Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 18, 1915, Page 3

TWO-YEAR TERM GIVEN TO SLAVER Chicage Man Who Lived with Fair mont, Neb., Girl Sent to Fort Leavenworth. COURT ADMINISTERS SCORING CHICAGO, Aug. 17.— (Special.)- Robert Larson, an engraver, who lived with Miss Pearl Gallagher of Fairmont, Neb., for several months without the lormalty of marriage and who visited at the girl's home repre- senting that the two had been mar- ried, was sentenced to a term of two years in Fort Leavenworth prison yosterday by Judge K. M. Landis after the court bad severely scored the man and told him the Mann white slave act was made for just such persons as be. Larson had parted with his wife when he woet Miss Gallagher, a cashier at a moving picture theater. |LEO FRANK DIES VICTIM OF MOB; PRISON FORCED (Continued from rage 1anta, from & dormitory him. Porsistent raports early today were that |Prank had been lynched. For hours |afterward no trace of the automobiles bearing the party could be found, but At daylight newspaper mon picked up the Itrall at & point on Little river, near | Batonville, Ga. J. K. Jackson, a white |tarmer, lving near a bridge over the Little river, said that shortly after mid. {night he heard saveral mutomobiles mop Ithere. Soon afterward he heurd loud {talking and then many shots. He heard the automobiles leave In the direction of Eatonville after the firlng. A hurried |search of the immediate vicinity falled [to reveal anything that would indicate that Frank had mct summary vengeance there. The armed men arrived at the prison farm practically unnoticed. All means of wire communication from the in tion to Milledgeville, thres miles awa were destroyed, and all wires, except one telephone line from Millegeville, also were cut Visit to Fu . | An acquaintanceship ted In apart- | ment life In different parts of the city and finally a journey to a {arm near| TFalrmont, Neb., where the girl's parents | fived. There the two represented them- | selves a» man and wife, and Larson wan arrested upon his return on April 3 of | this year. “So you went with this woman to Fair- mont and passed yourself off to her parents as her husband? rommnnud‘ Judge Landls. "You stuck your guilty legs under this honest farmer’s table and partook of his food, having lied to him about your relations with his daughter. Not only that; you were unprincipled Tired of Woman Plea, At this Jancture counsel for Larson in- Don’'t you think that this woman was blame as Larson was?" there is a dirty, nasty case is court," responded the into court here and woman s to blame. I'm it. Where did you get the meney on which you lived with this after you came back to Chicago?" Girl Pald the Rent. father sent some of it to me and some of the room rent. 1 Five men went to the house of Warden T. J. Bmith, awakened him and made him prisoner, At the same time a small squad of men went to the home of J, M. Bu superintendent of the farm. | Burke was forced to go with them to the gnte nearest the dormitory. The party rushed in, got Frank, and hurried him to ono of the automobiles. Hé was foroed @own into the car, while & member of the party is sald to have flourished a rope in front of him. Those who had been guarding Warden Smith left him and joined the party at the gates. The sutomoblles then started off in & north- erly direction With only a limited number of guards at the prison and wire communication with Milledgeville interrupted, immediate pursuit was impessible. Absence of definite news that Frank had been lynched caused many to believe that possibly friends took him away and that the display of the rope and the shooting were parts of a plan to cover the real intentions of the party. Frank was sufficlently recovered from the wound in his throat, inflicted by another prisoner a month ago, to leave the prison hospital Sunday. dent t« Handcuffed, to the door just as I was preparing to retire,” sald Captain J. M. Burke, superintendent of the state prison farm today. “Two strong men grabbed me and snapped handeuffs on my wrists. Four others stood guird over me. any more to blame than 's mlways the woman," “T suppose that you hold use she ceased to is one of the worst " the judge . the federal Leavenworth.” here, but all houses have been destroyed. main streets are taking bulldings the United o “general & Banta Tex., the near- with which the 5 te, 1 there, seventy- : gi; H i il fi siigi ! ® : if] ; e H | i il 1] £ £ | Niil H i E i if is !55515 i i H % : i is £ g i f ; it i ] i i 1 remonstrated and they declared it wae no use for me to aquirm as they had come for Leo Frank and were going to get him. “1 was marched up to the penitentiary bullding by & guard which was doubled it he would be killed as soon as an en- trance waa effectod. The gate locked and & night guard came but he was immediately four men took Frank by his arms and Jegs, while a fifth grabbed him by the hair and he was dragged out and bumped down the stone.stops. Frank did not utter a word, but apparently was suffer- ing intensely and groaned from pain in- flicted in bandiing him in his wounded condition. The affair was all over within five minutes, it seemed to me, “During the entire time I was hand- ouffed and under guard. The whole pro- cedure was well ordered an methodical und only & fow words were spoken. A the men were masked, but 1 did not resognize any of them. The leader sald, ‘Now, boys, for the swamp.' Then in less time than it takes to tell It, they were oft," o Mrs, Frank Was pecting It, Mrs. Loo M. Frank. received the news her husband had been lynched in preparing to go 1o an uncle's home thens, Gu., when she was t occurred. She s reported as bearing up well. 4 on -I“m ASSASSINS | — er Governor Slaton Says All of Thew Should He Hanged, N FRANC) Aug. 17.—~For- lieve was at Al had THCO, ernor John W. Slaton of Geor- as chiel executive of that state to lite impriconment the sen- deuth passed upon Leo M. Frank, i hore Vikiting the Panama-Pa- xposition, was informed early this that Frank had probably been lynched. He expressed himsell as deeply ked and indignant. Act was & consuminate outrage,” Mr. Slaton, “and every man en- in the lynching should ‘be hanged, an assassin, Such an act is to the elvilization of . Georgla which every gogd citizen will use no language too con- 1 belleve the governor of will use wll the power of the te to punish the milefactors, who dfs- § i TR i Boys and Girls THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, AUG UST 18, 1915, e ————————— =R EESEE—— |out of the state. But the conduct of this |ing in special editions of the TLincoln [miserable mob of assassine is the con- | papers. |duct of the same sort of people, who | It js the general opinion that the act shoot a man from behind a fence or mur- {der & woman from a cowardly heart Georgia, and still less If the authorities will refiect little credit om the state of “If I knew of any stronger language, 1 {make no effort to apprehend the mur- would use it." |vovERNOR H!ifll! NOTIFIED | derers, for such most of the people look upon the men who perpetrated the deed. They appear to feel that there was & question as to the guilt of Frank, and Executive Wil Aet i Asked .Ylln that ease the death of the convicted Sheriff to Do & ATLANTA, Ga., {moval early this morning by newspaper |men. He sald as woon as he was for |mally notified by the sherift of Baldwin {county and asked for ald, as required by the Georgia law before he can take ac tion, he would make every effort to Lave | the members of the mob arrestsd and punished the governor, “and I feel that a great wrong has been done and that the people of our state will not look with approval upon it." HISTORY OF THE FRANK CASE Girl Murdered in il Factory Nearly Two Years Ago. 1eo M. Frank wes found gullty of the murder of Mary Phagan on August 2, 1913, and sentenced to be hanged. He was the superintendent of the National Pencll company, In Atlanta, in the base- ment of which the girl's body was found by a night watchman on the night of April 21, Repeated attempts were made in the state courts ‘to obtaln a new trial for Frank, but without success. Efforts to obtain & writ of habeas corpus in the federal court at Atlanta, and finaliy in the Supreme Court of the United States were futile also. On the nignt of June 21, this year, two days before the date set for the prison- er's execution, he was removed from the county jall in Atlanta and rushed to the state prison farm upon orders from Gov- ernor Slaton, now retired. The next day the governor announced that he had granted a petition made In Frank's be half, asking that his death sentence be commuted to life Imprisonment. A few weeks ago, an attempt was made by J. Willlam Creen, another life term convict, to kill Frank by cutting his throat. Frank's condition was serious for some days, but it was announced re- cently that he practically had recovered. NEBRASKANS CONDEMN THE ACT Lincoln People Declare Georglia Has Put Big Blot on Record. (From a Staff Corespondent.) LINCOLN, Aug. 17.—(Bpecial.)-Con- demnation of the action of the Georgia mob, which took Leo Frank from the Georgla penitentiary last night and hung Wm, is generally expressed by Lincoln people who read the account of the lynch- “I am both shocked and grieved,” sald | man is to be deplored, for some day it before, that the man was fhnocent. i ' RIVER CONGRESS T0 ‘ FRAME A PROTEST | (Continued from Page One.) on & matural trade rouie, is to derive any bedefit from the Panama canal, the fmprovement of the Missourl river is in- {stantly apparent. The Mississippl river |presents a natural outlet into the Gulf |of Mexico for Bouth American trade. If |this 18 to be taken advantage of, espe- |clally by our grain shippors, additional | profit can be secured through the cutting |out of the middleman in the form of the English jobber. As the situation now stands, we ship raw wheat to England, chiefly to Liverpool, where it is turned into the finished product and sent in English bage to the South American trade. English labor benefits thereby and the by-products are lost to us in the transaction. With the establishment of hydro-electric plants in the Missour! valley, and there are many fine points where they are available, the middle- man s cut out and additional profit is {put into the pocket of the grower. “The same situation holds good for much of our canned goods and eommodi- ties. With direct trade routes long hauls are obviated and additional profits en- joyed by the producers Railroad freight rates have been brought down by the recent activity in the river, showing the result of healthy competition.” The following congressmen were ex- pected to attend the conference here today, mccording to George H. Forsee, industrial commissioner of the local com- mercial club: Missouri: 4. W. Alexander, D, W, Shackleford, 0. W, Hamiin, C. ¥. Booher, William L. Tgoe, W, P. Borland, Jacob B. Meeker. - Kansas: D. R. Authony, Jr. Arkansas: 8. M. Taylor. Towa: G. N. Haugen, F. J. Steele. Nobraska: C, O. Lobeck. Minnesota: George R. Smith. The_ following directors of the National Rivers and Harbors congress also are expected to attend: 8. N, Thompson, Washington, D, C.; J. W. Cooper, St ‘Louls; Harry L. George, St. Joseph; Irv- ing C. Norwood, Davenport, Ia.; George V. B. Hill, Minneapolls, and W, K, Kavanaugh. St. Louls | "Representatives of ' commercial bodies in Omahe, St. Joseph, Jefferson City, Sioux City, Ia.; 8t. Louis, Atchison and Leavenworth, Kan., promised to partici- pate In the conference, Mr. Forseo sald. GERMANS TAKE | ONE KOYNO FORT| Outlying Defense of City is Cap- tured, Together with Forty- Five Hundred Prisoners. LONDON VIEW OF THE OUTLOOK BERLIN, Aug. 17.—(Via Lon-| dor.)—One of the outlying forts of | Kovno, between the Niemen river and Gesia, to the south of the main forti- fication, has been captured by the Germans, it was announced by the German headquarters staff today. More than 240 cannon and 4,500 prisoners were captured at‘Kovno, the statement adds. Three forts at Novogeogrievsk also have been captured, army headquar- ters report. London View of Situation. LONDON, Aug. 17.~In the land fighting & crisis has not been reached in the pres- ent stage of the eastern campalgn. Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian com- mander-in-chief, will not be able to as- sure the safety of his armies until the menace presented by the operations of Field Marshal Pon Hindenburg n Cour- land is removed. In the Bausk dlstrict of Courland the German army has been driven back toward the capital and to- ward the river. The struggle, however, centers in the region north of the Nie- men, notwithstanding the recent success of Russian resistance. Between the Narew and the Bug, the German drive evidently is making some headway, although Petrograd claims that attacks of the invaders in this reglon have been repulsed after heavy fighting. Along the middle Bug the Austrians and Germans have forced several croseings. If the Russian plan to hold the valuable transverse railroad running through Pilna, Grodnow, Biallistok, Brest-Litouvak and Kovel succeeds, they must soon check the Austrians and Germans definitely. From the standpoint of the entente al- lies, the near eastern situation is clear- ing wtih the assertion, officially inspired from Nish, that Serbla's attitude Ir not irreconciliable, but that the settlement must be more general than a mere recti- fication of frontlers in one locality. For- mer Premier Venizelos, having been sum- moned by King Constantine, ls expected to be once more In the saddie tomorrow. { Roumania is becoming more determined | in fts refusal to permit passage of muni- | tions to Turkey, which country is re- ported to be showing concern over the attitude of Bulgaria. French Officia; Report. PARIS, Aug. 17.-The French war of- fice this afternoon gave out a statement | PRICES CUT and SLASHED UNMERCIFULLY DURING THIS FORCED PIANO SALE Owing to heavy arrivals of Fall Stock we Are forced to sell our magnificent stock of High Grade Planos gnd Player Planos at practically your own price, rather than place them in pub- lic storehouses or rent additional warerooms At great expefse, During this sale we will offer a limited number of heautitul new uprights, régular $250 to $350 values, at $175 to $200, Neow Player Plunos, fully guaranteed, $450 to $600 values, at $323 to bench and scarf included. 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