The Leo Frank Case: Chapter 3 Of 22 - Inside Story of Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery

⁣The text's most important detail is the events leading up to the murder of Frank View, a small factory girl. Newt Lee was arrested, taken to the police station, and the dead child was identified. Rogers and Starnes called the caretaker, Frank, and asked him to bring his coat and come with him. On the way, Black asked Frank if he knew a girl named Mary Phagan, and the factory manager said he would check the factory payslips. On their way to the factory, the three stop at a funeral home to see the body of Mary Phagan. Asked if he knew Mary Phagan, Frank replied that he would definitely know if he went to the factory. As the sun rose, a small group of men, including factory manager N.V. Darley, stood at the factory gates. Frank greeted the foreman and officers and they went to Frank's office. The superintendent opened the safe, took out a blank book, and found Mary Phagan.

Frank rubbed his hand and asked if he had found any trace of wage embezzlement at the factory. The inspector's next request was to investigate the place where the girl's body was found. Frank went to the switch box next to the elevator, flipped the switch on the machine, and turned on the machine. When we returned to the first floor, someone asked us to get off at the station building. Frank turns to Darley and says, "I think you should put a new bill in your watch." This is best described by Boots Rogers' narration. Frank said little about the murder of Mary Phagan, but said it was a shame.

When he discussed the watch's new label with Darley, the foreman agreed. Frank took the key out of his pocket, unlocked the right side, and took out the Timeslip. He checked the notes and said no problem. Mr. Lee was handcuffed and standing nearby, and Mr. Darley was also there. Frank found a pencil in one of the potholes and asked Lee why it was there.

The Negro, he said, put a pencil there so he wouldn't make a mistake by drilling the correct hole. Frank unlocked his watch and he penciled in "26." April 1913" is written at the end of the note. He then folded the note and took it with him to his internal office. Frank and the cops board Rogers' plane to the police station, where Frank sits on Darley's lap. At the police station, Frank fearfully jumps out of the car and runs into the jail cell, speaking quickly and carefully.

Frank told them about the visit from J.M. Gannt on Saturday morning at the factory, a young man who had just been laid off came back to pick up the shoes he had left behind in the factory that afternoon. Frank told detectives that Gantt knew Mary Phagan well, he told her.

⁣CID searched for Gantt while Lee was in custody and detectives searched for several suspects. As the first day of the famous Mary agan affair draws to a close, crowds pour down Forsyth Street, contented to look at the building where the black murders took place. Police were constantly watching everyone entering and leaving the factory, and grief reigned in the little house in Bellwood, where Mary Phagan left happy on Saturday.