ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Mary Phagan had only two things on her mind on April 26, 1913.
First, it was Confederate Memorial Day in Georgia, and the 13-year-old girl from a working-class family was excited to show off her new dress.
Second, she had to pick up her paycheck of $1.20 from Leo Frank, her boss at the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, where she worked to help support her widowed mother who ran a local boarding house…