0072 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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member of the jury individually or the jury collectively from
the time the jury was impanelled until they had rendered their v
verdict and had been discharged. I am the Deputy Sheriff regular-
ly assigned to the Criminal division of Fulton County Superior
Court and was on duty and in charge of the courtroom during the
entire time Leo M. Frank was on trial; I have read the
affidavit of Mrs. A. Shurman and others with reference to the
cheering on the outside of said courtroom during Friday and
Saturday and Monday, the last three days of the trial. I was not
with the jury as they left the courtroom to go to lunch on
either of the three said days but was in the courtroom at the time
the cheering took place on the outside. I know that on Monday
morning just before court convened when there was cheering in the
street the jury were in their room in the rear of the courtroom;
they were also in the rear of the courtroom when the Solicitor
General entered and the spectators started to applaud; I rapped
on the wall or some other object and raised my hand in warning and
the spectators immediately desisted; the applause was very slight
and very low and was stopped promptly when I rapped and I am sure
that the jury in their closed room did not and could not have
heard the same. I was on the last day of the trial, to-wit,
August 25th, 1913; I was not with the jury at any time when
any applause except that in open court and in the immediate
presence of the Judge could have been heard by the jury; I was
not in charge of or with the jury at any time when any other
demonstration or cheering for the Solicitor General or for anyone
could have been heard by said jury; at no time when I was in
charge of or with the jury was any member of the jury guilty of
communicating with or attempting to communicate with any person
on the outside in any way; nor during said trial from the time
the jury was impanelled until their discharge after verdict
rendered was any member of the jury guilty of any misconduct
of any nature whatever. At no time did I hear any threat
against the life of Leo M. Frank among the spectators at the
courthouse or elsewhere nor at any time did he see or know of