The Leo Frank case involved Leo Frank, a Jewish factory superintendent who was accused of murdering a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in 1913. The case was highly publicized and sparked a wave of anti-Semitism in the United States. Frank was convicted and sentenced to death, but his sentence was later commuted to life in prison. He was eventually lynched by a mob in 1915. Other people involved in the case included Jim Conley, a janitor at the factory who testified against Frank; Governor John Slaton, who commuted Frank's sentence; and Tom Watson, a politician and publisher who wrote extensively about the case.
