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NOON EPITION ONE PENT ALD. MERRIAM CALLS BLUFF OF HOTCHKISS CARMEN'S VICTORY PLEASING TO THE PUBLIC THE DAY BOOK An AdHee Newspaper Daily Except Sunday VOL 4, NO. 247 Chicago, Saturday, Jttty 17, 1915 396H HOW HEARST TREATED! THE LEO FRANK CASE ild Stories Run in -Atlanta Georgian, Hearsts' Paper Made Crowds Crazy, Says Kansas City Imvmtiga tor One Hearst Editor Died, Another, Took Sick on the Job jJfy-CARL SANDBURG - A whole lot of good people, in Chi cago 'wondered what all there wis behind that "Leo Frank case down in Atlanta. When crowds of people go izy and want to hang a man on Je or no evidence we sort of feel we're living in a bughouse world and vpe don't like it. Thfe-story te about things that hap pened in Atlanta. Yet it has a straight connectkmrwith Chicago. Whatrhap pened in Atlanta can happen in Chi cago. A. B. McDonald, a veteran reporter for the Kansas City Star, has been in Atkuttasita paper told him : "Find out whtfrawde Atlanta, -orazy and how." jfapaaldf after digging and digging iec facts, after talking With hundreds of man and woman of all, classes in Atlanta has wsfttaa,' about; ten columns for atepapaa.il ne points ta one man li4 IfR'-m. alone asjeep afble for the iN mm spirit that wasted' to see a Iteiialay Qf Leo Frank, Ifc km Mflfcf above all, accoiig to- Marfcw im, fr William RgBM BaaM fttpker of the AtlaataGtHi, rt ooa -paper that "stood oat from ajwfe)aa$ agafaisj .Leo Frank. Here'fr Hiilwij collected, by Maodonaidi - Hearst's Georgian, new to Atlaaat, jumped at the Frank case as a-o&ane to build drcototton. Mtuf Piuftm was murdegaiatfa&aatuHHftttiibe body wae'toftirti on a 0taday. Hearst's Otirttfaa tta Mefetar ran ex trasa Aw, "laMinH Jfc jafcC r T-ri-ii i-awriiimaraiMMMaiiMIMaMMMM