Wednesday, 16th July 1930: Heckler Questions Slaton Concerning Leo Frank Case, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 16th July 1930,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.GAINESVILLE, Ga., July 15. (AP) Answering a question from the floor, former Governor John M. Slaton departed from the text of a political address here Tuesday night to tell a Hall county…
Sunday, 24th February 1929: Aged Inmate Soon Will Complete 15 Years In Prison, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 24th February 1929,PAGE 13, COLUMN 1.Milledgeville, Ga., February 23. (Special.) Bill Creen, aged prisoner at the state prison farm, who won nation-wide publicity when he cut the throat of Leo Frank, convicted murderer of little Mary Phagan,…
Sunday, 5th March 1922: State Will Cite Leo Frank’s Case In Dupre Hearing, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 5th March 1922,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Decision of the Supreme Court in Instance of Alleged Prejudiced Juror to Be Brought Up.ALLEN PLANS ATTACK ON TWO MORE JURORSWill Be Ready to Reveal Names When Hearing Is Resumed in Court…
Friday, 17th January 1919: Jim Conley Admits Attempt At Burglary, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 17th January 1919,PAGE 6, COLUMN 6.Jim Conley, a state witness in the Leo Frank case, who lives at 92 Tattnall Street, was yesterday held under $3,000 bond for the grand jury for burglary after a preliminary trial…
Tuesday, 14th January 1919: Jim Conley Shot As Store-breaker By Druggist Conn, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 14th January 1919,PAGE 7, COLUMN 2.Jim Conley, the negro who figured prominently in the Leo Frank case, lies at the Grady hospital, seriously injured by a load of bird-shot, which, it is alleged, he received while attempting…
Sunday, 2nd April 1916: Georgians Square, Asserts Slaton, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 2nd April 1916,PAGE 3, COLUMN 7.Former Governor Lauds People of His State in an Address Before the Beacon Society of Boston.Boston, April 1. (Special.) Former Governor John M. Slaton, of Georgia, tonight told the members of the…
Tuesday, 15th February 1916: Jim Conley Is Fined For Beating His Wife, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 15th February 1916,PAGE 7, COLUMN 2.Jim Conley, notorious negro witness in the Leo Frank case, was given a fine of $25.76 by Recorder Johnson in police matinee Monday afternoon, when arraigned by Officer Hollingsworth on charges of…
Tuesday, 5th May 1914: Return Of Negress Ordered By Judge Monday Morning, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 5th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.If Anna Maud Carter Is Not in Atlanta Within Five Days, Her Evidence Will Not Be Considered.Charges of bribery, perjury and coercion of witnesses will be thoroughly investigated by Solicitor Dorsey and…
Saturday, 2nd May 1914: William J. Burns Driven Out Of Marietta, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 2nd May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.W. J. Burns and Dan Lehon Summoned by Solicitor Dorsey To the Frank Retrial Hearing Subpoenas Served Upon the Noted Detective and Assistant After Their Return From Marietta J. E. Duffey Arrested…
Friday, 1st May 1914: Horrible Mistake In Case Of Frank, States W. J. Burns, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 1st May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Evidence on Which He Was Convicted Was Utterly Insufficient," Says Detective in Card.MY WORK IN THIS CASE NEARLY DONE, HE SAYSBurns Makes Absolute Denial of Any Connection With Bribe Offer Retrial Hearing…
Friday, 24th April 1914: Battle For Life Of Leo M. Frank Begins In Court, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 24th April 1914,PAGE 9, COLUMN 1.Rumored That Defense Will Present Today the Full Report of Detective William J. Burns on Case.C. W. Burke, a private investigator in the employ of counsel for Leo M. Frank, it is…
Wednesday, 22nd April 1914: Lanford Declines To Show Affidavits, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 22nd April 1914,PAGE 9, COLUMN 1.William J. Burns Leaves City Without Seeing Documents Charging Perversion.Detective William J. Burns called for the first time at police station late Tuesday afternoon to see Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford for…
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…
Tuesday, 27th May 1913, Felder Barely Missed Being Trapped by His Own Dictograph, The Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Journal Tuesday, May 27th, 1913 Page 7, Column 5 Last week, when the detectives were laying their plans to trap Colonel Thomas B. Felder with a dictograph, they came very near trapping the colonel with his own instrument. The…
Tuesday, 27th May 1913 Col. Felder Ridicules Idea of Grand Jury Investigation of City Detectives Charges, The Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Journal Tuesday, May 27th, 1913 Page 1, Column 6 Declares Chief Beavers Is Only Bluffing, and That if All the Allegations Made by the Police Were True, It Wouldn't Be a Case for the Grand Jury, as He Has…
Leo Frank Indictment, May 24, 1913, Atlanta, Georgia
Indictment of Atlanta B'nai B'rith President Leo Max Frank: State Witnesses Before the Atlanta Georgia Grand Jury on Saturday, May 24, 1913, and Their Later Trial Testimony at the Leo Frank Trial The May 1913 Fulton County grand jury…
Monday, 26th May 1913, Tobie Tried to Kidnap Incubator Baby, Says Topeka Police Official, The Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Journal Monday, May 26, 1913 Page 7, Column 6 That the past career and record of C. W. Tobie, the Burns investigator who came to Atlanta to probe the Phagan mystery for Colonel Thomas B. Felder, is being investigated…
Monday, 26th May 1913, Thousands in Atlanta Living the Life of Mary Phagan’s Murderer, Rev. W. W. Memminger, The Atlanta Constitution
Thousands in Atlanta Living the Life of Mary Phagan's Murderer, Rev. W. W. Memminger Atlanta Constitution Monday, May 26th, 1913 "Thousands of people in Atlanta are living the lives today that the murderer of Mary Phagan lived, and which…
Sunday, 25th May 1913, State Didn’t Show its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank, The Atlanta Journal
State Didn't Show its Case to Secure Indictment Against Superintendent Leo M. Frank Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 25th, 1913 No Documentary Evidence Was Placed Before the Grand Jury and James Conley, the Negro Sweeper Who Made Sensational Affidavit About…
Friday, 6th June 1913, Dorsey Replies to the Charges of Mrs. Leo Frank (Lucille Selig Frank), The Atlanta Constitution
Prosecutor Hugh Dorsey Replies to the Charges of Mrs. Leo Frank (Lucille Selig Frank) Atlanta Constitution Friday, June 6th, 1913 Says the Wife of an Accused Man Would Be the Last to Learn of Her Husband's Guilt. MRS. FRANK…
Sunday, 25th May 1913, A. S. Colyar Tells Where He and Colonel Thomas B. Felder Ought to be for Good of Society, The Atlanta Journal
A.S. Colyar Tells Where He and Colonel Thomas B. Felder Ought to be for Good of Society Atlanta Journal Sunday, May 25th, 1913 Editor The Journal: I herewith hand you a telegram in answer to one that I…
Wednesday, 27th May 1914: Burns Agent Here Is Fined And Bound Over, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 27th May 1914,PAGE 2, COLUMN 1.Judge Broyles Orders Lehon to Pay $100 and Costs Also Held for StateAnother step in the prosecution of the Burns Agents here was taken Tuesday afternoon in the Recorder's Court, when Dan…
Saturday, 2nd May 1914: Detective Burns Grilled By Dorsey For Over An Hour, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 2nd May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 7.In Presence of Judge Hill, Solicitor Secures Detailed Story of Detective's Work in Frank Case. NO FURTHER EVIDENCE IN HIS POSSESSION. Full Story of Solicitor's Long Cross-Examination Is Given Below. Lehon to…
Monday, 27th April 1914: Say Burns Has Twenty Agents On Frank Case, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 27th April 1914,PAGE 18, COLUMN 3.Several Women Among Them and Agents in San Francisco Cases, Say City DetectivesSolicitor General Dorsey, aided by William M. Smith, attorney for Jim Conley, and a corps of detectives, continued Monday the…
Sunday, 26th April 1914: Leo Frank Pleads For A Fair Trial In Signed Card, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 26th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 4.I Am Asking for That Which the People of Atlanta Would Not Refuse to a Dirty MongrelLeo M. Frank issued a signed statement Saturday night commenting on the interview of Chief Newport…
Friday, 24th April 1914: Jim Conley Charged With Confessing He Slew Mary Phagan, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 24th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 5.Attorneys for Leo M. Frank, at Hearing for New Trial, Read Affidavit From Negro Woman in Which She Asserts Conley, on Her Promise to Marry Him, Admitted to Her in the Fulton…
This Day in History of the Mary Phagan Case: April 14, 1914, The Atlanta Evening Journal. 353 days since April 26, 1913 #OTD #MaryPhagan #Atlanta #Georgia #LeoFrank #OnThisDay
By Mary Phagan-Kean | April 14, 2026 Documentary and Contextualization The article and transcript archived at the Mary Phagan Kean Legacy Project website (maryphagan.com)¹ is exactly one hundred twelve years old today. It ran on Page Two of…
Tuesday, 22nd July 1913 Date Of Frank Trial Depends On Weather, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution, Tuesday, 22nd July 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMN 3. Will Be Called Monday, But May Be Postponed if as Hot as Last Saturday. Continued From Page One. That the trial of Leo M. Frank depends to a…
Thursday, 22nd May 1913 Grand Jury Wont Hear Leo Frank or Lee, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Thursday, May 22nd, 1913 Understood That Cases Will Be Brought Separately, With One Accused as Accomplice. Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey announced Thursday afternoon that he was prepared to go before the Grand Jury Friday morning with his…
Tuesday, 20th May 1913 Women Declare Phagan Murder Must Be Solved, The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta Constitution Tuesday, May 20th, 1913 "Freedom of Murderer Is a Menace to Honor and Life of Every Woman," Writes Mrs. James Carr. Optimistic over the prospects for solving the Mary Phagan mystery, C. W. Tobie, chief of the…