Connolly, C.P. The Truth about the Frank Case. Reprinted in part from Collier's Weekly. Portrait of Leo M. Frank opposite title.
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Connolly, C.P. The Truth about the Frank Case. Reprinted in part from Collier's Weekly. Portrait of Leo M. Frank opposite title.
New York: 1915
Est: $200 - $300
Exposes the Mockery of Justice in the Frank Case.
Leo Max Frank (1884-1915), a young engineer, was the only Jew to be murdered by a lynch mob in the United States. Frank was unjustly accused of the murder of 14-year-old Mary Phagan in Atlanta, Georgia on April 27, 1913, on the most flimsy of evidence. His lawyers argued his case up to the U.S. Supreme Court, turning it into a cause celebre as there is little doubt that anti-Semitism was the determining factor. On August 16th 1915, Frank was dragged from the Atlanta jailhouse by an inflamed mob and lynched. See EJ, Vol. VII, cols. 73-74.