United States, Georgia, Baldwin County, Milledgeville, 33.08014, -83.2321United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798United States, Georgia, Rabun County, Mountain City, 34.91815, -83.38544Burns, William J., 1861-1932Marx, David M., 1872-19621914/1915Correspondence 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."image/jp2enghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/The Temple (Atlanta, Ga.) Records (Mss 059)Trials (Murder)--Georgia--AtlantaTrials (Murder)Trials, litigation, etc.Georgia--Trials, litigation, etc.Atlanta (Ga.)--Trials, litigation, etc.Frank, Leo, 1884-1915--Trials, litigation, etc.Justice, Administration ofGeorgia. Superior Court (Fulton County)Mass media and criminal justiceMurder in mass mediaMurder--Georgia--AtlantaSensationalism in journalism--GeorgiaSensationalism in journalism--Georgia--AtlantaLaw reports, digests, etc.LawyersJews--Persecutions--Georgia--History--20th centuryJews--Persecutions--Southern States--History--20th centuryJews--Persecutions--United States--History--20th centuryAntisemitism--GeorgiaAntisemitism--Georgia--AtlantaAntisemitism--United StatesClergymenRabbisRabbis--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th centuryPrison violenceFrank, Leo, 1884-1915--FamilyViolenceGovernors--GeorgiaGovernors--Georgia--CorrespondenceGovernors--Georgia--History--20th centuryInvestigative reportingPolice misconductIndividuals/families-Frank, Leo M.- correspondence and miscellaneous itemsText