1914 December 10 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia
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- 1914 December 10 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia
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- Judge Ben Hill
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- 1914
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1914 December 10 Atlanta Constitution 14 Pages Georgia
Author: Atlanta Constitution
Year: 1914
PDF PAGE 9, COLUMN 3 LEO FRANK HEARS SENTENCE OF DEATH The Doomed Man Maintains Stoical Calm During the Ordeal—In Dramatic State- ment He Reiterates His Innocence. After having been shut out from the sunlight for more than a year, the first words of Leo M. Frank yesterday upon emerging from the Courthouse in which he had been sentenced to die on Friday, January 22, a little more than a month from now, were: “Oh, but isn’t the sunshine wonderful. I feel it tingles all over me.” He was being carried through the roadway in the rear of the new million-dollar Courthouse. The sunshine—the first in several days—bathed the stone building in a flood of warmth, and the prisoner, walking between two sturdy deputies, gazed unblinkingly into the skies. He was hurried, into a waiting taxi-cab, and carried back to his cell in the Tower. Frank was re-sentenced by Judge Ben Hill a little after noon. The Courtroom was practically filled with friends and relatives and the idle curious who had got wind of the proceedings. Frank, himself, seemed the least perturbed of any one in the place. A dramatic statement was made by the prisoner, in which he maintained innocence and a stolid determination to face