The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume 3: The Leo Frank Case by Nation of Islam

Author:Nation of Islam [Nation of Islam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Leo Frank Case
Published: 2016-04-26T04:00:00+00:00

Where did Leo Frank Go After the Murder?

An amateur sleuth knows that the period of time immediately after the crime is critically important, for during that time evidence can be destroyed or invented, clothing can be changed, stories can be synchronized, and alibis can be established. If Mary Phagan was murdered shortly after her noon meeting with Frank, as both the prosecution and the defense surmised, then the next hours of activity by the defendant become critical to his alibi. Leo Frank claimed to have left the factory “a trifle after 1 o’clock” to go home for lunch at 68 East Georgia Avenue, about a mile from the factory, returning to the factory at 3 p.m.957 But his recollection of his activities during those two hours underwent some significant revisions.

Frank swore that he had left work at 1:00 p.m., arriving at home twenty minutes later. There he ate, smoked a cigarette, and took a nap before leaving to catch a trolley back to the factory. On his return trip he claims to have watched the Confederate Day parade, spoken to an employee, and stopped to purchase a few cigars, before getting back to work.

And, again, the “negro testimony” of Frank’s own “servants” undermines his rendition. Minola McKnight was in the kitchen with her husband, Albert, when Frank arrived and they remember his visit quite a bit differently:

Between 1 and 2 o’clock on Memorial Day I was at the home of Mr. Frank to see my wife. He came in close to 1:30. He did not eat any dinner. He came in, went to the sideboard of the dining room, stayed there a few minutes and then he goes out and catches a [trolley] car. Stayed there [in the home] about 5 or 10 minutes.958

Albert McKnight’s eyewitness testimony presents Frank as being so hurried that he skipped eating altogether. McKnight saw no nap taken or cigarettes smoked and saw no apparent point to Frank coming home at all. His wife, Minola, who Frank claimed served the dinner, admitted that Frank ate nothing and only stayed at home for ten minutes.959

The next witnesses who claim to have seen Frank in this all-important two-hour timeframe create more suspicion than clarity. They verify Frank’s version of his movements, but they all are either relatives or close business associates.960 A cousin and her friends say that they saw Frank on his way to the trolley and talked to him about B’nai B’rith matters. But Albert McKnight said he watched as Frank caught the trolley and saw no other people interact with him. A cousin named Cohen Loeb rides back into town with him; a factory employee named Rebecca Carson sees Frank not once, but twice—a full 30 minutes apart and amidst a parade-watching crowd of thousands. Another girl whose father was employed by the Montags, Helen Kerns, sees Frank at a store; another sees him sitting in the trolley car.

All this seemed staged to the solicitor, Hugh Dorsey, who in his closing argument challenged Frank’s

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