Word: creening
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Frank was removed to the State Prison Farm at Milledgeville on June 20, 1915. On the night of July 17, William Creen, a murderer serving a life sentence, slashed Frank's throat with a butcher knife. "I guess they've got me," groaned Frank, blood pouring from his jugular vein. But they had not yet "got" him. Physicians took 25 stitches in his neck, saved his life until the early morning of Aug. 17. Then 25 masked men raided the Prison Farm, seized Frank in his night clothes, streaked cross-country by automobile to Marietta where Mary Phagan...
Last week Leo Frank's name got back into the news again when Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge pardoned throat-cutting convict William Creen, now a sick, broken old man after his 20-year imprisonment...