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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.
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