Like many children living in Atlanta, Georgia in the early twentieth century, thirteen year old Mary Phagan no longer went to school. Instead she regularly worked ten hour days to help put food on her family’s table. Life was tough but the morning of 26th April 1913 Mary awoke excited; it was a holiday and she was looking forward to the parade later that afternoon. First she had to run an errand and collect her pay from the National Pencil Factory where she worked. Mary arrived just after midday but would never leave the factory. Over 12 hours later her murdered body was found in the dingy basement of the factory, triggering a tragic saga that continues to have wide reaching consequences over 100 years later.
You can follow Persons Unknown on Instagram and Facebook
Promo: Coffee and Cases
Background music:New direction Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/kevin-macleod/new-direction
License code: B10HVVZOHW0DTJ6O
Sources
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Frank
https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/girl-murdered-in-pencil-factory
https://amp.tennessean.com/amp/4819312002
https://www.famous-trials.com/leo-frank/38-ballad
https://www.famous-trials.com/leo-frank/27-home
https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/did-leo-frank-kill-mary-phagan-106-years-later-we-might-finally-find-out-for-sure/
https://law.jrank.org/pages/2788/Leo-Frank-Trial-1913-Little-Mary-Phagan-Murdered.html
https://law.jrank.org/pages/2789/Leo-Frank-Trial-1913-Prosecutors-Emphasize-Frank-s-Nervousness.html
https://law.jrank.org/pages/2793/Leo-Frank-Trial-1913.html
https://www.leofrank.org/the-troubling-testimony-of-alonzo-mann-in-the-murder-of-little-mary-phagan/
https://littlemaryphagan.com
https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/education-outreach/people-v-leo-frank-teachers-guide-the.pdf
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/leo-frank-case/
https://heathermonroe.medium.com/the-divisive-death-of-mary-phagan-1317c5e0c981
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/books/who-killed-mary-phagan.htm
Oney, Steve. And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank. Random House. 2004.