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Atlanta Georgian newspapers about the Frank-Phagan case listed here. 1913 April 28, 1913: 1,000 Throng Morgue to See Body of Victim (Atlanta Georgian) April 28, 1913: Arrested as Girl’s Slayer: John M. Gant Accused of the Crime; Former Bookkeeper Taken by Police (Atlanta Georgian) April 28, 1913: Chief and Sleuths Trace Steps in Slaying of Girl; Story of Killing Continue Reading →
Juror’s Story of How Evidence Was Weighed and Verdict Reached
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 27th, 1913 The Georgian today reveals some of the innermost secrets of the jury that convicted Leo M. Frank of the murder of little Mary Phagan. This inside story of the greatest criminal case in the South’s history is an intensely interesting revelation of the Continue Reading →
I’m as Innocent as I Was A Year Ago,’ Asserts Frank
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 27th, 1913 Just four months after the murder of Mary Phagan, Leo M. Frank stands convicted of the slaying of the slaying of the 13-year-old girl in the National Pencil factory. No recommendation for life imprisonment was made by the jurors, this circumstance making it Continue Reading →
Fight Begun To Save Frank
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 27th, 1913 Motion For New Trial Follows Death Sentence PRISONER MUST HANG OCT. 10, JUDGE RULES; INNOCENT, HE REPEATS Almost before the dread verdict of “guilty” had ceased ringing in his ears, Leo M. Frank, convicted of slaying Mary Phagan, heard Tuesday the still more Continue Reading →
Reply Made To Frank’s Attack
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 28th, 1913 Solicitor Cites Prisoner’s Statement on Stand, “Now is the Time, This is the Place.” Solicitor Dorsey was as busily engaged on the Frank case Thursday as he was any day before Leo Frank was convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan. If the Continue Reading →
Supreme Test Comes as State Trains Guns on Frank’s Character
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 17th, 1913 Defendant Will Take the Stand Early in Week to Give His Account of His Movements on Day Mary Phagan Met Death in Pencil Factory ATTORNEYS SEEKING TO ESTABLISH COMPLETE ALIBI Believed That Case Will Stand or Fall on Efforts of Prosecution to Prove Continue Reading →
Mother’s Love Gives Trial Its Great Scene
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 16th, 1913 By L. F. WOODRUFF. Every human emotion has been paraded during the long three weeks of the Frank trial. There has been pathos. Comedy has opposed tragedy. Science has met sympathy. Truth has been arrayed against fiction. Negro has conflicted with white. The Continue Reading →
Many Testify to Frank’s Good Character
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 16th, 1913 Nearly half a hundred witnesses testified in behalf of Leo M. Frank Friday. As a climax to the day’s proceedings in Judge Roan’s court the defendant’s mother, Mrs. Rae Frank, went on the stand to add her testimony to that which she hoped Continue Reading →
Statement by Frank Will Be the Climactic Feature of the Trial
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 16th, 1913 By JAMES B. NEVIN. The defense is nearing its end in the Frank case. A few more character witnesses—there seems to have been no difficulty whatever in securing character witnesses by the score to testify in behalf of the defendant—the statement of Frank, Continue Reading →
Girls Testify For and Against Frank
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 16th, 1913 ‘I’D DIE FOR HIM!’ CRIES ONE, CONVULSING COURT CLUB AND ENVELOPE FOUND BY PINKERTON MAN PUT IN EVIDENCE Two factory girls, one of them defending Leo M. Frank with all the eloquence at her command, and the other admitting that she had known Continue Reading →
Testimony of Girls Help to Leo M. Frank
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 15th, 1913 In the presentation of its alibi for Leo M. Frank, the defense probably accomplished more Thursday than it had in all of previous time since the prosecution rested its case. Frank’s lawyers had promised that they would show where Frank was practically every Continue Reading →
What ‘They Say’ Won’t Hurt Leo Frank; State Must ‘Prove’ Depravity
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 15th, 1913 By JAMES B. NEVIN. There is nothing apparently so plain to outside observation as character—just character—and there is, strange to say, nothing so difficult at times to prove. “They say” and “but” are the two most notorious scandalmongers in the universe—“they say” so Continue Reading →
Frank Prepares to Take Stand
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 15th, 1913 Defense’s Attorneys Expect to Rest Case To-day CLIMAX NEAR IN GREAT COURT FIGHT; CROWDS AGAIN FLOCK TO TRIAL Interest in the trial of Leo M. Frank surged upward magically Friday when it was reported about the courtroom that the defense was nearing the Continue Reading →
State Fights Frank’s Alibi
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 14th, 1913 CONLEY ADMITTED MIND WAS BLANK DAY OF CRIME, GIRL SAYS NEGRO DRUNK DAY OF CRIME, MISS CARSON SWEARS HE TOLD HER Miss Helen Curran, a pretty girl of 17 years, proved one of the strongest witnesses Thursday for the defense in establishing what Continue Reading →
Steel Workers Enthralled by Leo Frank Trial
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 14th, 1913 There is one class of men to whom death is supposed to hold no horrors. They can not think of it and earn their daily bread. Were the fear of loss of life to enter their brain for one single second during their Continue Reading →
State’s Sole Aim is to Convict, Defense’s to Clear in Modern Trial
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 14th, 1913 By O. B. KEELER. Right in the first jump, please understand that (1) this is merely the opinion of a layman, unlearned in the law; that (2) he may be the only layman in existence who feels this way about it; and (3) Continue Reading →
Defense Slips Load by Putting up Character of Leo Frank as Issue
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 14th, 1913 By JAMES B. NEVIN. The defense in the Frank case did the expected thing when it boldly and unequivocally put Frank’s character in issue. It indicated its confidence in the justice of the defendant’s cause in doing that, and it met thus a Continue Reading →
State Wants Wife and Mother Excluded
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 14th, 1913 Call New Witnesses to Complete Alibi WIFE AND MOTHER OF ACCUSED ARE WARNED AGAINST OUTBREAKS Nearly a score more of alibi witnesses were to be called by the defense in the Frank trial when court opened Thursday morning. Frank’s attorneys thought that they Continue Reading →
State Calls More Witnesses; Defense Builds Up an Alibi
Another in our series of new transcriptions of contemporary articles on the Leo Frank case. Atlanta GeorgianAugust 13th, 1913 In anticipation of the close of the defense’s case, the State Tuesday afternoon subpenaed a number of new witnesses to be called in the event that Frank’s character was put in issue. It was said that Solicitor Dorsey had prepared against this move Continue Reading →