Saturday, 31st May 1913 Plan to Confront Conley and Frank for New Admission, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Saturday, May 31st, 1913 Police Hope Meeting Will Prove Whether Negro Will Stick to Latest Story Under Eyes of the Man He Accuses—Ready to Pay Penalty. A determined effort is being made by the police department to bring…
Monday, 26th May 1913 Mason Blocks Attempt to Oust Chief, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Monday, May 26th, 1913 Police Board Minority as Anxious to Overthrow Chairman as Beavers and Lanford. Well informed politicians declared Monday that any efforts to remove Chief of Police Beavers and Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford were doomed…
Saturday, 24th May 1913 Blease Ironic in Comments on Felder Trap, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Saturday, May 24th, 1913 COLUMBIA, S. C., May 24.—When asked for a comment upon the Felder dictograph story, Governor Blease dictated the following: I do not see that it is necessary for me to give out any interview…
Friday, 23rd May 1913 Indictment of Both Lee and Frank is Asked, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Friday, May 23rd, 1913 Great Mass of Evidence Carefully Prepared by Solicitor Submitted to Grand Jury. CRIME STUDIED 3 HOURS, ADJOURNS TILL SATURDAY Utmost Care Taken to Insure Secrecy at the Investigation, Diagram Studied. The Phagan case is…
Tuesday, 13th May 1913 Mother Thinks Police Are Doing Their Best, The Atlanta Georgian
Mary Phagan's mother, Fannie Phagan Coleman (center), with her family in Atlanta, 1902. She holds Mary (right) and another child. Mary Phagan's older sister, Ollie Mae, stands at front left. Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, May 13th, 1913 Mrs. J. W. Coleman,…
Thursday, 8th May 1913 Another Clew in Phagan Case is Worthless, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Thursday, May 8th, 1913 Pinkertons Find No Foundation for Report of Lunch Room Helper's Disappearance. Harry Scott, of the Pinkertons, said Thursday that the information obtained by his agency to the effect that a Greek helper in…
Tuesday, 6th May 1913 Brother Declares Bowen Left Georgia in August, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, May 6th, 1913 Paul P. Bowen, arrested in Houston, Texas, on suspicion of complicity in the murder of Mary Phagan, could not have been connected with the Atlanta mystery, according to members of his family here.…
Friday, 2nd May 1913 Dorsey Puts Own Sleuths Onto Phagan Slaying Case, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Friday, May 2nd, 1913 200 Witnesses To Be Called When Inquest Into Slaying of Factory Girl Is Resumed Next Monday—Detectives Are Busy. Coroner Declares Inquiry Will Not Be Made Hastily—Every Clew To Be Probed Thoroughly. Lee…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Net Closing About Lee, Says Lanford, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Chief of Detectives Lanford was confident this morning that he and his department had completed a strong case to present to the Grand Jury for indictment. He said that the evidence against the…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Keeper of Rooming House Enters Case, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 J. W. Phillips Thinks Couple Who Asked for Room May Have Been Gantt and Girl. Was the young woman who, in company with a young man, applied to John W. Phillips, keeper of…
Monday, 28th April 1913 Pinkertons Take Up Hunt for Slayer, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Investigate Story of Wife of Employee That She Saw Strange Negro Around Factory. The Pinkerton Detective Agency was brought into the Phagan murder mystery this afternoon when Leo Frank, superintendent of the National…
Monday, 28th April 1913 3 Youths Seen Leading Along a Reeling Girl, The Atlanta Georgian
Edgar L. Sentell, lifelong friend of Mary Phagan, says he saw a man answering this description, walking with the girl after midnight Sunday, a few hours before the body was found. He has identified the man as Arthur Mullinax,…
Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Accuser of Conley is Ready to Testify, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 6th, 1913 Deplores Newspaper Publicity, but Poses Merrily for the Camera Brigade. W. H. Mincey, the school teacher and insurance solicitor who made an affidavit that Jim Conley confessed to him that he had already killed a…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Jim Conley’s Story as Matter of Fact as if it Were of His Day’s Work, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 4th, 1913 By O. B. Keeler. Jim Conley, hewer of wood and drawer of water. On the witness stand at the Frank trial this morning, Jim unfolded a tale whose lightest word—you know the rest. It was…
Thursday, 31st July 1913 Red Bandanna, a Jackknife and Plennie Minor Preserve Order, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian July 31st, 1913 He Raps With the Barlow Blade and Waves the Oriflamed Kerchief Judiciously. Plennie Minor, chief deputy sheriff, has a man's sized job on his hands and he handles it with the aid of a red…
Monday, 28th July 1913 Frank, Feeling Tiptop, Smiling and Confident, is Up Long Before Trial, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian July 28th, 1913 Frank was escorted from the Tower to the courthouse shortly after 6 o'clock in the morning, nearly three hours before the trial was schedule to begin. This was done to avoid the curious crowd which…
Monday, 7th July 1913 Operations of Slavers in Hotels Bared, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian Monday, July 7, 1913 Victim Tells Beavers Names of Women and Man Engaged in Traffic in Girls. A new and sensational expose of vice conditions said to be prevalent in Atlanta was made Monday morning by Hattie…
Wednesday, 4th June 1913 Franks Cook Was Counted Upon as Defense Witness, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, June 4th, 1913 While police activities have been turned to this line of investigation, the negro sweeper, Jim Conley, has been given a rest. Chief of Detectives Lanford stated that the negro would be quizzed no more.…
Saturday, 31st May 1913 Silence of Conley Put to End by Georgian, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Saturday, May 31st, 1913 That The Georgian played a conspicuous part in obtaining the latest and most important confession from Jim Conley, the negro sweeper, in which he admitted his complicity in the crime, was the declaration of…
Monday, 26th May 1913 Pinkerton Man Says Frank is Guilty, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Monday, May 26th, 1913 Pencil Factory Owners Told Him Not to Shield Superintendent, Scott Declares. Harry Scott, assistant superintendent of the Pinkertons, announced Monday his belief that Leo M. Frank was responsible for the slaying of 14-year-old Mary…
Saturday, 24th May 1913 Frame-Up Aimed at Burns Men, Says Tobie, The Atlanta Georgian
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…
Tuesday, 13th May 1913 Frank’s Life in Tower, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, May 13th, 1913 Of the many prisoners confined in the Tower, Leo M. Frank stands far above them all as the central figure in the public eye while the exhaustive investigation into the death of…
Thursday, 8th May 1913 Girl Employe on Fourth Floor of Factory Saturday, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Thursday, May 8th, 1913 Miss Corinthia Hall, one of the employees at the National Pencil factory, was a witness. She lives near Kirkwood, at 19 Weatherby Street, and has worked at the factory for three years.…
Tuesday, 6th May 1913 Bowen Still Held by Houston Police in the Phagan Case, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, May 6th, 1913 Atlanta Police Do Not Believe He is Implicated in Tragedy—Letters From Women and 50 Photographs of Girls Found in Prisoners Trunk. The Atlanta police and State officials say they place little importance…
Thursday, 1st May 1913 Terminal Official Certain He Saw Girl, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Thursday, May 1st, 1913 O. H. Clark, in charge of the check room at the Terminal Station, is convinced that the girl who created a scene there last week, when the man she was with attempted to…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Looks Like Frank is Trying to Put Crime on Me, Says Lee, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 A formal statement from Newt Lee, the negro night watchman arrested after he had telephoned the police of the finding of Mary Phagan's mutilated body, was given to the public for the…
Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Is the Guilty Man Among Those Held?, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Is the murderer of Mary Phagan among the four men who are being held at police headquarters, or is he still at large, either among those still unsuspected or among those who…
Monday, 28th April 1913 Neighbors of Slain Girl Cry for Vengeance, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Slaying of Mary Phagan Arouses Friends of Family to Threats of Violence. "I wouldn't have liked to be held responsible for the fate of the murderer of little Mary Phagan if the men…
Monday, 28th April 1913 “I Could Trust Mary Anywhere,” Her Weeping Mother Says, The Atlanta Georgian
Mary Phagan, 14-year-old daughter of Mrs. J. W. Coleman, 146 Lindsay Street, whose slain body was found in the basement of the National Pencil Factory, 37-39 South Forsyth Street. The girl left her home Saturday morning to go to…
Wednesday, 6th August 1913 Conley Swears Frank Hid Purse, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 6th, 1913 Sweeper's Grilling Ends After 151/2 Hours, His Main Story Unshaken MYSTERY OF GIRL'S MESH BAG EXPLAINED BY NEGRO ON STAND That Mary Phagan's silver-plated mesh bag, mysteriously missing since the girl's bruised and lifeless body…