Friday, 23rd July 1915: Entire Recovery Sure For Frank, The Atlanta Constitution

Official Physicians' Bulletins Will Be Discontinued.

Warden Smith Anxious for Full Investigation by Governor and Board.

Milledgeville, Ga., July 22. (Special.) Frank steadily improves. The fifth day finds him bright and cheerful, well on his way back to normal. A long scar will soon be in the place of the gaping wound on the neck if he continues to improve as he has. In fact, his condition has improved so much that further official bulletins will not be issued unless there should be a pronounced change, it was announced tonight by physicians attending him at the Georgia Prison Farm here.

Inflammation resulting from the knife wound in Frank's throat decreased materially today and his temperature was within a degree of normal.

Frank has received scores of letters and telegrams from persons throughout the country offering sympathy and expressing hope for his recovery from the attack made by a fellow convict.

All the authorities at the prison are breathing sighs of relief as the sensation rapidly passes away. Warden Smith especially, for it has meant sleepless nights for him, the continual strain night and day, he says, has been by far the hardest ordeal he has passed through during his eight years as a warden.

He hopes that Governor Harris and the Prison Board will take up every charge made by Joe Johnson, the ex-convict, in the interview he gave out the day he was discharged, as he is sure the utter falsity of each can be proven easily. He further states that his administration is an open book, and he desires the people of Georgia to know that he has been doing his duty without fear or favor. He speaks feelingly on the subject of these rumors and charges going the rounds that he has one rule for one class of prisoners and another for others. He has no fear of the closest investigation.

Since the marked evidence of Frank's improvement, the doctors are not pressed for reports from this patient, and they are not giving out any bulletins.

Everything on the farm is going nicely now, the fever patients are all practically well, the crops are growing finely, and all are enjoying their removal from the public eye.