Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati has received the jail correspondence of a Jewish man who was hanged by a Georgia mob in 1915. Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman, was convicted and sentenced to death in August 1913 for the beating and strangulation of 13-year-old Mary Phagan.
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