Word: phagan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, a man named B. B. ("Bunce") Napier drove an automobile in the back of which crouched a State prisoner about to be lynched. The prisoner was Leo Frank, young Brooklyn Jew who had gone to Atlanta to superintend a pencil factory. When 14-year-old Mary Phagan was found murdered in the plant, Frank, amid a popular uproar against Jews in general, was arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced to death. Governor John Marshall Slaton imperiled his own life by commuting Frank's sentence to life imprisonment. One attempt to kill Frank failed. The second, with young Bunce Napier...
After 20 years the name of Leo Frank still makes news in Georgia and beyond. A slender young Brooklyn Jew with a Cornell degree. Frank went South, married an Atlanta girl, became superintendent of an Atlanta pencil factory. In April 1913, a 14-year-old worker named Mary Phagan was found violently murdered in the factory's basement. Two days later Frank was arrested for the crime, tried and convicted largely on the testimony of a Negro employed as a sweeper in the factory. New York City Jews rushed to Frank's defense, raised funds to appeal...
...jugular vein. But they had not yet "got" him. Physicians took 25 stitches in his neck, saved his life until the early morning of Aug. 17. Then 25 masked men raided the Prison Farm, seized Frank in his night clothes, streaked cross-country by automobile to Marietta where Mary Phagan had been born. When the sun came up Leo Frank's corpse dangled from an oak tree near Prey's gin mill. After it was cut down, a man ground his heel into its pallid face. Said the Marietta Journal: "We regard the hanging of Leo Frank...