- Collection:
- Leo M. Frank Collections
- Title:
- Individuals/families-Frank, Leo M.- correspondence and miscellaneous items
- Creator:
- Burns, William J., 1861-1932
Marx, David M., 1872-1962
- Date of Original:
- 1914/1915
- Subject:
- Trials (Murder)--Georgia--Atlanta
Trials (Murder)
Trials, litigation, etc.
Georgia--Trials, litigation, etc.
Atlanta (Ga.)--Trials, litigation, etc.
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915--Trials, litigation, etc.
Justice, Administration of
Georgia. Superior Court (Fulton County)
Mass media and criminal justice
Murder in mass media
Murder--Georgia--Atlanta
Sensationalism in journalism--Georgia
Sensationalism in journalism--Georgia--Atlanta
Law reports, digests, etc.
Lawyers
Jews--Persecutions--Georgia--History--20th century
Jews--Persecutions--Southern States--History--20th century
Jews--Persecutions--United States--History--20th century
Antisemitism--Georgia
Antisemitism--Georgia--Atlanta
Antisemitism--United States
Clergymen
Rabbis
Rabbis--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Prison violence
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915--Family
Violence
Governors--Georgia
Governors--Georgia--Correspondence
Governors--Georgia--History--20th century
Investigative reporting
Police misconduct - People:
- Frank, Leo, 1884-1915
Ochs, Adolph S. (Adolph Simon), 1858-1935
Burns, William J., 1861-1932
Selig, Josephine Cohen, 1864-1933
Frank, Lucille Selig, 1888-1957
Marx, David M., 1872-1962
Lanford, N. A. (Newport Alonzo), 1861-1930 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Baldwin County, Milledgeville, 33.08014, -83.2321
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Rabun County, Mountain City, 34.91815, -83.38544 - Medium:
- records
correspondence
synagogue records - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Correspondence from individuals and families to and about Leo Frank written between 1913 and 1915 that includes The contents of this folder include a nine-page letter dated October 8, 1913, written on stationery from the Hotel Hermitage in Nashville, Tennessee, and addressed to "National Pencil Company" from Madeleine Allen Cadieux with her opinion on who killed Mary Phagan; a typewritten letter dated April 24, 1914, written to Adolph S. Ochs, the publisher of the New York Times, from nationally-recognized detective William J. Burns, notifying him that the "perversion" charges against Leo Frank had been fabricated by Atlanta legal authorities, that the Atlanta police department's chief of detectives N. A. Lanford obstructed his requests for information and said that the "outrageous methods used in the prosecution of Frank" were a "severe indictment of the police department" of Atlanta. Also included are several "day letters" written to Mrs. Jacob Selig, Leo Frank's mother-in-law in Mountain City, Ga., dated July 1915, informing her of the knife attack made on Frank while in prison at Milledgeville State Farm Penitentiary [his throat was slit by convict William Creen], and his condition after the attack. There is more correspondence between the Frank and Selig families: a letter written on May 17, 1914, on hotel stationery to Leo Frank from P. Kirkland staying at the Ormonde Hotel in Brooklyn, New York; the last items in the folder include a letter from Rabbi David Marx to Governor John Slaton dated May 27, 1915, written in support of Leo Frank's character; the last item is a letter written to Rabbi David Marx dated September 8, 1915, from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, thanking him for sending them a newspaper, noting "It was a terrible year."
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/breman_lmfc_breman_lmfc_mss59-37-26
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/breman_lmfc_breman_lmfc_mss59-37-26#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/breman_lmfc_mss59-37-26/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 37 pages; 5.5 x 3.5-8.5 x 14 inches
- Original Collection:
- The Temple (Atlanta, Ga.) Records (Mss 059)
- Holding Institution:
- William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
- Rights:
-
