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Here's a source from the wiki, Jessica Ravitz, on November 2, 2009, on CNN said the following; "The consensus of historians is that the Frank case was a miscarriage of justice. [...] Frank's conviction was based largely on the testimony of a janitor, Jim Conley, who most came to see as Phagan's killer."
Who is Jessica Ravitz? Well, she's the Director of Communications Strategy, ADL Southern Division and worked on CNN.
Another source, shall we?
Let's go with your screen cap, [213] is an opinion piece written in the History Atlanta on 02/08/2020, the article goes over how his wife mourned his death, it neither proves his innocence or disproves his guilt.
[228] is Jeffrey's book in which he claims another source claims Conley confessed to the crime and his lawyer said so, however the records make no indication of this and is a rumor spread around the time of the trial to sway public opinion against Conley.
[N 36] is an opinion piece by someone called Woodward, repeating the narrative Frank was innocent while providing no evidence.
[N 37] is a continuation of Woodward's plea for everyone reading to just listen and believe when he says Frank is innocent.
[N 38] a man named Watson is giving an opinion on another piece of "scholarly" work in which someone compared 3 Court cases around the world involving Jewish people, and makes no case as to why Frank would be innocent, just that because the others were he therefore is.
[231] another opinion piece, this time written by a Trotskyist.
[N 39] another opinion written by a one Myron L Scholnick, no evidence, yet again.
[233] doesn't say anything, it just says Friedman.
[N 40] doesn't provide new evidence, simply just refers back to others saying he's innocent and that the evidence provided exonerated him, don't worry, we'll go over the evidence.
[58] like 233 just says Woodward, so it's most likely just saying to go back and read what Woodward already said, which isn't much.
On April 21, 1913, Phagan was laid off due to a materials shortage. Around noon on April 26, she went to the factory to claim her pay. The next day, shortly before 3 a.m., the factory's night watchman, Newt Lee, went to the factory basement to use the toilet. After leaving the toilet, Lee discovered Phagan's body in the rear of the basement near an incinerator and called the police.
Her dress was up around her waist and a strip from her petticoat had been torn off and wrapped around her neck. Her face was blackened and scratched, and her head was bruised and battered. A 7-foot strip of 1⁄4-inch wrapping cord was tied into a loop around her neck, buried 1⁄4 in deep, showing that she had been strangled. Her underwear was still around her hips, but stained with blood and torn open. Her skin was covered with ashes and dirt from the floor, initially making it appear to first responding officers that she and her assailant had struggled in the basement.
Two notes were found in a pile of rubbish by Phagan's head, and became known as the "murder notes".
One said: "he said he wood love me land down play like the night witch did it but that long tall black negro did boy his slef."
The other said, "mam that negro hire down here did this i went to make water and he push me down that hole a long tall negro black that hoo it wase long sleam tall negro i write while play with me."
The phrase "night witch" was thought to mean "night watch[man]"; when the notes were initially read aloud, Lee, who was black, said: "Boss, it looks like they are trying to lay it on me."
Lee was arrested that morning based on these notes and his apparent familiarity with the body – he stated that the girl was white, when the police, because of the filth and darkness in the basement, initially thought she was black. A trail leading back to the elevator suggested to police that the body had been moved.
In addition to Lee, the police arrested a friend of Phagan's for the crime. Gradually, the police became convinced that these were not the culprits. By Monday, the police had theorized that the murder occurred on the second floor (the same as Frank's office) based on hair found on a lathe and what appeared to be blood on the ground of the second floor.
Both Newt Lee, after the discovery of Phagan's body, and the police, just after 4 a.m., had unsuccessfully tried to telephone Frank early on Sunday, April 27. The police contacted him later that morning and he agreed to accompany them to the factory.
When the police arrived after 7 a.m. without telling the specifics of what happened at the factory, Frank seemed extremely nervous, trembling, and pale; his voice was hoarse, and he was rubbing his hands and asking questions before the police could answer.
Frank said he was not familiar with the name Mary Phagan and would need to check his payroll book. The detectives took Frank to the morgue to see Phagan's body and then to the factory, where Frank viewed the crime scene and walked the police through the entire building. Frank returned home about 10:45 a.m. At this point, Frank was not considered a suspect.
On Monday, April 28, Frank, accompanied by his attorney, Luther Rosser, gave a written deposition to the police that provided a brief timeline of his activities on Saturday. He said Phagan was in his office between 12:05 and 12:10 p.m., that Lee had arrived at 4 p.m. but was asked to return later, and that Frank had a confrontation with ex-employee James Gantt at 6 p.m. as Frank was leaving and Lee arriving. Frank explained that Lee's time card for Sunday morning had several gaps (Lee was supposed to punch in every half-hour) that Frank had missed when he discussed the time card with police on Sunday. At Rosser's insistence, Frank exposed his body to demonstrate that he had no cuts or injuries and the police found no blood on the suit that Frank said he had worn on Saturday. The police found no blood stains on the laundry at Frank's house.
Frank then met with N. V. Darley, his assistant, and Harry Scott of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, whom Frank hired to investigate the case and prove his innocence. The Pinkertons were required to submit duplicates of all evidence to the police, including any that hurt Frank's case. Unbeknownst to Frank, however, was Scott's close ties with the police, particularly his best friend, detective John Black.
On Tuesday, April 29, Black went to Lee's residence at 11 a.m. looking for evidence, and found a blood-smeared shirt at the bottom of a burn barrel.
The blood was smeared high up on the armpits and the shirt smelled unused, suggesting to the police that it was a plant. The detectives, suspicious of Frank due to his nervous behavior throughout his interviews, believed that Frank had arranged the plant.
Frank was subsequently arrested around 11:30 a.m. at the factory. Steve Oney states that "no single development had persuaded ... [the police] that Leo Frank had murdered Mary Phagan. Instead, to the cumulative weight of Sunday's suspicions and Monday's misgivings had been added several last factors that tipped the scale against the superintendent."
These factors were the dropped charges against two suspects; the rejection of rumors that Phagan had been seen on the streets, making Frank the last person to admit seeing Phagan; Frank's meeting with the Pinkertons; and a "shifting view of Newt Lee's role in the affair."
The police were convinced Lee was involved as Frank's accomplice and that Frank was trying to implicate him. To bolster their case, the police staged a confrontation between Lee and Frank while both were still in custody; there were conflicting accounts of this meeting, but the police interpreted it as further implicating Frank.
Now, let's go over this, she was raped and killed on the second floor.
Her body was taken to the incinerator, most likely by Lee or Conley who was Frank's nightwatchman and Janitor respectively, remember this was during Jim Crow, he could've threatened them into doing what he said at threat of a lynching.
Frank lied about knowing who Phagan was, despite being the one to lay her off, and being the last to see her alive as he admitted.
Frank's behavior was highly suspicious when questioned.
The letters found by her body don't make sense, how would she write "the black guy did it" if she was being raped and murdered, or even better, why would the two black guys write the incriminating letters?
Frank hired Pinkerton agents, which worked against him as when the detective found the bloodied shirt in Lee's home it was an obvious plant as the shirt was fresh and unused.
So, with this evidence, we can come to our own conclusions about the case rather than following the ADL's narrative, especially since they were formed specifically to run cover for Leo Frank.
Remember kids, just because the accused is Jewish doesn't mean calling them out makes you Antisemitic, take it from me, your local quarter Jew.
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