09 Chapter V Crime Stirs Atlanta Leo Frank Case 1913
The city of Atlanta was deeply disturbed, as it had never been before, upon learning that Mary Phagan had been killed in the National Pencil factory's basement. Excitement had been raised by the well-known Grace case. Much interest had been piqued by Mrs. Callie Scott Applebaum's trial. However, the enigma surrounding Mary Phagan's murder and the heinousness of the act came together to create a sensation that persisted for months after the required nine days. A mystery for which there might never be a conclusion.
There is a mystery surrounding this case that will make it the most well-known in Georgia's criminal history. Everyone was mentioning Mary Phagan's name. The papers were released one after another on Monday morning after the murder.
Dozens of them were taken up. The public appeared to be enthralled with the horrific crime and could not get enough of it. The end result was an abundance of rumors, most of them highly sensational, that the people spreading them claimed would help identify the murderer. This inundated the Atlanta Police Department.
After reports of other suspects led to the arrest of another man before that first Sunday ended, the public at large unanimously declared that mute Lee was the guilty man. He was the supposed friend of the deceased girls, Arthur Mullen Axe, a former streetcar conductor. Per E's statement, Mullen Axe was taken into custody. L. Sentell is a CJ employee. The man with Mary Phagan was sighted by a camper grocery company employee at 12:30 in the morning. me.
Strolling along Forsyth Street close to the pencil factory on the morning of the murder. Sentell told the police that he had known Mary Phagan for years and that he was certain she was the girl he had seen on the street. He added that he was even more shocked when he saw her approaching and realized she was the little Phagan girl. He claimed that as the pair went by, he said, "Hello, Mary," to which she replied, "Hello." Mullinax was quickly taken into custody by the authorities and brought to the police station late on Sunday night.
He was positively identified by Sentell as the man he claimed to have seen with Mary Phagan. When Mullinax was being taken into custody, there was a throng at the police station, and he received multiple threats to his life. This was an example of how enraged the public was. The suspect angrily denied being innocent to the police, saying he had only ever met Mary Phagan once at a Christmas performance and that he knew her only by sight.
He was placed in a different cell after the officers decided to keep him under suspicion. Another suspect, J.M. Gantt, was taken into custody in Marietta on Monday.
Many unsettling details suggested that Gantt was aware of the crime. It was established that he knew Mary Phagan. On Saturday afternoon, he had visited the factory.
He knew the building from his days as an employee at the factory. Mrs. F.C. Terrell, the sister of Gantt. After Gantt had spent the night there on Friday, officers tracked down Terrell at her home at 28 East Linden Street. She recounted his movements in conflicting ways.
Officers concluded they were headed in the right direction after that. Gantt was taken into custody on Monday morning after being accused of Mary Phagan's murder in a warrant. He was taken to Atlanta and reunited with Lee and Mullinax in the station house just as he got out of the car at Marietta.
Gantt gave a straightforward account of his experiences, acknowledging that he had been let go from the factory a few weeks prior. He then explained that he had returned on Saturday to retrieve some shoes he had left behind, and that by traveling to Marietta at that unfortunate hour, he was only carrying out plans he had made with his mother days earlier. Gantt attempted to obtain his release from custody by requesting a writ of habeas corpus the morning after his arrest. However, both he and Mullinax were set free before it could be implemented.
On May 1, after each person provided testimony at the coroner's inquest that unambiguously established their alibi. Mullinax's release was primarily made possible by Pearl Robinson, his fiancée, who came forward to testify that she was the girl Sentell had seen with him. Later on in the trial, Gantt was subpoenaed as a witness, and Mullinax was not even called as a witness because it was found that he knew the case very little.
In the days that followed the murder, the police had numerous rumors to investigate, dispel, or corroborate, of which Gantt and Mullinax were just two. There are rumors of a red-dressed girl who claimed to know something about the crime being witnessed in Marietta being taken away in a car on a Saturday morning and drugged. The police had plenty of friends thanks to rumors and rumors of rumors.
Among the least of them led to the arrest of Paul Bowen, a former Atlanta resident who was acquainted with Mary Phagan, in distant Houston, Texas. The day following his apprehension, on May 7, Bowen managed to furnish an alibi without having to make the arduous journey back to Atlanta. It's interesting to remember that Bowen's arrest was used as justification to fire half of Houston's detective force at the time due to the friendly political climate in the city at the time.
When it was revealed that the Pencil factory authorities had hired local Pinkerton detectives to help track down the murderer, the police were allegedly given assistance on the Monday after the killing. There were so many rumors going around on Monday, April 28, that not much real progress on the Phagan case had been made. The coroner's jury was empaneled in the investigation and met with coroner Paul Donahue in the Pencil Factory's metal room during the morning.
After examining the body and the crime scene, it was adjourned right away. One noteworthy finding of the day was bloodstains on the metal room floor, which led investigators to believe that the Phagan girl was killed there rather than in the basement as initially believed and that her body was subsequently dragged there. The little girl's death and how it occurred were the subject of numerous theories, of which this was only one. Thus, on Monday, April 28, the drama came to an end, with the men who would later play the main roles in it still at large and the three suspects—Lee, Gantt, and Mullinax—all in jail.
Within the next twenty-four hours, one of them was to be arrested.
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08 Chapter IV Mother Hears of Murder - Leo Frank Case 1913
Memorial Day dawned gloomy, foggy, and overcast and witnesses recounted Mary's actions on that final Saturday of her life. We were on vacation.
For weeks, she had been the first of the little factory girl who worked so hard from dawn to night. After dinner, she was going to town, getting her dollar twenty at the factory, and then spending the rest of the day watching the parade of veterans down Peachtree Street. She left the house, which she would never see again, just before noon, having hastily eaten her simple dinner of cabbage and biscuits.
By midday, she got on a streetcar and headed into the city. George Epps, the freckle-faced, toe-headed NEWSBOY who lived close to Mary and whom she had always liked, was on the car. Before they parted, Mary had promised to meet her little friend at 1:00 and watch the boys march in grey at Marietta and Forsyth Street, which is just over a block from the factory, where they had sat together on the car.
George Epps reported that Mary got out of the car and proceeded down Forsyth Street, claiming to be heading to the factory. At twelve-07:30 p.m., this car was supposed to arrive at the intersection of broader Marietta streets, one block away from her previous location. me. When Mary had not met George Epps as promised, late that night, George Epps ran over to the Fagan house to find out why.
Mary had not been home at all, and he found her mother frantic with worry.
At Mrs. Coleman's request, J.W. Coleman, Mary's stepfather, ventured into the city to see if he could locate Mary anywhere she might have gone to the Bijou Theatre with a few of her girlfriends. Mary's Mom said to her husband, "See if you can't find her down there?" after he left. Upon arriving at the Bijou, Mr. Coleman waited for the show to end and observed the line of people leaving, but he was never able to catch a glimpse of the young girl he was looking for.
When he got back to the house at 146 Lindsay Street, he offered the bereaved mother comfort by speculating that Mary might have visited her grandmother in Marietta. According to Mr. Coleman, she was always beginning to do that; it's likely that she simply made the decision to leave after receiving her paycheck.
Saturday the mother's heart was aching, but she managed to quiet all outward fears. And yet, she wondered where her little girl was the entire length of the night. The Fagan residence was knocked on early on Sunday morning, April 27.
A message about Mary arrived at the threshold, as the mother's heart informed her. The door was manned by a pale girl with a sorrowful expression in her eyes and a hard time speaking the terrible words she had come to deliver. She was Helen Ferguson, a neighbor.
She started out as Mary. Mother's heart told the story. but deceased.
Crying, she undressed all the way down. Yes, dead. Gone.
The girl sobbed, breaking into a storm of weeping. Other members of the family came running to the door. The mother swooned and was supported to a couch within the home.
There she lay for days afterwards unable to speak save to ask piteously for her little daughter. The news once broken to the Fagan family. Mr.
Coleman rushed to the town in order to view the body of the young child who had grown to mean even more to him than a daughter. At Bloomfield, the undertakers, Will Geesling, an assistant, showed him the body and the old man positively identified it. Just one of many people who examined the body out of morbid curiosity that day and the next day.
The same that caused hundreds to stare at the empty walls of the pencil factory and then gather for hours outside the courtroom where the trial was held caused thousands to steal a glance at the corpse of a girl who had been brutally and enigmaticly murdered. The largest crowds looked on the body of Mary Fagan that have ever seen a dead body in the history of the city of Atlanta. It is estimated that 20,000 saw the remains while they were at the undertaking establishment while many hundreds viewed them at the funeral at Marietta.
The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon. Before that, however, physicians made an examination of Mary Fagan's body although the result of their probe was kept a profound secret until the trial. On Tuesday afternoon, April 29 the body of the little girl was laid to rest in the old family cemetery at Marietta, Georgia 20 miles from Atlanta while members of family and scores and friends stood by weeping bitterly.
Dr. H.F. Harris ordered the body to be exhumed on May 7 so that he could perform a minute examination of the stomach and other important organs from the California Board of Health. What he found out was known only to himself as the state solicitor until he testified on the witness stand at the trial nearly three months later.
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07 Chapter III Frank views body Leo Frank Case 1913 February 2022
Frank View's body at five o'clock on a calm Sabbath morning, the law's drag leg was out for the little factory girl's murderer. Newt Lee was brought to the station house as soon as he was arrested, where attempts were made to identify the deceased child. While the officers were still at the pencil factory, Deputy Rogers informed them that he knew a girl who worked there who was likely able to identify the murdered child by looking at her.
He mentioned her as his sister-in-law. At 100 McDonough Road resided Grace Hicks. Rogers made the decision to pursue both his device and her. He returned with Miss Hicks just before daybreak, taking her to A.J.P's morgue. The body had been taken to Bloomfield. Grace Hicks examined the lacerated body there. It's the young girl who was manning the machine beside me. With those last words, she sobbed and said, "It's Mary Phagan.".
Other police officers, as well as detective agencies, had been active at the crime scene in the interim. Around 5:30 a.m. me. At his residence at 68 East Georgia Avenue, Frank was called by Detective Stars, who informed him of an incident at the factory and promised to send for him in a car.
Rogers and Detective John Black then proceeded to the Frank residence shortly after daybreak. Mrs. Frank held open the door for them, and her husband emerged right away.
Frank asked them if anything had happened at the pencil factory, but they told him to grab his coat and come with them, according to Black and Rogers' story. Black later reported that Frank was dressed only in his collar and tie, and that he seemed very tense, rubbing his hands all the time. Roger's vehicle carried the three of them as they hurriedly headed toward the town.
While traveling, Black inquired about Frank's acquaintance with a girl named Mary Phagan. The superintendent allegedly replied by promising to check the factory payroll. Black informed Frank of the decision at this point. The three of them looked at Mary Phagan's body at the undertakers while en-route to the factory.
When asked if he knew her, Frank allegedly said he thought so and that he would confirm at the factory. On their way to the factory at dawn, the three of them left the undertakers. A small group of men was waiting outside the factory door as word of the murder had already spread throughout the town.
N was one of them. VII. Frank had asked his wife to inform Darling, the factory's general foreman, before he left the house.
Frank called out to the foreman, who promptly led the superintendent up the stairs to Frank's office. The guy left. Upon opening the safe and extracting a blank book, the superintendent traced a column of names until he came to a stop at Mary Phagan's name. She gazed up from the page.
Yes, Frank replied. Roger's story goes that she came in yesterday to pick up her paycheck. I believe my stenographer departed at 12:00.
After the office boy left a few minutes later, she arrived and collected her pay. We were at 1215. Frank brushed his hands, stepped quickly away from the book, and inquired as to whether any evidence of the pay envelope had been discovered in the factory.
None had been present. See the location where the girl's body was discovered was the superintendent's next request. The foreman, superintendent, and officers entered the elevator that led to the base.
Initially, it was reported that Frank approached a switchbox near the elevator, informed the officers that he was used to it being locked, unlocked it, activated the machinery, and the elevator began its descent. Frank was so anxious that he failed to notice that the elevator rope was caught. Helping him to let go of it was Darley reaching over.
The group went back upstairs after seeing the room in the basement where the body was discovered. Frank is quoted as saying, "Newt Lee has worked for us for a short time, but Darley's known him for a long time.". Darley is one of the people who can extract the most from him.
As they made their way back to the first floor, someone proposed that they all head to the station house. Frank turned to Darley at that point and reportedly said, "I guess I'd better put a new slip on the clock.". Boots Rogers's testimony, which he provided later, best describes what transpired next. While glancing at the location where little Mary Phagan was discovered dead, Frank said, "That's too bad," but he didn't say much about the murder.
According to Rogers, when Frank discussed a fresh slip with Darley regarding the clock, the foreman concurred with him. According to Rogers, Frank removed the time slip, opened the lock on the right door, and took his keys out of his pocket. After looking over the slip, he declared it to be perfectly punched.
Lee stood nearby, his hands bound. Darley was there too. Frank placed the time slip on the table and went into his office, returning with a blank slip after confirming that it was punched correctly.
A few of us looked over the slip that was taken from the clock while he was in the office getting the new one. Frank asked a couple of us to assist him while I held a lever while he put in the new slip. Asking Lee why it was there, Frank discovered a pencil in one of the punch holes.
According to the Negro, he placed the pencil there to ensure he punched the correct hole without error. Frank unlocked the clock and penciled April 26, 1913, on the slip's margin. He then took the slip back into the inner office after folding it.
Just the first two punches were visible when I looked over the slip, with one particularly being punched at or 633. He saw nothing but skips. He reasoned that he would have noticed any omissions from the factory if there had been any.
Still inside Rogers' machine—which had genuinely seen rough use that Sunday morning—Frank and the officers proceeded to the police station. Darley took the front seat with Rogers, Lee in the back, and Detective Black in the middle. Frank had taken a seat on Darley's knee.
He shuddered wildly. Darley stated. According to reports, Frank made a nervous spring out of the car at the police station, bounded into the chief detective's office, and spoke in a clipped, fast-talking style.
Frank informed them of the Saturday morning visit by a certain J to the factory during their talk in the detective's office. M. Gantt, a young man who had just been let out of the factory, returned that afternoon in search of some shoes he had left behind.
Frank informed the detectives that Gantt had a close relationship with Mary Phagan. This statement led the detective force to begin searching for Gantt, with detectives searching for multiple suspects and mute Lee being detained in the station due to suspicions that he had visited Frank at home. It was the end of the first day in the well-known Mary Phagan case.
Crowds had been moving back and forth along Forsyth Street all through that silent Sabbath, content to just stand and stare at the structure where Black murder had taken place. The general public was not allowed anywhere inside the factory, despite the fact that officers kept a constant eye on everyone entering and leaving. Mary Phagan had left her little Bellwood house on Saturday, alive and well, but in the interim, there was grief there.
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Chapter 2 Censored
The same clock that sounded the hour that Newt Lee left for his rounds of the factory building also sounded the hour that three officers at the Atlanta police station were released from their night's work. The night had been simple for police reporters. The big presses in the office were cranking out pages of printed material for city residents to pass the time on Sundays between breakfast and the start of church, but easy nights are tiring nights, and the welcome hour meant that.
Until tomorrow, Chief. As they stumbled down the station house's stone steps, they shouted. Dear boys, good night.
The two of them emerged from the crowds of merry, laughing colored people that had surrounded them earlier that day onto Decatur Street, which was foggy with the evening mist. Only the lingering smell of fried fish and the stench of hot dogs could be detected from the throng of people who had once filled the street from curb to curb. One person asked, "Where is Britt?".
I guess howled in Boots Rogers' car, the other remarked, and the two laughed. As a result, the third reporter was left in the car while the officers sat back in their chairs inside the station house and droned away the remaining hours until dawn. A thin smudge of light was already forming over the hazy skyline to the east.
The arc lights on the street burned blue, and the hands on the station clock were slowly advancing to three o'clock. The officer who had been brought in earlier that evening on a charge of disorderly conduct heard the gulping slumps of amigris from someplace in the cells at the back of the station. She had screamed and moaned all night long until exhaustion had left her with only those raccoon sobs.
A large man who was close to the door and whose chevrons indicated that he was in charge of a department growled, "Sergeant.". The sergeant sighed and clumped off toward the rear, swinging keys, "Make that woman shut up, will you.". The telephone rang as Boots Rogers' deputy was about to start the Grace case's nth exposition.
Well," remarked Officer W. C. Anderson. Who is calling at this time of the night? He slowly stood up, made his way to the phone booth door, and opened it. His fellow officers gave him a fleeting glance up before settling back in their chairs.
Please move along. It was the booth, saying, "Hello.". This is, in fact, the police station.
You'll need to speak more slowly, old man. You baffle me. Then he heard from the black man several blocks away who was cowering in fear in the shadows of the pencil factory and speaking in a trembling voice about a dead girl discovered in the National Pencil Factory's basement on Forsyth Street.
The drowsy officers jumped to their feet, wide awake a minute to the emergency as Officer Anderson crashed out of the phone booth with his news. Rogers yelled, "My machine's in front.". Move along.
He was on the sidewalk in an instant, followed closely by Anderson. Together, they jumped into the car, roused the sleeping reporter, and drove up the silent street, sputtering and flooring, leaving the other officers gaping behind them as they followed a trail of dust and a winking red light. Two men were seen standing at the intersection of Prior and Decatur streets as the machine got closer to them.
Officers Dobbs and Brown were them. The car started to slouch. Enter now.
Rogers exclaimed. Without much of a pause, the large vehicle continued to rock up Marietta Street before swerving into the black pile that they recognized as the National Pencil Company and coming to a stop. Four men got off the vehicle.
Officer Anderson banged on the door with clenched fists as everyone was breathing heavily from excitement. From inside, a quiet tread could be heard. Newt Lee's terrified face peered out at them as the latch grated angrily.
His teeth were chattering, and the whites of his eyes were rolling. They shot at him and had entered the dark portal of the factory with Lee in front and Anderson right behind him. Before he could speak, each officer asked himself, "Where's the body?" They shot at him. The men marched in single file toward the scuttle hole, each holding a revolver in his fist.
Fearfully pointing to the object in the corner, Newt Lee led the group down the ladder and into the shadows. That's all, he murmured. The officers knelt and peered at the girl's horrifyingly dismembered body.
She was motionless as she lay in the sawdust, her feet diagonally across toward the right back corner and her head pointing forward. The face was turned toward the wall and was uncut and bruised with grime. The men knelt down to perform a closer inspection, and as they did so, the severity of the wounds became clear to them.
They could make out her torn-up hair, which was clearly that of a white person and was darkly stained with blood that had oozed from an aggressive blow to the back of the head. The silk lavender dress was stained with blood, and the blue ribbon that had been tied on so carelessly just a few hours earlier was now dirty and wilted. One small white slipper was still clinging to the right foot. There was a thick cord around the neck that had made deep cuts in the skin.
A crudely made gag made of fabric torn from her dress formed around her head. The body was turned over by them. The underskirt was torn to pieces.
A stocking supporter was broken. The white stocking drooped nearly to the knee. My God, it's just a kid, Sergeant Brown exclaimed as he threw his head back.
Sergeant Dobbs had been investigating the cellar floor for a moment while they were still standing there. He discovered the girl's other slipper a short distance away. Her flimsy little hat was placed close to the elevator shaft.
Then he made a finding. He held up two dirty pieces of yellow paper that had been scrawled with obnoxious letters as he turned toward the lantern light. The police officers read the notes.
He said he would love me, and he laid down like a night witch. However, that tall, lean black man did it all by himself. Mama, the other reader that Negro employed down here committed this.
He shoved me down this hole as I went to get water. I write while with a long, tall, black Negro who has a lean build. The quick flash of suspicion already borne in the minds of all the white men present turned toward the black man Lee, wondering what this was, what did they mean, and had the man who wrote these notes committed this heinous act.
The watchman was suddenly approached by Anderson, who threw a rough hand on his shoulder. You've accomplished this, he croaked. For the love of God I didn't, white people a second later Anderson had slipped the handcuffs on his wrists, and Newt Lee was being detained for murder.
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The Frank Case, Atlanta 1913. Chapter 2 Part VI. The Police Reach Scene 1
Three men at the Atlanta police station were freed from their night's work by the same clock that had blasted the hour that had dispatched Newt Lee on his rounds of the factory building. The night had been simple for police reporters. However, easy nights are tiring nights, and the welcome hour meant that the large presses up in the office were cranking out pages of printed matter for the city residents to pass the time on Sundays between breakfast and the start of church.
Goodnight, Chief. While descending the station house's stone steps, they shouted. Good night, guys.
The two of them emerged from the crowds of merry, laughing colored people that had surrounded them earlier that day onto Decatur Street, which was foggy with the evening mist. Only the hot dog stench and the lingering smell of fried fish were left of the throng of people that had once filled the street from curb to curb. One asked, "Where's Brit?" The other responded, "I guess hauled in Boots Rogers car," and the two laughed. As a result, the second reporter was left in the car, and the officers in the station house sat back in their chairs and continued to work until dawn. A thin smudge of light was already emerging over the smoky eastern skyline.
The hands on the station clock were stuttering toward the hour of three while the arc lights in the street burned blue. The officer who had been brought in earlier that evening on a charge of disorderly conduct heard the gulping sobs of an egress from somewhere in the cells at the back of the station. She had screamed and complained all night long, and only those agonizing sobs came as a result of exhaustion.
Near the door, a large man with chevrons proclaiming him to be in charge of a department growled, "Sergeant.". The sergeant sighed and clumped off toward the back, swinging keys, "Make that woman shut up, will you.". The telephone rang as Boots Rogers' deputy was about to start the Grace case's nth exposition.
"Well," remarked Officer W. T. Anderson. He strode drowsily to the door of the phone booth and swung it open, wondering who's ringing up at this hour of the night. His fellow officers gave him a fleeting glance up before reclining in their chairs. Mum, come on. "Hello," came from the booth. The police station is located here, yes. You'll have to speak more slowly, old man.
You baffle me, man. Then he received word of a dead girl being discovered in the National Pencil Factory's basement on Forsyth Street from that black man who was standing several blocks away, crouching in fear in the shadows of the pencil factory. The sleepy officers leapt to their feet as Officer Anderson slammed out of the phone booth with his news, wide awake a minute to the emergency. "My machine's in front," yelled Rogers.
Move along. He was on the sidewalk in an instant, followed closely by Anderson. Together they jumped into the car, roused the sleeping reporter, and the three of them were up the side of the street, sputter and floor, leaving the other officers gaping behind a trail of dust and a winking red light.
Two men were visible on the corner of Prior and Decatur streets as the machine drew near. Officers Brown and Dobbs were them. The car started to slouch.
Leap in. Rogers yelled, and with hardly a pause the big car rocked on up Marietta Street, slewed into foresight, and stopped panting at the black pile that they knew was the National Pencil Company. The four men got off the vehicle.
Officer Anderson banged on the doors with clenched fists as everyone was breathing heavily with excitement. From inside, a quiet tread was audible. Newt Lee's terrified face peered out at them as the latch grated angrily.
His teeth chattered, and the whites of his eyes were rolling. They shot at him and had entered the dark portal of the factory with Lee in front and Anderson right behind him. The officers all thought to themselves before they could speak, "The picture of fear," "Where's the body?". The men moved forward in a single file toward the scuttle hole, each man gripping a revolver tightly.
Fearfully pointing to the object in the corner, Newt Lee led the group down the ladder and into the shadows. He muttered, "That's it. The officers knelt and examined the girl's horribly dismembered body.
She was motionless as she lay in the sawdust with her feet diagonally across and her head pointing forward. The face was facing the wall and was uncut and bruised with grime. The men knelt down to perform a closer inspection, and as they did so, the severity of the wounds became clear to them.
They could make out her torn-up hair, which was clearly that of a white person and was darkly stained with blood that had oozed from an aggressive blow to the back of the head. A small white slipper still clung to the right foot, and the blue ribbon that had been tied on so carelessly just a few hours earlier was now wilted and filthy. The silk lavender dress was stained with blood. A thick cord that had pierced the skin deeply was wrapped around the neck.
A crudely made gag made of fabric torn from her dress formed around her head. The body was turned over. The underskirt was torn to pieces.
A stocking supporter was broken. Almost to the knee, the white stocking sagged on its own. My God, it's just a kid, Sergeant Brown exclaimed, throwing his head back.
Sergeant Dobbs had been investigating the cellar floor for a moment while they were still standing there. He discovered the girl's other slipper a short distance away. Her flimsy little hat was located close to the elevator shaft.
He then made a discovery. He held up two dirty pieces of yellow paper that had been scrawled with obnoxious letters as he turned toward the lantern light. The officers went through the notes.
He said he would love me, and he laid down like a night witch. But that tall, lean black man did it alone. The other reader, Mama, who Negro hired down here, did this.
He shoved me down this hole as I went to get water. A long, tall, awakened black Negro. Negro, who is tall and lean.
While my friends play, I write. A quick flash of suspicion, already present in the minds of every white man present, turned toward the black man Lee. What was this? What did they mean? Had the author of these notes committed this heinous act? Anderson suddenly swung over to the watchman and threw a rough hand on his shoulder.
He said hoarsely, "Nig, you did this.". I didn't because of God. Moments later, White people saw Anderson place handcuffs on Newt Lee's wrists and place him under arrest for murder.
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The Leo Frank Case 1913 Part V Chapter 1 Crime First Discovered
He had to complete his round at 2:30 on a Sabbath morning in April 27, 1913. On the second floor of the National Pencil factory, it was chilly, so Newt warmed himself by rubbing the palms of his black hands across the dusted lantern's glass surface. The corners' shadows danced and drew nearer to him.
The face of the big time talk, whom he was obligated to punch once every thirty minutes, was revealed by the lantern light. In a short while, Newt would have circled the abandoned factory building, punched the air, and sat down once more for another rest. He felt like he needed to rest because he was exhausted as well.
Yes, he admitted to himself, a little tired. With only a narrow path of light illuminating the flight of stairs he had to descend, Newt began to descend the stairs to the first floor as the darkness engulfed him from behind. At the same time and location, another man would not have been mute but rather experienced icy shivers running up his spine.
He had been in the same location every night for several months during which time he had witnessed the same shadows flickering on the bare walls and the same ghostly traces left by the lantern on the stairs. However, despite the fact that Mr. Frank, the factory's superintendent, had given him nearly the entire afternoon off, he was exhausted tonight.
As he descended the stairs and started to scan the empty first floor with his lantern, he talked to himself as he did so. Many lonely nights spent, as this one had taught Newt Lee the value of quiet conversation and plenty of sleep. At three o'clock, this arrives because Mr.
Frank muttered sickly, "Frank says it's holiday and he wanted to get off fur.". He tells me to go out and enjoy myself and not to return until six in the evening as his first instruction. That's a great moment.
I spent the night sleeping at home instead of traipsing around the city. I'm unsure of Mr. Frank's current situation, but he seemed to be acting nervously to me today, rubbing his hands together while he sat there, and when I yelled at him to come with Mr. Gantt.
Just as he was concerned that the man had stolen something, Gantt went to get his shoes. People of color don't steal anything. In any case, not black niggers.
By this time, Newt had finished his calmly routine inspection of the first floor. Naturally gloomy, there were no busy workers, no men frantically packing pencils, and no little factory girls hunched over the machinery like there were during the day. The machines were there, shining and motionless.
To a night watchman, the ordinary meant safety, and Newt liked them still for their stillness. He would only need to go up one more floor to finish. The basement is the next-to-darkest floor.
Always mute, always evil. Over the scuttle hole, he opened the trap door. A faint light appeared.
As usual, the gas jet was burning, but it was reduced. Newt muttered to himself, "That's pretty low.". They are orders, orders.
Newt conceived. And having that light was always per Mr. Frank's instructions.
He could see down the ladder because of how brightly he was burning. He ascended, carefully fastening his feet to each rung as his lantern wavered its light, piercing the basement's paler lighting with wan gleams and adding to the gloom and silence. At the bottom rung, his feet made contact.
He was lying on the basement floor. The lantern flicked its yellow rays to every corner. This is fine.
That's all good. However, wait there on that sawdust pile by the boiler. Newt took three steps forward before stopping motionlessly.
A small pile of clothes and something else were illuminated by the burning light, which Newt had never seen before. His pulse beat. Its pulse was audible to him.
He made an effort to hear other sounds with his ears. But from the sleeping city outside, everything was as still as a tomb; the only sound was the quick, hard thump thump of his heart. For the first time in his life, the Negro experienced a deadly, nauseating fear as the silence pressed in on him and encircled him.
He attempted to disrupt it. He attempted to laugh as he swallowed something in his throat. Joe, he murmured aloud, is just trying to scare me with this little holiday joke.
In the silence, his voice came across as stern and irritating. He muttered frightenedly, "Just a little joke. His voice then became silent after a brief period.
Muttly stumbled back after taking just one more step forward and one more flicker of the lantern. With one bound, he was sobbing his way up the ladder after witnessing something that had frozen his blood like an icy dam. It wasn't a joke or a seasonal prank, that thing by the boiler.
No blood was smeared on jokes. Jokes lacked hair, piercing eyes, and bruised and scarred faces.
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Mary Phagan Kean - 07 - The Murder of Little Mary Phagan
The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan-Kean (1987), Read by Anonymous (2015).
The Mary Phagan Family Website :
https://www.littlemaryphagan.com
This is the true story of the murder of little Mary Phagan by Leo M. Frank, her superintendent at the National Pencil Company; Leo Frank's lynching by outraged citizens after his death sentence was commuted; and the century-long effort by Frank's Jewish co-religionists to exonerate him, ending with his pardon in 1986 by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles--which specifically refrained, however, from exonerating Frank.
In spite of the fact that the author Mary Phagan (now Mary Phagan Kean) is the great-niece of little Mary Phagan, and naturally has strong emotions about the case, this book contains the most balanced account of the case so far, as Ms. Kean has gone back to the complete trial record, and studied it extensively. She corrects the false statements that are used in most accounts to convince readers or viewers of Frank's innocence, while acknowledging that it it impossible to know with 100% certainty that Frank was the murderer.
This audiobook is published with the kind permission of Mary Phagan Kean.
The Leo Frank Trial Archive
http://leofrank.org
The Leo Frank Research Library
http://leofrank.info
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Mary Phagan Kean - 04 - The Murder of Little Mary Phagan
The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan-Kean (1987), Read by Anonymous (2015).
The Mary Phagan Family Website :
https://www.littlemaryphagan.com
This is the true story of the murder of little Mary Phagan by Leo M. Frank, her superintendent at the National Pencil Company; Leo Frank's lynching by outraged citizens after his death sentence was commuted; and the century-long effort by Frank's Jewish co-religionists to exonerate him, ending with his pardon in 1986 by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles--which specifically refrained, however, from exonerating Frank.
In spite of the fact that the author Mary Phagan (now Mary Phagan Kean) is the great-niece of little Mary Phagan, and naturally has strong emotions about the case, this book contains the most balanced account of the case so far, as Ms. Kean has gone back to the complete trial record, and studied it extensively. She corrects the false statements that are used in most accounts to convince readers or viewers of Frank's innocence, while acknowledging that it it impossible to know with 100% certainty that Frank was the murderer.
This audiobook is published with the kind permission of Mary Phagan Kean.
The Leo Frank Trial Archive
http://leofrank.org
The Leo Frank Research Library
http://leofrank.info
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Mary Phagan Kean - 06 - The Murder of Little Mary Phagan
The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan-Kean (1987), Read by Anonymous (2015).
The Mary Phagan Family Website :
https://www.littlemaryphagan.com
This is the true story of the murder of little Mary Phagan by Leo M. Frank, her superintendent at the National Pencil Company; Leo Frank's lynching by outraged citizens after his death sentence was commuted; and the century-long effort by Frank's Jewish co-religionists to exonerate him, ending with his pardon in 1986 by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles--which specifically refrained, however, from exonerating Frank.
In spite of the fact that the author Mary Phagan (now Mary Phagan Kean) is the great-niece of little Mary Phagan, and naturally has strong emotions about the case, this book contains the most balanced account of the case so far, as Ms. Kean has gone back to the complete trial record, and studied it extensively. She corrects the false statements that are used in most accounts to convince readers or viewers of Frank's innocence, while acknowledging that it it impossible to know with 100% certainty that Frank was the murderer.
This audiobook is published with the kind permission of Mary Phagan Kean.
The Leo Frank Trial Archive
http://leofrank.org
The Leo Frank Research Library
http://leofrank.info
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Leo Frank Trial - Hugh Dorsey Closing Arguments Part 6
When they went to the enemy's camp to get ammunition, Rogers and the Black honest men noticed his anxiety. Frank, the defendant in this case, explains his anxiety as a result of the car ride and seeing the body as he attempted to explain his condition by inhaling gas. The light, which had always burned brightly, had been turned back so that it was now burning like a lightning bug, Old Newt Lee claims to the jury.
He discovered this when he returned to the cellar. Then Leo M. Frank dims the light in the hopes that Newt Lee won't find the body that night. Harry Scott is sent to find the Pinkerton agent on Monday night, and there is no need for an affidavit to force him to tell the truth. The most crucial information in this text is that when Scott, the witness, first saw Frank at the factory on Tuesday morning, he was tense and pale. Frank was pacing his office inside through the windows, according to Wagner, who was sent up there to watch him from across the street, and he looked out at him twelve times in the thirty minutes before the officers arrived to take him. On the way down to the station, Scott became agitated and uneasy as he observed Frank pacing his office inside and gazing out at him twelve times in the thirty minutes before the officers arrived to take him.
When Scott saw Frank pacing his office inside and gazing out at him twelve times in 30 minutes through the windows on the way down to the station, he became agitated and uneasy. It is clear why Hammond was anxious after hearing Dunbar's testimony in the case against him for the murder of two young children.
The heaviness of guilt, fear, regret, and terror was the cause of it. The ghost of the dead girl, the cord, the blood appeared, and the ghost of this trial, the prison of the gallows, and the grave of infamy guilt, forces itself into speech and behavior. Mr. Rosser contends that even if our religion is a fraud and a farce, it still teaches that man can be saved, enjoy a good character, and have the respect of those around him.
The unrefuted testimony of people who have known John Dalton since he left his hometown of DeKalb and Fulton, as well as the testimony of C.T Maynard, a witness who cannot be easily discredited, are the most crucial details in this text. The three weeks that Newt Lee spent there were spent by Newt Lee, who witnessed with his own eyes this man, Dalton, enter a pencil factory with a woman in support of Conley.
When this man, Conley, was taken into the custody of the Atlanta police department, Mr. Rosser said he would give anything to find out who had dressed him up. In response to the ruling made by His Honor, Judge Roan, Mr. William Smith, a person hired to defend this Black Conley, set up. The most significant information in this text is that Jim Conley is currently being detained at the police prison of the city of Atlanta after initially being detained in the Fulton County prison. He is a crucial witness in the prosecution's case against Leo M. Frank on behalf of the State, so it is important to have him present at the trial to prevent the prosecution's case from being dismissed. Respondent demonstrates to the court that the city police prison is set up and staffed in such a way that he is completely safe from any attack that might be made against him. He also demonstrates that his cell is solitary and that the key to his cell block is always in the possession of a sworn uniformed officer of the law. The request to remand him back into the custody of the honorable men who would oversee the Atlanta police force was granted by Judge Roan. The most significant information in this text is that Mr. Dorsey was released from custody and that the order transferring him to Fulton County's common jail was revoked.
Mr. Rosser contests that the judge's order remanding him to the Atlanta police's custody was the right course of action. The court then nullified both the orders committing him to prison and the order transferring him, making it appear as though no orders had ever been made. Judge L. Roan then issued an order transferring Mr. Dorsey to the City of Atlanta Police Department.
The most crucial information in this passage is that Jim Conley was not whisked away from Georgia when he entered the courtroom to take the oath, and that he had been released from all forms of custody. He was discovered to have had access to the National Pencil Company's cash register, but nobody other than the National Pencil Company's hirelings impeached him for his general bad character.
Even in broad daylight and during working hours, it was demonstrated that he had relationships with Miss Rebecca Carson, the woman on the fourth floor. His own witness, Miss Jackson, claimed that he arrived when the girls were relaxing and unwinding after finishing their piecework. With the exception of the National Pencil Company's hirelings, these facts demonstrate Jim Conley's repudiatory Negro status and general bad character. Jim Conley, Miss Kitchens, Amos Jackson, Darley and Maddie Smith, McCrary, Monte Stower, Daisy Hopkins, Lemme Quinn, Dalton's statement that he had previously seen Jim watching on weekends and holidays, and Daisy Hopkins' statement that he had seen her enter the factory with Dalton and go down that scuttle hole to the location where that cot is displayed. Frank's statement that he would consult with his attorneys regarding Quinn's statement that he had visited him.
All of these assertions are supported by the evidence offered by the four women in charge, including that of Jim Conley, Miss Kitchens, Amos Jackson, Darley and Maddie Smith, McCrary, Monte Stower, Lemme Quinn, Daisy Hopkins, and Frank's room.
Frank also stated that he would consult with his attorneys regarding Quinn's assertion that he visited him in his office, and Dalton stated that he had previously seen Jim watching on weekends and holidays. Daisy Hopkins also stated that he had. In addition, he discussed the retracted affidavit given to the police in Minola McKnight's presence and how plenty of cord was used to strangle the young girl to death. These details are crucial because they demonstrate that the murder was committed by a man who stayed at home and hurried back to the factory, and the use of the cord found in large quantities to choke the girl to death.
The two most crucial facts in this passage are that Jim Conley wrote a note to conceal a crime and that no Black person has ever before in the history of the race done the same. The note paper on which it was written was widely scattered on the office floor and close to Frank's office, and Jim Conley claimed to be the author.
Mr. Rosser and Mr. Dorsey each read a list of page numbers that contained the statement that Mr. Arnold was referred to in. Mr. Arnold was mentioned in a list of page numbers that Mr. Rosser read aloud.
The most crucial information in this text is that Mr. Dot Arnold reported the official report written by the official stenographer and that Mr. Dorsey quoted Frank as saying, "I did it and I done it. "The jury heard that testimony as well as Jim Conley's cross-examination, and each time he was questioned, he responded, "I done it Mr. Rosser," and the stenographer recorded it accurately. Mr. Perry is confident that he can make a declaration that will please Mr. Dorsey after reporting one to 31 on his own.
There is no reason for a reporter to confuse Did and Done because they have very different shorthand characters. Mr. Dot Perry and Mr. Dot Dorsey contend that a black person will occasionally adopt the language of the white person for whom he works. The context of the notes indicates that Mary was attacked as she went to get water, and Mary only knows of one closet—the one on the office floor where Conley claims to have discovered the body.
This demonstrates a deliberate effort on the part of someone to limit and exclude the crime to one man, and this fact supports Conley. Frank also backs up Conley's claims regarding the time of his arrival at the factory on Saturday morning, the duration of the visit to Montagues, and the existence of the folder that Conley claims to have in his possession. According to Perry's claim, Harry White received $2. The two most significant facts in this text are that Frank kept a voucher book and allowed each and every person to sign for the money they received, and that Arthur White borrowed $2 from Frank ahead of time on his wages. This voucher book was used for Express, kerosene, and any other imaginable expenditure of funds.
Frank was unable to provide the signature of White or any entry in his books proving that this man White ever received the money, with the exception of the entry made by Schiff a week or so later. This is due to Frank's inability to produce White's signature or any entry he made in a book proving that White ever received the money, with the exception of Schiff's entry from a week later. The most crucial information in this passage is that Frank did not ask for or accept White's receipt as payment for that amount because his thoughts and conscience were focused on the crime he had committed.
Frank's claim that he had family in Brooklyn and the evidence in the case both support this. With regard to a man by the name of Mincy, Old Jim Conley was subjected to a great deal of questioning. Echo responds that Mincy was a myth or a cunning perjurer, and that this man knew that bringing him before a jury would make them queasy. Jim Conley is supported by the absence of Mincy because if Mincy had been able to refute Jim Conley or had been able to persuade Old Jim to admit that he was involved in the crime in any way, he would have been found if someone had gone through the entire state of Georgia with a fine-tooth comb, from Rabun Gap to Ty B Light.
The most important details in this text are that the defendant, Leo M. Frank, is guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan, a little factory girl who died because she wouldn't yield her virtue to the demands of her superintendent. The defendant's actions, words, and circumstances in the case all prove him guilty of the crime, and the jury has taken the oath to try the issue formed on the bill of indictment between the State of Georgia and Leo M. Frank, charged with the murder of Mary Phagan. The jury has taken the oath to try the issue formed on the bill of indictment between the State of Georgia and Leo M. Frank, charged with the murder of Mary Phagan. The jury has taken the oath to try the issue formed on the bill of indictment between the State of Georgia and Leo M. Frank, charged with the murder of Mary Phagan. The jury has taken the oath to try the issue formed on the bill of indictment between the State of Georgia and Leo M. Frank, charged with the murder of Mary Phagan.
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Mary Phagan Kean - 05 - The Murder of Little Mary Phagan
The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan-Kean (1987), Read by Anonymous (2015).
The Mary Phagan Family Website :
https://www.littlemaryphagan.com
This is the true story of the murder of little Mary Phagan by Leo M. Frank, her superintendent at the National Pencil Company; Leo Frank's lynching by outraged citizens after his death sentence was commuted; and the century-long effort by Frank's Jewish co-religionists to exonerate him, ending with his pardon in 1986 by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles--which specifically refrained, however, from exonerating Frank.
In spite of the fact that the author Mary Phagan (now Mary Phagan Kean) is the great-niece of little Mary Phagan, and naturally has strong emotions about the case, this book contains the most balanced account of the case so far, as Ms. Kean has gone back to the complete trial record, and studied it extensively. She corrects the false statements that are used in most accounts to convince readers or viewers of Frank's innocence, while acknowledging that it it impossible to know with 100% certainty that Frank was the murderer.
This audiobook is published with the kind permission of Mary Phagan Kean.
The Leo Frank Trial Archive
http://leofrank.org
The Leo Frank Research Library
http://leofrank.info
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Mary Phagan Kean - 02 - The Murder of Little Mary Phagan
The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan-Kean (1987), Read by Anonymous (2015).
The Mary Phagan Family Website :
https://www.littlemaryphagan.com
This is the true story of the murder of little Mary Phagan by Leo M. Frank, her superintendent at the National Pencil Company; Leo Frank's lynching by outraged citizens after his death sentence was commuted; and the century-long effort by Frank's Jewish co-religionists to exonerate him, ending with his pardon in 1986 by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles--which specifically refrained, however, from exonerating Frank.
In spite of the fact that the author Mary Phagan (now Mary Phagan Kean) is the great-niece of little Mary Phagan, and naturally has strong emotions about the case, this book contains the most balanced account of the case so far, as Ms. Kean has gone back to the complete trial record, and studied it extensively. She corrects the false statements that are used in most accounts to convince readers or viewers of Frank's innocence, while acknowledging that it it impossible to know with 100% certainty that Frank was the murderer.
This audiobook is published with the kind permission of Mary Phagan Kean.
The Leo Frank Trial Archive
http://leofrank.org
The Leo Frank Research Library
http://leofrank.info
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Mary Phagan Kean - 03 - The Murder of Little Mary Phagan
The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan-Kean (1987), Read by Anonymous (2015).
The Mary Phagan Family Website :
https://www.littlemaryphagan.com
This is the true story of the murder of little Mary Phagan by Leo M. Frank, her superintendent at the National Pencil Company; Leo Frank's lynching by outraged citizens after his death sentence was commuted; and the century-long effort by Frank's Jewish co-religionists to exonerate him, ending with his pardon in 1986 by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles--which specifically refrained, however, from exonerating Frank.
In spite of the fact that the author Mary Phagan (now Mary Phagan Kean) is the great-niece of little Mary Phagan, and naturally has strong emotions about the case, this book contains the most balanced account of the case so far, as Ms. Kean has gone back to the complete trial record, and studied it extensively. She corrects the false statements that are used in most accounts to convince readers or viewers of Frank's innocence, while acknowledging that it it impossible to know with 100% certainty that Frank was the murderer.
This audiobook is published with the kind permission of Mary Phagan Kean.
The Leo Frank Trial Archive
http://leofrank.org
The Leo Frank Research Library
http://leofrank.info
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Mary Phagan Kean - 01 - The Murder of Little Mary Phagan
The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan-Kean (1987), Read by Anonymous (2015).
The Mary Phagan Family Website :
https://www.littlemaryphagan.com
This is the true story of the murder of little Mary Phagan by Leo M. Frank, her superintendent at the National Pencil Company; Leo Frank's lynching by outraged citizens after his death sentence was commuted; and the century-long effort by Frank's Jewish co-religionists to exonerate him, ending with his pardon in 1986 by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles--which specifically refrained, however, from exonerating Frank.
In spite of the fact that the author Mary Phagan (now Mary Phagan Kean) is the great-niece of little Mary Phagan, and naturally has strong emotions about the case, this book contains the most balanced account of the case so far, as Ms. Kean has gone back to the complete trial record, and studied it extensively. She corrects the false statements that are used in most accounts to convince readers or viewers of Frank's innocence, while acknowledging that it it impossible to know with 100% certainty that Frank was the murderer.
This audiobook is published with the kind permission of Mary Phagan Kean.
The Leo Frank Trial Archive
http://leofrank.org
The Leo Frank Research Library
http://leofrank.info
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Mary Phagan Kean - 09 - The Murder of Little Mary Phagan
he Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan-Kean (1987), Read by Anonymous (2015).
The Mary Phagan Family Website :
https://www.littlemaryphagan.com
This is the true story of the murder of little Mary Phagan by Leo M. Frank, her superintendent at the National Pencil Company; Leo Frank's lynching by outraged citizens after his death sentence was commuted; and the century-long effort by Frank's Jewish co-religionists to exonerate him, ending with his pardon in 1986 by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles--which specifically refrained, however, from exonerating Frank.
In spite of the fact that the author Mary Phagan (now Mary Phagan Kean) is the great-niece of little Mary Phagan, and naturally has strong emotions about the case, this book contains the most balanced account of the case so far, as Ms. Kean has gone back to the complete trial record, and studied it extensively. She corrects the false statements that are used in most accounts to convince readers or viewers of Frank's innocence, while acknowledging that it it impossible to know with 100% certainty that Frank was the murderer.
This audiobook is published with the kind permission of Mary Phagan Kean.
The Leo Frank Trial Archive
http://leofrank.org
The Leo Frank Research Library
http://leofrank.info
Transcript
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Mary Phagan Kean - 08 - The Murder of Little Mary Phagan
The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan-Kean (1987), Read by Anonymous (2015).
The Mary Phagan Family Website :
https://www.littlemaryphagan.com
This is the true story of the murder of little Mary Phagan by Leo M. Frank, her superintendent at the National Pencil Company; Leo Frank's lynching by outraged citizens after his death sentence was commuted; and the century-long effort by Frank's Jewish co-religionists to exonerate him, ending with his pardon in 1986 by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles--which specifically refrained, however, from exonerating Frank.
In spite of the fact that the author Mary Phagan (now Mary Phagan Kean) is the great-niece of little Mary Phagan, and naturally has strong emotions about the case, this book contains the most balanced account of the case so far, as Ms. Kean has gone back to the complete trial record, and studied it extensively. She corrects the false statements that are used in most accounts to convince readers or viewers of Frank's innocence, while acknowledging that it it impossible to know with 100% certainty that Frank was the murderer.
This audiobook is published with the kind permission of Mary Phagan Kean.
The Leo Frank Trial Archive
http://leofrank.org
The Leo Frank Research Library
http://leofrank.info
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Mary Phagan Kean - 11 - The Murder of Little Mary Phagan
The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan-Kean (1987), Read by Anonymous (2015).
The Mary Phagan Family Website :
https://www.littlemaryphagan.com
This is the true story of the murder of little Mary Phagan by Leo M. Frank, her superintendent at the National Pencil Company; Leo Frank's lynching by outraged citizens after his death sentence was commuted; and the century-long effort by Frank's Jewish co-religionists to exonerate him, ending with his pardon in 1986 by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles--which specifically refrained, however, from exonerating Frank.
In spite of the fact that the author Mary Phagan (now Mary Phagan Kean) is the great-niece of little Mary Phagan, and naturally has strong emotions about the case, this book contains the most balanced account of the case so far, as Ms. Kean has gone back to the complete trial record, and studied it extensively. She corrects the false statements that are used in most accounts to convince readers or viewers of Frank's innocence, while acknowledging that it it impossible to know with 100% certainty that Frank was the murderer.
This audiobook is published with the kind permission of Mary Phagan Kean.
The Leo Frank Trial Archive
http://leofrank.org
The Leo Frank Research Library
http://leofrank.info
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Mary Phagan Kean - 10 - The Murder of Little Mary Phagan
The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan-Kean (1987), Read by Anonymous (2015).
The Mary Phagan Family Website :
https://www.littlemaryphagan.com
This is the true story of the murder of little Mary Phagan by Leo M. Frank, her superintendent at the National Pencil Company; Leo Frank's lynching by outraged citizens after his death sentence was commuted; and the century-long effort by Frank's Jewish co-religionists to exonerate him, ending with his pardon in 1986 by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles--which specifically refrained, however, from exonerating Frank.
In spite of the fact that the author Mary Phagan (now Mary Phagan Kean) is the great-niece of little Mary Phagan, and naturally has strong emotions about the case, this book contains the most balanced account of the case so far, as Ms. Kean has gone back to the complete trial record, and studied it extensively. She corrects the false statements that are used in most accounts to convince readers or viewers of Frank's innocence, while acknowledging that it it impossible to know with 100% certainty that Frank was the murderer.
This audiobook is published with the kind permission of Mary Phagan Kean.
The Leo Frank Trial Archive
http://leofrank.org
The Leo Frank Research Library
http://leofrank.info
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Mary Phagan Kean - 13 - The Murder of Little Mary Phagan
The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan-Kean (1987), Read by Anonymous (2015).
The Mary Phagan Family Website :
https://www.littlemaryphagan.com
This is the true story of the murder of little Mary Phagan by Leo M. Frank, her superintendent at the National Pencil Company; Leo Frank's lynching by outraged citizens after his death sentence was commuted; and the century-long effort by Frank's Jewish co-religionists to exonerate him, ending with his pardon in 1986 by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles--which specifically refrained, however, from exonerating Frank.
In spite of the fact that the author Mary Phagan (now Mary Phagan Kean) is the great-niece of little Mary Phagan, and naturally has strong emotions about the case, this book contains the most balanced account of the case so far, as Ms. Kean has gone back to the complete trial record, and studied it extensively. She corrects the false statements that are used in most accounts to convince readers or viewers of Frank's innocence, while acknowledging that it it impossible to know with 100% certainty that Frank was the murderer.
This audiobook is published with the kind permission of Mary Phagan Kean.
The Leo Frank Trial Archive
http://leofrank.org
The Leo Frank Research Library
http://leofrank.info
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Mary Phagan Kean - 12 - The Murder of Little Mary Phagan
The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan-Kean (1987), Read by Anonymous (2015).
The Mary Phagan Family Website :
https://www.littlemaryphagan.com
This is the true story of the murder of little Mary Phagan by Leo M. Frank, her superintendent at the National Pencil Company; Leo Frank's lynching by outraged citizens after his death sentence was commuted; and the century-long effort by Frank's Jewish co-religionists to exonerate him, ending with his pardon in 1986 by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles--which specifically refrained, however, from exonerating Frank.
In spite of the fact that the author Mary Phagan (now Mary Phagan Kean) is the great-niece of little Mary Phagan, and naturally has strong emotions about the case, this book contains the most balanced account of the case so far, as Ms. Kean has gone back to the complete trial record, and studied it extensively. She corrects the false statements that are used in most accounts to convince readers or viewers of Frank's innocence, while acknowledging that it it impossible to know with 100% certainty that Frank was the murderer.
This audiobook is published with the kind permission of Mary Phagan Kean.
The Leo Frank Trial Archive
http://leofrank.org
The Leo Frank Research Library
http://leofrank.info
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Leo Frank Trial - Luther Rosser Closing Arguments Part 2
The most significant information in this recording is that Frank had retained Black as counsel, and that the state's worst suspicion is that they also hired Herbert Haas. Frank had gone to the police department alone, without help or friends, and the next day two detectives were sent to find him. Black claimed to have been watching Frank on Monday and was then taken to the police station. Frank would have sought assistance from friends or a lawyer if he had known the odds against him. The old police gang and their tactics are known to local veteran Sig Montague.
He called Haas, but Haas declined to go to the police station, so he couldn't see Frank. Haas then requested the assistance of a more experienced and knowledgeable person to combat the injustice of the police. When Frank went to the police station and provided his statement, a detective agency hired him to find the murder that had been committed in his factory building. As Frank made his way to police headquarters, Sig gave him advice for the first time ever and urged him to make a statement. Despite being told they didn't want him when he got to the office, he persisted in going.
Frank's self-exposure and subsequent release is the text's most important revelation. He phone Sig Montague and asks for his advice on how to solve the crime. SIG suggests hiring a detective agency. The Pinkertons, who Frank hires, work with the local police department. Scott records Frank's statement and lets him know they work with the neighborhood police. After that, Scott and John Black, who has been arrested and is charged with murder, proceed through the basement of the pencil factory.
The testimony is concluded with a quotation from Sig Montague, who advises Frank to hire a detective agency to solve the crime. One of the most important details in the text is how the Pinkertons tried to frame him for the murder of a Jewish boy from the north in his place of business. The boy is willing to find the murderer despite his inability to defend himself because he is aware of his innocence. He does not believe that his friend who came before him had any intention of doing this, despite their claims that the time slip and shirt were planted although there is no evidence to support this. The shirt was found in a barrel when Black and another person went outside to visit Newt Lee's house on Tuesday morning. Newt insisted that the shirt was his or at least appeared to be his when they brought it back to the police station. Although it is not a legal duel, the newspaper and some other people seem to think it is.
Why old man Lee didn't find the body sooner, how he found it lying on its face, and how he saw it from a location from which he could not have seen it are just a few of the author's unanswered questions about the case. The author speculates that a nigger involved in the crime must have been the first to learn of it—before Newt or anyone else—because of his familiarity with niggers because he was raised among them.
The only outcome of the detectives' persecution of the old man was a god-fearing individual. The boy stepped out in front of a massive Gantt and jumped back. The most important information in this text is the assertion that Dorsey, Newt Lee, Jim Conley, and I would have acted similarly. Frank fired Newt Lee at the factory when he showed up at 4:00, but when he showed up again at 6:00, Frank let him stay. During the course of his employment, he was required to go into the basement where the body was allegedly found. Conley was there as well, and it was discovered yesterday that there was a third nigger present who was a lighter shade of nigger than Conley. When a man is accused of moral perversion, he suffers greatly, but when his mother and wife are also impacted, the suffering is increased.
To defend Frank, not even Dalton said this. The two most important details in this passage are that neither Dalton nor Starnes nor Starnes provided any proof that Frank had committed a crime or was otherwise wrong, and that none of the niggers they mentioned were aware of Frank's alleged moral perversion. Then there was the aged black man by the name of Draymond, who asserted that on that specific Saturday morning, old McCrary had cast him into the cellar.
Conley lied and said he was there between 2:00 and 3:00 on a Saturday last year, but Schiff, Darley, Holloway, and the little office boys all deny it, and the case is dropped. Hamlet, Merchant of Venice, and other Shakespearean plays are plays that actor Conley is familiar with. He can retell the events leading up to the disposition of the girl's body in either a forward or a backward chronological order. He stated unequivocally, " Boss, I don't remember that was his standard reply to inquiries about unrelated subjects". Despite assertions that Conley could not have made it up, there is something odd about the entire narrative.
After believing Mrs. White had seen the Negro, they carried her over to him, but she was unable to recognize him because of the Negro's distorted features. The most important detail in this text is that Conley was given the third degree by Black and Scott after they yelled and cursed him for failing to show up to write those notes on Friday. Conley admitted the truth, and they performed another recitation. According to the text, Conley was trained by two wise white men by the hour and by the day, who then got a statement from him and said it was the truth.
In a slightly different course at the university taught by professors Starnes and Campbell, Professor Dorsey helped by teaching him a few lessons. The text concludes by stating that it was unfair for two educated white men to train a black man by the hour and by the day, then obtain his statement and assert it to be true. The two most important details in this passage are that the detectives ran into him seven times and that Professor Dorsey ran into him seven times while teaching the course. Conley added the mesh bag while he was on the stand as Mary Phagan entered the factory at about twelve minutes after twelve. Lemmie Quinn arrived at 12:20 and found Frank working. Little Miss Kearns saw him in Alabama and Whitehall at 1:10, and Mrs. Levy saw him get out of the car at his home corner. Who believes that story? If Frank is guilty, he must have removed the body in the interval between 4:11 and 1:30.
If Conley wants people to believe him when he claims they are all guilty of it, he will have to find Minola's husband guilty of perjury. The most important detail in this text is that a black woman was jailed in the solicitor's office after she refused to talk to Suit Starnes, Campbell, and two white men. Chief Beavers got involved in the crime, making the immaculate think Frank was at the factory. The best jury in the world, the American jury, was not persuaded to accept this. Conley contradicted himself enough while testifying that calling witnesses was unnecessary. A witness who wasn't used was a man by the name of Mincey.
If they had chosen to house Mincy, there would have been a day-long debate about his honesty. The two most important points in this text are the fact that Conley has lied numerous times and the necessity for detectives and the Solicitor General to watch over and cultivate the truth. The speaker claims that no man should be put on trial based on such testimony and that the gentlemen have treated him unfairly. They were in a similar situation to Russell, who taught for 40 years, and the benches always sucked the air out, but they were screwed to the floor. The speaker thanked the gentlemen for their out of the ordinary good deeds.
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Leo Frank Trial - Luther Rosser Closing Arguments Part 1
In his address to the jury, Mr.Rosser emphasizes the value of impartiality and the need to do so without passion or cruelty when deciding whether to take a man's life. He explains that because they are distinguished from careless people who wander aimlessly or in fits of reverence, jurors are different from people who are out on the streets. He also stresses how crucial it is to be impartial and pass on a man's life without passion or cruelty because it is their responsibility to do so. The detectives who tracked down two people to swear against Frank, Dalton and Conley, are the most crucial details in this trial . Dalton stole three times in Walton County before moving to another county, where he most likely went to avoid more trouble. Mr. Arnold told him in his ear as he took the stand that he was a thief, and he started to evade and flinch.
He knew he was a thief when he walked away from the stand. Dalton traveled to Atlanta, underwent a change of heart, joined a religious group, and persuaded them that he was no longer acting immorally. The narrator's belief in the divine power of regeneration and the possibility of reformation make up the text's most crucial details. One kind of man, though, cannot be changed: once a thief, always a thief. When they crucified the narrator and hung him on the cross on the hill, the narrator's master recognized the traits of a thief. Dalton defiled the name of his race, was a thief and worse, but after joining the church, he turned into a respectable, credible man. He was proud to respond in the affirmative when asked if he had ever visited that depressing, filthy factory basement with a woman for immoral purposes. Dalton had never before been the center of attention. The key information in this passage is that Dalton was questioned about his guilt and that, if he had fallen, he boasted and braggadocio about it.
He claimed he had no idea that she was such a peach that he was unable to look away to look at Frank's woman. Conley offers a different account, claiming that Frank kept the peach and lemon for himself and that Dalton had to find him a new partner. According to Dalton's account, he took that woman into the factory, into a filthy, unpleasant footed hole where slime oozed and where no respectable dog or cat would go, and there he satisfied his passion.
The most crucial information in this passage is that Dalton and Conley went to the Clark Wooden Ware Company at 2:00 on a Saturday afternoon last year and left an Uzi trail behind them. Additionally, they looked for evidence that would expose the factory as an evil entity. Only Frank could make the statement to the jury; neither he nor Mr. Dot Arnold were aware of what Frank would say when he took the stand. In addition, he claimed that it would be impossible to round up 100 working women and girls in Atlanta using a fine-toothed comb, and that no working men in Atlanta would be so cold-blooded as to permit such conditions. Last but not least, neither Mr. Dot Arnold nor Frank knew what he would say when he took the stand; his statement to the jury was entirely his own work.
The speaker's ability to demonstrate that Frank's claim was true and the fact that they were not required to elevate Frank's character are the text's most crucial details. Despite the fact that some people have claimed he has a bad character, the speaker maintains that he generally has a good character. He also says that if the good and decent people who live nearby and know him come up and say that his character is good, the speaker will believe them. The speaker also says that as he gets older, he becomes gentler and that he wouldn't think or say anything bad about those misinformed young girls who claimed Frank was a bad man. The most crucial information in this passage is that Miss Maggie Griffin, Mrs. Dot Donegan, Miss Johnson, Nellie Potts, Mary Wallace, Estelle Wallace, and Carrie Smith were the only factory employees who had worked there since 1908 to have claimed that Frank had a bad character.
In the hundreds of people who have worked there since 1908, only these two have claimed that Frank is a bad person, and they were unable to persuade any men to leave the factory and swear against him. It is hypothesized that the long-legged Gantt would have known about Vice if the factory had been his den.
Due to his dislike of Frank, who Gantt does not like, Gantt was fired from the factory. There have been allegations that Mary Phagan learned how to work from Frank, but Miss Robinson refutes these claims. Although it has no meaning, he also called her Mary. Willie Turner, who has no grudges against Rosser or Luther, is the next person to be arrested. Due to his dislike of Frank, who Gantt does not like, Gantt was fired from the factory.
The accusations made against Luther and Willie Turner are the most crucial information in this text. Miss Robinson is alleged to have observed Frank instructing Mary Phagan in how to work, but Miss Robinson disputes this. Willie Turner observed Frank conversing with Mary Phagan in the middle room, but there was no indication of lascivious lust in her observations. The text also discusses the tactics the detectives employed against Willie Turner, including how they handled him and how Dorsey treated him. The text does not support the plot Hooper had so much to say about, but it does mention that Willie Turner saw Frank talking to Mary Phagan in the open. The detectives' theories against Willie Turner are the most significant details in this text. Miss Robinson is alleged to have observed Frank instructing Mary Phagan in how to work, but Miss Robinson disputes this. There is no evidence of the lascivious lust that Willie Turner is supposed to have witnessed when he observed Frank speaking to Mary Phagan in the middle room.
Willie Turner has also been the target of detective tactics, including how Dorsey handled him and how they handled him. Willie Turner overheard Frank and Mary Phagan conversing in the middle room, but there is no indication of lascivious lust. Willie Turner has also been the target of detective tactics, including how Dorsey handled him and how the detectives themselves handled him. Willie Turner has also been the target of detective tactics, including how Dorsey handled him and how they handled him. The most crucial information in this passage is that Frank was with a young child in an open factory in front of Levy Quinn's office, and that he never made inappropriate advances toward her. Grace Hicks and Helen Ferguson at Magnolia Kennedy dispute Dewey Hool's claim that she saw Frank placing his hand on Mary Phagan's shoulder and assert that Frank was not acquainted with Mary Phagan. Hooper asserts that Frank planned to bring the girl there on the Saturday before she was killed and that he was unaware of the identities of some of the pay envelopes that were left over from the previous Friday.
Despite Magnolia Kennedy's sworn denial, Helen Ferguson insists that she asked Frank for Mary Phagan's pay on Friday and that he refused to give it to her. Mary Phagan, a woman who had spent two days working in the factory, was killed, and Frank is accused of it. He is accused of being anxious, but Black, Darley, Sig Montag, and Isaac Haas all acknowledge that he is anxious. Frank is also accused of not answering the phone when they called him that morning, which may have been caused by the meal he had the previous evening. In addition, they claim that he didn't answer the phone when they called him that morning, which may have been a result of the meal he had the previous evening. Frank is charged with killing Mary Phagan, but Black, Darley, Sigmontog, and Isaac Haas all admit to being anxious as well due to their connections to the defendant.
The most significant information in this recording is that Grace Hicks and Helen Ferguson at Magnolia Kennedy contradict Dewey Hool and state that Frank never knew Mary Phagan, despite Dewey Hool's claim that he saw Frank placing his hand on Mary's shoulder. Jim Conley claims that at 4:00 on a Friday afternoon, Frank told him to come back the next morning. Hooper claims that Frank planned to get the girl there on the Saturday that she was killed. Helen Ferguson claims Frank refused to give her Mary Phagan's pay and told her to come back the following day to collect it on her own. Frank was anxious, according to Black, Darley, Sigmontog, and others. The most crucial information in this text is that Isaac Haas and Mr. Darley were both anxious, and that the girls in the factory were so anxious that they were unable to work the following day. Frank's nerves jangled as he gazed at Mary Phagan's disfigured form and crushed virginity. When they called him that morning, he wasn't awake, and the body was discovered. As a result, it's possible that some of the characters were dozing off when the breakfast bell rang and were hanging out of nervousness.
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100 Reasons Leo Frank is Guilty
Despite the fact that Leo Frank's arrest and trial and Mary Phagan's murder occurred 100 years ago and ultimately inspired the creation of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, the ADL has barely made any mention of these events. According to Scott Aaron's summary of the crime in his book The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, Mary Phagan said her final goodbyes to her mother on Saturday morning at 11:30 on April 26, 1913, while eating a poor girl's lunch of bread and boiled cabbage. She then made a stop at the National Pencil Company to see Superintendent Leo M. Frank and pick up her $1.20 pay for the day she had worked there. The fact that one young life had already ended for her by 01:00 was almost completely unknown at the time. A rough cord that had been pulled so tightly to entrap itself deeply in her girlish neck and cause her tongue to stick out more than an inch from her mouth was used to abuse, beat, and strangle her. She was found dead, dumped in the basement of the Pencil Company, her once-bright eyes still open. In 1913, Georgia, it was customary for all prosecution and defense witnesses to take oaths before testifying in court.
Everyone was shocked when the Leo Frank defense team, consisting of Luther Rosser and Ruben Arnold, requested that their witnesses be sworn in later. After Presiding Judge Leonard Rohn ruled against them, the defense was prepared to call its list in five minutes. Mary Phagan's mother, Mrs. Fanny Coleman, was the first witness regarding Leo Frank's personality. She spoke about her final moments with her daughter on the morning of the previous April 26.
The second witness was 15-year-old George Epps, who claimed to have traveled with young Mary on the trolley starting at 11:50 a.m. Until twelve, at 7:00 p.m. After disembarking, she went to the National Pencil Company to pick up her pay from Superintendent Leo Frank. The third prosecution witness, Newt Lee, was the night watchman for the pencil company and the person who in the early morning hours discovered Mary Phagan's battered body in the factory basement. On the day of the murder, Frank, a friend of Mary Phagan's and a former employee at the plant, arrived and asked to pick up some shoes he had left behind. Frank took twice as long to enter Lee's slip into the time clock than he should have because he was so anxious. Frank called Lee to check in with him after he left for home and to see how things were going.
Lee testified in court that Frank informed authorities about Lee's correctly punched time card for the previous night the day after the slaying while they were both present. The text is a transcript of the Atlanta Constitution's coverage of the first day of the trial on July 20, 1913. At around 7:00 or 8:00, Leo Frank was seen entering the office and gazing at the ground. He declared the punches to be satisfactory as he unlocked the timer. This was done in an effort to cast doubt on Newt Lee, who later admitted to police that Lee had missed several punches. When a bloody shirt was planted on Lee's property, the pattern of the stains revealed it had not been worn when stained, but had instead been crumpled up and wiped in blood, allowing Lee to identify the fake as such. Lee was not shaken by Rosser's cross-examination of him that day in any aspect of this story.
The 100th anniversary of Mary Phagan's murder and the arrest and trial of Leo Frank have received little attention from the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, despite the fact that these incidents ultimately inspired the creation of the ADL. Since 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Leo Frank's lynching, the League is probably saving its PR blitz for that occasion rather than the passing of Mary Phagan. The ADL might not benefit from urging people to read about Frank's trial, though, as it might cast doubt on the widely accepted narrative that Frank was an innocent man being persecuted by anti-Semitic Southerners looking for a Jewish scapegoat. A good place to start is with Scott Aaron's summary of the incident from his book The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank. Mary Phagan left her Bellwood home at 11:30 on Saturday, April 26, 1913, and boarded a streetcar headed for downtown Atlanta. Before the festivities began, she visited Superintendent Leo M. Frank at the National Pencil Company to pick up her $1.20 pay for the single day she had worked there. One of her young lives had already ended by 1:00.
A rough cord that was pulled so tightly to suffocate, beat, and strangle her caused her tongue to stick out more than an inch from her mouth and become deeply embedded in her delicate neck. With her once-bright eyes now blind, Mary Phagan lay dead and abandoned in the basement of the Pencil Company. Before giving any testimony, both the prosecution and defense witnesses in Georgia in 1913 were required to take an oath.
Hugh Dorsey's witnesses were duly sworn on July 28, 1913, when Hugh Dorsey called them. However, the Leo Frank defense team, consisting of Luther Rosser and Ruben Arnold, shocked everyone by asking to have their witnesses sworn at a later time. For a while, the defense had wanted to keep their plan of using Frank's character as evidence against him and disclosing the identities of their witnesses a secret. The first witness regarding Leo Frank's personality was Mary Phagan's mother, Mrs. Fanny Coleman, who spoke about her final moments with her daughter on the morning of the previous April 26. The second witness was George Epps, a 15-year-old who claimed to have traveled on the trolley with young Mary starting at 11:50 a.m. to 12:07 p.m.
When she got off the ship, she went to the National Pencil Company to pick up her pay and superintendent Leo Frank. On the day of the murder, Frank gave Lee the order to leave immediately and return at six, according to Newt, the third prosecution witness. When Mary Phagan's friend J., a former employee of the plant and Lee's former coworker, arrived, Frank was still acting strangely. When Lee left, Frank became very agitated. A visitor named M. Gantt asked to get some shoes when he arrived. Because of his anxiety, Frank took twice as long as he should have to put Lee's slip into the time clock.
Mary Phagan's mother, Mrs. Coleman, was the first witness to testify during Leo M. Frank's trial after he was accused of killing the young girl on April 26 in the National Pencil Factory building. Luther Z. Rosser was sternly cross-examining Newt Lee, the night watchman who found Mary Phagan's body in the National Pencil Factory basement. Newt Lee was still on the stand. Rosser, Frank's legal representative. Lee Retains Original Account When the trial resumes this morning, Lee will once more take the witness stand. His testimony is not anticipated to yield any new information. The Frank trial's opening day's proceedings lacked any dramatic moments or unexpected testimony.
There were pathetic moments here and there, like when Mrs. W. Coleman, the mother of the dead child, sobbed bitterly as she saw her young daughter's clothes. The courtroom was amused by Newt Lee's quaint allusions and negro descriptions of a tiny light in the basement of the pencil factory, and there were other humorous moments, like when the young Epps boy explained to Luther Rosser how he determines the time of day by the position of the sun. The crowd stayed on the sidewalks, intently staring through the courtroom window and eagerly interrogating anyone who left the building while also spitting tobacco juice onto the street. The accused Leo M. Frank and his wife Mrs. Leo M. Frank's appearance is one of the most crucial details in this text. Leo M. Frank had impeccable grooming and was wearing a gray suit with a noticeable pattern. He was grinning at several friends every quarter.
Mrs. Leo M. Frank, a young woman with a lovely appearance, was fixated on attorney Dorsey at all times. Mrs. J. W. Mary Phagan's mother, Coleman, was the first State witness to speak. Both attempts to demonstrate Mary Phagan's attitude toward Leo M. Frank and the defense's attempt to demonstrate the dead girl's attitude toward little George Epps, the 14-year-old newsboy who testified that they rode downtown together, were thwarted by the opposing counsel, and the testimony was instead launched in the traditional manner with the introduction of Mrs. J. W. Coleman, Mary Phagan's mom. Reuben R. Arnold and Luther Z. Ross Trial judge L disregarded Rosser for Frank's attempts to keep the names of their witnesses a secret.
In retaliation, the defense pleaded with the court to uphold their duces tecum, which they had previously served on the solicitor and which demanded that he bring into court all declarations and affidavits made by James Conley, the black sweeper who had made an affidavit implicating himself and claiming to have helped Frank dispose of the girl's body. If these affidavits and statements are deemed to be relevant, Solicitor Dorsey has agreed to provide them at the appropriate time. The trial began on time at nine o'clock, with veniremen, spectators, witnesses, attorneys, and friends of the principal all crowded into the courtroom. In contrast to the persistent rumor that the defense would ask for a postponement and to their frequent objections to the trial, the defense demonstrated that they were prepared and willing to proceed with the trial.
After returning home, Frank called Lee to see if everything was "Alright.". Lee testified in court that Frank informed authorities about Lee's properly punched time card the day following the murder while they were both present. The text is a transcript of a portion of the Atlanta Constitution's coverage of the trial's opening day on July 20, 1913. At around 7:00 or 8:00 in the morning, Leo Frank was seen entering the office and gazing at the ground. He declared that the punches were fine as he opened the clock. As part of an effort to implicate Newt Lee, this testimony was concerning from Frank's perspective. The same period saw the planting of a bloody shirt on Lee's property, which was quickly identified as a fake when the staining pattern revealed that the shirt had been crumpled and wiped in blood rather than being worn when it was stained. Lee was unmoved by Rosser's cross-examination of him that day in regards to any aspect of this narrative.
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Don't Let Them ERASE This from History!
This video is the first part in a mini-series about a famous Georgia trial--the trial of Leo Frank. The details of this trial have been purposefully twisted over time, images of news articles doctored, and any questioning about it silenced. This video is highly sourced from supreme court documents, archives of original news articles, and statements from the victim's family. Really Graceful has all the resources pinned as the top comment under this video.
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Leo Frank Trial - Hugh Dorsey Closing Arguments Part 5
This case's defense is hazy and unfocused. While they flutter and circle, they never become light. Regarding other claims, like the depth Jim Conley pushed his victim into, the defense is hazy and imprecise. The defense is unsure and vague as to which hole Jim Conley forced his victim into. Regarding the hole Jim Conley forced his victim into, the defense is unsure and vague. The defense is unsure and vague as to which hole Jim Conley forced his victim into. Regarding the hole Jim Conley forced his victim into, the defense is unsure and vague. The defense is unsure and vague as to which hole Jim Conley forced his victim into. The incidents surrounding the slaying of a young woman in a factory are the most crucial details in this text.
After spending a full day searching the factory on May 1 when Mr. Dot Holloway grabbed old Jim Conley and claimed he was his nigger, squad number two of the Pinkertons discovered so much blood that it took them until May 15 to discover it. After Mr. Barrett claimed to have seen blood there before he returned to see it, Mr. Quinn had to ask him to look at the blood spots he had discovered on the second floor. He called Schiff three times to get the Pinkertons down because he was so anxious to hire a detective. He claimed that Lemme Quinn had to come and ask him to see the blood stains that Mr. Dot Barrett had discovered on the second floor. This implies that Mr. Dot Quinn was eager to hire a detective and read about the position in the newspaper before returning to see it.
Lemme Quinn sarcastically recited Leo M. Frank's claim that he returned to the dressing room on the second floor and used an electric flashlight to examine the blood spots. Nobody on earth has ever seen Leo M. Frank, however, looking at what Beaver, Storne, and Storne claimed to be blood close to the dressing room on the second floor, according to Barrett, Jefferson, Mel Stanford, Beaver, Storne, and Storne. Frank claimed to have twice visited the morgue, but Rogers claimed he didn't even glance inside. Rogers never claimed that he didn't look at the body, so Mr. Dot Rosser misrepresented the evidence. Mr. Dorsey claimed that Rogers never looked at the body, but Mr. Arnold is adamant that this isn't the evidence.
The Negro's intentions toward the girl remain ambiguous, even if he took the time to write the notes and tie a cord around her neck. The defense is hazy and evasive on other claims, such as whether Jim Conley shot his victim down that staircase back there or down the other hole in the Clark Wooden Wear Company's building.
On other claims, like whether the Negro actually robbed the girl even if he took the time to write the notes or tie a cord around her neck, the defense is hazy and imprecise. The circumstances surrounding the murder of a young woman in a factory are the most significant details in this text. After spending a full day searching the factory on May 1 when Mr. Dot Holloway grabbed old Jim Conley and claimed he was his nigger, squad number two of the Pinkerton agents discovered so much blood that it took them until May 15 to discover it. Mr. Barrett discovered blood spots on the second floor after claiming to have seen blood there before Mr. Quinn came to ask him to look at them. He contacted Schiff three times in order to track down the Pinkertons because he was so eager to hire a detective.
The blood stains on the second floor discovered by Mr. Dot Barrett had to be shown to him, he claimed, and Lemme Quinn had to come and ask him. This implies that Mr. Dot Quinn saw the ad for a detective in the newspaper before he went back to see it. Mr. Dot Quinn was eager to hire a detective. Lemme Quinn casually rattled off Leo M. Frank's claim that he returned to the morgue and looked at the blood spots close to the dressing room on the second floor. Nobody on earth has ever seen Leo M. Frank, however, looking at what Beaver, Starnes, and Starnes claimed to be blood close to the dressing room on the second floor, according to Barrett, Jefferson, Mel Stanford, Beaver, Starnes, and Starnes. Additionally, Frank claimed he twice went to the morgue, but Rogers, Black, Mr. Rosser, Mr. Dorsey, and Mr. Arnold all claimed he didn't go near the body. In contrast to Black, who said he didn't know and couldn't say whether he saw it or not, Rogers said he didn't know and couldn't say whether he did.
Mr. Dorsey contends that Frank never glanced at Mary Phagan's body; however, if he did, it was only for a moment as the electric light flashed on before he turned and fled the scene. He questions the evidence to show that Frank ever looked at the girl's face, which was so fleeting that even if she was filthy and begging, her hair was bloody, and her features were distorted, he could never have recognized her as Mary Phagan.
Additionally, he asserts that on Sunday afternoon he returned to the morgue to listen for any rumors or hints that Leo M. Frank had carried out the heinous act. Rogers, the factory's superintendent, claimed to have been watching him and that the sight tore him to pieces. He wants the jury to think that the car ride and seeing the features of that poor girl were the causes of his anxiety.
On Sunday afternoon, Leo Frank visited the morgue to check if he could detect any aromas that might have suggested the police were looking into him. He acknowledged his anxiety in front of the police, but the Seligs claim he wasn't anxious when he called Newt Lee to inquire about what had transpired at the factory.
In the hallway, he read the Saturday Evening Post while attempting to disrupt the card game with his guilty-feeling laughter. He was anxious as he approached the law's pawns and had to discuss the proposal with them, as he operated the elevator, and as he approached the box to turn on the power. The most crucial information in this passage is that the defendant left a box open because a firefighter had stopped by and warned that if there was a fire, the electricity might electrocute some of the firefighters.
It wasn't necessary to do this because turning a lever would have turned off the electricity and allowed the key to be hung up in the office. Before coming to the conclusion that Old Jim Conley was his nigger, Old Holloway was truthful, and he understood the significance of the claim that when Frank went there on Sunday morning, the box was unlocked and Frank had the key in his pocket. The key was always in Frank's office, according to Mr. Dorsey Holloway, and the power box and elevator were unlocked on Sunday morning without anyone going to get the key, according to this text's most crucial information. Boots Rogers also claimed that Frank had the key the following morning in his pocket, but that claim is unsupported by the facts. The argument is that Mr. Dorsey claimed that the key was always in Frank's office, that the power box and elevator were unlocked on Sunday morning, and that the elevator started without anyone going to get the key. Mr. Rosser was willing to say that despite having a responsibility to know that it is untrue.
On the threshold, Old Newt Lee stops Frank and won't let him go up. Frank then calls Newt to see if Gantt has left and if everything is okay at the factory. His own detective, Harry Scott, has discovered Montana Stower's body despite the fact that Frank is in jail and that his affidavit contradicts this claim. Leo M. Frank avoids Scott when he visits him in his jail cell by claiming that he didn't leave the office when he did. The most crucial information in this passage is that Scott, a Pinkerton detective, was accused of killing Monteen Stover on May 3.
Instead of stepping outside his office to respond to a call from nature, as was alleged, he did so. Then he claimed that he never left his office and that the only time he testified in front of an impartial jury was when he was accused of murder and had all the odds stacked against him. Additionally, he claimed that if he had stayed in his office, he would have seen her, heard her, and spoken to her, as well as given her her pay. He added that if he hadn't remembered it, he wouldn't have insisted so often and categorically that he never left his office and only testified in front of a fair jury after being accused of the murder and having the evidence stacked against him. Finally, he claimed that if he hadn't remembered it, he wouldn't have claimed that he only testified under oath in front of a fair jury after being accused of murder and that he never left his office.
Mr. Scott queries Frank as to whether he spent the entire period between arriving at the factory from Montague Brothers and visiting White and Denim on the fourth floor in his office. Frank replies that he was in his office from the moment he arrived at the factory until Mary Phagan entered, and that he went upstairs to get Mrs. Dot White out of the building at 12:50. Scott then queries Frank as to whether he was present in his office from 12:00 until Mary Phagan arrived and from that point until 12:50, when he went upstairs to fetch Mrs. White from the building. Frank replies that he spent every minute of that half-hour in his office from noon to 1:30. Scott goes on to inquire if Frank was in his office from the time he arrived at the factory until Mary Phagan entered and then from that point until 12:50, when he went upstairs to fetch Mrs. White from the building.
The most crucial information in this passage is that Frank told his personal detective Harry Scott that he had been away from his desk from a short while before the girl arrived until he went upstairs at 12:50 to ask Mrs. White to leave. This assertion disregarded what Frank had told his personal detective, Harry Scott, and implied that he had the authority to, if he so chose, write a verdict that was in direct opposition to the truth and the interests of justice. Frank also made an effort to dissect Little George EPS, demonstrate that McCoy didn't have a watch, and attempt to prove that Kenley was lying because he was acquainted with the young girl and believed that he intuitively knew who the murderer was. "Will Frank ever have his own self-esteem?" is the final query of the audiobook file.
The testimony of one state witness against whom there is no indication of suspicion provides the text's most crucial details. This witness, Mr. Kelly, knew the girl and rode in the same car as Hollis. The case file does not support Mr. Rosser's claim that he has no interest in Dr. Roy Harris' testimony regarding the cabbage removed from the girl's stomach. Mr. Dot Arnold's claim that there isn't a scrap of evidence regarding the impact it might have on the jury is blatantly false and ought to be excluded from the jury. The advice of Mr. Dorsey is that any man can survive on buttermilk, cornbread, and cabbage. The arguments presented by Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Arnold are the most crucial information in this text.
In support of his claim that there must have been more involved than just these men's training, Mr. Dorsey claims that a doctor who was a jury member's doctor brought him to the scene. According to Mr. Dot Arnold, a certain doctor was brought in because he treated a certain jury member. According to Mr. Dorsey, Mr. Arnold's assertion is contradicted by the number of doctors these men have listed. Mr. Arnold claims that something other than the training of these men must have been involved, and that a doctor who was the jury member's doctor brought him here.
Mr. According to Dorsey, the number of doctors listed by these men here refutes Mr. Arnold's assertion. The state's case is strongly supported by the cabbage hypothesis, which also undermines the defendant's alibi. Dr. Childs, a general practitioner who is ignorant of the effects of gastric juices on food in the stomach, is ineligible to oppose Dr. Roy Harris, the esteemed secretary of the Georgia Board of Health. Old Newt Lee was advised to return there on Saturday at 4:00 by the man, who also expressed anxiety when speaking to old man John Starnes. Old Newt Lee was sent outside because Jim Conley hadn't arrived but Conley was wanted. In order to prevent Atlanta's city police from solving the Phagan mystery today, Frank sought out a chance to burn the body.
The testimony of one state witness against whom there has been no indication of suspicion provides the text's most crucial details. As a passenger on the same car as Hollis and a person familiar with the girl, Mr. Kelly is the witness. The evidence in this case does not support Mr. Rosser's claim that he has no interest in Dr. Roy Harris' testimony regarding the cabbage that was removed from the girl's stomach. Mr. Dot Arnold's claim that there isn't a scrap of evidence regarding the impact it might have on the jury is blatantly false and ought to be excluded from the jury. It is also suggested by Mr. Dorsey that buttermilk, cornbread, and cabbage are sufficient for any man. The arguments presented by Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Arnold are the most crucial information in this text.
In support of his claim that there must have been more involved than just these men's training, Mr. Dorsey claims that a doctor who was a jury member's doctor brought him to the scene. According to Mr. Dot Arnold, a certain doctor was brought in because he treated a jury member. According to Mr. Dorsey, Mr. Arnold's assertion is contradicted by the number of doctors these men have listed.
Mr. Arnold claims that something other than the training of these men must have been involved, and that a doctor who was the jury member's doctor brought him here. Mr. According to Dorsey, Mr. Arnold's assertion is contradicted by the number of doctors these men have listed. The state's case is strongly supported by the "cabbage proposition," which also undermines the defendant's alibi. Dr. Roy Harris, the esteemed secretary of the Georgia Board of Health, cannot be dissuaded by Dr. Childs, a general practitioner who is ignorant of the effects of gastric juices on foods in the stomach. Gantt's worry about returning to the building that afternoon was sparked when he noticed a boy sweeping out a pair of shoes. Gantt claimed to have two pairs, but he was afraid to admit that the man was also sweeping them out. He then asked Newt to accompany him up the stairs so he could get the tan and black shoes. Gantt describes his actions, and Newt describes his leap. Gantt describes his actions, and Newt describes his leap.
When speaking with old man John Starnes, the man appeared uneasy. He also advised old Newt Lee to return on Saturday at 4:00. Old Newt Lee was sent outside because Jim Conley hadn't arrived but Conley was wanted. Frank wanted a chance to burn the body so that the Atlanta city police would not be able to solve the Phagan mystery today and that it would likely not even be known that the girl died in that factory.
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