Author: Mary Phagan
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the head and reached the skull. Wounds of that character bleed freely. At the place Conley says he found blood, there was no blood. Conley says there was a cloth tied around the head as though to catch the blood,…
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Detective Black says, "Mr. Starnes, who was there with me, did not call my attention to any blood splotches."Detective Scott says, "We went to the metal room where I was shown some spots supposed to be blood spots."A part of…
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Conley's Affidavits.The defense procured under notice one statement and three affidavits taken by the detectives from Conley and introduced them in evidence.The first statement, dated May 18, 1913, gives a minute detail of his actions on the 26th day of…
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"second and last statement." In that, he states that on Saturday morning after leaving home, he bought two beers for himself and then went to a saloon and won 90 cents with dice, where he bought two more beers and…
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On the 29th of May, 1913, Conley made another affidavit, in which he said that Frank had told him that he had picked up a girl and let her fall, and Conley hollered to him that the girl was dead,…
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All of the affidavit down to this point is in typewriting, the original was exhibited to me. At the end of the affidavit in handwriting is written the following: "While I was looking at the money in my hands, Mr.…
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for five or six hours again, endeavoring to make clear several points which were far-fetched in his statement. We pointed out to him that this statement would not do and would not fit, and he then made the statement of…
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In his evidence before the jury in the redirect examination, Conley thought it necessary to account for the mesh bag, and for the first time, said that "Mary Phagan's mesh bag was lying on Mr. Frank's desk, and Mr. Frank…
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Conley swears he did. The State says that the use of the word 'did' instead of 'done' indicates a white man's dictation. Conley admits the spelling was his. The words are repeated and are simple, which characterizes Conley's letters. In…
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water' just as they are used in the Mary Phagan notes.In Conley's testimony, he says the word 'hisself' constantly.It is urged by the lawyers for the defense that Conley's characteristic was to use double adjectives.In the Mary Phagan notes, he…
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In reply to this, the State introduced on the extraordinary motion the testimony of Philip Chambers, who swears that unused order blanks entitled 'Atlanta, Ga.' were in the office next to Frank's office and that he had been in the…
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evidence of Police Sergeant Dobbs, who visited the scene of the crime on Sunday morning, as follows:"This scratch pad was also lying on the ground close to the body. The scratch pad was lying near the notes. They were all…
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The evidence as to the probability of the blank on which the death note was written being in the basement, and the evidence as to the hair, would have tended to show that the murder was not committed on the…
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The evidence loses its pertinency if Mary Phagan had not arrived at the time Monteen Stover came. What is the evidence?The evidence uncontradicted discloses that Mary Phagan ate her dinner at 11:30 o'clock, and the evidence of the streetcar men…
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hardly seems possible under the evidence that Mary Phagan was at that time being murdered.Lemmie Quinn testifies that he reached Frank's office about 12:20 and saw Mr. Frank. At 12:30, Mrs. J. A. White called to see her husband at…
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found by her side, it was urged before me by counsel for the defense that ladies usually carried their handkerchiefs in their mesh bags.If the motive was assault, either by natural or perverted means, the physicians' evidence, who made the…
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It may be possible that his version is correct. The testimony discloses that he was in the habit of allowing men to go into the basement for immoral purposes for a consideration, and when Mary Phagan passed by him close…
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In this connection, Judge Roan declared orally from the bench that he was not certain of the defendant's guilt that with all the thought he had put on this case, he was not thoroughly convinced whether Frank was guilty or…
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Surely, if Judge Roan entertained the extreme doubt indicated by his statement and had remembered the power granted him by the Code, he would have sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment.In a letter written to counsel, he says, "I shall…
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In the case of Hunter, a white man charged with assassinating two white women in the City of Savannah, who was found guilty and sentenced to be hung, application was made to me for clemency. Hunter was charged together with…
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at the time he was an escapee from the Fannin County jail under indictment for felony."I refused to interfere unless the judge or solicitor would recommend interference, which they declined to do. Finally, when on the gallows, the solicitor-general recommended…
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Judge Roan, with that awful sense of responsibility, which probably came over him as he thought of that Judge before whom he would shortly appear, calls to me from another world to request that I do that which he should…
The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man, part 1
by Philip St. Raymond for The American Mercury THE AMERICAN MERCURY is proud of its decades-long reputation for seeking the truth without fear or favor. As such, we do not flinch when a part of that truth can best be discovered in…
Page One of Eight Pages in the Alonzo Mann Affidavit of March 4th, 1982, Transcribed at Sullivan County, Tennessee
Page 1. AFFIDAVIT IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, COUNTY OF SULLIVAN The undersigned, being duly sworn, deposes as follows: My name is Alonzo McClendon Mann. I am 83 years old. I…
Page Two of Eight Pages in the Alonzo Mann Affidavit of March 4th, 1982, Transcribed at Sullivan County, Tennessee
Page 2. practically nothing. I was nervous and afraid that day. There were crowds in the street who were angry and who were saying that Leo Frank should die. Some were yelling things like, "Kill the Jew!" …
Page Three of Eight Pages in the Alonzo Mann, Affidavit of March 4th, 1982, Transcribed at Sullivan County, Tennessee
Page 3. My job required that I open the mail, file papers, keep the office orderly, run errands and the like. Leo Frank arrived in the building that morning shortly after…
Page Four of Eight Pages in the Alonzo Mann, Affidavit of March 4th, 1982, Transcribed at Sullivan County, Tennessee
Page 4. She had told me that if she was unable to come, for me not to worry. I waited for her for a few minutes. Since I didn't care that much about seeing the parade I went back to…
Page Five of Eight Pages in the Alonzo Mann, Affidavit of March 4th, 1982, Transcribed at Sullivan County, Tennessee
Page 5. the shaft would have been open. Conley could have dumped her down the empty elevator shaft. I believe for some reason, Jim Conley turned around toward me. He either heard my footsteps coming or he sensed I was…
Page Six of Eight Pages in the Alonzo Mann, Affidavit of March 4th, 1982, Transcribed at Sullivan County, Tennessee
Page 6. the building and saw Conley with the body. When Frank went to trial and I was called as a witness, my mother told me I would have to go and testify. She repeated to me…
Page Seven of Eight Pages in the Alonzo Mann Affidavit, March 4th, 1982, Transcribed at Sullivan County, Tennessee
Page 7. girl's money and grabbed her. I do not think sex was his motive. I believe it was money. Her pay was never found in the building after she died. Many times I have thought since…