Author: Mary Phagan
Introduction to the Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, July 28th, 1913 to August 21st, 1913, in the Fulton County Superior Court, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, 1913 STATE OF GEORGIA VERSUS LEO M. FRANK In Fulton Superior Court, trial began July 28th and ended August 21st, 1913. Judge Leonard Strickland Roan, presiding. Conviction of murder at July term on…
Message Of The Governor to the General Assembly of Georgia, John Slaton, June 23, 1915. Opinion in case of the State vs. Leo Frank
Image Gallery Page 1 SUPPLEMENT TO MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA June 23, 1915 OPINION IN CASE OF THE STATE VERSUS LEO FRANK Page 3 SUPPLEMENTARY MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. STATE OF GEORGIA,…
MRS J W COLEMAN, Sworn In For The State, 1st To Testify
MRS. J.W. COLEMAN, Sworn for the State. I am Mary Phagan’s mother. I last saw her alive on the 26th day of April 1913, about a quarter to twelve, at home, at 146 Lindsey Street. She was getting ready to…
GEORGE EPPS, Sworn In For The State, 2nd To Testify
GEORGE EPPS, Sworn for the State. I am fourteen years old. I live right around the corner from Mary Phagan's home. I have known her about a year. The last time I saw here was Saturday morning coming to…
NEWT LEE, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 3rd To Testify
NEWT LEE. (colored), sworn for the State.On the 26th day of April 1913, I was night watchman at the national Pencil Factory. I had been night watchman there for about three weeks. When I began working there, Mr. Frank carried…
L S DOBBS, Sworn In For The State, 4th To Testify
L. S. DOBBS, Sworn for the State.I am Sergeant of police. On the morning of April 27th, about 3:25 a call came from the pencil factory that there was a murder up there. We went down in Boots Rogers' automobile.…
J N STARNES, Sworn In For The State, 5th To Testify
J. N. STARNES, Sworn for the State.I am a city officer. Went to the pencil Company's place of business between five and six o'clock, April 27th 1913. The pencil company is located in Fulton County, Georgia, and that's where the…
W W ROGERS, Sworn In For The State, 6th To Testify
W. W. ROGERS, sworn for the State.I am now connected with Judge Girardeau's court. I was at the station house Saturday night, April 26th, 1913 and went to the National Pencil Company's place of business. It was between five and…
MISS GRACE HICKS, Sworn In For The State, 7th To Testify
MISS GRACE HICKS, sworn for the State.I knew Mary Phagan nearly a year at the pencil factory. She worked on the second floor. I identified her body at the undertaker's Sunday morning, April 27th. I knew her by her hair.…
JOHN R BLACK, Sworn In For The State, 8th To Testify
JOHN R. BLACK, sworn for the State. I am a city policeman. I don't know the details of the conversation between Mr. Starnes and Mr. Frank over the 'phone. I didn't pay very much attention to it. I went…
JAMES MILTON GANTT, Sworn In For The State, 9th To Testify
JAMES MILTON GANTT, sworn for the State.From June last until the first of January I was shipping clerk at the National Pencil Company. I was discharged April 7th by Mr. Frank for alleged shortage in the pay roll. I have…
Tom Watson: The Leo Frank Case, Watson’s Magazine the Jeffersonian Monthly, January 1915
by Thomas E. Watson (pictured), Watson's Magazine, Volume 20 Number 3, January 1915 AN AGED MILLIONAIRE of New York had a lawyer named Patrick, and this lawyer poisoned his old client, forged a will in his own favor; was tried, convicted…
MRS J A WHITE, Sworn In For The State, 10th To Testify
MRS. J. A. WHITE, sworn for the State. I saw my husband at the pencil factory at 11:30. I stayed there until about 10 minutes to 12. I left him there and came back about 12:30 and left again…
HARRY SCOTT, Sworn In For The State, 11th To Testify
HARRY SCOTT, sworn for the State. I am Superintendent of the local branch of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. I have worked on this case with John Black, city detective. I was employed by Mr. Frank representing the National Pencil…
MISS MONTEEN STOVER, Sworn In For The State, 12th To Testify
MISS MONTEEN STOVER, sworn for the State.I worked at the National Pencil Company prior to April 25th, 1913. I was at the factory at five minutes after twelve on that day. I stayed there five minutes and left at ten…
ROBERT P BARRETT, Sworn In For The State, 13th To Testify
ROBERT P. BARRETT, sworn for the State.I am a machinist for the National Pencil Company. I have been there about eight weeks. On Monday morning, April 28th, I found an unusual spot that I had never seen before at the…
MELL STANFORD, Sworn In For The State, 14th To Testify
MELL STANFORD, sworn for the State.I have been working at the National Pencil Company a little over two years. I swept the whole floor in the metal room on Friday, April the 25th. On Monday there after I found a…
GEORGE W JEFFERSON, Sworn In For The State, 15th To Testify
GEORGE W. JEFFERSON, sworn for the State.I worked at the National Pencil Company. We saw blood on the second floor in front of the girls' dressing room on Monday. It was about as big as a fan, and something white…
B B HASLETT, Sworn In For The State, 16th To Testify
B. B. HASLETT, sworn for the State.I went to Mr. Frank's house Monday morning after the murder, about 7 o'clock. I went out there and got him and took him to the station house. He was at the station house…
E F HOLLOWAY, Sworn In For The State, 17th To Testify
E. F. HOLLOWAY, sworn for the State. I am day watchman at the National Pencil factory-worked there two years. I was there on April 26th, from 6:30 a. m. till 11:45. I look after the elevator and freight that…
N V DARLEY, Sworn In For The State, 18th To Testify
N. V. DARLEY, sworn for the State. My name is N. V. Darley. I am manager of the Georgia Cedar Company, a branch of the National Pencil Company. I have charge of the manufacturing and labor in the Forsyth…
W F ANDERSON, Sworn In For The State, 19th To Testify
W. F. ANDERSON, sworn for the State.I was at police headquarters Saturday, April 26th. I got a call fromthe night, watchman at the pencil factory. He said a woman was dead atthe factory. I asked him if it was a…
G C FEBRUARY, Sworn In For The State, 20th To Testify
G. C. FEBRUARY, sworn for the State.I was present at Chief Lanford's office when Leo M. Frank and L. Z.Rosser were there. I took down Mr. Frank's statement stenographically.I don't remember Frank's answers in detail, Mr. Rosser was looking outof…
ALBERT MCKNIGHT, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 21st To Testify
ALBERT Mc Knight, Colored, sworn for the State.My wife is Minola Mc Knight. She cooks for Mrs. Selig. Between 1and 2 o'clock on Memorial Day I was at the home of Mr. Frank to see mywife. He came in close…
MISS HELEN FERGUSON, Sworn In For The State, 22nd To Testify
MISS HELEN FERGUSON, sworn for the State.My name is Helen Ferguson, I worked at the National Pencil Company on Friday the 25th. I saw Mr. Frank Friday, April 25th, about 7o'clock in the evening and asked for Mary Phagan's money.…
R L WAGGONER, Sworn In For The State, 23rd To Testify
R. L. WAGGONER, sworn for the State.I am a city detective. On Tuesday, April 29th, from ten thirty untila little after 11 in the morning I was in front of the pencil factory on theother side of the street. I…
J L BEAVERS, Sworn In For The State, 24th To Testify
J. L. BEAVERS, sworn for the State.I am Chief of Police of the City of Atlanta. I was at the pencil factoryon Tuesday, April 29th, and saw what I took to be a splotch of bloodon the floor right near…
R M LASSITER, Sworn In For The State, 25th To Testify
R. M. LASSITER, sworn for the State.I am a city policeman. On Sunday morning, April 27th, I found aparasol in the bottom of the elevator shaft. It was lying about the centerof the shaft. I also found a ball of…
L 0 GRICE, Sworn In For The State, 26th To Testify
L. 0. GRICE, sworn for the State.My name is L. 0. Grice. I was at the National Pencil Company'splace on Sunday morning, April 27th 1913. A small sized man, defendanthere, attracted my attention, on account of his nervousness.CROSS EXAMINATION.I was…
MELL STANFORD, Sworn In For The State, 27th To Testify
MELL STANFORD, sworn for the State (re-called).The door in the rear part of the factory on the second floor on Fridayevening was barred. There is no way in the rear of the building tocome down to the second floor when…