016 Sheet – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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xii PREFACE TO VOLUME TEN

The governor, however, did not set Frank free. He sentenced him to imprisonment for life. But if Frank murdered Mary Phagan, was there one extenuating reason why he should escape the gallows? The evidence shows none; his friends, his counsel, and he himself never suggested one. If, as may be the case, the Governor's intention was to keep him in prison until the public excitement had gone down and he could be safely released, then the state of Georgia was pledged to protect him against the mob. And when it was not strong enough to do this, Justice received its final wound and lay stricken to death.

The causes of the "Boston Massacre," which led to the trial of the British Soldiers, Weems and seven others (p. 415), Captain Preston (p. 509), and Edward Manwaring and others (p. 511), are set out in the narrative (p. 415).

The funeral solemnities of those who were killed by the fire of the soldiers were conducted with great pomp and splendor. Crispus Attucks, a mulatto, and James Caldwell, who were strangers in Boston, were borne from Faneuil Hall. Samuel Maverick, a youth of seventeen, was carried from his mother’s house in Union Street, and Samuel Gray from his brother’s in Royal Exchange Lane. The other, Patrick Carr, was still alive, although mortally wounded, and died a few days afterwards. The four hearses formed a junction in King Street at the place where the deceased fell, and from there, an immense procession marched in columns of six deep through the main street to the central (Granary) burying ground, where the four bodies were deposited in one tomb, amidst the solemn tolling of all the bells in Boston and the neighboring towns.

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