sywwwi wu . 'wwuiiiiits FINANCIAL EDITION NIGHT EXTRA NIGHT EXTRA MeJI "Trf fy glKP vamM fl77(0& jWtB JftSf tifAi l mm -1 , VOL. I-NO. 288 LEO FRANK LYNCHED BY MOB AFTER SWIFT RIDE TO HOME OF MURDERED MARY PHAGAN Masked Automobilists Drag Convicted Manuiacturer Torn Cell at Georgia Prison Farm and Hang Him to Avenore 14-Year-Old ttirl f I ..Struggles t utile tor Victim, Weakened From Recent Stab ,'' binir by Fellow Prisoner Posses' Plans T.nirl WifU Grim Sureness Telephone and Telegraph Wires Cut to Prevent Knowledge of Night .Riders' Work State Seeks Assailants Leo M. Frank, whose sentence Phagan mat commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Staton, Wat taken 'ftem the priton at Milledgevllle, Ga., by a masked mob and hanged early today within -a thort distance of the home of hit victim. . tyhen the body Wat cut down from the tree, eeveral men from Marietta jampe upon the dead man' face. Judge Morris had to spirit the body eway to Atlanta in hit automobile to tave it from the mob. Governor Harris, of Georgia, it personally conducting the efforts of three therlfft' posset and a tcore of volunteer bands to round up the kid Hoppers. He is holding three companlet of militia in readiness to dispatch to" the scene in case the murderers of Frank are cornered. ,. There it no rioting or stent of iubilatian in Atlanta. To the confmrv. t . -' ' - - . -t.lht city which once clamored for Frank't life is tad and it taking ttept to . hbve Jthe officials at MiUedgevtlle removed. Conntvance with the lynchers ' iw it v "l, i.'lt' openly charged. W Frankt wife collapsed when site ' time it was feared she Would die. His mother said she was glad he was . dtad, for he might have suffered worse torture if he had been permitted to live. ' . MARIETTA, On.. -Aug. 17. Leo M. Frank was lynched early today after ho bad' been kidnapped from the State prison farm at Mlllodgovlllo and rushed 111 an automobile almost to Marietta, On., whero Is burled the body of Mary . Fhagan, tho girl whom Frank was convicted of hilling In a pencil factory at Atlanta. Frank's body was found hanging by tho nock to a tree two miles from Marietta,, on the Roswoll road, at 8:20 o'clock- this morning, many hours after he had been' carried away from tho prison farm by a band that apparently had boerl carefully organized toroYcrcomo nny resistance. Tbe.afead; tnari'a wrists, were loaded with handcuffs, fastened behind' him. ' . '!- '' ' ' lr Prisoner Too ss or mood from unwound, inflicted by a fellow convict at tne prison larm. fuiA TOvotviI wnt, 'fftbnn ftAt lila, anrn,t tn'rtflrVl tinrl hnf.11 rnmmiitll in .'.'.lu Imcrlsonment bv" Governor Slaton. ItP-liM&Xhe. Ivnchlnir nartV that killed Frank wont to the. Mllledgevlllo prison f&ri;ln eight automqbllcs and 'disappeared as soon as they had secured !' jv5ssi6n oj the man thoy sought. They were noxt reported on tho Roswell si;H was tnougnt tno prisoner noa ocen ?ito the river was Instituted and tho Atlanta authorities shortly after 7 ociock STSceivcd word that the body had been found In tho stream, but this report REM 'later learned to bo untrue. Nor won any bullet wound found In tho body. S- Owing to the" fact that they had cut tho telephone and telegraph wires Into Ullltdgevllle, the lynchers wero enabled to &-..' . .. . . ... iuacK on tne prison farm reacnea nere. JOTcners scattered to their homes. The 7. .. 7 ... . ., ;jpparenuy as near to mu gravo oi n-yeur-oiu murj rnbau a .., .j..w.. jftHought It safe to go. iV' -T-.jf n m rr.Hrn11 Zi juuge juorria i uciiicb lunmum U Tho body was not finally cut down until after speeches had been made thy a number of persons In the crowd. ..- aam to have slapped Detective w. J. Hums- xaco wnen isurnu -vvuo nub,iii, ,the Frank case here. Ho urged that the body be mutilated. Judge Morris poke In opposition to this, urging that order bo maintained. , . After the entire crowd had voted against mutilation, the body was lowered '... .i.. . , ....... , i ,.. - ,nnn mhlrh started for Marietta, If f fi it was announced an Inquest would begin at noon. Lf j" During the progress of this, mutterlngs In favor of mutilation began to KM-neard again, so JUge Morris ran nis. fSttempted to lift the corpse Into the car. Men Stamp Heels Into Dead Man's Face m .. a. . -.ni. i txm. v.tA ntiAiit tIia rft vhen j nere were inep several inousunu v"uj"o " vr. .......... ... i. i.13t body was cut. down. Despite Judge Morris' pleadings, several men in the ihmn. i.nn.i -nnvo n th. hnrtv was laid on the ground and stamped on the face with their heels. mi.- ...- ..i .. ' ino wagon inio wnicn mo tuiijoo to .... , -- L Undertaker, made the start tor the town at. top speed, but the crowd tooK ;4r it pellmell. In several hundred automobiles and buggies and on foot. It F. . .... , - - . ..li -i- Mn.1.fti. nlnncrfllHR. took thfl DOdy .wa then that Judge Morris, speeams mo ....- o , : Wo hi, own charge and rushed to Atlanta wlih ; oreenbur Frank's body was brought to tne rBond. in Atitl hv JudEe Morris. plef of Detectives Word and a "(Governor Will Search for Lynchers t. . -. ... . i i.. hn fnund. but Governor Harris an- Wed todnv that he would use every " law"p extreme penalty upon the band. - ' . . . .- ...... ,- hi. nirMrtv been set Into operation In an VSd0.y:rr poS;;8 wh,ch , . . r ;f had been Kidnapped : . now ?nU rr Z made to a- no ciues nave ueen jouiiu i " prebend them." the Chief of Police ' The police have been unaDie to lean v.. . " ' " " . th W Superintendent Burke. They have tried several times to get him over ttltStam, but cannot locate mm. l.! zrjr; s.. Dody of . KT-L":"'.- doorsten. Ks a tng'at onc hurried tuj hanging to a tree. f. At Teast 20 men recognized tne w"" "'"' " ,, by the scar of the SL-SfJS'!S23 r SSWS "" - IWa, a few weeks ago at the prison Plans Relentlessly Made,, 1 ... ,.... .k. t i rnhh .? ir'5Esi?s-iSBtr3 n grave of Mary ruwn- lum'"'' T" w eVel.y telegraph and tele Itmuption of their plans W offlo or '.wnr ' 8eJdom wire out of MHiadsevi .- t This one wire. eomrounii.HM to tn the .arly rnor.lr t fJ-J jm vengeance he ha4 flra-Bej -o TL ?!!!!?.,., the news iNcher. froi brtWKing tblr pUr. in eouthwn urgia bad beea of death for the murder of Afm-y Was told of the traaedv and for a weak to'Kcsist v -' snoi io aeam. oeurcn ior r run, a uuu, gain a good Btart beforo nowu of their ... - .---l l 1 n 1 !. Aiier jranis una ocen iuuiseu ma tree tney cnoso ror ino execunon -u -r . YiUMn na 1.a 1vni.finni One address was by a Marietta man . - n .A iniiAattrvntlnrr auiiiiu 4..w..K.. - m , . . .o iiioH jh TirnnBrtv of a Marietta unuernm.b ,.-........-..--- .- The body was escorted Into Atlanta by souad of detectives, arrlvmg nere v possible effort to opprehend and Innlct - m of Marietta said ..,,.,, lhat neoole In Marl- men the news reac.r.. to the ml... near Wh.ch ,W uoay w- . deDiBted , papers farm. County, where Mary rnagan wW8 uu,.. - asisyrs; - - 7-t. ,oid the news to th " -- f. - na.ada of the men J ' JJjllmr - it toW pr.vwted th. purple of th. M. f v.ry onlerea w y m - " i; c- rrn i ' . . . . . . a LEO M. t8ffflBgMmkiii$i. . -'" r rxStMsW L , tv.-it'"' i x . ' .1 -J i FRANK'S MOTHER GLAD HE IS DEAD NEW YORK, Aug. 17. "Thank God, he is dead and through with troubles," said Mrs. Rudolph Frank, mother of Leo M. Frank,, when informed at her home, 1S2 Underhill avenue, here, today that her son's body had been found. "If he had lived, his life would have been a torture, to him, and they might have killed him in a worse Way." Mrs.' Frank said she had received no messages from Georgia re' garding the kidnapping of Leo from the prison farm. GERMANY'S PROPOSAL TO FIX FRYE INDEMNITY ACCEPTED BY AMERICA United States Requests, How ever, That Question of Le gality Be Submitted to Arbitration INSISTS ON RIGHTS WASHINGTON. Aug. 17. In accepting the German proposal that two experts, representing the two Gov ernments, flic tho amount of Indemnity for the loss of the American sailing ship William P. Frye, and any American prop erty that may havo been sunk with her, the United States retains all of her legal rights under International law. In tho note to Germany, mado publlo here to day, this Government further asks that "an arrangement be agreed upon for tho Immediate submission to arbitration of the question of legal justification for tho sinking of the Frye, In so far that It '"vojves the interpretation of UUn iy Germany. Which Is expected, will re- suit In a compieio imciini Prussian treaty and also Hear up the case of the steamship Leelanaw, another American vessel sunk by a German sub. The Frye note "regre s" that Germany cannot accept the objections of this Government to the contention that the case was not one for a prize court. It U then suggested that the two alterna, tlva suggestions made by Germany be Coymbrd8eand.ccepted. They are that SS. CtSroVunt of damages- and Sinulatlons. Arbltratlpn la to be had undfr he provlslbn. of article S3 of The HaVue convention. The question of pro "dm! Ending the arbitration award declared "mpSrtant and Germany U asked whether her interpretation or that of the United States . to rule her nvy "VheUyUoped for further communl caUwabY the following statement: "Ifour propaeel P"ve acceptable, it will be nWary also to determine whether the Imperial German Government hall govern 1U naval operations In ae Srdiiw" Twlth Its own Interpretation or in accordance wun me wm)im InVlnUuwaby the United State, and the LTd havV an 7rl of the Z?-J:r the Imperial German Govern meat oa this point. The Kensingtonian Says: Davtd Meier Mi Mf . ted that poor Bmve woe ptti4d to return tfft a emjtfy . PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 191G. FRANK RYAN MOVES BEFORE JUDGE TO KILL LAST TRANSIT OBSTACLE Applies for Definitive Decree in Injunction Suit Brought by David- E. Dallam DECISION IN FEW DAYS City Solicitor Ryan uppcared before Judge Ferguson, sitting In chambers to day, and mado appllcaUon for a dellnltlve decree In the Injunction suit brought by David E. Dallam before Judge Sulzberger last month to hold up the transit program. Ruby R. Vole, attorney for Mr. Dallam, appeared with Mr. Ryan and gave his con sent, as legally required, to the granting of the decree, although he was not a party to thp application, Tho purpose of tho definitive deem would be to establish the case on some definite basis, so that tho application for the preliminary Injunction to hold up tho transit work could either be dismissed or granted. At the present time the preoau tlonary order Issued by Judge Sulzberger on July 18 Is operative, and the Rapid Transit work cannot cannot continue until the legal tangle la solved. In giving his decision on July 16, Judge Sulzberger ruled that the case should re- Conllnued on Pure Two, Column Four MRS. It. K. CASSATT POISONED Closes Newport Residence and, With Husband, Leaves for Season it. n Mra Tinhort K. Cauatt. of 1W3 Locust street, have closed their Newport residence and gone to White Sulphur Springs. . because of the Illness, of Mrs. Cassatt. It Is said she was poisoned by something she ate recently. Invitations to a dinner-dance, which Mr. and Mrs. Caseatt were to have given at the Newport Golf Club on Saturday, havo been canceled. About 100 person had been Invited to the affair, whloh was to have been one of the prettiest of the summer. The dinner was to have been served uder-a test, with lundsoroe floral and Bight erteets and two orcheetras. It is. believed Mr. and Mia- Cassatt will not return this summer to the Newport eeleny. THE WEATHER FORECAST For Philadelahia and viemto Shwa towgkt, fottomd by wbr; Weantwde, partiv efettdy ana cowr; wWFct northerly winds. CorimonT, K0VN0 FORTS TAKEN; SLAV LINE PIERCED Germans Capture 4500 Pris oners Novo Georgievsk Defenses Smashed ENTIRE FRONT IN DANGER Grand Duke Ready to Abnndon Brest Litovsk Salient Bie- lostok Evacuated BEIU.IN, Aug. 17. Capture of the forts of Kovno, between tho Nlcmcn and Goela, is announced In today's ofllclal report from tho general atitff. Tho Germans captured 450O prison ers and "I cannon. It Is behoved that the fall of tho main Kovno fortifications cannot bo long de layed. Tho general staff also reports the cop turo of a largo fort on tho northeastern defonso lino nt Novo acorgtovsk, together with two Intermediate forts. Theso three i forts wero taken by storm, Tho QormanB captured "00 Russian prls- oners and 13 cannon at Novo Qcorglevsk. Tho forces of General von Schoii and General von GallwIU havo driven tho Hussions back, taking 1TC0 prisoners, ono cannon and 10 machine guns, while Prlneo Leopold of Bavaria and Field Marshal von Mockcnscn have mado further vic torious progress. PETUOGHAD. Aug. 17. Grand Duko Nicholas has accomplished his nlm of holding tho railways Into the Interior necessary for tho orderly retire ment of his troops before the advancing Gorman hosts. Ab tho Russians retlro they destroy the lines and wreck the roadbeds. Government railway officials estimated today that moro than COW miles of lines, built In Poland at enormous cost, had been wrecked. As tho railway lines constltuto tho only routo of advance In many parts of Poland, tho Germans will bo materially delayed after they have taken the second lino of Hutulan defense. With the cities virtually denuded of their civil Inhabitants, who wero In structed to lcavo beforo tho German on rush became a menaco to tho Russian positions In Poland, and the factories re moved to tho Interior, tho Kaiser's troopi will bo disappointed In their hopes of. taking property of great valuo. It was announced today that tho evacua tion" of Blelostok was progressing satis factorily. The banks and other Important institutions havo been taken to thi .n- terior. The evacuation of Riga, continues. Tho famous church .bells at ,tmit'Tatyh?iye' been taken0 Hopcow. ,. " v , AVANZATAITALIANA VERSO MVA E PLEZZ0 Le Truppe Alpine Scalano Roc- -cie e Si Aprpno la Strada Con la Baionetta Dispaccl da Roma dlcono che le trupne .Alpine Itallano opcrantl nell'alta vnlle dell'Isonzo, o preclsamente nella dif ficile reglone montana che'e' dlfesa dalle opero fortlficate austrlache dl Plezzo, si vanno sempro plu' strlngendo nttorno alia fortezza, superando cnorml dimcolta' o spesso scalando rocclo scendentl quasi a plcco o qulndl attaccando 11 nemlco alia baionetta per costrlngerlo ad abbandonaro le sue poslzlonl. Lo opero fortlflcato dl Plezzo dlfendono gll accesst da! sud at centra ferrovlarlo o stradalo Importantls slmo dl Tarvls o sbarrano la strnda che da Caporotto per Tcrnova o riezo (cho gll austriact chlamano Flltsch) porta a Tarvls lungo la valle della Corlnlza. E' noto che gll Itallant bombardana anche le opero fortlflcato dl Maworgnetio cne ai fendono gll access! a Tarvls dall-oveBt, cloe" dalla strada dl Pontebba. Le forze Itallane operant! nella conca dl Ampezxo hanno soetnuto parecch! at tacchl austrlachl ed hanno conqulstato 'nuovo trlncee nelle valll del Bodenbach o del Bacherbach. Anche nella Val d'AmpoIa si combatte accanltamente e le truppe Itallane avan zano, sobbene lentamente a causa del maltempo cho Imperversa In quella re gionc. Si sono avute intattl grandlnate e fortl ploggle, e gll Itallanl hanno trovato pleno d'acqua le trlncee austrlache nello quail gallegglavuno cadaverl dl austriacl uccIbI. Lo forze itallane che operano In qutsta reglone hanno per oblettlvo quello dl rlsallre Val dl Ledro e II corso della b'arca o attaccare Rlva alls apalle, (Leggere n 4a paglna le ultlme e plu dettagllato notlzle nulla guerro, in Hall, ano.) Huge Robbery Plot Discovered PARIS, Aug. 17. A plot to burn the French pavilion at tho San Francisco Exposition and an exhibit of pearls and other jewels, owned by Leonard Rosen thal,, known as the "Pearl King," has been discovered, according to reports re ceived here by Rosenthal's agents. Ro senthal Is one of tho richest men In France, and the jewels exhibited by him at San Francisco are valued at more than i.w.oea LOST AND ffOUND WIMT DID YOU LOSBT WUAT DID TOU FIND All lost article advertlud Id tb Vstitr will b IUtd la Mimn;ol W. It LdMr Control, tJw Sod? o loeat th. owntr t sat time. If you n 1"?, r "JI ihit h not bo 4vUi 1m JSr LaSser will lw rrtl you tO ' . .a.j J ...Ut In firtA Pro?hraVtlul.wr.-wtowUrb. KIc.iln touch with jeu. TM. tho t i touch with you. U. Uk 11 oil i itrvlc at ldtr cootni li iroo. . . , . s?ivih7NNDhaBw.nic: li (re. ttoS lUtuTn USs weontrel rraHTTSATHBB CABD CAM lt e ESSSfto UlT Jgwoa. l'Turr-ss rowan! ( (ceveru utkl Ukoa 'Ttw Iwi mnktaVwLS0 autoa. MkeA TTBVTiAT K DOQ DU ff"-"- vtn, JJ, IW gjejgr Toai rx QUitr (HomM A4trttom4U e fag it 1015, t Tin Prima Ltran Covrihr. GEORGIA PRISON BOARD ON SCENE M' WHEN LEO FRANK WAS KIDNAPPED K. E. Davison, E. L. llaney ami T. E. Patterson, the full per sonnel of the Georgia Prison Board, which refused to rccommand clemency for Frank when he was under sentence of death nt Atlanta, were on tno Mlllcdgoville farm when Leo ,M. Frank was lynchotl last night. Tliey weit untouched by the kidunppers, nnd claimed to know' nothing of tho nffair until tills morning. TODAY'S BASEBALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE CHICAGO, 1st g 00020000 0-2 6 0 MTTSBuitGH 00003000 x 3 5 2 Humphreys and Brcsuahnn; Benton and Gibson. AMERICAN LEAGUE DETKOIT, 1st g 3 o 1 4 0 2 CLEVELAND 0 10 0 10 Dubuc nbd Stallage; Hnrstad and Egan. QUICK GERMANS CAPTURK HRITISH AEROPLANE TjERLIN, Aug. 17. Tlio War Ofllcc this afternoon roportcd that it British ticroplitno was captured nt Bnpaumu. German batteries at Ostund UlovtJ oil' two hostile destroyers. CITY FARMS PRODUCE VALUE INCREASES Tho yield of marketable produco from tho 900 acres of tho city's farms at Bybcrry - for thp first seven months of 1915 represents a cash valuo of J20.752.39, or $2852.17 moro than tho value of tho yield for tho first seven months) of Inst year. ' , DANIELS PROBES CHARGE OP NEUTRALITY VIOLATION WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. Secretory of, the Navy pnnlels'today ordered a searching Investigation into the report that armored motorboats .are lacing manufactured In this country for shipment, tp, Russia., Jladecarisjl,, that. such 3T practice' Is' plainly a violation of .neutrality '"T-iio booTsv'Jt vas reported. wero fot. usb ngalnst German submarines In tho paltlc, ; BUSINESS MEN WORK FOR FREE TRANSFERS Tho Northwest Business Men's Association ns empowered Us Transit 'Committee to appeal to tho Superior Court from tho recent decision of tho Public Service Commission refusing to compol tho'-Rttpla Transit Company to Issuo frio transfers on Intersecting routes. This action followed a. meeting of tho association held last night. Tho committee's stand ngalnst tho granting of a certificate of public convoyance for tho building of a Broad street subway and elovatcd until frco transfers aro granted was also Indorsed. 400-YEAR-OLD RUG UNDER LIBERTY BELL A Persian rug. said to bo 400 years old, lies beneath tho Liberty Bell In tho Pennsylvania Building nt tho Panama-Pacific Exposition. Tlio rug was mado In Teheran by Persian women and girls, who worked day and night for 15 yenrs to complete It. Tho rug, following Its completion, graced tho palace of tho Shah In Teheran. The present Shah, through his friendship for Morgan Shustcr. ordered tho rug to bq sent to tho fair. RUSSIA SAID TO PAYOR ALLIANCE WITH JAPAN MILAN, Italy, Aug. 17. A long dispatch from Pctrogrnd outlining the situation In Russia, which gives the Impression of being inspired by Serglus Sazanoff, Russian Foreign Minister, Is published by the Corrlero della Sera. Tho article says In conclusion: "Tho proposal for a Russo-Japancde alliance finds no opposition, on condition that It bo not nggresslvo ngalnst China and oven less so ngalnst America, whose friendship Is necessary to Russia." - ITALIAN INVENTS TORPEDO CHASER PARIS, Aug. 17. A dovlce Invented by tho Italian' Engineer Quarlnl which makes It possible to drive torpedoes out of their course and explode them baa satisfied tests, says a special dispatch from Rome, and arrangements are being made to supply the dovlce to the allied fleets. "BIGGER GERMANY" IS DEMAND OF LIBERALS BEnLIN, Aug. 17. Resolutions calling for the extension of German frontiers as the result of the war woro adopted by tho Executive Committee of the National Liberal party. Tho resolutions made the following declaration; "The outcome of tho present wnr can only bo a peace which, by expanding our frontiers east, west and overseas, will protect us militarily, politically and economically ngalnst new attneks and compensate us for the enormous sacrifices which the (Jerman nation already has made and Is determined to continue until a, victorious conclusion." 2000 AMERICANS FIGHT IN CANADIAN RANKS LONDONt Aug. 17. "There are 2000 Americans la the ranks of the Cana dian military contingent." said Major General Sam Hughes, Canadian Minister of Militia, at a meeting of Americans held here. "I have already written letters of gratitude and sympathy," General Hughes continued, "to mothers of more than 100 American boys who have fallen while fighting In Flanders alongside of Canadlun cohirades. More than 2000 enlisted, and we could have many more If we wished. Any number of Weet Pointers offered their services as ofllcsra, and some ure now with us," MUST CLEAN BOATHOUSES AT GLOUCESTER Tho Gloucester Board of Health has ordered the owners of about 300 boat' houses along, the Delaware River front at Market street, Gloucester, to either clean up their places or get out. The order went Into effect today. According tp the health, pfleals, many complaints have been made about th,a menacing conditions af the'boathouses because llttte attentlon(ts psld to the laws regulat lng sewage and other sanitary arrangements. Some of the houses aro eo old nnd out of repair that they are almost falling to pieces, STATE'S COAL OUTPUT AT HIQJI MARK WASHINGTON. Aug. IT. Pennsylvania pro4nW 91JM.631 long tone W. 821.507 short tons) of anthriclte In 1914. according fo figure made public today by the United States Geological Survey, the value of the stttput at the mines being WMSLW, This represents but a sltght decrease as pqfnpared with Urt previous year. In whleh the recvd output of anthracite was attained. li I JJJI I Pi !"" " V " Wl """"" " GERMANS PAYING HUGE PRICES FOR FOODSTUFFS PARI8. Aug. 17. A Havan dispatch says that Auetrien and GerattjA at' points along the Rumanian frontier are paying three tlmee the normal for wheat, corn, hay, flax. pM ad beans exported from that country- TM the reault of heavy export taxes jSa:ed on Kumm.tan agrlculturdi gtvetacu Saturday, following the action at the Government on the previous 4y in re moving the prohibition against eending certaj tood supplm out of th country The export tax amount to 40 to 1W trance (W to IMA m e ' from JW w W0 frevnea on a (arm wagvm kmu. PBIOB Oms OET "'.A..-.. NEWS CwiitoBl w "t " 4uiw oe mr , . ,, i iHaMwr0Ji0trTmiiroM0eBMWeeeffl1lilWfiMV7illrtnr'IJIrietJ?'JbiK' Jtsma. n - mtsmssmtt0rtssssssssmsssssssismssmssssssW
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