Connolly, C.P. The Truth about the Frank Case. Reprinted in part from Collier's Weekly. Portrait of Leo M. Frank opposite title.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA

New York

1915

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.