Chronology: Leo Frank Case Timeline o August 7 - The prosecution rests; the 1884 defense presents its case o December 21 - The motion to set aside o April 17- Leo Max Frank is born in o August 18 - Leo Frank takes the stand the guilty verdict is denied by the Cuero, Texas in his own defense United States District Court. Leo 1899 o August 21 - Final arguments begin Frank’s attorneys appeal to the United o June 1- Mary Anne Phagan is born in o August 25, 1913 - The trial concludes; States Supreme Court. The execution Florence, Alabama in less than two hours the jury finds is again delayed 1895 Leo Frank guilty of murder 1915 o September 18 - Opening day of the o August 26 - Judge Leonard Roan o April 9 - The United States Supreme Cotton States and International sentences Leo Frank to hang Court rejects the appeal; Frank is re- Exposition at Piedmont Park in Atlanta o October 4 - Hearing for an Amended scheduled for execution on June 22, 1906 Motion for a New Trial 1915 o September 22-24 - A race riot erupts o October 31 - Judge Leonard Roan o May 21 - Frank’s legal team appeals to on the streets of Atlanta. Dozens of denies the motion for a new trial; Leo the Pardons and Paroles Board of the African Americans are murdered; Frank is scheduled for execution on Georgia Prison Commission to many more are wounded April 17, 1914 recommend clemency on behalf of 1913 o December 15 - The defense presents Frank. The appeal is denied o April 26 - Confederate Memorial Day its case to the Georgia Supreme Court o June 20 - After review, Governor John o April 27 - Mary Phagan, an employee 1914 M. Slaton commutes Leo Frank’s of the National Pencil Company, is o February 17 - The Georgia Supreme sentence from death to life in prison found murdered in the factory Court denies the motion for a new trial o June 21 - Leo Frank is transferred basement by night watchman Newt o February 24 - Jim Conley is sentenced from the Fulton County jail to the state Lee to one year on a chain gang as an prison farm in Milledgeville, Georgia o April 29 - Funeral of Mary Phagan accessory in the murder o July 18 - Frank’s throat is slashed by a o May 8 - Coroner’s jury orders Newt o April 6 - Defense files a motion in fellow prisoner but he survives the Lee and Leo Frank to be held for the Fulton County Superior Court to set attack murder of Mary Phagan aside Frank’s guilty verdict o August 16 - Leo Frank is kidnapped o May 18 - Police begin questioning of o June 6 - The Fulton County Superior from the prison farm by twenty-five Jim Conley, the pencil factory’s black Court denies the motion to set aside armed men from Marietta janitor the verdict. The defense appeals to o August 17 - Leo Frank is driven o May 23 - Grand jury indicts Leo Frank the Georgia Supreme Court seventy-two miles to Marietta and for the murder of Mary Phagan o October 14 - The Georgia Supreme lynched o July 24 - Jury selection begins in the Court denies the appeal o August 20 - Leo Frank is buried in murder trial of Mary Phagan o November 14 - The Georgia Supreme Brooklyn, New York o July 28 - The trial begins; the Court affirms the trial and judgment in o November 23 - The Knights of the Ku prosecution presents its case the Leo Frank case. Leo Frank’s Klux Klan are reorganized at Stone o August 4 - Jim Conley testifies attorneys appeal to the United States Mountain o August 5 - Jim Conley is cross- District Court of North Georgia. The examined by the defense execution, re-set for June 22, 1915 is postponed