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To: Redmen4ever

“Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American factory superintendent who was convicted in 1913 of the murder of a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, Georgia. His trial, conviction, and appeals attracted national attention. His lynching two years later, in response to the commutation of his death sentence....”

“On the afternoon of August 16, the eight cars of the lynch mob left Marietta separately for Milledgeville. They arrived at the prison at around 10:00 p.m., and the electrician cut the telephone wires, members of the group drained the gas from the prison’s automobiles, handcuffed the warden, seized Frank, and drove away. The 175-mile (282 km) trip took about seven hours at a top speed of 18 miles per hour (29 km/h) through small towns on back roads.... A site at Frey’s Gin, two miles (3 km) east of Marietta, had been prepared, complete with a rope and table...The New York Times reported Frank was handcuffed, his legs tied at the ankles, and that he was hanged from a branch of a tree at around 7:00 a.m., facing the direction of the house where Phagan had lived.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank


67 posted on 11/06/2022 7:35:50 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

lynched ... doesn’t speak well of hating Jews


71 posted on 11/06/2022 8:11:10 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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