Her Innocence Was Not a Factor in Her Rape and Hanging — On October 25, 1915, the barn of a white man, Gabe Franks, was burned down in a suspected arson. Franks used bloodhounds in an attempt to track down the arsonist, to no avail. Somehow, they concluded the perpetrator was Cordella Stevenson’s son, though he hadn’t been seen in the area…