Author: Mary Phagan


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Saturday, 24th May 1913 Dirty Gang Filled Out Record or Else Fooled Dictograph Mayor Woodward.

Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Big Part of Published Record Absolutely Untrue, Declares Mayor, Though "There's Nothing In It," He Says "WHOLE THING AMOUNTS TO HIRING DETECTIVE" "It's all a frame-up of a dirty gang," declared Mayor James G.…
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Saturday, 24th May 1913 Dorsey Steers Clear of Felder Controversy

  Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Says He Will Not Allow Himself to Be Drawn Into Row of Attorney and Detectives Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey said Saturday morning relative to the Felder affair: "This controversy will have no…
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Saturday, 24th May 1913 Felder Charges Police Plot to Shield Slayer

G. C. Febuary Lanford's clerk, who alleges bribery offer; Febuary alleges that Felder offered $1,000 for police records. He is a modest, unassuming young man, in whom Lanford and Beavers have complete confidence. Atlanta Georgian Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Colonel…
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Saturday, 24th May 1913 Felder is Charged with Bribe Offer for Phagan Papers

Atlanta Constitution Saturday, May 24th, 1913 City Detective Department Holds Statements Alleging Attorney Made Attempt to Secure Coleman Affidavit. SAY FELDER OFFERED $1,000 FOR THE PAPER Report of Conversation Between Col. Felder, Secretary Febuary and A. S. Colyar Taken Down…
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Saturday, 24th May 1913 Felders Fight is to Get Chief and Lanford Out of Office

Burns showing how a dictograph can be concealed in a wall. The arrow points to the dictograph. The great detective holding a dictograph ready to place it to collect evidence. Atlanta Georgian Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Chief of Detectives Newport…
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Saturday, 24th May 1913 Frame-Up Aimed at Burns Men, Says Tobie

Atlanta Georgian Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Denouncing A. S. Colyar as an "eagle-beaked crook," W. C. Tobie, the Burns detective who is here making an investigation of the Phagan case, declared on Saturday that the charges of bribery and double-dealing…
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Saturday, 24th May 1913 Frank Not Home Hours on Saturday Declares Lanford

Atlanta Constitution Saturday, May 24th, 1913 On Night of Murder Prisoner Was Not at Residence, as He Says He Was, States Head of Detective Dept WITNESSES WILL SWEAR TO THIS, HE ASSERTS Leo Frank Swore at Coroner's Inquest That He…
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Saturday, 24th May 1913 Franks Attorneys Make No Comment

  Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Neither L. Z. Rosser Nor Herbert Haas Had Any Statement to Make "Not a word to say," was Attorney Luther Z. Rosser's comment when informed by a Journal reporter that his client, Leo…
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Saturday, 24th May 1913 Girl Strangled, Says Indictment

Atlanta Constitution Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Grand Jury is Now Engaged in Conducting Investigation of the Murder of Mary Phagan. That the state in its bills of indictment for the murder of Mary Phagan, brought separately against Leo M. Frank…
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Saturday, 24th May 1913 Graft and Corruption are Charged to City Detectives and Police by Col. T. B. Felder

  Atlanta Journal Saturday, May 24th, 1913 Attorney Who Was Dictographed by the Detectives Gives Out a Statement, Additional to the One He Made Friday Afternoon, in Which He Goes After Police and Detective Departments, and Intimates That More Is…