Thursday, 24th July 1913 Let the Frank Trial Go On, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian July 24th, 1913 Leo Frank should be placed on trial Monday for the murder of Mary Phagan. The crime was committed April 26; Frank was arrested April 28; he was indicted Mary 23 and his trial set for…
Tuesday, 8th July 1913 Girl Tells of Life in Slavers’ Hands, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, July 8, 1913 Hattie Smith Warns Young Women of Atlanta Against the Wiles of Procurers. The startling expose of vice conditions by Hattie Smith, the prety 17-year-old girl, one of the alleged victims of the "system,"…
Thursday, 3rd July 1913 Writ Sought In Move to Free Negro Lee, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian Thursday, July 3, 1913 Attorney for Watchman Declares Client Knows Nothing of the Actual Crime. Bernard L. Chappell, attorney for Newt Lee, negro night watchman at the pencile factory, held in the Phagan case, stated Thursday morning…
Thursday, 26th June 1913 Stover Girl Will Star in Frank Trial, The Atlanta Georgian
Judge L.S. Roan, who will preside at trial of alleged slayer of Mary Phagan. The Atlanta Georgian Thursday, June 26, 1913 State, However, Must Prove She Entered Factory Before Mary Phagan. With the selection of the court room made Thursday,…
Saturday, 14th June 1913 Sheriff Mangum Near End, Says Lawyer Smith, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian Saturday, June 14, 1913 Attorney for Conley Injects Politics Into Dispute Over Negro's Place of Confinement. William M. Smith, counsel for James Conley, confessed accessory after the fact in the killing of Mary Phagan, in a statement…
Friday, 6th June 1913 Chief Says Law Balks His War on Vice, The Atlanta Georgian
L. H. Beck, foreman of Fulton County Grand Jury that is investigating vice conditions in Atlanta, the Felder bribery charges and the famous dictograph row. Mr. Beck is the one who launched the probe of reports that vice exists here.…
Sunday, 1st June 1913 Conleys Story Cinches Case Against Frank, Says Lanford, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Sunday, June 1st, 1913 ‘He Has Told the Whole Truth—There's Not a Lawyer Who Can Shake Him,' Asserts Chief. Jim Conley has told the whole truth—there's not a shadow of a doubt about it. We feel perfectly…
Wednesday, 28th May 1913 Conley Says Frank Took Him to Plant on Day of Slaying, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, May 28th, 1913 Negro Sweeper in New Affidavit Denies His Former Testimony and Makes Startling Assertions; Now Declares He Wrote Notes Saturday. James Conley, negro sweeper, in an affidavit made Wednesday, said that he was lying when…
Sunday, 25th May 1913 Colyar, Held as Forger, is Freed on Bond; Long Crime Record Charged, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Sunday, May 25th, 1913 Athens Judge Tells Colonel Felder That Dictograph ‘Trapper' Is Under Suspended Sentence in Georgia. Knoxville Complaint To Be Pressed. A. S. Colyar, soldier of fortune, who plotted the destruction, by means of the dictograph,…
Friday, 23rd May 1913 Dictograph Record Used Against Felder, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Friday, May 23rd, 1913 The Georgian on Wednesday published an exclusive story that Colonel Thomas B. Felder was involved in the Phagan murder case in a manner that would at least require a very explicit explanation. Developments Friday…
Friday, 16th May 1913 Secret Probe Began by Burns Agent into the Phagan Mystery, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Friday, May 16th, 1913 Investigator for Great Detective Believed To Be in City Hunting Phagan Slayer—Will Be on Same Plane as Pinkertons—State Won't Aid. Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey said Friday that William J. Burns and his assistants…
Thursday, 8th May 1913 Lee Repeats His Private Conversation With Frank, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Thursday, May 8th, 1913 Newt Lee followed Black on the stand. Q. Tell the jury of your conversation with Frank in private—A. I was in the room and he came in. I said, Mr. Frank, it…
Wednesday, 7th May 1913 Employee of Lunch Stand Near Pencil Factory is Trailed to Alabama, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, May 7th, 1913 Detectives Figure Strangling Was a Typical Mediterranean Crime—Solicitor Dorsey Grills Watchman Lee in Effort to Get New Points. A new and sensational interpretation was given the Phagan mystery Wednesday afternoon when it was…
Sunday, 4th May 1913 Old Police Reporter Analyzes Mystery Phagan Case Solution Far Off, He Says, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Sunday, May 4th, 1913 Problem of Slaying in Pencil Factory One That Never May Be Cleared, Declares Crime Expert. BY AN OLD POLICE REPORTER. Perhaps as many of the great murder mysteries of history have been…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Reward of $1,000 Urged by Mayor, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, April 30th, 1913 Brown Offers $200 for Capture of Slayer—C. C. Jones Also Gives $100. Governor Joseph M. Brown to-day offered a reward of $200 for the apprehension and conviction of the murderer of little Mary…
Wednesday, 30th April 1913 Great Crowd at Phagan Inquest, The Atlanta Georgian
A new photograph of Mary Phagan NEW ARRESTS LIKELY; LEO FRANK STILL HELD; CASE AGAINST NEGRO Atlanta Georgian Wednesday April 30th, 1913 Inquest Into Slaying of Factory Girl Begins, and Flood of New Light Is Expected To Be…
Monday, 28th April 1913 Suspect Gantt Tells His Own Story, The Atlanta Georgian
DENIES GUILT BUT IS IDENTIFIED AS MAN SEEN LEADING GIRL Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 The Georgian will pay $500 reward for EXCLUSIVE information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer of Mary Phagan. J. M.…
Monday, 28th April 1913 Gantt Was Infatuated With Girl; at Factory Saturday, The Atlanta Georgian
At the right is Miss Ruth Phagan, aunt of Mary Phagan, and in her arms is Miss Ollie Phagan, sister of the victim, whom she is trying to comfort. Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Gantt was arrested…
Thursday, 7th August 1913 Jim Conley, the Ebony Chevalier of Crime, is Darktowns Own Hero, The Atlanta Georgian
This shows the Solicitor in an argument at the Frank trial. Atlanta Georgian August 7th, 1913 By James B. Nevin Now that James Conley has been dismissed from the Frank trial, now that he has stood safely the fire of…
Monday, 4th August 1913 Frank Calm and Jurors Tense While Jim Conley Tells His Ghastly Tale, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 4th, 1913 During the long wait for Conley to appear, Frank, his loyal wife and his no less loyal mother gave no sign of fear. Accuser and accused were about to face each other, a dramatic situation…
Friday, 1st August 1913 Girl Slain After Frank Left Factory, Believed to be Defense Theory, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian August 1st, 1913 Was Mary Phagan killed at or very near the time she entered the National Pencil Factory April 26 to get her pay envelope or was she merely attacked at this time and murdered later? The…
Tuesday, 29th July 1913 Tragedy, Ages Old, Lurks in Commonplace Court Setting, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian July 29th, 1913 Outwardly Quiet and Singularly Lacking in Excitement, Frank Trial is Enactment of Grim Drama. By JAMES B. NEVIN. One of the most commonplace things in the world—crime—is riveting the attention of Atlanta and Georgia to-day.…
Sunday, 27th July 1913 State Bolsters Conley, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian (Hearst's Sunday American) July 27th, 1913 Solves Discrepancies of Time Mistaken Identity To Be Plea Leo M. Frank Goes to Trial for the Slaying of Mary Phagan Monday, With Both Prosecution and the Defense Confident. All Preparations Are…
Sunday, 20th July 1913 Mincey Story Declared Vital To Both Sides in Frank Case, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian Sunday, July 20, 1913 By AN OLD POLICE REPORTER. The most important and interesting development of the week in the Phagan case was the Mincey affidavit, directing suspicion more surely in the direction of James Conley than…
Wednesday, 23rd July 1913 Lanford Ridicules Bludgeon Evidence, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian July 23rd, 1913 Scouts New ‘Proof' of Defense Detective Chief Scoffs at Claim of Evidence That Club Used by Negro Was Found. Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford Wednesday morning ridiculed the story that the defense of Leo M.…
Tuesday, 8th July 1913 Attitude of Defense Secret, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, July 8, 1913 Attorneys for Accused Man Can Keep Him From Facing Accuser if They Wish. That Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil Factory, and James Conley, Frank's accuser in the Mary Phagan murder…
Thursday, 3rd July 1913 Attempt by Colyar To Disbar Felder Is Halted; Tries Again, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian Thursday, July 3, 1913 A petition filed Tuesday with the Clerk of the Superior Court by A. S. Colyar, Jr., asking for the disbarment of Colonel Thomas B. Felder from the practice of law in Georgia, has…
Wednesday, 25th June 1913 Conley, Put on Grill, Sticks Story, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian Wednesday, June 25, 1913 Police Resume Questioning of the Negro Sweeper Who Accuses Leo Frank. Puzzled by several of the statements of Jim Conley in regard to his part in the happenings the day that Mary…
Friday, 13th June 1913 Negro Freed But Jailed Again On Suspicion, The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta Georgian Friday, June 13, 1913 Rosser Declares ‘Gibbering Statements' Point Out Sweeper as Guilty of Slaying. James Conley, self-confessed accessory after the fact in the murder of Mary Phagan, Friday was discharged by Judge L. S. Roan entirely…
Thursday, 5th June 1913 Cook Repudiates Entire Affidavit Police Possess, The Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta Georgian Thursday, June 5th, 1913 Utter repudiation of the affidavits which she was alleged to have sworn to incriminating conversations in the home of Leo M. Frank, indicted for the slaying of Mary Phagan, was made Thursday by Minola…