You Are There: Report Negro Found Who Saw Phagan Attack, Atlanta Georgian, June 6th, 1913
Report Negro Found Who Saw Phagan Attack Atlanta GeorgianFriday, June 6th, 1913 St. Louis, June 6.—That a negro, who is alleged to have said he witnessed the murder of Mary Phagan in Atlanta, is under arrest in Cairo, Ill., and is about to be returned to Atlanta by a Pinkerton detective, was the information brought into St. Louis today by a passenger who declared he overheard a conversation betwene the detective and an attorney in the case who were on the train en route to Cairo. According to the passenger, the negro has admitted that he was in Atlanta with