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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.

Byron Bancroft "Ban" Johnson (January 5, 1864 – March 28, 1931), was an American executive in professional baseball who served as the founder and first president of the American League (AL). Johnson developed the AL, a descendant of the minor league Western League, into a "clean" alternative to the National League, which had become notorious for its rough-and-tumble atmosphere.[1] To encourage a more orderly environment, Johnson provided unwavering support to the new league's umpires,[2] which later included Hall of Famer Billy Evans.[3] With the help of league owners and managers such as Charles Comiskey, Charles Somers and Jimmy McAleer, Johnson lured top talent to the AL, which soon rivaled the more established National League.[4] Johnson ruled the AL with an iron fist until the 1920s, when a public dispute with Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis culminated in his forced resignation as league president.[2]

August "Garry" Herrmann (May 3, 1859 - April 25, 1931) was an American executive in Major League Baseball who served as president of the Cincinnati Reds of the National League from 1902 to 1927. As the president of baseball's National Commission from 1903 to 1920, he is often regarded as having filled the role of Baseball Commissioner before that position was officially established in 1920. With two other Commission members he established the annual nature of the World Series by 1905. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Herrmann

Photo is dated October 17, 1911.

Streetveiw

The Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, Galway.

Robert French would have taken the photograph from the two story house on the right. The window frame on the Lynch building can be seen in bottom right www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/22844068380/in/photolist-...

This is one of Galway’s great stories. It is said that in 1493, the mayor and magistrate of Galway James Lynch FitzStephen, hanged his own son from the window of his home. Lynch's son confessed to have murdered a man, a Spanish merchant sailor in the care of the family who had romanced his girlfriend. When no one could be found to carry out the execution, Judge Lynch hanged (or lynched as the practice became known around the world after this event) his son himself, ensuring that justice prevailed, before retiring into seclusion. The memorial is now embedded in stone above a Gothic doorway on Market Street near the graveyard at St. Nicholas’s Church. www.activeme.ie/guides/attractions-2/lynchs-memorial-wind...

Via Chetham's Library with interesting comments and legible inscriptions at large size -