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Mary Phagan is
raped and strangled to death by Leo Frank at the National Pencil
Company, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Both of them work at the factory.
Her death will cause a national sensation, and the story will be
told in the song Little Mary
Phagan, written by Fiddlin'
John Carson in 1915. Perhaps the best-known
recording is the one made on May 27, 1925, by Vernon Dalhart [under the name
Al Craver] for Columbia Records.
Mary Phagan is raped and strangled to death by Leo Frank at the National Pencil Company, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Both of them work at the factory. Her death will cause a national sensation, and the story will be told in the song Little Mary Phagan, written by Fiddlin' John Carson in 1915. Perhaps the best-known recording is the one made on May 27, 1925, by Vernon Dalhart [under the name Al Craver] for Columbia Records.