The Judicial Conclusion of the Leo Frank Case (1913 to 1915) and it’s Aftermath (1982 to 1986)

by Curator on April 22, 2012

What is the official consensus regarding the final legal status of Leo Frank’s guilt in the case of Mary Phagan?

1. The Coroner’s Inquest: The Coroner Paul Donehoo and six jurymen sworn under oath, visited the crime scenes of the National Pencil Company at 37-41 South Forsyth Street, and questioned more than 160 affiliated witnesses sworn under oath. At the conclusion of the Coroner’s inquest, the 7-man tribunal, voted unanimously against Leo Frank, binding him over for murder to be further investigated by the Fulton County Grand Jury. If one were to keep an accurate running total in these regards, it begins with: 7 to 0 against Leo Frank.

2. On Saturday, May 24, 1913, The Fulton County Grand Jury — including four Jews — voted unanimously 21 to 0 against Leo Frank, indicting him for murdering Mary Phagan. If one were to update the running total in these regards, the Coroner’s Inquest (7 to 0) + the Grand Jury (21 to 0) provides a total score update: 28 to 0 against Leo Frank.

3. The presiding Trial Judge Leonard Strickland Roan and 12 Jurymen, voted unanimously, 13 to 0, against Leo Frank, not only did these thirteen men provide Leo M. Frank with an affirmed verdict of guilty as charged, but they collectively sentenced Leo Frank to death with a vote of 13 to 0. When the petite Jury of 12 men unanimously recommended a death sentence for Leo Frank, if the trial Judge Leonard Strickland Roan had any doubts about the verdict or felt the trial was unfair, Roan could have, respectively, sentenced Leo M. Frank to life in prison instead, or provided him with a completely new trial. The Judge rejected Leo M. Frank’s request for a new trial on October 31, 1913. The trial Judge Leonard Strickland Roan, finally re-sentenced Leo Frank to be hanged on his 30th birthday, April 17, 1914. Would any doubting Judge do something so cruel as to sentence a convicted murderer to hang on their birthday, if they had any reservations or doubts concerning the principals guilt, or felt the principal had an unfair trial?

When the Coroner’s Inquest voted unanimously seven to zero against Leo Frank, is added to the Grand Jury’s unanimous vote of twenty-one to zero against Leo Frank, is added to the trial judge and jury’s unanimous vote of thirteen to zero against Leo Frank – if we keep an accurate count in these regards, the total running score update is: 41 to 0 against Leo Frank. The number only ascends from 41 to 0 against Leo Frank, as two years of failed appeals unfurled between 1913 to 1915 sustaining the verdict of the judge and jury.

4. Georgia Supreme Court’s Majority Decision was more than once against Leo Frank. They ruled the evidence was sufficient to render a guilty verdict.

5. United States District Court ensured Leo Frank would be reviewed by the highest tribunal of the United States of America.

6. In 1914 and 1915, the United States Supreme Court Majority Decision ruled against Leo Frank and finally they unanimously voted that no further reviews of the case would be considered.

7. Governor John Slaton commutes death sentence of his client Leo Frank to life in prison: In 1915, the Governor of Georgia, John Marshall Slaton, specifically stated in his June 21, 1915, commutation order, that he was sustaining the verdict of the Leo Frank trial jury and appeals courts decisions, and thus ultimately he was preserving the verdict of guilt rendered against Leo Frank by the trial judge and jury. That’s an executive gubernatorial vote of 1 to 0 against Leo M. Frank for preserving his guilt, especially in light of commuting Frank’s death sentence to life in prison, an equal punishment for the crime of murder. Some could argue a life sentence for a child rapist and strangler is far worse than hanging given prison politics. What every Leo Frank partisan book fails to enunciate is the full weight of the fact that Governor John M. Slaton was a member of the most powerful Lawfirm in Georgia, called ‘Rosser, Brandon, Slaton and Phillips’ (the ‘Slaton’ was Governor John M. Slaton) that represented Leo Frank at his trial and appeals to the Georgia Supreme Court. Governor Slaton had committed a gross conflict of interest and betrayal of his oath of office when he commuted the death sentence of his own law client.

8. In 1954, Lucille Selig Frank signed, notarized and registered her last will and testament, registering it with the local government of Atlanta. Lucille’s will specifically requested her remains be cremated and before passing away, she told the closest members of her family to disburse the ashes in an Atlanta park. The empty grave site (#1) reserved for Lucille Selig Frank to the left of Leo Frank (#2) in the Mount Carmel Cemetery is a silent ballot for the verdict against Leo Frank from the woman who once sat by her husband faithfully during his two year ordeal of court appearances and hearings.

9. The Alonzo Mann Affair and Posthumous Pardon of Leo Frank (1982 to 1986): The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on March 11, 1986, though issuing a highly political, but ultimately hollow pardon in 1986, did not exonerate Leo frank of strangling Mary Phagan. Thus the board did not disturb the verdict of guilt rendered against Leo Frank by the trial Judge and Jury in 1913. By not exonerating Leo Frank of murder the board also sustained the Grand Jury, appellate tribunals that reviewed the case and Governor John M. Slaton, that also sustained the verdict of guilt 71 years prior. What the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles did by preserving the verdict of guilt for Leo Frank, the last and final time, they also appeased the powerful Jewish lobby and community that considers themselves above the law.

By the act of not disturbing the verdict of the jury from 1913 to 1986, every single level of the United States legal system preserved the verdict of guilt originally rendered against Leo Frank by the Judge and Jury in the summer of 1913.

The guilt of Leo Max Frank convicted for the murder of Mary Phagan is black letter settled law and the case is judicially a closed matter, but for more than 100 years, the Jews and their goyim sycophants have continued to use the case as another social-political front in their multifront culture, genetic and race war against Western Civilization to viciously agitate, deracinate, subvert, demoralize, divide and antagonize Gentiles.

References:

Leo Frank Case Bibliography

Last Updated: April 26, 2012

The Biography of Leo Max Frank (Thursday, April 17, 1884, to Tuesday Morning, August 17, 1915) and the Bludgeoning, Rape and Strangulation of Little Mary Anne Phagan on Saturday, April 26, 1913, Between 12:05 pm and 12:10 pm, maybe 12:07 pm.

by Curator on April 22, 2012

The Leo Frank Affair (1913 to 1915) and its aftermath (1915 to 1986), What Really Happened?

Welcome to the Leo Frank Case Research Library Archive, the largest online collection of primary sources concerning the life (1884 – 1915), and Legacy (1915 to 2015) of Leo Frank, who was convicted of strangling 13 year old little Mary Anne Phagan on Confederate Memorial Day, Saturday, April 26, 1913. New updates and materials are added to this site on a regular basis, so please check back often when time permits.

The Leo Frank Epic Saga (1913 to 2013)

One hundred years of smears, rumors, lies, omissions, fabrications, spin, fraud, criminal activity, defamation, misrepresentations, slander, and deceit are all about to be exposed to the light of truth, now that finally, the official legal records of the Leo M. Frank Georgia Supreme Court Case File, and 1913 Trial Brief of Evidence are available online.

Primary Sources of the Leo Frank Case

Learn all the juicy details about the Leo Frank Case, never before published anywhere else in the world, until they were first made available online through the Leo Frank Research Library Archive. Start by reading, studying and cross referencing the official Georgia Supreme Court Case files and documents on Leo Frank 1913, 1914, divided in two high resolution digital volumes numbering in total 1,800 black and white images @ http://www.leofrank.org/images/georgia-supreme-court-case-files/ (click on folders 1 and 2).

Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence

The Georgia Supreme Court Case Files on Leo Frank also contains the summer of 1913 Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, 1913. Other legal documents contained in the Leo Frank Research Library Archive are Leo Frank’s Georgia, Federal District and United State’s Supreme Court appeals and decisions, that were rendered by the respective tribunals – numbering hundreds of pages. The complete record of Leo Frank legal documents surviving into the 21st is in the 2,500+ page range.

Time Constraints

If you don’t have a few years of free study time available for the Leo M. Frank Georgia Supreme Court Case file and 1913 Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, and would rather just cut to the chase, read about the four separate and distinct incidents amounting to Leo Frank Murder Confession(s). The first and second Leo Frank murder confessions, were both made privately on April 26, 1913, to Jim Conley and Lucille Selig Frank, but eventually these incidents became public by a most curious way in May and June of 1913. The third and fourth incidents amounting to Leo Frank murder confessions were made publicly by Leo Frank, during his trial on August 18, 1913, and through a jailhouse interview published in the Atlanta Constitution, March 9, 1914. Out of four incidents amounting to Leo Frank murder confessions, the first, second and third can be sifted from the official Georgia legal records.

The Bludgeoning, Rape and Strangulation of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank

The Mary Phagan Autopsy Report provides glimpses of what happened to the victim on Confederate Memorial Day, Saturday, April 26, 1913, between 12:05 pm and 12:10 pm. The four separate and distinct Leo Frank murder confessions, and the resulting lynching of Leo Frank two years later, speaks volumes about the culture of the South at the time, especially regarding extrajudicial “vigilante justice”, before (pre 1890′s) and during (1890s to the 1920s), the Southern Progressive Era.

Daily Newspaper Accounts on the Leo Frank Case (1913 to 1915)

Whether new or familiar to the Leo Frank Case, chances are most people never had the opportunity or time to read the original period Atlanta newspaper accounts of the case for practical reasons. However the difficulty in acquiring these scarce physical newspapers remains the same, but at least now these records are slowly making their way online via high resolution digital scanning conducted by archival historians. The Atlanta newspapers provide the earliest coverage of the day to day events from the murder of Mary Phagan onward. Begin first with reviewing the articles published by the major local dailies. The three biggest Atlanta GA newspapers, that provide the best daily accounts of the events and incidents concerning the Case of Leo Frank, from 1913 through 1915, are: the Atlanta Constitution, The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Georgian.

A very brief highlevel history and evolution of these press organs, begins chronologically with the Atlanta Constitution, founded in 1868, the Atlanta Journal founded in 1883, and the Atlanta Georgian founded in 1906. The Atlanta Georgian was purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1912, invigorating it’s circulation using the Yellow Journalism formula, however, it ceased publication in 1939 after the sheet was sold to James M. Cox, and then consolidated into the Atlanta Journal (another paper Cox acquired). Any learned economist will tell you there is something to be said about the potentially lucrative nature of effective mergers, acquisitions and downsizing, especially when buying up your competitors. More than six decades after the Atlanta Journal digested the Atlanta Georgian, in the final consolidation of Georgian media power, the Atlanta Constitution and Atlanta Journal merged together becoming the Atlanta Journal Constitution (www.AJC.com) in 2001. Three once competing newspapers, essentially became one media monolith, perhaps it was inevitable, but whether such tendencies benefit the public in the short, mid and long term is debatable.

Weekly Newspapers on the Leo Frank Case (1914 to 1917)

In 1914, Thomas Edward Watson, a notable Georgian politician, and seasoned lawyer, joined in the fray with firey opinion pieces on the Leo Frank Case in his weekly Jeffersonian Newspaper. The reports are filled with venom, energy, sarcasm and wit, in an effort against what Watson and the majority of Georgians perceived as outside meddling in Georgia’s internal legal affairs by Jewish controlled newspapers, and periodicals, influencing other national media outlets on the Leo Frank case in a subversive, perfidious and treacherous manner. Leo Frank became the darling of the National Media that was evolving into the “Global “Jewsmedia. Leo Frank became a crucified Christ figure and Cause Celebre for the Jewish Community and European-American’s who never actually read the official Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence. In 1915, Leo Frank would become a Jewish Martyr of anti-Semitism and regional prejudice.

Monthly Magazines on the Leo Frank Case: Watson’s Magazine vs. “The Jewsmedia”

Watson’s Magazine (1915) August, and September issues provide the best analysis of the Leo Frank trial testimony and the October issue describes the assault on Georgia, by what Watson and his allies perceived as National Jewish media control. 21st century anti-Semites call the domination of the International media by Jews, “The Jewsmedia”.

For more details about what was reported in local or national newspapers and other periodicals at the time, visit the Leo Frank print media section of the Leo Frank Research Library Archive.

The Official Leo Frank Trial Transcript: Which side, defense or prosecution, benefited the most by obfuscating the subtle nuances from the testimony?

In the early part of the 1960′s, the colossal 7-volume Leo Frank trial (July 28 to August 21, 1913) transcript went missing. After more than 50 years of this official transcript having disappeared, it is presumed to be lost forever.

The Newspaper Version of the Leo Frank Trial Transcript

Fortunately the three major-local Atlanta press-organs, The: Journal, Constitution and Georgian, provided reasonably accurate records and transcripts of the Leo Frank trial’s proceedings day to day, and more importantly, the questions asked during trial examination by the two lead defense counselors (Luther Z. Rosser, Reuben Rose Arnold) and two lead prosecution counselors (Hugh M. Dorsey, Frank Arthur Hooper), with the direct responses by witnesses. If there are any conflicts or disputes between the reportage of trial questions and answers within the three major Atlanta newspaper dailies, the 1913 Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence ratified by the Leo Frank Legal Defense Team Counselors, and the State of Georgia’s Prosecution team Counselors, ultimately provides an official final arbiter.

Post Conviction

After the trial, the three Atlanta newspapers, continued to report on the most significant and noteworthy events during Leo Frank’s dramatic two year long appeals process, that began on August 27, 1913, as the case unravelled to its second violent and tragic conclusion in the late summer of 1915, on the morning of August 17th in Marietta, Georgia (1200 Roswell Rd) at 7:17 am. Leo Frank was executed, embalmed and shipped to NYC by train with Lucille.

How to Study the Leo Frank Case Primary Sources

Once you have read, first, Atlanta’s daily newspaper accounts of the events, and second, the official Leo Frank 1913 trial brief of evidence, lastly, read the definitive account never before published online: The official Georgia Supreme Court Case File on Leo Frank in 2 volumes (click 1 and 2) with 1,800 high resolution pages. New information about Leo Frank not published in his 1913 trial brief of evidence is released in the Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Case file.

Some of the documents of the case are rated-R, so parental discretion is advised.

Warning: Viewers Must be 21 years of age or older to read the Georgia Supreme Court Case File on Leo Frank.

After studying the primary sources of the Leo Frank case ask yourself the following questions:

1. Does the testimony and evidence given at the trial of Leo Frank, accusing him of strangling Mary Phagan, support a murder conviction beyond a reasonable doubt? If so or not, why?

2. Was every level of the United States Legal System from 1913 to 1986 likely correct in not disturbing the verdict of the 1913 Leo Frank Trial Jury and Judge? Why or Why not?

Secondary Sources (1913 to 2013):

With the exception of ‘The Murder of Mary Phagan’ (1989) by Mary Phagan Kean, the great niece of Mary Phagan (1899 to 1913), most secondary source authors, and journalists, have re-told the Leo Frank case in a manner that differs significantly from the primary sources, with countless errors and omissions concerning testimony and evidence, thus transforming the Leo Frank case from a true story about a perverted pedophile committing a sexual crime of passion, into a kind of pathological mythology about a wrongful conviction rendered against an innocent Jewish man who suffered the worst example of persecution and collective Gentile anti-Semitism in the United States of America. For the Jewish community the emotional truth is that Leo Frank Affair is the American Dreyfus Affair.

The Ultimate Goal of the Leo Frank Research Library Archive

It is the highest hope of the Leo Frank Research Library Archive that between 2013 and 2015, when the murder of Mary Phagan, and Leo Frank lynching goes viral in the media, the skeptical and open minded individual members of the public will do a little exploring on the search engines and discover the primary sources of the case.

Now that finally all the primary sources of the case are online, it is hoped the public will make their own intelligent, informed and independent decisions as to the accuracy and veracity concerning the retelling of the case by Hollywood, the media, secondary source authors, journalists, law professors, lawyers, historians, scholars, academics, social and political writers.

Finally, it is the hope of the Leo Frank Research Library Archive that the complete set of all Leo M. Frank legal documents are made available online through every Law School Library, in every English speaking country in the world, and that the case becomes a required subject of study for law students in every Law School located within the United States of America and her territories.

Welcome to The Biography of Leo Max Frank:

How to explore the library

Study the Primary Sources of the Case: Newspaper Accounts, and Legal Records.

Introduction: About the Leo Frank Research Library Archive

Chronology of the Leo Frank Epic Saga and aftermath

The Frank Family Background and Early Days of Leo Frank during his most Formative Years

The Premier Education, Business Opportunities and Experience of Leo Frank: The High School Days of Leo Frank and The Alma Mater of Leo Frank and Post College Work Experience.

Leo Frank in Atlanta Georgia between 1907 to 1915, and a European Sojourn:

The Biography of Mrs. Lucille Selig Frank

Mary Phagan Autopsy Report

The Coroner Paul V. Donehoo Opens the Coroner’s Inquest Investigation

The Grand Jury Investigation

Murder Trial Testimony

Conviction and Appeals

The Summer of 1915: The Commutation, Riots, Shanking and Lynching of Leo Max Frank.

The Alonzo Mann Affair

References:

Bibliography of the Leo Max Frank Epic Saga.

Essential Primary Sources of the Leo Frank Trial and State Appeals:

Leo M. Frank Georgia Supreme Court Case File (1,800 Images Volumes 1 & 2)

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

Leo Frank Discussion Forum:

If you want to ask one of the worlds foremost Leo M. Frank scholar questions about the Leo Max Frank case, contact Allen Koenigsberg. Post your public questions: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LeoFrankCase/. The Leo Frank Case Library and Archive (www.LeoFrank.org) is not affiliated with Allen Koenigsberg and the Leo Frank Yahoo Discussion Group.

Last Updated: April 26, 2012

Leo Frank Got Shanked in Prison on July 17, 1915, by William Creen

April 17, 2012

A Prison dorm at the Milledgeville Prison where Leo Frank was Incarcerated from June 22, 1915 to August 16, 1915 July 17, 1915 – Leo Frank Shanked Leo Frank was attacked at the State Farm Prison in Milledgeville on July 17, 1915, by a fellow convict named William Creen, who slashed Leo’s throat using a [...]

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The Conviction of Leo Frank, Monday Evening, August 25, 1913.

April 17, 2012

The Jury were given their orders from the Judge Leonard Stickland Roan after Hugh M. Dorsey completed his closing arguments that ended at noon on Monday, August 25, 1913. The Jury began deliberation at 1:30pm, at one point during the review a vote was taken and the result was 11 to 1. As a result [...]

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What’s his name?

April 17, 2012

Mr. Leo Max Frank One of the rarest, earliest and clearest vintage photos of Leo M. Frank taken nearly 72 hours after the murder of Mary Phagan by Press Photographer Mr. Price on Tuesday afternoon, April 28, 1913, at the Atlanta Police Station for the Atlanta Constitution newspaper. The brown tweed suit Leo Frank is [...]

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Reuben Rose Arnold

December 28, 2010

The argument of Reuben Rose Arnold in PDF and OCR Text versions. Argument of Reuben Rose Arnold at the Trial of Leo M. Frank (PDF version – Right mouse click and save as). The Trial of Leo Frank, Reuben R. Arnold’s Address to the Court on his Behalf in October 1913. Introduction by Alvin V. [...]

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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.

October 5, 2010

The month long Leo Frank trial for the murder of Mary Phagan took place from July 28, 1913 to Aug 26, 1913. The trial testimony and questions were captured as a stenographic record, in total, numbered approximately 1,080,060 words (Phagan Kean, 1989), in a 7 volume set, on over 3,647 pages of legal cap paper [...]

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Arguments of Hugh M. Dorsey in the Criminal Trial of Leo M. Frank Indicted for the Murder of Mary Phagan

September 20, 2010

Click Here for the Long Version: Hugh M. Dorsey Download: Argument of Hugh M. Dorsey at the Trial of Leo M. Frank in Adobe PDF format. Published in 1914, this 146-page book, based on the trial transcript, contains the text of some, but not all, of the nine hours of closing arguments prosecutor Dorsey made [...]

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Photographs & Images Surrounding the Leo M. Frank Case

August 28, 2010

We have uploaded hundreds of Leo Frank-related images for you. We will eventually incorporate these images into pages and create thumbnail galleries that explain their meaning and significance. Here are the categories for the images. Click on one of them to see all the images for that particular category. For the Full Leo Frank MEGA [...]

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What’s New? Leo M. Frank Library Addendum, Article, Magazine and Book Additions

August 12, 2010

The following elusive items were added to the Leo Frank Case and Trial Research Library and Archive: Brief of Evidence July 28, 1913 to August 25, 1913: The online ‘Internet Archive’ version of Leo M. Frank, Plaintiff in Error, vs. State of Georgia, Defendant in Error. In Error from Fulton Superior Court at the July [...]

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