0063 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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walking two abreast, said jury following immediately behind
deponent Pennington: THAT Deponents have read the various affi-
davits which deal with alleged cheering of the Solicitor General as
he left the court house on said Friday afternoon August 22, 1913;
opponents under oath they did not hear any demonstration of any kind on said afternoon, nor did they
hear any applause for the Solicitor General or for any one else;
THAT when court adjourned on Saturday, August 23, 1913, soon
after the noon hour, deponents took the jury from the court-
house northward along Pryor street; they did not, on this occasion,
hear any applause or cheering demonstration of any kind whatever
for the Solicitor General or for any one else; THAT on Monday,
August 25th, 1913, around the noon hour - just after the court
had adjourned, the judge having charged the jury before said
adjournment, deponent C.F.Huber says that he, together with
R.B.Deavors and W.M.Hunter, was in charge of the jurors, and took
them to the German Cafe, where they occupied a private dining room
in the rear of the building; in this dining room, with closed
doors, the jurors were served with their lunch, and at no time
between the time they left the jury box and the time they got
into this private dining room, nor while occupying said dining room,
nor on their return to the jury room at the court house for
the purpose of considering and making a verdict in said above
stated case, did deponent hear any applause, or cheering or de-
monstration of any kind whatever, nor could the jury while in
the dining room hear any demonstration which may have taken place
in front of said German Cafe, but said dining room was perfectly
quiet: THAT deponents on Saturday evening, August 23, 1913, took
the jurors out for a walk and returned to the Kimball House
northward along Pryor Street; THAT deponents have read the af-
fidavit of Samson Kay and emphatically deny that at any time
on said Friday Saturday evening, August 23, 1913, did six or
seven men, or any other number of men, of persons, follow along
by the side of the jury, in the Frank case, or behind them, or
in front of them, talking to them from the corner of East Fair
Street and South Pryor Street up to the Union Station, nor did

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