Leo Frank was convicted in Atlanta Georgia of the April 1913 murder of a 13 yo Mary Phagan, his lawyers subsequently appealed both the conviction and the death sentence thru thirteen separate courts all the way to the Supreme Court, all of which upheld the conviction .. on June 21, 1915 Frank's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
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At around 10 pm on the night of August 16, 1915 a lynch mob consisting of twenty eight local men including Georgia Governor and the President of the Georgia Senate, the Mayor of Marietta, the County Sheriff , local tradesmen, a hangman and a lay preacher busted Frank out of Milledgeville State Penitentiary.
They handcuffed the Warden, cut the prison's telephone wires and drained the gas from their automobiles, they seized Frank and drove him on a 175 mile seven hour automobile trip to Marietta Georgia, and hanged him from the branch of a tree at around 7:00 am the following morning. .
We will say that once Frank's guilt had been established to reverse the charges so to speak, the Jews organized the lynching to swing the whole thing back in their favor, by clinging to the fiction he was innocent to convince the wider public Jews were the aggrieved parties.
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