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FRANK’S MOTHER DECLARES HIS TRIAL AN INFAMY
DEAD GIRL'S GLAND
Chicago Physician Performs Re
markable Operation in Effort
to Cure Brain Affliction.
CHICAGO, March 11.—A gland re
moved from a dead body seven days
before was utilized in an oper:ition by
Dr. G. FFrank Lydston on a patient at
the Dunning State Hospital in an at
tempt to cure what has hitherto heen
censidered a case of hopeless insani
ty. The patient—a 17-year-old girl—
is suffering from “dementia precox.”
At the same time the surgeon per
formed a similar operation on an
other patient, 26 years old, suffering
from the same malady, implanting a
gland 30 hours removed from a living
bodyv.
“From the pathélogical standpoint
both operations were completely suc
cessful,” said Dr. Lydston. “Whether
or not the mental condition of the pa
tients will be improved will not be
known for at icast six or eight wecks.
I am hopeful that compiete cures will
result.”
- Experimented on Own Body.
Dr. i.ydston used the same methods
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of gland implantation in perfecting
which he experimented on his own
body and the results of which he be
lieves to be completely successful. It
was the first time in the history of
surgery that such an operation has
been performed for the cure of in
sanity. The younger of the two pa
tients was” Hattie Emmling and the
older Wilhelmina Schroeder. The for
mer has been an inmate of Dunning
two years, the latter for five years.’
The operations were performed at
the invitation and with the consent ol
Dr. Ceorge Leirfinger, the superin
tendent of th: institution. At the end
of the period of observation, if im
provement in the mental condition of
the patients is found, other opera
tior.s will be performed,
Considered Incurable Heretofore.
“Fully 65 per cent of the cases of
insanity come under the classification
of ‘dementia precox,”” said Dr. Lyd
ston, telling of what may prove a sur
gical triumph. “Recent blood tests
have shown that this form of insani
ty is due to imperfect functioning of
the delicate sex glands,
“The operations I performed on the
two women at Dunning were super
ficial and involved not the slightest
danger. One of ‘the transplanted
glands was removed from a 17-year
old girl who was killed in an accident
seven days ago. It was Kept in a salt
solution and stored in a refrigerator.
The other was removed from a pa
tient 26 years old because of another
condition which made the operation
necessary. It was kept for 30 hours.
1 have demonstrated by the operation
on myself that these glands live after
the body from which they have been
removed i 9 dead.”
U. S. WAITS ON HUERTA.
WASHINGTON, March 11.—The
Wilson Administration -to-day began
a patient wait for the answer of
President Victoriano Huerta to the
formal demand made through Charge
O’'Shaughnessy that the murderers of
Clemente Vergara, the Texas ranch
man, be punished for the crime.
The telegram sent by Secretary
Bryan to Charge O'Shaughnessy in
Mexico City was the most positive
stand yet taken by this Government,
and it is indicated that the State De
partment is determined to press
Huerta,
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With the aid of money saved by
abstaining from meat, girls of the
Students’ Union at Brenau College
are going to build a new gymnasiurm.
Migs Octavia Hunter, of Shrevepori,
La., is president of the union anu
was an ethugsiastic leader in the “no
meat” plan. There are rumors about
the college that the young wom:*n
are to promise to forego candy to aid
the cause, but that seems a large sac
rifice, even for a gym,
There is a fairly good gvmnasium
now, but it is not nearly so large and
well equipped as the young women
desire, and they have ipaugurated a 1
campaign among themselves to raise
the funds to build the new one which
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Russia to Take Part
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In Opening of Canal
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ST, PETERSBURG, March 11.—~
The Russian Government to-day ac
cepted the invitation of the Uniled
States tn send warships to take part
in the celebration attending the open
ing of the Panama Canal,
The Russian battleships will par
ticipate in the big international re
view in Hampton Roads next year,
will include a big swimming pool and
every known gymnastic appliance,
They already have some money in
the bank, $9OO of'which was raised
last year in a ‘“‘no meat” campaign.
The girls were enthusiastic over the
fdea of having a new gym, and tae
Students’ Union met to devise ways
and means of raising money,
Meat Is rerved three times a day
at the college and it was suggested
that a large amount might be saved
if the girls would be willlng to forego
meat for breakfast. “Half of us do
not eat it, anyway,” said one of the
leaders, “and it would be good for the
digestion of the other half to go with
out it
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Two in Biplane Fall
700 Feet to Death
ALDERSHOT, ENGLAND, March
11.—Two more violent deaths in the
army aviation corps, making three in
two days, occurred to-day when Cap
tain Allen and Lieutenant Burroughs
were killed while making a flight over
Salisbury Plain,
The biplane in which the two men
were riding collapged 700 feet above
the ground i
“l Could Kill, I Could Die for
Him,” Asserts Mrs. Frank, Ad
mitting She Is “Tigress.”
NEW YORK, March 11.-“ My san
is being sacrificed on an altar of in
famy aboe which the seal of the sov
ereign State of Georgia repeses. in
the tumult the voice of justice is
hushed. Loudly boast the Atlanta
police that they have brought to jus
tice the slayer of little Mary Phagan.
“Proudly they tap their shields call
ing attention to their omnipotence,
their championship of the fair name
of Justice. Someone must die that the
law might be satisfied. My son, a
Jew, was seized upon, trussed like a
sheep and cast upon the mercy of a
court that sneered at his every at
tempt to declare his innocence. But
that. court gave ear and credence to
the loose-mouthed, parroti‘ke story of
a negro—that court of justice.”
This is the story of Mrs. Rudoliph
Frank, the'mother who sat by Leo M.
Frank in the 30-day trial in Atlanta
and heard the jury return the vor
dict that condemned him to di..
The mother is a tigress,
She said:
Could Kill or Die for Him.
“They called me that in Atlanta.
A tigress. Why should I not be?
I love my son, my boy. I sat at his
side and heard a prosecuting attorncy
degrade him by horrible insinuation,
by terrible innuendo. They called me
a tigress because I :prang from my
chair and cried forth my reproach-—
the denial trat they would not listen
to from my boey. Yes, I am a tigress.
I could kill for him; I could die for
him.
“In my .heart, as I sat beside h'm
and heard them rend him as hungry
wolves would a tired deer, there
arose higher than pity, higher than
sorrow, higher than love, a rage that
made me a tigress, I watched them
push him firther and further toward
the scaffold. I heard that prosecut
ing attorney declare that he would
never indict the negro, Jim Conley,
for this crime. I heard him sneer, ‘I
that be treason, make the most of i
I heard testimony so fals>, so per
jured that my nature changed.
“You come to me for my story., You
ask me how I feel about it. I am his
mother. That is my story.”
Mrs. Frank views the plight of h-re
son with a fierce resentment, in which
there is nothing maudlin, nothing
cloyingly sentimental. She is Spar
tanlike in her courage, almost elc
mental in her fierce defense, She
sßig: o o
Atonement Prayer Daily.
“On our Day of Atonement we have
a beautiful prayer:
“*God keep us and protect us
against false accusation and a liar.
“Nightly I have so prayed. They
will never hang my son. God will not
permit it. God has told me 0. I am
strong; God has given me the streng: i
of His strongest soldier to never gi.e
up. I shall hope and ilight until the
end.
“These tears are not of wcak sor
row. They are born of fierce resent
ment; of a terrible passion that surges
through me when I recall that horrid
mockery that the Stat: of Georgia
called a trial. Oh, God, to see one's
own flesh and blood painted in shame
falsely; to see him denied the very
principles of justice; to see him torn
away from you and to know that he
is innocent—innocent--understand?
“I.eo was born 30 years ago come
April, in Texas. In that year—lBB4-—
we moved to New York, and Leo,
when he was old enoughy went t»
public school in Adelphi street. Such
reports he brought home! One hun
dred per cent nearly always did they
give him. And, too, they sent home
little notes with ‘GB' (good boy) and
‘W' (good work) marked on them,
Then he went to scheol in Lafayette
street and later to Pratt Institate
High School, where he won a schol
arship to Cornell.
Won College Degree.
“He entered college in 1902 and won
his M. E. in 1906. He was studious,
kindly, courteous. He wrote to me
that he would marry early in ilfe, anl
I blessed him, even though I hated
to give up my boy to another woman.
He married a girl who is as pure as
the angels, and 1 was happy because
he was.
“The first money that he earned he
spent on an insurance policy for
$2,000. He made it over to us—his
parents. When he married, 1 matde
him transfer it to his wife. Would a
bad boy thus love his yerents? In
1910 he married Lucile Felig, and I
love her as my own child.
“But she is not a mother. There«
fore she, even, can not feel like I do.
People shall read what you write and
say: ‘But this is the story of a moth
er. This mother is not a judge cof
her son's guilt, 1t is but natural thag
she should ery his innocence.’
“I tell you it is not so, Of course,
I love him. Mayvbe, my love twisis
my judgment. But here I :aw my
son degraded, T ¢id not see real evi
dence piled against him, I heard him
vilified; brutally slandered., [ =zaw
neither justice nor righteousness in
that trial, and the sorrow gave waVv
to hbitterncss; to hot protest, to the
desire to fight with my hands,
“That is my story. That is how I
feel about it. 1 know that he will
not be hanged. C(iod will bring him
back to me and he shall come. to m»
as pure, : 3 gentle, as upright as he
Jeft me™
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