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Leo Frank born Cureo, Texas
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Mary Phagan born, Marietta, GA
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Mary Phagan 13 years old goes to work at the National Pencil Factory. She is murdered at the National Pencil Company in Fulton County, GA.
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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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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 Newt Lee are ordered to be held in the murder of Mary Phagan
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Leo Frank is indicted in the murder of Mary Phagan
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Jim Conley admits his involvement with the murder. He claims 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 Franks Trail Begins
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Jim Crow testifies at trail 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 is found guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan
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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 is transferred from Fulton County prison to the State Penitentiary at Milledgeville
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Governor, John Slaton commutes Leo Frank's death sentence to a lifetime prison sentence.
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Leo Frank is assaulted by an inmate of the prison. His throat is slashed.
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A lynch mob hangs Leo Frank
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William Simmons, along with some of the men who lynched Leo Frank, and others burn a cross at Stone Mountain, signaling the rebirth of the KKK
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Alonzo Mann, a teen helper at 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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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.
