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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