The Biography of Leo Frank (April 17, 1884 to August 17, 1915) and the Bludgeoning, Rape and Strangulation of Little Mary Phagan on Saturday, April 26, 1913

by Curator on January 31, 2011

Corporate Standard of the National Pencil Co. Circa 1913

The National Pencil Company (conceived in the imagination of 1907), born in 1908, became terminally ill on Monday, April 28, 1913, when early-bird employees in the metal room found a tress of what looked like it could be Mary Phagan’s hair on the handle of the lathe machine, then a strange pinkish-red blood stain, smeared with white powder haskoline, on the floor in front of the dressing-room door in a wax-on, wax-off fashion.

When word spread like wildfire, countless dozens of employees flocked to witness the spectacle, screams and hysterics unraveled, and the God-fearing, family-values Deep South went into shock.

The initial, deradful evidence of the hair and the blood stain led to the discovery of the actual scene of the crime, which would later be corroborated by numerous employees — including the defense witnesses Frank’s lawyer corralled.

While this occurred, Leo Frank, Luther Rosser and Herbert Haas were at the police station and Leo Frank was giving the fatal States Exhibit B to an official detective-stenographer, capturing their answers, but not the questions. Years later, Mary Phagans mother, Mrs. Frances Coleman, would sue the National Pencil Company after the trial over wrongful death — and the famous National Pinkerton [JdN: btw, another Norman name] Detective Agency sued over an unpaid detective bill.

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An excerpt from my Normans essay (not yet in final edit, but al who have read it find it a real eye-opener), one of many teaching tools I provide so people understand the weird and very brutal side of British society since AD 1066:

https://johndenugent.com/library/normans-englands-blessing-and-curse-john-de-nugent.pdf

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If your name is Allison, Davison, Angell, Duke, Nugent or Tiffany — or Dawes, Curtis, Pierce, Piper, Beckwith, Chase, Doggett, Blodgett, Fitzwater, Disney, Drury or Dillon, to name just a few surnames or Chamberlain, Grant, Gibbs or Goddard or Pinkerton, Lindsay, Murdoch or Quincey — you might not be quite as English as you think.

Viking expansion in the Dark Ages. The king of France allowed certain Northmen to settle in what became Norman-dy in exchange for the promise not to attack the rest of France.

My ancestors, as ruthless as the rest, came from Nogent-le-Rotrou. The Castle of Saint John (named after the most anti-Jewish of the apostles) dominates Nogent-le-Rotrou.

And that is what our race needs NOW, an idealistic leader, noble in motives, but ruthless in action, as certain people have recently found out.

Coat of arms of Nogent-le-Rotrou. Gustave Le Bon, whose masterpiece The Psychology of Crowds became a kind of bible for Adolf Hitler, was born and raised here.

You might be descended from some French-bellowing Norwegian Vikings who got bored in 1066 after one hundred years ruling Normandy, swilling their hard cider, and grabbing for winsome French wenches (espied washing clothes in the “crique,” like William the Conqueror’s mother).

So your and my great-great-great-(and so forth)-grandpappy decided to try conquering England at the Battle of Hastings, and being Vikings, our ruthless ancestors succeeded. No one else could beat the valiant Anglo-Saxons, not even Napoleon or Adolf Hitler.

While the Normans did bring Jews INTO England, in 1290 they made Britain also the first country to EXPEL the Jews. (France followed around 1390 and Spain around 1490………….under Queen Isabella, born on May first, btw.) Here King Edward II (called “Longshanks” for his tall stature, and depicted by the late, great actor Patrick Goohan), contemplates battle with William Wallace in Mel Gibson’s magnificent film “Braveheart.” Longshanks had his son’s homosexual lover thrown to his death out the cattle window, and beat the courageous Wallace, in large measure by ordering his archers to fire arrows right at his own men — then at grips with the brave Scots of William Wallace — to kill as many of the un-armored Scots as possible — regardless of the cost to his own English soldiers. (This incredibly ruthless tactic worked. Wallace’s head, hero that he was, ended up soon enough on a pike in London.) Longshanks was the Kalki of his times: All that matters is victory.

* * * (BACK TO LEO FRANK………..)

The National Pencil Company imploded financially the day after the rape-murder.

Leo Franks wealthy uncle, Moses Frank, who knew Leo Max intimately and hired him based on his qualifications, was the angel investor who, in part, made the National Pencil Company possible, and was nowhere to be found at the Leo Frank trial, but allegedly, a very contrived letter was mailed to Moses Frank on April 26, 1913 written by Leo Frank in the time range of the murder showing his very zen, calm-like state of mind. However, though it was added as evidence at the trial, the outer portion of the letter was never recovered, and questions about its content emerged.

Leo Maxwell Frank (April 17, 1884 August 17, 1915)Also stylized as:

1. Leo Max Frank (the name chiseled on his tombstone within Mount Carmel Cemetery NYC),

2. Leo M. Frank (his name and signature on official legal documents),
3. Leo Frank (NOTETHE NEANDERTHALIC PROTRUDING MOUTH!!,his name known by the public), or just simply

4. Leo or Frank (for short)

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Welcome to The Biography of Leo Frank:The early years

Meet the Franks:

The closest family members of Leo Frank clan that is

Papa: Rudolph Frank (1849c. to 1/15/1922), a Jew of north-central European ashkenazic roots, was born and raised in Germany in the mid 1800?s, until he later immigrated to the United States in the latter half of the 19th century, circa 1869. Rudolph would make several career changes during his life and, like any Wandering Jew, with the goy world as his oyster, would live in vastly differing places. Leo Frank, using the eugenics terminology of the era, described his fathers absence at his trial with the excuse that papa Rudolph had become an Invalid. (Trial, August, 18, 1913). Rudolph was buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens, NY at the gravesite location 1-E-41-1035-4.

Mama: Rachel Ray Jacobs Frank (1865c. to 1/1/1925), an ashkenazi Jew, was born of German-Jewish parents living in NYC, and she was not only raised in Brooklyn, but spent the vast majority of her life in Jew York City, except for a three-year stint in Texas, and several months in Georgia, for certain, during the Frank-Selig wedding, her son’s murder trial, some appeals and for other family affairs. She was buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens, NY at grave site location 1-E-41-1035-3.

Sister: Marian Frank, Leos baby sister by two years. At about the age of 24 she became Marian Stern in 1910, when she married an Otto Stern in NYC. Marian Frank Stern lived a long life for the period. Born in 1886, she died on 4/2/1948, and is buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in grave site: 1-E-41-1035-12. Long-lived Otto Stern, her husband, was born circa 1880?s, and died on 5/26/1963, and is buried next to Marian at Mount Carmel Cemetery in gravesite 1-E-41-1035-11.

Uncle Moe & Aunt Sarah: Moses Frank (1841-1927), Rudolphs older brother, was Moses Frank, Leos rich uncle who made his money in cotton oil and was the primary angel investor and visionary who made the National Pencil Company possible. Moses was married to Sarah, who died on 8/1/1937; she is buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens, NY, at gravesite location 1-E-41-1035-6.

Moses Frank, the Confederate Veteran

Steve Oney describes Moe as, Confederate veteran Moses Frank (Oney, 2003, p. 10), despite being over-cited nd without reliable sources, by pro-Leo Frank, partisan writers, eaer to claim that Frank was a true Son of the South. Moses Frank never served in the Confederate Army, and despite the high survival rate of enlistment documents, there are no records of any kind or other reliable evidence to support the claim that he was ever in any military unit, North or South, nor do any of his eulogies make reference to him as a Confederate veteran. (Koenigsberg, 2011) Reuben Rose Arnold makes mention of Moses as a Confederate veteran in his closing arguments, however.

FRANK, LEO 1-E-41-1035-02 08/17/1915
FRANK, RAY 1-E-41-1035-03 01/01/1925
FRANK, RUDOLPH 1-E-41-1035-04 01/15/1922
FRANK, Moses? 1-E-41-1035-05? ?
FRANK, SARAH 1-E-41-1035-06 08/01/1937

STERN, MARIAN 1-E-41-1035-12 04/02/1948
STERN, OTTO 1-E-41-1035-11 05/26/1963

1881: From Texas to New York City An Arranged Marriage in the Jewish Enclave of Brooklyn

Step back to the early 1880?s to an event not uncommon during Jewish history and that era — an arranged German- Jewish marriage. It was organized between a much older gentleman (lucky old goat) and a reasonably attractive young Jewess. It was the typical selective-breeding program that has been a permanent fixture over the Jewish centuries, the older intelligent gentleman obtaining a young healthy breeder and housewife.

In far-off Brooklyn, NY in 1881, Rudolph Frank and Rachel Jacobs married within the Jewish enclave of Brooklyn, NY. Rudolph Frank robbed the cradle, as they say, and was 16 years Rachel Jacobs senior. After their traditional Brooklyn-Jewish marriage and honeymoon, they made the great voyage returning to Rudolphs humble abode in Cuero (Paris), Texas, for about the next three years (1881 to 1884).

There has always been a LARGE Jewish community in Texas, as the brilliant writer and my friend, Michael Collins Piper, pointed out to me. Before the WASP and German Americans came in, Texas already sheltered marrano Spanish Jews who had fled the Inquisition to live as undercover Jews in Texas, far from centralized Spanish-Catholic surveillance.

Here is my post on the crypto-Jew Lyndon Baines Johnson. “Baines” (as in LBJ’s mother’s name, producing his middle name) is as Jewish a name in Texas as Goldberg is in New York.

https://johndenugent.com/english/english-russian-and-american-sailors-prevented-wwiii-in-1967-thwarting-israeli-false-flag-attack-coordinated-by-closet-jew-lyndon-baines-johnson

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Ironically, in yet another robbing of the cradle,” it was a 29-year-old Leo Frank (1884 to 1915), 16 years senior to 13-year-old little Mary Anne Phagan (1899 to 1913), who became the prime suspect of the bludgeoning (12:04), rape and strangulation (12:05 to 12:10) of her on Saturday, April 26, 1913, Confederate Memorial Day, in the metal room on the second floor of the National Pencil Company, located at 37 to 41 South Forsyth Street.

The Perfect Family

Several years and more after Rudolph Frank and Rachel Jacobs married, they created the proverbial perfect family and had two children together, a boy and a girl, in the perfect order, first a son named Leonard Maxwell, who was born at their Texas residence in 1884, followed by a daughter, Marian, in Brooklyn, New York, two years thereafter in 1886.

Leo, Rudolph and Rachel Frank, Early Family Life in Texas 1880?s and onward

Rudolph Frank had served as the local postmaster in Cuero, Texas (also known as Paris, Texas), and before emigrating from Europe in the United States, he had formerly had some training and experience as a physician back in his ancestral homeland of Germany, but he unfortunately never completed the course work necessary in medicine to become a fully recognized MD. He certainly would have had the option of plugging into the lucrative doctor-pharmacy matrix after upgrading his training in the US, but he did not go this route and instead became a traveling salesman until he was unable to work any longer.

Brooklyn native Rachel (Rae or Ray) Jacobs Frank (a Jew Yorker by birth), as was traditional for the time, became a young homemaker after her marriage to Rudolph, but the young housewife felt like a withering flower once she was physically uprooted and transplanted into the boiling-hot, primitive and rural makeshift town in Paris (Cuero), Texas, after she was replanted far away from her parents’ home in throbbing Brooklyn. Brookly then was a lushly sylvan and green oasis, an eternally urban-suburban hip borough of New York City. For the Jewish gene pool the mega-city of America, NYC, offered the best protection, opportunity and improvement for the Europeanized Ashkenazim. It was not just Manhattan, but Brooklyn that often attracted the best of the aggressive, racially conscious, eugenic, agitational, revolutionary and country-wrecking Jewish gene pool.

(Leon Trotsky lived in New York City before returning to Russia to begin butchery of millions of human beings opposed to communism and the bolshevik takeover there. His specialty was killing tens of thousands of civilian hostages, older men, women and children, so the anti-communist Russian soldiers would surrender so as to save their loved ones. His Jewish ruthlessness proved the deciding factor in the Russian Civil War of 1917-21.)

Summer Heat of 1883: The Conception of Leo Frank

One day, during the sexual heat of a hot and dry Texas summer in July, 1883, all the biological stars were in alignment, and Rudolph and Ray, finally, after nearly two years of marriage and trying, finally conceived their first child.

Its Official: Ray Frank is Pregnant 1883

The pregnancy would eventually be affirmed for sure when during the early first trimester Rachel Ray began experiencing all those natural signs of being prego, including morning sickness.

Rachel would put her hand on her bump and in turn it would become for Momma Ray and Papa Rudolph a glorious, momentous and celebrated moment — unknowing what was to eventually come. What do we name our child or who do we name our child after? With a high infant mortality rate back in those days, it was enough to make the newlywed couple nervous, uncertain and excited about their unknown future. Rudolph would have been walking around puffed-and-proud-chested, glowing and beaming. The old jewgoat was going to become a father. He was beside himself with joy — and praying for a son.

Hurray! Its a Boy!

They did not know it at the time, because there were no sonograms or other gender-determining sciences available, but they were to be eventually surprised at birth.

Nine months after conception, on April 17, 1884, a son was born to a relieved Rudolph. Leo Frank had entered the world in their wooden frame home in the small Texas town known as Paris (in a humble little abode located about 100 miles from San Antonio, Texas).

Talk of moving away for better opportunities and greener pastures began before Leo was born and would intensify immediately thereafter. The social infrastructure and extended family network were mostly back in mean and green urban Brooklyn, NOT in the bland and drab tumbleweed fields and listless plains of Wild-West, 19th century Texas, which then had a population of less than two million. The huge de facto republic had fields that seemed endless.

It is said, that as hard as it is to believe in an age where every keystroke is recorded, they didnt have birth certificates back then in Texas, at least in that neck of the woods.”

Its Time to Pack Our Bags, HONEY — Were Movin (back) to Brooklyn!

The freshly-formed Frank clan would follow through with no doubts or hesitations, embarking on an arduous journey, and the three of them would soon emigrate forever from the flat, rural, provincial, yawning and wild cowboy-esque Texas to the hustling and bustling cosmopolitan American Northeast, where life was truly lucid and intense, where one could “live deeply and suck the marrow out of the bones of life,” as Henry David Thoreau wrote.

The fiercest gene pools in the world were created and born within the womb of NYC.

1884 Summer: Rudolph, Rachel and Sweet Baby Leo Frank

A tumultuous turning point for the new Frank family began with the summer of 1884 — the complicated move, which surely took weeks of careful planning, organizing, and packing. Their voyage was unfolding at a time in U.S. history when far-reaching travel was rough and painfully slow, but fortunately patience was plentiful.

The Frank family made the right choice when they decided to relocate from the slow and boring small-town of Cuero, Texas, thousands of miles away, back to the home-town of Rachel, that place of brick, rock and brownstone-clad buildings, the living suburb within the periphery of NYC known as the borough of Brooklyn (Kings County).

Home Sweet Home, Brooklyn had better-everything and it was where everyone would benefit and have more opportunities, but not unlike Texas during certain times during the year, their arrival was at the thickest and sweatiest time — during the peak of humid mugginess in the sweltering New York City summer heat.

No words might describe the ecstasy of finally settling in for a bit, sliding in and marinating in a large, soothing claw-foot bath tub after such a long stinky trip, which had stopovers, random annoyances and delays. It was so nice to have plumbing and toilets with running water vs. the crescent moon-carved and shabby phone-booth style outhouses of Texas that perpetually stunk to high heaven.

Wow, Brooklyn has electricity and running water without a well, and sewers to boot, what a concept!

Cute little, cone-headed, round faced baby Leo Frank not only looked more like his mother than his father, but he also got her generic good looks too. Sweet baby Leo Frank was barely three months old at the time of this immense pilgrimage and major relocation, he was still suckling nourishing milk from his mother’s bosom and it would naturally be a traumatic move for him, but possibly instilling a little bit of that restless spirit in the environmental mix with his diasphoratic DNA genetic heritage. After all, his uncle Moses was a globe trotter himself. That long dramatic journey from one side of the country to the other, would not be his first or last, and it certainly left a powerful impression upon him in a very abstract way, not unlike his future travels which would be even more dramatic in 1905 and 1907 with two European trips.

Finally, after settling into NYC, Rudolph Frank took a job as a traveling salesman and Rachel Ray resumed her roll as homemaker. Two years later and in the chillier NY months, a baby sister had arrived, Marian Frank, born during a chilly day in 1886 in Brooklyn.

Leo and Marian looked so cute together.

Leo looks like the male version of Rachel Rae-Ray Jacobs Frank as a child, but Frank’s Eastern-European, round-plate face would narrow and square down a bit, giving him a more oval, chiseled, athletic look in his prime of 29.

Education: Public Schools, College Prep at Pratt Institute, Cornell University 1902 to 1906

Frank spent his most formative years growing up in NYC, was educated at public schools and also at a prestigious prep school, the creative and artsy-fartsy Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, which is still running strong more than 100 years after Leo attended. One can only imagine what a fascinating place Brooklyn must have been like in the decades surrounding the turn of the century as it was going through its own unique development and evolution.

Leo M. Frank was a star student and matriculated into Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, starting in the fall of 1902. He studied there until his college graduation ceremony in June of 1906. Frank studied mechanical engineering and dabbled in numerous hobbies, sports, and numerous social affairs.

During Franks college years at his alma mater, he engaged in chess, cards, tennis, and played basketball for his class team. Leo Frank was a handsome athlete and scholar who looked a lot like the fictional character Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) during his college years, and he certainly had another side to him too.

Something just isnt right in the look in his eyes…..An appropriate nickname for this human ticking time bomb ready to explode, known as Leo Frank might be “Leo Freak.”

During his free time Frank engaged in Jewish fraternal activities and practiced amateur photography. The 1906 Cornell yearbook has Frank listed as a member of the Cornell Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME). Frank was also a member of the Cornell Congress and the H. Morse Stephens debate team. If Franks participation in college and his ability to multi-task were any indication of his potential future, he was destined for greatness, but on the flip side our intuition and instincts tell us theres also something unusual, even freaky about Leo Frank. Some of Leo Frank’s pictures below and above reveal a real kind of unbalanced Donnie Darko side about him.

Leo Freak

A posthumous core drilling of Leo Frank should be conducted to obtain the genetic equation to determine its multifactorial genetics and compare it with other criminals and pedophile men who murder children, and also use multi-factorial super computers to see what gene patterns make one prone to these kinds of psychotic behaviors.

 

Notice those freaky, bulging psychopathic, serial-killer eyes. Can you imagine having to stare into those eyes or those winking cock-eyed lazy-eyes that were making subtle sexual innuendos at you? Would you not be freaked out? He definitely has some serious hormonal imbalance issues (hyperthyroidism?) and possibly physiological problems from excessive consumption. One can only wonder how those imbalances may have affected his mind and propensities from time to time.

 

However, he also seems to be a good natured kind of guy, who had great managerial talents. What we have here is a real Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as state’s attorney Dorsey accurately put it (Dorsey, Closing Arguments, August, 1913) not uncommon in humans.

Employment 1906 to 1913

1906

After college, Frank took a job in the summer of 1906 as a draftsman for the B.F. Sturtevant (Sturdivant) Company in bone-chilling and frozen-tundra Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Six months later he returned to New York as the brisk chilly fall turned into a frigid NY winter.

1907

In 1907 Frank began a new job working for the National Meter Company of Brooklyn, NY, working as a testing engineer and draftsman for about ten months. Though Leo M. Frank was Ivy League-educated at the haughty Cornell University, the best school of higher education New York has to offer (no offense, Columbia), he was unable to connect with any kind of steady job though not because he lacked talent. Leo Frank was a sharp cookie.

Leo Franks wealthy, world-traveling uncle, Moses Frank (“Moe”), had suggested to Leo M. Frank that he should consider becoming involved in a potentially lucrative opportunity and participate on some level in the management, upkeep and maintenance of a new manufacturing venture, a pencil factory in Atlanta, Georgia in which Moses had just invested with some serious shekels. After all, Leo Frank was no slouch, he had an engineering degree and it would be most useful and valuable to have a family member on the team being a potentially serious player. Moses was no slouch either; he had made his golden nest egg from cotton oil, and it was time to make another, because well, being on permanent vacation can slowly get very expensive, and thats the Honest-to-God truth. Moses was a vibrant old man, though thought to be blind by 1908. (Koenigsberg, LeoFrankCase.com, 2011) Moses was the high-up and undeclared patriarch of sorts for the Frank clan and extended family.

1907 October Life Changing Event, Atlanta & European Sojourn.

In the middle of October 1907, when his uncle Moe Moses Frank and associates — invited Frank down south to gorgeous Atlanta, it was part pleasure, but mostly a business meeting. Moses offered Leo the opportunity of a lifetime, suggesting that Leo stop working for other people and making them rich, and instead come to work for a newly born family business, which could have been a shining star, but would be remembered as the infamous National Pencil Company of Atlanta, Georgia. The lead defense attorney, Luther Rosser, would describe it in a loud bass voice as a “vile hole” in his closing argument at the end of the trial August 1913.

Frank thought it over, but had that warm, tingly feeling of excitement and agreed, after spending two weeks getting a little taste of Atlanta.

But he returned to NYC momentarily and then embarked on a long and bitterly cold cross-Atlantic journey, traversing that dangerous and unforgiving wine-dark Homeric ocean to the country or conglomeration historically known at the time as the German Empire papa Rudolph Franks immediate ancestral homeland in Europe.

In December 1907 Frank began a nine-month apprenticeship in serious, stern and gruff Germany, to study pencil manufacturing under the tutelage of the famous Eberhard Faber.

Today Eberhard Faber is a name found commonly on pencils, pens and erasers in contemporary and not so far away historical times. Faber built the first U.S. pencil factory in 1861. Faber was the last in a family of lead pencil manufacturers dating back to Kasper Faber, who died in 1784.

* * * THE TALMUD SAYS SEX BETWEEN ADULTS AND CHILDREN CAN BE SACRED……………

JdN: This is the Eberhard Faber website banner over in Germany. The problem was where Frank wanted to put HIS “pencil” — into a resisting GENTILE child…..

But according to the Holy Talmud, which was taught to Leo Frank and all Jews, sex with goy (OR EVEN JEWISH) children is perfectly acceptable.

This is a whole Jewish website — http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/america_2.html — on this nauseating topic. – Dr. Judith Levine:

Judith Levine, author of Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, is a Jewish “bad guy.” Critics attacked Ms. Levine’s book, saying it advocated sex between children and adults. Newhouse News quoted Ms. Levine on the Roman Catholic pedophilia scandal: “‘Yes, conceivably, absolutely’ a boy’s sexual experience with a priest could be positive.“(19) Ms. Levine later said the reporter had “misunderstood” her.

“Let’s review the above-cited Mishnah: “When a grown-up man has had sexual intercourse with a little girl, or when a small boy has intercourse with a grown-up woman ” It is obvious that sex activity between a grown man and a little girl, and between a grown woman and a little boy, is a part of the woof and the warp of everyday Talmud life; such relationships, in the eyes of the Sages, are unremarkable.

There is no prohibition on sexual activity between adults and young children

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it is simply regulated. Recall the words of the Very Reverend the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, the late Dr. Joseph Herman Hertz:

Religion in the Talmud attempts to penetrate the whole of human life with the sense of law and right. Nothing human is in its eyes mean or trivial; everything is regulated and sanctified by religion. Religious precept and duty accompany man from his earliest years to the grave and beyond it. They guide his desires and actions at every moment. Rabbi Dr. Hertz (38)

Thus, if the Talmud permits girls three years old and younger to be sexually used by adults, that is the law. The concern of the Sages is to ensure that the adult is not, technically speaking, in violation of any of the rules.

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1908

In August of 1908 Leo M. Frank returned briefly to NYC to kiss and hug his mom and dad, and give noogies to his sister Marian. Then he practically ran out and off, left his home in Brooklyn, New York, and permanently relocated with luggage to Atlanta, Georgia.

After briefly settling in, on the 10th day of August 1908, Frank was given a medium-level entry position in the Frank family business, and he embraced it, hitting the ground running. With hard work and dedication, Leo Frank vigorously moved up the time ranks in respect, building trust and a developing a reputation for punctuality and meticulousness. In New York-style energy he shone bright in the South. In time Frank became superintendent, accountant, treasurer and part-owner of the National Pencil Company, located in the chest-pounding heart of Georgia, Atlanta.

[JdN: WN activist and attorney Sam Dickson once said to me “Atlanta was the city 300,000 Southerners died to prevent.”]

In Time, Rising to Superintendent, Accountant, Treasurer and Employee Payer.

When Frank became superintendent of the 37 to 41 S. Forsyth Street, National Pencil Company factory, his responsibilities were for purchasing supplies and machinery, accounting, operations, paying employees and insuring that the final production quality exceeded that of competitors. Frank was also made a part-time general supervisor of the pencil-lead plant on Bell Street. Frank had a lot of responsibilities, he worked long hours, and his math and science brain were put to good use. As a result, his accounting and management skills grew exponentially.

The Creepy Boss with the Rattling Cash Box

Leo Frank was diligently focused on workflow minutiae and efficiency; as a result, his upward mobility at the pencil factory was reflective and worthy of him. He worked for nearly five years, reaching the heights of prominence, leadership and responsibility and the apogee of his career at the early age of 29 just before his arrest.

During this nearly half-decade of service (August 10th, 1908 to Tuesday, April 28th 1913) he had developed a general reputation amongst the general public at face value as a good chap with promising potential. His rich uncle Moses was proud of Leo and saw him as the perfect man to command the helm of the factories.

In general Leo Frank exhibited all the behaviors you would want in a leader, an early bird, punctual, hard-working, obsessive-compulsive, good at math and when it came to accounting, paying attention to details, and keeping meticulous books. Leo Frank monitored time cards fanatically and could account for every second of every minute and penny. This is precisely why the business was so successful. From its beginnings in 1908, it was a powerhouse by 1913, primarily because of Leo Frank and the occasional dressing-down scoldings he received from Sig Montag.

Although Leo Frank was a rockstar at running the show, he had a dark, naughty, perverted, fetishesque and kinky side.

The alleged perception of his character amongst a baker’s dozen of the pre-teen and teenage girls who labored at the factory was that Leo Frank was a creepy touchy-feely boss, one whose claws came out, and Frank got just a wee little bit too close, if you know what I mean.

But Frank wasnt always so obvious, he was very subtle sometimes, and not always so noticeable in his lecherous deviousness. Naturally, given Franks position of limelight prominence in the Jewish community, his high leadership position at the factory and his relatively new marriage, all ensured Leo Frank was reminded he had to have some semblance of stealth. He wasnt a dummy, after all, and he knew on some level, consciously and unconsciously, he had to try to maintain some measure of self-control and furtiveness in his friskiness.

Population and Labor Surge

There was an overabundance of child labor available in Atlanta at the time, and no shortage of naive farm girls who sought a better life in the fast urban Southern city, away from the droll existence on the slow rural fields. The lean-muscled, rail-thin, bespectacled, semi-handsome semi-nerd known as Leo Frank was always making couched sexual propositions to a careful selection of his pre-teen and teenaged girls working at the factory.

They claimed Frank made implied innuendos, naughty suggestions, and gave them lecherous stares. He was openly caught sometimes leering at them in the dressing room, at times winking, and he got a little bit too familiar at times with some of the girls.

There were other allegations too, besides aggressive sexual harassment (lasciviousness), such as that the factory was also being used as a rendezvous for in-call and out-call prostitution under the winking eye of Leo Frank. There were after-work, during the work week, and Saturday-night Dionysian stress-relief parties involving bootie, bubbles and beer. The gloomy, poorly-lit basement was one of the kinky places couples were allowed to rendezvous.

In general the factory could be interpreted as becoming the work-hard and play-hard fiefdom for Lord Leo Frank in a roundabout way — but in reality he was just trying to blow off some steam and it got way out of hand.

Even Darley, another married man and colleague, was seen with a young girl at the movies on Confederate Memorial Day (Koenigsberg, 2011).

Wall to Wall, Row to Row, Column to Column

The jammed rows of fire-hazard brothels were just around the corner from the pencil factory, and bursting at the seams with child prostitutes, teenage hookers and fresh street meat. Not so ironically, the National Pencil Company factory was once a bed-bug-ridden, sweaty hotel itself where grandpa dirties and horn-dog men of all ages could get their rocks off on the side — and bring home STDs to their unfortunate and unsuspecting Hausfrauen at home. The bordellos were filled with poor, naive and worn-out farm girls and child laborers who had been ground down in the slave pits of the malicious meat-grinder mills and ferociously filthy factories for just pennies an hour, and many finally got turned out for dollars at a time once they realized they could make a week’s wages in a single day of turning tricks.

Like all things in life and in the universal cosmos, there are circles, ups-and-downs and waves. Farming was no different: it was periodical, and during drought, dry spells and down cycles the cities would be flooded with farm girls and boys looking for any work and wages available. Child prostitution was an unfortunate part of a city surging in population, where severe poverty was rife, and the testosterone-fueled supply and demands in every possible direction were high. Though on its worst day Atlanta didnt have even a fraction of the whoring available in NYC, pound for pound, Atlanta had more.

Rattle the Money Box, How About it?

In a slapstick-kind-of way, Frank was also allegedly often making inappropriate sexual innuendos with the cash box in his office, sitting in his swivel chair, with his long, skinny, boney-looking legs spread like a wishbone, slapping his knees, rattling the swollen cash box on the table, smirking, grinning, winking and saying how bout it?

Though sexual harassment was no stranger to women in the history of female labor, it was often the biggest complaint in the factories, mills and industrial sweatshops of the time. The number of pre-teen and teenaged girls sexually molested and raped in these horrendous environments is uncountable. The temptation was always there on both sides and turning out girls was a game that today is called today in urban areas, the crown and the jewels. Its a game that has existed and been played in and played out over and over all throughout history, when young naive girls were forced to come into contact and work in the testosterone-surging man’s world, where wine, women, whiskey, hormones and testosterone came into play.

Leo Franks Character for Lasciviousness was Bad

Franks character would be described by more than thirteen of the girls and other factory workers, who would testify against him, saying Frank was, what amounted to a lascivious (sexually aggressive) pedophile and, some suggested, a frequent dabbler in whoring. Though the word did not exist at the time, this was vividly implied, because more than a dozen employees and former employees of the National Pencil Company made very specific allegations and claims during the Leo Frank trial (July 28 to August 25, 26 1913), and even more affidavits supporting these notions would emerge after the trial between 1913 and 1915.

Indeed, after the trial, Prosecutor Dorsey, to counter the claims of the defense that the accusations were false, went ahead and secured more affidavits supporting Franks pedophile and naughty-naughty tendencies, including one about a young girl that got “knocked up” by Frank and revealed a very kinky, sexually-aggressive side of Leo Frank.

Leo Frank was into Bruise Biting

Apparently Frank was into sadist teeth-to-flesh sexual foreplay, leaving teeth marks and bruises on a little teenage girl he had turned out. Perhaps the young degenerate’s DNA has lived on after all, not through his bloated, dump,y infertile wife who couldnt conceive after three years of manual procreation, but through the sweet young, naive lass he had debauched at the factory.

At Least Ten to One Ratio: People attesting to Leo Franks Good Character vs. Bad Character for Lasciviousness

Though there were just as many, if not more, a lot more people that came forward to say Frank was not a horny and frisky licentious boss with wood in his pants, taking advantage of his position and power the quantity numbers game could not save Frank in this situation, because of the quality and closeness of those speaking out against him.

Pedophile, Like accusing people of Racism: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

The accusation people use today when they want to destroy, smear and defame you is to call you a racist or antisemite, or pedophile. Its a sad reality, but in a situation where a girl claims naughty overtures by the boss-man, or any man for that matter, he is almost certainly and always socially considered guilty before innocent.

How Many Witnesses Corroborated Leo Franks Naughty Tendencies?

Dorsey put the number at 19 verifiers in his closing arguments (Dorsey, August 1913), making it virtually impossible to claim that the lascivious tendencies were not true no matter how many character witnesses Leo Frank bussed down from New York.

The claims of some of his female employees essentially amounted to pouring a cup of hemlock on his murder trial and poisoning it.

It is true that Leo Frank was not on trial for pedophilia, adultery, sexual harassment or whoring. His defense team would argue that bringing up Franks pedophilia and whoring rampages had no place at the trial, because Frank was not on trial to determine if he was a sexual predator. However, the prosecution did bring it up after the defense made the blunder of bringing up Leo Franks character. The rule at the time is that you couldnt challenge the honor of one’s character, until the defense brought it up first and they did a very big mistake.

Once the defense gave the green light, Franks lascivious and licentious character became an issue used by the prosecution to show Franks propensities and tendencies for sexual aggression and whoring as a probable segu or gateway for the theory of why he murdered Phagan, and it helped the prosecution build their case. It wiped out over 100 character witnesses Leo Frank had bussed down from the North East, including teachers, and associates from the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn and the uppity Cornell University.

It became odd and alien that Frank had to bus in truckloads of Northerners, because the jury would naturally wonder why Frank, who lived in the South for five years, was unable to bring in more local support — people from Atlanta and the surrounding area. After all, five years in Atlanta is a long time and Franks local showing was average at best.

In Lucilles July 17, 1909 picture with Leo Frank, Lucy looked her best.

When the Big Boned Lucy was Attractive: July 17th 1909. Six years later, Leos Throat Would Be Slashed

1910 Marriage of Mr. Leo Max Frank (1884 to 1915) Marries Miss Lucille Selig (1888-1957).

Meet the Seligs: Daughter, Lucille Cohen, Mama, Josephine Cohen, and Papa, Emil

Earlier in 1910, Leos baby sister Marian Frank, became Marian Stern after she had married Otto Stern in NYC, and Frank being older by a couple of years felt the half-joking half-serious social pressures at the time and knew he was overdue to marry.

Frank was fortunately introduced to Lucille Selig after he had arrived. Once Leo Frank settled in and took permanent residence in Atlanta August of 1908, he began dating Lucy very seriously in 1909, though they had corresponded before they met in person. Lucille Selig came from a prominent and wealthy Jewish family of industrialists who two generations earlier had founded the first synagogue in Atlanta.

The Selig-Franks lived in a grand home.

A Match Made in Heaven: Emil and Josephine

Both born on the same month and day:

Lucilles father Emil Selig (Jun. 10, 1849 Mar. 30, 1914) was a salesman for the West Disinfecting Co., a maker of soaps and supplies, before that, he was a liquor salesman. Son of Samsohn Seelig & Sara Loeb. Emil was buried in Oakland cemetery Jewish Section, Block 279, Lot 58, Grave 3.

Mrs. Josephine Loeb-Cohen Selig (Jun. 10, 1862 Jan. 27, 1933), was a homemaker and her daughter Lucille Selig would often help out when they werent lounging about, playing cards, socializing with their sewing-circle of cackling Jewish housewives and gossiping yentas. Magnolia McKnight (Minola) was their personal cook, who also did light cleaning and laundry. Josephine and her daughter(s) lived the good life, the simple life, the pampered patrician life, by comparison to the toiling local “crackers” as they were called in local parlance. (Oney, 2003) Lucys (Lucille) zaftig figure and swelling belt line showed that there was no shortage of downright good-ole-fashioned house negro food, made by their skinny, light-complected black mammy, Minola (Magnolia McKnight,) as they affectionately called her. Josephine was buried a Oakland Cemetery, in Jewish Section, Block 279, Lot 58, Grave 2.

Josephines parents were Jonas Loeb Cohen (1823 1885) and Regina Abraham Cohen (1839 1918).

The Odd Couple Opposites Attract: Mr. Leo Frank and Miss Lucille Selig

An Engagement and Prelude to a Marriage Destined to Fail:

The colloquial that opposites attract tends to apply more to short-term relationships and temporary lust than anything else. Therefore the cliche opposites attract is a misnomer to the highest degree in the bigger picture of time and space. Every learned psychologist will tell you that studies show those kinds of relationships can tend to be very problematic, unstable, divisive and often dont work out in the long run, but back then it didnt matter. Marriage was for the most part a lifelong venture and people learned how to suck it up, not like today where 50%+ of people divorce. It also helped that life expectancies in the early 20th century were decades shorter than what they are today.

The marriage of Leo and Lucille, was sadly like too many marriages, eventually destined to fail even if they would have most definitely remained together till the end, which didnt really matter for Leo Frank as there was an infinite supply of side-action for him. Leo Frank was very much the total opposite to Lucile, and they had more serious differences than things in common. The marriage between them appears to be more political than anything else and based on some of the things that would come out about what Frank was doing on the down low, their marriage could not be described as happy by any stretch of the imagination, except on the surface for appearances, but definitely not under the Jewish Royal Marriage veneer.

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Meet the Bride: Lucile Loeb-Cohen Selig

Lucille Selig Frank (February 29, 1888 April 23, 1957) was very much different from Leo Max Frank (1884 1915). Lucille Lucy Selig was a red-boned, big, thick girl, chunky, but funky in Jewish frat boy language, Lucy was part of the highly assimilated Jewish community of Georgia and very much Southern and sassy. Regardless of being from a well-to-do and prominent family, she was very much provincial compared to Leo. In fact as any born and raised New Yorker will tell you (which Leo Frank essentially was), everyone outside of NYC is provincial.

Despite being intelligent with a sharp and witty tongue, Lucys highest educational level ended at high school, though she was well-read and could still hold her own. She was a strong, loyal woman to the core.

Leo Frank was a lean, mean, whoring machine, and super slim with that 0% body fat look. Frank was no doubt a high-testosteroned, heavy drinker, chain smoker, partyer and “fit to f–” after years of tennis and basketball at his Alma Mater. Frank was very cosmopolitan, well traveled, could speak basic German, and as for Hebrew and Yiddish, as a Jew Yorker, those dialects came as part of the natural ethnic enclave culture of Jewish Brooklyn, and to top it all off, Frank rightfully was a bit of an educated snob, the Ivy Leaguer of privilege who had had the opportunity to study at one of the seven best schools in the United States and then afterward take an educational sabbatical, experiencing being trained overseas in the cold, gruff, serious and no-nonsense Germany. These things were part of what made Leo Frank a cut above the rest.

[JdN: As I wrote the comrade who sent me this long account, I have been in this Cause for 32 years, and the Leo Frank case always seemed a bit dated and old-hat. But now I see the explosive lessons for today in it. This Frank was, unlike The Son of Sam, no Jewish “loser” or “loner,” but one of those “successful, admired businessmen fo the Jewish faith”. This is truly an emblematic case, so I am pouring more time and energy into it, and will feature it in a major video.]

After the Odd Couple married, the big-boned Lucille packed on the stereotypical post-marriage poundage. Her weight slowly swelled up like a hog, and though she was an extra-thick woman that held her weight really well, it still left her looking frog-necked, androgynous (like the fictional character Pat from the comedy show “Saturday Night Live” in the 1990s) and dumpy as the unflattering evolution of her photos clearly shows before and during the Leo Frank affair.

Hillary Clinton Will Tell You Some Women Should Not Have Short Hair

Lucilles masculine, short-butch bull-dyke haircut, like her weight issues didnt help her either, but anyway you slice it or dice it, Leo Frank got bored with Lucy faster than a New York minute specially when the factory was flooded with hard-body pre-teen and blossoming teenage former-farm-girls.

The thoughts Frank had of mounting that swelling provincial cow he had married probably gave him the visual notion of a mosquito trying to puncture and drill into a beached walrus. And naturally the fit and skinny Leo Frank took to his pastime of buffet-whoring more vigorously as he got more and more tired of shagging with his big fat wife as he called Lucille behind her back (Jim Conley, 1913).

Steve Oney puts Leo Frank at 56? (Oney, 2003), but Franks passport application puts him at 58?. Despite being only 57? and 135 lbs. Frank could hang with the best of them, no pun intended, and his liver was clad in iron, well-trained and seasoned from years of Jewish fraternity parties at college. He certainly enjoyed the unlicensed speak-easies and underground poker halls of NYC, not to mention swilling the exquisite beer and booze of Germania during his nine-month stint there.

Frank loved to bogart cigarettes and puff his tabacky pipe, and to wash it all down he guzzled coffee by the pot during his work days and when the sun had already set and the hands of the big ole clock in his office stuck seven, inaugurating the evening, it was time to wind down with beer, whiskey, wine, and women, to top off the long stressful days. It was all a phone call away.

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Nina Formby

A simple phone call sufficed to the mischievous and twinkle-in-her-eye Nina Formby, Leo Franks favorite mama-san, who worked down the street in the area of Atlanta that was jam-packed with child brothels, and could send “take out” directly to his office for a few dollars. Frank loved to sample and dabble in the endless meatfest, experienced or fresh, that was constantly churning, burning, humping, pumping and grinding through the blink and look the other way Red Light District of “Etlanna” (local pronunciation).

Aside from his flaws…..

ASIDE from Franks sneaky-creepy-freaky lascivious behavior against his pre-teen and teenage girl employees, after work and weekend drunken debauchery, swings of mentally and hormonally imbalanced states Frank was exactly the kind of guy you wanted to run your factory, because barring his flaws, he was work-hard-play-hard, early to work and late to get home (not always late to get home because of work, though it offered a good excuse). What also made Leo Frank, really valuable is that he kept obsessive-compulsive detailed records, books, and he monitored employee time cards religiously and fanatically. He was a human calculator and time clock after nearly five years of brute force calculating at the factory.

Frank could be relied on as he was always punctual, but at a salary of $150 a month, even if he dipped into the company coffers to finance his binge-ing and whoring rampages, it was meticulously un-noticed and the embezzlement didnt raise any suspicions in the eye brows of Moses Frank or Sig Montag.

The surviving records and invoices of the National Pencil Company show money was flowing in like it was going out of style — money in and pencil stock out. The numbers were growing fast and furiously at the factory bank account; sales reports showed they were sometimes churning out $2,500+ to $5,000+ a week in gross orders — not bad by 1913 standards.

[JdN: A dollar then was like ten dollars today.]

Aside from a little frisky-frisky and naughty-naughty on the side during occasional evenings and weekends that might put Leo Franks reputation at risk, Frank was mostly liked by his employees and he held the company together for the most part, given its zillion complicated variables that had to be managed and juggled. Frank’s creepy innuendos towards his employees never became an issue, because the girls that got creeped-out would move on, the ones turned out ended up at the brothels and the ones that tolerated it and stayed would put up with it begrudgingly and stoically.

The official record reveals numerous laborer girls who became former employees, and if you think about, it didnt matter as there was an infinite supply of new young meat that needed a job.

Had Frank not gone off the edge on April 26, 1913, the National Pencil Factory would probably today be remembered as a shimmering icon of industrious, glowing Southern Jewish history.

Instead, the factory is remembered by Southerners as a vile sweatshop and bastion of pedophilia where little mill girls got abused in every way.

For the Jewish community the factory is remembered as a mini-Jewish-Holocaust by a people bent on its own exaggerated victimhood and obsessed with perfidious narcissism against perceived out groups. If only they had saved the “western wall” of the pencil factory to be a Waling Wall and bob and pray before it, but it got demolished.

A Marriage of Politics

Leo Frank hd engaged in a highly political matrimony by marrying into a prominent Jewish family, part of the “Our Crowd”of Etlanna, a German-Jewish clan that generations earlier had founded the first synagogue in Georgia.

[JdN: The German Jews felt themselves culturally and hygenically superior to the Eastern European Jews. When I lived 1977-2005, with interruptions, in Alexandria, Virginia, there was still one congregation for the supposedly cruder Eastern-descent Jews and one for the German-origin Jews, though they have now somewhat blended…. I recall reading an anecdote during the Weimar Republic in Germany, as two educated, smooth German Jews watched Polish Jews arriving at the Berlin train station — smelly, filthy, scowling, and Orthodox. The one Jew gestures at them and prophesies to the other: “Some day, they are going to cause us a lot of trouble.” It came in 1933.]

Leo and Lucille were married by Rabbi David Marx on November 30, 1910 in a borderline-gouache pink wedding ceremony at their in-laws gaudy and dated McMansion.

Meet Rabbi David Marx. More than a rabbi, he was the Catalyst and Lead Activist of Leo Franks Emotional Exoneration Movement

The prominent Dr. David Marx was the Rabbi of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, a popular Jewish reform synagogue of the highly assimilated Jewish community of the South. He had presided over the momentous matrimonial event. Atlanta at the time had the largest Jewish community in the South with several thousand Jewish families who were all highly assimilated and active in Jewish life.

 

A More Detailed and Insiderly Version of the Marriage Event

The wedding was held at 68 East Georgia Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia, the home of the brides parents, Mr. Emil Selig and Mrs. Josephine Loeb-Cohen Selig. Rabbi David Marx performed the ceremony and members of Hebrew Benevolent Congregation attended before a small gathering of family and close friends. The Athens Banner newspaper described the evening as a pretty event, noting that the house was artistic with quantities of smilax and vases of pink carnations in all the rooms.

The paper reported that Miss Michael sang several beautiful selections of songs before the ceremony and was accompanied by Miss Regina Silverman, who also played the wedding march. The two young women also wore pink, with Helen Michael in a white lingerie gown over pink silk and Regina Silverman in a pink chiffon cloth gown over silk, trimmed with lace and black marabou.”

Other out-of-town attendants at the wedding included the grooms parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Frank of Brooklyn, New York, and the best man, Mr. Milton Rice of Rochester, New York. The paper stated the couple would spend several weeks at the Piedmont [JdN: the cool mountains north of Atlanta] before going north for a wedding trip.

After their honeymoon, Lucille and Leo settled in with their in laws the Cohen-Seligs, at 68 East Georgia Avenue, the place of their pink-overload marriage. Lucille and Leo Frank became active members of Jewish high society. Frank, a highly secure, confident, active man of just 26, but endowed with poise, had the highest honor bestowed upon him.

Frank, the frenzied sex fiend and future rapist-murderer of a shiksa, was elected Bnai Brith president of the largest Lodge in the South, over 500 members strong.

 

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It made sense for Leo Frank to be elected as president of Bnai Brith, as no average, shivering, insecure and nervous man would ever be elected to such an important position. Frank was a man who beamed with inner confidence and strength, he was the confident superintendent of the National Pencil Factory, he was married into a prominent Jewish family, and he was active in Jewish society and philanthropy. Naturally he was a perfect leader for the powerful and influential Bnai Brith in the capital of Georgia.

The fateful day, April 26th 1913, noontime

In a shuttered factory on Confederate Memorial Day, Saturday, April 26, 1913, Leo Frank was wrapping up some last-minute paperwork before intending to do some light afternoon whoring and then go see a baseball game with his brother-in-law.

However, things took a very wrong turn.

Thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan came in to the factory to receive her pittance of pay, $1.20 from a previously shortened week that had ended the Monday before on April 21st, 1913. Phagan was one of Leo Franks child laborers at the factory. She was cute, with lovely blue eyes and was very well-developed for her age. She had been laid off the previous Monday because supplies of brass had run out. The brass was processed, formed into bands around the ends of pencils and used to hold erasers to the pencils, and when the brass had intermittently ran out, some of the four girls in the metal room had to be temporarily laid off. Phagan worked in the metal rooms tipping department, inserting erasers into the metal bands of the erasers.

Dorsey Called it a Species of Coercion

Frank allegedly lured Mary Phagan just down the hall from his second floor office into the metal room, which was where Phagan had toiled endlessly for the last year at her workstation. It was theorized, based on the testimony of Jim Conley and circumstantial evidence, that Frank convinced Phagan to follow him to the metal room on the false pretense of seeing if the brass metal supplies had arrived or not, and thus determining whether or not Phagan would have her job back on the following Monday morning.

Once alone inside the metal room with Phagan, Frank quietly closed the door shut and securely locked it, and according to Hugh M. Dorsey in his closing remarks, Leo Frank, using Phagans laid-off, half-unemployed status and potential job prospects on Monday, April 28, 1913, as a species of coercion and manipulation (Dorsey, August 1913),

Frank bluntly demanded sex from Mary Phagan, that is, if she wanted her job back, but when Phagan resisted him and tried to escape, Leo Frank grabbed her, bludgeoned her by pounding her in the face with his angry fist, he lifted her up and slammed her (Conley, 1913) against the handle of the lathe, where some of her hair was ripped off (to be spotted by an employee (Barret et alia), on Monday morning, August 28th 1913, as was affirmed by numerous other employees who knew Phagan, and the look of her hair, and also saw it.

Frank then allegedly dragged Phagan into the bathroom of the metal room while she was unconscious, lifted her skirt up, ripped or cut open her underwear and raped her 13-year-old virgin vagina, rupturing her hymen and leaving her torn-up underwear bloodied, according to the physical evidence retrieved from Phagan by the undertaker and presented at the trial (BOE, 1913).

Frank then allegedly grabbed a nearby cord used to tie the boxes of pencils and garroted Phagan’s tender throat until she suffocated and died of brain damage.

A clean-up job ensued, once Leo had regained his composure.

Mary Phagans strangulation became a national scandal once its discovery hit the medias press machines and it became a cause clbre for the Jewish community, which feared being disgraced because a high-profile member of their tribal community was accused of committing such a disgraceful and heinous crime against one of the host population’s children.

According to Leo Franks own statements and behaviors, which some say collectively amounted to virtual admissions on: April 27, April 28 (See States Exhibit B in the Brief of Evidence 1913), April 30, and August 18th (see the unconscious bathroom segway confession), the beating, pedophile-rape and child-murder of Mary Phagan, occurred between 12:05 to 12:10, maybe 12:07? or possibly 12:10 and 12:15?, and with the absolute time range basically being 12:03 to 12:15.

Murderer?

To be fair, Frank might not have had premeditated murder in his heart when his ulterior motives inspired tricking Phagan to go back with him into the metal room to see if the supplies had come in, but in his overpowering attempt to ravish her, he knew unconsciously he had no choice but to permanently silence Phagan. If Mary had reported that he violently forced himself on her, rape or not, the consequences would have been severe. White people back then did not tolerate the evil that goes on today. It was well known in those days when white people were not deracinated that vigilante justice, could ensue which at times included castration with rusty tools without anesthesia, followed by lynching for rapists or attempted rapists. Even if Frank did not end up that way because of his influence and access to other peoples’ wealth, he knew either way that his career, reputation, factory and marriage would be permanently ruined if he was found out.

Mary Phagans last breath was around 12:05.

After Leo Frank murdered Mary Phagan…..

Based on interpretations and recollections of Jim Conley (Connolly) and his statement:

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Frank asked his roustabout, lackey and watchdog custodian, Jim (James) Conley (also spelled Connolly depending on the source), to dump the body of Phagan in the rear of the basement in front of an over-sized large furnace, with the unspoken intention of later asking Connolly to stuff Mary Phagan in the oven to cremate her.

When Frank and Connolly went back to Leos second floor office, Frank allegedly asked Connolly to ghost-write unheard-of and never-before-created murder notes, as if they were actually being written by Mary Phagan while she was in the middle of being raped and killed by the nightwatchman, an honest black employee named Newt Lee, who had not arrived to work yet, but would be at the factory in the late afternoon to begin his security guard rounds.

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Blame it on the Night Watchman Newt Lee (The Night Witch)

The contrived murder notes transformed the Mary Phagan case into one of the most shocking and embarrassingly botched attempts in U.S. history by any person to frame a third party, and railroad an innocent negro (the term they used back then to describe African-Americans), Leo Franks graveyard shift employee. New Lee, was to be set up to be the fall guy and scapegoat for Phagans murder, said Jim Conley.

Later at the trial, Newt Lee, who had been working at the factory as the nightwatchman for three weeks, would have some very interesting sworn testimony to provide about Leo M. Franks unusual behavior on that infamous day of April 26 1913. It was testimony that Leo Frank could not fully counter or explain away during his August 18, 1913 trial testimony. Newt Lee also told the police that the factory was being used by couples to have evening trysts.

Down payment of a Half Pack of Cigarettes, Two Paper Dollars and Two Silver Quarters, $200 promised

Frank allegedly offered a $200 payment, withdrew the offer when Conley was resistant, and then offered it again, but as a potential post-payment if Jim Conley (Connolly) would go downstairs, stuff the dead little girl into the giant cellar oven and burn the evidence, but Connolly was leery and hesitant, saying he would only do it if Frank helped. For some reason Frank wanted Connolly to do it by himself and would not help him. Frank told Conley that if he didnt get caught and if Connolly carried out the job, he would pay him the money during the week.

Frank gave Connolly a small down payment of cash and smokes, telling him to light up, but Jim Conley later left the factory with the $2.50 and a half-pack of cigarettes that Frank had given him as a small down-payment on the $200 bribe offering, but without doing the final dirty work.

Frank sternly, firmly and directly ordered Jim Conley to come back later and finish the clean-up job, including specific hints that Jim Conley must finish the makeshift crematorium work of burning Phagan’s body if he wanted to get the $200 at a later time. Jim Conley didnt accept or reject the job, but became worried, left the factory soon after Leo Frank left and went drinking across the street before going home and falling asleep not waking up until midday Sunday.

Had Jim Conley done what Leo Frank had told him to do, this article might not exist today.

Based on different accounts, Frank left the factory to go home for a late lunch between 1:10 and 1:20, arriving at his home at about 1:30. He was nauseous and lost his appetite, stayed for about ten minutes, didnt eat anything, and then left to go back into town. Frank silently prayed to himself, hoping that Jim Conley was doing the erasure of evidence.

Jim Conley never came back.

Frank Had the Worst Case of Butterflies in his Stomach

Leo Frank returned to the factory after his late low-calorie lunch of eating nothing and his stomach was twisting in knots. Frank waited around desperately for Jim Conley to return promptly, on the promise of $200 in greenbacks for incinerating the body, but when Jim Conley never came back that late afternoon, Frank was freaking out and became nauseously terrified and more nervous, agitated, frenetic and excited than ever. In a last act of desperation, Frank snatched the contrived murder notes he had dictated to Jim Conley and had him scrawl up earlier, and scattered them next to Phagans body in the gloom of the basement.

It is not clear why Frank did not attempt to stuff the bloody body of Phagan into the oven himself and attempt to destroy the evidence. Although Phagan was but 411?, she was solidly built, and probably weighed 115 to 120 lbs.

That was almost as much as Leo Frank at 58? and 135 lbs and the dirt floor basement was absolutely filthy, covered wall-to-wall in blac,k charred soot and cinders. Frank, being both a prima donna and cautious, would have avoided getting unnecessarily dirty and staining himself up with filth and possibly blood in a way he could not explain away when he went home to his “big fat wife” (as he described her).

Frank then went back upstairs to possibly resume a poorly and partly consummated clean-up job in the metal room that his step-and-fetch-it, Jim Conley, had not performed well. He did not want to touch the twisted and disheveled body in the basement that his actions in the metal room had created.

If Youre Going to Murder Someone, At Least Do a Good Clean Up

Since they didnt have the show “CSI” at the time, and his training was in engineering, Frank didnt know how to do a murder cover-up, nor did he use common sense. In the second-floor metal room there appeared to be a really badly executed clean-up job, which included smearing and rubbing haskolene into the blood stains left by Mary Phagan’s head when she was accidentally dropped on the floor during her removal process. The haskolene smearing appeared to be an attempt to hide the murder evidence as best as possible, but the blood clearly showed. It was a major blunder, and Frank should have just had Jim Conley use good old fashioned water, soap and a scrub brush. It was likely that Frank had the Janitor do the job, but either Jim did a half-hearted and poor job or was he was simply unable to hide the soaked-in blood stains on the metal room floor, so they were smeared with haskolene.

They botched the clean-up. Even worse, no one thought to remove the hair left on the lathe after Leo slammed Marys head into it. Employees discovered the hair in the morning of Monday, April 28th 1913, and later Mr. Coleman, Mary Phagans stepfather, would identify the hair as being Marys. That was another major blunder of Frank — forgetting the hank of her hair on the lathe.

4 pm: The Night Watch (Night Witch) Arrives

When Newt Lee finally arrived at work at a few minutes to 4 pm, Frank was bustling with nervousness, frantic, agitated, frenzied and excited. Leo M. Frank in a wild frazzled and pumped-up state practically pushed Lee out of the building. Frank ordered a very tired and resistant Newt Lee to leave the factory, requiring Lee to come back to the factory in about 1.5 to 2.5 hours, have a good time and come back at 6 or 6:30 pm. Frank had one last hope Jim James Conley would hopefully come back for the potential $200 bribe and final clean up job, but alas, he was not returning that day, he was drunk and happy in his n—-r shack — Steve Oney’s phrase to describe what they were called at the time.

“What Time is It? he kept asking…..

Newt Lee made a strong resistant hesitation to leaving the factory, because he was exhausted, he had to come into work an hour earlier at 4 pm instead of 5 pm on Saturday, April 26, 1913 by Franks request made on Friday April 25 1913. Frank said he wanted to go to the baseball game, which he canceled after he murdered Phagan. When Newt Lee asked Frank if he could please sleep in the packing room for an hour or two, but Frank flatly refused, wouldnt let him stay and was insistent that Newt Lee leave the factory and go out and have a good time. Finally, Leo Frank practically forced Newt Lee out of the factory.

Newt Lee left and came back at a few minutes before 6 pm, when Frank was still in a panicked and nervous state, asking him in a frantic state what time it was. Strange — coming from the man who spent the last five years in front of a large-faced time clock and meticulously recorded everything.

6 PM

At 6 PM, Frank told Newt, Dont punch yet!, saying that he needed to change the time sheet. Newt watched Frank butter-finger and fumble with the changing of the time sheet in the time clock, his hands were bumbling and fumbling with it even after five years of changing the time sheets, it took him twice as long as usual. It was something Leo Frank could normally do with his eyes closed, blindfolded and with one hand tied behind his back, but today…for some strange reason….he was struggling with it. Newt went downstairs after he punched to smoke a fag [cigarette], on a crate in the doorway downstairs.

Frank frantically gathered his stuff, put on his hat and coat, then left the building briskly. As Frank exploded out of the door, he became terrified with horror when, on the way out, he ran into a former employee and bookkeeper named Gantt, and fell backward scared, trying to practically crawl backward into the building. But it was too late he had been spotted by Gantt. Newt Lee, who was smoking, finishing off his fag and looked at Frank perplexedly. Frank knew that Gantt had known Mary and the Phagan family quite well, but Frank was deeply relieved when he discovered that the former employee was there only because he wanted to collect his shoes, which he left behind in the factory. He was not looking for the missing Mary Phagan, who at this time had spent nearly six hours slow-rotting in the basement.

As the former employee Gantt had requested to go into the factory to get his shoes, Frank lied in a nonchalant manner to the former employee. He claimed to Gantt that he had seen the Negro Jim Conley sweep them out of the factory.

Frank was trying to get rid of him without seeming overly concerned. However, Gantt outmaneuvered Frank by saying they were a different color, and Frank, who was in no position to get into a heated debate with the ex-employee, quickly acquiesced. Frank just wanted to get out of Dodge [JdN: a reference to many cowboy movies involving the once lawless city of Dodge, Kansas] as soon as possible and as far from the building as possible, as he knew Phagans lifeless body, sprawling on a sawdust pile in the basement, would be discovered by the Night Witch during his rounds.

Gantt convinced Frank to let him go into the factory and Frank obliged with the caveat that Newt Lee must accompany him for the whole time. Gant, found his shoes in the packing room, and left the building with Newt Lee closely following and monitoring. Newt Lee then locked the front door and began his security rounds.

6:30 PM

When Frank got home at 6:30 pm, he did something he had never done before with Newt Lee. He immediately called the factory, but no one picked up the phone.

7 PM

Then Frank called again at 7:00 pm, and Newt Lee finally picked up. In a brisk frazzled voice, the Jewish murderer asked if everything was all right at the factory and when Newt Lee said yes, Frank curtly said goodbye and slammed down the phone. Frank had never called the factory on a Saturday or any other day for that matter before, to check up on things, according to Newt Lee, who had worked there for three weeks.

Frank also never asked about Gantt.

At the trial, Leo Frank said he called to see what the status was concerning Gantt, but Newt Lee said Frank did not ask about Gantt.

Frank might have been calling the factory twice to see if Newt Lee discovered the body of Phagan, because Newt Lee was supposed to check every square inch of the factory during his rounds, but once the factory was locked up, Newt might have not gone all the way back into the rear of the basement or at all until the early morning of April 27th 1913 during his visit to the negro toilet to drop the Cosbys off at the pool, but that was still about eight hours away.

Ironically, Leo Frank, in his August 18, 1913 trial testimony, would make subtle complaints against Newt Lee for not finding the body sooner, henceforth throwing even more suspicion on his own two never-before–made phone calls to the factory at 6:30 and 7:00 PM on April 26th, 1913.

That evening Frank chain-smoked cigarettes and guzzled booze like it was going out of style, he drank the liquor cabinet dry, attempting to medicate himself, and his copious binging would ensure he would be badly hung over the next day. This may have contributed to his inability to hide his guilt-revealing body language, or it could have made him appear guilty because he was so worn out, pale, nervous and had a trembling hoarse voice.

He would fire off questions at the police, this arrogant Jew, member of the royal Jewish race, before they could answer the questions and fumbled with his shirt and tie.

April 27, 1913

At approximately 3:15 AM (the next morning), the negro nightwatchman Newt Lee, during his lantern-holding factory rounds, went down to the cellar to use the negro latrine in the rear of the basement. The Cosbys were knocking, and they were asking if they could use the pool in the back yard. When he finished his business, without wiping, he pulled up his drawers and pants, and buttoned up…..and then he spotted the mangled, twisted body of a little girl in the gloom of the rear of basement, about 150 feet back.

When he approached the dead body, he noticed that her dress was pulled up and her underwear was torn and pulled down, soaked in blood and urine, and a cord was dug snug and deep into the tender flesh of her neck.

Newt Lee got the hell out of Dodge as quickly as he possibly could.

He called Leo Frank for nearly ten minutes straight, but there was no answer. Leo was drunk as a skunk and had passed out cold.

Finally giving up on ringing Frank, Newt Lee called the police station at 3:28 AM and one of the biggest Jewish scandals of the early twentieth century began to unfold.

Newt had loped to the ladder at the beginning of front area of the basement, shimmied back up, and ran up the stairs, briskly going to the office to call Leo M. Frank. After nearly 10 minutes of trying to reach Leo M. Frank, Newt gave up and decided to call the police.

A Phone Call at Half Passed Three in the Morning Begins the Investigation

The police and detectives were on the scene within minutes in their Model T Fords. They left them with the engines running and were let in by Newt Lee, who had waited by the front door for them to arrive. The officers went down the hatchway, descended the diagonal ladder with lanterns and flashlights, and commenced their investigation.

They first noticed drag marks from the are in front of the elevator that led all the way to the cinder and sawdust pile in front of the furnace. They had to pull down a stocking to confirm the girl was white, because she had been dragged along the dirty floor.

They then found the ludicrously contrived murder notes.

Later that same morning and day, observing, and questioning countless associated and affiliated people, they immediately contacted an apprehensive Leo M. Frank because he was a senior-level manager of the factory, and it was he who had been at the virtually empty and shuttered factory that day.

Frank resisted going with the police when they arrived because he wanted some coffee and breakfast FIRST before going out with them……. Frank was agitated, pale, trembling, fumbling with himself and hung over badly, with a hoarse voice. He actually fired questions at the police — and so quickly they had no chance to answer.

Frank Incriminated Himself

When Frank gave a number of incriminating statements, was betrayed by his body language and made several foolish mistakes and blunders that totally gave himself away, the intuitive police and detectives became very suspicious, with the result of Frank becoming the prime suspect. After questioning Leo Frank and numerous other people, everything seemed to conclusively point in the direction of Leo M. Frank. Two days later, Leo Frank was arrested and detained on the morning of Tuesday, April 29, 1913 at 11 AM and later he was indicted for murder. His conviction came on on April 25 1913, which was affirmed by the trial judge the day after the verdict, August 26, 1913. It was both this highly publicized event at the end of the trial and then the lynching two years later that would define how Leo M. Frank would forever be remembered.

The undertaker had also arrived afterward and they took the body out of the basement, up the ladder and to the mortuary to be placed on a cooling table.

The dead child, was later identified by Grace Hicks the morning of April 27, 1913 as thirteen-year-old Mary Anne Phagan. Grace Hicks had worked in the metal department on the second floor with Mary Phagan for about a year and was very familiar with her. Grace Hicks testified about some very interesting details in the metal room, including the positioning of the dressing room and the layout of the bathrooms there and where Mary Phagans work station was in relation to them.

Police and Detective Investigation April 27th 1913 Sunday

After police and detectives questioned Leo M. Frank and dozens of National Pencil Company factory employees and arrested some affiliated people, all the evidence began to point in one direction.

Tuesday April 29 1913

Fifty-six hours after the body of Mary Phagan was discovered, the police and detectives had developed a very strong and legitimate suspicion against Frank, based the evidence and testimony they had gathered. Leo M. Frank was arrested on Tuesday, April 29th 1913 at 11AM, the last day of his freedom.

Coroners Inquest Jury, Wednesday, April 30 1913

The official murder investigation wasted no time.

The coroners inquest began shortly after nine oclock on Wednesday morning, the 30th day of April. The empaneled jury hearing the testimony consisted of seven men: six inquest jurymen plus the coroner:

1. H. Ashford, 2. Glenn Dewberry, 3. J. Hood, 4. C. Langford, 5. John Miller 6. C. Sheats 7. Judge of the Inquest Jury, Coroner, Paul Donehoo.

The Perjury of Lemmie A Quinn

Concerning Leo M. Franks alibi, Frank said he had forgotten for the first week of the murder investigation to bring forward Lemmie A Quinn, foreman of the metal room, a key witness. However at the Coroners Inquest, Lemmie Quinn, came forward to provide contrived testify that sounded totally suspicious and did not pass the common-sense test.

Herbert Schiff

Quinn said he had come back to the pencil factory and specifically Leo M. Franks office at 12:20 to talk about baseball with Mr. Herbert Schiff, but Mr. Schiff was not supposed to be at the factory at all that day which was virtually empty, because it was a state holiday, Confederate Memorial Day, and everyone was given the day off.

The testimony of Quinn was meant to shrink the plausible time during which Leo M. Frank could have strangled Mary Phagan by ten minutes. Quinn’s testimony also added eyewitness strength to Franks alibi, which left him about a half an hour unaccounted for (noon to 12:30). Lemmie Quinn’s perjury shrunk Leo M. Franks unaccounted for time from 30 minutes to 20 minutes when the murder took place, but it still left wide open and unaccounted for the time frame when Mary Anne Phagan had come to Leo M. Franks office, which was between 12:05 and 12:10, maybe 12:07.

Conclusion of the Coroners Inquest and Jury

Coroner Paul Donehoo and his Inquest Jury of six men, empaneled, questioned over 100 employees and dozens of other various associated people. The week-long inquest and testimony provided under oath generated strong suspicion of Leo M. Frank by Thursday, May 8th, 1913, when the Mary Phagan Inquest drew to a close.[1]

Coroners and Inquest Juries Verdict 7 to 0

The Coroner and his Inquest Jury of six men together voted unanimously 7 to 0 recommending Leo M. Frank held for murder and turned over to, and investigated by a Grand Jury of 23 men which included 5 Jews.

Newt Lee was ordered to be held as a material witness as expected.

Deputy Plennie Minor delivered the unanimous verdict of the Coroners Inquest Jury to Leo M. Frank, who was being held in the infamous Tower. Frank was sitting perusing a local newspaper at the time. Deputy Plennie Minor approached Leo M. Frank and told him about the unanimous verdict of the Inquest Jury, which had ordered that Frank be held for murder and for a more thorough investigation by the Grand Jury! Newt Lee slumped his head dejectedly when the bad news was delivered. However, Leo Frank insolently replied that it was no more than he had expected and continued crackling away and folding at the big sheets of his newspaper.

More than two hundred witnesses — factory workers and affiliates — had been subpoenaed and had provided testimony at the Inquest.

Grand Jury: A Decisive Moment, to Try or Not to Try.

On May 24, 1913, the day the Grand Jury of 23 men were to vote after a long, grueling and exhaustive review of testimony and evidence concerning Leo M. Frank, they would be short some members. Two Grand Jurors where not present on the day of the vote. (One member, a Jewish member, went to New York City and M. Beutell, a Gentile, had an important event he was unable to miss.) As these two men were out of town, they were not permitted to vote by absentee ballets, reducing the Grand Jury from 23 to 21 voting men. The importance of this reduction was that only a majority of 11 instead of the former 12 votes were necessary to indict Leo Frank in this nail-biting moment for the police and prosecution, which had tirelessly spent a month building their case.

Even though Leo Frank was a businessman partly responsible for creating more than a hundred jobs for the community, they were not sympathetic, because primarily the evidence was solid and overwhelmingly strong against him. With 21 men remaining, some close observers may have wondered if the vote was straddling the fence in either direction, and questioned whether the majority of 11 out of 21 would come forward and vote for an indictment or not.

A Close Call?

In a result that set another powerful tone for the future of the case, just as the Coroners Inquest Jury vote had done, the Grand Jury voted unanimously 21 to 0 in favor of indicting Leo M. Frank for the murder of little Mary Phagan. With four Jews voting unanimously with seventeen other Gentile men to Indict Frank, it puts serious doubts about the veracity of the Jewish community’s historical and contemporary race-baiting hatred claims over the last 100 years that Leo Frank went to trial because he was Jewish; an innocent Jew railroaded and framed collectively by European-Americans who are innately anti-Jewish, with the whole Leo Frank affair supposedly being a widespread anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic conspiracy.

Countering the Jewish position, Southerners are wondering why Frank supporters must resort to making false, bigoted and racist blood-libel smears against them for the last 100 years, when the evidence against Frank is solid, and every level of the U.S. legal system sided with the Jury.

The indictment read

In the name and behalf of the citizens of Georgia, charge and accuse Leo M. Frank, of the [Fulton] County and State [of Georgia] aforesaid, with the offense of Murder, for that the said Leo M. Frank in the County aforesaid on the 26th day of April in the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and thirteen, with force and arms did unlawfully and with malice aforethought kill and murder one Mary Phagan by then and there choking her, the said Mary Phagan, with a cord place around her neck contrary to the laws of said State, the good order, peace and dignity thereof.

The Frankites, like Steve Oney and Dinnerstein, would claim outlandishly that the entire Leo Frank case can be reduced to the word of Jim Conley vs. Leo Frank. Though the indictment had absolutely nothing to do with Jim Conley, and after powerful and compelling evidence (without Jim Conley) was presented to the Grand Juryman, the following 21 Grand Jurymen, of which four were Jews, unanimously signed the bill of indict against Leo Frank (Bill of Indictment, 1913, Atlanta Publishing Company, The Frank Case, 1913; and Mary Phagan Kean, 1987).

The 21 Members of the Grand Jury Unanimously Voting to Indict Leo Frank are:

1. J.H. Beck, Foreman,
2. A.D. Adair, Sr.,
3. F.P.H. Akers,
4. B.F. Bell,
5. J.G. Bell,
6. Col. Benjamin,
7. Wm. E. Besser,
8. C.M. Brown,
9. C.A. Cowles,
10. Walker Danson,
11. G. A. Gershon,
12. S.C. Glass,
13. A.L. Guthman, [JdN: I am not sure where the other two Jews are on this list]
14. Chas. Heinz,
15. H.G. Hubbard,
16. R. R. Nash,
17. W.L. Percy,
18. R. A. Redding,
19. R.F. Sams,
20. John D. Wing,
21. Albert Boylston

After the 21 jurymen unanimously signed the murder indictment of Leo M. Frank, he would be put on trial before a cohort of 13 men, a Judge and a petty Jury of 12 men to decide his fate.

Trial of Leo M. Frank

Judge Leonard Strickland Roan Presiding Over the Leo Frank Murder Trial The Murder Trial Testimony Captured in The State of Georgia vs. Leo M. Frank, July 28, 1913 to August 26, 1913

After being virtually silent during nearly three months of incarceration at the tower, Leo Frank finally emerged in fore of the public stage, for a sardine-packed courtroom and a drama which would last 29 days.

Unknown at the time, the Leo Frank trial would become one of those rare cases in U.S. history that would enthrall and capture the imagination and tribal emotions of the masses for more than a century after the whole ordeal. Put before a freshly created Jury and showing signs of being physically sunken, mentally worn out and emotionally weathered, Leo Frank sat in the middle of the court room, not obscured by a table, but fully exposed in full view, flushed and emaciated a shrunken and empty shell of the former man. Leo Franks perturbly cocked head with a gentle sideways lean exuded a very subtle plea for mercy, pity and sympathy, coming from his eyes’ impenetrable walls. Throughout the entire trial, Leo Franks crossed arms and legs exuded at times lonely, insecure, arrogant and insubordinate body language which gives one the nearly imperceptible psychological feeling of wanting to ask: what are you hiding?

More particularly, Leo Franks shifting crossed arms could easily be interpreted as an overtly defensive body language you might expect of a teenage boy who painfully waits in the tension of anticipation just moments before being sternly scolded by an incensed mother. Though psychology was in its infancy at the time (1913), today more than a century later, contemporary psychologists suggest most people unconsciously interpret crossed arms as different mental degrees reflecting defensive, conflicted and closed symbolic behavior. Moreover, Leo Franks testicle crushing tightly crossed legs gave off the most imperceptible haughty, stimulated and shielded tone.

There was something unnerving about Leo Franks body language and appearance at the trial, which seemed entirely out of place, giving one the feeling of an unsettling notion. Franks body language seemed out of sync with everyone else in the Courtroom and most certainly the Jury placed in front of him, and as such, Leo Franks demeanor whether intentional or unconscious was setting a disadvantageous posture, working against him from the starting block of his trial.

The Conviction

The Leo M. Frank conviction, along with what was perceived as defamatory portrayal of Jews in the media, became the impetus and directly inspired the founding of the ADL.

Appeals Majority and Unanimous Decisions during the Appeals Process Affirm the Murder Conviction Given by the Trial Jury

After the murder trial ended on August 26th 1913, Leo M. Frank commenced two embarrassing and estopel years (1913 to 1915) reflecting a snap shot the Leo Frank Defense League movement, with numerous half-serious half-baked legal appeals made to the Georgia Superior Court, Georgia Supreme Court, United States District Court and United States Supreme Court, every court carefully and meticulously studied and reviewed the murder trial testimony and evidence, every single court affirmed the murder conviction, with only 4 dissenting judges out of more than a dozen affirming Judges. See: Primary Sources Section.

Two Years of Half-Baked Court Appeals

Leo Frank then began a very expensive two year circus of embarrassing, poorly concocted and frivolous appeals. Franks lawyers and defense teams used every method of criminal activity on behalf of Leo Frank to create evidence to support him. They bribed and threatened witnesses, put forward and spun together half-baked frivolous court appeals through every possible legal channel, all the way up and down the Georgia State Superior Court, Georgia State Supreme Court, the District Court of the United States and the United States Supreme Court, multiple times ad nauseum.

A Request for a New Trial: on 31 October 1913 Judge Roan denied the motion for a new trial

More specifically, immediately following the Leo M. Frank murder trial, Franks defense team requested a new trial. The presiding judge Leonard S. Roan denied the appeal.

Another motion for a new trial was denied by the Georgia Supreme Court in February 1914 after much review. More specifically on 17 February 1914 the Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed the verdict of the lower court by a vote of 4 to 2.

25 February the Supreme Court of Georgia, unanimously overruled a motion for rehearing.

7 March 1914 Frank was sentenced by Judge Leonard S. Roan, for the second time to death by hanging on April 17th, Leo M. Franks birthday.

No Doubting Judge Sentences One to Die on their Birthday

Leo Frank partisans are forever claiming Judge Leonard Strickland Roan doubted Leo Franks conviction. Judge Leonard S. Roan, finally sentenced Leo M. Frank to be hanged on his birthday April 17th 1913, putting infinite doubt in the suggestion of the Jewish and Frank defenses statements and forged documents, that Judge Leonard Roan had doubted the verdict.

No real scholar who is incapable of self-deception could ever take it seriously that Judge Roan doubted Leo Franks guilt which is always claimed by Leo Frank partisans, because No genuine seriously doubting Judge would ever do something so profoundly cruel as to sentence someone they thought might be innocent to be hanged on their birthday, unless they, openly or secretly, fully believed the individual was absolutely guilty. Ones birthday only happens once every 365 days (barring leap year) and as an execution date, it is only reserved for individuals who are absolutely and without question guilty of the most heinous crimes.

16 April 1914 at the eleventh hour, an extraordinary motion for a new trial was filed and death sentence on Leo M. Franks 30th birthday again stayed.

22 April 1914 Judge B. H Hill, former chief justice of the Court of Appeals, who had succeeded to the Judgeship of Fulton Superior Court, denied the extraordinary motion for a new trial.

25 April 1914 The day before the anniversary of Mary Phagans death, Franks sanity was examined and he was declared sane.

Motion to set the Verdict aside as a Nullity

Beginning in June 1914, Franks defense appealed to the Fulton County Superior Court to set aside the guilty verdict. Fulton County Superior Court denied the appeal, as did the Georgia Supreme Court (December 1914).

14 November 1914 the Georgia Supreme Court again denied a new trial.

18 November 1914, the Georgia Supreme Court refused a writ of error.

23 November 1914 Mr. Justice Lamar, of the Supreme Court of the United States refused a writ of error.

25 November 1914 Mr. Justice Holmes of the United States Supreme Court, also refused a writ.

7 December 1914, the full bench of the United States Supreme Court refused a writ of error.

9 December 1914, Frank was re-sentenced to death to hang on January 22, 1915.

21 December 1914 United States District Judge W. T. Newman of Georgia, refused a writ of habeas Corpus.

28 December 1914 Mr. Justice Lamar granted an appeal and certificate of reasonable doubt to the United States Supreme Court.

15 April 1915 the Supreme Court of the United States 4 to 2, with Mr. Justices Holmes and Hughes dissenting, dismissed the appeal.

Ultimately Leo M. Frank had fully exhausted completely every possible court appeals process.

Georgia Prison Commission

9 June 1915 the State Prison Commission submitted a divided report to Governor Slaton, Commissioners Davison and Rainey voting against and Commissioner Paterson for commutation.

As five courts upheld the original decision of the jury in Leo Franks case, Frank then applied for clemency with the Georgia Prison Commission to commute his sentence from death to life in prison. This application was denied.

During the two Year Appeals Process, The National Letter Writing Campaign and Emotional Appeals Process Was in Full Force

With every possible court appeal fully exhausted, Leo M. Franks last hope was utilizing the full extent of his 2 year old flush bankroll of his legal defense fund which was made possible by advertising magnate A.D. Lasker and newspaper mogul Adolph Ochs, the owner of the New York Times. With a swollen treasury of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the culmination of a vast 2 year political bribery and manipulation machine had been unleashed across the United States and even some major cities throughout Europe. The Governor of Georgia had been flooded with more than 10,000 letters in support of Leo M. Frank from people who never read the official trial record in the case which included all the facts, testimony and evidence against Leo Frank. See Brief of Evidence in Primary Sources.

Criminal Governor

Lastly, with absolutely no more court appeal options left for Leo Frank and the Prison Commission denying his request for clemency, there was only one last option, a commutation by the corrupt Governor of Georgia, John M. Slaton. Frank applied to Governor John M. Slaton for Executive Clemency.

Last Hope: 31 May 1915 Franks plea for commutation of sentence to life imprisonment was heard before the State Prison Commission.

Frank had one last hope. The Governor of the State of Georgia, John Marshall Slaton who was in office from June 28, 1913 to June 26, 1915. Slaton would save the life of Leo Frank at the eleventh hour, as Frank was on Death Row registered to be hanged on June 22nd 1915 by Sheriff Mangum.

Well before the dramatic soap opera of the eleventh hour on the infamous day of June 21st 1915, the treacherous and criminal governor of Georgia, John M. Slaton, was made a senior law partner in the very firm representing and defending Leo M. Frank at his July 28th 1913 to August 26th murder trial.

The firm was called: Rosser, Brandon, Slaton & Phillips.

John Marshall Slaton, Clemency, Commuted Leo M. Franks death sentence to life in prison, June 21st 1915, The 11th Hour.

On June 21 1915, one day before Leo M. Frank was to be hanged to death, John M. Slaton, when at the exit as an outgoing Governor of Georgia, in an absolutely gross conflict of interest, commuted the death sentence of Leo M. Frank to life in prison. The clemency was based on a half-baked hokey commutation order that insulted the intelligence of the elite of Georgia, Southerners, Legal Scholars, Judges, Lawyers and the people of the United States of America, when the commutation was compared against the dry leaves of the 1913 Brief of Evidence.

John M. Slaton, Governor of the State of Georgia Betrays the People

A commutation hearing was held in Atlanta on June 12-16, 1915. Representing Leo Frank were William M. Howard of Augusta, Manning J. Yeomans of Dawson, Harry A. Alexander and Leonard Haas of Atlanta speaking for the defense.

On June 21, 1915, just six days before Nathaniel Edwin Harris, the newly elected governor, was to take office, and one day before Frank was scheduled to hang (June 22 1915), Slaton commuted Franks death sentence to life in prison. There was public outrage, primarily because John M. Slaton, was a law partner and business associate in the law firm hired by Leo Frank, making Leo Frank Slatons client and because Slaton in a gross conflict of interest had betrayed the constitution and his oath of office. The Southern population reached ascended to boiling crescendo of rage and were indignantly furious to a fevered pitch at the insolence of the clemency decision made on behalf of Leo M. Frank, especially after every level of the United States legal system had reviewed meticulously and upheld the evidence supporting the conviction. More than a dozen judges had affirmed the conviction and Leo Frank had made a near confession on August 18 1913, when he told the Jury he made an unconscious bathroom visit inside the metal room during the time Phagan was murdered there.

John M. Slaton, feigned moral and emotional consternation, saying: I can endure misconstruction, abuse and condemnation, Slaton said, but I cannot stand the constant companionship of an accusing conscience which would remind me that I, as governor of Georgia, failed to do what I thought to be right. [F]eeling as I do about this case, I would be a murderer if I allowed this man to hang. It may mean that I must live in obscurity the rest of my days, but I would rather be plowing in a field for the rest of my life than to feel that I had that blood on my hands.[1]

Slatons commutation disregarded volumes of trial evidence and testimony against Frank, but Slaton also chose to not disturb the Jurys verdict and in a sly and underhanded sort of way affirmed the murder conviction. Slaton, also suggested that the Jewish community’s charge of race hatred as the reason Frank was convicted was unfair, as it was certainly not true, because numerous other legal tribunals reviewed the evidence and testimony, and felt it was strong enough to convict Leo M. Frank. None of the appeals courts could be falsely accused of being mob terrorized or antisemitic, as the Jewish community put such false accusations and slander against the murder trial Jury.

In order to protect Leo Frank, he was transferred from Fulton Tower in Atlanta to the prison farm outside Milledgeville.

July 17 1915 Leo Frank Gets Shanked

Frank was attacked at the State Farm Prison in Milledgeville on July 17, 1915, by a fellow convict named Green who cut Leos throat with a 7 inch butcher knife. Two inmate doctors got to him in the nick of time and stitched him up. Frank lingered between life and death for several weeks, but finally recovered. The wound never fully healed. The wounds were slow to heal in the boiling and humid heat of the Georgian Summer. Those wounds would split open again a month later, during the culmination of the Leo Frank case.

August 17 1915 Knights of Mary Phagan, Founding Fathers of the Current Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Two months later after the commutation, Leo M. Frank was abducted from Prison by a group of men from the State of Georgias highest social, legal and political strata, they Knighted themselves as the Knights of Mary Phagan, they drove Frank 175 miles to Cobb County, and Lynched him near an intersection at Freys Mill. A mature oak tree helped fulfill the most perfectly executed slow strangulation lynching of Leo M. Frank, that is just after the dawn dew kissed a glorious rising sun on August 17th 1915.

Lynching of Leo Frank August 17 1915

See: The Lynching of Leo Frank

August 18, 1913, Lucille Selig Frank Leaves Atlanta to Bury Leo M. Frank in New York City

Mrs. Lucille Selig Frank boarded a train for New York City on August 18 1913, Leo Franks body was returned to New York on August 20, 1913, where he was buried at New Mount Carmel Cemetery.

The Burial of Leo Frank

Last Name, First Name Location Date of Death
FRANK, LEO 1-E-41-1035-2 8/17/1915

Section: 1
Block: E
Map:
Path: 41
Lot: 1035
Line:
Society:
Grave: 2

Cemetery Gates Close at 4:00 P.M.

Lucille returned to Atlanta where she opened a dress shop and became sporadically active in the work of The Temple.

Lucilles asexual, dumpy, androgynous, and butch physical appearance, plus her weight issues and having been married to Leo Frank, along with the rumors of extensive extracurricular whoring activities surrounding him, and including the grueling and grissly crime leading to his conviction (two years of higher court affirmation), had tended to severely diminish and limit Lucilles dateability and sex appeal. Lucille Frank never remarried, and always signed her name as Mrs. Leo M. Frank, until her death at age 69. In her later age, her weight seemed to normalize.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Lucy Selig died on April 23, 1957 (1888-1957). Even then, in 1957, Frankites have suggested: her family was unsure of burying her in Atlanta, and it wasnt for another number of years that nephews buried her ashes between her parents graves in Oakland Cemetery, but without a marker.

Lucille died 42 years after Leo M. Frank was lynched, what was equivalent to a life time as the life expectancy in the early 20th century was around 40 years and she was very clear about her own ultimate verdict in the Leo Frank Case, her wishes were very clear and stated that she wanted to be cremated and NOT buried next to or with her deceased husband Leo M. Frank. It was a sad and final verdict coming from the woman who stood by her husband loyally throughout the whole ordeal, even though her cook Minola Magnolia McKnight had tipped her hand revealing Lucille knew approximately what really happened. The official records indicates Lucy Selig knew the real score, In truth what could Lucille really do?.. other than the only option she really had, cognitive dissonance and double think, her honor, the honor of her family and the Jewish community was on the line. Lucille did what any good loyal wife would do in this situation, stand by her husband right or wrong.

Infallible Wives and Mothers

We can not hold the same black and white, right or wrong lens to loyal mothers and wives who stand by their sons and husbands invincibly, and we do not live in a black and white world, but one of subtle shades and variations of gray. The moral lens of what is right and wrong, can not be applied to mothers and wives who loyally stand by their children and husbands, even if deep down they know of their guilt. Lucille did what she had to do, which was a hard decision and she should not be negatively judged for fiercely standing faithfully by her husband loyally all the way to the end, even though cosmetically she had to put on veneer pretenses and appearances, pretending publicly her husband Leo Frank was not guilty of the murder. On some level it was probably difficult for Lucy Selig to trick herself into not believing the dozen or more employees who came forward and suggested Frank was a sexual predator, pedophile and whore monger (in essence), some suggesting he was regularly whoring on the Sabbath and trying to turn out girls at the factory.

William J Burns Detective Agency of New York

The alleged persistent theme of the Leo M. Frank Case according to Frankites was Jew York City vs. Georgia. Detective William Burns the keystone cop style sleuth employed by the Leo M. Frank team, who was originally dismissed for being too obvious in his bribing, threatening and criminal activity, received a telegram from Marietta Georgia after the lynching of Leo M. Frank. The Telegram sarcastically told him to come down quickly and investigate the lynching, signed H.H. Looney Chief of Police. William Burns had been driven out of Georgia with threats of lynching when it was discovered he was hired by the money bags supporting the Leo Frank defense to try to bribe any witnesses he could and turn the Mary Phagan murder investigation into a carnival side show by publishing grandiose announcements in the local newspapers.

1980?s Pardon without Exoneration

Alonzo Lonnie Mann 1982 / 1983

March 7, 1982,

A questionable and suspicious chapter was unfurled for the public. The Nashville Tennessean published a special breaking news report about a story in which Alonzo Mann, Leo Franks former office boy in 1913, said he saw janitor Jim Conley carrying Mary Phagan’s body to the basement of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, where Mr. Frank was the superintendent. Mr. Mann asserted that Conley killed Mary and Frank was innocent.

1982, About 70 years after the murder of Mary Phagan and Lynching of Leo M. Frank, Alonzo Mann the former office boy of Leo M. Frank came forward in an other doctored up media expose pushing the Jewish Defense position at the behest of the Jewish Community. Now nearly 83 years old, the senile and ailing Alonzo Mann with a mountain of medical bills came forward to say he had seen Conley carrying Mary Phagans body on the first floor.

Alonzo Mann produced an affidavit seven decades after the Leo M. Frank drama, thus giving the Frankites more odious support for their position, but however, because of the Frank Defenses history of obtaining suspicious and questionable affidavit through criminal means and bribing to defend Leo M. Frank the affidavit was not taken seriously by anyone familiar with the case. Especially since, Alonzo Mann testified he left at around noon and in his old age had a mountain of unpaid medical bills.

Moreover, Alonzo Mann brought absolutely nothing new to the Leo M. Frank Case or Trial and his new testimony sounds fake, because Jim (James) Conley had admitted to being an accomplice and that he participated in bringing the dead body of Mary Phagan to the basement at Leo M. Franks request.

In a statement that makes absolutely no sense and does not pass the scrutiny of common sense, Alonzo Mann said, that the Negro Jim Conley threatened his life if he told anyone about seeing him with the dead body of Mary Phagan and when Alonzo Mann told his family and parents, they allegedly told him to keep quiet about it.

Despite Alonzo Mann alleged taking a lie detector test and signing an affidavit, the Alonzo Manns story lacks the common sense test, truth and veracity, because at the time Negroes were second class citizens, and no White Family or Parents would tell their White Children to be quiet about a negro allegedly murdering a White Girl. Even today in modern times, no White Family would ever tell a White boy to be quiet about a Negro murdering a White Girl. It doesnt make sense and comes off like total bullshit, to be blunt. There was something about Alonzo Manns testimony that tends to affirm Jim Conley was called in to work on a holiday to sit in his usual place under the stairwell and watch for Leo Frank.

Alonzo Mann States Adds More Evidence that Leo Frank Lied on the Witness Stand

What is more interesting is that Alonzo Manns 1980?s revelation, is that he said he saw Jim Conley numerous times in the morning and early afternoon on April 26, 1913, sitting on a box under the stairs on the first floor. Because Mann says it was from the morning till noon, this eye witness account may further prove that Leo Frank lied on the stand on August 18, 1913, about Frank not knowing Jim Conley was sitting on a box under the stairs on the first floor, acting as a watchdog and look out for him. Leo Frank said he had come and gone from the factory in the morning, and would have seen and known about his roustabout lackey waiting there for him, (Read the August 18, 1913, murder trial testimony of Leo Frank)

Alonzo Mann: Dead Mans Affidavit

However, the ADL of Bnai Brith, American Jewish Committee, Atlanta Jewish Federation and numerous other Jewish organizations used the affidavit after Alonzo Mann died to push for a Posthumous Pardon and Exonerate Leo M. Frank for the murder of little Mary Ann Phagan.

First Pardon Failed

Attorneys for three Jewish organizations petitioned the State (Georgia) Board of Pardons and Paroles to pardon Leo Frank, but the petition was denied on December 22, 1983.

Pardon Achieved: Posthumous Pardon without Exoneration March 11 1986

Pyrrhic Victory for the Jewish Community

After successful pressure from the ADL of Bnai Brith, and other Jewish Organizations, they get the Georgia Board of Paroles to pardon Leo M. Frank, but they would not exonerate him of the Crime.

Jewish Power and Political Correctness Prevailed

On March 11, 1986, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles granted Frank a pardon, citing the states failure to protect him or prosecute his killers, though they stopped short of exonerating Leo M. Frank of the murder of Mary Phagan. Leo Franks murder conviction is still today black letter law and binding legal precedent. The Judge and Jury have the last word, as do the vigilante lynchers who were never prosecuted.

Spun Pardon and Pyrrhic Victory

The Jewish Community saw the Pardon at face value as vindication of Leo Frank, but it was really a Pyrrhic victory. First, because in order to pardon someone of a crime, the person has to be guilty, you cant pardon someone unless you acknowledge they are guilty. Therefore the guilt of the individual has to be affirmed and in Leo Franks case it was indisputable binding settled law. So the Prison Board in the 1980?s basically acknowledged the veracity and truth that Leo M. Frank was guilty, but they refused to exonerate him of his guilt, though they forgave him of the Murder of Mary Phagan, because the state failed to protect Leo M. Frank and because his lynching prevented him from further appeals there is only one problem with that

Further appeals at any level of the United States Court System?

The prison board has a clear and full understanding of the law, and yet they made a bald face lie. They were patently in error concerning the lynching of Leo Frank preventing him from any further appeals within the appellate court system, because Leo M. Frank had fully and totally exhausted all of his court appeal options at every level of the State, District and Federal Appellate Courts, with the Supreme Court unanimously overruling any further review of the case, thus closing the door forever at all levels of the appellate court system. When there were no more options left in the court system, the prison board at the time refused a recommendation of clemency and even the bribed Governor John M. Slaton, refused to pardon Leo Frank and actually stated in his commutation letter he was NOT disturbing the guilty verdict given to Leo Frank by the Jury. Not a single legal body in the last 100 years has overturned the guilt of Leo Frank, but attempts to spin the truth have endlessly been made.

The Prison Board Affirmed Leo Franks Guilt By Proxy

The board affirmed Leo M. Franks guilt and quelled the powerful and wealthy Jewish Community, which has for 100 years has been vociferously screeching Leo M. Frank was a noble and innocent Jew, framed, railroaded and scape-goated in a vast anti-Jewish conspiracy.” By “pardoning” him, the individual is thus found guilty once again — by the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles in 1986 — of having committied the crime. Frank was NOT exonerated, not disculpated, and NOT found innocent! He was PARDONED…..and even that ONLY under incessant and heavy Jew pressure!)

References:

Leo M. Frank, Plaintiff in Error vs. State of Georgia, Defendant in Error. In Error from Fulton Superior Court at the July Term 1913. Brief of Evidence 1913: Brief of Evidence, 1913 (Click Here) .

American State Trials Volume X (1918) By John D. Lawson

Oney, Steve (2003), And the Dead Shall Rise.

Koenigsberg, Allen (2011) The Leo Frank Case and Leo Frank Yahoo.com discussion forum, see: http://www.LeoFrankCase.com

Mount Carmel Cemetery NY, where the lynched body of Leo Frank is interred http://www.mountcarmelcemetery.com/

Last Name, First Name Location Society Date of Death
FRANK, LEO 1-E-41-1035-2 NONE 08/17/1915

FRANK, RAY 1-E-41-1035-3 NONE 01/01/1925
FRANK, RUDOLPH 1-E-41-1035-4 None 01/15/1922
FRANK, SARAH 1-E-41-1035-6 None 08/01/1937
STERN, MARIAN 1-E-41-1035-12 None 04/02/1948
STERN, OTTO 1-E-41-1035-11 None 05/26/1963

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I plan to do a video this morning, with obviously me speaking, and adding it this afternoon. It will address, with all the eloquence and deep emotion I can possibly muster, the Frank-Phagan case, and the major moral and spiritual issues involved.
1) When a Jew does something wrong and gets in trouble, the other Jews rally to him, whether it is Leo Frank, Roman Polanski or Irving “Scooter Libby. Jewish response: “Is it good for the Jews?”

When a white man does something RIGHT and gets in hot water, the other whites run from him (Lindbergh — esp. after his 9/11/41 speech on the Jews — and Rockwell, and, frankly, myself). White response: “I don’t believe in this white-supremacy crap. And don’t ask for my support — get a job, mate.”)

2) The Jews’ arrogance, insolence and bullying enraged Deep South Christians who prior to this had been very judeophilic. Over and over with the Jews, “pride goeth before a fall.”

3) We must cure whites — Northerners and especially southern Protestants — of their Old Testament, apiru, neanderthalic, psychopathic Yahweh worship. We are worshipping our enemy’s god.

John

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