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The name „Frank's cot“ at the state prison in Milledgeville refers to Leo Frank (according to: Milledgeville by Amy E. Clark-Davis, Arcadia Publishing, 2011, page 53 f., see books.google.ch/books?id=501B-QhtMisC&printsec=frontc...). Frank was accused to have murdered a 13 year old child and sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment. He was arrested in Milledgeville before he was abducted and hanged by a lynch mob. „Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was a Jewish-American factory superintendent whose hanging in 1915 by a lynch mob, planned and led by prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia, drew attention to antisemitism in the United States „ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank

Leo Frank:
Others involved in the Leo Frank case, from the Bain Collection:
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Leo Frank was not only accused of Murdering Mary Phagan, he was unanimously indicted for it by a Grand Jury of 21 members that included 3 Jews amongst the jurors, and convicted by a petit Trial Jury of 12 men and the presiding judge Leonard Strickland Roan. Leo Frank appealed his verdict to judge Roan who rejected it on 107 grounds. Leo Frank appealed his sentence to every level of the United States legal system from state to federal, and the majority decisions and unanimous decisions left undisturbed the verdict rendered against him by 13 men (jury + judge). Leo Frank was not arrested in Milledgeville, he was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday, April 29th 1913 at 11:30 a.m. Governor John M. Slaton owned the law firm which represented Leo Frank at his trial in the Fulton County Superior court and appeals to the Georgia Supreme Court. Governor Slaton in a gross violation of ethics and his oath of office, commuted the death sentence of his own law firm's client, Leo Frank, an undeniably unethical conflict of interest. Governor's can not commute death sentence of their own clients. If you want to learn about the Mary Phagan murder trial of which Leo Frank was the defendant, you can read the three major Atlanta newspaper accounts (Atlanta Journal, Atlanta Constitution and Atlanta Georgian from July and August, 1913) and Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, 1913, by clicking on my name or search on Leo Frank case here on Flickr. I have uploaded nearly 5,000 images about the Leo Frank case, some of them are duplicates.

From Wikipedia, Eugene Foss "was an American Representative and the 45th Governor of Massachusetts, as well as brother of George Edmund Foss."

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"FOSS, Eugene Noble, (brother of George Edmund Foss), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in West Berkshire, near St. Albans, Franklin County, Vt., on September 24, 1858; attended the public schools, Franklin County Academy at St. Albans, Vt., and the University of Vermont; settled in Boston, Mass., in 1882; engaged in the manufacture of iron and steel products; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William C. Lovering and served from March 22, 1910, until his resignation, effective January 4, 1911, having been elected Governor of Massachusetts, in which capacity he served from 1911 to 1913; unsuccessful candidate for reelection as Governor in 1912; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits, and managed his large real estate holdings in Boston, Mass.; died in Jamaica Plain (Boston), Mass., September 13, 1939; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery."

Though his political career was over by 1915, Foss was in the news that year in connection with 3 events. First, he led a delegation to Georgia to plead for commutation of the death sentence given Leo M. Frank. Then, he was involved in the threatened labor troubles among machinists doing war work in July and August of that year, as he controlled 2 machine shops in Massachusetts.
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Later in the year, he ran unsuccessfully for the his party's nomination as its candidate for governor of Massachusetts.
Leo Frank:

His wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Slaton She was Sarah "Sally" Frances Grant; here she is elsewhere on Flickr:

Thanks so much pennylrichardsca for providing his wife's name. We'll add this information to the record the next time we update.

They had to flee Georgia after the Governor commuted the sentence of convicted murderer Leo Frank, in one of the era's most sensational cases, and a cause celebre for many. Frank was lynched by an angry mob after Gov. Slaton commuted his sentence.