Mary Phagan's Murder, Leo Frank's Arrest
April 1913
On April 29, 1913, Rabbi David Marx learned that one of his congregants had been arrested for murder. We do not know how he reacted to this news: Rabbi Marx was a man of action, not introspection. He spoke little about his emotions and wrote even less. We can reconstruct the world in which David Marx lived. We can document what he said and what he did. …
