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Sunday, 19th April 1914: M’knight, In Jail, Denies Affidavit Aiding Frank, The Atlanta Georgian

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The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 19th April 1914,4th Edition,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.Negro of Police Station Since Last Thursday for 'Protection,' He Says. Returns to His Original Story on Stand.Witness Reported to Have Told Dorsey Agent for Defense Had Him Discharged at Terminal So He Would Leave the City.Albert Mc Knight recanting State's witness in the Frank trial, came back into the fold of the prosecution Saturday night with a straight-out declaration that he had sworn to lies in his affidavit for the defense in which he had said his testimony against Frank was perjury.Lying on a cot in a cell at the
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Sunday, 19th April 1914: Testimony He Gave At Trial Was True, Declares M’knight, The Atlanta Constitution

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The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 19th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.# Negro Witness for Prosecution Now Repudiates Affidavit He Gave to Leo M. Frank's Attorneys.PRISONER AT STATION ON HIS OWN REQUESTDetective Burns Has Not Yet Returned to Atlanta. Report Is Not Expected Before Tuesday.Albert Mc Knight, state witness in the Frank case, now repudiates his repudiation. 'He says that his testimony on the stand is true, and that his denial of it was false.'He declares he signed his repudiation affidavit in order to "get rid of C. W. Burke, a private detective attached to the office of Luther Z. Rosser, senior member
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Monday, 20th April 1914: Burns Expected To Return Today, The Atlanta Constitution

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The Atlanta Constitution,Monday, 20th April 1914,PAGE 10, COLUMN 6.It has been reported that Solicitor General Dorsey's office has secured a new affidavit from Albert Mc Knight. Detective William J. Burns had not returned last night. Dan Lehon, his lieutenant, who has been in charge of the Burns' forces since the detective has been out of the city, stated to The Constitution last night that Burns would undoubtedly return to Atlanta either this afternoon or tonight, probably this afternoon.Burns' report of his investigation on the Frank case will probably be rendered tomorrow, in which he proposes to tell who killed Mary
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Monday, 20th April 1914: Burns Likely To Make Report Within Day, The Atlanta Georgian

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The Atlanta Georgian,Monday, 20th April 1914,4th Edition,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Prospects of an early report by William J. Burns on the Phagan murder case were revived by the announcement of Dan Lehon, Burns' lieutenant, that his chief would arrive in Atlanta at 11:40 o'clock Monday morning. The assumption is that his report will be made either later Monday or early on Tuesday.The Burns report now is regarded as the only important phase that can develop prior to the big legal fight next Wednesday, when the prosecution and the defense come to their clash before Judge Hill. Mr. Burns has stated repeatedly
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Monday, 20th April 1914: Burns Now Ready To Present Frank Evidence, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 20th April 1914,PAGE 16, COLUMN 5.William J. Burns returned to the city on Monday and announced that he is ready to make his report on the Leo M. Frank case whenever the attorneys for the defense want it. Further than that, the detective had little to say. He has been absent from Atlanta for more than a week, but positively refused to state what places he had visited. He returned on a train from New York.As the result of his statement, it is generally expected that his report will be made by Wednesday, the date set for
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Tuesday, 21st April 1914: Burns’ Report Now Expected Wednesday, The Atlanta Georgian

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The Atlanta Georgian,Tuesday, 21st April 1914,4th Edition,PAGE 1, COLUMN 8.William J. Burns had "nothing to say" Tuesday concerning his prospective report on the Phagan murder case, but asserted that the result of his investigation in all probability would be made public some time Wednesday."I can't tell you the time of day, even," he said. "But I believe my report will be filed Wednesday."This being the case, the report is expected to be made a part of the evidence cited in the retrial motion and used in the legal battle for another trial of Leo M. Frank, which opens Wednesday.In the
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Tuesday, 21st April 1914: Frank’s Lawyers Score Methods Of The Police, The Atlanta Journal

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  The Atlanta Journal, Tuesday, 21st April 1914, PAGE 21, COLUMN 5. Rosser and Arnold Condemn Custody of Witnesses as Outrage on Decency Editor of The Journal: So many things foreign to fair play have happened heretofore in the Frank case that nothing now seems to matter. Anything, no matter how outrageous, seems to pass muster. Police officers brazenly do things that, in ordinary cases, would provoke an outburst of indignation. This is well illustrated in the case of the Negro, Albert Mc Knight. Albert came into notoriety during the jury trial of Frank by swearing to the most potent
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Tuesday, 21st April 1914: Grand Jury To Act On Leo Frank Case, The Atlanta Constitution

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The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 21st April 1914,PAGE 3, COLUMN 5.The grand jury is reportedly investigating charges of perjury against several witnesses in the Frank trial who recanted their testimony on the witness stand. A secret conference was held ten days ago with Solicitor Dorsey, at which the matter was deferred pending further developments. It is said that action will not be taken for some time, as Solicitor Dorsey does not want to put the prosecution in the position of seeking to deter witnesses by fear of prosecution.A. L. Waldo, foreman of the grand jury, was reluctant to speak to a reporter
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Wednesday, 22nd April 1914: Frank Hearings Postponed; Burns Says Conley Guilty, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 22nd April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.The argument on the motion to set aside the verdict in the Leo M. Frank case, originally scheduled for a hearing before Judge Ben H. Hill, has been postponed. The motion to set aside the guilty verdict is now set for Friday next week. The extraordinary motion on the ground of newly discovered evidence will be postponed again when it is called Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. According to the attorneys, when the extraordinary motion is heard, amendments incorporating the new evidence found by William J. Burns will be filed. Burns stated
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Wednesday, 22nd April 1914: Lanford Declines To Show Affidavits, The Atlanta Constitution

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The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 22nd April 1914,PAGE 9, COLUMN 1.William J. Burns Leaves City Without Seeing Documents Charging Perversion.Detective William J. Burns called for the first time at police station late Tuesday afternoon to see Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford for the purpose of gaining knowledge of the perversion affidavits against Leo M. Frank, said to be in the possession of the Chief of Detectives, and his request was flatly refused by Chief Lanford.Burns remained in Chief Lanford's office only a few minutes, and then called upon the chief of police, James L. Beavers. With Chief Beavers Burns did not discuss
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Wednesday, 22nd April 1914: Lanford Declines To Show Affidavits To Detective Burns, The Atlanta Georgian

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The Atlanta Georgian,Wednesday, 22nd April 1914,1st Edition,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.BURNS MAKES FIRST REPORTDetective William J. Burns, accompanied by Dan Lehon and a lawyer in the Frank case, called at police headquarters late Tuesday afternoon and held a five-minute conference with Chief of Detectives Lanford.Mr. Burns asked Chief Lanford to show him the affidavits which the Chief is reported to have, charging perversion to Leo Frank. Chief Lanford told Mr. Burns that inasmuch as the case is coming up for a hearing Wednesday, and the perversion charges are not in evidence and have no bearing on the case at this time,
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Thursday, 23rd April 1914: Conley Is Guilty, Asserts W. J. Burns, The Atlanta Constitution

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The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 23rd April 1914,PAGE 7, COLUMN 2.Detective Files Preliminary Report on Investigation. Dorsey Prepares Answer to Extraordinary Motion.Solicitor Dorsey shut himself in his office in the Kiser Building Wednesday, locked the door, gave instructions that he be not even called over the telephone, and worked two shifts of stenographers for twelve hours preparing the answer of the prosecution to the motion for a new trial to be made by Leo Frank's counsel this morning. On the heels of the postponement of the argument for the extraordinary motion, which was made at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning, Detective William J.
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Thursday, 23rd April 1914: Hearing Begins On New Trial Motion For Leo M. Frank, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 23rd April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.Progress was made in the Frank case on Thursday as Judge Ben H. Hill heard the extraordinary motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence. The court convened in one of the ante-rooms of the State Library at the capitol at 10 o'clock. At 12:30, it recessed after the entire motion and several affidavits bearing on it had been read. The court reconvened at 1:30, and Judge Hill announced that his hours for hearing this motion would be from 9:30 to 12:30 and from 1:30 to 5 each day until
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Thursday, 23rd April 1914: New Battle On To Save Frank, The Atlanta Georgian

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The Atlanta Georgian,Thursday, 23rd April 1914,3rd Edition,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Dorsey Springs Surprise as Hear Ing Opens, Announcing No Counter-Showing.The hearing on the extraordinary motion for a new trial for Leo M. Frank was begun Thursday before Judge Hill in the library at the State Capitol.Solicitor Dorsey caused a surprise at the opening of the hearing by announcing that he had no counter-showing to make and no affidavits to submit at this time.This made it necessary for the defense to go ahead at once. Attorney Reuben Arnold made the point that if the State at any subsequent time during the hearing
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Friday, 24th April 1914: Battle For Life Of Leo M. Frank Begins In Court, The Atlanta Constitution

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The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 24th April 1914,PAGE 9, COLUMN 1.Rumored That Defense Will Present Today the Full Report of Detective William J. Burns on Case.C. W. Burke, a private investigator in the employ of counsel for Leo M. Frank, it is reported, will be the object of a scalding attack today by Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey, when the prosecution opens fire with its counter showing in the retrial hearing before Judge Hill. Mr. Dorsey will not talk, but he intimates strongly that a mass of evidence has been accumulated by detectives against Burke. Burke has been one of the most
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Friday, 24th April 1914: Burns Fixes Slaying On Conley, The Atlanta Georgian

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The Atlanta Georgian,Friday, 24th April 1914,3rd Edition,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Report of Detective Filed as High Card in Defense's Battle for New TrialLawyers for Leo Frank played their high card Friday by offering as amendments to the extraordinary motion for a new trial portions of the report of Detective W. J. Burns, which placed directly upon the negro Jim Conley the sole responsibility for the murder of Mary Phagan.Affidavits accompanying the report were introduced to show that the negro is a pervert of one of the lowest types, and that the circumstances of the murder fitted in with the acceptance of
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Friday, 24th April 1914: Jim Conley Charged With Confessing He Slew Mary Phagan, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 24th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.Attorneys for Leo M. Frank, at Hearing for New Trial, Read Affidavit From Negro Woman in Which She Asserts Conley, on Her Promise to Marry Him, Admitted to Her in the Fulton County Tower That He Killed the Girl and That He Had lied When He Said Frank Was Guilty of the CrimeDECLARES HE TOLD HER CONDEMNED MAN KNEW NOTHING AT ALL ABOUT THE CRIMEMinister Also makes Affidavit That He Stepped Into an Alley on a Night Shortly After the Murder and Heard Two Negroes Talking, One of Whom Said He Had
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Saturday, 25th April 1914: Conley Denies He Confessed Murder, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 25th April 1914,PAGE 14, COLUMN 5.Negro Says He Will Disprove Charge Made by Negress in AffidavitThe negro Jim Conley, through Attorney William M. Smith, has issued a statement denying the charge that he confessed to the murder of Mary Phagan, which was made in the extraordinary motion for a new trial for Leo M. Frank at the hearing before Judge Hill on Friday. Conley asserts he barely knows Annie Maud Carter, the negress who claims he confessed to her in the tower, and that he only saw her when she passed his cell door and they exchanged
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Saturday, 25th April 1914: Did Not Confess To Girl’s Murder, Says Jim Conley, The Atlanta Constitution

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The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 25th April 1914,PAGE 3, COLUMN 2.Three new affidavits presented during a hearing on Leo Frank's petition for a new trial have necessitated a postponement. Witnesses claim that Jim Conley, the Negro accused of confessing to the murder of Mary Phagan, admitted his guilt. A preacher and a Negress have sworn to this admission, while another witness claims to have seen the girl leave Frank's office.Jim Conley made a sweeping denial of these accusations to The Constitution last night, stating that his counsel would be able to present evidence proving the accusations false. Conley's statement was made through
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Saturday, 25th April 1914: Experts Aid Frank In Report, The Atlanta Georgian

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The Atlanta Georgian,Saturday, 25th April 1914,5th Edition,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Find Nothing About Accused to Prove Conley's Story State's Case Crumbling, Says Burns.Detective W. J. Burns made public Saturday for the first time the fact that the Atlanta physicians delegated by him to visit Leo Frank in his cell at the Tower all had reported that they found the prisoner entirely normal in every respect, and that they could find no indications of degeneracy of the type the negro Jim Conley described on the witness stand.Among the specialists engaged by Burns to visit Frank were R. R. Daly, an alienist of
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Sunday, 26th April 1914: Leo Frank Pleads For A Fair Trial In Signed Card, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 26th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.I Am Asking for That Which the People of Atlanta Would Not Refuse to a Dirty MongrelLeo M. Frank issued a signed statement Saturday night commenting on the interview of Chief Newport A. Lanford, of the city detective department, with Detective William J. Burns in which Lanford declared that neither the state nor the city had ever charged perversion to Frank."The charge of perversion having been withdrawn against me," says Frank, "I do not see how any man with a love of justice and fair play in his heart could deny me
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Sunday, 26th April 1914: New Conley Notes Prove Him Guilty, Says Burns, The Atlanta Georgian

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The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 26th April 1914,4th Edition,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Detective Asserts Writing ShowsNegro in Habit of Using 'Did' as Well as 'Done,' Which State Called White Man's Work.Letters Sent by Sweeper to Negress Declared To Be Proof He Is Degenerate Much of Contents Reported Unprintable.A sensation more impressive than that created by the affidavits of the Rev. C. B. Ragsdale and the negro woman, Annie Maude Carter, in which they asserted they had heard from Jim Conley's lips a confession of the Phagan murder, was announced by Detective W. J. Burns Saturday night in making public a series of letters
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Sunday, 26th April 1914: Says Love Letters Written By Conley Prove Him Guilty, The Atlanta Constitution

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The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 26th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Detective Burns Declares They Are Conclusive Evidence That He Was Author of the Murder Notes."I have just come into possession of evidence that is proof conclusive that the murder notes found by Mary Phagan's body emanated from the brain of Jim Conley, and, therefore, that Jim Conley slew the girl.""This evidence is in the form of a number of love letters that were written by Conley in jail to Anna Maude Carter, the Negro woman, who was also a prisoner in the Tower, and who has made an affidavit that Conley confessed
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Monday, 27th April 1914: Dorsey And Juror Hold Conference, The Atlanta Constitution

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The Atlanta Constitution,Monday, 27th April 1914,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.Marcellus Johenning and the Solicitor Refuse to Discuss What Passed at Their Meeting.The news which leaked from the office of Solicitor Dorsey yesterday that Dorsey had held a secret conference with Marcellus Johenning, a juror in the Frank case, has created wide speculation in camps of both the prosecution and defense. Dorsey, when asked about the secret conference, had nothing to say. He seemed surprised that it had become known. Johenning would not talk, saying that he had merely had a few words with the solicitor. He would not divulge the nature
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Monday, 27th April 1914: Expert Report Aids Frank, Says Burns, The Atlanta Georgian

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The Atlanta Georgian,Monday, 27th April 1914,1st Edition,PAGE 3, COLUMN 6.Detective W. J. Burns made public Saturday for the first time the fact that the Atlanta physicians delegated by him to visit Leo Frank in his cell at the Tower all had reported that they found the prisoner entirely normal in every respect, and that they could find no indications of degeneracy of the type the negro Jim Conley described on the witness stand.Among the specialists engaged by Burns to visit Frank were R. R. Daly, an alienist of wide reputation; Hansell Crenshaw, J. Cheston King, E. Bates Block, L. W.
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Monday, 27th April 1914: Say Burns Has Twenty Agents On Frank Case, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 27th April 1914,PAGE 18, COLUMN 3.Several Women Among Them and Agents in San Francisco Cases, Say City DetectivesSolicitor General Dorsey, aided by William M. Smith, attorney for Jim Conley, and a corps of detectives, continued Monday the work of securing affidavits, which will be used to combat the new evidence introduced by the defense of Leo M. Frank at the hearing of his extraordinary motion for a new trial.The solicitor has practically completed his counter showing at this time, and unless something new develops, will be ready for the hearing to proceed next Friday.The city detectives on
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Tuesday, 28th April 1914: Bar Ragsdale-Barber Evidence For New Trial, The Atlanta Journal

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  The Atlanta Journal, Tuesday, 28th April 1914, PAGE 1, COLUMN 3. Defense Strikes Amendment, Dorsey Promises Sensation, Frank Makes Statement Judge Ben H. Hill has signed an order allowing the defense of Leo M. Frank to strike from his extraordinary motion for a new trial the amendments referring to the affidavits of Rev. C. B. Ragsdale and R. L. Barber that they heard Jim Conley confess to the Mary Phagan murder. Mr. Ragsdale has made an affidavit for Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey, in which he repudiates the affidavit made to the defense of Frank and used in an
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Tuesday, 28th April 1914: Frank’s Lawyers Hear Confession Witnesses Now Repudiate Stories, The Atlanta Constitution

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The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 28th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Attorneys issued a statement declaring their belief that Ragsdale and Barber were telling the truth. They explained how affidavits were secured from these individuals. In their statement, they said, "If these rumors be true, we denounce the perfidy of these men with all the vehemence of our natures."Reports circulated in Atlanta that Rev. C. B. Ragsdale, the minister who accused Jim Conley of confessing to Mary Phagan's murder, and R. L. Barber, a member of Ragsdale's congregation who corroborated the pastor's story, had repudiated their statements and branded them as "frame-ups." This
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Tuesday, 28th April 1914: Sensation Near In New Frank Affidavits, The Atlanta Georgian

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The Atlanta Georgian,Tuesday, 28th April 1914,2nd Edition,PAGE 2, COLUMN 5.Rumor of Repudiation by Ragsdale and Barber Draws Denunciation From Defense.Sensations were expected Tuesday in the mystery surrounding rumors that the Rev. C. B. Ragsdale, the Kirkwood clergyman, and R. L. Barber, member of his congregation, have repudiated their statements that they heard Jim Conley confess, followed by the attack of Frank's counsel, who said the two men had brought to them excellent credentials and every appearance of truth in their statement.The lawyers for the defense were quick to repudiate the witnesses on the assumption that the clergyman and his associate
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Wednesday, 29th April 1914: Dorsey May Ask For Earlier Date, The Atlanta Constitution

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The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 29th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Solicitor Will Insist That the Ragsdale and Barber Affidavits Remain a Part of the Record. Having announced that he is amply prepared to combat the amendments to the motion for a new trial by Frank's attorneys, Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey, in all probability, will go before Judge Ben Hill today and make the startling request that Judge Hill reconvene the retrial hearing Thursday morning, a day earlier than set. When attorneys for Frank's defense last Friday presented to Judge Hill the affidavits of Rev. C. B. Ragsdale and Anna Maud Carter,
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Wednesday, 29th April 1914: Frank Hearing Will Be Resumed Friday, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 29th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.Solicitor Ready to Combat Defense Evidence BurnsRaps the PoliceThe hearing of an extraordinary motion for a new trial for Leo M. Frank will be resumed before Judge Ben H. Hill, of the criminal division of the superior court, Friday.Solicitor General Dorsey has practically completed the work of securing evidence to combat the defense's amendments and will be ready for the hearing. The defense may further amend its motion by bringing in the various notes written to Annie Maud Carter by Jim Conley. This, however, will not result in a further delay.Detective William
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Wednesday, 29th April 1914: State To Fight New Affidavit For Frank, The Atlanta Georgian

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The Atlanta Georgian,Wednesday, 29th April 1914,2nd Edition,PAGE 2, COLUMN 6.Solicitor Dorsey Gathers Evidence to Attack Story of NegroesThat Conley Confessed.Solicitor Hugh Dorsey Wednesday declared that he had not yet decided whether he will ask Judge Ben Hill to reconvene the hearing of the extraordinary motion for a new trial for Leo Frank Thursday morning, instead of Friday. He stated that his course in this regard will depend upon developments of the day."If the Ragsdale evidence is eliminated," Mr. Dorsey said, "we may be ready to proceed with the case Thursday, but something might happen that will keep us from being
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Thursday, 30th April 1914: $200 Bribe Induced Him To Swear To Confession Of Conley, Says Pastor, The Atlanta Constitution

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The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 30th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Rev. C. B. Ragsdale declared that necessity caused him to make a false affidavit in the Frank case, and he did not fully realize what he was doing. The committee of six appointed by the Plum Street Baptist Church, of which Rev. Ragsdale is pastor, to investigate the alleged signing of a false affidavit by their pastor in the Frank case, made their report last night to the church in conference. The report declared that they, the committee, had on Monday night gone to the home of their pastor and he had
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Thursday, 30th April 1914: Ragsdale Lawyer Denies Bribery Charge, The Atlanta Georgian

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The Atlanta Georgian,Thursday, 30th April 1914,2nd Edition,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.2 ACCUSED BY PASTOR REFUTE STORYMinister Who Asserts He Was Given $200 for Affidavit Said To Be Weak-Minded.The sensational story of Rev. O. B. Ragsdale, of the Plum Street Baptist Church, that he was given a bribe of $200 to make an affidavit detailing an alleged confession by Jim Conley, which he claimed he overheard while in an alley behind the National Pencil Factory, and that the affidavit was drawn and sworn to in the office of his attorney, Arthur Thurman, was vigorously assailed by Thurman Thursday."If Ragsdale says I was
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Thursday, 30th April 1914: Tale Of $200 Bribe Is Branded As A Lie By Detective Burns, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 30th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Sleuth Leaves Train Going West and Returns to Atlanta to Refute Rev. C. B. Ragsdale's StoryFrank Trial Motion to Be Heard FridayA resolution to revoke the license of Burns' Detective Agency in Atlanta will be presented to the Police Board. The hearing of Leo M. Frank's extraordinary motion for a new trial will be resumed Friday morning at 10 o'clock before Judge Ben H. Hill. While the defense will offer additional amendments, interest centers in the "counter showing" of Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey, who has thrown a veil of secrecy about his
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Friday, 1st May 1914: Evidence Is Recorded Against Conley, The Atlanta Georgian

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The Atlanta Georgian,Friday, 1st May 1914,3rd Edition,PAGE 1, COLUMN 8.Negro's Letters to Carter WomanFiled, but Judge Blocks Reading of Them.Leo Frank's defense was given its first setback in the hearing of the extraordinary motion for a new trial Friday, when Judge Ben Hill refused to allow the condemned man's attorneys to introduce, as an amendment to the original motion, an affidavit from Detective William J. Burns, embodying the results of a thorough examination of the clothing worn by Mary Phagan when she was killed.Mr. Burns' affidavit, detailing the mutilated condition in which he found the clothing, tended to support his
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Saturday, 2nd May 1914: Detective On Stand, Tells Of Probe, The Atlanta Georgian

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The Atlanta Georgian,Saturday, 2nd May 1914,3rd Edition,PAGE 1, COLUMN 8.BURNS GRILLED IN COURT BY SOLICITORFamous Detective, on Stand, Tells of His Connection With the Frank Case.Clearing of Frank Not Condition of His Employment, He Tells Solicitor.Solicitor Hugh Dorsey put William J. Burns through a gruelling examination before Judge Hill Saturday in a determined effort to throw light on the tactics the detective has followed in the investigation of the Phagan murder mystery.The questions put to Burns showed that the State has kept close tab on him and his men, apparently following every step of their movements in this and other
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Sunday, 3rd May 1914: W. J. Burns, On Stand For Frank, Is Pressed Hard By Prosecutor, The Atlanta Georgian

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The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 3rd May 1914,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.Describes His Work on the Case, and Says Record Is Everything Needed to Prove Man's InnocenceAdmits Not Seeing State Witnesses.Detective William J. Burns underwent more than an hour's severe examination at the hands of Solicitor Dorsey Saturday before Judge Ben Hill. The hearing on the extraordinary motion was not to have been resumed until Monday, but it was necessary for Burns to leave town for a few days and the hearing was hastily called for Saturday forenoon.The Solicitor went into every phase of Burns' investigation since the detective entered the case more
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Tuesday, 10th November 1914: C. C. Tedder Returns To Face Forgery Charge, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 10th November 1914,PAGE 5, COLUMN 5.C. C. Tedder, who was recently indicted by the grand jury on a charge of forging bonds on which alleged criminals were released, arrived in the city from Cartersville Monday morning. Tedder phoned the Sheriff's office that he would surrender during the day. He phoned a second time to say that he was having trouble with his bondsman, but would certainly be down by 4 o'clock. The sheriff is waiting for him. Tedder is already under bond on an indictment charging him with subornation of perjury in the Frank case.Tuesday, 10th November
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Wednesday, 11th November 1914: Case Against Burns – Man To Be Dropped, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 11th November 1914,PAGE 16, COLUMN 1.Solicitor Does Not Believe He Has Sufficient Evidence to Convict Dan Lehon. The Cases of Arthur Thurman, lawyer, and C. C. Tedder, one-time Burns employee, both charged with subornation of perjury in reference to the Affidavit of the Rev. C. B. Ragsdale, made in the Frank Case, were set for trial in the superior court for Wednesday, but during the day were postponed indefinitely. It is significant that the Case against Dan S. Lehon, Chief aid to William J. Burns, who was indicted with Thurman and Tedder in the same Case, has
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Saturday, 14th November 1914: Leo M. Frank Loses Last Fight In Statesupreme Court To Appeal To The U.s. Supreme Court, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 14th November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Court Holds That Point Made in Motion, That Verdict Was Rendered in Defendant's Absence, Should Have Been Raised When New Trial Was AskedThe Supreme Court of Georgia Saturday afternoon handed down a decision affirming the decision of Judge Benjamin H. Hill in refusing to grant the motion to set aside the verdict in the case of Leo M. Frank on the ground that Frank was not in Court when the verdict was read. All justices, except Chief Justice Fish, who is ill, concurred in the opinion. The opinion was written by Associate
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Sunday, 15th November 1914: Frank’s Case May Wait 18 Months On U. S. Court, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 15th November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.If He Fails to Reach Federal Tribunal Last Chance in Pardon Board. The Case of Leo M. Frank, whose last appeal has been refused by the Supreme Court of Georgia, will remain in the Courts for eighteen months more, or longer, if his Attorneys succeed in getting it before the Supreme Court of the United States. If they fail in this effort, it is expected that the last Chapter of the Mary Phagan Murder Case will be Written in February or March.Attorneys Tye, Peeples, and Jordan, and others, who represent the condemned
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Thursday, 19th November 1914: Demurrer To Burns Men Indictment Overruled, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 19th November 1914,PAGE 4, COLUMN 1.Attorneys for Defendants agree to go to trial early in December. Judge Ben H. Hill, of Fulton Superior Court, Thursday morning overruled the demurrer to the indictment of Dan S. Lehon, C. C. Tedder and Arthur Thurman, on the charge of subornation of perjury in connection with the Frank Case. Lehon is the Burns lieutenant who worked with Burns in the Frank Case. Tedder is the former bailiff of Attorney William M. Smith, and worked with the Burns Agents. Thurman is an Atlanta Attorney. They were indicted several months ago, and the
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Friday, 20th November 1914: Supreme Court Refuses To Certify Leo Frank’s Appeal, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 20th November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMNS 4 AND 7.APPEAL TO LAMAR IN U. S. SUPREME COURT LAST HOPEAttorneys Henry Peeples and Harry Alexander Now on Way to Washington for Last Court BattleWRIT ARGUED IN STATE CAPITOL ON THURSDAYIf Justice Lamar Grants Writ, Famous Case Will Be Reviewed by Federal Court. Will Appeal ImmediatelyLeo M. Frank has lost again. The State Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon declined to certify to a Writ of Error which would have permitted Frank to carry his Case to the United States Supreme Court. The Application for a Writ of Error was presented by
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Saturday, 21st November 1914: Frank’s Appeal To High Court Heard By Justice Lamar, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 21st November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Petition for Writ of Error May Be Passed Up to Full Bench of Supreme Court for DecisionSIMILAR POINT ONCE BEFORE THAT TRIBUNALJudge Lamar, in Minority Opinion, Has Held Defendant Cannot Waive Right to Be Present at TrialJustice Joseph R. Lamar, of the United States Supreme Court, Saturday heard the petition of Leo M. Frank for a Writ of Error, already refused him by the Supreme Court of Georgia, on which his Case can be given a hearing by the nation's highest Court. Judge Lamar, in all probability, will not announce his decision
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Sunday, 22nd November 1914: My Vindication Will Yet Come – Says Leo Frank, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 22nd November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.With his attorneys in Washington, where they have laid his case before Justice Lamar in an effort to get a hearing before the United States Supreme Court, Leo M. Frank last night from his cell in the Tower issued a statement to the public in which he expresses confidence that his vindication will eventually come, though whether he will live to see it he cannot tell."Vindication may be long in coming, but it will come," he says. "With this knowledge, death itself has little terror to me, for it is said 'He
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Monday, 23rd November 1914: Lamar Refuses To Pass Frank’s Appeal To U. S. Supreme Court, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 23rd November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMNS 4 AND 7.MAY REQUEST FULL BENCH TO PASS ON MERITS OF APPEALJustice Lamar Refuses to Certify Writ of Error Which Was Also Denied by Georgia Supreme CourtLAST HOPE SEEMS TO BE APPEAL TO GOVERNORConvicted Man Expected to Be Called Into Court Friday or Saturday for Resentence(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. Justice Lamar today refused to issue a Writ of Error to bring to the Supreme Court for Review the conviction of Leo M. Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan, a Factory girl, in Atlanta, Ga., in 1913. Attorneys applied
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Tuesday, 24th November 1914: Counsel For Frank May Lay His Appeal Before Full Bench, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 24th November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Chief Hope Lies, It Is Said, in Petition for Commutation They Expect to File With Governor and Pardon Board. CONVICTED MAN TO BE RESENTENCED NEXT WEEK. While Attorneys Fight for His Life in Washington, Preparations Will Be Made Here for His Execution.(Special Dispatch to The Journal.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24. Attorneys for Leo M. Frank are still in Washington, but were not ready this morning to announce any new moves, but are likely to make one during the day. They may decide not to apply to any other individual justice of
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Wednesday, 25th November 1914: Frank Remittitur Held Up In Supreme Court, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 25th November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Counsel Asks Delay Until Appeal to Full Bench in U. S. Court MondayCounsel for Leo M. Frank will have an opportunity to present their petition for a Writ of Error to the United States Supreme Court before the remittitur from the Georgia Supreme Court reaches the Fulton Superior Court. The remittitur, it was stated at the office of the clerk of the State Supreme Court Wednesday, would not be sent down until next Tuesday. Reporters from Washington are to the effect that Frank's Attorneys plan to take their petition before the full
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Thursday, 26th November 1914: Leo M. Frank Again Loses In U. S. Supreme Court, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 26th November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.HOLMES EXPRESSES DOUBT THAT HE WAS GIVEN A FAIR TRIALSecond Justice of Supreme Court of United States Refuses to issue Writ of Error in Noted CaseSPARK OF HOPE IS SEEN BY PRISONER'S ATTORNEYJustice Holmes' Doubt of Fair Trial May Swerve Tide of Opinion Which May Result in Executive ClemencyWASHINGTON, Nov. 26. A ray of hope has appeared for Leo M. Frank in denying an Application today for a Writ of Error. Justice Holmes, of the Supreme Court, said that, on the Statement of Facts before him, he was of the opinion that
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Monday, 10th May 1915: Frank Is Calm As Date For Execution Is Set For June 22, The Atlanta Journal

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  The Atlanta Journal, Monday, 10th May 1915, PAGE 1, COLUMN 1. Alleged Slayer of Mary Phagan Hears Death Sentence Imposed Fourth Time Re Iterates Denial of Guilt. ONLY HOPE NOW LIES IN PLEA FOR PARDON State Prison Board and the Governor To Pass on Petition to Commute Sentence to Life Imprisonment Leo M. Frank Monday morning at 11:35 o'Clock received from Judge Ben H. Hill, of Fulton Superior Court, his Fourth Sentence to be hanged for the murder of Mary Phagan. Tuesday, June 22, was fixed by Judge Hill as the Date for the Execution of Sentence. Friday has
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Sunday, 23rd January 1916: Asks Reward Offered In Mary Phagan Case, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 23rd January 1916,PAGE 23, COLUMN 2.Attorneys for Robert Barrett Make Application to Governor for $200A formal application for the $200 reward offered by the state of Georgia for evidence sufficient to bring about the conviction of the man who killed Mary Phagan in the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta, April 26, 1913, was made to Governor Harris Saturday by Attorneys Lawton Nally and Thomas E. Scott, on behalf of their client, Robert Barrett.Barrett, who was a latheman in the pencil factory, pointed out to the authorities certain alleged blood spots on the second floor of the factory
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Tuesday, 15th February 1916: Jim Conley Is Fined For Beating His Wife, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 15th February 1916,PAGE 7, COLUMN 2.Jim Conley, notorious negro witness in the Leo Frank case, was given a fine of $25.76 by Recorder Johnson in police matinee Monday afternoon, when arraigned by Officer Hollingsworth on charges of wife beating.Jim and his wife, Kate, whom he married in the recorder's court several weeks ago, both appeared before Judge Johnson. The latter requested that the judge not bind Jim over to the higher courts.Tuesday, 15th February 1916: Jim Conley Is Fined For Beating His Wife, The Atlanta Constitution
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Sunday, 2nd April 1916: Georgians Square, Asserts Slaton, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 2nd April 1916,PAGE 3, COLUMN 7.Former Governor Lauds People of His State in an Address Before the Beacon Society of Boston.Boston, April 1. (Special.) Former Governor John M. Slaton, of Georgia, tonight told the members of the Beacon Society, an exclusive organization of leading merchants and professional men, that there were no fairer people in the world than Georgians. Speaking on the subject, "Georgia and Massachusetts," he deprecated such interstate antagonism as was shown by a Boston newspaper that urged a boycott of Georgia's products and by a Macon newspaper that printed an editorial on "To Hell
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Friday, 1st September 1916: Dorsey Charges Plot To Defeat Him In Race, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 1st September 1916,PAGE 4, COLUMN 2.Declares "Slush Fund" Has Been Raised and Opponents Have Combined for HarrisCopies of a speech which Hugh M. Dorsey, candidate for governor, was scheduled to deliver Friday at Fitzgerald and Tifton, were given out to the newspapers Thursday from Mr. Dorsey's campaign headquarters in Atlanta.In the speech Mr. Dorsey charges that there is a conspiracy on foot to defeat him because no other candidate has developed sufficient strength to do so unless Mr. Dorsey charges that a "slush fund" has been raised for this purpose and that his opponents have united on
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Saturday, 2nd September 1916: Pottle Flays Dorsey For Leo Frank Speech, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 2nd September 1916,PAGE 2, COLUMN 1.Brands Fulton Solicitor as a Traitor for Appealing to Prejudice and Passion(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)ALBANY, Ga., Sept. 2. Addressing a large audience of Dougherty county citizens in this city Friday afternoon, Joseph E. Pottle, candidate for governor, replied to the Leo M. Frank speech which Hugh M. Dorsey was reported in the Atlanta Constitution to have delivered at Valdosta Thursday afternoon.Mr. Pottle declared that Candidate Dorsey, driven to desperation and panic by the waning fortunes of his gubernatorial campaign, has at last revealed his bid for the votes of the people
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Monday, 18th September 1916: When The Pipe Was Going Good, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 18th September 1916,PAGE 6, COLUMN 3.(Augusta Chronicle.)The Chronicle had thought it was through with any further comment on the late lamented gubernatorial campaign in Georgia, but the following from a double barreled editorial in yesterday's Atlanta Constitution glibly entitled, "In Two States: A Strong Coincidence" compels us to take our pen in hand once more. Read it, ye good people of Georgia and South Carolina and weep:"Strikingly significant is the result of the primaries for governor in the two sister states Georgia and South Carolina on Tuesday."In both the same principle was victorious the indorsement of law
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Tuesday, 12th June 1917: Frank Trial Juror Is Sued For Divorce. Drunkenness Charged, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 12th June 1917,PAGE 11, COLUMN 4.Frederick V L Smith, a well known manufacturers' agent who was a member of the jury that convicted Leo M. Frank, is being sued for divorce by his wife, Mrs. May Belle Smith.Mrs. Smith's petition, filed Monday, alleges that he has been habitually intoxicated, threatening her and mistreating her. She says they separated last September.Mr. Smith was known during the trial of Frank as "the bridegroom juror." He had been married but a short while at that time, the summer of 1913, and Mrs. Smith frequently attended the sessions of the trial.Tuesday,
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Sunday, 1st July 1917: Hugh M. Dorsey, State’s New Chief Executive, Is Lawyer And A Farmer, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 1st July 1917,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.ONE OF THE LATEST AND ONE OF THE BEST PICTURES of Governor Dorsey, recently taken at Stephenson's Studio, in Atlanta. Governor Dorsey is a young man and shows it.He Comes by the Law Naturally, His Father, the Late Judge Rufus T. Dorsey, Being a Leader at Atlanta BarHugh Manson Dorsey, the new governor of Georgia, is one of the youngest men who ever held the high office of chief executive, but while young in years, he is a man of inherent ability and mature experience.Mr. Dorsey's father before him was a lawyer,
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Thursday, 23rd August 1917: Trail Elliot, Convict Who Escaped Camp At Bellwood Wednesday, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 23rd August 1917,PAGE 5, COLUMN 2.County police and deputies with bloodhounds are on the trail of J. M. Elliott, a life termer in the Bellwood convict camp, who escaped Wednesday.Elliott was a trusty and had been sent to East Point by the warden with a load of cement. He, therefore, had the chance to get a long start on his way to liberty, for he was not missed for several hours.Elliott is forty two years old and is a veterinarian by profession. He was sent up from La Grange, Troup county, nine years ago, having been given
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Wednesday, 6th March 1918: Committee To Recommend Mrs. Godbee’s Parole, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 6th March 1918,PAGE 5, COLUMN 2.MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., March 6. The legislative committee for the past two days inspecting the penitentiary here, is expected to submit a report to Governor Dorsey and the prison commission recommending the parole of Mrs. Edna P. Godbee, serving a life sentence for the murder of her divorced husband and his wife, in Jenkins county. It will also recommend that Creen, who assaulted Leo Frank, be removed from his present place of confinement to a more suitable place in the stockade.Wednesday, 6th March 1918: Committee To Recommend Mrs. Godbee's Parole, The Atlanta Journal
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Tuesday, 14th January 1919: Jim Conley Shot As Store-breaker By Druggist Conn, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 14th January 1919,PAGE 7, COLUMN 2.Jim Conley, the negro who figured prominently in the Leo Frank case, lies at the Grady hospital, seriously injured by a load of bird-shot, which, it is alleged, he received while attempting to rob the Conn Drug company, at the corner of West Fair and Chestnut streets, early Monday morning. Conley was shot by Will Conn, the proprietor, who was sleeping in the store, because it had been robbed several times within the last few weeks.Conn claims that Conley and another negro pried open the door, and were preparing to enter the
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Friday, 17th January 1919: Jim Conley Admits Attempt At Burglary, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 17th January 1919,PAGE 6, COLUMN 6.Jim Conley, a state witness in the Leo Frank case, who lives at 92 Tattnall Street, was yesterday held under $3,000 bond for the grand jury for burglary after a preliminary trial before Judge Johnson. Conley admitted at the trial that he was guilty of entering the store of Will Conn, 377 West Fair Street, a little after midnight Monday. He was shot by Conn, who was lying in wait for the burglars though not badly injured. He appeared in recorder's court without counsel.Friday, 17th January 1919: Jim Conley Admits Attempt At
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Tuesday, 1st April 1919: Mr. Leo Frank Dead, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 1st April 1919,PAGE 13, COLUMN 6.SAVANNAH, Ga., April 1. Mr. Leo Frank, well known business man of Savannah, who died suddenly yesterday afternoon, was buried this afternoon from his home on Abercorn street. Mr. Frank was a native of Bavaria, but had lived in Savannah for something like a quarter of a century. He ran a saddle and harness factory on Congress street, west, and was well known in business circles in this city and this section of the state. Yesterday afternoon while at his place of business he was stricken with heart trouble. He was rushed
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Sunday, 5th March 1922: State Will Cite Leo Frank’s Case In Dupre Hearing, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 5th March 1922,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Decision of the Supreme Court in Instance of Alleged Prejudiced Juror to Be Brought Up.ALLEN PLANS ATTACK ON TWO MORE JURORSWill Be Ready to Reveal Names When Hearing Is Resumed in Court on Monday Morning.Leo M. Frank's case, the greatest cause clbre ever tried in Fulton county, will be revived Monday afternoon when Judge J. D. Humphries again takes up the hearing conducted to determine whether or not certain jurors in the case of Frank B. Du Pre, the Peachtree bandit, were prejudiced, as charged by H. A. Allen, counsel for the
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Sunday, 24th February 1929: Aged Inmate Soon Will Complete 15 Years In Prison, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 24th February 1929,PAGE 13, COLUMN 1.Milledgeville, Ga., February 23. (Special.) Bill Creen, aged prisoner at the state prison farm, who won nation-wide publicity when he cut the throat of Leo Frank, convicted murderer of little Mary Phagan, will next October have completed 15 years of service at the farm.Sentenced in Muscogee county on a murder charge June 6, 1913, he was brought to the state prison farm here on October 16, 1914. After he had attempted to murder Leo Frank, who was afterward taken out and lynched by a mob that raided the prison, Creen was put
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Wednesday, 16th July 1930: Heckler Questions Slaton Concerning Leo Frank Case, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 16th July 1930,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.GAINESVILLE, Ga., July 15. (AP) Answering a question from the floor, former Governor John M. Slaton departed from the text of a political address here Tuesday night to tell a Hall county audience that he commuted the death sentence of Leo Frank 17 years ago as a matter of duty imposed by the constitution and the law."I have neither regret nor apology to offer," he said. "I merely discharged the duty imposed upon me by the constitution and laws according to my honest opinion, and if I had not done so I
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Tuesday, 12th August 1930: Rivers Lays Debts Aside To Attack Sales Tax Plans, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 12th August 1930,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.Candidate Charges "Special Interests" Are Attempting To Lower Exemption; Senatorial Candidates Speak.Plans and promises of Georgia's gubernatorial candidates for financial relief from the state were supplanted momentarily Monday by a vigorous attack on a plan for lowering gross sales tax exemption, delivered by E. D. Rivers, one of the five men seeking the state's highest office.Charging that certain "special interests" were attempting to lower the sales tax exemption from $30,000 to $5,000, Rivers at Alma, Ga., said he was "calling upon the people of Georgia, especially the merchants, to unite and fight
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Sunday, 4th January 1942: L. P. Whitfield, Noted Sleuth, 61, Succumbs, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 4th January 1942,PAGE 11, COLUMN 1.Burns Detective Agency Manager Here Figured in Frank Case.L. P. Whitfield, 61, Atlanta manager of the Burns Detective Agency and chief investigator for the defense in the famous Leo Frank case, died Friday at his residence, 362 Augusta avenue, S. E., after an illness of several months.Born in Kennesaw, Ga., he moved to Atlanta and joined the agency in 1913. Three years later he became head of the Atlanta office with the agencies of seven southern states under his direction. Until his death he maintained the innocence of Frank, who was lynched
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Wednesday, 1st December 1943: Leo Frank’s Widow Not Bitter, Sews On Wedding Anniversary, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 1st December 1943,PAGE 2, COLUMN 7.By CELESTINE SIBLEYThe gentle, brown-eyed woman who married Leo Frank 30 years ago spent the anniversary of their wedding day yesterday as she spends every Tuesday sewing for the Red Cross.But as she sewed in a backroom in her church, hope which has smoldered in Lucille Frank's heart for 28 years flamed anew the hope that after her years of misery her husband will be proved innocent.The basis for Mrs. Frank's hope is the recently published statement of Judge Arthur G. Powell that he knows who killed Mary Phagan, and that it
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Thursday, 2nd December 1943: Mrs. Frank, ‘fine, Brave Woman,’ Slaton Opines; Silent On Case, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 2nd December 1943,PAGE 4, COLUMN 3.By BOYD TAYLOR.If former Governor John M. Slaton had any special knowledge on which he acted when he commuted the death sentence of Leo Frank to life imprisonment, as intimated by Judge Arthur G. Powell in his widely discussed book, he will take the secret with him to the grave."Whatever I might say now with regard to the Frank case would add fuel to the fires of controversy," the former Governor told The Constitution. "No good purpose can be served by such a statement now and I do not want to quarrel
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ORAL STATEMENT OF LEO M. FRANK.

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Gentlemen of the Jury: In the year 1884, on the 17th day of April, I was born in Cuero, Texas. At the age of three months, my parents took me to Brooklyn, New York, and I remained in my home until I came South, to Atlanta, to make my home here. I attended the public schools of Brooklyn, and prepared for college, in Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. In the fall of 1902, I entered Cornell University, where I took the course in mechanical engineering, and graduated after four years, in June, 1906. I then accepted a position as draftsman
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ADDITIONAL STATEMENT MADE BY DEFENDANT, LEO M. FRANK.

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In reply to the statement of the boy that he saw me talking to Mary Phagan when she backed away from me, that is absolutely false, that never occurred. In reply to the two girls, Robinson and Hewel, that they saw me talking to Mary Phagan and that I called her" Mary," I wish to say that they are mistaken. It is very possible that I have talked to the little girl in going through the factory and examining the work, but I never knew her name, either to call her "Mary Phagan," "Miss Phagan," or "Mary. " In reference
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State’s Exhibit B From The Trial Of Leo Frank

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Unsworn statement to Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford at the capitol station house in Atlanta Georgia, transcribed by Gay C. February on Monday, April 28, 1913. Source: Brief of Evidence, 1913. Re-published in the Atlanta Constitution, August 2, 1913. Question: What is your position with the company? Answer: I am general superintendent and director of the company. Question: How long have you held that position? Answer: In Atlanta, I have held that position since August 10th, 1908. My place of business is at 37–41 South Forsyth Street. Question: About how many employees have you there? Answer: About 107* in that plant? (typo,
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A letter to Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense

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Mary Phagan-Kean P.O. Box 2573 • 801 Industrial Blvd. • Ellijay, Georgia 30540 The Honorable Pete Hegseth Secretary of Defense U.S. Department of Defense 1000 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301 27 June 2025 Dear Secretary Hegseth: My name is Mary Phagan-Kean and I am the great-niece and namesake of “Little Mary Phagan,” who was brutally raped and murdered by B’nai B’rith leader Leo Frank on April 26, 1913. At the time, Leo Frank was the superintendent of the National Pencil Company, an Atlanta sweatshop using child labor that existed from 1908 to 1916. On behalf of my family and our
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Video: ADL Behind the Empty Mask of Respectability

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Download Video Introduction to the video: ADL Behind the Mask of Respectability. The initials A.D.L., stands for Jewish Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. ADL was founded in September 1913, not long after Atlanta B'nai B'rith president, Leo Max Frank was convicted on August 25th 1913, in the Fulton County Superior Court of Atlanta, Georgia. Leo Frank, 2-term president of the Atlanta Georgia, Gate City Lodge, Number 144, Independent Order of Bnai Brith, from 1912 to 1914, is the convicted serial pedophile-rapist and homicidal sex killer who sodomized, mutilated and strangled 13-year-old, factory girl, Mary Anne Phagan. Leo Frank lynched the
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ADL Still Trying To Pardon Leo M. Frank

  Many of you know that a B’nai B’rith organization gave birth to the ADL while defending its Atlanta chapter president Leo Frank. Frank raped and murdered a 13 year old girl who he was also employing along with many other teens, against child labor laws. Leo Frank ran a pencil factory sweatshop and often flirted with his illegal underage employees. The ADL was formed to defend him when he murdered and raped Mary Phagan. The details were disgusting. Her underwear was ripped and bloody and she was strangled to death with a wire. Her head had also been pummeled
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Alonzo Mann (1898 – 1985) Affidavit Concerning Leo Frank, Mary Phagan and Jim Conley, Dated March 4, 1982, Combined 8 pages in total, County of Sullivan, State of Tennessee

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Page 1.  AFFIDAVIT             IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, COUNTY OF SULLIVAN.            The undersigned, being duly sworn, deposes as follows: My name is Alonzo McClendon Mann. I am 83 years old. I was born near Memphis Tennessee, on August 8, 1898. My father was Alonzo Mann, who was born in Germany. My mother was Hattie McClendon Mann. When I was a small boy my family moved to Atlanta where I spent most of my life.            In 1913 I was the office boy for Leo M.
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Alonzo Mann Depositions to the Pinkerton Detective Agency, May 6, 7, 9, 1913

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Pinkerton Report: Leo Frank Case Source: Leo M. Frank Collection, Manuscript 237, Box 1, Folder 1, American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220 Reporting Officer: Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott Location: Atlanta, Georgia Date: Tuesday, May 6, 1913 Detective Black and I left the Quinn residence at 11:06 a.m. and walked very slowly along Mr. Quinn’s reported route, stopping five minutes at Wolfsheimer’s store, then proceeding to the factory, arriving at 11:25 a.m. Upon arrival at the factory we interviewed Alonzo Mann, the office boy, residing at 109 South Gordon Street. Employed at the factory for only one month,
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Alonzo Mann Affidavit, November 10th, 1982, Atlanta, Georgia, 91 Pages.

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The original 91 page document contains a 55 page typed transcript of an affidavit given by Alonzo Mann (Born on August 8, 1898 and passed away on March 11, 1985). The affidavit was stenographed by a court reporter and allegedly videotaped on November 10, 1982, concerning the April 26, 1913 molestation-murder of Mary Phagan, nearly seven decades earlier. The first application to exonerate Leo Frank, submitted immediately after this affidavit, was denied in 1983. A second effort, however, led to a posthumous pardon of Leo Frank without exoneration, some three years later, following years of non-publicized backroom negotiations between members
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American Pravda: The Leo Frank Case and the Origins of the ADL

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Source: Unz Review About a week ago both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal devoted considerable space to the coverage of “Parade,” the revival of a 1998 Broadway musical on the 1915 killing of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager in Atlanta, Georgia, arguably the most famous lynching in American history. Frank had been convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a young girl in his employ and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was founded in an effort to save his life. After numerous legal appeals failed, the state’s governor eventually commuted Frank’s sentence
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Atlanta Constitution – Little Mary Phagan

  Atlanta Constitution newspapers about the Phagan-Frank case will be listed here. You can search for a particular date, headline, or any word on the page by hitting CTRL-F on your keyboard (command-F for Mac computers). 1913 April 28, 1913: Girl is Assaulted and then Murdered in Heart of Town (Atlanta Constitution) April 28, 1913: Pretty Young Victim of Sunday's Atrocious Crime and the Building in Which She Met Her Death (Atlanta Constitution) April 29, 1913: $1,000 Reward (Atlanta Constitution) April 29, 1913: Held on Murder Charge in Mary Phagan Case (Atlanta Constitution) April 29, 1913: I Am Not Guilty,
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Atlanta Georgian – Little Mary Phagan

  Atlanta Georgian newspapers about the Phagan-Frank case will be listed here. You can search for a particular date, headline, or any word on the page by hitting CTRL-F on your keyboard (command-F for Mac computers). 1913 April 28, 1913: 1,000 Throng Morgue to See Body of Victim (Atlanta Georgian) April 28, 1913: Arrested as Girl's Slayer: John M. Gantt Accused of the Crime; Former Bookkeeper Taken by Police (Atlanta Georgian) April 28, 1913: Chief and Sleuths Trace Steps in Slaying of Girl; Story of Killing as Meager Facts Reveal It (Atlanta Georgian) April 28, 1913: Gantt, Arrested as Slayer
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Atlanta Journal – Little Mary Phagan

Atlanta Journal newspapers about the Phagan-Frank case will be listed here. You can search for a particular date, headline, or any word on the page by hitting CTRL-F on your keyboard (command-F for Mac computers). 1913 April 28, 1913: Coroner's Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns without Rendering Verdict (Atlanta Journal)April 28, 1913: J. M. Gantt Is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday (Atlanta Journal)April 28, 1913: Man Held for Girl's Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last (Atlanta Journal)April 28, 1913: Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four
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Audio Book: The Frank Case, part 1 of 3. “The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story to Atlanta Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery”, 1913.

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  The cover of the book on which our new audio book is based THE AMERICAN MERCURY is proud to present the first part of our audio version of a rare, almost-suppressed book on the murder of Mary Phagan and the trial of Leo Frank, 1913's The Frank Case — published almost immediately after the events it details took place, when they were fresh in the minds of Atlantans. Only one original copy is known to survive, though there are rumors of others. This book is also unique as it is the earliest known book published about the case. Its
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Audio Book: The Frank Case, part 2 of 3. “The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story to Atlanta Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery”, 1913.

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A photograph of Leo Frank, as published in The Frank Case THE AMERICAN MERCURY now presents the second part (of three parts) of our audio version of what is probably the most hard-to-find book on the murder of Mary Phagan and the trial of Leo Frank — 1913's anonymously published The Frank Case — read by Vanessa Neubauer. The Frank Case: Inside Story of Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery now continues as we get into the detailed story of the trial itself. One very interesting thing strikes me about this section of the book. Even though the book, I find, is
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Audio Book: The Frank Case, part 3 of 3. “The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story to Atlanta Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery”, 1913.

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WE ARE proud to present today, on the 107th anniversary of the foul murder of Mary Phagan, the third and concluding part of our audio version of an extremely rare contemporary book on the murder and the trial of Leo Frank, her killer, entitled The Frank Case — read by Vanessa Neubauer. It becomes obvious in this concluding segment that this is a pro-Leo Frank book. Not only is Frank's very odd unsworn statement (in which he literally spent hours going over every irrelevant detail of his company's financial statement, and which obviously did not make a good impression on
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Canadian Rationalkeith Mary Phagan Interview

AI Video Transcription: Well, no need to delay any longer. Mary Phagan has officially joined us on stage. Mary, are you familiar with spaces? If not, you have to unmute yourself to talk and then once you're done speaking, if you remute yourself, although you're probably gonna be doing most of the talking, so definitely welcome you to the space. So thank you so much for joining us. Let me know if you can figure out the mics that you. - I think I can, did you hear me? - Yeah, loud and clear, you sound great. - Wonderful. -
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Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer By Allen Lumpkin Henson,1959.

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  Page: 58 ...should be implemented. We were called upon to assist in the organization of half a dozen boards and bureaus. Law firms in Atlanta and New York filed suits contesting the constitutionality of almost every new statute, and it was our responsibility to defend the suits. It was “double drill and no canteen.” The sensational Leo M. Frank murder case had been tried in Atlanta about a year before the convention met. Frank had been convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair.* An appeal had been pending in the Supreme Court of Georgia for months. Although
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Dear ADL and SPLC, what was the real reason why the bona fide racist and misogynist, Leo Frank, was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging?

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Originally published during the month of October 2018 — the Anti-defamation League of B’nai B’rith’s 105th anniversary, when ADL‘s founding was announced by B’nai B’rith in 1913 at its Chicago Illinois headquarters. Newsletter of the announcement from October 2nd, 1913, is provided herewithin. Addendums: February & April, 2019 Image: Founder of Amazon Books, Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest man that has ever lived (with the exception of John D. Rockefeller, relatively speaking). Under his tutelage, thousands of books have been censored from his eCommerce platform because they were considered politically incorrect. Jewish “civil rights” groups have been working at the vanguard
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Quora: Did Leo Frank really kill Mary Phagan?

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By Mark Sims, Los Angeles, CA. Senior Quora Researcher (2011–present) · Last updated on Quora Caption: Counsel for State and Defense in hot argument before Judge Roan. Did National Pencil Company superintendent Leo Frank really kill Mary Phagan in 1913? Yes, Leo Frank killed Mary Phagan and we know this to be the case to a mathematical certainty, when we combine forensic evidence, testimony from an accessory-after-the-fact, and Leo Frank’s reversal of his alibi where he places himself at the scene of the crime, when the rape-murder took place. I will explain this in more detail in the forthcoming answer
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Documenting falsehoods about the 1913 murder of little Mary Phagan and the trial of Leo Frank by operatives of the Anti-Defamation League

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Documenting falsehoods about the 1913 murder of little Mary Phagan and the trial of Leo Frank by operatives of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith continues in the digital age by Mary Frances Phagan Kean, June 25, 2025. A sneak peek at the forthcoming 2025 second revised edition of the 1988 classic, best-selling, and iconoclastic book The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan Kean. This new edition, coming 37 years later, will be significantly updated and will feature extensive hoax-busting material related to the academic fraud and falsification of history by Leo Frank's numerous cult-like defenders. Debunking Abraham
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Fake News and False History: The 1913 Leo Frank Case in the Midst of a 21st-Century Jewish-Gentile Culture War By Moses Jacobs

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The oak tree lynching of Leo Max Frank at sunrise on Tuesday morning, August 17, 1915, in a densely sylvan grove at former Sheriff William J. Frey’s farming estate (today 100 meters off what was formerly called 1200 Roswell Road & Fray’s Gin Rd in Marietta). Frank was not assassinated by a moonshine-fueled mob of feverish yokels exacting revenge because “the blood of a negro is not enough to atone for the molestation murder victim” as some Jewish advocates and their Gentile allies have suggested, for more than 100 years. Instead, the men who hanged Leo Frank were a sober,
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Fannie Phagan Coleman and John William Coleman’s letter to Radical Leftwing Populist Politician, Tom Edward Watson, published in the Jeffersonian Weekly, July 15th, 1915

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Page 9 of the July 15th, 1915, issue of the Jeffersonian Weekly, regarding the June 21, 1915, Death Penalty Commutation of Leo Frank to life in prison by former Governor John Slaton. Transcription of Letter: The Mother and the Stepfather of little Mary Phagan Write To the Honorable Thomas E. Watson: Dear Sir:  As the mother and father of Mary Phagan, our poor daughter, we feel it our duty to write you a letter expressing our sincere thanks for your noble efforts in the publishing in your paper the truth about the Frank case. While we know our advantages in
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Governor To The General Assembly Of Georgia June 23 1915 State Vs Leo Frank Page 15

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The detectives learned about the middle of May that Conley could write, although at first he denied it. He made one statement and three affidavits, which are more fully referred to in stating the defendant's case. The affidavits were introduced by the defendant under notice to produce. By these affidavits, there was admitted the substance of the evidence that he delivered on the stand, which in brief was as follows: Conley claimed that he was asked by Frank to come to the factory on Saturday and watch for him, as he previously had done, which he explained meant that Frank
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Jeffersonian Weekly – Little Mary Phagan

Tom Watson's Jeffersonian newspapers about the Phagan-Frank case will be listed here. You can search for a particular date, headline, or any word on the page by hitting CTRL-F on your keyboard (command-F for Mac computers). 1913 May 8, 1913: How Atlanta Cleaned Up (Jeffersonian) 1914 March 19, 1914: The Frank Case: When and Where Shall Rich Criminals Be Tried? (Jeffersonian)April 2, 1914: What Some of the Jeffersonian Readers Think of "The Frank Case" (Jeffersonian)April 9, 1914: The Leo Frank Case. Does the State of Georgia Deserve This Nation-Wide Abuse? (Jeffersonian)April 16, 1914: Letters from the People: The Frank Case
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Leo Frank, a Jew Pervert Pedophile, Watson’s Magazine, September 1915 – Part 1

DISCLAIMER: The video has been created for informational purposes ONLY. IN NEW YORK, there lived a fashionable architect, whose work commanded high prices. He was robust, full of manly vigor, and so erotic that he neglected a handsome and refined young wife to run after little girls... #leofrank #pedophile #rapist #metoo Originally posted on The American Mercury: theamericanmercury.org/2014/03/the-official-record-in-the-case-of-leo-frank-a-jew-pervert/ The Mary Phagan Family Website: littlemaryphagan.com Leo Frank Archive: leofrank.org Leo Frank Research Library: leofrank.info
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Leo Frank, a Jew Pervert Pedophile, Watson’s Magazine, September 1915 – Part 2

Was the Leo Frank Trial tainted by attitudes of bigotry against those who practice Judaism? This second installment by Watson retells the beginning of the trial of Leo Frank. Mary Phagan's mother, Newt Lee - night watchman and discoverer of the body, and Sargent Dobbs - one of the first on the scene, take the stand and relate the events of April 26 and 27 , 1913.
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Leo Frank, a Jew Pervert Pedophile, Watson’s Magazine, September 1915 – Part 3

Was the Leo Frank Trial tainted by attitudes of bigotry against those who practice Judaism? This second installment by Watson retells the beginning of the trial of Leo Frank. Mary Phagan's mother, Newt Lee - night watchman and discoverer of the body, and Sargent Dobbs - one of the first on the scene, take the stand and relate the events of April 26 and 27 , 1913.
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Leo Frank, a Jew Pervert Pedophile, Watson’s Magazine, September 1915 – Part 4

Was the Leo Frank Trial tainted by attitudes of bigotry against those who practice Judaism? This second installment by Watson retells the beginning of the trial of Leo Frank. Mary Phagan's mother, Newt Lee - night watchman and discoverer of the body, and Sargent Dobbs - one of the first on the scene, take the stand and relate the events of April 26 and 27 , 1913.
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Leo Frank, a Jew Pervert Pedophile, Watson’s Magazine, September 1915 – Part 5

Was the Leo Frank Trial tainted by attitudes of bigotry against those who practice Judaism? This second installment by Watson retells the beginning of the trial of Leo Frank. Mary Phagan's mother, Newt Lee - night watchman and discoverer of the body, and Sargent Dobbs - one of the first on the scene, take the stand and relate the events of April 26 and 27 , 1913.
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Leo Frank, a Jew Pervert Pedophile, Watson’s Magazine, September 1915 – Part 6

Download Leo Frank, a Jew Pervert Pedophile, Watson’s Magazine, September 1915, Chapter 6 (HD, Size: 614MB) Was the Leo Frank Trial tainted by attitudes of bigotry against those who practice Judaism? This second installment by Watson retells the beginning of the trial of Leo Frank. Mary Phagan's mother, Newt Lee - night watchman and discoverer of the body, and Sargent Dobbs - one of the first on the scene, take the stand and relate the events of April 26 and 27 , 1913.
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National Pencil Company vs Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency: Bill of Exceptions Certification

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GEORGIA, Fulton County. I Hereby Certify, That the foregoing Bill of Exceptions, hereunto attached, is the true original Bill of Exceptions in the case stated, to-wit: National Pencil Company Plaintiff in Error. vs. Pinkerton's National Detective Agency Defendant in Error. and that a copy hereof has been made and filed in this office. Witness my signature and the seal of Court affixed this the 15th day of February 1916 Clerk Superior Court Fulton County, Georgia, Ex-Officio Clerk City Court of Atlanta.
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National Pencil Company vs Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency: Bill of Exceptions Certification (Supreme Court)

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STATE OF GEORGIA, County of Fulton. I Hereby Certify, That the foregoing pages, hereunto attached, contain a true Transcript of such parts of the record as are specified in the Bill of Exceptions and required, by the order of the Presiding Judge, to be sent to the Supreme Court in the case of National Pencil Company Plaintiff in Error. vs. Pinkerton's National Detective Agency Defendant in Error. I further certify that on account of the volume of work in office I was unable to make out + transcribe this record in the time prescribed by law Witness my signature and
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National Pencil Company vs Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency

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1. Where partners sue in their firm name, the partnership need not be proved, unless denied in a verified plea. This was true where the original petition alleged that the plaintiff was a corporation, and the partnership was alleged in an amendment to the petition. 2. It was not error for the court to repel as evidence in this case "certain portions of the argument made by the solicitor general of the Atlanta Circuit on August 23 and 25, 1913, at the trial of Leo M. Frank for murder in Fulton superior court". The rejected matter was so clearly inadmissible
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New Audio Book: The Murder of Little Mary Phagan

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A NEW authorized audio book version of The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan Kean has just been recorded for The American Mercury, and will serve as the capstone of our series on the Leo Frank Case in this, the centennial year of the death of the convicted murderer in this case, Leo Max Frank. You can download the audio book, free of charge, below. The Murder of Little Mary Phagan is an exceptionally insightful semi-autobiographical book, detailing a fascinating exploration of one of the most sensational criminal cases of all time. What makes this book so intriguing
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New York Times – Little Mary Phagan

New York Times newspapers about the Phagan-Frank case will be listed here. You can search for a particular date, headline, or any word on the page by hitting CTRL-F on your keyboard (command-F for Mac computers). 1913 May 2, 1913: Troops on Alert for Mob (New York Times)May 24, 1913: Politics Enmeshes a Murder Mystery (New York Times)May 25, 1913: Indicted for Girl's Murder (New York Times)July 11, 1913: New Phagan Murder Tale (New York Times)August 5, 1913: Says Employer Slew Girl (New York Times)August 22, 1913: Atlanta Murder Case to Jury Today (New York Times)August 27, 1913: Frank Sentence
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 1 of Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume 3, NOI Research Group

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury THE AMERICAN MERCURY is proud of its decades-long reputation for seeking the truth without fear or favor. As such, we do not flinch when a part of that truth can best be discovered in the words of those whom the Establishment has deemed "radical" or "controversial" or even "evil." (When the current murderous regime in Washington, or its Hollywood/New York media machine, says someone is "evil," we immediately start to suspect that there must be something good about that someone.) So even if the New York Times or the Anti-Defamation League excoriate us for
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First Page of Alonzo Mann’s Affidavit, Signed March 4th, 1982, Sullivan County, Tennessee, Page 1 of 8

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Page 1. AFFIDAVIT      IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, COUNTY OF SULLIVAN      The undersigned, being duly sworn, deposes as follows:      My name is Alonzo McClendon Mann. I am 83 years old. I was born near Memphis Tennessee, on August 8, 1898. My father was Alonzo Mann, who was born in Germany. My mother was Hattie McClendon Mann. When I was a small boy my family moved to Atlanta where I spent most of my life.      In 1913 I was the office boy for Leo M. Frank, who ran the National Pencil Co. That
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Second Page of Alonzo Mann’s Affidavit, Signed March 4th, 1982, Sullivan County, Tennessee, Page 2 of 8

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page 2 practically nothing. I was nervous and afraid that day. There were crowds in the street who were angry and who were saying that Leo Frank should die. Some were yelling things like, "Kill the Jew!"      I was very nervous. The courtroom was filled with people. Every seat was taken. I was interested mostly in getting out of there.      I spoke with a speech impediment and had trouble pronouncing the "r" in Frank's name in those days. The lawyers put their heads together and said that it was obvious I knew nothing and since I
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Third Page of Alonzo Mann’s Affidavit, Signed March 4th, 1982, Sullivan County, Tennessee, Page 3 of 8

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Page 3       My job required that I open the mail, file papers, keep the office orderly, run errands and the like.       Leo Frank arrived in the building that morning shortly after I did. He came into the office and spoke to me. I always called him "Mister Frank" and he referred to me by my given name, "Alonzo." I do not know whether Leo Frank had seen Jim Conley on the first floor when he came into the building that morning.       A substitute secretary worked for Leo Frank that morning. As
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Fourth Page of Alonzo Mann’s Affidavit, Signed March 4th, 1982, Sullivan County, Tennessee, Page 4 of 8

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Page 4.       She had told me that if she was unable to come, for me not to worry. I waited for her for a few minutes. Since I didn't care that much about seeing the parade I went back to work.       I can't be sure as to exactly how long I was gone, but it could not have been more than half hour before I got back to the pencil factory.       I had no idea that I was about to witness an important moment in a famous murder case--a moment that
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Fifth Page of Alonzo Mann’s Affidavit, Signed March 4th, 1982, Sullivan County, Tennessee, Page 5 of 8

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Page 5. the shaft would have been open. Conley could have dumped her down the empty elevator shaft. I believe for some reason, Jim Conley turned around toward me. He either heard by footsteps coming or he sensed I was behind him. He wheeled on me and in a voice that was low but threatening and frightening to me he said:       "If you ever mention this I'll kill you."        I turned and took a step or two--possibly three or four steps--up toward the second floor, but I must have worried about whether the office
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Sixth Page of Alonzo Mann’s Affidavit, Signed March 4th, 1982, Sullivan County, Tennessee, Page 6 of 8

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Page 6. the building and saw Conley with the body.       When Frank went to trial and I was called as a witness, my mother tole me I would have to go and testify. She repeated to me what she already had told me the day of Mary Phagan's murder. She told me to keep to myself what I had seen. She said if it were not asked a specific question I did not have to give a specific answer.       Jim Conley was the chief witness against Leo Frank.       He testified that
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Seventh Page of Alonzo Mann’s Affidavit, Signed March 4th, 1982, Sullivan County, Tennessee, Page 7 of 8

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Page 7. girl's money and grabbed her. I do not think sex was his motive. I believe it was money. Her pay was never found in the building after she died.        Many times I have thought since all of this occurred almost 70 years ago that if I had hollered or yelled for help when I ran into Conley with the girl in his arms that day that I might have saved her life. I might have. On the other hand, I might have lost my own life. If I had told what I saw that day
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Eighth Page of Alonzo Mann’s Affidavit, Signed March 4th, 1982, Sullivan County, Tennessee, Page 8 of 8

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Page 8. until it was too late to save Leo Frank's life. They will say that being young is no excuse. They will blame my mother. The only thing I can say is that she did what she thought was best for me and the family. Other people may hate me for telling it. I hope not, but I am prepared for that, too. I know that I haven't a long time to live. All that I have said is the truth. When my time comes I hope that God understands me better for having told it. That is what
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100 Years Ago Today: The Month-Long Trial of Leo Frank Begins, July 28, 1913, through August 21st, 1913

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  Take a journey through time with the American Mercury, and experience the trial of Leo Frank (pictured, in courtroom sketch) for the murder of Mary Phagan just as it happened as revealed in contemporary accounts. The Mercury will be covering this historic trial in capsule form from now until August 26, the 100th anniversary of the rendering of the verdict. by Bradford L. Huie THE JEWISH ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE (ADL) — in great contrast to the American Mercury and other independent media — has given hardly any publicity to the 100th anniversary of the murder of Mary Phagan and the
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The Leo Frank Trial: Week One of Four Weeks, Summer of 1913, Late July, Early August

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100 years ago today the trial of the 20th century ended its first week, shedding brilliant light on the greatest murder mystery of all time: the murder of Mary Phagan. And you are there. by Bradford L. Huie THE MOST IMPORTANT testimony in the first week of the trial of National Pencil Company superintendent Leo Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan was that of the night watchman, Newt Lee (pictured, right, in custody), who had discovered 13-year-old Mary's body in the basement of the pencil factory during his nightly rounds in the early morning darkness of April 27, 1913.
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The Leo Frank Trial: Week Two of Four Weeks, Summer of 1913, August

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The 1913, summer trial of 29-year-old Leo Max Frank for the rape and strangulation of 13-year-old Mary Anne Phagan ended its second week 100 years ago today. Join us as we delve into the original documents of the time and hear what the jurors learned in the Fulton County Superior Court of Atlanta, Georgia. by Bradford L. Huie, Edited by Luke Brown. THE EVIDENCE that National Pencil Company Superintendent Leo Frank had raped and murdered, 13-year-old child laborer Mary Phagan was mounting up as the second week of his trial began in Atlanta, and passions were high on both sides
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The Leo Frank Trial: Week Three of the Four Week Trial, Summer of 1913, August

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The trial of Leo Frank (pictured) for the murder of Mary Phagan ended its third week 100 years ago today. Join us as we break through the myths surrounding the case and investigate what really happened. by Bradford L. Huie AS THE THIRD WEEK of the trial dawned, the prosecution had just made its case that National Pencil Company Superintendent Leo Max Frank had murdered 13-year-old laborer Mary Phagan — and a powerful case it was. Now it was the defense's turn — and the defense team was a formidable one, the best that money could buy in 1913 Atlanta,
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100 Years Ago Today: Leo Frank Takes the Stand, Monday, August 18, 1913 in the Temporary Fulton County Superior Court, Atlanta, Georgia

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Today, on the 100th anniversary of Leo Frank taking the stand in his own defense, we present a digest of opinion and contemporary sources on his statement. AT THE CLIMAX of the Leo Frank trial, an admission was made by the defendant that amounted to a confession during trial. How many times in the annals of US legal history has this happened? Something very unusual happened during the month-long People v. Leo M. Frank murder trial, held within Georgia's Fulton County Superior Courthouse in the Summer of 1913. I'm going to show you evidence that Mr. Leo Max Frank inadvertently
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The Leo Frank Trial: Week Four of the Month-Long Courtroom Drama. The Greatest Murder Mystery in the Early 20th Century Southern History Was Solved at Trial By Leo Frank.

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Join The American Mercury as we recount the events of the final week of the trial of Leo Frank (pictured) for the slaying of Mary Phagan. by Bradford L. Huie ON THE HEELS of Leo Frank's astounding unsworn statement to the court, the defense called a number of women who stated that they had never experienced any improper sexual advances on the part of Frank. But the prosecution rebutted that testimony with several rather persuasive female witnesses of its own. These rebuttal witnesses also addressed Frank's claims that he was so unfamiliar with Mary Phagan that he did not even
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Leo Frank Trial Closing Arguments of Frank Arthur Hooper, Reuben Rose Arnold, and Luther Zeigler Rosser

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The American Mercury continues its centenary coverage of the trial of Leo Frank for the slaying of Mary Phagan with the closing arguments presented by the prosecution and defense. by Bradford L. Huie IT'S A LONG READ — but an essential one for everyone who wants to consider himself well-informed on the Leo Frank case: the closing arguments from indefatigable Fulton County Prosecutor Hugh M. Dorsey and his assistant Frank A. Hooper, and from Leo Frank's brilliantly skilled defense attorneys Reuben R. Arnold and Luther Z. Rosser. Here we present their final arguments in full — practically the length of
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The Leo Frank Trial: Closing Arguments of the Solicitor General Hugh Manson Dorsey, August 21, 22, 23 & 25th, 1913

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by Bradford L. Huie THE AMERICAN MERCURY now presents the final closing arguments by Solicitor Hugh Dorsey (pictured) in the trial of Leo Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan — a powerful summary of the case and a persuasive argument that played a large part in the decision of the jury to find Frank guilty of the crime. It is also riveting reading for modern readers, who have been told — quite falsely — that the case against Frank was a weak one, and told, equally falsely, that "anti-Semitism" was a major motive for the arrest, trial, and conviction
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New Audio Book: The American Mercury on Leo Frank – Judge Leonard Roan’s Charge to the Jury

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  THIS WEEK we present our final installment of our audio books on the subject of the 1913 trial of Leo M. Frank for the strangling and sex murder of his 13-year-old sweatshop employee, Mary Phagan. Today we hear the words of Judge Leonard Strickland Roan (pictured) in his charge to the jury, exactly as they were uttered more than a century ago. A few hours later, the jury returned its verdict of guilty. The Leo Frank case was one of the major factors that led to the founding of the prominent Jewish pressure group, the ADL. This new audio
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Summary of the Leo Frank Case: 100 Reasons Leo Frank Is Guilty of Murdering Little Mary Anne Phagan on April 26, 1913, in Atlanta Georgia

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by Penelope Lee THIS WEEK, as we are preparing the (very long) audio book version of the Leo Frank defense team and prosecution team closing arguments, the American Mercury is proud to present the new audio book version — never before available in its entirety — of our editor Bradford L. Huie's 100 Reasons Leo Frank is Guilty, read by Miss Vanessa Neubauer. As you listen, you can follow along with the text of the original piece.   **** 100 Reasons Leo Frank Is Guilty Proving That Anti-Semitism Had Nothing to Do With His Conviction and Proving That His Defenders Have Used Frauds
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ADL: 100 Years of Hate

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by Valdis Bell TODAY MARKS THE 100th anniversary of the largest and most-well funded hate and defamation group in the history of mankind: the Anti-Defamation League, or "ADL." The organization was originally called the "Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith" after its parent group, the Jewish fraternal order B'nai B'rith (meaning "Sons of the Covenant," or, literally, "Sons of the Cut" — referring to circumcision). (ILLUSTRATION: Abraham Foxman, director of the ADL) The ADL was founded in the immediate aftermath of the conviction of Atlanta B'nai B'rith President Leo Frank for the strangulation and sex murder of a 13-year-old factory girl,
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Reuben Rose Arnold Closing Arguments at Leo Frank Trial

Mr. Arnold: Gentlemen of the Jury: We are all to be congratulated that this case is drawing to a close. We have all suffered here from trying a long and complicated case at the heated term of the year. It has been a case that has taken so much effort and so much concentration and so much time, and the quarters here are so poor, that it has been particularly hard on you members of the jury who are practically in custody while the case is going on. I know it's hard on a jury, to be kept confined this
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Frank Arthur Hooper Closing Arguments at Trial of Leo Frank

Mr. Frank Arthur Hooper: Gentlemen of the Jury, the object of this trial, as well as all other trials, is the ascertainment of truth and the attainment of justice. In the beginning, I want to have it understood that we are not seeking a verdict of guilty against the defendant unless he is guilty. The burden of guilt is upon our shoulders- we confront the undertaking-of putting it upon his. We recognize that it must be done beyond a reasonable doubt, and that it must be done purely by the evidence which we have produced before you. We have cheerfully
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Leo Frank’s defense attorneys gather depositions from National Pencil Company employees on June 30, 1913, Atlanta, Georgia

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BY ATTORNEYS L.Z. ROSSER, R.R. ARNOLD, AND H.J. HAAS AT THE PLANT OF THE NATIONAL PENCIL COMPANY, BEGINNING 2:00 P.M., JUNE 30TH, 1913. EXAMINATION OF W.R. FULLERTON. Questions by L.Z. Rosser Esq:- Q. Mr. Fullerton, you were employed as book-keeper on Friday before the murder on Saturday? A. Yes sir. Q. Were you here that day? A. I didn't go to work here Saturday morning. Q. Did you come up to the office here? A. On Friday I did, yes sir. Q. What time did you come here? A. 11:00 o'clock. Q. Who employed you? A. Mr. Frank. Q. In
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Luther Zeigler Rosser Closing Arguments at Leo Frank Trial

Mr. Rosser: Gentlemen of the jury. All things come to an end. With the end of this case has almost come the end of the speakers, and but for the masterly effort of my brother, Arnold, I almost wish it had ended with no speaking. My condition is such that I can say but little ; my voice is husky and my throat almost gone. But for my interest in this case and my profound conviction of the innocence of this man, I would not undertake to speak at all. I want to repeat what my friend, Arnold, said so
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number One

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Mary Phagan Family Position Paper July 2021 My name is Mary Phagan-Kean and I am the great-niece and namesake of “Little Mary Phagan,” the thirteen-year-old girl who was raped and murdered on April 26, 1913, by Leo Max Frank, the president of Atlanta’s B'nai B’rith Lodge No. 144. Leo Frank was the general superintendent of the National Pencil Company — a sweatshop factory where over a hundred children labored, and where the Sam Nunn federal building stands today. Little Mary Phagan was 12 years old when she started working there in 1912, and Frank admitted he was the last person
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number Two

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The Family of Little Mary Phagan & The Truth About the Leo Frank Case In 2019, under intense pressure from the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard established the “Conviction Integrity Unit,” which is intended to reverse the 1913 conviction of the murderer and rapist Leo Frank. All evidence proves that Frank murdered our beloved family member, 13-year-old Little Mary Phagan, but many outright lies have been told about the case that MUST BE CORRECTED! GO TO LITTLEMARYPHAGAN.COM for more TRUTH about the murder of Little Mary Phagan. Leo Frank, Sexual Predator—the Harvey Weinstein/Jeffrey Epstein
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number Three

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The Phagan Family Asks D.A. Paul Howard Why The Secrecy? In 2019, under intense pressure from the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard established the “Conviction Integrity Unit,” which is intended to reverse the 1913 conviction of the murderer and rapist Leo Frank. All evidence proves that Frank murdered our beloved family member, 13-year-old Mary Phagan, but many outright lies have been told about the case that MUST BE CORRECTED! Go to LITTLEMARYPHAGAN.COM for more TRUTH about the murder of Little Mary Phagan. Since the Conviction Integrity Unit has been established to review the Leo
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number Four

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Former governor Roy Barnes Claims Leo Frank Did Not Kill Mary Phagan. He Insists that the Century-Old conviction was “wrong”. What Roy Barnes doesn’t want you to know: 107 years ago, Leo Frank, the general superintendent of an Atlanta pencil factory, targeted my great aunt, 13-year-old Mary Phagan—just like he had targeted 20 other young girls who worked there at the National Pencil Company. He attempted to rape her and she resisted. He beat her and then strangled her. Now former governor Roy Barnes and the Anti-Defamation League want to exonerate Leo Frank and claim that an African-American man was
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number Five

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Steve Oney says “NO NEW EVIDENCE” to exonerate Leo Frank for the murder of Little Mary Phagan On February 17, 2020, Steve Oney spoke in Savannah on the Leo Frank case. Mr. Oney is considered by many Frank supporters to be an expert, having written a book on the subject. The Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard is being pressured by a group of non-experts to exonerate B’nai B’rith leader Leo M. Frank, who was convicted 107 years ago of the rape and murder of my great aunt Little Mary Phagan at his pencil factory when she was just 13.
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number Six

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Will New District Attorney Bow to Pressure to Exonerate Leo Frank for Murder of Little Mary Phagan? Attorney Fani Willis beat Fulton County DA Paul Howard Jr. in a landslide victory —72% to 28% But will she bow to the same pressure that was put on her former boss to exonerate a man who raped and murdered our family member? The Conviction Integrity Unit established under Fulton County DA Paul Howard was not transparent: the Phagan family was not contacted and he refused to acknowledge the Phagan family. Obviously, it was set up for one single goal—to “legally” clear Leo
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number Seven

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DENIED! Georgia state board of pardons and paroles denies Phagan Family December 4th, 2020, request to declassify the non-public documents from it's files on Leo Frank!!! Georgia’s 106 Year Old Secrets! The Phagan family filed requests for all of the documents, recordings, and other data related to the case of the convicted murderer Leo M. Frank. We received over 1500 documents in December 2020, which included Alonzo Mann’s videotaped testimony when certain people and organizations were seeking a posthumous pardon for Leo Frank in the 1980s. But some documents were DENIED to the family and considered “state secrets”? In a
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number Eight

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Georgia Legislators Propose Cold Case Lynching Law But REAL Aim is to Exonerate A Single Person: Leo Frank There is no more important word in today’s world than JUSTICE. I am Mary Phagan-Kean and I am the great-niece and namesake of “Little Mary Phagan,” the thirteen-year-old girl who was raped and murdered by B’nai B’rith leader Leo Max Frank on April 26, 1913. Leo Frank—who admitted he was the last person to see Mary alive—was the factory manager at the National Pencil Company, where the Sam Nunn federal building stands today, and where Mary worked and was killed. On August
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number Nine

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Broadway play PARADE IS NOT THE “TRUE STORY” OF LEO FRANK Its sole purpose is to falsely place blame for the murder of Little Mary Phagan on an African-American man named James Conley. New York City Center (NYCC) has announced that it will present one of the most blatantly deceitful productions ever to appear on an American stage. Parade purports to be a “true account” of the 1913 rape and strangulation murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan in an Atlanta factory. Leo Frank, the factory manager, was arrested and convicted of the crime. I am Mary Phagan-Kean, and I represent the
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number Ten

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  Barnes & Lebow Can’t Tell the Truth • Twitter Revolt Against ADL • “PARADE” Fools Broadway, Again • Stew Peters’ ADL Exposé Roy Barnes and Steven Lebow: Why do you continue to tell the “Big Lies” ? In another one of his now tiresome interviews former governor Roy Barnes continues to repeat lie after lie after lie about the murder of my great aunt Mary Phagan by her employer, Leo Frank, sexual pervert . Author Steve Oney also stated Leo Frank was a “sexual predator” . According to Barnes in his June 23, 2023 interview with the Marietta Daily
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number Eleven

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The LEO FRANK CIRCUS CONTINUES The ADL is the modern day epitome of the phrase, “If you hang them in a hopper they will drip lies.” Leo Frank has been the subject of their insidious century long propaganda campaign to convict a Black man for a child rape and murder that a Jewish man, Leo Frank, committed in 1913. To them, the symbol of Leo Frank as an innocent victim of terrorism is fundraising gold. But the ugly crime he committed is catching up to them as scholars begin to see just how the facts of the case were twisted
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number Twelve

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According to a recent Atlanta Journal-Constitution report, former Georgia Governor Roy Barnes, a Marietta attorney, is representing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis before the Georgia Senate special committee investigating Willis. Is this a backdoor attempt by Barnes and the Anti-Defamation League to induce Willis to get a “pardon” for the B’nai B’rith leader who in 1913 was convicted of murdering a 13 year old girl? We know that Barnes has been on a crusade on behalf of the B’nai B’rith’s ADL for many years. So, is there a quid pro quo involved in Barnes’s representing Willis? Is there a
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number Thirteen

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Candace Owens Exposes Truth of Leo Frank In a veritable Tweet storm on X (formerly Twitter), Candace Owens, the popular podcaster and influencer, tells millions of her followers the Anti-Defamation League defends a “network of criminals” and pedophiles; she questions whether B’nai B’rith Leo Frank was actually lynched and by whom; she says blacks should “never forget” how Frank tried to pin the crime on a black man; and says the ADL has smeared “Christian, Muslim and black Americans.” She posted the picture of Mary Phagan, the 13-year-old girl Frank murdered, and calls on Christians “to make her story viral.”
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number Fourteen

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TRUTH WINS! 3.1 Million People View Pentagon Official’s Tweet Pentagon Spokesperson Tells Truth • Phagan-Kean on Stew Peters • Letter to Fani Willis • GROK Artificial Intelligence Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson (photo) was attacked by the forces of hate and intolerance (ADL) when they found that she had tweeted the absolute truth about Leo Frank. On August 16, 2024, she responded to an ADL posting “Leo Frank raped & murdered a 13-year-old girl. He also tried to frame a Black man for his crime. The ADL turned off the comments because they want to gas-light you.” Despite the
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Phagan Family Newsletter Number Fifteen

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SHAME ON GEORGIA for the Generations of Political Corruption, Opaque Secrecy, and Deceitful Revisionism Surrounding the 1913 Sexual Assault and Strangulation of Little Mary Phagan by Convicted Homicidal Rapist-Pedophile Leo Frank. Dear Governor Brian Kemp, Attorney General Christopher Carr, Senator Bill Cowsert: The state of Georgia has been mired in a deeply troubling saga of political corruption, intransigent secrecy, and manipulative historical revisionism concerning the brutal murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan by B’nai B’rith leader Leo Frank in 1913. This case, already steeped in tragedy due to the violent death of a young girl, has been compounded by decades of
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Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency vs National Pencil Company: Amended Motion for New Trial

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(AMENDED MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL.) GEORGIA, Fulton County. Now comes the defendant, the National Pencil Company, and amends its motion for a new trial heretofore filed on Nov., 22, 1915, and says that the verdict in the above stated case should be set aside and a new trial granted for the following reasons, to-wit: 1. Because the court on its own motion and although the plaintiff's attorney had withdrawn all objection, refused to admit in evidence certain portions of the argument made by the solicitor General of the Atlanta Circuit on August 23d and 25th , 1913 at the trial
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Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency vs National Pencil Company: Answer of Defendant

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Pinkerton's National Detective Agency v. National Pencil Co. No. 31231 In the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia. ANSWER OF DEFENDANT. Now comes the defendant, the National Pencil Company, and answers as follows: 1. Defendant admits the allegations of paragraph 1. 2. Defendant admits the allegations of paragraph 2. 3. Defendant denies the allegations of paragraph 3. 4. Defendant admits the allegations of paragraph 4 except the following allegation, to-wit: *and also to pay proper incidental expenses incurred by petitioner in this behalf* which allegation defendant denies. 5. Defendant denies the allegations of the paragraph following the paragraph numbered 4,
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Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency vs. National Pencil Company – Approval of Brief of Evidence

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Approval of Brief of Evidence. The foregoing 134 pages constituting the brief of evidence in the above stated case, are hereby approved as a true and correct brief of the evidence produced upon the in the above stated case. Let the same be filed as part of the record herein. This February 3, 1916. W.D. Ellis, Judge S. C. A C. Filed in office this the 4th day of February, 1916. T. C. Miller, D. Clk.
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Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency vs National Pencil Company: Bill of Exceptions

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PINKERTON'S NATIONAL DETECTIVE AGENCY verses NATIONAL PENCIL COMPANY. No. 31,231. Fulton Superior Court. BILL OF EXCEPTIONS. GEORGIA, FULTON COUNTY. Be it remembered that on the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 22nd days of November, 1915, at the regular November Term of the Superior Court of Fulton County before the Honorable W. D. Ellis Judge, presiding, there came on to be tried the case of the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency v. National Pencil Company. A jury was stricken, evidence was introduced for plaintiff and defendant, and after argument of counsel and the charge of Court, the jury rendered a verdict in favor
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Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency vs National Pencil Company: Brief of Evidence

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(BRIEF-OF-EVIDENCE.) Harry Scott, for plaintiff, testified as follows: I am at present superintendent of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency at Syracuse, NY. In 1913, I was assistant superintendent of the Atlanta Office. Acting in behalf of the Plaintiff, I made the contract with the defendant. On the afternoon of April 26, 1913, I was called on the telephone by Mr. Frank who asked me to come down to the Pencil Factory, which I did, and we discussed the case as it had developed up to that time, after which he inquired as to our rates, and I told him that our
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Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency vs National Pencil Company: Charge of Court

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Gentlemen of the Jury: This is a suit brought by Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, originally in the papers alleged to be a corporation, but by way of amendment to the original petition now charged to be a partnership, against the National Pencil Company, charged to be and admitted to be a corporation. The plaintiff's petition alleges that about the 28th day of April, 1913, this detective agency was employed by the National Pencil Company in the matter of procuring evidence to convict the murderer of Mary Phagan, who was alleged to have been slain on the premises of the National
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Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency vs National Pencil Company: Corporation/Partnership

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Pinkerton National Detective Agency vs. National Pencil Co. #31231 Superior Court of Fulton County. Now comes the plaintiff and having first obtained leave of the Court amends its petition by striking from the second line thereof the word Corporation and adding the word Partnership. Robert C. & Philip H. Alston, Attys. for Plaintiff. Allowed by consent and ordered filed. This Nov. 17, 1915. W. D. Ellis, Judge S.C.A.C. Filed in office this 22nd day of November, 1915. J. C. Lewis, Deputy Clerk. Min. 74, page 596.
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Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency vs. National Pencil Company: Judgment

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JUDGMENT. The jury having rendered a verdict for the plaintiff it is therefore ordered and adjudged that Pinkerton's National Detective Agency do have and recover of the defendant, National Pencil Co., the principal sum of $1286.09 and $170.52 interest to date and future interest at the rate of 7% per annum and ______ dollars cost of court. This 11/22/15. Robt. C. & Philip H. Alston, Attys for Plff.
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Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency vs. National Pencil Company: Motion for New Trial Acknowledged by Plaintiff

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Due and legal service of the within motion for new trial, rule nisi and order of court acknowledged. This 22 day of November, 1915. Robert C. & Philip H. Alston, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Filed in office this 23rd day of November, 1915. J. C. Lewis, Deputy Clerk. Min. 74, page 557
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Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency vs. National Pencil Company: Motion for New Trial Read and Considered

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Read and considered. Let the foregoing motion for a new trial be filed to the right of amendment. It is further ordered that the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, the plaintiff, show cause before me at 9 o'clock A.M. on the 18th day of December, 1915, or as soon thereafter as a hearing can be had, why the foregoing motion should not be granted and a new trial ordered. In the meantime, a super sedeas is granted to the defendant in so far as to stay any levy under the verdict and judgment until this motion is disposed of. It is
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Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency vs. National Pencil Company: Motion for New Trial

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Pinkerton National Detective Agency v. National Pencil Co. No. 31231. Fulton Superior Court, Motion for New Trial. Verdict in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant at the November Term, 1915, Superior Court of Fulton County, on November 22, 1915. The defendant, the National Pencil Company, being dissatisfied with the verdict and judgment in said case, comes during said term of court, and before adjournment thereof, within thirty days from said trial, and moves the Court for a new trial upon the following grounds, to-wit: 1- Because the verdict is contrary to the evidence and without evidence to support
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Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency vs National Pencil Company

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In the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia. This the petition of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, a corporation, respectfully represents unto this Honorable Court as follows: 1 The National Pencil Company is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Georgia, having its principal place of business in the County of Fulton, State of Georgia. 2 On or about the 28th day of April, 1913, petitioner was employed by the National Pencil Company to render services as a detective agency in the matter of procuring evidence to convict the murderer of Mary Phagan, who was alleged to have
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Fake News TV Reporting about the First Failed Attempt by Jewish Supremacist Activist Groups to Obtain a Posthumous Pardon for Leo Frank the Toilet Strangler After Using Dubious Affidavit by Alonzo Mann (1984)

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In the 1982 to 1983 timeframe, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles reviewed the "new evidence" presented by Jewish activist groups, including Anti-Defamation League, Atlanta Jewish Federation and American Jewish Committe. The new evidence was nothing more than the statements transcribed from a video recording of a dubious Alonzo Mann affidavit, and the Board determined after much deliberation that Mann's statements 70 years later did not change anything about the evidence, other than the method by which Jim Conley moved the body of Mary Phagan (using the stairs, instead of the elevator). Mann's 1982 statements wildly contradicted statements he
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Report of Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott: April 28, 1913

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The following pages contain a correct copy of the report of the said assistant superintendent Harry Scott, dated April 28, 1913, and sent to the National Pencil Company on May 2, 1913. Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott Reports: Atlanta, Georgia, Monday, April 28th, 1913. Late this afternoon, I held a conference with Mr. Leo M. Frank, Superintendent, and Mr. Darley his assistant and the officers of the National Pencil Co., #37-39 S. Forsyth st., Atlanta, Georgia Mr. Frank stated that on Saturday, April 26th, 1913 the factory of the National Pencil Co., was closed down and that only two of the
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Report of Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott: May 18, 1913

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The following pages contain a correct copy of the report of assistant superintendent Harry Scott dated May 18, 1913, and sent to the National Pencil Company on May 23, 1913; Asst. Supt. H. S. reports. Atlanta, Georgia Sunday, May 18th, 1913. This morning I went to Police Headquarters with Supt. H. B. P. and Detective John Black, and arranged to take a statement from James Conley, the negro sweeper formerly employed at the factory of the National Pencil Co., who has been under arrest for the past two weeks, he being arrested on suspicion when he was seen washing one
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Report of Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott: May 23, 1913

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The following pages contain a correct copy of the report of assistant superintendent Harry Scott dated May 23, 1913, and sent to the National Pencil Company on May 26, 1913. Asst. Supt. H. S. reports: Atlanta, Georgia Thursday, May 22, 1913. This morning I had a long conference with Chief of Detectives Lanford, relative to the case in hand and reviewing what investigation has been made by the Agency and City Police in connection with the case. City Detective Black and myself were then requested to report at Solicitor General Dorsey's office for a conference, which we did, and remained
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Report of Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott: May 24, 1913

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The following pages contain a correct copy of the report of assistant superintendent Harry Scott, dated May 24, 1913, and sent to the National Pencil Company on May 26, 1913: Asst. Supt. H. S. reports: Atlanta, Georgia Saturday, May 24th, 1913. This morning the negro James Conley sent for City Detective John Black, as he stated that he was going to tell him the truth. I accompanied Detective Black to James Connalley's cell at Police Headquarters, when Connally voluntarily stated that he had written notes for Mr. Frank on Friday, April 25th, 1913 and that as he recalled it Mr.
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Report of Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott: May 25 & 27, 1913

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The following pages contain a correct copy of the report of assistant superintendent Harry Scott, dated May 25, 1913 and sent to the National Pencil Company on May 26, 1913. Asst. Supt. H. S. reports: Atlanta, Georgia Sunday, May 25, 1913. This afternoon Detective Black and myself were at Police Headquarters again and had another interview with the negro James Connally, and questioned him very closely regarding the statement made to us yesterday morning by him, but he maintained that it was the truth and we could not secure any further information from Connally. Atlanta, Georgia 5/26/13. Reported. F. The
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Report of Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott: May 28, 1913

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The following pages contain a correct copy of the report of assistant superintendent Harry Scott dated May 28, 1913, and sent to the National Pencil Company on May 31, 1913; Asst. Supt. H. S. reports: Atlanta, Georgia Wednesday, May 28th, 1913. Today Chief of Detectives Lanford and myself had an interview with the negro James Conley again, and after about four hours questioning, we succeeded in having Conley make the enclosed statement to which he made affidavit. We stayed with Conley throughout the entire day, endeavoring to make clear certain points outlined in his statement, which we thought were a
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Report Of L P Whitfield

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The following pages contain a correct copy of the report of L. P. Whitfield, dated May 16, 1913, and sent to the National Pencil Company on May 21, 1913. L.P.W. Atlanta, Georgia Friday, May 16th, 1913. At 7:00 A.M. I went to Police Headquarters and met W. D. MacW. and city detective Black. We requested Black to secure the handwriting of Conley and Bailey, the two prisoners now in the barracks and to learn their movements on April 26th, 1913. At 8:30 A.M. W.D. MacW. and myself went to #59 Bonnie Brae Ave., in East Point, Georgia, for the purpose
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Statement of James Conley: May 18, 1913

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Statement of James Conley, of Atlanta, Georgia made to John R. Black and H. S. at Police Barracks, Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday, May 18th, 1913. My full name is James Conley. I reside at 172 Rhodes St. with Lorena Jones, who claims to be from Marietta, Georgia This woman is not my wife, and I have been living with her a little over two years. I have been having intercourse with Lorena Jones. I have been employed as elevator man and roust about at the National Pencil Co. factory in Atlanta for the past two years. Before going to the
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Statement of James Conley: May 24, 1913

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Statement of James Conley of May 24, 1913. State of Georgia, County of Fulton. Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, in and for the above stated and county, James Conley, who being sworn on oath says: On Friday evening before the holiday, about four minutes to one o'clock, Mr. Frank came up the aisle and asked me to come to his office. That was the aisle on the fourth floor where I was working, and when I went down to the office he asked me could I write and I told him yes I could write a
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Statement of Jim Conley: May 28, 1913

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State of Jim Conley, May 28, 1913. State of Georgia, County of Fulton. Personally appeared before me, a Notary Public, in and for the above State and County, James Conley, who being duly sworn on oath says: I make this statement, my second statement, in regard to the murder of Mary Phagan at the National Pencil Factory. In my first statement I made the statement that I went to the pencil factory on Friday, April 25, 1913, and went to Frank's office at four minutes to one, which is a mistake. I made this statement in regard to Friday in
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Statement of Jim Conley: May 29, 1913

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I discontinued at 6:00 P. M. Reported. Atlanta 5/31/13. Conley's Statement of May 29, 1913. Atlanta, Georgia May 29, 1913. On Saturday April 26, 1913, when I come back to the pencil factory with Mr. Frank I waited for him downstairs like he told me, and when he whistled for me I went upstairs and he asked me if I wanted to make some money right quick and I told him "Yes", sir", and he told me that he had picked up a girl back there and had let her fall and that he head hit against something he didn't
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Testimony of Helen Kerns

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Testimony of Helen Kerns, at trial of Leo M. Frank. Direct Examination: I work for the Dodson Medicine Company as stenographer. My father works for Montag. I took shorthand under Professor Briscoe last winter. I have seen Mr. Frank in his factory. I went there with Professor Briscoe to get a job, I didn't get the position. I was working on the 26th day of April for Bennett Printing Company. That day I got off about 12 o'clock. I then went around in town to the different stores and did some trading. I had an appointment to meet a girl
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The Anti-Defamation League’s Weaponization of Anti-Semitism in the 1913 Leo Frank Trial, the Case that Galvanized its Founding in September 1913.

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By Mary Frances Phagan Kean, June 24, 2025 Was Leo Frank convicted because of Anti-Semitism? Fact Check: FALSE. The Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) Claim of Anti-Semitism Regarding the 1913 summer murder trial of Atlanta B'nai B'rith President Leo Max Frank (July 28 – August 21, Closing Arguments August 21–25), the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) stated: "Anti-Semitism hung heavy in the courtroom." However, this claim is not accurate and is based on malicious academic fraud. Anti-Judaic religious bigotry or ethnic Jew-hatred did not pervade the courtroom during Leo Frank's murder trial in the Fulton County Superior Courthouse at any time during the month-long
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The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story of Atlanta Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery – Introduction

The Frank Case was the first book ever written about the murder of Mary Phagan, a young worker at the National Pencil Company in Atlanta in 1913. The fascinating case includes murder, bribery, legal wrangling, prejudice, and the planting of evidence. Whenever possible I have included photographs to bring the story to life. The complete audio book is available at: archive.org/details/LeoFrankCaseAtlantaGeorgiaGreatestMurderMystery1913_201503
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The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story of Atlanta Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery – Part 1

Our telling of the events that occurred after the death of Mary Phagan, a 13 year old worker at the National Pencil Company in Atlanta Georgia, 1913 begins with Newt Lee, the night watchman doing his rounds. It was the early morning of April 27, 1913 and all was quiet, as usual, until Newt found something that frightened him and caused him to scurry up a ladder.
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The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story of Atlanta Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery – Part 2

The Atlanta police received a shaky phone call from the night watchman at the National Pencil company at 3 in the morning on April 27, 1913. He found the body of a young factory worker who was molested and mutilated and dumped in the basement. You can find more information in these two books: The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Kean (Published in the late 1980s) by the great niece of the rape/slaying victim Little Mary Phagan (June 1, 1899 - April 26, 1913). Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews Volume 3, The Leo Frank Case, The Lynching
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The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story of Atlanta Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery – Part 3

in Chapter 3 the police arrive and tell Leo about the murder of one of his young female factory workers. At first Leo denies knowing her, but then knows that she was having a romantic relationship with a man that he fired a few weeks ago. Newt Lee, the night watchman who discovered the body, was arrested as an early suspect. The police and Leo investigate the scene of the crime. Another young factory girl (listen to the story to find out who) identifies the body.
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The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story of Atlanta Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery – Part 4

Chapter 4 of The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story to Atlanta Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery: To put the story in context make sure, you watch the Table of Contents, Chronology and Chapters 1 to 3 before you watch this episode. This chapter relays the events that occurred following the murder. We begin with the worries of Mary’s mother when she did not come home as expected and end with the gathering of evidence for a conviction. DownLoad Chapter 4 of The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story to Atlanta Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery (Size: 804MB)
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The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story of Atlanta Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery – Part 5

Chapter 5 of The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story to Atlanta Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery: Chapter 5 of the Leo Frank Case, written anonymously in 1915, Atlanta is beginning to become aware of the heinous crime inflicted upon the body of a 13 year old factory girl. The city became fascinated and extra after extra was printed to keep the citizens informed. There were other murders and events at the time, but the murder of Mary Phagan took precedence. The reasons were clear. This case had many facets, including bribery, planting evidence, conflicting witness testimony and much, much more. I
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The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story of Atlanta Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery – Part 6

1913 was a time of transition for our country with horses and automobiles sharing the streets. A murder mystery focused attention away from the disruptions in daily life to a puzzle, whose solution wasn’t immediately gleaned. The complexities of the Mary Phagan murder case were apparent from the beginning. The newspapers took advantage of the controversy to get the public hooked on the story. Extra after extra were published to keep the public informed. Rumors abounded. Speculation was rife. The Leo Frank Case was a book, published anonymously in 1913, relaying the facts. Margaret Huffstickler created the voiceover to bring
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The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story of Atlanta Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery – Part 7

Atlanta newspapers are following the murder of Mary Phagan on April 26, 1913 very closely. There are other deaths at the time, but this story captured the imaginations of the people of Atlanta. Extra after extra kept the people informed as the events unfolded. This chapter describes the first two days of the inquest with highlights from the newspapers and the testimony of local witnesses. This case has many twists and turns and the audiobook presents many of them. The author has a nonjudgemental style and describes much of what went on in vivid detail. The illustrations are created with
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The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story of Atlanta Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery 1913 – Part 8

Chapter 8 of The Leo Frank Case focuses on the testimony of the witnesses at the Coroner Paul Donehoo's inquest on May 5 and 8th, 1913. Included are the findings of the tribunal jury. Leo Frank explains, in detail, his activities on the day of the murder, but there are already inconsistencies. How does he hear her footsteps receding when she was wearing soft-soled shoes? He doesn't know her, but he knows the hue of the dress she was wearing. He identified her by her employee number but he doesn't know her employee number. Keep watching these installments of a
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The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story to Atlanta Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery, Full Series.

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Please watch the full series, herewithin. Introduction to The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story to Atlanta Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery: The Frank Case was the first book ever written about the murder of Mary Phagan, a young worker at the National Pencil Company in Atlanta in 1913. The fascinating case includes murder, bribery, legal wrangling, prejudice, and the planting of evidence. Whenever possible I have included photographs to bring the story to life. The complete audio book is available at: archive.org/details/LeoFrankCaseAtlantaGeorgiaGreatestMurderMystery1913_201503 Download An Introduction to The Leo Frank Case, Inside Story to Atlanta Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery (Size: 1.6GB) Chapter
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 2 of Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume 3, NOI Research Group

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury LOOK AT THE headline and lead article in the Atlanta Georgian newspaper of April 29, 1913, we have illustrated above. Click on this link to see a large and easy-to-read version. "LEE'S GUILT PROVED, Detectives Assert" — "SUSPICION LIFTS FROM FRANK" — "We Have Sufficient Evidence Now to Convict Negro Nightwatchman of Killing Mary Phagan" — "Additional clews furnished by the head of the pencil factory were responsible for the closing net around the negro watchman" — "what suspicion had rested on Frank was being rapidly swept away by the damaging evidence against
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 3 of Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume 3, NOI Research Group

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury THE JEWISH Anti-Defamation League (or ADL) — back in the days when they and their allies had a near-monopoly on public discussion of the Leo Frank case — once made the claim that Leo Frank was arrested and indicted and convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan "without evidence." Listen to this audio book and learn of the vast amount of evidence amassed during four separate investigations into the case — evidence that strongly indicates Frank's guilt — evidence that convinced the coroner's jury, the grand jury, the trial jury — and evidence
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 4 of Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume 3, NOI Research Group

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury WHEN LEO FRANK was first arrested for the murder of Mary Phagan, his and his defense team's major focus was placing the blame on Newt Lee, the Black night watchman who discovered the murdered girl's body. They were so eager to avoid any attention being given to another Black man, Jim Conley, the factory sweeper who later was shown to be Frank's accessory after the fact — that they totally ignored the sighting of Conley by a witness on the day of the murder. This was a most unusual and revealing omission, since
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 5 of Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume 3, NOI Research Group

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury JIM Conley's testimony in the Leo Frank case riveted the attention of not only all those present in the courtroom, but the entire state of Georgia and beyond hung on his words as they were reported. Despite being a member of a disparaged minority, Conley's word was given respectful attention — and ultimately was even believed over the word of Leo Frank, an elite Jewish man considered white by the standards of the American South. This was unprecedented, but it was also inevitable given the detail, plausibility, and unshakable nature of Conley's evidence.
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 6 of Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume 3, NOI Research Group

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury PARTISANS OF Leo Frank have often tried to discredit Jim Conley's testimony by pointing out that his account of the visit of Corinthia Hall and Emma Clark to the pencil factory where the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan took place was off by more than an hour. But these Frank partisans fail to note that Conley never stated that he saw the two young woman at all — he was merely told that they were there by Leo Frank, who had hustled him into a dark, locked closet after Frank announced the two
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 7 of Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume 3, NOI Research Group

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury WE HEAR A LOT today about people "playing the race card" — using race unjustly in a dispute, or as a moral bludgeon to obscure the facts. In 1913 Atlanta, the Leo Frank defense team played the race card — and in a very big way. Interestingly, the pro-Frank forces used race in a way that most people would find grossly unacceptable today: crudely attacking prosecution witness James Conley, a black man, in open court and on the record as a "dirty," "lying," "thieving" "nigger" — and characterizing the sex killing of Mary
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 8

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury THE PROSECUTION in the Leo Frank case never mentioned the word "Jew" until it was brought up by the defense — and lead prosecutor Hugh Dorsey had a long history of friendly relations and close collaboration with Jews throughout his life and career. So the accusation, common today among pro-Frank partisans, that the indictment and prosecution of Leo Max Frank was motivated by "anti-Semitism" simply doesn't stand up to even the slightest scrutiny. In this, the eighth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam — part of
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 9

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury JEWISH WRITERS on the Leo Frank case have made some astounding claims about the "atmosphere of anti-Semitism" during the trial of B'nai B'rith official Leo Frank for the strangulation sex murder of his 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in 1913 Atlanta. There were, we are told, "anti-Semitic" mobs (yes, plural) on the streets, some right outside the open courtroom windows, openly threatening the judge and the jury, screaming "crack the Jew's neck!" and "hang the Jew or we'll hang you!" and the like. It is even claimed that Jew-haters with rifles stood almost on
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 10

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury THE "Hang the Jew" hoax — the claim that "anti-Semitic mobs" stood outside the courtroom during the 1913 Atlanta murder trial of Leo Frank, shouting "hang the Jew or we'll hang you" or the like and thereby intimidating the jury — was demolished during our audio book segment last week, and shown to be an invention totally unsupported by the facts. This week we hear in detail how that hoax has been cut and pasted, repeated, amplified, mangled, and embellished by lazy, sloppy, and partisan academics, writers, and journalists over the years. One
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 11

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury ALMOST THE ENTIRE pro-Leo Frank narrative is dependent on one claim: that Prosecutor Hugh Dorsey fabricated James Conley's story (or edited and embellished a story made up by Conley) and then coached him to deliver it skillfully on the witness stand. If Conley's story was not fiction, and not the result of conspiracy, collusion, and coaching; then it must be true — and Leo Frank must be guilty. Thus everything depends on the "coaching" allegation. In this week's audio book section, we'll see how untenable is the "coaching" claim. Why would Dorsey and
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 12

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury TO HEAR the attacks made on the character of James Conley — a major witness against Leo Frank when Frank was tried for murdering a 13-year-old girl in his employ, Mary Phagan — you could easily be forgiven for assuming that you were hearing a speech from a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan instead of the words of B'nai B'rith-associated Frank and his defenders, so harsh were the racial attacks and epithets used against the Black man. Such was the race-baiting nature of the immense nationwide publicity campaign waged by Jewish
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 13

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury THE CRIMINAL ACTS of the Leo Frank forces as they attempted to get a new trial for their client — or invalidate the results of the original trial — are so numerous, so outrageous, so obvious, and so egregious that — once you hear about them in this new audio book — you will be outraged at how academia and the media have kept these facts from you. Did you know an attempt was made to pay an inmate to poison one of the state's main witnesses, James Conley? In fact, it's fair
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 14

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury WAS THERE REALLY an anti-Jewish and anti-Frank "mob atmosphere" at Leo Frank's trial, as Frank partisans have alleged? If there was, then how did Mrs. Frank get away with calling Prosecutor Dorsey a "Gentile dog" in open court, and then suffer no consequences whatever? Why did such a provocation result in zero retaliation by anyone, much less a "mob," and zero repercussions for any Jew or the Jewish community as a whole? In fact, Jewish businessmen in Atlanta continued to advertise and sell and prosper just as they had before, and Mrs. Frank
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 15

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury WHO LYNCHED Leo Frank? The culpability is often laid at the feet of a "mob" in the popular literature that promotes the Establishment's narrative of the case. But was it a mob? How many "mobs" consist of the leading citizens of the community? How many "mobs" have as their leaders no fewer than two Superior Court judges? A very curious mob indeed! (ILLUSTRATION: On the day after the lynching of Leo Frank, a crowd gathered at the site, where Frank's body still hung for some hours.) In this, the fifteenth audio segment of
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 16

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury IS IT POSSIBLE that the Jewish community — namely, the same forces that launched the massive public relations campaign portraying Leo Frank as an innocent victim of "anti-Semitism" — had a hand in murdering him? If not, then why did the Jewish-owned New York Times (the flagship of the Frank publicity machine) create the evidently fictional "Knights of Mary Phagan" and position them as wanting to lynch Frank some months before the actual lynching? Was one motivation their fear that the repellent and perverse personality of a released Frank would undo all the
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 17

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury WHILE THE supposedly angelic and innocent Leo Frank and his alleged persecution at the hands of "anti-Semites" was a propaganda asset to the Jewish establishment, did it eventually dawn on Jewish leadership that the real Leo Frank, during any possible new trial they might obtain for him with all its inevitable revelations, might be a disaster for Jewish interests? (ILLUSTRATION: Albert Lasker, Jewish advertising wizard and kingpin of the Leo Frank PR campaign; despite his efforts for Frank, he said Frank impressed him "as a sexual pervert.") In this, the seventeenth audio segment
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 18

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury WHICH GETS MORE coverage in the media: the singular instance of one solitary Jew, Leo Frank (who was duly convicted of the sex murder of a young girl), being lynched — or the literally hundreds of Black men lynched around the same time in the South without even the pretense of a trial, and often for such insubstantial and unsupportable accusations as "wild talk" or "pay dispute"? You may be sure that throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, it is the single case of a Jew being lynched that receives the
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 19

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury THE TESTIMONY of Black men and women was pivotal in the trial of Leo M. Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan, and was so regarded by both the prosecution and defense. But little-heralded then, or now, is the horribly bad treatment these Black witnesses repeatedly received. The prosecution often "sweated" or gave Black witnesses "the Third Degree" — which meant physically or verbally threatening or abusing them, with the idea being that only under such severe fear would Black people tell the truth. Even the man on trial, the man the prosecution
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 20

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury ONE OF the most mysterious aspects of the Leo Frank case is the series of "death notes," four of which were written, according to testimony, but only two of which were ever found. They were discovered right next to the dead body of Frank's victim, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. If taken at face value, they appear as though they were written by Mary while she was being assaulted. But they also are written in an approximation of the African-American vernacular of that time and in a semi-literate style that Mary Phagan would have been extremely
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 21

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury THE "death notes" left beside Mary Phagan's body when she was murdered in 1913 have been the subject of endless speculation. Were the notes written by James Conley at the direction of Mary's convicted killer, Leo Frank? — or were they Conley's creation alone? — or were they purpose-written by Frank, using Conley's writing as a guide, in order to throw suspicion away from the real killer and onto a Black man?   In this, the twenty-first audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 22

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury ONE OF the weirdest aspects of the Leo Frank case was the — shall we say — strained effort of the Frank team to make some human excrement found in the National Pencil Company elevator shaft into a "proof" that Leo Frank was innocent of murdering Mary Phagan. This so-called "shit in the shaft" theory was based on the overwhelming fear of the Frank defense that the use of that elevator to move Mary's body — evidenced by dragging marks in the basement's dirt floor leading from the elevator to precisely where the
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 23

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury ATTORNEY WILLIAM SMITH traded his "free" services as a lawyer for James Conley for the influence of an agent of the William Burns detective agency, Dan Lehon, in an unrelated abduction case — illustrating either extreme naïveté or weak legal ethics on Smith's part. Smith's defection from advocate for Conley to accusing him of murder is a very strange about-face. But sudden about-faces abound in the Leo Frank case, especially involving people 1) who had strong evidence against Leo Frank, and 2) who subsequently had close contact with agents of the William Burns
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 24

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury THERE HAS NEVER been a better refutation of the 1982 supposed testimony of Alonzo Mann "exonerating" Leo Frank of the charge of murder than in this book by the Historical Research Department of the Nation of Islam. They bring up the points that writers for the Mercury have brought up casting considerable doubt on Mann's story, but add new information that, to this writer's knowledge, has never been published before. It is the definitive deconstruction of the Mann fable, which was used in the 1980s as a bludgeon by the ADL — twice
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 25

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury THE PROPAGANDA DISGUISED as journalism put forth by the partisans of Leo Frank has been ongoing for more than a century now. But for pure bluster, shallowness, self-promotion, and incompetence, there is none as egregious as the Nashville Tennessean's money-fueled subsidy and promotion of the Alonzo Mann hoax in 1982. (ILLUSTRATION: The cartoonish illustration for the Nashville Tennessean's publication of Alonzo Mann's "revelations" was an apt harbinger of the bad journalism to follow.)   In this, the twenty-fifth audio segment of this ground-breaking work originally published by the Nation of Islam, part of their
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 26

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury THE LEO Frank case marked the maturation of — and radical changes in — the organized Jewish strategies relating to both whites and blacks in the United States. Prior to the Frank case, Jewish groups had definitely positioned themselves (whatever they privately thought, which may have been quite different) as a white ethnicity, and in the South they fully supported segregation, Jim Crow laws, and the social and legal supremacy of whites. After the Leo Frank case, however, organized Jewish interests increasingly portrayed themselves as a "persecuted minority," suffering under widespread "anti-Semitism," and
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 27

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by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury AS WE NEAR the end of this monumental audio book, we hear the long and moving list of lynching victims, contemporaries of Leo Frank — dozens upon dozens of names, and even some poor souls without names, so unsung were they and so uninvestigated were their murders. After hearing and comprehending the magnitude of these extrajudicial killings, it will become impossible for you to believe in the mainstream media's — and the ADL's — emphasis on Leo Frank as the main or only lynching victim worth knowing about, or their promotion of the
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 28

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by Philip St. Raymondfor The American Mercury THE TITLE of this section of the book — "Who's Who in the Leo Frank Case" — might sound like it's describing a dry, lifeless list of names. But it is not. This is a most valuable and interesting piece for every serious student of the Leo Frank case. It puts all the players into perspective, with brief but significant details about the role of each. It makes an excellent refresher as we near the end of the book. Most striking to me was the fact that, early on in the case, so many
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The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 29

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by Philip St. Raymondfor The American Mercury WITH THIS audio recording, "Leo Frank Case Timeline," we come to the final section of this important book. In combination with last week's section setting forth the dramatis personae of this tragic, gripping tale, the listener can put the entire case in proper perspective. And over all these chapters, what an education the listener has received! — in factual accuracy and understanding of the real power vectors involved, far beyond anything even graduate-level courses in American universities, still shamefully wedded to the obviously false ADL/Jewish narrative, can offer on the subject.   In this,
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The Murder of Little Mary Phagan (2025 Edition) by Mary Phagan Kean

Important Book Launch: The Murder of Little Mary Phagan (2025 Edition) by Mary Phagan Kean Help preserve this important history by getting your copy of the book at In September 2025, an important milestone has been reached with the release of Mary Phagan Kean’s newly revised and expanded edition of The Murder of Little Mary Phagan. The launch takes place during the 112th anniversary of Leo Frank’s conviction on August 25, 1913, and carries forward a long effort to preserve truth and historical accuracy surrounding one of the most talked about trials in American history. Mary Phagan Kean is the
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The People Verses Leo frank

In 1913, little Mary Phagan is found dead at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta. Police quickly decide that the Jewish Superintendent, Leo Frank, was responsible. The trial commences with prosecution and defense lawyers using ad hominen as the base for their arguments. From 1913 to 1915, this murder, trial, and aftermath gained notoriety worldwide. The resulting trial result of guilty to this date has been contested, but has repeatedly been upheld by the supreme court - the argument of antisemitism by the jury largely discredited by Jewish jury members who also found him guilty. One hundred years later it
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ADL: Protecting Pedophiles Since 1913 Telecast on Stew Peters Network – Host Stew Peters Features Special Guest: Mary Phagan Kean, Interview About Attempts by Jewish Groups to Exonerate Sex Predator and Lethal Child-Molester, Leo Max Frank Over the Years, Broadcast on March 11, 2025. Guest Post Christy Williams.

The Stew Peters Show | Aired March 11, 2025 | ADL: Protecting Child Molesters Since 1913 Abridged Quotes Paraphrased: Stewart Peters: "Good evening, and welcome to a very special edition of the Stew Peters Show. There are very few political organizations in this country and around the world today with as much power as the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, also known as ADL... Mary Phagan Kean, who has rarely done interviews during the last 40 years, explains why she agreed to speak about the case with SP." Mary Phagan Kean: "We have a former Governor of Georgia, Roy Barnes,
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The Truth About the Murder of Mary Phagan – Fight Back

On April 26th, 1913, 14 year old Mary Phagan was murdered in Atlanta, Georgia, and her body was found in a factory basement the following day. The resulting arrest and conviction of Leo Frank led to the creation of the ADL - who still claim to this day his innocence. In today's episode, Jake interviews the great-niece of Mary Phagan, Mary Phagan Kean, who explains the truth of what really happened that day.
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They Won’t Forget 1937 by Mervyn LeRoy

They Won't Forget is a 1937 American drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, and Lana Turner, in her feature debut. It was based on a novel by Ward Greene called Death in the Deep South, which was in turn a fictionalized account of a real-life case: the trial and subsequent lynching of Leo Frank after the murder of Mary Phagan in 1913. A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Memorial Day. A district attorney with political ambitions, Andrew Griffin, sees the crime as his
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Watson’s Magazine – Little Mary Phagan

Watson's Magazine newspapers about the Phagan-Frank case will be listed here. You can search for a particular date, headline, or any word on the page by hitting CTRL-F on your keyboard (command-F for Mac computers). 1915 January, 1915: The Leo Frank Case (Watson's Magazine)March, 1915: A Full Review of the Leo Frank Case (Watson's Magazine)August, 1915: The Celebrated Case of The State of Georgia vs. Leo Frank (Watson's Magazine)September, 1915: The Official Record in the Case of Leo Frank, a Jew Pervert (Watson's Magazine)October, 1915: The Rich Jews Indict a State! The Whole South Traduced (Watson's Magazine)
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Quora: Why does Wikipedia say that Leo Frank was likely innocent? By Mark Sims

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  Why does Wikipedia say that Leo Frank was likely innocent? For this answer, I’ll provide two levels of opposing zoom-in and zoom-out magnification, so that you dear reader can have the deepest penetrating and broadest god’s-eye understanding of how this disinformation encyclopedia known as Wikipedia functions in our dystopian reality. What you will come to understand in the forgoing conclusion is, “In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”—George Orwell. Video: Zionist Editing Course of Wikipedia at Hasbara Technical University. The Skybound View From a Hubble telescopic view of this gargantuan online compendium of
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