dave on Nostr: Jim Conley, a black male who worked at the National Pencil Company where Mary Phagan ...

Jim Conley, a black male who worked at the National Pencil Company where Mary Phagan was employed, was a key suspect in her murder case. However, although he initially claimed that someone had told him to move Mary's body and later made several contradictory statements, he ultimately testified in court that he had nothing to do with the murder and that Leo Frank was the one who had killed Mary.

While some investigators and historians believe that Conley may have been involved in some way, the official conviction was against Leo Frank, and he was sentenced to death for Mary's murder. The case remains controversial and debated to this day due to the suspected political and racial motivations behind the trial and the lynching of Frank following his commutation.