The Murder of Little Mary Phagan (2025 Edition) by Mary Phagan Kean
Important Book Launch: The Murder of Little Mary Phagan (2025 Edition) by Mary Phagan Kean Help preserve this important history by getting your copy of the book at In September 2025, an important milestone has been reached with…
Tuesday, 5th May 1914: Return Of Negress Ordered By Judge Monday Morning, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 5th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.If Anna Maud Carter Is Not in Atlanta Within Five Days, Her Evidence Will Not Be Considered.Charges of bribery, perjury and coercion of witnesses will be thoroughly investigated by Solicitor Dorsey and…
Saturday, 2nd May 1914: William J. Burns Driven Out Of Marietta, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 2nd May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.W. J. Burns and Dan Lehon Summoned by Solicitor Dorsey To the Frank Retrial Hearing Subpoenas Served Upon the Noted Detective and Assistant After Their Return From Marietta J. E. Duffey Arrested…
Friday, 1st May 1914: Horrible Mistake In Case Of Frank, States W. J. Burns, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 1st May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Evidence on Which He Was Convicted Was Utterly Insufficient," Says Detective in Card.MY WORK IN THIS CASE NEARLY DONE, HE SAYSBurns Makes Absolute Denial of Any Connection With Bribe Offer Retrial Hearing…
Friday, 24th April 1914: Battle For Life Of Leo M. Frank Begins In Court, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 24th April 1914,PAGE 9, COLUMN 1.Rumored That Defense Will Present Today the Full Report of Detective William J. Burns on Case.C. W. Burke, a private investigator in the employ of counsel for Leo M. Frank, it is…
Wednesday, 22nd April 1914: Lanford Declines To Show Affidavits, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 22nd April 1914,PAGE 9, COLUMN 1.William J. Burns Leaves City Without Seeing Documents Charging Perversion.Detective William J. Burns called for the first time at police station late Tuesday afternoon to see Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford for…
Sunday, 19th April 1914: Testimony He Gave At Trial Was True, Declares M’knight, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 19th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.Negro Witness for Prosecution Now Repudiates Affidavit He Gave to Leo M. Frank's Attorneys.PRISONER AT STATION ON HIS OWN REQUESTDetective Burns Has Not Yet Returned to Atlanta. Report Is Not Expected Before…
State’s Exhibit B: Leo Frank’s Unsworn April 28, 1913 Police Deposition Before Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford, Recorded at Atlanta Police Headquarters and Later Entered Into the 1913 Brief of Evidence
Herein is the Q&A version of Leo Frank’s State’s Exhibit B deposition, given at the Atlanta police station on Monday morning, April 28, 1913, before Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford and recorded by stenographer G. C. February. This was…
Question to GPB Georgia Public Broadcasting (@mygpb on X)
Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Leo Frank Lesson Gives Middle-School Students a Predetermined Narrative, Not Historical Inquiry. Question to GPB Georgia Public Broadcasting (@mygpb) Why does GPB consistently center Frank-sympathetic narratives and Jewish communal trauma while giving no comparable attention to Mary…
Tuesday, 27th May 1913, Felder Barely Missed Being Trapped by His Own Dictograph, The Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Journal Tuesday, May 27th, 1913 Page 7, Column 5 Last week, when the detectives were laying their plans to trap Colonel Thomas B. Felder with a dictograph, they came very near trapping the colonel with his own instrument. The…
Tuesday, 27th May 1913 Col. Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives Charges, The Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Journal Tuesday, May 27th, 1913 Page 1, Column 6 Declares Chief Beavers Is Only Bluffing, and That if All the Allegations Made by the Police Were True, It Wouldn't Be a Case for the Grand Jury, as He Has…
Leo Frank Indictment, May 24, 1913, Atlanta, Georgia
Indictment of Atlanta B'nai B'rith President Leo Max Frank: State Witnesses Before the Atlanta Georgia Grand Jury on Saturday, May 24, 1913, and Their Later Trial Testimony at the Leo Frank Trial The May 1913 Fulton County grand jury…
Monday, 26th May 1913, Tobie Tried to Kidnap Incubator Baby, Says Topeka Police Official, The Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Journal Monday, May 26, 1913 Page 7, Column 6 That the past career and record of C. W. Tobie, the Burns investigator who came to Atlanta to probe the Phagan mystery for Colonel Thomas B. Felder, is being investigated…
Monday, 26th May 1913, Thousands in Atlanta Living the Life of Mary Phagan’s Murderer, Rev. W. W. Memminger, The Atlanta Constitution
Thousands in Atlanta Living the Life of Mary Phagan's Murderer, Rev. W. W. Memminger Atlanta Constitution Monday, May 26th, 1913 "Thousands of people in Atlanta are living the lives today that the murderer of Mary Phagan lived, and which…
Sunday, 25th May 1913, State Didn’t Show its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, The Atlanta Journal
State Didn't Show its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 25th, 1913 No Documentary Evidence Was Placed Before the Grand Jury and James Conley, the Negro Sweeper Who Made Sensational Affidavit About…
Friday, 6th June 1913, Dorsey Replies to the Charges of Mrs. Leo Frank (Lucille Selig Frank), The Atlanta Constitution
Prosecutor Hugh Dorsey Replies to the Charges of Mrs. Leo Frank (Lucille Selig Frank) Atlanta Constitution Friday, June 6th, 1913 Says the Wife of an Accused Man Would Be the Last to Learn of Her Husband's Guilt. MRS. FRANK…
Sunday, 25th May 1913, A. S. Colyar Tells Where He and Colonel Thomas B. Felder Ought to be for Good of Society, The Atlanta Journal
A.S. Colyar Tells Where He and Colonel Thomas B. Felder Ought to be for Good of Society Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 25th, 1913 Editor The Journal: I herewith hand you a telegram in answer to one that I…
Wednesday, 27th May 1914: Burns Agent Here Is Fined And Bound Over, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 27th May 1914,PAGE 2, COLUMN 1.Judge Broyles Orders Lehon to Pay $100 and Costs Also Held for StateAnother step in the prosecution of the Burns Agents here was taken Tuesday afternoon in the Recorder's Court, when Dan…
Saturday, 2nd May 1914: Detective Burns Grilled By Dorsey For Over An Hour, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 2nd May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.In Presence of Judge Hill, Solicitor Secures Detailed Story of Detective's Work in Frank Case. NO FURTHER EVIDENCE IN HIS POSSESSION. Full Story of Solicitor's Long Cross-Examination Is Given Below. Lehon to…
Monday, 27th April 1914: Say Burns Has Twenty Agents On Frank Case, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 27th April 1914,PAGE 18, COLUMN 3.Several Women Among Them and Agents in San Francisco Cases, Say City DetectivesSolicitor General Dorsey, aided by William M. Smith, attorney for Jim Conley, and a corps of detectives, continued Monday the…
Sunday, 26th April 1914: Leo Frank Pleads For A Fair Trial In Signed Card, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 26th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.I Am Asking for That Which the People of Atlanta Would Not Refuse to a Dirty MongrelLeo M. Frank issued a signed statement Saturday night commenting on the interview of Chief Newport…
Friday, 24th April 1914: Jim Conley Charged With Confessing He Slew Mary Phagan, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 24th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.Attorneys for Leo M. Frank, at Hearing for New Trial, Read Affidavit From Negro Woman in Which She Asserts Conley, on Her Promise to Marry Him, Admitted to Her in the Fulton…
This Day in History of the Mary Phagan Case: April 14, 1914, The Atlanta Evening Journal. 353 days since April 26, 1913 #OTD #MaryPhagan #Atlanta #Georgia #LeoFrank #OnThisDay
By Mary Phagan-Kean | April 14, 2026 Documentary and Contextualization The article and transcript archived at the Mary Phagan Kean Legacy Project website (maryphagan.com)¹ is exactly one hundred twelve years old today. It ran on Page Two of…
Tuesday, 22nd July 1913 Date Of Frank Trial Depends On Weather, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution, Tuesday, 22nd July 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMN 3. Will Be Called Monday, But May Be Postponed if as Hot as Last Saturday. Continued From Page One. That the trial of Leo M. Frank depends to a…
Thursday, 22nd May 1913 Grand Jury Wont Hear Leo Frank or Lee, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Thursday, May 22nd, 1913 Understood That Cases Will Be Brought Separately, With One Accused as Accomplice. Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey announced Thursday afternoon that he was prepared to go before the Grand Jury Friday morning with his…
Tuesday, 20th May 1913 Women Declare Phagan Murder Must Be Solved, The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Constitution Tuesday, May 20th, 1913 "Freedom of Murderer Is a Menace to Honor and Life of Every Woman," Writes Mrs. James Carr. Optimistic over the prospects for solving the Mary Phagan mystery, C. W. Tobie, chief of the…
Title: The Unsworn deposition given by National Pencil Company Superintendent Leo Max Frank to Atlanta Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford at the Atlanta, Georgia, police station, recorded by stenographer Gay C. Febuary on Monday, April 28, 1913. Source: Brief of Evidence, 1913. Appeared in the Atlanta Constitution, August 2, 1913.
Rough Draft Demonstration Version 0.1: This is an AI-generated lipsync video prototype depicting Leo Max Frank at Atlanta police headquarters on Monday, April 28, 1913, the day after Mary Phagan's body was discovered and the day before Frank's own…
Statement of Jim Conley: May 29, 1913
I discontinued at 6:00 P. M. Reported. Atlanta 5/31/13. Conley's Statement of May 29, 1913. Atlanta, Georgia May 29, 1913. On Saturday April 26, 1913, when I come back to the pencil factory with Mr. Frank I waited for him…
Statement of Jim Conley: May 28, 1913
Statement of Jim Conley, May 28, 1913. State of Georgia, County of Fulton. Personally appeared before me, a Notary Public, in and for the above State and County, James Conley, who being duly sworn on oath says: I make this…
Friday, 30th May 1913 Negro Conleys Affidavit Lays Bare Slaying, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian, Friday, May 30th, 1913, Page 2, Column 1 Swears Frank Told Him Girl Had Hit Her Head Against Something. The Georgian in it second Extra published exclusively the first REAL confession of James Conley, the negro sweeper…
Sunday, 18th May 1913 Three Arrests Expected Soon in Phagan Case, The Atlanta Constitution
Three Arrests Expected Soon in Phagan Case Atlanta Constitution Sunday, May 18th, 1913 Members of the Staff of the Solicitor General Are Now Keeping Trio Under Strict Surveillance. LANFORD HAS EVIDENCE TO CONVICT, HE SAYS Will Not Divulge Its…