Saturday, 7th November 1914: Atlanta’s Strides From Day To Day, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 7th November 1914,PAGE 11, COLUMN 5.Work is progressing rapidly on the old city hall building at South Pryor and East Hunter streets, which is being converted into a model office building by Reuben Arnold, Harvey Hill and…
Monday, 9th November 1914: Tedder To Surrender To The Sheriff Today, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Monday, 9th November 1914,PAGE 5, COLUMN 4.Other Indictments May Be Announced, Following His Return to the City. Startling developments are expected this morning in the indictments against an alleged gang of bond forgers, when Carlton C. Tedder surrenders…
Tuesday, 10th November 1914: Frank Case Decision May Come Down Today, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 10th November 1914,PAGE 5, COLUMN 5.Supreme Court Was in Banc Monday and Decisions Will Immediately Follow. Although no advance information can be had, it is possible that the verdict of the Supreme Court in the final Leo…
Wednesday, 11th November 1914: Frank Case Decision May Be Given Today, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 11th November 1914,PAGE 12, COLUMN 6.A decision in the Leo Frank Case may be handed down by the Supreme Court today. The Court has been in session for days now, and it is expected that the Case…
Sunday, 15th November 1914: Leo Frank Loses In Supreme Court, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 15th November 1914,PAGE 45, COLUMN 1.Petition to Set Aside Verdict Because He Was Not in Court When It Was Rendered, Denied.The fight which has been waged in the state Courts to save Leo M. Frank, convicted of…
Friday, 20th November 1914: Grand Jury Is Probing Bond Fraud Cases, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 20th November 1914,PAGE 5, COLUMN 4.A batch of mysterious "John Doe" subpoenas were sent out by deputies from the office of Solicitor General Dorsey to the Grand Jury investigation this morning at 10 o'clock, at which it…
Saturday, 21st November 1914: Leo Frank Again Loses Big Point, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 21st November 1914,PAGE 4, COLUMN 3.Supreme Court Declines to Certify Case to Supreme Court of U.S. Dorsey to Fight Further Effort. On the ground that no constitutional point exists in the Leo Frank Case, in which he…
Sunday, 22nd November 1914: Vindication Asked By Leo M. Frank In Card To Public, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 22nd November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3."Injustice Done Me Was Begotten in This Community and It Can Right the Wrong," He Says. Innocence Is Asserted by Prisoner in Tower. His Lawyers Argue Case Before Justice Lamar in Washington…
Tuesday, 24th November 1914: Frank Case Goes To Other Judges, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 24th November 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Attorneys Will Exhaust Every Effort to Get Hearing Before Full Bench of Supreme Court.By John Corrigan, Jr.Washington, November 23. (Special.) Associate Justice Joseph R. Lamar denied this afternoon the application of Leo…
Wednesday, 25th November 1914: Frank Remittur Comes Down Today, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 25th November 1914,PAGE 14, COLUMN 3.Date for Resentencing the Condemned Man May Soon Be Set.Leo M. Frank will probably hear the date set for his execution between now and Saturday. The Supreme Court remittitur will be handed…
Thursday, 26th November 1914: Remittur Held Up In The Frank Case, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 26th November 1914,PAGE 7, COLUMN 3.Condemned Man Will Not Be Resentenced Before Next Tuesday. A plea to Justice Lamar, of the U. S. Supreme Court, to so far modify his refusal to issue a Writ of Error…
Friday, 27th November 1914: Holmes Denies Motion To Set Aside Verdict, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 27th November 1914,PAGE 5, COLUMN 4.But He Thinks Frank Was Deprived of Process of Law.Washington, November 28: Announcement was made by counsel for Leo M. Frank, the Atlanta, Ga., Factory Superintendent, convicted of the murder of Mary…
Saturday, 28th November 1914: Jury Was On Trial, Says Leo M. Frank, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 28th November 1914,PAGE 7, COLUMN 1.Condemned Man Asserts That His Sympathy Is With the Twelve Men Who Composed the Jury.Leo M. Frank, following his second reverse at the hands of a justice of the Supreme Court of…
Sunday, 29th November 1914: Marshall Will Make Final Plea For Frank, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 29th November 1914,PAGE 6, COLUMN 7.Representatives of the Prisoner Hold Conference in Washington. The final plea for the life of Leo Frank to be made in the United States Supreme Court will be made by Louis Marshall,…
Monday, 30th November 1914: No Delay Expected In Leo Frank Case, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Monday, 30th November 1914,PAGE 5, COLUMN 3.Remittitur Will Probably Be Sent Down Either Today or Tomorrow.The Supreme Court remittitur in the Leo Frank case is expected to be sent down to the Superior Court late this afternoon or…
A letter to Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense
Mary Phagan-Kean P.O. Box 2573 • 801 Industrial Blvd. • Ellijay, Georgia 30540 The Honorable Pete Hegseth Secretary of Defense U.S. Department of Defense 1000 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301 27 June 2025 Dear Secretary Hegseth: My name is Mary…
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…
Documenting falsehoods about the 1913 murder of little Mary Phagan and the trial of Leo Frank by operatives of the Anti-Defamation League
Documenting falsehoods about the 1913 murder of little Mary Phagan and the trial of Leo Frank by operatives of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith continues in the digital age by Mary Frances Phagan Kean, June 25, 2025. A sneak…
Saturday, 3rd October 1914: Conley, Not Frank, Killed Phagan Girl, Says W. M. Smith, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 3rd October 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Negro's Lawyer Declares He Has Sufficient Evidence to Support His New Opinion as to CaseNEGRO SWEEPER DID NOT CONFESS, SAYS ATTORNEYConley, in Chain Gang, Expresses Complete Surprise When Informed of Statement Made…
Sunday, 4th October 1914: W. M. Smith Tells Why He Believes Conley Is Guilty, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 4th October 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Attorney for State's Chief Witness Against Frank Gives Written Statement of His ConclusionsWilliam M. Smith, attorney for Jim Conley, Saturday night gave to the press a written statement, telling how he came…
Monday, 5th October 1914: Smith Declines To Discuss Charge Made By His Former Client, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 5th October 1914,PAGE 16, COLUMN 1."I Know Conley Too Well to Enter Into Controversy With Such an 'Expert Liar,'" He DeclaresWilliam M. Smith declined Monday to comment on the charge of his former client, Jim Conley, that…
Tuesday, 6th October 1914: Smith Prepares Second Card In The Frank Case, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 6th October 1914,PAGE 4, COLUMN 4.Appeal to Set Aside Verdict Will Be Heard on October 26. The last appeal in the Case of Leo M. Frank, the motion to set aside the verdict on the ground that…
Thursday, 8th October 1914: Long Delayed Search May Help Solve Phagan Case, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 8th October 1914,PAGE 17, COLUMN 5.Detectives Search Rubbish Piles in Rear of Forsyth Street SaloonChief of Detectives Newport Lanford has shrouded in mystery the results of a recent search of rubbish piles behind the saloon at 50…
Friday, 9th October 1914: Fraud In Land Deal Charged To Minister, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 9th October 1914,PAGE 20, COLUMN 4.Woman Asks That Transfer Between Rev. C. B. Ragsdale and Self Be VoidedDeclaring he misrepresented the value of land and other property to her, and that she trusted him as a minister…
Monday, 12th October 1914: Frank Case Adjourns Criminal Court Week, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 12th October 1914,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.Adjournment Taken to Give Solicitor Dorsey Time to Prepare BriefTo permit Solicitor General Dorsey to devote his whole time to the preparation of a brief for the hearing before the Supreme Court,…
Thursday, 15th October 1914: Leo Frank Loses His Fight For New Trial, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 15th October 1914,PAGE 7, COLUMN 1.Judge Hill's Denial of Extraordinary Motion Upheld By Supreme CourtIn a decision handed down Wednesday afternoon, the Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed the decision of Judge Benjamin H. Hill in denying the…
Saturday, 24th October 1914: State Finishes Brief To Fight Frank Motion, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 24th October 1914,PAGE 10, COLUMN 2.Solicitor Dorsey Cites Decision in Case of Cawthon vs. the State, 119 Ga., 413. Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey and Ed A. Stephens, his assistant, completed Saturday afternoon the State's brief on…
Sunday, 25th October 1914: Last Appeal In Frank Case Comes Up Monday, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 25th October 1914,PAGE 5, COLUMN 4.Defense Motion to Set Aside Verdict Will Be HeardThe last appeal in the Case of Leo M. Frank, the motion to set aside the verdict of guilty on the ground that it…
Monday, 26th October 1914: Frank Case Is Argued Before Supreme Court, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 26th October 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.Effort Made to Set Aside Verdict Because He Was Not Present at ReadingFor three hours and fifteen minutes, the State Supreme Court, Monday morning, listened to arguments for and against Leo M.…
Tuesday, 27th October 1914: Supreme Court Of Ga. Argued And Submitted., The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 27th October 1914,PAGE 3, COLUMN 1.Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 27, 1914.Eddie Elder vs. State; from Fulton. Jim James vs. State; from Fayette. Leo M. Frank vs. State; from Fulton. Walter Burton vs. State; from Lee. Curlie Montgomery vs.…