The Leo Frank Case: Chapter 6 Of 22 - Inside Story of Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery

⁣The head of the National Pencil Factory, Leo M. Frank, was taken to the police station and detained on charges related to the rape and murder of Mary Phagan. Slender and boyish in appearance, he was a weak and delicate man unlike the old black man Newt Lee, the young giant Gantt, or the former conductor Arthur Mullinax. He told jurors he was born in Paris, Texas, and moved to Brooklyn, New York, when he was three months old. He graduated from Cornell University in 1902 and received a draftman's position at the B. F. Stutevant Company of High Park, Massachusetts.

He then returned to Brooklyn and worked as an inspector, engineer and draftsman at the National Meter Company in Brooklyn, New York. Afterwards, he returned to America and soon headed south to Atlanta, where he married Miss Lucille Seelig. He spent most of his married life at his step-parents' house. E. Seelig, 68 East Georgia Ave. Frank was taken into custody by police shortly before noon on Tuesday at a pencil factory. The car, which left the police station with Pinkerton Agency Detective Harry Scott and City Police Department Detective John Black in it, returned within 10 minutes with Frank locked in a cell.

Chief of Detectives, Mr. Newport A. Ranford said he would be held in custody pending the results of a forensic examination. Frank's friends were outraged by his arrest and hired one of Atlanta's leading lawyers, Luther Z. Rosser, as their attorney. Public sentiment on Tuesday was the highest since the murders came to light as four suspects were identified. Suspicions about Mr. Gang Su and Mr. Mullen were already quickly fading. City investigators and Pinkerton's military searched the factory, the suspect's home, and the entire city for clues to the pencil factory.