Audio Book: The Frank Case, part 3

WE ARE proud to present today, on the 107th anniversary of the foul murder of Mary Phagan, the third and concluding part of our audio version of an extremely rare contemporary book on the murder and the trial of Leo Frank, her killer, entitled The Frank Case — read by Vanessa Neubauer. https://theamericanmercury.org/audio/the-frank-case/The%20Frank%20Case%20-%20Atlanta%20Publishing%20Company%20-%201913%20-%20Part%203%20-%20Chapters%2017-end.mp3 It becomes obvious in this concluding segment Continue Reading →

Audio Book: The Frank Case, part 2

THE AMERICAN MERCURY now presents the second part (of three parts) of our audio version of what is probably the most hard-to-find book on the murder of Mary Phagan and the trial of Leo Frank — 1913’s anonymously published The Frank Case — read by Vanessa Neubauer. https://theamericanmercury.org/audio/the-frank-case/The%20Frank%20Case%20-%20Atlanta%20Publishing%20Company%20-%201913%20-%20Part%202%20-%20Chapters%2010-16.mp3 The Frank Case: Inside Story of Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery now continues Continue Reading →

Audio Book: The Frank Case, part 1

THE AMERICAN MERCURY is proud to present the first part of our audio version of a rare, almost-suppressed book on the murder of Mary Phagan and the trial of Leo Frank, 1913’s The Frank Case — published almost immediately after the events it details took place, when they were fresh in the minds of Atlantans. Only one original copy is Continue Reading →

New Audio Book: The American Mercury on Leo Frank – Judge Leonard Roan’s Charge to the Jury

THIS WEEK we present our final installment of our audio books on the subject of the 1913 trial of Leo M. Frank for the strangling and sex murder of his 13-year-old sweatshop employee, Mary Phagan. Today we hear the words of Judge Leonard Strickland Roan (pictured) in his charge to the jury, exactly as they were uttered more than a Continue Reading →

New Audio Book: The American Mercury on Leo Frank – Dorsey’s Closing Arguments, part 6

THIS WEEK we present the sixth and last audio book installment of prosecutor Hugh Dorsey’s closing arguments in the 1913 trial of Leo M. Frank (pictured) for the strangling and sex murder of his 13-year-old sweatshop employee Mary Phagan. In this dramatic conclusion, you hear the words that the jury heard, the words that would lead them, a short time Continue Reading →