1915 October 06 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia

1915 October 06 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia

Author: Atlanta Journal

Year: 1915

PDF PAGE 5, COLUMN 3 GEORGIA IS ATTACKED BY JUDGE SHEPPARD New York, October 5.—The Lynching of Leo M. Frank, although not designated by name, was made the Basis of a portion of the Charge today to the New Federal Grand Jury by Judge William B. Sheppard, of Pensacola, Fla., who swore in the Jurors and instructed them. Judge Sheppard told the Grand Jury that the people looked to the Courts for Protection and that Failure to get it sometimes led to Outrage. “Not many weeks ago,” Judge Sheppard said, “the Country was shocked by an Outrage committed in a Southern State. That Offense against Society, that Outrage against the Law, was the culmination of an indifference that existed in that State for more than twenty years. Lynchings and Outrages against the Law had become so common that little attention was paid to them. Such an Outrage has startled the Country and, as I say, it was only a culmination of public indifference.” Judge Sheppard is holding Court in New York under the Law which permits a Federal Judge to sit in another part of the Country where Dockets are congested to aid in disposing of Cases. “There are, however,” continued Judge Sheppard, “wholesale indications, notwithsta