
lives were lost, it was thought in
most quarters that drastic steps were
mprolmhlo, hut if Americans were
Ir-owned a rupture in diplomatic relations
was discussed as likely.
The attack on the Arabic cr.me in
the face of reiterations in German
juarters that in the future passenger
vessels would be given warning. The
ncident, therefore, caused widespread
surprise, especially since the
ihip was bound for the United State3
ind had no contraband. In some
luarters there was a disposition to
hink the German submarine com- \
mander might have exceeded his orlers
or made a mistake.
President Wilson was startled by '
he news. He spent the entire afterloon
and evening trying to get deailed
information. Though obviousy
worried, he took the position that
judgment should be withheld until
ifflcial details were received. i
The president had just finished a
onference with Attorney General \
Iregory and waa preparing to go i
tolling when word of the sinking of i
lie steamer reached him. He imme- i
llately abandoned his plans and gave i
irders that all information be for- *
U1 1-1-1.. ?
<111 ucu IU 111111 US quictliy U8 JIOSHI" I
)le. }
The decision of the United States
0 refuse all claims for life or propery
lost aboard ships torpedoed with
lue warning was niatle clear wiien
t hecauie known that a claim in the
use of John Wall, a muleteer killed
vhen the Armenian was sunk, would
lot lie taken up hy the state departncnt.
id hy the memorandum of the plans
>f Dr. Huro Schweitzer of New York,
vho is frankly recognized as the
igent of the German government
ind shows a plan to secure control of
1 1.400,000 worth of phenol (carbolic
icid) from the factory of Thomas A.
Sdlson.
There is an agreement between Dr.
ichweitzer and the American Oil and
Supply company and under the terms
if the contract the American com?any
turned over to the doctor Its
ontracts with Thomas A. Edison,
indor which it was entitled to have
nanufactured and delivered to it of
>12,000 pounds of phenol in daily
iliipments of 6,000 pounds each
vorking day from July 1, 1015, to
lecember 1, 1015, and 300,000
lounds to be delivered between Janlary
1, 1916, and March 31, 1916,
ir 4,000 pounds each working day.
One hundred thousand dollars was
leposltcd In a New York bank to proect
the American Oil and Supply
ompany, which further agreed to
ransfer to I)r. Schweitzer under the
ame terms any additional quantities
f phenol which thty might obtain
rom any source. The date of the
greement is June 22, 1915.
The Dr. Schweitzer mentioned in
he president of an association which
ras organized recently In New York
or the purpose of establishing a
aper in New York which would be
honestly neutral."
The document* also nhow that Cier11
aii agent* were employed to instiate
trouble* for the pur|K>*e of hoklng
up allied war shipments, that
ioO.OOO wa* suggested n* a suitable
mid to cause a tie-up in the antomoile
business, and tliaC several labor
reader* were selling out their Interst*
who offered them money.
KfTorts to buy up all the available
hlotine, gunfiowdcr and certain machinery
nece**ar>' for making *hell*
re shown to have met with good *ucesa,
and It I* asserted that no comletely
were the allied representaives
in Ignorance of the owgershJp
f a huge projective company that the
lussian and llrttl*h agnt* actually
tlked business with representative!!
f the Oerman capitalized plant.
Over a million dollar* worth of
henol, which the Kdiaon company
a* under contract to deliver to the
imerlcan OH and Hupply company,
ust now be delivered to a fJerm/ui
gent who ban bought out tfie Intorst
of the oil company in the Xontract
nd stands nnhrogated totMr right
? demand delivery,
We can't haa
(Continued from first page.) j
>een ignored, tried to take their.von- ]
{eance on tbo dead hody, and Geor- ,
jia was saved from un added shame (
>y the courago and energy ot one ,
nan, Judgo Newton A. Morris. I
This man is the horo of oqe of thp ,
nost dramatic events in tho wholo ,
itrango history of the Frank case. \
The story of tho wild scene around
Prank's body has not yot been fully j
told. It will he told horo.
Judge Morris is tho man who saved ,
William J. Burns ficm lynching by {
taking him out through a mob bent <
upon having his life, convoying him
through tho midst of them and escaping
with him iii an automobile. His (
motive, then, was no concern for (
Burns, but deep concern for the good
namo of Georgia; and the s -.me mo
tive, no concern for Leo Frr.nk, led
tilm to save bis cte.to from the disgrace
of a scone of Indian barbarity.
The men of substanco and stand- ,
Ing, the house-fathers, the educntod
men and church members, who planned
the death of Leo Frank, had intended
to carry it out several weeks
ago. There was a leak of some kind,
no one ever knew exactly what,
rhore wu3 no treachery in their
ranks, so far as anybody ever dis- .
covered, but something happened
which gave tho authorities a hint,
and on the day planned there were
soldiers about the penitentiary.
Machines From Other Places.
New plans had to bo mado, and
Monday was fixed upon as the dato.
rhe conspirators left Marietta at
about four o'clock in the afternoon,
rhey got their automobiles at different
places. They did not go togethor.
rhey did not pick each other up on
tho road. They were not to heet or
to see each other until they met at
tho rendezvous near the penitentiary.
The reason for not using Marietta
machines, as least any considerable
number of them, was that in an investigation
it would be immediately
assumed that the lynchers came from
Marietta, and the whereabouts of the
Marietta cars would be the first subject
of inquiry. In fact, thero has
been such an inquiry, and the movements
of practically every public
automobile in Marietta throughout
that night have been accounted for.
One chaufTeur was thought to be unable
to account for his car, but he
finally produced a satisfactory record.
In this methodical scheme it was
arranged that the mr.in party, which
consisted of twenty-five men, should
have nothing to do with tho preliminaries,
but should simply proceed to
the rendezvous and tako charge of
the kidnapping. Thero was another
party, consisting of fifteen men, who
were to cut the wires and then join
the main nartv at the rendezvous.
For sonio reason which the New York
Times correspondent has been unable
to learn this party failed to carry
out the arrangements. It cut all the
wires but one, and then failed to get
to the rendezvous.
The fact that one wire was left uncut
has been accounted for on the
theory that tho "Milledgeville party,"
as the lynchers call that division
which had tlie wire-cutting contract,
did not know that wire was in use.
It may be, instead, that whatever it
was that prevented them from reaching.
the rendezvous prevented them
also from cutting that last wire. The
members of the "Milledgeville party"
uud tho "Marietta party" undoubtedly
know, but they have not told.
Not to bo Hulked This Time.
At any rate, the "Marietta party"
waited for two hours for the "Milledgeville
party." The reason for
meeting at ten o'clock was the 3ame
as the reason for leaving at three and
four o'clock; it was designed to get
to Marietta by about four or five in
tho morning, in order that Frank
should be hanged in the dawn, before
many people were stirring. The failure
of the "Milledgeville party" foiled
that scheme, but did not in the
least Interfere with the cool and inveterate
determination of the lynch- ;
era. They had to hang him in broad i
daylight, and hang him in broad daylight
they did.
Uf'li on Dm 1 n*/\ linuva ti-nrn 11 n 11m
v* IIUII IIIC i n v IIUUI o n ci o u j; vnc i
party decided to wait no longer. j
rhey concluded that tlio scheme had
leaked out again, as it had done on
that prior occasion, and that the ]
'Milledgeville party'' had been Intercepted.
Probably, they said, a posse, ]
Hr even soldiers, might be then on
^heir track. Again, this did not in- i
Lerfere with their determination,
rhey were resolved that this time
Prank must die, whether the plan
uad been discovered or not, and they ]
proceeded at once to the attack on i
he penitentiary.
While the fear that officers of the '
law might be on their track did not \
nterfere with their execution of the i
plan, it did make them hurry a good
leal and tried their nerves some- <
what. This is the reason why Frank 1
,vas rushed down the stairs so rough- i
y that he could not always suppress i
i groan, steady and silent as he was i
hroughout; but he did not speak a ]
A'ord, nor did they to him. They j
nade the 175 miles by 6 o'clock, or i
/ery near it, but they were obliged to
:ake circuitous routes to avoid the (
owns and cities. For hours before |
hey ended their journey, men were ,
Hunting around for them, and one of ,
hem was the Night Chief of Police of .
Marietta, N. B. White. (
How the News (Jet Out.
What had happened was that 1
hrough the one wire which the
'Milledgeville party" left uncut word
lad gone to the outside world. At 1
! o'ciook in tlie morning Josiah Car- 1
or, Jr., tho Marietta correspondent I
>? the Associated Press, was called
>n the telephone and told that Frank
had been kidnapped and probably 1
would be lynched and left on Mary
Phagan's grave.
Carter called up Night Chief
IVhlte, and the two went out to the
:emetery; they found no corpse lying (
>n the grave and no sign of any vlsl- '
ors. Then they hunted around the
leighborhood, but found nothing,
md went back to town. All this
:tme the lynchers, rushing through
he night In their four automobiles,
were circling the towns nearby and
getting nearer and nearer. 1
Mary Phagan spent moat of her '
ihort life In a house on the last out- 1
iklrt of Marietta. After you pass <
he house you come to a patch of 1
woods, and the rest are woods and
lountry. There 's a tree nearly op- <
>osite the house, and, a little way <
ip, the road forks. Beyond Is a 1
tin, owned by ex-Sheriff William '
froy. Frey saw the automobiles go '
>y and turn up the road, and he 1
'ecogntzed Frank. It was daylight '
hen, and Frey decided to go Into I
own and see what had happened. I
He did not know It.t but he could
lave seen what had happened If he
tad gone on a flve-m?"t? walk up
he road and turned voods. i
t was broad dayll^rf^ body t
ras on the road tsl- r
iess JM
Warned Away With Revolvers. i
Several men doing surveying work
in the railroad came up to the fork
in the road. The automobiles went
by them and stopped in front of the
patch of woods. The surveyors started
to go up the road to see what was
going on. A man came from the automobiles
with a revolver in his hand
ind told them to move the other way
md to do it quickly. They did it
very rapidly.
It was a fairly populous road for
the open country, but it must be remembered
that it was practically in
the city of biarletta. Prey had seen
the machines, the surveyors had received
that pressing Invitation to
move quickly only a little distance
from his gin, arfd now there came
flown tho rno H o mon n o mr^/1
tiler. He saw the automobiles stop; <
In fact, he was almost upon them, \
though coming from the other direc- <
tion than that the surveyors had been <
taking. *
A man stepped forward with a re- <
volver levelled at him and told him <
to stand where he was and make no \
move. Chandler became a statue. <
As he stood there he saw Leo Frank <
step down from one of the autoino- *
biles and walk Into the woods. There <
was a man on each side of him. <
Nobody but the lynchers saw what J
went on In the woods, and one of <
them did not see It. He was the man *
with the revolver, who stood guard 1
In the road. <
The Tragedy in the Woods.
Throughout the entire trip Frank '
had been silent and quiet. When he \
went into the woods the lynchers <
ranged .themselves around him, and J
their leader said, formally and cold- '
ly, without any heat: <
"Mr. Frank, we are now going to \
do what tlio law said do?hang you ,
by the neck until you are dead. Do <
you want to make any statement be- '
fore you die?"
In telling this story it must be re- ?!
membered that we have not Frank's
version, and never will have It. We
have only the lynchers' word for it. __
We can presumably rely on their y
account as to what they said them- i
solves, and for Frank's answers we _
must take their report and analyze It jj
each for himself. Their story Is,
then, that Frank answered calmly
with the one word: "No.'' _
The leader then said?and he ^
seems to have, done practically all the
little talking that was done by anybody
that night, either at the peni- _
tentiary or elsewhere, and this scetns u
to have been by agreement:
"We want to know whether you
are guilty or innocent of killing little _
Mary Phagan.'' ^
To this, according to the lynchers'
story, Frank replied: j
"I think more of my wife and my __
mother than I do of my own life."
He did not ask permission to write (
a letter, he made no request of any
kind. He behaved throughout with _
a calmness and diknity and an utter
lack of panic that was a striking a
thing, In its way, as the grave and
sombre executioner-like attitude of _
his murderers. Whether he said what j{
the lynchers say he said; whether, if ,
he said it, he meant that lie would |
not confess a crime to save his life, __
or merely that lie would not lie to ^
save it; whether ho said more or less,
and whether lie was rightly understood
or misunderstood, no one will
ever know. Whatever the truth, _
what Leo Frank said then was the ?
last thing lie ever said in this life. .
Xo Of for Mercy. I
There was no cry for mercy when ,
the lynchers produced a piece of
brown canvas, placed it around his
waist and tied it behind him. He was
an undershirt and a night shirt, and f
on the latter garment, over his heart, |
was embroidered a name which look
ed more like "Lee" than Leo. Per- ^
haps it was a pet name known to the \
one who gave him, or embroidered ,
the garment. f
lie had been handcuffed, and they
had brought with them a brand-new i
tliree-quarter-inch manila rope, | " i
wlilcli they tied in a hangman's not, (
so as to throw his head back and his j
chin up. They swung him to that
three which came nearest to facing
Mary Phagan's house, and he hung j
there, his body four feet from the p
ground. I
It was 7 o'clock. The cemetery _
was beginning to (ill with people? ^
had been so filling for half an hour? f
for the news that had come to Carter ?
had been telephoned all over town >
by persons whom he called up in ^
search of information, and everybody J
who heard it was heading for Mary j
Phagan's grave. Meanwhile William 41
Prey, seeking to find out the mean- '
ing of Frank's strange automobile '
ride, had come into town, and there 1
he encountered Carter and White. '
The moment they heard his story
they saw that here was the clue to ' F<
the failure to find the tjody at Mary I
Phagan's grave, and they went back C
with him to the fork in the roads. 1
The automobiles had plainly come (
that far, for Frey had seen them, and ?
they certainly had not gone much j ^
farther, or Carter and White would!' t
have seen them. They began beat- | 1
Ing up the woods, and in a few min- j t
utes came upon the body. (
Not only was the news all over >?
town immediately, but It was flash- ^
Ing to all points of the compass, and {
all over that part of the state men {
were climbing into automobiles and $
dashing off for Marietta. As for the t
city Itself, it turned out in a body.
As the cars passed men jumped for
them and swung aboard. No man .
who halted a machine was asked ]
where he wanted to go; he was taken f
at top speed for the end of the town, fa
for the little patch of woods that began
the open country, Just past Mary ^
I'hagan'a home. At the end of the (
journey the machines were packed j
together like sardines. r
PRESERVES THE TREE i
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Owner to Perpetuate Oak on Which '
Frank Was Lynched 1
The big oak tree near the W. J.
Frye cotton gin, two miles from (
Marietta, (la., on which the lifeless r
body of Leo M. Prank was found v
rlnngllng last Tuesday morning, soon j
Is to be surrounded with a concrete g
wall, and thus preserved by the ownBr
to mark tfce death place of the ^
alleged slayer of Mary Pliagan.
In the meantime the treo is being j
guarded by watchmen both night and
Jay. It was stated that Mr. Prey had gs
t?een offered two hundred dollars for
the tree. He declined the offer and
In dping so the plan to build a wall
ibout the tragically historic oak beumo
known. The watchmen were A
Blared on duty to prevent souvenir #
lunters, or others, from molesting it. I
Hero of Flood I>ten \
Fire Chief MoMahon of Erie, Pa., \
who rescued several persons during
the recent flood, died Friday as a remit
of pneumonia contracted in the
>411ly waters. ,
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ggs?Barred Rocks from select f
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lftceu eggs for 91 from exhibition l
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Barred Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island
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