Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 - August 17, 1915) was an American Jew, whose lynching by a mob of prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia, in 1915 turned the spotlight on anti-Semitism in the United States and led to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League. Frank, the manager of a pencil factory in Atlanta, Georgia, was convicted on the basis of circumstantial and direct evidence of murdering an employee, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. Wikipedia
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Frank, and a handyman, drag the body to the basement where they were going to burn it in the factory furnace the next day. judicial-inc.biz/MiscPics.htm
In 1913 Leo Frank, a northern Jew who had moved to Atlanta to manage a pencil factory, was accused of murdering a 14-year old girl named Mary Phagan of Marietta who was employed at the factory. www.atlantanation.com/leofrank.html
However, modern research reveals that Moses Frank never served in the US military, North or South, nor do his obituaries or eulogy (1841-1927) mention such a record. www.leofrankcase.com
This was printed in the pamphlets which, in verse and prose, assailed Frank and all Jews, and which were hawked among the crowds outside the courtroom. gaslight.mtroyal.ca/penclfct.htm
The 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, convicted of murdering 13-year-old Mary Phagan, is the stuff of books, movies and now a Broadway play. theatre_chick.tripod.com/Phagan.htm
