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MARY PHAGAN WAS A 13 YEAR OLD GIRL THAT WORKED AT THE NATIONAL PENCIL FACTORY IN ATLANTA GEORGIA ON APRIL 26 1913 SHE WENT TO PICK UP HER PAYCHECK AND PLANNED ON GOING TO A NEIGHBORS MEMORIAL DAY PARTY SHE WENT TO THE PLANT MANAGER LEO FRANKS OFFICE TO PICK UP HER CHECK AND HE WAS THE LAST MAN TO SEE HER ALIVE.... THE NEXT MORNING NEWT LEE DISCOVERD A FILTH COVERD BODY OF A GIRL IN THE BASEMENT OF THE FACTORY SHE HAD A STOCKING OVER HER FACE AND SHE HAD BEEN BEATEN,STRANGELD AND POSSIBLY RAPED THEY AT FIRST THOUGHT IT WAS A YOUNG BLACK GIRL BECAUSE THE BODY WAS SO BEATEN THEY LATER DISCOVERD IT WAS IN FACT THE BODY OF A WHITE GIRL AND HAD BEEN IDENTIFIED AS YOUNG MARY PHAGAN LEO FRANK THE MANAGER WAS THE MAIN SUSPECT AND WAS SENTENCED TO HANG HE DENIED THE CLAIMS AND TRIED TO APPEAL THEN ON JUNE 1915 4 DAYS BEFORE CONFEDERATE VETRENS MARKED HER GRAVE HE WAS ABDUCTED FROM PRISON AND HUNG
IN 1982 A MAN WHICH WAS A WORKER AT THE PENCIL FACTORY AS A YOUNG BOY WAS ON HIS DEATH BED AND HE ADMITTED TO SEEING JIM CONLEY WHICH HAD TESTIFIED AGAINST FRANK SAYING FRANK MADE HIM MOVE THE BODY OF THE GIRL ,THE MAN SAID JIM CONLEY WAS ALONE WHEN HE SEEN MOVING HER AND HE DID NOT SEE LEO FRANK THERE
IN AUGUST 1986 LEO FRANK WAS ISSUED A PARDON
SO NO ONE REALLY KNOWS THE TRUTH OF WHO KILLED YOUNG MARY PHAGAN THE ONLY ONES THAT DO ARE DEAD AND THE DEAD DO NOT SPEAK...OR DO THEY
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