The Murder of Little Mary Phagan (2025 Edition) by Mary Phagan Kean
Important Book Launch: The Murder of Little Mary Phagan (2025 Edition) by Mary Phagan Kean Help preserve this important history by getting your copy of the book at In September 2025, an important milestone has been reached with…
Thursday, 5th June 1913, Leo Frank Wanted Gun to Take His Life, Says Negro Cook Minola McKnight, The Atlanta Constitution
Frank Wanted Gun to Take His Life, Says Negro Cook Atlanta Constitution Thursday, June 5th, 1913 Sensational Affidavit Made for the Police by Minola McKnight, Servant in Leo Frank's Home. Fully as startling as the recent confession of James…
Thursday, 5th June 1913, I Know My Husband is Innocent, Asserts Wife of Leo M. Frank, The Atlanta Georgian
Portrait of Lucille Selig Frank I Know My Husband is Innocent, Asserts Wife of Leo M. Frank The Atlanta Georgian Thursday, June 5th, 1913 Following the complete denial by Minola McKnight, cook in the household of Leo M. Frank,…
Tuesday, 1st April 1919: Mr. Leo Frank Dead, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 1st April 1919,PAGE 13, COLUMN 6.SAVANNAH, Ga., April 1. Mr. Leo Frank, well known business man of Savannah, who died suddenly yesterday afternoon, was buried this afternoon from his home on Abercorn street. Mr. Frank was a…
Wednesday, 6th March 1918: Committee To Recommend Mrs. Godbee’s Parole, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Wednesday, 6th March 1918,PAGE 5, COLUMN 2.MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., March 6. The legislative committee for the past two days inspecting the penitentiary here, is expected to submit a report to Governor Dorsey and the prison commission recommending the parole…
Thursday, 23rd August 1917: Trail Elliot, Convict Who Escaped Camp At Bellwood Wednesday, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Thursday, 23rd August 1917,PAGE 5, COLUMN 2.County police and deputies with bloodhounds are on the trail of J. M. Elliott, a life termer in the Bellwood convict camp, who escaped Wednesday.Elliott was a trusty and had been sent…
Sunday, 1st July 1917: Hugh M. Dorsey, State’s New Chief Executive, Is Lawyer And A Farmer, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 1st July 1917,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.ONE OF THE LATEST AND ONE OF THE BEST PICTURES of Governor Dorsey, recently taken at Stephenson's Studio, in Atlanta. Governor Dorsey is a young man and shows it.He Comes by the…
Tuesday, 12th June 1917: Frank Trial Juror Is Sued For Divorce. Drunkenness Charged, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Tuesday, 12th June 1917,PAGE 11, COLUMN 4.Frederick V L Smith, a well known manufacturers' agent who was a member of the jury that convicted Leo M. Frank, is being sued for divorce by his wife, Mrs. May Belle…
Monday, 18th September 1916: When The Pipe Was Going Good, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Monday, 18th September 1916,PAGE 6, COLUMN 3.(Augusta Chronicle.)The Chronicle had thought it was through with any further comment on the late lamented gubernatorial campaign in Georgia, but the following from a double barreled editorial in yesterday's Atlanta Constitution…
Saturday, 2nd September 1916: Pottle Flays Dorsey For Leo Frank Speech, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Saturday, 2nd September 1916,PAGE 2, COLUMN 1.Brands Fulton Solicitor as a Traitor for Appealing to Prejudice and Passion(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)ALBANY, Ga., Sept. 2. Addressing a large audience of Dougherty county citizens in this city Friday afternoon,…
Friday, 1st September 1916: Dorsey Charges Plot To Defeat Him In Race, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Friday, 1st September 1916,PAGE 4, COLUMN 2.Declares "Slush Fund" Has Been Raised and Opponents Have Combined for HarrisCopies of a speech which Hugh M. Dorsey, candidate for governor, was scheduled to deliver Friday at Fitzgerald and Tifton, were…
Sunday, 23rd January 1916: Asks Reward Offered In Mary Phagan Case, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,Sunday, 23rd January 1916,PAGE 23, COLUMN 2.Attorneys for Robert Barrett Make Application to Governor for $200A formal application for the $200 reward offered by the state of Georgia for evidence sufficient to bring about the conviction of the…
The USS Liberty, Mary Phagan and the Vicious Culture War for Controlling the Popular Orthodoxy, June 8, 2026, 59th Anniversary Memorial
Dear USS Liberty Veterans, In memory of the USS Liberty men who were mass-murdered in cold blood, and in honor of the surviving USS Liberty veterans who spoke out forcefully about this betrayal. I want to share my own personal…
Sunday, 1st June 1913 Conley is Unwittingly Friend of Frank, Says Old Police Reporter, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Sunday, June 1st, 1913 By AN OLD POLICE REPORTER. Developments came thick and fast during the past week, and one is able to approach consideration of the Phagan case to-day with more assurance and ease of mind than…
Friday, 11th June 1915: Curram Is On Trial On Charge Of Murder, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 11th June 1915,PAGE 7, COLUMN 1.George Curram is on trial for his life for the murder of Charlie Maloof in the Fulton Superior Court before Judge Ben Hill. But five Jurors had qualified on Thursday, and the…
Saturday, 16th May 1914: Lehon Contempt Trial Is Postponed By Hill, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution, Saturday, 16th May 1914, PAGE 3, COLUMN 1. Detective, in Answer, Explains Why Negro Witness Was Taken Away. Dan S. Lehon, the William J. Burns aide, filed with his attorneys yesterday an explanation of his action…
Wednesday, 27th May 1914: Lehon Is Fined $100 And Costs And Bound Over, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 27th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Burns Detective Will Take Case to Higher Courts to Test the Constitutionality of the City Ordinance.CONTEMPT CASES ARE DISMISSED BY HILLMotion to Upset the Frank Verdict Will, in All Probability, Be Again…
Friday, 30th May 1913 Negro Conleys Affidavit Lays Bare Slaying, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian, Friday, May 30th, 1913, Page 2, Column 1 Swears Frank Told Him Girl Had Hit Her Head Against Something. The Georgian in it second Extra published exclusively the first REAL confession of James Conley, the negro sweeper…
Friday, 30th May 1913 Conley Re-enacts in Plant Part He Says He Took in Slaying, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Friday, May 30th, 1913 With Detectives Looking On, Negro Shows How He Carried Girl's Body to Basement at Direction, as He Swear, of His Employer, Leo Frank. As a sensational climax to the confession of his part…
Thursday, 28th May 1914: Three Burns Aides Fined And Bound Over By Recorder, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 28th May 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Detectives Are Charged With Operating in Atlanta Without Permission of the Police Board and Chief.CITY'S LAW IS ATTACKED BY PRISONER'S ATTORNEYJudge Powell Declares Or Dinance Is Unconstitution Al Cases Against Mc Worth…
Sunday, 19th April 1914: Testimony He Gave At Trial Was True, Declares M’knight, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 19th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 6.# Negro Witness for Prosecution Now Repudiates Affidavit He Gave to Leo M. Frank's Attorneys.PRISONER AT STATION ON HIS OWN REQUESTDetective Burns Has Not Yet Returned to Atlanta. Report Is Not Expected…
Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Mary Phagan Murdered Within Hour After Dinner, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 2nd August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.Witnesses Called to Stand to Testify Against FrankPhotos by Francis E. Price. Staff Photographer.From left to right: Mrs. George W. Jefferson, who was a witness on Thursday morning; R. P. Barrett, who…
YOU ARE THERE on YouTube
You Are There: Travel Back to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1913 Want to follow the Leo Frank case as people first encountered it in the newspapers of the day? Step back into Atlanta, Georgia, in 1913, and watch the case…
Analysis of David Cole: Was Jim Conley a Diabolic Genius, or Does the Leo Frank Rehabilitation Cult Mutate Reality? Part 1 of a 2 Part Series.
David Cole’s Leo Frank Theory Turns the Trial Record Into a Fable By Becky Davis, student of the Phagan case and contributor to the MPK Legacy Project June 1, 2026 Atlanta, Georgia David Cole, formerly known as David Cole stein…
Sunday, 26th April 1914: Says Love Letters Written By Conley Prove Him Guilty, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 26th April 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 2.Detective Burns Declares They Are Conclusive Evidence That He Was Author of the Murder Notes."I have just come into possession of evidence that is proof conclusive that the murder notes found by…
Saturday, 2nd August 1913 Witnesses Called To Stand To Testify Against Frank, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Saturday, 2nd August 1913,PAGE 1, COLUMN 3.Photo by Francis E. Price. Staff Photographer.From left to right: Mrs. George W. Jefferson, who was a witness on Thursday morning; R. P. Barrett, who testified to finding Mary Phagan's pay envelope…
Title: The Unsworn deposition given by National Pencil Company Superintendent Leo Max Frank to Atlanta Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford at the Atlanta, Georgia, police station, recorded by stenographer Gay C. Febuary on Monday, April 28, 1913. Source: Brief of Evidence, 1913. Appeared in the Atlanta Constitution, August 2, 1913.
Leo Max Frank at Atlanta police headquarters on Monday, April 28, 1913, the day after Mary Phagan's body was discovered on April 27, 1913, and the day before Frank's own arrest on April 29, 1913. He is giving a…
State’s Exhibit B: Leo Frank’s Unsworn April 28, 1913 Police Deposition Before Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford, Recorded at Atlanta Police Headquarters and Later Entered Into the 1913 Brief of Evidence. Published in the Atlanta Constitution of August 2nd, 1913.
Herein is the Q&A version of Leo Frank’s State’s Exhibit B deposition, given at the Atlanta police station on Monday morning, April 28, 1913, before Chief of Detectives Newport A. Lanford and recorded by stenographer G. C. February. Source Atlanta…
The Forged Time Slip and the Negro Nightwatchman: How Leo Frank Tried to Pin the Mary Phagan Murder on Newt Lee
Leo Frank's Racially Tinged Railroading of the African-American Nightwatchman Newt Lee This video clip herein is from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, ADL-backed 2009 agitprop docudrama People vs. Leo Frank, produced by Jewish-American film director Ben Loeterman, with…
Thursday, 2nd December 1943: Mrs. Frank, ‘fine, Brave Woman,’ Slaton Opines; Silent On Case, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Thursday, 2nd December 1943,PAGE 4, COLUMN 3.By BOYD TAYLOR.If former Governor John M. Slaton had any special knowledge on which he acted when he commuted the death sentence of Leo Frank to life imprisonment, as intimated by Judge…
Wednesday, 1st December 1943: Leo Frank’s Widow Not Bitter, Sews On Wedding Anniversary, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 1st December 1943,PAGE 2, COLUMN 7.By CELESTINE SIBLEYThe gentle, brown-eyed woman who married Leo Frank 30 years ago spent the anniversary of their wedding day yesterday as she spends every Tuesday sewing for the Red Cross.But as…