Category: TRANSCRIPTS: ATLANTA GEORGIAN
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Factory Head Frank and Watchman Newt Lee are Sweated by Police
Leo M. Frank. Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Mysterious Action of Officials Gives New and Startling Turn to Hunt for Guilty Man—Attorney Rosser, Barred, Later Admitted to Client. Has the Phagan murder mystery been solved? The police…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Former Play mates Meet Girl’s Body at Marietta
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 The little town of Marietta, Georgia, where her baby eyes first opened upon the light of day scarcely fourteen years ago, will to-day witness the sorrowful funeral of Mary Phagan, the sweet young…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Guilt Will Be Fixed Detectives Declare
Mrs. J. W. Coleman, below, mother of slain Mary Phagan, and Ollie Phagan, sister of the murdered girl . Mrs. Coleman is prostrated by grief over the crime, and warns all mothers of working girls to watch carefully their loved…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 I Feel as Though I Could Die, Sobs Mary Phagan’s Grief-Stricken Sister
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Among all the hearts that are bowed down in sorrow over the murder of Mary Phagan, the 14-year-old factory child found dead in the National Pencil factory Saturday, there is none…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Is the Guilty Man Among Those Held?
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Is the murderer of Mary Phagan among the four men who are being held at police headquarters, or is he still at large, either among those still unsuspected or among those who…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Keeper of Rooming House Enters Case
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 J. W. Phillips Thinks Couple Who Asked for Room May Have Been Gantt and Girl. Was the young woman who, in company with a young man, applied to John W. Phillips, keeper of…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Loyalty Sends Girl to Defend Mullinax
Miss Pearl Robinson, sweetheart of Arthur Mullinax, the man questioned by the police in connection with the slaying of Mary Phagan. Her story cleared Mullinax of any suspicion of complicity in the crime which has shocked Atlanta. Atlanta…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Negro Watchman is Accused by Slain Girl’s Stepfather
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 That Mary Phagan never left the factory after she entered it at 12:15 o'clock Saturday, the day of her murder, and that she was killed and her body dragged into the basement by…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Nude Dancers Pictures Upon Factory Walls
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Suggestive Illustrations Clipped From Magazines Pasted Up About Scene of Tragedy. Pictures of Salome dancers in scanty raiment, and of chorus girls in different postures adorned the walls of the National Pencil Company's…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Pastor Prays for Justice at Girls Funeral
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Mother and Aunt of Mary Phagan Swoon at Burial in Marietta This Morning. A thousand persons saw a minister of God raise his hands to heaven to-day and heard him call for divine…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Seek Clew in Queer Words in Odd Notes
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Page 6 and Column 1 Who Would Be the Most Interested in Saying That the Night Watchman Did Not Do It? While the tendency of the police straight through has seemed to be to…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Slayers Hand Print Left On Arm Of Girl
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Page 2, Column 1 Hope for apprehension of the slayer of Mary Phagan has come to the police with the discovery of distinct finger prints, stamped in blood on the sleeve of the…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Boy Sweetheart Says Girl Was to Meet Him Saturday
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday April 30th, 1913 G. W. Epps, Jr., 14 years old, of 248 Fox Street, who lives just around the corner from Mary Phagan, and who was her boy sweetheart, testified before the Coroner's Jury this afternoon that…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 City Offers $1,000 as Phagan Case Reward
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 At Special Council Meeting Called by Mayor Only One Man Opposes Action. At a special session of city council to-day, called by Mayor Woodward, to give the city's financial aid to the apprehension…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Clock Misses Add Mystery to Phagan Case
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Records Purport to Show Watchman Failed to Register Three Times Saturday Night. What does the National Pencil Factory time clock show? It was the duty of Newt Lee, the negro night watchman, to…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Confirms Lee’s Story of Shirt
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Negro Woman Says Man Accused of Phagan Crime Was Not Home Saturday Night. If Newt Lee, the watchman, went home on Saturday night and discarded a bloody, stained shirt, Lorena Townes, the negro…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Girl’s Death Laid to Factory Evils
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Working Conditions Here Wrong, Proved by Phagan Crime, Says McKelway. Dr. A. J. McKelway, president pro tem of the Southern Sociological Congress, declared to-day that if factory conditions in Atlanta were what they…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Great Crowd at Phagan Inquest
A new photograph of Mary Phagan NEW ARRESTS LIKELY; LEO FRANK STILL HELD; CASE AGAINST NEGRO Atlanta Georgian Wednesday April 30th, 1913 Inquest Into Slaying of Factory Girl Begins, and Flood of New Light Is Expected To Be…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Handwriting of Notes is Identified as Newt Lees
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday April 30th, 1913 F. M. Berry, one of the most important witnesses of the afternoon, identified the handwriting on the notes found near Mary Phagan's body as practically the same as that of Newt Lee, who…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Leo Frank’s Friends Denounce Detention
Leo M. Frank, Superintendent of the National Pencil Company's factory, still held by the police. Frank's lawyer says he has given to the police every detail of his whereabouts to account for his time on Saturday and Sunday. Atlanta Georgian…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Looks Like Frank is Trying to Put Crime on Me, Says Lee
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 A formal statement from Newt Lee, the negro night watchman arrested after he had telephoned the police of the finding of Mary Phagan's mutilated body, was given to the public for the…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Machinist Tells of Hair Found in Factory Lathe
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday April 30th, 1913 R. P. Barrett, 180 Griffin Street, a machinist at the National Pencil Company, was one of the witnesses of the late afternoon. He was asked: Q. How long have you worked at the…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Mother Prays That Son May Be Released
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Gantt's Mother, for Whom Mary Phagan Was Named, Weeps for Son. In an easy chair in front of an open fireplace in a little Cobb County farm house, sat an aged mother, with…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Net Closing About Lee, Says Lanford
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Chief of Detectives Lanford was confident this morning that he and his department had completed a strong case to present to the Grand Jury for indictment. He said that the evidence against the…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Newt Lee on Stand at Inquest Tells His Side of Phagan Case
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Describes finding of body of slain girl and events at Pencil Factory before and at time of discovery of crime Newt Lee, watchman at the National Pencil Company's factory, who notified the…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Newt Lees Testimony as He Gave It at the Inquest
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Newt Lee, the negro night watchman, was questioned as follows: Q. What is your name? A. Newt Lee. Q. Where do you live? A. Rear of 40 Henry Street. Q. What do…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Policeman Says Body Was Dragged From Elevator
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 R. M. Lasseter , the policeman on the morning watch past the pencil factory, was called at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. He was questioned as follows: Q. Were you in the pencil…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Reward of $1,000 Urged by Mayor
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Brown Offers $200 for Capture of Slayer—C. C. Jones Also Gives $100. Governor Joseph M. Brown to-day offered a reward of $200 for the apprehension and conviction of the murderer of little Mary…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Sergeant Brown Tells His Story of Finding of Body
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday April 30th, 1913 Sergeant R. J. Brown, the second witness at the inquest, corroborated Anderson's story of the finding of the body. Brown, who was in charge of the morning watch, was one of the four…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Sisters New Story Likely to Clear Gantt as Suspect
A photographic study of the victim in the strangling mystery showing the sad expression in her eyes. Another picture of the Phagan girl in a studious pose. The child was strikingly pretty and the pictures here shown are from…