The Evidenceīecause eyewitness accounts placed both Frank and Phagan at the factory prior to her death, police arrived at Frank’s home early on April 27 for questioning. The public demanded quick action and swift justice.Ĭourtesy of Atlanta History Center. Rumors spread that she had been sexually assaulted before her death. The city was aghast when it heard the news. In the middle of the night, the factory watchman found her bruised and bloodied body in the cellar and called the police. He was the last person to acknowledge having seen Phagan alive. Leo Frank, the superintendent of the factory, paid her. On April 26, 1913, Mary Phagan, the child of tenant farmers who had moved to Atlanta for financial gain, went to the pencil factory to collect her week’s wages. The degree of anti-Semitism involved in Frank’s conviction and subsequent lynching was enough of a factor to have inspired Jews, and others, throughout the country to protest the conviction of an innocent man. Before the lynching of Frank two years later, the case became known throughout the nation.
NANCY DREW THE FINAL SCENE PENCIL LOCATION TRIAL
A Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company, which he managed. The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia.
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