0042 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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were permitted to leave, and there was never any applause or
cheering either inside of the court or outside of the court
within my knowledge, while the case was being considered;
the jury, inclosing, were always attended by the deputy
sheriffs or bailiffs, one always going in front and one al-
ways in the rear; we were usually taken direct from the cour-
house to the German Cafe, located midway of the block on Pryor
Street, opposite from the courthouse, and it took only a very
short time to go there - I should estimate about three minutes -
at the outside; upon reaching the German Cafe we were taken
directly to a private dining room in the rear of the building
and the door immediately closed; after being shut up in this
room we never heard any sounds that in the slightest resembled
applause or cheering; the only cheering that was heard at any
time while the case was being considered was the cheering that
arose shortly after the verdict of guilty was read, when there
was cheering both on Hunter and Pryor Streets and said cheer-
ing was loud and long; with the exception of this cheering, I
never heard anything that had the slightest resemblance to
cheering, and I never heard any applause except that heard by
the Judge and only heard about the cheering after having been
discharged from the case: THAT neither on Saturday, August
23, 1913 nor on any other day or time, did any man or men
other than the bailiffs in charge of the jury ever walk with or by
the side of the jury, and neither did anybody, within my
knowledge, ever speak to any juror at any time or place outside
of the presence of the court: THAT at any time any man ever
grabbed any juror by the hand or held any conversation with
any juror, the same was not in my presence. No man ever
grabbed me by the hand at the place referred to by W. P. Neill
in his affidavit, nor did I see or hear of or know anything
about any man grabbing any member of the jury by the hand

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