The Murder Of Little Mary Phagan - Vanessa Neubauer - Chapter Eight - The Lynching

⁣Leo Frank's move from Fulton Tower to Mirageville Prison Farm was done with utmost secrecy and efficiency. He went to work in the fields and his health improved. Mirage Building superintendent James T. Smith told reporters he could protect his prison from attacks. On the night of July 17, twice-convicted murderer William Crean cut Frank's throat with a butcher knife, nearly severing his carotid artery. Director Smith called J. W. Smith investigates the case. Physician Leo Frank, serving a life sentence in Mirageville, was there for two weeks until his death. His two letters to his mother and his brother (one to his mother and one to his brother) give an idea of ​​his state of mind. Leo largely denies rumors that he is dead and alive. Simon Wolf has been very interested in Leo since he came here.

Leo is nearing his goal of good health and his wounds continue to heal rapidly. His appetite is still good and he steams apples for me. All that's left now is to get my strength back. He sits on his bed, but it will be a while before he can walk. An important detail in this text is the details of the incident that put the Order of Mary Phagan's plan to kidnap Frank on hold.

Tom Watson discussed the governor's pay cut order in Watson magazine, further fueling feelings about the order and against Slayton himself. Watson said that the arrogant governor of high society, gilded club life, and palatial surroundings proved to be lazy Pippin in the barrel of great honesty. The incident put on hold the well-conceived plan to kidnap Frank by the Knights of Mary Phagan. An important detail in the document is that Luther Rosser had been a partner of the Slayton Law Office since May 1913, and that the governor held a secret late-night meeting with Rosser before issuing the order. Late one night, Rosser drove down a side street, parked a block or two away from the governor's building, and walked down an alleyway.

He writes that Rosser went to Slayton's house and stayed there for hours until after midnight. According to Henry Borden, members of the public willingly acted as informants in the case. ⁣Operators, operators, elevator ladies, telegraph operators, and many others occupied the phones in Dorsey's home and office, and spoke few facts from work. One morning at 6:00 am: 12:00 a.m.: Dorsey spots the streetcar driver sitting on his doorstep and has all the information by the time Luther Rosser arrives at Governor Slayton's house the night before issuing the diversion order. rice field. Watson argued that Governor Slayton did not cross-examine Leo Frank or Jim Conley. Watson claimed there was unparalleled excrement in the elevator shaft, no bed mites in the pencil factory, no bed mites in the pencil factory, and hair on the second floor.

Barrett found her hair on the lathe handle early Monday morning and almost immediately attributed it to Mary Phagan because there was only one other girl with hair like Mary's Magnolia Kennedy. It turns out there is. Governor Slayton made it clear to the nation: Mr. Harris denied the merit of the state lawsuit. Ten days after Mary Phagan's death, her grave was opened and her hair removed from her head. Dr. Harris conducted a microscopic examination and found that the two specimens looked so similar that it was impossible to form a definite and definitive opinion as to whether they were taken from the same person's head. It turned out to be impossible. Mel Stanford, who worked for Frank for two years, testified that he cleaned the entire floor of the metal room on Friday, April 25.

He found a white hazelnut spot on the second floor near the dressing room that wasn't there on Friday. Deputy Commissioner and sworn attorney for the defendant, Herbert Schiff, testified that he saw the speck, as did other witnesses. Governor Slayton confirmed that the white substance Haskerin was found spread throughout the patch. Conley's Affidavit Conley was reluctant to betray his white superiors and denied any knowledge of his crimes. When he finally confessed, there was blood on Mary Phagan's panties and her vagina, suggesting some form of violence and sexual penetration prior to her death.

Governor Slayton claimed the bloodstains were due to a monthly illness. Annie Maud Carter's affidavit was rebutted, and both Conley and Carter swore that the letter had been tampered with and that the unprintable filth contained therein was a forgery. Philip Chambers and Herbert Schiff testified that the order forms were in the office next to Frank's and that the papers with the notes could be found throughout the factory. Monteen Stover's testimony indicates that Frank gave the exact time that the stenographer left at about 12:00 p.m.
00:00, or between 125:00 and 1210:00, or perhaps about 127:00, shortly after Mary Phagan arrived. Frank was unaware that Monteen Stover had entered his office, claiming he would be there at any moment.

Governor Slayton claimed that Frank must have been in the second office while Monteen Stover waited for him for five minutes, but she was looking for Frank in both the outside and inside offices, I swore the metal room door was closed. Where was Mary when Monteen was in the office from 12:05 to 12:00? Bloody fingerprints on the door. Why didn't Frank's attorney ask Jim Conley, the state's star witness, for fingerprinting? Judge Roan's statement that Judge Roan requested a reduced sentence.

Judge Roan's enthusiastic take on the facts and speculation of the case fueled fear, prejudice, and anger among the people of Atlanta, especially the working class, who were deeply affected by the tragedy of Mary Phagan's death. Watson's enthusiastic views of the facts and speculations about the case fueled fear, prejudice, and anger among the people of Atlanta, especially the working class, who were deeply affected by the tragedy of Mary Phagan's death. A group of about twenty men from the Order of Mary Phagan was selected to resume the mission to kidnap Leo Frank. Each was a husband and father, a wage earner and a churchgoer, all with well-known names from Cobb County. The mission was set up like a military operation, with a skilled electrician cutting prison wires, an auto mechanic keeping cars running, a locksmith, a switchboard operator, a paramedic, an executioner, and a common preacher. board. The route the hijackers would take was driven, measured and timed. The Lynch party left Marietta on August 16, 1915, arriving at the prison just before midnight. They cut the phone line and split into four groups. One group went to the garage and drained gas from all the cars, another went to Superintendent Burke's house and handcuffed him. A fourth group rushed to Frank's cell, woke him up, handcuffed his hands behind his back and took him to the back seat of the prison car. The kidnappers had the prison blueprints, cell locations, security posts, telephones and power lines. No effort was made to resist the group that kidnapped Frank. But his next two incidents occurred.
The man entrusted with guarding the Overseer was left behind, and the long-distance line to Augusta was not cut. The convoy returned to Marietta after a seven-hour, 150-mile journey along Roswell Road. One had to be abandoned due to a puncture on the way, but the rest were repaired. The original plan was to hang Frank from a tree in the Marietta City Cemetery or Marietta Square, but as night fell they headed for a more remote part of town. Frank demanded that the gold wedding ring be removed and returned to his widow, but they prepared to hang him. A brown khaki cloth was wrapped around Frank's waist, and a white handkerchief was pinned over his eyes. He was placed on a table and a 3/4 inch long rope was draped over the branch and around his neck. The impact of falling from the makeshift gallows opened his neck wound. Rumors quickly spread that on August 17, 1915, that Leo Frank had been hanged, dozens of people rushed to the place of execution on foot, on bicycles, on horseback, and in the few vehicles that were available at the time.

⁣The most important details in this text are the events leading up to the lynching of Leo Frank. One of the first to arrive was a prominent young Mariettan who had been rejected as a lyncher due to his high temper and drinking habits. People with cameras snapped his picture as his body swayed in the breeze, and picture postcards of the lynching were sold for years as souvenir items in Georgia stores. When Frank's body was cut down, a citizen tried to grind his shoe into Frank's face. Newt A. Morris, a former judge of the Blue Ridge Circuit, stepped forward to stop him and to quiet the crowd.

John Wood, a Canton attorney, helped Morris load the body into a basket and place it in a WJ black funeral home wagon that hauled it to the National Cemetery gate, where it was placed in Woods car and rushed to Atlanta. A crowd gathered around the funeral home demanding to view the dead man's body, and police persuaded Mrs. Frank to consent. The crowds were allowed to view the body later. Leo Frank's body The Latin phrase "symphare edom" is carved on Leo Frank's tombstone. Ex Governor Slayton and Mayor Woodward of Atlanta were in San Francisco on the day of the lynching.

Ex Governor Slayton declared he preferred to have Frank lynched by a mob rather than by judicial mistake. Mayor Woodward declared that Frank had suffered a just penalty for an unspeakable crime. A Cobb County coroner's jury heard witnesses and ruled that Frank was hanged by persons unknown. Tom Watson sent a telegram to Mary Edden Robert E. Lee Hole, who applauded the hanging in putting the sodomite murderer to death. The vigilance committee has done what the sheriff would have done if Slayton had not been of the same mold as Benedict Arnold.

Georgia is not for sale to rich criminals in the Jeffersonian, he raged, and the priest wants the illiterate papal slave of Italy, Poland and Hungary. The capitalist wants cheap labor and the Jew wants refuge from race hatred. The south has not yet been deluged by the foreign flood, but native stock predominates and the old ideals persist. Employers of young girls may assume that they buy the girl when they hire her, but this can lead to trouble if they act as though they have a right to carnally use the persons of the girls who work for them. This was the mistake made by Leo Frank, and it cost him his life.

Jews throughout the Union made Frank's case a race issue in total contemptuous and aggressive disregard of the question of guilt. They arrogantly asserted that he had not had a fair trial without ever offering a scintilla of evidence to prove it. They tried to run over and quote the people and the courts of Georgia and we wouldn't let them do it. Leo Frank's wedding ring was delivered to OB Keeler, Marietta reporter for the Atlanta Georgian, at his Marietta home the following evening. On Thursday, August 19, Keeler's account of the incident was published in the Atlanta Georgian.

The banner headline read "Frank's wedding ring returned" and a two column, three line readout said "dying wish of mob's victim carried out by unknown messenger". The story was in twelve point type and occupied the two right hand columns of page one and continued on page two. Keeler's first person account read quote "old books say if you put beneath your pillow an object that has been associated with tragedy or any scene of great stress and profound emotional excitement, if such an object be placed near you while you sleep, you will dream the thing that gave the object its most terrible significance."

⁣An important detail in this document is that on April 26, 1913, Leo M. Frank wore his wedding ring at the National Pencil Factory and during his dreadful voyage to sinking at Eichenhain, outside Marietta. . Mr. Keeler, who covered every session of the Atlanta Georgian man's trial, said several times during the trial and during Frank's nearly two years of service at the Fulton County Tower that the ring was on Frank's finger. I told you what I saw. Mr. Keeler told how the ring came to be obtained. He was in the vestibule of a small house at 303 Polk Street, Marietta, and had just begun a selection of Victorara, which his two very young members of the family passionately love. The band reached its climax when they heard footsteps and knocks on the porch in front of the open door.

He spoke clearly and clearly and handed me the envelope. He turned and went down the stairs and left in the darkness. Keeler opened an envelope containing a wedding ring and a typed note from his wife, Mrs. Leo M. Frank. The next day, Ms. Keeler gave her ring to Mrs. Frank in Atlanta. Mrs. Frank accused Keeler of being one of the group of men who had her husband hanged. Mr. Keeler received the trust with mixed feelings, but he knew how badly the in-state press was saying, and he had an idea of ​​what the out-of-state press would say. When the rain came, a young woman from Kansas City, Missouri came north to read an article about the Frank case in the Kansas City newspaper. She made every effort to prove Frank's innocence. Her experience of getting her ring shortly after the tragedy of the previous day had a huge impact on her. She searched for an unbiased point of view and found an intellectual point of view. She read about the upcoming lynching against Frank on the train from Nashville and wondered what she was getting into. She arrived in this town exactly twelve hours after her execution, and she found it the quietest, most peaceful little place she had ever visited. She met more friendly and helpful people than at this afternoon's party. The most important detail in this document is that Keeler has lived in Marietta for her 25 years, and that she learned what happened to Leo M. Frank in that oak grove on the morning of August 17th. It means that He also knows what people in Marietta did for him and his family when he nearly died of pneumonia last spring.

Regarding this event, Mr. Keeler's son, George Keeler, told the speaker that his father, the late OB Keeler, was on the staff of the Atlanta Georgian in 1913, where he covered every session of the Frank trial. He said he was. George Keeler said he had no doubts about Frank's guilt.

⁣An important detail in the audio recording is that the defense did everything it could to pin the blame on black janitor Jim Conley, and that Frank had the best attorney in the state. Two years later, this Georgian called his father that a group of men were heading to Mirageville State Penitentiary to arrest Frank, take him to Marietta, and hang him on Mary Phagan's grave. The following evening, a stranger showed up at the Keeler home in Polk Street, presenting his father with an envelope containing a typed note and a wedding ring. The father gave the ring to Mrs. Frank, and how it came to her and what she did with it was published on the front page of the Georgian newspaper, written in an article that day under the eight column headline. ⁣