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The Pencil Factory: Mary Phagan and Leo Frank

A governor read ten thousand pages, then ordered what he knew could cost him his life.

Collection: Atlanta · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

Leo Frank, retouched press portrait, 1913
Leo Frank, retouched press portrait, 1913 · Library of Congress, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

“It may mean my death or worse, but I have ordered the sentence commuted.” Governor John Slaton of Georgia said that to his wife in June 1915. “I would rather be the widow of a brave and honorable man than the wife of a coward,” she answered. Within days he was leaving his state under police escort, and he stayed away for about a decade. It began on this street. In April 1913 Mary Phagan, 13, came to the National Pencil Company to collect her wages.

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Forsyth Street SW, downtown Atlanta. There is nothing to enter. The story works from the sidewalk.

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