The feelings of Mary Phagan's mother are the main subject of this chapter as she gradually comes to terms with the fact that her daughter would never return home. On the morning of April 27, 1913, her greatest fears were confirmed.
Mary Phagan is found sexually molested and murdered in the basement of the Atlanta, Georgia, pencil factory where she worked. Her murder later led to one of the most disgraceful episodes of bigotry, injustice and mob violence in American history.
Mary Phagan's body was cold and stiff. There was evidence of dragging from the elevator shaft. A handwritten note saying a negro did it was discovered on the corpse.
Let us find out if there discrimination against Jews present during the trial. Sargent Dobbs, one of the first people on the scene, Newt Lee, the night watchman who discovered the body, and Mary Phagan's mother, take the stand and recount what happened.
In the twenty-seventh segment of this book, we learn of the letter written by murder victim Mary Phagan’s mother and stepfather, and their belief as to exactly who was responsible for the coverup of the facts about the murder of their innocent child.
In this chapter, the “death notes” left beside Mary Phagan’s body when she was murdered in 1913 have been the subject of endless speculation. Were the notes written by James Conley at the direction of Mary’s convicted killer, Leo Frank?
This is the first chapter of the book, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Vol. 3; The Leo Frank Case: The Lynching of a Guilty Man. produced by the Nation of Islam's Historical Research Group
