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Mar 30, 2022 · Then, on the stand, Jim Conley claimed Leo Frank killed Mary Phagan and forced the janitor to hide her body. The jury never heard that Conley signed four affidavits with different explanations for why the janitor moved Phagan’s body.
Nov 13, 2009 · Thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan is found sexually molested and murdered in the basement of the Atlanta, Georgia, pencil factory where she worked. Her murder later led to one of the most...
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May 14, 2003 · The pardon was motivated in part by the 1982 testimony of eighty-three-year-old Alonzo Mann, who as an office boy had seen Jim Conley carrying Mary Phagan’s body to the basement on the day of her death. Conley had threatened to kill Mann if he said anything, and the boy’s mother advised him to keep silent.
Mar 8, 1982 · Mr. Frank, a 29-year-old Jewish factory superintendent, was convicted in Atlanta of killing one of his employees, Mary Phagan, 14, and dumping her in the basement of the pencil factory where...
Aug 16, 2015 · Mary Phagan, 13, was raped and murdered at the National Pencil Company on April 26, 1913. Phagan, the child of tenant farmers, had gone to pick up the $1.20 pay for her 12 hours of work that...
The almost monolithic conclusion of the Jewish community concerning who killed Mary Phagan is that the Negro factory roustabout, James “Jim” Conley, committed the dastardly crime by himself as a robbery and then a murder cover-up, without Leo Frank having any participation and knowledge of the incident.
110 years later, the ADL is still trying to frame the janitor, Jim Conley, for Mary Phagan’s murder: How likely is it that Conley, a Black man—in 1913 Georgia—would rape and kill a White girl just a few feet from the unlocked glass-paneled front entrance door of the National Pencil Company, where people were coming and going all day ...
