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The Mary Phagan murder case: Leo Frank...
The Mary Phagan murder case: Leo Frank...
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May 19, 1913
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Georgia, May 19, 1913 T
* Leo Frank murder case
* Mary Phagan - pencil factory
* Best title to have in
he front page of this issue has one column heads: "DETECTIVES SEEK CLUE IN WRITING OF NEGRO SUSPECT" "Another Employee of trhe national Pencil Company Now Held at Police Headquarters" "Valuable Evidence Found By burns Man" "For Hours the New Detective,k Col. Thomas B. Felder and Solicitor General Hugh Dorsey Discuss Case" followed by the text. One of the subheads reads: "Frank Has Little to Say" which is followed by: "Leo M. Frank, the suspected factory superintendent and Newt Lee, the negro night watchman, were both seen in their cells in the Tower last night...Frank had only a few words to say. He would not discuss any phase of the case..." with more (see).
This is the complete issue in 12 pages. It has a little spine chipping, a few small margin tears, otherwise in good condition for the period. Should be handled with care.Terrific to have this report in an Atlanta newspaper, the city where the trial was held.
Note: The Leo Frank case has become well known in American history for several reasons, not the least of which being the several film and television depictions of the trial, but also because Frank was a Jewish-American businessman, his case turning the spotlight on antisemitism in the United States and led to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League. There was also the element of Frank being cast as a representative of Yankee capitalism, a rich northern Jew lording it over vulnerable working women in the South.
Leo Frank was the superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, convicted on Aug. 26, 1913 of the murder of one of the factory workers, 13 year-old Mary Phagan. He would be found guilty and in 1915 sentenced to death, but the governor commuted the sentence to life imprisonment, to the great outrage of the citizenry. A mob of some 25 armed men kidnapped Frank from prison and hanged him.
Category: The 20th Century
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