On Monday, April 28th, 1913, where was Mary Phagan and with whom was she before the end?

Detectives are still trying to reconstruct Mary Phagan’s movements hour by hour on Saturday and Saturday night, with particular attention to every person she saw, every place she went, and every gap in the timeline between her last confirmed appearances and the discovery of her body. The first fixed point comes at about 12:10 p.m., when Mary went to the National Pencil Factory, collected her pay of $1.60, spoke briefly with friends, and then left the building. According to the reports, she had told her mother that she was going to watch the Memorial Day parade, so investigators have treated her departure from the factory as the starting point for tracing the rest of her day. The next major lead comes at about 10 p.m., when E. S. Skipper said he saw a girl matching Mary’s description on Pryor Street near Trinity Avenue with three young men. He described the girl as crying, trying to get away from the group, and seeming dazed rather than drunk. That statement created one of the most important questions in the case, because if the girl Skipper saw was Mary, then her movements after leaving the factory were far more complicated than first assumed. Another key sighting was reported at about 12:30 a.m., when E. L. Sentell, who had known Mary nearly all her life, said he saw her walking north on Forsyth Street near Hunter with a man he identified as Arthur Mullinax. Sentell said Mary looked tired and angry, and that she spoke to him as she passed. That account placed Mary very near the area of the pencil factory in the early hours of Sunday morning and gave detectives a new suspect to examine. By about 3 a.m., Mary’s mutilated body was found in the basement of the National Pencil Factory. That discovery forced investigators to focus not only on who was with her, but also on how she could have moved from the earlier sightings to the factory basement, and whether one person or several were involved in what happened to her. The biggest unanswered stretches remain the same: from 12:15 p.m. to 10 p.m., from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., and from 12:30 a.m. to 3 a.m. Those gaps are the heart of the mystery, because filling them would show whether Mary moved willingly, whether she was forced, and who had the last opportunity to harm her. Until those blanks are explained, detectives cannot say with certainty how the final hours unfolded.