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Five Argument in the Leo Frank Case by Berry Benson, is an analysis of the infamous "death notes" found next to the dead body of Mary Phagan in the basement of the National Pencil Company. Benson takes the position in favor of Leo Frank and argued on his behalf, concerning the now century long dispute over whether or not Jim Conley wrote the "death notes" alone or Leo Frank dictated them to Conley who then paraphrased them in Negro dialect. Rarely ever discussed with any depth in books about the Leo Frank Case are the surviving high resolution copies of the original dictated notes that Jim Conley wrote down after he was arrested on Thursday, May 1, 1913, and later interrogation by Detectives at the Atlanta Police Station. When all things were considered the significance of the handwriting experiment was that when the Atlanta police dictated the "death notes" to Jim Conley, another dispute was solved concerning the meaning of the word "Nightwitch". When the police dictated the word 'Nightwatchman' correctly to Conley, he misspelled it and wrote down 'Nightwitchman', proving he likely wrote the original "death notes" that were attempting to frame the Nightwatch Newt Lee of the Mary P
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Leo Frank · Berry Benson · Jim Conley · James Conley · Mary Phagan · 1913 · Atlanta · Georgia · Fulton County · ADL