The Murder of Little Mary Phagan (2025 Edition) by Mary Phagan Kean
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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…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Frank or Conley? Still Question, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 10th, 1913 Issue Firmly Drawn Between Two Men Defense Starting to Mould Its Case Theory That Negro Attacked Mary Phagan With Motive of Robbing Her Will Be Shown; Two Charges Against Accused Must Be Refuted By AN…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Study of Frank Convicts, Then It Turns and Acquits, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 10th, 1913 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 of…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Frank Struggles to Prove His Conduct Was Blameless, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 10th, 1913 Co-Workers in the Factory Declare Stories of Factory Revelries Are Beyond Reason ASSISTANT TELLS HOW ACCUSED MAN MADE OUT COMPLEX ACCOUNTS Testimony of Newsboy Who Said He Accompanied Mary Phagan On Street Car On Day…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Interest in Trial Now Centers in Story of Mincey, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 10th, 1913 Question of Time Considered of Paramount Importance in Defense Theory of Frank Case EVERY EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO ACCOUNT FOR ALL HIS MOVEMENTS As all interest centered in the dramatic story of Jim Conley…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Phagan Trial Makes Eleven Widows But Jurors Wives Are Peeresses Also, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 10th, 1913 By L. F. WOODRUFF Eleven 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 but…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 Mary Phagans Mother to be Spared at Trial, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 10th, 1913 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 all this?"…
Sunday, 10th August 1913 One Glance at Conley Boosts Darwin Theory, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 10th, 1913 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…
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 State Charges Premeditated Crime, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 12th, 1913 Defense Forces Dalton to Admit Jail Record GIRL DENIES STATE'S VERSION OF FRANK'S WORK ON FATAL DAY Here are the important developments Tuesday in the trial of Leo M. Frank, charged with the murder of…
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…
Tuesday, 12th August 1913 Attacks on Dr. Harris Give Defense Good Day, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 12th, 1913 The defense had what was probably its best day on Monday. Medical experts were on the witness stand the larger part of the day. The purpose of their testimony was to knock down, one after…
Tuesday, 12th August 1913 Peoples Cry for Justice Is Proof Sentiment Still Lives, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 12th, 1913 By L. F. WOODRUFF. There is as much sentiment in the world to-day as there was in 1861 or 1776 or 1492 or 1066 or any other date that may come to your recollection. It's…
Wednesday, 13th August 1913 Franks Mother Stirs Courtroom, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 13th, 1913 Leaps to Defense of Son at Dorsey's Question FRANK'S CLASSMATES AT COLLEGE TELL OF HIS GOOD CHARACTER A sensation was created in the courtroom during the cross-examination of Ashley Jones by Solicitor Dorsey at the…
Wednesday, 13th August 1913 Both Sides Aim for Justice in the Trial of Frank, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 13th, 1913 With Judge, Jury and Councillors Performing Duty Well, Square Deal Is Assured. By Jas B. Nevin. In considering the Frank trial, particularly with respect to the length of it, and the thoroughgoing exhaustiveness of the…
Wednesday, 13th August 1913 State Calls More Witnesses; Defense Builds Up an Alibi, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 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…
Thursday, 14th August 1913 State Wants Wife and Mother Excluded, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 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…
Thursday, 14th August 1913 States Sole Aim is to Convict, Defenses to Clear in Modern Trial, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 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…
Thursday, 14th August 1913 Defense Slips Load by Putting up Character of Leo Frank as Issue, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 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…
Thursday, 14th August 1913 Steel Workers Enthralled by Leo Frank Trial, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 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…
Friday, 15th August 1913 Frank Prepares to Take Stand, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 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…
Friday, 15th August 1913 What They Say Wont Hurt Leo Frank; State Must Prove Depravity
Atlanta Georgian August 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…
Friday, 15th August 1913 Testimony of Girls Help to Leo M. Frank, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 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…
Saturday, 16th August 1913 Girls Testify For and Against Frank, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 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,…
Saturday, 16th August 1913 Statement by Frank Will Be the Climactic Feature of the Trial, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 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…
Saturday, 16th August 1913 Many Testify to Franks Good Character, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 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…
Saturday, 16th August 1913 Mothers Love Gives Trial Its Great Scene, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 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…