The Leo Frank Case: Chapter 4 Of 22 - Inside Story of Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery

⁣Mary was a factory girl who worked hard from morning till night. For Memorial Day, she wanted to drive into town to see the Confederate Veterans Parade. She took the tram into town and met George Epps, a newspaperman who had always liked her. Later that night, George Epps ran to Mr. and Mrs. Phagan's house to find out why Mary had not met. Mary's stepfather, J.W. Coleman, went into town at Mrs. Coleman's request to see if she could find Mary where she would have gone to the Bijou Theater with her friends. He went to Bijou, waited for the show to end, looked at the faces of the people passing by, but never saw the face of the girl he was looking for. He returns to her home to comfort her grieving mother, thinking that Mary may have gone to Marietta's to visit her grandmother. The document's most important detail is the events leading up to the death of Phagan's neighbor Helen Ferguson. On Saturday, April 27th, there was a knock on the door of Phagan's home and news of Helen's death arrived.

Helen's eyes filled with sorrow and her lips could barely utter the terrible words she wanted to say. Her mother was leaning back on the sofa in her house and she lay there for days, unable to speak. Mr. Coleman rushed into town to see the body of the girl who had become more than a daughter to him in Bloomfield. When the mortician Will Gessling showed the body, the old man positively identified it. The most important detail of this text is the events leading up to Mary Phagan's death.

It is estimated that 20,000 people saw the remains during the company's stay, and hundreds saw them at a funeral in Marietta. Before the funeral, doctors conducted an examination of Mary Phagan's body, which was kept secret until the trial. On April 29, the body was buried in an old family cemetery in Marietta, Georgia, 32 miles from Atlanta. On May 7, the body was exhumed by order of the public prosecutor and a thorough examination of the stomach and other vital organs was carried out by doctors. H.F. Harris was implemented by the State Board of Health. What he found was known only to himself, a state agent, until he testified on the witness stand almost three months later.