Little Mary Phagan She left her home one day; she went to the pencil factory to see the big parade. She left her home at eleven, she kissed her mother good-by; not one time did the poor child think that she was a-going to die. Leo Frank he met her with a brutish heart, we know; he smiled, and said, “Little Mary, you won’t go home no more.” Sneaked along behind her till she reached the metal-room; He laughed, and said, “Little Mary, you have met your fatal doom.”
Mary Phagan was born on June 1, 1900 in Marietta, Georgia. Her parents were John and Frances Phagan. There is still some debate on whether that is her real birthdate or not. Her mother said that she was one month away from her fourteenth birthday in the court case, which would
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The autopsy of Mary was performed until nine days after death. Mary Phagan was investigated through an autopsy by Dr. Henry F. Harris. The official cause of death was Mary being strangled. Officer W.F Anderson saw a wrapping cord that was seven feet long and ¾ inch wide around Mary Phagan’s throat, which around the noose was a piece torn from Mary’s skirt. This type of strangulation was not the cause of her death, but the murderer had wrapped twine around her neck that cut into flesh. When Newt Lee found her he described her as being a black girl because of all the dirt that her body was caked in. Dr. Harris also found cabbage that had not been yet digested, which concluded that Mary was killed about thirty to forty-five minutes after eating her late breakfast. Dr. Harris claimed that her vagina was injured, which claims that she was raped right before her death. He even claimed that some injury was done to her hymen. The murderer had her underwear ripped up from the crotch and everything was soiled from blood. He claimed that that he investigated the hair, found in the second room where they claimed she was killed, microscopically and that they did not come from Mary. In the court case, there was no evidence that the human feces came from Phagan before her death. Her right eye was the color of purple and had puffed up. Mary’s cheeks were badly bruised and terribly scratched. The most serious injury of her face was her scalp was slashed open that was a little bit above the left
Kimberly was found in her bed with a head injury and eight to ten stab wounds from a knife. Kristen was also found in her own bed with a head injury, stabbed with a knife about thirty- three times, and stabbed with an icepick fifteen times. Colette was found on the floor next to her bed wearing nothing but a torn pajama shirt. Colette had been hit in the head multiple times, was stabbed with a knife and an icepick thirty-seven times, and both of her arms were broken. On the headboard of their bed was the word “pig” written in blood.
Mary was born on October 13, 1754 and came from a German family who lived in Trenton, New Jersey. Not much was known about her childhood, but she was not taught how to read or write. At the age of 15, she began working as a domestic helper for a family who lived in Carlisle Pennsylvania.
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This was about 4 ½ hours after she was allegedly strangled. However, the report stated that she was laying face down for 10 to 12 hours before that. Those times just don’t match up and make his scenario of what happen impossible.
Mary Walker was an avid women’s rights activist. She spent her entire life working towards equality for women, specifically trying to change the ways women dressed. Along with being an activist, Walker was an extremely talented physician. This woman flourished in her field of work and was one of the only women in this line of work at the time. On top of all of her achievements in life, Mary Walker is the only woman to ever receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
The day Mary disappeared, it raised suspicion, but there was a possibility that she was up to something. In fact, when Fredrica Loss was accidentally shot by one of her sons, she confessed on her deathbed, “Mary’s death was the result of a botched abortion” (Marie Roget 1821). Confirming that statement, Stashower, a detective, claims that while allowing for the possibility of an abortion, Mary had been having an affair (Edgar Allan Poe). In addition, it was concluded that Mary came in the tavern with a young doctor to have an abortion performed. Little did the present know that future had planned something else for Mary and that her abortion would fail (Fredrica Loss).
Mary begins to have no hope and starts questioning God if it was her [her] “choice that [she] dangling like a turkey’s wattles from this more than indifferent tree. ’’ Mary goes on to explain how her “body dangles with strength going out of [her]” and describes how her “blood bulges in [her] skull’’ and how her “lungs flail as if drowning.” Atwood gives the readers a better understanding of how Mary feels at 3am by using no punctuation and making it a run on to give the readers a feeling of being out of
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