100 years
ago today a dark cloud fell over Marietta.
It was the day Leo Frank was hung by a crowd. At the time it was believed he raped and murdered little 13 year old Mary
Phagan at the Atlanta Pencil Factory. In
his trial, that was heavily unfair he was sentenced to hang. The governor reduced his punishment to life
in prison.
By the way, he probably was not guilty.
Mary Phagan
was a Marietta native. A mob from
Marietta drove to the state prison, and all the guards seemed to be looking the
other way when Leon Frank was dragged away into the dark night. Leo was Jewish, which explains the mob.
The hanging
took place on Frey's Farm, about where the I-75 crosses Roswell Road now.
The hanging,
from the car cade to the prison to the hanging was orchestrated my Marietta
community leaders. Shame.
Tch tch.
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