Author: Mary Phagan
Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency vs National Pencil Company
In the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia. This the petition of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, a corporation, respectfully represents unto this Honorable Court as follows: 1 The National Pencil Company is a corporation organized under the laws of the…
Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency vs. National Pencil Company: Verdict
VERDICT. We the jury find for the plaintiff $1,286.09 with interest at 7 per cent 170.52 to date Nov. 22, 1915. J. L. Peacock, Foreman. 11-22 1915
ADL, Atlanta Jewish Federation, and American Jewish Committee Petitioned for Posthumous Pardon of Leo Frank, Denied in 1982-1983, a Biased TV News Reporting by the Legacy Media, Circa 1983-1984
The trial testimony, including the exhibits put forward by the defense and prosecution, was collectively reviewed by the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States Supreme Court, with decisions rendered in 1914 and 1915. No technical errors were found…
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…
Report of Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott: April 28, 1913
The following pages contain a correct copy of the report of the said assistant superintendent Harry Scott, dated April 28, 1913, and sent to the National Pencil Company on May 2, 1913. Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott Reports: Atlanta, Georgia, Monday,…
Report of Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott: May 18, 1913
The following pages contain a correct copy of the report of assistant superintendent Harry Scott dated May 18, 1913, and sent to the National Pencil Company on May 23, 1913; Asst. Supt. H. S. reports. Atlanta, Georgia Sunday, May 18th,…
Report of Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott: May 23, 1913
The following pages contain a correct copy of the report of assistant superintendent Harry Scott dated May 23, 1913, and sent to the National Pencil Company on May 26, 1913. Asst. Supt. H. S. reports: Atlanta, Georgia Thursday, May 22,…
Report of Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott: May 24, 1913
The following pages contain a correct copy of the report of assistant superintendent Harry Scott, dated May 24, 1913, and sent to the National Pencil Company on May 26, 1913: Asst. Supt. H. S. reports: Atlanta, Georgia Saturday, May 24th,…
Report of Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott: May 25 & 27, 1913
The following pages contain a correct copy of the report of assistant superintendent Harry Scott, dated May 25, 1913 and sent to the National Pencil Company on May 26, 1913. Asst. Supt. H. S. reports: Atlanta, Georgia Sunday, May 25,…
Report of Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott: May 28, 1913
The following pages contain a correct copy of the report of assistant superintendent Harry Scott dated May 28, 1913, and sent to the National Pencil Company on May 31, 1913; Asst. Supt. H. S. reports: Atlanta, Georgia Wednesday, May 28th,…
Report Of L P Whitfield
The following pages contain a correct copy of the report of L. P. Whitfield, dated May 16, 1913, and sent to the National Pencil Company on May 21, 1913. L.P.W. Atlanta, Georgia Friday, May 16th, 1913. At 7:00 A.M. I…
Setting the Record Straight: A Point-by-Point Rebuttal of the Sandler Article and the Dinnerstein Thesis on the Leo Frank Case by Jenny S. King
MARY PHAGAN KEAN LEGACY PROJECT MaryPhagan.com Setting the Record Straight: A Point-by-Point Rebuttal of the Sandler Article and the Dinnerstein Thesis on the Leo Frank Case Mary Phagan Kean Legacy Project | April 10, 2026 By Jenny S. King…
Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles Decision Denying Exoneration for Leo Frank, December 22, 1983, Regarding his Homicide-Conviction for the Strangulation Murder of Mary Phagan in 1913
Transcribed Text: Page 1: State Board of Pardons and Paroles. FIFTH FLOOR, EAST TOWER, FLOYD VETERANS MEMORIAL BUILDING, 2 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DRIVE, S.E., ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30334. Mobley Howell, Chairman. Mrs. Mamie B. Reese, Member. James T. Morris, Member.…
State Board of Pardons and Paroles, March 11th, 1986
Transcribed Text: PARDON On April 26, 1913, Mary Phagan, a thirteen-year-old employee in an Atlanta pencil factory, was murdered. Georgians were shocked and outraged. Charged with the murder was the factory superintendent, Leo M. Frank. The funeral of Mary Phagan,…
Statement of James Conley: May 18, 1913
Statement of James Conley, of Atlanta, Georgia made to John R. Black and H. S. at Police Barracks, Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday, May 18th, 1913. My full name is James Conley. I reside at 172 Rhodes St. with Lorena Jones,…
Statement of James Conley: May 24, 1913
Statement of James Conley of May 24, 1913. State of Georgia, County of Fulton. Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, in and for the above stated and county, James Conley, who being sworn on oath says: On…
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…
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…
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. Published in the Atlanta Constitution of August 2nd, 1913.
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 Gay C. Febuary. Source Atlanta…
Subversive Theater at the Trump-Kennedy Center: The Leo Frank Case, June 2026, Briefly Mentioned by Reason “the Nation’s Leading Libertarian Magazine”
Last summer, 2025, during the height of the Kennedy Center controversy, Parade arrived in Washington, D.C. The musical presents Leo Frank as the central martyr figure of an early 20th-century murder case in Atlanta, repeating the now-familiar modern tagline that…
Summer Reading and Project for Students of the Mary Phagan Case by Professor Rachel Cohen
Professor Rachel Cohen’s Summer Reading Assignment for Students of the Mary Phagan Case June 21 through September 5 This summer reading assignment is for students of the Mary Phagan case: read, study, and fact-check Leonard Dinnerstein’s writings on the Leo…
Testimony of Helen Kerns
Testimony of Helen Kerns, at trial of Leo M. Frank. Direct Examination: I work for the Dodson Medicine Company as stenographer. My father works for Montag. I took shorthand under Professor Briscoe last winter. I have seen Mr. Frank in…
The Annie Maude Carter Episode: Her Repudiation, the Jim Conley Poison-Plot Claim, and the Separate William J. Burns Bribery Scandal, April-May 1914
One Hundred and Twelve Years Ago in the Mary Phagan Case, April 25, 1914 Title: The Annie Maude Carter Episode: Her Repudiation, the Jim Conley Poison-Plot Claim, and the Separate William J. Burns Bribery Scandal, April-May 1914 Author Jay P.…
The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (ADL) and Its Falsification of History to Rehabilitate a Homicidal Molester of Children Found at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
By Phil St. Raymond (Permission to Republish Granted) May 14, 2026 Since its founding in the shadow and aftermath of Leo Frank’s 1913 trial and conviction, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, also known as the ADL, has helped turn…
The Anti-Defamation League’s Weaponization of Anti-Semitism in the 1913 Leo Frank Trial, the Case that Galvanized its Founding in September 1913.
By Mary Frances Phagan Kean, June 24, 2025 Was Leo Frank convicted because of Anti-Semitism? Fact Check: FALSE. ADL's Drapes of Anti-Semitism Regarding the 1913 summer murder trial of Atlanta B'nai B'rith President Leo Max Frank (the trial occurred from…
Notorious or Infamous? Lineage of the Antisemitic Death Threat Hoax Attributed to Leo Frank’s Trial During Court Proceedings: Mobs Shouted “Hang the Jew, or We’ll Hang You!” This Unsupported Claim Being Debunked.
Tracing the Sources and Chronology of the Alleged Mob Lynching Ultimatum Shouted at the Jury During Leo Frank’s Trial: The Disputed Story’s Mutating Narratives, Its Publicity and Use by Jewish Activists, and How It Seemingly Hardened into Historical Authority, 1913–2026…
The Forged Time Slip and the Negro Nightwatchman: How Leo Frank Tried to Pin the Mary Phagan Murder on Newt Lee
Leo Frank's Racially Tinged Railroading of the African-American Nightwatchman Newt Lee This video clip herein is from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, ADL-backed 2009 agitprop docudrama People vs. Leo Frank, produced by Jewish-American film director Ben Loeterman, with…
The Grave Of Little Mary Phagan
The Grave Of Little Mary Phagan · Fiddlin John Carson Fiddlin John Carson Vol. 3 1925 - 1926
The [Leo] Frank Case by C.P. Connolly, Part 1 of 2, December 19, 1914, Collier’s Weekly
THE FRANK CASE (first of two segments) BY C. P. CONNOLLY Collier’s Saturday, December 19, 1914. Volume 54, Number 14. Pages 6–7, continued on pages 22, 23 and 24. This is the first of two articles which will tell the…
The [Leo] Frank Case by C.P. Connolly, Part 2 of 2, December 26, 1914, Collier’s Weekly
THE FRANK CASE (segment two) BY C. P. CONNOLLY Collier’s Saturday, December 26, 1914 Volume 54, Number 15 Pages 18–20, 23–25 This is the second of two articles telling the story of the Frank case. The earlier article appeared in…