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An ugly & easily exposed attempt to coverup a horrifying murder committed by a pedophile, serial rapist & convicted child killer

By Mark Cohen on September 6, 2011

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‘The Silent and the Damned: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank’, authored by Robert Seitz Frey & Nancy C. Thompson (First edition published 1988, second release 2002, Kindle version 2012), is yet another pseudo-scholarly treatment of the Mary Phagan murder case, amounting to nothing more than a maudlin hagiography about the life & tribulations of Leo Max Frank (1884 – 1915). These are conclusions most people will arrive at after fact-checking this book & its references against the primary sources of this famous case, therefore this monograph can accurately be summed up in total as: shamelessly weak on the facts & based on contemptuous omissions.

Here’s a tiny little snapshot of examples concerning the minor errors that fill every chapter of this book:

The authors of this book quote from Leo Frank’s 1906 college yearbook, concerning a number of facts about him, for instance stating he weighed 130lbs, but the original source they cited actually says he was 145lbs (Cornell Senior Class Book, 1906, pages 344 & *345*). Mary Phagan was NOT born in Marietta, Georgia, during the year 1900, she was born hundreds of miles away in Florence, Alabama, on June 1st, 1899. « John Phagan » (the wrong name listed as Mary Phagan’s biological father) did not passaway in the year 1911, William Joshua Phagan (the correct name of Mary Phagan’s biological father) died from measles more than a decade prior, in February of 1899 (yes, Mary Phagan was indeed a posthumous daughter). Leo Frank did NOT marry Lucille Selig in October of 1910, but specifically November 30th (Frank-Selig Wedding Certificate, 1910; Atlanta Journal, Dec 1st, 1910, society pages). Leo Frank’s father, Rudolph Frank, born in 1844, was not 67 years old in 1913, because in 1913 he turned 69. The list of minor errors literally goes on on & on…

26 years of Garbage-In-Garbage-Out: 1986 to 2012.

To be fair, even meticulous authors can make mistakes, but when the hard facts mangled outnumber the book’s pages, something is definitely amiss. There seems to be a pattern here, because I noticed the same level of carelessness concerning the facts found within the author’s Master’s degree thesis (« The Case of Leo Frank M. Frank in The Continuum of American History: An Assessment of Christian Responses ». Masters of Arts Degree in History, June 1986, Baltimore Hebrew College, Maryland). What seems to matter most in the political charged world of academia & mainstream book publishing industry are the perpetuation of racist anti-Gentile lies & anti-Southern politically correct conclusions, not the facts. Moreover, what is most disconcerting about this book is not the minor errors that fill every page, but the major errors found woven together throughout every chapter, including some odious references. The most significant errors found in this book involve misquoting & misrepresenting the Leo Frank trial transcript of testimony, evidence & exhibits contained within the 3,000 pages of official legal records. Therefore for clarity & brevity, we will review some of the most striking examples below.

The One Hundred Year Old Anti-Semitic Hate Crime Hoax:

The Atlanta Police investigation into the bludgeoning, rape, strangulation & mutilation of Mary Phagan that lead to the murder indictment & trial of Leo Frank has been often described over the last 100 years by Leo Frank’s defenders as an anti-Semitic miscarriage of justice, but nothing could be further from the truth once we closely examine the official trial records & appeals petitions. This peculiar & complex criminal affair is one of the most well documented in the annals of Southern jurisprudence, so there is really no excuse for the vagrantly sloppy research contained within this pathological « Gentile-vs-Jews » tribally myopic disinformation agitprop book. The Official Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence (1913) — ratified by three parties: trial judge, defense & prosecution teams — & Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court records (1913, 1914), survived in their entirety into the 21st century & are easily accessible to researchers, students & scholars, so there really is absolutely no justification for these authors falsifying these official legal records publicly available from the State of Georgia’s Archives. Since the odious inclusions by these authors can be easily verified for whether or not they are accurate or not, the central question remains: Why would these authors invest so many years of their lives working on this book & yet still allow an uncountable number of factual errors in this latest edition?

The suppositions contained within this book, reveals an ugly racial extremist agenda by its authors, ultimately answering this question definitively!

Directed at White & Black Southerners, the racist anti-Gentile & anti-Southern activist authors waste no time deliberately making unfounded blood-libel insinuations, promoting century-long hate crime hoaxes, & perpetuating false accusations about vast anti-Jewish conspiracies against Leo Frank. Which is why most of the claims & conclusions in this rendition of the Leo Frank epic saga, do not even stand up to minimal academic scrutiny or fact-checking.

This hate filled propaganda book wrongfully indicts the whole state of Georgia, by suggesting its police, government officials & citizenry, willfully, & collectively participated in railroading & then assassinating an « innocent » man, primarily because he was Jewish. This despite the reality that German-Jews were generally regarded in the Old South by Gentiles of all classes, as upstanding, productive & law abiding citizens. Furthermore, the consensus of Southern Jewish & Gentile historians has always been, then & now, that European-American Southerners in the segregationist South, treated & respected Jews as White equals, but the same can not be said for how Blacks were treated during the progressive era & the generations afterwards.

The real purpose of this book is meant to be is another deracinating bludgeon in the 100 year long racist Jewish-Gentile culture war that began in 1913, contining today with renewed vicious ferocity. This conflict is lead by an insidiously racist & agitating minority within the organized Jewish community that has always historically been known to be at perpetual war against the majority’s hegemony & culture. The expressed intention of creating this conflict is demoralizing White-Americans for their once prevailing tradition of ethnic solidarity, ironically by some of the most ethnically paranoid zealots, racial extremists & xenophobic people on earth. You can see this tendency reflected in most of the books written on the Frank-Phagan case in the last 100 years.

More people than at any other time in history are asking the forbidden question: Why is it that most of the same people who incessantly express concern about widespread anti-Semitic racist conspiracies, often promote the status quo of Apartheid Israel as an ethnocentric ‘Jewish State’ (one that is indisputably known for having committed state-sanctioned racist crimes against humanity during the last 60+ years & provides no voting, political, social or civil rights for the non-Jewish people illegally occupied under International Law)? Israel « democratic »? Palestinians in the occupied territories can’t even vote.

The bottom line is that racism, prejudice & bigotry directed against other people is wrong no matter who it comes from & unacceptable no matter who it is directed at, & yet these authors blinded by bigoted ethnocentric tunnel vision are so pathologically obsessed with falsely accusing Southern Gentiles with anti-Semitism, they failed to mention all the deliciously juicy details of the diabolically racist plot Leo Frank botched when his gambit to frame his Negro nightwatchman Newt Lee, with a forged time card and planted bloody shirt, fell apart in 48 hours into the investigation of Mary Phagan’s death. The authors also conveniently omitted the well documented tirade of anti-Black gutter racism spewed by Leo Frank’s legal defense team against the Negro Jim Conley during the trial’s closing arguments.

From the perspective of Leo Frank Case historians not suffering from pathological tribal myopia, who have spent several uninterrupted years studying the official trial & appeals records, & read every single local Atlanta newspaper account of the whole ordeal from 1913 to 1915, this ill-conceived book does not measure up to the level of scholarly research & historical accuracy you would expect from the experienced technical writers who authored this latest edition. Simply put, they omitted, fabricated or twisted out of context the vast majority of evidence provided from witnesses who testified in this case. This is easily confirmed by reading the coroner’s inquest & trial testimony published in the Atlanta Journal, Constitution & Georgian newspapers, from from April to August, 1913, that all together can be easily compared to the official trial transcript digest of testimony (BOE, 1913).

Brimming with half-truths, misrepresentations, fabrications and omissions, most of which are not obvious to the average person, the authors chose to leave out the SUPER vast majority of relevant pre-trial evidence uncovered by investigators against Leo Frank during the critical first 48 hours and subsequent Coroner’s Official Inquest (April 30 to May 8). Anyone who takes the time to study the several thousand pages of official Leo Frank case legal documents (that fortunately survived into the 21st century, despite underhanded efforts to purge them), will quickly come to the conclusion that the authors of this book never bothered to carefully read, study & sift the appeals records in the Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Case Files, nor do they accurately report what was really argued at the trial & why it mattered. It’s easy to understand why people cringe in disbelief when they read this impetuous book, particularly at how recklessly it was formulated.

Spoiler Alert: This book is another clumsily concocted attempt to humanize the image of the convicted child strangler, Leo Max Frank –the prominent Atlanta president of B’nai B’rith who served from September 1912 to 1914 — whose conviction galvanizing the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith founding of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on October 20, 1913.

So now we come around full circle to the reoccurring question that comes to everyone’s mind as they fact check this book: Why would Nancy C. Thompson-Frey and Robert Seitz Frey go to such extreme lengths to obfuscate the facts and twist the events of the Leo Frank Case?

Perhaps the longtime modern leader of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (ADL), can give us the answer:

« The authors are to be commended for this calm, dispassionate, yet chilling story of how bigotry can kill a man and destroy a system of justice…. Must reading! » -Abraham H. Foxman, National Director, Anti-Defamation League (ADL of B’nai B’rith).

The ADL, Born in Blood:

The conviction of Leo Frank, so often cited as inspiring the creation of Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith in 1913, has ever since then, resulted in numerous books having been written about the Leo Frank Case in this same vein of manufacturing mythological anti-Semitism where there was none, attempting to re-write history, rehabilitate Leo Frank into a hero-martyr & cover-up an embarrassingly heinous scandal that can’t be buried.

The ADL web site suggests that racist mobs of people were shouting murderous anti-Jewish slogans into the open court room windows at the Judge & Jury during the 1913 summer trial of Leo Frank, & that anti-Semitism was the reason Leo Frank was convicted, Direct ADL Quote:

« Hang the Jew, Hang the Jew. » This was the cry of the furious mob outside the Atlanta courthouse where Leo Frank, a Northern Jew, stood trial after his arrest in 1913 for a murder he did not commit. Anti-Semitism hung heavy in the courtroom as Frank was found guilty and sentenced to death (see: History of the ADL on their main website and Abraham Foxman’s Op-ed August 18, 2005).

The Century-Long Anti-Jewish Hate Crime Hoax Uncovered:

If there was even a drop of anti-Semitism leading up to the indictment or during the Leo Frank trial, why is it not mentioned in Leo Frank’s numerous petitions and appeals between 1913 – 1915 that number in the thousands of pages? Why is it not mentioned in any of the three major local Atlanta newspaper accounts (Constitution, Georgian and Journal) that had teams of reporters inside and outside the courtroom meticulously documenting the events of the trial? Surely, something so noteworthy of a mistrial, disruptive mobs of yahoos screaming racist murder into the windows of the trial’s courtroom, would have been mentioned. This book commended by Abe Foxman is guilty of perpetuating it’s own version of this ADL Hate Crime Hoax and racist anti-Gentile blood libel.

Frey and Thompson, Chapter 4, The Verdict, Quote:

Through the blistering days of summer the trial unfolded amidst the very real presence of an anti-Jewish mob spirit. The streets were thronged with people demanding the conviction of « the damned Jew. » The crowd, some allegedly armed, applauded, jeered, and laughed through out the trial. Judge Roan had made repeated, but timid, efforts to maintain a semblance of order. Spectators in the courtroom sat directly behind the jurors. The jury could surely feel the palpable presence and sentiment of the crowd. Because of the heat, the windows in the city hall building were open and the heads of people standing in the street were practically level with the sills of these open windows. A group of men sat on the roof of a shed outside the window just ten feet behind the judge and the witness chair. « The mob was breathing vengeance in the very face of the judge and jury. »

In reality, Jews were not historically known in the South for committing such vicious & perverted crimes of violence. Italians, Greeks & Russians were European sub-species that were thought to be more prone to crime and were ranked significantly below Jews and Anglo-Saxons. If anything, it would have been infinitely easier to convict the Negro James « Jim » Conley with less evidence against him, than Leo Frank, who was very well connected in the organized Jewish community, especially because he was Atlanta president of the 500 member Jewish fraternal organization B’nai B’rith.

Leo Frank the Serial Pedophile:

Now that the State of Georgia is scanning all legal records of Leo Frank’s trial & appeals, slowly making them available online, the public is soon going to learn about another unpublicized child rape committed by Leo Frank, one involving a very sadistic twist. More than a year prior to the rape-murder of Mary Phagan on April 26, 1913, Leo Frank raped one of his young child laborers, causing her to become pregnant. She was shipped off to a home for unwed teenage mothers in Ohio. After initially defiling the little girl, Leo Frank descended between the legs of this child, plunged his teeth so rabidly into the inner most region of her thy (adjacent to her genitals), that he permanently scarified her flesh. Luckily she survived to tell of the incident during Leo Frank’s appeals (Georgia Supreme Court Records, 1913, 1914). This revelation of psychopathic perversion is left out of Leo Frank partisan books, because it tends to corroborate the 19 pre-teen & teenage girls, and former employee’s of the National Pencil Company, that testified under oath at Leo Frank’s murder trial, affirming & sustaining his reputation for behavioral patterns of aggressive sexual predation against little children.

What the authors also left out of this unworthy book is the Mary Phagan murder investigation:

During the Coroner’s Tribunal (late April to May 8), Leo Frank testified under oath he had never used the bathroom all day on April 26, 1913 – not that he didn’t remember using it, but that he hadn’t used the bathroom at all. Leo Frank also repeatedly swore to an alibi during the official Coroner’s Inquest on Monday, May 5th, 1913 and Thursday, May 8th, 1913, stating that he never left his office after Mary Phagan had arrived & left him alone on April 26, 1913, between noon and 12:20pm. Prior to Leo Frank making these statements at the Coroner’s Inquest, he also gave the exact same murder alibi to Atlanta Police Detective John R. Black and Pinkerton Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott on Sunday, May 4th, 1913, while imprisoned in jail at the station house.

What these pathetic authors also failed to mention is on Sunday, April 27, 1913, Leo Frank told the Atlanta police Mary Phagan came into his office at 12:03pm.

Meet 14-year old Monteen Stover:

What Leo Frank didn’t know at the time he stated his murder alibi about having never left his office or going to the bathroom, is that another one of his child laborers, one he also temporarily laid off, named Monteen Stover, had come to his office to collect her wages. Stover arrived just minutes after Mary Phagan & found Leo Frank’s office perplexingly empty as she waited between 12:05pm & 12:10pm. When Monteen Stover revealed this timeline incident at the trial, it resulted in Leo Frank completely changing his 4-month-long-maintained murder alibi. About half an hour into Leo Frank’s trial statement that he had given orally to the jury, he explained where he might have supposedly been & why his office seemed empty during that critical time & in doing so, Leo Frank solved the murder of Mary Phagan…

Grand Jury Indictment of Leo M. Frank:

On Saturday, May 24, 1913, after a two week murder investigation & hearing numerous witnesses testify under oath, the Fulton County Grand Jurors, voted unanimously, 21 to 0 against Leo Frank, indicting him for the murder of Mary Phagan. Several of the grand jurymen were Jews, placing serious doubt about the perpetual cri-de-wolf of anti-Semitism concerning the investigation into the murder of Mary Phagan that led to the indictment of Leo Frank. With all the real instances of anti-Semitism in the world, artificially fabricating instances of it only cheapens the genuine cause against it. And there are no shortages of snake oil salesmen, quack professors & fear-mongering activists who make a living off of inventing anti-Semitic hate crime hoaxes (read my review of Leonard Dinnerstein’s ‘The Leo Frank Case’).

What’s the real reason the Grand Jury indicted Leo Frank? The authors of this book failed to mention the full extent of who testified & who did not testify at the Grand Jury hearings, so that the reader would be unable to draw their own conclusions about what was revealed & why the Grandjurors likely voted unanimously against Leo Frank. With this list of witness names, the average researcher could easily read what these same witnesses later restated at the Leo Frank trial in the summer of 1913. Moreover, Jim Conley did NOT testify at the Grand Jury hearings, but Monteen Stover DID, & this among other things is the crux of suppression by these authors: Monteen Stover, the girl who defended Leo Frank’s character & ironically cracked his alibi wide open.

State of Georgia vs. Leo M. Frank:

The 4-week long Leo Frank murder trial began with its first witness on the afternoon of Monday, July 28, 1913, with Newt Lee the last to testify that afternoon. Day after day, witness after witness, the curiously intriguing details of State’s witnesses were conveniently left out of this book. Such utter contempt for legal history is inexcusable.

By Monday, August 4, 1913, Jim Conley testified at the trial for three grueling days, stating he found Mary Phagan dead adjacent to the metal department’s bathroom entryway (State’s Exhibit A), that is after Leo Frank confessed to assaulting Phagan in the metal room when she refused to have sex with him. Leo Frank’s legal defense dream team – made up of the best legal minds in all of Georgia – spent 3 days using every trick in the book to try and trip up & impeach this accessory-after-the-fact to the murder of Mary Phagan, but Rosser & Arnold were unable to do so & what they actually did was foolishly draw out of Conley information about Leo Frank’s escapades with Atlanta prostitutes at the factory.

Jim Conley Admits to Writing the Murder Notes:

The murder notes found by the dead body of 13-year-old Mary Phagan dumped in the rear of the basement, describe her going to « make water » (urinating) at the only place she would have gone to the bathroom in the factory. Namely, the metal department’s bathroom, it would have been the only bathroom Phagan would have used when she left Leo Frank’s office on the second floor, because there was no accessible bathroom on the first floor of the NPCo, & the toilet in the rear of the dark-dingy basement was racially segregated for « Negroes Only ». Leo Frank forgot to jimmy open the locked door on the first floor lobby leading to the office space of former Clark woodenware company, that departed on January 17, 1913, because the police found the door locked, as the owner of the building said it should have been. Leo Frank had boxed himself in as the culprit via his deviously racist plot to frame the old, tall, slim, dark-complected, balding, married Negro, with no criminal record, Newton « Newt » Lee, known colloquially at the factory as the nightwatch.

The Tight and Narrow Solution:

On the second floor of the National Pencil Company, Mary Phagan worked in the metal department, colloquially known as the metal room, & her work station was right next to the entryway of the bathroom by a matter of a few foot steps. Leo Frank to reach the bathroom would literally walk by Mary Phagan’s work station each day from the time she worked there between the spring of 1912 to Monday, April 21, 1913, when she was laid off because of a shortage in brass sheet metal. The authors never adequately explain how Leo Frank could tell the police, the coroner and trial jury that he did not know his employee Mary Phagan’s name, given the fact she worked on his floor, and under his tutelage for 55 hours a week, over 53 weeks, clocking more than 2,700 hours of labor on his hand written accounting books.

Leo Frank’s Delicious ironic Admission on the Witness Stand:

The most significant omission by Nancy Thompson Frey & Robert Seitz Frey are the clear-cut details about Leo Frank’s trial testimony playing out to the solution of the Phagan murder mystery, after Leo sat down on the witness stand, during the last week of his 29-day trial: Leo Frank made a loquacious & mind-numbing unsworn 4-hour statement to the Jury on Monday, August 18th, 1913, and changed his sworn murder alibi that he maintained for 4 months about having never left his office around the time when Phagan arrived & departed.

On Sunday, April 27, 1913, Leo Frank told Police Mary Phagan came into his office a few minutes after twelve (12:03pm). On Monday, April 28, 1913, he told Atlanta Police that Mary Phagan arrived in his office « between 12:05 and 12:10pm, maybe 12:07pm ». At the Coroner’s Inquest he changed the time to 12:10pm to 12:15pm. At his trial Leo Frank changed the time for the 4th time, saying Mary Phagan came into his office between 12:12pm & 12:17pm.

In the shocking climax of the most sensational murder trial in Southern history, Leo Frank mounted the witness stand & told the 13 men sworn to try his fate – twelve jurymen and judge Leonard Roan – the real reason why Monteen Stover found his office empty. Leo Frank reversed himself, and told the jury that he might have « unconsciously » gone to the bathroom in the metal room to account for Monteen Stover’s testimony!

Leo Frank said (direct quote on witness stand):

Now, gentlemen (of the jury), to the best of my recollection from the time the whistle blew for twelve o’clock (on Saturday April 26, 1913) until after a quarter to one (12:45 p.m.) when I went up stairs and spoke to Arthur White and Harry Denham (on the fourth floor), to the best of my recollection, I did not stir out of my office (located at the front of the second floor); but it is possible that in order to answer a call of nature or to urinate I may have gone to the toilet (in the metal room located at the back of the 2nd floor). Those are things that a man does unconsciously and can not tell how many times nor when he does it (Leo Frank Trial Statement, August 18, Brief of Evidence, 1913, p. 186).

The Solution to the Murder of Mary Phagan:

Leo Frank made this newfangled explanation as to why Monteen Stover found his second floor office empty between 12:05pm & 12:10pm, which was timeline wise, precisely when the bludgeoning, rape & strangulation of Mary Phagan occurred in the metal room according to case the prosecution built at the trial. When 250 people packed in the courtroom heard Leo Frank’s « unconscious » metal room bathroom admission, they likely involuntarily shivered & felt cold chills down their spines, especially after hearing about the wound on the back of Mary Phagan’s head, blood found on the floor near the metal room bathroom & the discovery of her broken off hair with dried blood on it, found tangled around the solid iron handle of Robert P. Barret’s bench lathe in the metalroom.

Forensic Evidence:

Descriptions of the 5 inch wide blood stain & spatter smeared with haskolene next to the metal room’s bathroom door discovered by child laborer Magnolia Kennedy, was most significant, because Jim Conley testified he found Mary Phagan dead near the metalroom bathroom entryway. However the lynch pin that brought it all together was State’s Exhibit B, Leo Frank’s deposition to Atlanta police on Monday, April 28, 1913, where he stated Mary Phagan came into his office between 12:05 and 12:10pm, maybe 12:07pm, that created an unbreakable chain of circumstantial evidence, when Leo Frank finally explained his absence during that exact same time. It is important time line wise because on Sunday, April 28, 1913, Leo Frank told police that Mary Phagan came into his office at 12:03pm, which essentially gave them both enough time to reach the metal room before Monteen Stover arrived.

Case Closed:

Leo Frank admittedly put himself precisely in the metal room where all the forensic evidence indicated Mary Phagan had been killed, at the exact same time he told the police that Mary Phagan was alone with him in his office. Leo Frank got caught in an inescapable lie.

Flash Backwards Dateline Sunday morning, April 27, 1913:

Mary Phagan had been found dumped in a mutilated state at the back section of the National Pencil Company’s factory cellar, her 4’11″ tall & 107 lbs of dead-weight had apparently been dragged 140 feet face down from the basement elevator shaft located at the front section, across the hard earthen floor, leaving a clearly visible trail according to the first responders who arrived before 4:00 a.m. The Coroner figured out she likely wasn’t murdered in the basement, because the dirt encrusted scratches all over her face didn’t show any signs of bleeding. Numerous Physicians performing autopsies on Mary Phagan, later pointed out back in 1913, that once the heart stops beating, the body ceases the healing process. Thus the Mary Phagan Autopsy revealed she was already quite dead when she had been dragged from the elevator shaft & that the basement was probably not the initial scene of her bludgeoning, rape & strangulation. It was a simple CSI forensic revelation Leo Frank never anticipated when he ordered Jim Conley to move the cadaver of Mary Phagan to the rear of the basement. The police realized that if Mary Phagan likely hadn’t been killed in the basement, there were only two other possible options, the first floor lobby which was the highest traffic place of the factory, or the metal room at the rear of the second floor where conspicuous forensic evidence had been found (blood and hair). The door to the large office space of the Clark Woodenware company on the first floor had been locked since January 17, 1913, when they departed & there was no other forensic evidence found around the lobby. This caused the police to put their entire focus on the 2nd-floor’s metal room located opposite to Leo Frank’s office.

Student’s of the case are left wondering why did Leo Frank go to such unusual lengths to coverup the crimes origins by having Phagan moved 2 floor down & then attempt to frame his Negro nightwatchman Newt Lee with « death notes » hand written by Conley, but not bother to meticulously clean up Phagan’s bloodied and broken off hair tangled around the handle of the bench lathe in the metal room? Why didn’t Leo Frank make any real effort to clean up the 5 inch wide fan-shaped stain of Mary Phagan’s blood on the floor diagonal to the doorway of bathroom inside the metalroom?

Perhaps intelligent book smart people, sometimes lack basic common sense. Ironic is the fact that in 1913, only 1 in 100 murders were ever solved, and here was one that was almost too easy for the Atlanta Police.

The Trial Exhibits Obfuscated by the Authors:

Looking back on the case nearly a century later, the significance of everything comes to light when one looks closely at Leo Frank’s Defendant’s Exhibit 61 and State’s Exhibit A (Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, 1913), precise architectural floor plans, revealing the only set of bathrooms on the 2nd floor, were located inside the metal room. Providing a commonsense conclusion that Leo Frank ineluctably incriminated himself well beyond a reasonable doubt with his « unconscious » bathroom visit to the metal room, and thus making his murder conviction a nobrainer for any jury & every level of the United States appeals courts.

There was no anti-Jewish conspiracy to convict Leo Frank, he looked the jurymen straight in their eyes and calmly said that essentially, he might have « unconsciously » been alone at the scene of the crime at the exact time the murder was occurring. In the 20th or 21st century, what would any other jury, possessing average intelligence, have done in the same situation? The verdict of guilt was not difficult or challenging to arrive at by any stretch of the imagination.

As a whole, Leo Frank’s trial statements to the jury were, generally speaking, filled with unmitigated and incomprehensible blunders that left most legal minds dumbfounded & flabbergasted in 1913, & today.

Most people wonder, how could Leo Frank claim to the Atlanta police that he was in his second-floor business office alone with Mary Phagan between 12:05pm and 12:10pm on April 26, 1913, and also simultaneously be « alone » in the metal room bathroom located down the hall as he told his Trial Jury on August 18, 1913?

Looking back in time as 21st century time travelers of the imagination, the Leo Frank trial was no nail biter, it is certainly not a « cold case » today, & it definitely was not some kind of collective anti-Semitic framing against the « Yankee Jew » by racist Southerners, but instead, what it was, is the first time in Southern history that a legitimately indicted man, made an admission at his own murder trial, that unequivocally amounted to a murder trial confession. How many times has something this dramatic happened in American history?

Leo Frank’s Confirmation of his Guilt:

About seven months after Frank’s August 25 conviction, on March 9, 1914, the Atlanta Constitution published an authorized interview of Leo Frank in jail, where he once again admitted, as he had done on August 18, 1913, that he was using the metalroom’s bathroom, unknowingly at the exact same time Monteen Stover was waiting alone for him to collect her pay inside his temporarily empty office between 12:05 and 12:10pm, thus again contradicting his deposition to Atlanta police that Mary Phagan had been with him inside his office alone between 12:05 pm & 12:10 pm, maybe 12:07pm, on Saturday, April 26, 1913.

This is why I encourage people to read the official Leo Frank trial brief of evidence (1913) contained within the Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court records, to learn specifically why this married dynamic duo, Nancy C. Thompson and Robert Seitz Frey, can not be considered reliable, honorable and trustworthy to retell this complex epic saga.

So what do you call people who intentionally obfuscate facts, evidence & testimony, fabricating a racist anti-Gentile mythology, to transform a perverted sexual predator and convicted child killer into an innocent & noble martyr of anti-Semitism and American injustice?

Buy this book NOW & fact check it against the primary sources.

Permission granted by Mark Cohen of Atlanta Georgia to republish his 2011 review of The Silent and The Damned (1988).

References:
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An ugly & easily exposed attempt to coverup a horrifying murder committed by a pedophile, serial rapist & convicted child killer

By Mark Cohen on September 6, 2011

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‘The Silent and the Damned: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank’, authored by Robert Seitz Frey & Nancy C. Thompson (First edition published 1988, second release 2002, Kindle version 2012), is yet another pseudo-scholarly treatment of the Mary Phagan murder case, amounting to nothing more than a maudlin hagiography about the life & tribulations of Leo Max Frank (1884 – 1915). These are conclusions most people will arrive at after fact-checking this book & its references against the primary sources of this famous case, therefore this monograph can accurately be summed up in total as: shamelessly weak on the facts & based on contemptuous omissions.

Here’s a tiny little snapshot of examples concerning the minor errors that fill every chapter of this book:

The authors of this book quote from Leo Frank’s 1906 college yearbook, concerning a number of facts about him, for instance stating he weighed 130lbs, but the original source they cited actually says he was 145lbs (Cornell Senior Class Book, 1906, pages 344 & *345*). Mary Phagan was NOT born in Marietta, Georgia, during the year 1900, she was born hundreds of miles away in Florence, Alabama, on June 1st, 1899. « John Phagan » (the wrong name listed as Mary Phagan’s biological father) did not passaway in the year 1911, William Joshua Phagan (the correct name of Mary Phagan’s biological father) died from measles more than a decade prior, in February of 1899 (yes, Mary Phagan was indeed a posthumous daughter). Leo Frank did NOT marry Lucille Selig in October of 1910, but specifically November 30th (Frank-Selig Wedding Certificate, 1910; Atlanta Journal, Dec 1st, 1910, society pages). Leo Frank’s father, Rudolph Frank, born in 1844, was not 67 years old in 1913, because in 1913 he turned 69. The list of minor errors literally goes on on & on…

26 years of Garbage-In-Garbage-Out: 1986 to 2012.

To be fair, even meticulous authors can make mistakes, but when the hard facts mangled outnumber the book’s pages, something is definitely amiss. There seems to be a pattern here, because I noticed the same level of carelessness concerning the facts found within the author’s Master’s degree thesis (« The Case of Leo Frank M. Frank in The Continuum of American History: An Assessment of Christian Responses ». Masters of Arts Degree in History, June 1986, Baltimore Hebrew College, Maryland). What seems to matter most in the political charged world of academia & mainstream book publishing industry are the perpetuation of racist anti-Gentile lies & anti-Southern politically correct conclusions, not the facts. Moreover, what is most disconcerting about this book is not the minor errors that fill every page, but the major errors found woven together throughout every chapter, including some odious references. The most significant errors found in this book involve misquoting & misrepresenting the Leo Frank trial transcript of testimony, evidence & exhibits contained within the 3,000 pages of official legal records. Therefore for clarity & brevity, we will review some of the most striking examples below.

The One Hundred Year Old Anti-Semitic Hate Crime Hoax:

The Atlanta Police investigation into the bludgeoning, rape, strangulation & mutilation of Mary Phagan that lead to the murder indictment & trial of Leo Frank has been often described over the last 100 years by Leo Frank’s defenders as an anti-Semitic miscarriage of justice, but nothing could be further from the truth once we closely examine the official trial records & appeals petitions. This peculiar & complex criminal affair is one of the most well documented in the annals of Southern jurisprudence, so there is really no excuse for the vagrantly sloppy research contained within this pathological « Gentile-vs-Jews » tribally myopic disinformation agitprop book. The Official Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence (1913) — ratified by three parties: trial judge, defense & prosecution teams — & Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court records (1913, 1914), survived in their entirety into the 21st century & are easily accessible to researchers, students & scholars, so there really is absolutely no justification for these authors falsifying these official legal records publicly available from the State of Georgia’s Archives. Since the odious inclusions by these authors can be easily verified for whether or not they are accurate or not, the central question remains: Why would these authors invest so many years of their lives working on this book & yet still allow an uncountable number of factual errors in this latest edition?

The suppositions contained within this book, reveals an ugly racial extremist agenda by its authors, ultimately answering this question definitively!

Directed at White & Black Southerners, the racist anti-Gentile & anti-Southern activist authors waste no time deliberately making unfounded blood-libel insinuations, promoting century-long hate crime hoaxes, & perpetuating false accusations about vast anti-Jewish conspiracies against Leo Frank. Which is why most of the claims & conclusions in this rendition of the Leo Frank epic saga, do not even stand up to minimal academic scrutiny or fact-checking.

This hate filled propaganda book wrongfully indicts the whole state of Georgia, by suggesting its police, government officials & citizenry, willfully, & collectively participated in railroading & then assassinating an « innocent » man, primarily because he was Jewish. This despite the reality that German-Jews were generally regarded in the Old South by Gentiles of all classes, as upstanding, productive & law abiding citizens. Furthermore, the consensus of Southern Jewish & Gentile historians has always been, then & now, that European-American Southerners in the segregationist South, treated & respected Jews as White equals, but the same can not be said for how Blacks were treated during the progressive era & the generations afterwards.

The real purpose of this book is meant to be is another deracinating bludgeon in the 100 year long racist Jewish-Gentile culture war that began in 1913, contining today with renewed vicious ferocity. This conflict is lead by an insidiously racist & agitating minority within the organized Jewish community that has always historically been known to be at perpetual war against the majority’s hegemony & culture. The expressed intention of creating this conflict is demoralizing White-Americans for their once prevailing tradition of ethnic solidarity, ironically by some of the most ethnically paranoid zealots, racial extremists & xenophobic people on earth. You can see this tendency reflected in most of the books written on the Frank-Phagan case in the last 100 years.

More people than at any other time in history are asking the forbidden question: Why is it that most of the same people who incessantly express concern about widespread anti-Semitic racist conspiracies, often promote the status quo of Apartheid Israel as an ethnocentric ‘Jewish State’ (one that is indisputably known for having committed state-sanctioned racist crimes against humanity during the last 60+ years & provides no voting, political, social or civil rights for the non-Jewish people illegally occupied under International Law)? Israel « democratic »? Palestinians in the occupied territories can’t even vote.

The bottom line is that racism, prejudice & bigotry directed against other people is wrong no matter who it comes from & unacceptable no matter who it is directed at, & yet these authors blinded by bigoted ethnocentric tunnel vision are so pathologically obsessed with falsely accusing Southern Gentiles with anti-Semitism, they failed to mention all the deliciously juicy details of the diabolically racist plot Leo Frank botched when his gambit to frame his Negro nightwatchman Newt Lee, with a forged time card and planted bloody shirt, fell apart in 48 hours into the investigation of Mary Phagan’s death. The authors also conveniently omitted the well documented tirade of anti-Black gutter racism spewed by Leo Frank’s legal defense team against the Negro Jim Conley during the trial’s closing arguments.

From the perspective of Leo Frank Case historians not suffering from pathological tribal myopia, who have spent several uninterrupted years studying the official trial & appeals records, & read every single local Atlanta newspaper account of the whole ordeal from 1913 to 1915, this ill-conceived book does not measure up to the level of scholarly research & historical accuracy you would expect from the experienced technical writers who authored this latest edition. Simply put, they omitted, fabricated or twisted out of context the vast majority of evidence provided from witnesses who testified in this case. This is easily confirmed by reading the coroner’s inquest & trial testimony published in the Atlanta Journal, Constitution & Georgian newspapers, from from April to August, 1913, that all together can be easily compared to the official trial transcript digest of testimony (BOE, 1913).

Brimming with half-truths, misrepresentations, fabrications and omissions, most of which are not obvious to the average person, the authors chose to leave out the SUPER vast majority of relevant pre-trial evidence uncovered by investigators against Leo Frank during the critical first 48 hours and subsequent Coroner’s Official Inquest (April 30 to May 8). Anyone who takes the time to study the several thousand pages of official Leo Frank case legal documents (that fortunately survived into the 21st century, despite underhanded efforts to purge them), will quickly come to the conclusion that the authors of this book never bothered to carefully read, study & sift the appeals records in the Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Case Files, nor do they accurately report what was really argued at the trial & why it mattered. It’s easy to understand why people cringe in disbelief when they read this impetuous book, particularly at how recklessly it was formulated.

Spoiler Alert: This book is another clumsily concocted attempt to humanize the image of the convicted child strangler, Leo Max Frank –the prominent Atlanta president of B’nai B’rith who served from September 1912 to 1914 — whose conviction galvanizing the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith founding of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on October 20, 1913.

So now we come around full circle to the reoccurring question that comes to everyone’s mind as they fact check this book: Why would Nancy C. Thompson-Frey and Robert Seitz Frey go to such extreme lengths to obfuscate the facts and twist the events of the Leo Frank Case?

Perhaps the longtime modern leader of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (ADL), can give us the answer:

« The authors are to be commended for this calm, dispassionate, yet chilling story of how bigotry can kill a man and destroy a system of justice…. Must reading! » -Abraham H. Foxman, National Director, Anti-Defamation League (ADL of B’nai B’rith).

The ADL, Born in Blood:

The conviction of Leo Frank, so often cited as inspiring the creation of Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith in 1913, has ever since then, resulted in numerous books having been written about the Leo Frank Case in this same vein of manufacturing mythological anti-Semitism where there was none, attempting to re-write history, rehabilitate Leo Frank into a hero-martyr & cover-up an embarrassingly heinous scandal that can’t be buried.

The ADL web site suggests that racist mobs of people were shouting murderous anti-Jewish slogans into the open court room windows at the Judge & Jury during the 1913 summer trial of Leo Frank, & that anti-Semitism was the reason Leo Frank was convicted, Direct ADL Quote:

« Hang the Jew, Hang the Jew. » This was the cry of the furious mob outside the Atlanta courthouse where Leo Frank, a Northern Jew, stood trial after his arrest in 1913 for a murder he did not commit. Anti-Semitism hung heavy in the courtroom as Frank was found guilty and sentenced to death (see: History of the ADL on their main website and Abraham Foxman’s Op-ed August 18, 2005).

The Century-Long Anti-Jewish Hate Crime Hoax Uncovered:

If there was even a drop of anti-Semitism leading up to the indictment or during the Leo Frank trial, why is it not mentioned in Leo Frank’s numerous petitions and appeals between 1913 – 1915 that number in the thousands of pages? Why is it not mentioned in any of the three major local Atlanta newspaper accounts (Constitution, Georgian and Journal) that had teams of reporters inside and outside the courtroom meticulously documenting the events of the trial? Surely, something so noteworthy of a mistrial, disruptive mobs of yahoos screaming racist murder into the windows of the trial’s courtroom, would have been mentioned. This book commended by Abe Foxman is guilty of perpetuating it’s own version of this ADL Hate Crime Hoax and racist anti-Gentile blood libel.

Frey and Thompson, Chapter 4, The Verdict, Quote:

Through the blistering days of summer the trial unfolded amidst the very real presence of an anti-Jewish mob spirit. The streets were thronged with people demanding the conviction of « the damned Jew. » The crowd, some allegedly armed, applauded, jeered, and laughed through out the trial. Judge Roan had made repeated, but timid, efforts to maintain a semblance of order. Spectators in the courtroom sat directly behind the jurors. The jury could surely feel the palpable presence and sentiment of the crowd. Because of the heat, the windows in the city hall building were open and the heads of people standing in the street were practically level with the sills of these open windows. A group of men sat on the roof of a shed outside the window just ten feet behind the judge and the witness chair. « The mob was breathing vengeance in the very face of the judge and jury. »

In reality, Jews were not historically known in the South for committing such vicious & perverted crimes of violence. Italians, Greeks & Russians were European sub-species that were thought to be more prone to crime and were ranked significantly below Jews and Anglo-Saxons. If anything, it would have been infinitely easier to convict the Negro James « Jim » Conley with less evidence against him, than Leo Frank, who was very well connected in the organized Jewish community, especially because he was Atlanta president of the 500 member Jewish fraternal organization B’nai B’rith.

Leo Frank the Serial Pedophile:

Now that the State of Georgia is scanning all legal records of Leo Frank’s trial & appeals, slowly making them available online, the public is soon going to learn about another unpublicized child rape committed by Leo Frank, one involving a very sadistic twist. More than a year prior to the rape-murder of Mary Phagan on April 26, 1913, Leo Frank raped one of his young child laborers, causing her to become pregnant. She was shipped off to a home for unwed teenage mothers in Ohio. After initially defiling the little girl, Leo Frank descended between the legs of this child, plunged his teeth so rabidly into the inner most region of her thy (adjacent to her genitals), that he permanently scarified her flesh. Luckily she survived to tell of the incident during Leo Frank’s appeals (Georgia Supreme Court Records, 1913, 1914). This revelation of psychopathic perversion is left out of Leo Frank partisan books, because it tends to corroborate the 19 pre-teen & teenage girls, and former employee’s of the National Pencil Company, that testified under oath at Leo Frank’s murder trial, affirming & sustaining his reputation for behavioral patterns of aggressive sexual predation against little children.

What the authors also left out of this unworthy book is the Mary Phagan murder investigation:

During the Coroner’s Tribunal (late April to May 8), Leo Frank testified under oath he had never used the bathroom all day on April 26, 1913 – not that he didn’t remember using it, but that he hadn’t used the bathroom at all. Leo Frank also repeatedly swore to an alibi during the official Coroner’s Inquest on Monday, May 5th, 1913 and Thursday, May 8th, 1913, stating that he never left his office after Mary Phagan had arrived & left him alone on April 26, 1913, between noon and 12:20pm. Prior to Leo Frank making these statements at the Coroner’s Inquest, he also gave the exact same murder alibi to Atlanta Police Detective John R. Black and Pinkerton Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott on Sunday, May 4th, 1913, while imprisoned in jail at the station house.

What these pathetic authors also failed to mention is on Sunday, April 27, 1913, Leo Frank told the Atlanta police Mary Phagan came into his office at 12:03pm.

Meet 14-year old Monteen Stover:

What Leo Frank didn’t know at the time he stated his murder alibi about having never left his office or going to the bathroom, is that another one of his child laborers, one he also temporarily laid off, named Monteen Stover, had come to his office to collect her wages. Stover arrived just minutes after Mary Phagan & found Leo Frank’s office perplexingly empty as she waited between 12:05pm & 12:10pm. When Monteen Stover revealed this timeline incident at the trial, it resulted in Leo Frank completely changing his 4-month-long-maintained murder alibi. About half an hour into Leo Frank’s trial statement that he had given orally to the jury, he explained where he might have supposedly been & why his office seemed empty during that critical time & in doing so, Leo Frank solved the murder of Mary Phagan…

Grand Jury Indictment of Leo M. Frank:

On Saturday, May 24, 1913, after a two week murder investigation & hearing numerous witnesses testify under oath, the Fulton County Grand Jurors, voted unanimously, 21 to 0 against Leo Frank, indicting him for the murder of Mary Phagan. Several of the grand jurymen were Jews, placing serious doubt about the perpetual cri-de-wolf of anti-Semitism concerning the investigation into the murder of Mary Phagan that led to the indictment of Leo Frank. With all the real instances of anti-Semitism in the world, artificially fabricating instances of it only cheapens the genuine cause against it. And there are no shortages of snake oil salesmen, quack professors & fear-mongering activists who make a living off of inventing anti-Semitic hate crime hoaxes (read my review of Leonard Dinnerstein’s ‘The Leo Frank Case’).

What’s the real reason the Grand Jury indicted Leo Frank? The authors of this book failed to mention the full extent of who testified & who did not testify at the Grand Jury hearings, so that the reader would be unable to draw their own conclusions about what was revealed & why the Grandjurors likely voted unanimously against Leo Frank. With this list of witness names, the average researcher could easily read what these same witnesses later restated at the Leo Frank trial in the summer of 1913. Moreover, Jim Conley did NOT testify at the Grand Jury hearings, but Monteen Stover DID, & this among other things is the crux of suppression by these authors: Monteen Stover, the girl who defended Leo Frank’s character & ironically cracked his alibi wide open.

State of Georgia vs. Leo M. Frank:

The 4-week long Leo Frank murder trial began with its first witness on the afternoon of Monday, July 28, 1913, with Newt Lee the last to testify that afternoon. Day after day, witness after witness, the curiously intriguing details of State’s witnesses were conveniently left out of this book. Such utter contempt for legal history is inexcusable.

By Monday, August 4, 1913, Jim Conley testified at the trial for three grueling days, stating he found Mary Phagan dead adjacent to the metal department’s bathroom entryway (State’s Exhibit A), that is after Leo Frank confessed to assaulting Phagan in the metal room when she refused to have sex with him. Leo Frank’s legal defense dream team – made up of the best legal minds in all of Georgia – spent 3 days using every trick in the book to try and trip up & impeach this accessory-after-the-fact to the murder of Mary Phagan, but Rosser & Arnold were unable to do so & what they actually did was foolishly draw out of Conley information about Leo Frank’s escapades with Atlanta prostitutes at the factory.

Jim Conley Admits to Writing the Murder Notes:

The murder notes found by the dead body of 13-year-old Mary Phagan dumped in the rear of the basement, describe her going to « make water » (urinating) at the only place she would have gone to the bathroom in the factory. Namely, the metal department’s bathroom, it would have been the only bathroom Phagan would have used when she left Leo Frank’s office on the second floor, because there was no accessible bathroom on the first floor of the NPCo, & the toilet in the rear of the dark-dingy basement was racially segregated for « Negroes Only ». Leo Frank forgot to jimmy open the locked door on the first floor lobby leading to the office space of former Clark woodenware company, that departed on January 17, 1913, because the police found the door locked, as the owner of the building said it should have been. Leo Frank had boxed himself in as the culprit via his deviously racist plot to frame the old, tall, slim, dark-complected, balding, married Negro, with no criminal record, Newton « Newt » Lee, known colloquially at the factory as the nightwatch.

The Tight and Narrow Solution:

On the second floor of the National Pencil Company, Mary Phagan worked in the metal department, colloquially known as the metal room, & her work station was right next to the entryway of the bathroom by a matter of a few foot steps. Leo Frank to reach the bathroom would literally walk by Mary Phagan’s work station each day from the time she worked there between the spring of 1912 to Monday, April 21, 1913, when she was laid off because of a shortage in brass sheet metal. The authors never adequately explain how Leo Frank could tell the police, the coroner and trial jury that he did not know his employee Mary Phagan’s name, given the fact she worked on his floor, and under his tutelage for 55 hours a week, over 53 weeks, clocking more than 2,700 hours of labor on his hand written accounting books.

Leo Frank’s Delicious ironic Admission on the Witness Stand:

The most significant omission by Nancy Thompson Frey & Robert Seitz Frey are the clear-cut details about Leo Frank’s trial testimony playing out to the solution of the Phagan murder mystery, after Leo sat down on the witness stand, during the last week of his 29-day trial: Leo Frank made a loquacious & mind-numbing unsworn 4-hour statement to the Jury on Monday, August 18th, 1913, and changed his sworn murder alibi that he maintained for 4 months about having never left his office around the time when Phagan arrived & departed.

On Sunday, April 27, 1913, Leo Frank told Police Mary Phagan came into his office a few minutes after twelve (12:03pm). On Monday, April 28, 1913, he told Atlanta Police that Mary Phagan arrived in his office « between 12:05 and 12:10pm, maybe 12:07pm ». At the Coroner’s Inquest he changed the time to 12:10pm to 12:15pm. At his trial Leo Frank changed the time for the 4th time, saying Mary Phagan came into his office between 12:12pm & 12:17pm.

In the shocking climax of the most sensational murder trial in Southern history, Leo Frank mounted the witness stand & told the 13 men sworn to try his fate – twelve jurymen and judge Leonard Roan – the real reason why Monteen Stover found his office empty. Leo Frank reversed himself, and told the jury that he might have « unconsciously » gone to the bathroom in the metal room to account for Monteen Stover’s testimony!

Leo Frank said (direct quote on witness stand):

Now, gentlemen (of the jury), to the best of my recollection from the time the whistle blew for twelve o’clock (on Saturday April 26, 1913) until after a quarter to one (12:45 p.m.) when I went up stairs and spoke to Arthur White and Harry Denham (on the fourth floor), to the best of my recollection, I did not stir out of my office (located at the front of the second floor); but it is possible that in order to answer a call of nature or to urinate I may have gone to the toilet (in the metal room located at the back of the 2nd floor). Those are things that a man does unconsciously and can not tell how many times nor when he does it (Leo Frank Trial Statement, August 18, Brief of Evidence, 1913, p. 186).

The Solution to the Murder of Mary Phagan:

Leo Frank made this newfangled explanation as to why Monteen Stover found his second floor office empty between 12:05pm & 12:10pm, which was timeline wise, precisely when the bludgeoning, rape & strangulation of Mary Phagan occurred in the metal room according to case the prosecution built at the trial. When 250 people packed in the courtroom heard Leo Frank’s « unconscious » metal room bathroom admission, they likely involuntarily shivered & felt cold chills down their spines, especially after hearing about the wound on the back of Mary Phagan’s head, blood found on the floor near the metal room bathroom & the discovery of her broken off hair with dried blood on it, found tangled around the solid iron handle of Robert P. Barret’s bench lathe in the metalroom.

Forensic Evidence:

Descriptions of the 5 inch wide blood stain & spatter smeared with haskolene next to the metal room’s bathroom door discovered by child laborer Magnolia Kennedy, was most significant, because Jim Conley testified he found Mary Phagan dead near the metalroom bathroom entryway. However the lynch pin that brought it all together was State’s Exhibit B, Leo Frank’s deposition to Atlanta police on Monday, April 28, 1913, where he stated Mary Phagan came into his office between 12:05 and 12:10pm, maybe 12:07pm, that created an unbreakable chain of circumstantial evidence, when Leo Frank finally explained his absence during that exact same time. It is important time line wise because on Sunday, April 28, 1913, Leo Frank told police that Mary Phagan came into his office at 12:03pm, which essentially gave them both enough time to reach the metal room before Monteen Stover arrived.

Case Closed:

Leo Frank admittedly put himself precisely in the metal room where all the forensic evidence indicated Mary Phagan had been killed, at the exact same time he told the police that Mary Phagan was alone with him in his office. Leo Frank got caught in an inescapable lie.

Flash Backwards Dateline Sunday morning, April 27, 1913:

Mary Phagan had been found dumped in a mutilated state at the back section of the National Pencil Company’s factory cellar, her 4’11″ tall & 107 lbs of dead-weight had apparently been dragged 140 feet face down from the basement elevator shaft located at the front section, across the hard earthen floor, leaving a clearly visible trail according to the first responders who arrived before 4:00 a.m. The Coroner figured out she likely wasn’t murdered in the basement, because the dirt encrusted scratches all over her face didn’t show any signs of bleeding. Numerous Physicians performing autopsies on Mary Phagan, later pointed out back in 1913, that once the heart stops beating, the body ceases the healing process. Thus the Mary Phagan Autopsy revealed she was already quite dead when she had been dragged from the elevator shaft & that the basement was probably not the initial scene of her bludgeoning, rape & strangulation. It was a simple CSI forensic revelation Leo Frank never anticipated when he ordered Jim Conley to move the cadaver of Mary Phagan to the rear of the basement. The police realized that if Mary Phagan likely hadn’t been killed in the basement, there were only two other possible options, the first floor lobby which was the highest traffic place of the factory, or the metal room at the rear of the second floor where conspicuous forensic evidence had been found (blood and hair). The door to the large office space of the Clark Woodenware company on the first floor had been locked since January 17, 1913, when they departed & there was no other forensic evidence found around the lobby. This caused the police to put their entire focus on the 2nd-floor’s metal room located opposite to Leo Frank’s office.

Student’s of the case are left wondering why did Leo Frank go to such unusual lengths to coverup the crimes origins by having Phagan moved 2 floor down & then attempt to frame his Negro nightwatchman Newt Lee with « death notes » hand written by Conley, but not bother to meticulously clean up Phagan’s bloodied and broken off hair tangled around the handle of the bench lathe in the metal room? Why didn’t Leo Frank make any real effort to clean up the 5 inch wide fan-shaped stain of Mary Phagan’s blood on the floor diagonal to the doorway of bathroom inside the metalroom?

Perhaps intelligent book smart people, sometimes lack basic common sense. Ironic is the fact that in 1913, only 1 in 100 murders were ever solved, and here was one that was almost too easy for the Atlanta Police.

The Trial Exhibits Obfuscated by the Authors:

Looking back on the case nearly a century later, the significance of everything comes to light when one looks closely at Leo Frank’s Defendant’s Exhibit 61 and State’s Exhibit A (Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, 1913), precise architectural floor plans, revealing the only set of bathrooms on the 2nd floor, were located inside the metal room. Providing a commonsense conclusion that Leo Frank ineluctably incriminated himself well beyond a reasonable doubt with his « unconscious » bathroom visit to the metal room, and thus making his murder conviction a nobrainer for any jury & every level of the United States appeals courts.

There was no anti-Jewish conspiracy to convict Leo Frank, he looked the jurymen straight in their eyes and calmly said that essentially, he might have « unconsciously » been alone at the scene of the crime at the exact time the murder was occurring. In the 20th or 21st century, what would any other jury, possessing average intelligence, have done in the same situation? The verdict of guilt was not difficult or challenging to arrive at by any stretch of the imagination.

As a whole, Leo Frank’s trial statements to the jury were, generally speaking, filled with unmitigated and incomprehensible blunders that left most legal minds dumbfounded & flabbergasted in 1913, & today.

Most people wonder, how could Leo Frank claim to the Atlanta police that he was in his second-floor business office alone with Mary Phagan between 12:05pm and 12:10pm on April 26, 1913, and also simultaneously be « alone » in the metal room bathroom located down the hall as he told his Trial Jury on August 18, 1913?

Looking back in time as 21st century time travelers of the imagination, the Leo Frank trial was no nail biter, it is certainly not a « cold case » today, & it definitely was not some kind of collective anti-Semitic framing against the « Yankee Jew » by racist Southerners, but instead, what it was, is the first time in Southern history that a legitimately indicted man, made an admission at his own murder trial, that unequivocally amounted to a murder trial confession. How many times has something this dramatic happened in American history?

Leo Frank’s Confirmation of his Guilt:

About seven months after Frank’s August 25 conviction, on March 9, 1914, the Atlanta Constitution published an authorized interview of Leo Frank in jail, where he once again admitted, as he had done on August 18, 1913, that he was using the metalroom’s bathroom, unknowingly at the exact same time Monteen Stover was waiting alone for him to collect her pay inside his temporarily empty office between 12:05 and 12:10pm, thus again contradicting his deposition to Atlanta police that Mary Phagan had been with him inside his office alone between 12:05 pm & 12:10 pm, maybe 12:07pm, on Saturday, April 26, 1913.

This is why I encourage people to read the official Leo Frank trial brief of evidence (1913) contained within the Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court records, to learn specifically why this married dynamic duo, Nancy C. Thompson and Robert Seitz Frey, can not be considered reliable, honorable and trustworthy to retell this complex epic saga.

So what do you call people who intentionally obfuscate facts, evidence & testimony, fabricating a racist anti-Gentile mythology, to transform a perverted sexual predator and convicted child killer into an innocent & noble martyr of anti-Semitism and American injustice?

Buy this book NOW & fact check it against the primary sources.

Permission granted by Mark Cohen of Atlanta Georgia to republish his 2011 review of The Silent and The Damned (1988).

References:
Silent and the Damned by Frey & Thompson
www.archive.org/details/LeoFrankTheSilentAndTheDamned2002 ».

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Comment les municipalités interviennent-elles face aux dépôts illégaux de déchets ?

Les collectivités locales, via les autorités compétentes telles que les maires et les préfets, ont un pouvoir de police pour intervenir contre les dépôts sauvages et gérer la collecte des déchets. Elles peuvent aussi obliger les responsables à nettoyer les sites, sous peine de sanctions administratives.

Détail des lois et des règles contre les dépôts sauvages de déchets

Selon l’article L.541-3 du Code de l’environnement, l’abandon de déchets est une infraction en France. Les responsables, qu’ils soient des particuliers ou des entreprises, peuvent être poursuivis en raison de leur impact environnemental.

Les sanctions légales contre les décharges sauvages et leur impact

Les amendes et peines de prison pour un dépôt illégal de déchets sont particulièrement sévères. Si des déchets dangereux sont abandonnés en grande quantité, l’amende peut atteindre 75 000 € et la peine de prison, deux ans. Pour les déchets jetés sur la voie publique, l’amende s’élève à 1 500 €. De plus, la confiscation du véhicule utilisé est possible. Les sanctions sont renforcées en cas de récidive.

Les dangers pour la santé et l’environnement des décharges illégales

Comprendre comment les déchets abandonnés influencent le climat et la consommation d’énergie

Le méthane, émis par les déchets abandonnés, est un gaz à effet de serre 25 fois plus puissant que le CO₂, contribuant au réchauffement climatique. L’absence de tri et de recyclage empêche également la récupération de ressources précieuses, dont l’utilisation aurait permis de réduire la consommation d’énergie et de limiter les émissions de gaz à effet de serre.

Les répercussions des décharges sauvages sur les écosystèmes et la faune

L’impact environnemental des décharges sauvages est considérable. Les plastiques et métaux polluent de manière irréversible les sols et les nappes phréatiques, tandis que des produits dangereux comme les solvants et les piles empoisonnent les organismes vivants. Ces lieux de dépôt favorisent également l’apparition de nuisibles comme les rats et les insectes, menaçant la biodiversité.

Lien entre pollution par déchets sauvages et risques pour la santé publique

La présence de décharges sauvages constitue un réel danger pour la santé humaine. L’accumulation d’eaux stagnantes, résultant des déchets abandonnés, devient un terrain propice au développement de bactéries et de virus, augmentant ainsi les risques sanitaires. La pollution de l’air et de l’eau, causée par les produits chimiques issus des déchets, menace également les nappes phréatiques et la qualité de l’eau potable. Par ailleurs, la présence de déchets inflammables, tels que les solvants et huiles, entraîne un danger accru d’incendies potentiellement catastrophiques.

Le fléau des décharges sauvages : Comprendre et agir

Les causes principales des décharges sauvages de déchets

La multiplication des décharges sauvages trouve son origine dans plusieurs facteurs. D’abord, le coût des services de collecte incite de nombreux professionnels et particuliers à se débarrasser de leurs déchets de manière illégale, afin d’éviter les frais ou en raison du délai entre les jours de collecte. Le manque d’infrastructures adaptées, notamment en milieu rural où les déchetteries sont rares, contribue également à l’aggravation du phénomène. Par ailleurs, l’ignorance des impacts environnementaux et sanitaires liés à ces pratiques est un facteur clé, une partie de la population ne prenant pas conscience des risques encourus. Enfin, le manque de contrôles et de sanctions efficaces laisse la porte ouverte à ces comportements nuisibles.

Décharge sauvage : explication et spécificités

Une décharge sauvage est un site où des déchets sont jetés illégalement dans la nature, en bordure de route ou sur des terrains non autorisés. Contrairement aux centres de traitement des déchets réglementés, ces dépôts échappent à tout contrôle, polluant ainsi les sols et les nappes phréatiques. Cela peut concerner des ordures ménagères, des gravats du BTP, des objets encombrants, ou des déchets dangereux.

Combien de décharges sauvages en France ?

En France, les décharges sauvages représentent un défi colossal. Chaque année, des millions de tonnes de déchets sont abandonnées illégalement, générant des coûts importants pour les communes en matière de nettoyage et de gestion. L’ADEME estime que plus de 100 000 sites sont concernés, aussi bien dans les zones urbaines que rurales, avec des points de dépôt identifiés aux abords des routes et dans les espaces forestiers.

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