Inside The Lynching Of Leo Frank, The Jewish Businessman Wrongly Convicted Of Murder In Georgia
In 1913, Leo Frank was found guilty of killing 13-year-old Mary Phagan, even though no physical evidence linked him to the crime. Two years later, a mob lynched him for it. On August 17 , 1915 , a Georgia rabble lynch Leo Frank , a Jewish world convicted of murder whose death sentence had just been commuted to life in prison house by the governor . Two years sooner , a panel sent Frank to prison for killing a 13 - year - old girl named Mary Phagan , who worked at the pencil factory he deal ....