Leo Max Frank: Rape-Murder

Leo Max Frank was born 17 Apr 1884 in Cuero, TX to Rudolf Frank (1844-1922) & Rachel Jacobs (1859-1925).

I could not find a mugshot of Leo but I did find his prison records

Inmate:

Rec: 21 Jun 1915

Crime: Rape-Murder

Fulton, GA

He was the President at the National Pencil Factory where a little murdered girl was found. Her name was Mary Phagan she was 14 years old.

Mary Phagan murdered 26 Apr 1913

The trial

Newspaper articles:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83468077/leo-max-frank/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83468900/leo-max-frank/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83468510/leo-max-frank/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83468364/leo-max-frank/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83467945/leo-max-frank/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83468999/leo-max-frank/

Records:

Photos:

His wife Lucille Selig (888-1957)

The allegedly real killer

James Conley was employed at the factor as a janitor.

An article 106 years later

https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/did-leo-frank-kill-mary-phagan-106-years-later-we-might-finally-find-out-for-sure/

Alonzo Mann

Revelations of 83-year-old Alonzo Mann, who as a 14-year-old was Frank’s office assistant. In a deposition, Mann swore that on the day of the murder, he entered the factory lobby and saw Conley carrying Phagan’s body. Conley, Mann said, threatened that if he mentioned this to anyone, he’d kill him.

On 17 Aug 1915 25 members of a secret vigilante group, entered Milledgeville Prison Farm, without any resistance they took Leo on a 175 mile ride to Marietta, GA. Mary's Hometown, and they lynched him before a howling crowd. They proudly posed with his hanging dead body with it's broken neck.