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Matches in DBpedia 2015-04 for { ?s ?p "Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was a Jewish-American factory superintendent whose murder trial and extrajudicial hanging in 1915 by a lynch mob planned and led by prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia, drew attention to questions of antisemitism in the United States. Frank was posthumously pardoned in 1986 which the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles stated was "in an effort to heal old wounds," without officially absolving him of the crime.An engineer and superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, Frank was convicted on August 25, 1913, for murdering one of his factory workers, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. She had been strangled on April 26th, and was found dead in the factory cellar the next morning. A state physician conducting the autopsy indicated evidence of sexual violence. Frank was the last person known to have seen her alive, and there were allegations that he had sexually harassed her before. His trial became the focus of powerful class, regional, and political interests. Raised in New York, he was cast as a representative of Yankee capitalism, a rich northern Jew in contrast to the poverty experienced by Phagan and many working-class Southerners of the time. During trial proceedings, Frank and his lawyers resorted to stereotypes, accusing another suspect — Jim Conley, a Black factory worker who testified against Frank — of being especially disposed to lying and murdering because of his race. There was jubilation in the streets when Frank was convicted and sentenced to death. One year after the trial, using sensational coverage of Frank's petitioning of appellate courts, former U.S. Representative Thomas E. Watson published poison-pen attack pieces through his own press organ, calling Frank a sodomite and member of the Jewish aristocracy who had pursued "Our Little Girl" to a hideous death. By April 1915, Frank's appeals had failed. Governor John M. Slaton, stating that guilt had not been proven with absolute certainty, commuted Frank's death sentence to life imprisonment, causing state-wide outrage. A crowd of 1,200 marched on Slaton's home in protest. During the height of the summer Frank narrowly survived a prison attack after his throat was slashed. He remained in the infirmary until one month later, when he was kidnapped from the penitentiary by a group of 25 armed men who called themselves "Knights of Mary Phagan". Frank was driven 170 miles from Milledgville to Frey's Gin, near Phagan's former home in Marietta, and lynched. A crowd gathered after the hanging; one man repeatedly stomped on Frank's face, while others took photographs, pieces of his nightshirt, and bits of the rope as souvenirs."@en }

• Leo_Frank abstract "Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was a Jewish-American factory superintendent whose murder trial and extrajudicial hanging in 1915 by a lynch mob planned and led by prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia, drew attention to questions of antisemitism in the United States. Frank was posthumously pardoned in 1986 which the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles stated was "in an effort to heal old wounds," without officially absolving him of the crime.An engineer and superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, Frank was convicted on August 25, 1913, for murdering one of his factory workers, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. She had been strangled on April 26th, and was found dead in the factory cellar the next morning. A state physician conducting the autopsy indicated evidence of sexual violence. Frank was the last person known to have seen her alive, and there were allegations that he had sexually harassed her before. His trial became the focus of powerful class, regional, and political interests. Raised in New York, he was cast as a representative of Yankee capitalism, a rich northern Jew in contrast to the poverty experienced by Phagan and many working-class Southerners of the time. During trial proceedings, Frank and his lawyers resorted to stereotypes, accusing another suspect — Jim Conley, a Black factory worker who testified against Frank — of being especially disposed to lying and murdering because of his race. There was jubilation in the streets when Frank was convicted and sentenced to death. One year after the trial, using sensational coverage of Frank's petitioning of appellate courts, former U.S. Representative Thomas E. Watson published poison-pen attack pieces through his own press organ, calling Frank a sodomite and member of the Jewish aristocracy who had pursued "Our Little Girl" to a hideous death. By April 1915, Frank's appeals had failed. Governor John M. Slaton, stating that guilt had not been proven with absolute certainty, commuted Frank's death sentence to life imprisonment, causing state-wide outrage. A crowd of 1,200 marched on Slaton's home in protest. During the height of the summer Frank narrowly survived a prison attack after his throat was slashed. He remained in the infirmary until one month later, when he was kidnapped from the penitentiary by a group of 25 armed men who called themselves "Knights of Mary Phagan". Frank was driven 170 miles from Milledgville to Frey's Gin, near Phagan's former home in Marietta, and lynched. A crowd gathered after the hanging; one man repeatedly stomped on Frank's face, while others took photographs, pieces of his nightshirt, and bits of the rope as souvenirs.".