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The Atlanta Georgian reported on April 28, 1913, that two badly written, incoherent notes were discovered in the cellar where Mary Phagan was murdered. The notes repeatedly blamed a tall Black man. Police wondered if the girl wrote them while dying or if the real killer left them to shift blame.
The Atlanta Georgian – Monday, April 28, 1913
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00:00Incoherent Notes Add to Mystery in Strangling Case. Atlanta, Georgian. Monday, April 28, 1913.
00:07Two mysterious notes, incoherent, misspelled, and unintelligible, were found in the cellar of death.
00:13Were they written by the girl as she lay in delirium just before the end came,
00:16or were they written by her slayer to throw the police off the track and turn suspicion towards
00:21a negro? Here they are. He said he would love me lay down like the night witch did it, but
00:26that
00:26long, tall, black negro did by his sleb. Mama, that negro hired down here did this. I went
00:32to get water, and he pushed me down this hole, a long, tall, negro, black that has it woke
00:36long, lean, tall, negro I write while play with me.
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