| April 17, 1884 |
Leo Frank born, Cuero, Texas
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| June 1, 1900 |
Mary Phagan born, Marietta, Georgia
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Marietta, GA |
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| April 26, 1913 |
Mary Phagan is murdered at the National Pencil Company
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Fulton County, Georgia |
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| April 27, 1913 |
The body of Mary Phagan, bloody, broken, possibly sexually assaulted, was found in the basement of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta. Newt Lee, who found the body, is arrested.
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| May 1, 1913 |
Jim Conley, a black janitor, is arrested when he is discovered rinsing blood off a shirt in the basement of the National Pencil Company
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| May 8, 1913 |
Leo Frank and Newt Lee are ordered to be held in the murder of Mary Phagan
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| May 23, 1913 |
Leo Frank is indicted in the murder of Mary Phagan
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| May 28, 1913 |
Jim Conley admits his involvement with the murder. He claims that Leo Frank ordered him to write the murder notes, and that Frank had killed Mary Phagan and had Conley carry her downstairs
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| July 28, 1913 |
Leo Frank's trial begins
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Fiddlin' John Carson |
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| August 4, 1913 |
Jim Conley testifies at the trial of Leo Frank, claiming that Frank had gotten his help in moving Mary Phagan's body to the cellar.
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| August 25, 1913 |
Leo Frank is found guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| February 24, 1914 |
Jim Conley, self-professed accomplice to the murder of Mary Phagan, is sentenced to a year of hard labor for his role in the crime.
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| June 21, 1915 |
Leo Frank is transferred from the Fulton County prison to the State Penitentiary at Milledgeville
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
| June 21, 1915 |
Governor John Slaton commutes Leo Frank's death sentence to a lifetime prison sentence.
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| July 18, 1915 |
Leo Frank is assaulted by an inmate of the prison. His throat is slashed.
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| August 17, 1915 |
A lynch mob hangs Leo Frank, near the present-day site of the Big Chicken
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Marietta, GA |
| November 25, 1915 |
William Simmons, along with some of the men who lynched Leo Frank, and others burn a cross at the top of Stone Mountain, signaling the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan
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Stone Mountain |
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Ku Klux Klan in Georgia |
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| March 4, 1982 |
Alonzo Mann, a teenage helper in the National Pencil Factory, admits that he saw Jim Conley carrying the body of Mary Phagan by himself, implicating Conley's testimony
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
| March 11, 1986 |
Georgia pardons Leo Frank, not because of new evidence in the murder of Mary Phagan, but because the state failed to provide protection while Frank was in custody.
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
