Author: CONNOLLY, C. P. [CHRISTOPHER PATRICK]
Title: The Truth About the Frank Case - Reprinted in Part from Collier's Weekly
Description: New York: Vail-Ballou Company Publishers, 1915. First Edition. Paperback. "The following story of the Frank case, taken from the testimony and records of the trial, supplemented by a reference to newspaper files and by personal interviews with witnesses, ought to do some good in holding the mirror up to an ancient phase of human nature." - Foreword. "August 17, 2015, marked the 100th anniversary of the lynching of Leo Frank, an event that shaped the development of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and spurred the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Frank, a Jew living in Georgia, was a factory superintendent who was convicted-by almost all modern accounts wrongly-of sexually assaulting and murdering Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old girl, in 1913. His trial was fraught with specious testimony and circumstantial evidence, yet he was still convicted and sentenced to death. His sentence was later commuted to life in prison, which spurred a mob (that included local elected officials) to break into the prison in which he was being held and to lynch him in Phagan’s hometown.Frank’s saga was national news, and the fallout from his lynching influenced the early years of the ADL, which had been founded in 1913 and eventually won Frank a posthumous pardon. It also gave rise to the renewal of the KKK, which was re-formed out of a group that was named after the murdered girl." - Britannica website. "C.P. Connolly (1863-1935) was an American investigative journalist who was associated for many years with Collier's Weekly and the Muckrakers. He was a former Montana prosecutor and is remembered in particular for his extensive reporting on the case of Leo Frank." - Wikipedia. 95 pages. Two black and white plates including a frontis photo portrait of Leo Frank. Unmarked with above-average wear. Binding intact. Yellowed tape repair to three-inch opening in front cover. 7.7" x 5.3" ; 8vo. Fair with No dust jacket as issued .

Keywords: M. Ann Anti Defamation Conspiracy Judaica True Crime