The Murder of Little Mary Phagan (2025 Edition) by Mary Phagan Kean
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Sunday, 10th August 1913 Witness Found Who Saw Mary Phagan on Way to Factory, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 8.George T. Kendley, Street Car Conductor, Declares He Saw Little Girl About Noon on April 26 as She Stepped From Curb on Forsyth Street Bridge to Cross Alabama Street, Where His Car…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Study of Frank Convicts, Then It Turns and Acquits, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 46, COLUMN 4.Readers of Human Nature See Anything They Want, but Personal Equation Is Forgotten.By O. B. KEELER.Leo Frank sits in the prisoner's dock and all men may read his face. A great many…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Startling Testimony of Conley Feature of Trials Second Week, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 3.IMPORTANT WITNESSES HEARDFeature of Trial's Second WeekThe resting by the state of its case against Leo M. Frank, charged with the murder of Mary Phagan, came on Thursday and the defense is…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Schiff Testimony Contradicts That Given by Dalton and Negro Conley, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Saturday by Far the Best Day for the Defense Since Start of the Frank Trial Two Weeks Ago.SAYS WOMEN DID NOT VISIT FRANK'S OFFICELawyers for State and Defense in Frequent Clashes During…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Schiff Put on Stand to Refute Conley and Dalton Testimony, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 2, COLUMN 1.Schiff Put on Stand to RefuteHIS STATEMENTS HELP DEFENSEHerbert G. Shiff, assistant to Leo M. Frank at the National Pencil factory, followed J. H. Minar on the stand Saturday. His testimony was…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Reporter Makes Denial of Charge That Reports Have Been Flavored, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 6.J. M. Minar, a reporter, was put on the stand by the defense after the Epps boy left. By him the defense sought to prove that the boy had talked of Mary…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Playing Practical Jokes on Watchful Bailiffs is Pastime of Frank Jurors, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.PLAYING PRACTICAL JOKES ON WATCHFUL BAILIFFS IS PASTIME OF FRANK JURORSCourt Bailiff Charles F. Huber, Who Guards Body in Hotel at Night, Spends Hours in Search of Mysterious FemaleVoice Which Disrupts His…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Phagan Trial Makes Eleven Widows But Jurors Wives Are Peeresses Also, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 50, COLUMN 3.By L. F. WOODRUFFELEVEN widows were made in Atlanta in a day without the assistance of the Grim Reaper, a trip to Reno, pallbearers or affinity stories in the newspapers.And there is…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 One Glance at Conley Boosts Darwin Theory, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 50, COLUMN 6.Frank's Accuser Is not the Type of Negro White Men Consider Their Friend.By TARLETON COLLIER.Jim Conley is a low-browed, thick-lipped, anthropoidal sort of negro. You look at him and your faith in…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Mary Phagans Mother to be Spared at Trial, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 50, COLUMN 4.A spectator at the trial of Leo M. Frank for the murder of little Mary Phagan remarked:"I wonder what the mother of the little girl who was so brutally killed thinks of…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Is Defense Planning Telling Blow At Testimony Given by Jim Conley?, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 6.Will the defense strive to show by witnesses that the pencil factory elevator was not run on April 26 as told by Jim Conley in his remarkable story?Since a question put to…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Introduction by Defense of Host Of Character Witnesses Probable, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.The introduction of character testimony in behalf of Leo Frank at present seems very probable. It is not thought, however, that witnesses of this nature will be put on the stand until…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Interest in Trial Now Centers in Story of Mincey, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 50, COLUMN 1.Question of Time Considered of Paramount Importance in Defense Theory of Frank CaseTHE diagram shows the daily routine of the jurors who are trying the case against Leo M. Frank. Their days…
Sunday, 10th August 1913: Full Blue Ridge Highway Will Open Up, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.Magnificent Section of StateThat the much talked of "Blue Ridge Highway," extending from Atlanta through Fulton, Cobb, Cherokee, Pickens, Gilmer and Fannin counties, on to Murphy, N. C., will soon be a…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Frank Struggles to Prove His Conduct Was Blameless, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 47, COLUMN 1.Co-Workers in the Factory Declare Stories of Factory Revelries Are Beyond ReasonASSISTANT TELLS HOW ACCUSED MAN MADE OUT COMPLEX ACCOUNTSTestimony of Newsboy Who Said He Accompanied Mary Phagan On Street Car On…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Frank or Conley? Still Question, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 45, COLUMN 5.Issue Firmly Drawn Between Two Men Defense Starting to Mould Its CaseTheory That Negro Attacked Mary Phagan With Motive of Robbing Her Will Be Shown; Two Charges Against Accused Must Be Refuted.Leo…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Frank A. Hooper Is Proving Big Aid to Solicitor Dorsey, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 3.ROSSER CALLS HIM BEAU BRUMMEL OF BARBy Britt Craig.He has a kind and genial face that makes you feel he is the friend of everybody in the world, but in the midst…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Epps Boy Denies Trying to Avoid Being Called to the Stand Again, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.C. B. Dalton, who was used by the state to corroborate some of Jim Conley's testimony against Leo Frank, was the first witness called by the defense Saturday morning. He did not…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Defense Will Renew Attack Upon Dr. Harris Testimony, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 2, COLUMN 6.That the defense in the trial of Leo M. Frank, charged with the murder of Mary Phagan, will continue its attack upon the testimony of Dr. H. F. Harris, who made a…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Dalton Sticks Firmly To Story Told on Stand, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 50, COLUMN 3.C. B. Dalton, prominent as a witness in the Frank trial, stuck firmly to the story he told in court when he was confronted Saturday by the letter of Miss Laura Atkinson,…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Conleys Story is Still Center of Fight in Frank Case, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.After Two Weeks of TestimonyOnly Evidence Directly Linking Frank With the Crime Is the Sensational Statement Made on the Stand by Negro Sweeper Summary of Developments in Trial to DateSTATE HAS INTRODUCED…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Conley, Unconcerned, Asks Nothing of Trial, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 47, COLUMN 8.Despite the attacks of the defense in the trial of Leo Frank has made upon his story, Jim Conley from whose lips fell the most damning and abhorrent testimony a Georgia jury…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Case Never is Discussed by Frank Jurors, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian,Sunday, 10th August 1913,PAGE 47, COLUMN 8.Every Man on Panel Has Nickname and Formality Has Been Cast Out.No member of the jury that is to decide Leo M. Frank's guilt or innocence had expressed an opinion on the…
Saturday, 9th August 1913 Defense Will Seek to Show That Mary Phagans Body Was Tossed Down a Chute in Rear of Pencil Factory And Not Taken Down by Elevator As the State Insists, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution, Saturday, 9th August 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMN 4. Their Testimony Is Favorable to Leo Frank W. T. HOLLIS, W. M. MATTHEWS, IRA KAUFFMAN, Street car conductor, whose testimony discredits story told on stand by George Epps,…
Thursday, 14th August 1913 State Fights Franks Alibi, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 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…
Monday, 11th August 1913 Defense Bitterly Attacks Harris, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 11th, 1913 Battle of Medical Experts Waged in Court EXPERTS TESTIMONY ON CABBAGE TESTS CALLED WILD GUESS A bitter arraignment of the professional ethics and fairness of Dr. H. F. Harris, secretary of the State Board of…
Monday, 11th August 1913 Deputy Hunting Scalp Of Juror-Ventiloquist, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 11th, 1913 Big Bob Deavors, Deputy Sheriff in charge of the Frank trial jury, marched to the courtroom Monday morning with an aching head and a grim determination to get even with Juror A. H. Henslee, whose…
Monday, 11th August 1913 Grief-Stricken Mother Shows No Vengefulness, The Atlanta Georgian
August 11th, 1913 Atlanta Georgian By TARLETON COLLIER. That black-clad woman in the corner of the courtroom—nobody has noticed her much. Things have happened so swiftly in the Frank trial that all eyes are on the rush of events, waiting…
Monday, 11th August 1913 Interest Unabated as Dramatic Frank Trial Enters Third Week, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 11th, 1913 By JAMES B. NEVIN. The third week of the most remarkable murder trial ever known in Georgia opened to-day with no apparent lessening of the acute interest and grim appeal heretofore attaching to it. The…
Tuesday, 12th August 1913 Frank Trial Witness is Sure, At Least, of One Thinga Good Ragging, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 12th, 1913 By JAMES B. NEVIN. Reader, proverbially gentle, if not always so, be glad, be joyful, and be filled with exceeding thankfulness that you have not been summoned, no matter which way, as a witness in…