Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1915 — Leo Frank Near Death From Stab. [ARTICLE]

Leo Frank Near Death From Stab.

Leo M. Frank, who recently had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment by Gov. Slaton, is now laying in the Georgia state prison hospital with a fighting chance for recovery. Physicians have succeeded in stopping the flow of blood from a jagged wound in his throat made by William Green ,a fellow convict, also serving a life sentence. The blow was struck as Frank slept in his bunk in a dormitory late Sunday night. Green had called out to one of the guards for permission to get up and this was granted. He started down the line of bunks and as he reached the one occupied by Frank he quickly grabbed him by the hair and delivered one blow with the knife he had concealed. A guard rushed to the bunk and prevented him from striking again. An investigation will be made to determine if Creen had jplanned to act alone. It is thought that he was urged on by others.