Argument of Hugh M. Dorsey, Solicitor-General, Atlanta Judicial Circuit, at the Trial of Leo M. Frank, Charged with the Murder of Mary Phagan.

An Ingnominous Chapter in the History of U. S. Justice. Leo Max Frank (1884-1915), a young engineer, was the only Jew to be killed 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.