B) She was killed in what became known as the "Leo Frank case."
Mary Phagan was a 13-year old girl who worked in the National Pencil Company, in Atlanta, Georgia, working 55 hours per week. Her job consisting of using a knurling machine that inserted rubber erasers into the metal tips of pencils.
One day she went to the factory to claim her pay. Next day on April 27, 1913, at midnight, the factory's night watchman, found her body in the basement. She had been strangled. Her body was scratched, bruised and battered and her clothes torn and stained with blood.
Leo Frank, the recently fired superintendent of the factory, was accused of murdering. The Leo Frank case caught the national attention and he was convicted on August 25, 1913, for the murder of Mary Phagan.
