The Leo Frank
case

Murder in Georgia -
1913

Leo Franks was a bisexual pedophile, and a drug addict, who
managed a pencil factory in Atlanta via 1913. One day he
demanded sex from a 12 yr. old employee
named Mary Phagan, and then brutally raped and murdered
her.

Frank, and a handyman, drag the body to
the basement where they were going to burn it in the factory furnace the
next day. That night a watchman finds the body - calls the police -
Franks is arrested - found guilty and sentenced to hang. The governor
commutes the sentence and Marietta finest families broke into
jail and lynched him

Today the Jewish community hails Leo Franks as a
innocent martyr - a victim of anti-Semitism

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The Victim

Mary Phagan

A 12 yr. old employee of the National Pencil Factory, in
Atlanta, was murdered .

The
Murderer

Leo Frank

Frank was a Cornell-educated Jew raised in New York City, living in
Atlanta. President of his local B'nai B'rith, active in civic affairs, a
local socialite, he was Phagan's supervisor at the National Pencil
Factory.

Frank was sexual pervert who both was homosexual
and preyed on young girls. He
forced employees to have sex with
him.

The
Witness

James Conley

He worked at the
pencil factory as a sweeper and handyman, and walked in
on the murder.

Watchman

Newt Lee

Night watchman that
found the body

The
Factory

It was a three story building, Frank was on the second floor, where
Mary was murdered.

The
murder

12 years old

April 26th, 1913 -  Leo Frank had
Conley  "watch out" for him while he "chatted" with Mary
Phagan.    Frank demanded sex, and
Phagan refused. Next Frank, in cocaine induced
rage, beat her
mercilessly. He then pulled her underwear off, tied
it around her throat, and raped her. After
Frank finished he strangled her to death with the cord.

Frank summons Conley into the office, where he finds Leo crouching over the unconscious
girl. Leo tells him that Mary had resisted his
advances, and when he grabbed her had fallen and struck her head. When
he had finished with her, he decided to kill her.

Frank tried to get Conley to burn the body in the
factory's basement furnace.

Frank and Conley took the body to the basement.

Conley dragged Mary across the coal
cindered basement floor, face down, causing punctures and holes in
her face.

Worried that smoke on a holiday would attract
attention, Frank decided to burn the body the
next day .  They went back to Frank's office where
Frank indicated there would be money waiting for Conley if he
"kept his mouth shut".

Here  Frank uttered the ominous phrase
"Why should I hang?"

Frank then had Conley write the notes
found near the body, apparently in an attempt to incriminate Newt
Lee.

Newt Lee discovers the body and calls the police. The police
find the little girl's body in a cinder pile -  One eye had
been blackened by a blow and over both eyes was a slight abrasion.

Franks paid a negro $ 200
to burn little Mary

The left side of the head bore a two-inch wound, and there was a cut
below the left knee. Drawn tightly about her neck was a cord buried in
the flesh.

The girl had been beaten, strangled, and then raped.

Newt
Lee

The night watchman who discovered Mary
Phagan's body  and telephoned police.

He testified for over two hours, telling the same story
he had told police, that he noticed the body when he went into the
basement to the restroom. He also told of Leo Frank being nervous. Leo
Frank told him not
to come in to work.

That night, Frank called Lee to ask if everything was
alright, an unusual practice for him.

Jewish
involvement

ADL formed

Leo Frank was president of the Atlanta B'nai B'rith, and he was
lynched. New York Jews quickly set out to form the ADL to protect
themselves

Banai Brith employs senator

June 24, 1913 - Georgia
Senator Hoke Smith denied rumors he had been approached about and was
considering aiding in Leo Frank's defense. The rumors spread after
defense attorney Luther Rosser, and National Pencil Company president
Ike Haas, stopped in Washington, D.C. en route to New York. One Jew put $ 100,000 up for Frank's defense.

Body exhumed

May 5, 1913 - Lemmie Quinn, foreman of Mary Phagan's
work area at the National Pencil Factory, testified he saw Leo Frank the
Saturday of the murder and he appeared to be on drugs.   So
the decision was made to exhume Phagan's body and search her stomach for
signs of drugs.

Drugs were found

Alibi broken

May 9, 1913 - Fourteen year old Monteen Stover said she
had arrived at the National Pencil Factory around 12:05 PM (roughly the
same time as Mary Phagan had arrived) and testified that Leo Frank was
not in his office. This contradicted Frank's testimony, that he had been
in his office the entire time in which it was thought Phagan had been
murdered. Frank insisted
Mary to be there Saturday.

Screaming

Another woman reported that she was walking
outside the factory around 4:30 PM when she heard three piercing screams
come from the basement of the building.

The Prosecutor

May 21, 1913 -

Solicitor Hugh Dorsey announced he will seek a grand
jury indictment on Leo Frank.

Jewish Lawyers Accused Of Bribing
Detectives

May 22  a new controversy arose in the Mary Phagan
murder investigation. Phagan's step father signed an affidavit accusing
Thomas Felder, the attorney responsible for bringing the Burns Detective
Agency into the case, of approaching him about allowing Felder to
prosecute the case.

Detectives presented transcripts of dictograph
recordings in which Felder had offered them $1000 for access to the case
evidence.

May 23 - The
grand jury took only ten minutes to hand down a murder
indictment against Leo Frank  The indictment was largely
based on the testimony of Conley, and held the Negro as an accessory.
There were five Hebrews on this grand jury.

Nina
Formby

She owned a whorehouse in Atlanta, where Frank was a frequent
visitor. Frank called her the night of the murder and wanted her help getting rid of the body.

She suddenly went to New York, where she recanted her statement.
Another witness bribed.

Various witnesses to
Leo Frank's sexual deviancies

Tom Watson told about the young
Hebrew, and confirmed  tales of indescribable
orgies in Leo's office .

Several women and girls
come forward to say Frank had made improper advances to them in the past.
The girls were always complaining
that Franks would walk into the girl's
changing room.

George Epps, a friend of
Mary Phagan, testified that Phagan was afraid of Frank because he had flirted
and made advances toward her

Hugh Dorsey then called
several female ex-employees of the National Pencil Factory to the
stand. They all testified that they had a bad opinion of Leo
Frank's character and gave concrete
examples of immoral behavior on his part.

Conley had often sat outside Leo's
office, as a sort of watchdog, while Leo staged his perversions
behind the locked door. When anybody would approach, Conley would
whistle or cough to warn his employer.

C.B. Dalton ( railroad carpenter)
testified that he had seen numerous women come to the factory to
visit Frank

May 10, 1913 -
Robert House, an ex-policeman, had said he once caught
Leo Frank and a young girl in the woods at Druid
Hills park engaging in immoral acts. According to House,
Frank had pleaded with him not to report the incident.

Body Exhumed Second
Time

May
25, 1913 - A second exhumation of Mary Phagan's body took place,
this time to look for fingerprints; a fingerprint expert had been called
in to help with the case.

The undertaker who embalmed Phagan's body said there was
evidence of sexual
assault and the county physician also
agreed.

Family Cook Testifies About Frank's Confession And
Attempted Bribery

Minola McKnight

June 3 - Minola McKnight, the Frank family cook
signed a statement saying Leo Frank was very nervous, and drinking
heavily, the night after the murder of Mary Phagan. She said she overheard Frank's wife tell her mother that Leo
made her sleep on the rug, and kept asking for his pistol so he could
shoot himself.

Frank had told
her -- "It is mighty bad, Minola. I
might have to go to jail about this girl, and I don't know
anything about it."

Finally she said her wages had been raised as a
" tip to keep quiet."

Her
actual statement

Lucille
Frank

Trial
Begins

July 28, 1913

A jury was quickly selected and seated. The first
witness called was Mrs. J.W. Coleman,  mother of Mary Phagan.
She managed to stay collected during most of her testimony, but
finally broke down in tears when asked to identify the clothes her
daughter had worn on the day she was murdered.

Next on the stand was George Epps, a
thirteen year old boy who also worked at the National Pencil
Factory. He had ridden the streetcar with Phagan the morning
of April 26th, and the two had agreed to meet for an ice
cream. and to watch the Confederate Memorial Day Parade at
1:00 that afternoon.

Mary's mother

Leo Frank's Various Alibi's

A Jewess lies
Lucille Frank

June 2, 1913 - At first she corroborated Frank's story
concerning the times he arrived home for lunch and then returned to the
factory the day of the murder. She was agitated, believing her estranged
husband had been telling lies to the police to get her in trouble. She
said both she and Frank were innocent.

Jewish Assistant
Herbert Schiff

August 9, 1913 - the twelfth day in the Leo Frank trial.
Herbert Schiff, Jewish assistant to Leo Frank, said he worked most
Saturdays and had never seen any women in Frank's office except his
wife. He added that he had never seen C.B. Dalton either.

Witnesses Tampering
Revealed

May 7, 1913 -  The wife of one of the mechanics who
had testified on April 30 said she visited her husband at the factory
that day and saw a "strange Negro" boarding the elevator as she left
around 1:00 PM. Detectives on the case said someone was planting
false evidence and trying to block the investigation.

Murderer hires the investigators

Leo Frank of the National Pencil Factory  expressed
his unhappiness with the investigation's progress, so he personally
brought in a Pinkerton's detective to aid in the investigation.

Devastating witness

This was the seventh, and pivotal, day in the trial of
Leo Frank. Jim Conley, a sweeper at the factory, was called to testify
and presented a gruesome, graphic, and sometimes revolting
tale.

In fact his testimony was so lurid that
Judge Roan ordered all women and children cleared from the
courtroom.

Conley testified he had "watched out" for Frank on
several occasions, while he entertained young women in his office.

On the witness stand, Jim Conley was devastating. According
to Conley, Frank had confessed the murder to him and had tried to get
him, (Conley), to burn the body in the factory's basement furnace.
Frank's lawyers were unable to shake Conley's story.

Some of his descriptions of what he saw intimated that
Frank was a sexual
deviant. Conley tells of walking in as the Jew was molesting
the girl, and boys..
How him and Frank dragged the body to the basement furnace room. They
returned to the office where Frank had Conley write notes indicating
Newt Lee the watchman.

John Starnes

Detective Starnes testified he had found the body in the
basement, face down, with a cord tied tightly around the neck, and a
pair of women's
underpants tied loosely around the neck.
Mary was a virgin.

The back of the head was covered in blood.  He had
called Leo Frank to inform him of the murder, and said Frank appeared
extremely nervous when he arrived at the factory. Frank cancels his
Saturday afternoon baseball outing.

Harry Scott

Pinkerton
detective in charge of their investigation of the case.

Scott then angered defense attorneys when he asserted
one of them had asked him to forward all police evidence to the defense.
Also testifying was former factory employee Monteen Stover, who said she
had arrived at the factory at 12:05 PM to receive her pay, had waited in
Frank's office for him for five minutes, then left. This contradicted
Frank's statement that he had been in his office the entire time in
which the murder took place.

Frank molested the
corpse?

Dr. J.W. Hurt, county physician who had
also examined Mary Phagan's body, said there was some evidence
suggesting she may have been "outraged"
(sexually assaulted).

The prosecutor pointed out, she was killed
for resisting, so Leo may have assaulted
her as she laid dying or dead.

Jim Conley

Negro acts as a ' Lookout
'

Conley's story was to the effect that he had often sat
outside Leo's office as a sort of watchdog while Leo staged his
perversions behind the locked door. When anybody would approach,
Conley would whistle or cough to warn his employer.

August 5, 1913  When the day ended Conley
was still on the stand, while defense attorneys argued that his
testimony of having been a lookout for Frank on earlier occasions
should be stricken from the record as irrelevant to the
case.

August 6, 1913 - this was the ninth day of the trial of
Leo Frank. Judge L.S. Roan ruled that testimony that Jim Conley had
acted as a lookout for Leo Frank was admissible.

Applause broke out in the courtroom; Frank's attorneys
immediately contended that any further such actions would be cause for a
mistrial; Judge roan threatened to clear the courtroom if order was not
maintained.

Frank's mother

August 13, 1913 - . Jim Conley had claimed he watched
while Frank entertained a woman in his office that day. More character
witnesses were called during the afternoon. In cross-examining one of
these witnesses, Hugh Dorsey asked if he had ever heard complaints
about Frank fondling young girls.

Mrs. Rae Frank, Leo Frank's mother, leapt to her feet
and shouted at Dorsey "No, nor you either, you dog." One of the
defense attorneys escorted Mrs. Frank out of the courtroom.
Another time she called Dorsey a "
Christian dog"

Leo Frank Testifies

August 18, 1913 -  Leo Frank took the
witness stand. He spoke for four hours, calmly but firmly laying out his
story. Frank said Jim Conley's tale was all lies, and that the
detectives tried to distort everything he (Frank) said in order to
incriminate him.

He said Mary came in for her pay soon after 12:00 noon
on April 26th, returned a few minutes later to ask if the shipment of
metal had arrived (Phagan's job was putting metal tips on pencils), then
left his office and he never saw her alive again.

He never saw Jim Conley that day. Frank
concluded his statement thus: "Some newspaper man has called me 'the
silent man in the Tower.' (for his unwillingness to talk to police or
the press) Gentlemen, this is the time
and here is the place! I have told you the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth."

Prosecutor's final
argument

August 23, 1913 - the twenty-fourth
day in the trial of Leo Frank. Solicitor Hugh Dorsey
continued his eloquent, yet ferocious,
final argument, scoring Leo Frank for his abhorrent
behavior, and contending that he could not careless what opposing
attorneys or Frank's family thought of him; his duty was to Mary Phagan
and the people of Georgia.

Defense cries ' Anti-Semitism
'

August 25, 1913 - The
defense then argued that Frank was the latest in a long line of
Jews who were persecuted for their
religious beliefs, and again asserted that Jim Conley was the
true murderer. Conley, and many other prosecution witnesses, had shady characters, while Leo
Frank had been a pillar of the community who had many well
respected people, plus many of his employees, testifying on his
behalf

If the case came down to Leo
Frank's word against Jim Conley's, then it was obvious who
should be believed.

Frank's
attorneys argued that the South blamed the Jews for the
civil war and the buying up of land, and businesses, that
followed.

The
verdict

Jury decides

enlarge

Monday morning the Fifth Regiment, Georgia National Guard,
was posted throughout the city, and Judge Roan gave the jurors their
instructions.

Both sides have admitted that the charge was impartial and fair.

To avoid a riot, at Roan's suggestion neither Frank nor his lawyers
were in court when the jury retired. It remained secluded for forty
minutes.

There were two ballots; one, as to Leo's guilt, which was unanimous;
and the second, as to recommendation for mercy, which would mean a life
sentence. The first vote here was 11 to 1 against leniency, and the
solitary juror then joined the others.

Georgia State Militia Was Called Out In Case Leo
Franks Was Acquitted

Verdict delivered

At 4:55 they returned with their decision; Leo Frank was
declared guilty. Neither Frank nor his family or lead attorneys were
present in the courtroom when the verdict was announced.

Leo Frank
sentenced

August 26, 1913 - Judge L.S. Roan sentenced Leo Frank to hang for the murder of
Mary Phagan.

The execution date was set for October 10, but
Frank's attorneys immediately motioned for a new trial.

Adolph Lewisohn, Samuel Untermyer, Louis Marshall, Rabbi
Wise, and other leading Hebrews begged for
clemency.

Supreme Court Heard Case

In December 1914, the United States Supreme Court agreed to review
the case. But on April 19, 1915, the argument was rejected by a vote
of 7 to 2,

Governor Bribed
to Commute Sentence

Governor flees for his
life

June 20, 1915

In his last day in office, Georgia governor John Slaton
was bribed
and commuted the sentence of Leo Frank, from
death to life in prison.

Governor Slaton announced the commutation from hanging to life
imprisonment, and all hell broke loose in Atlanta.

The militia was called out, and thrown around the governor's mansion,
seven miles from the heart of the city, and martial law was declared.
Hundreds of automobile loads of armed men raced through the streets to
the executive home, where the mob trampled the grounds, screamed at the
curtained windows, and hurled itself vainly against the militia's
bayonets

He was influenced by his law
partners, who represented Frank. Either way, Slaton's act was
political suicide. He was forced to leave the country in fear for his
own life.

The issue was now "Georgia's traitor governor who sold out to sheeny
gold." Slaton was hanged in effigy; and the rumor that he and Mrs.
Slaton were leaving at once for New York caused the throng to scream
imprecations.

Frank Transferred to Milledgeville

The governor arranged for Frank stayed in a private room next to the
warden. His wife was allowed to visit.

Enlarge

Frank stabbed in prison

June 21, 1915 - Leo Frank, in the middle of the
night, was transferred from the Fulton
County Prison to the Georgia State Penitentiary in
Milledgeville

July 18, 1915 - Prisoner J. William Creen slashed Leo
Frank's throat at the Georgia State Prison Farm in Milledgeville. Only
the quick actions of two other prisoners, both doctors, who stopped the
flow of blood and stitched the wound, saved Frank's life.
Green accused Frank of attempted
sodomy.

The
lynching

Lynch mob of leading citizens gathers

Lynching mob consisted of leading
citizens in the community, men prominent in business and social circles,
and even in churches."

August 16, 1915 - A caravan of eight vehicles bearing 25
armed men from the Atlanta area arrived at the Georgia State Prison at Milledgeville around 10 p.m.

Calling themselves the Knights of Mary Phagan,
they cut the telephone lines,  surprised the guards and entered the
barrack of Leo Frank, who two years earlier had been convicted of the
murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan in one of the most infamous trials of
the century. The intruders seized Frank and departed
back to Marietta.

Leo Frank lynched

August 17, 1915 -   Frank was hanged
there in Frey's grove.   When word of the lynching spread,
crowds gathered to see the body hanging from a tree.

The next morning, a farmer driving his team and wagon of produce into
Marietta, 170 miles away, saw a man dangling from a
tree near the roadway.  He recognized Leo Frank, hanging in his
monogrammed silk nightgown, a hangman's noose
beside his tilted jaw. He had been dead for several hours.

The farmer whipped up his horses and a little later a mob of 6,000
men and boys was crowding the highway for a look as the famous
prisoner

Frank's body was rushed to
an undertaker in Atlanta, with a line of vehicles
trailing behind. Although the undertaker tried to keep the
body concealed, a large crowd soon gathered demanding
to see it. After a rock was thrown through a window, officials agreed to let the public view Frank's
body.

Under police supervision, thousands of
curious Atlanta-area residents filed by single file to view
Frank's body -- including the city detective who
had arrested Frank. That night Frank's body was quickly embalmed
and placed on a train for New York.

August 18, 1915 - Leo Frank's body, accompanied by his
wife, departed Atlanta on a train bound for Brooklyn, NY.

August 20, 1915 - Leo Frank was buried in Brooklyn,
NY.

* As a footnote to the lynching, no one was ever prosecuted for the murder of Leo Frank. Jewish
groups were actually relieved, and never sought to try
defendants.

Mary Phagan's Niece Writes A
Book

The niece spent thousands of hours researching court
records, newspaper clippings and family records. She concluded there was
no Anti Semitism, but rather cold hard facts.

Frank was a cold blooded killer, and he
murdered the girl. Today, Jewish groups spread
filth on a 12 yr old child, so as to discredit her. Various photos
and a diagram of murder scene.

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