0342 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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on Saturday evenings I have to come at five o'clock. On Friday
the 25th of April, he told me "Tomorrow is a holiday and I
want you to come back at four o'clock." I want to get off a
little earlier than I have been getting off." I got to the
factory on Saturday about three or four minutes before four. The
front door was not locked. I pushed it open, went on in and got
to the double door there. I was paid off Friday night at six
o'clock. It was put out that everybody would be paid off then.
Every Saturday when I get off he gives me the keys at twelve
o'clock, so that if he happened to be gone when I get back there
at five or six o'clock I could get in, and every Monday morning
I return the keys to him. The front door has always been unlocked
on previous Saturday afternoons. After you go inside and come up
about middle ways of the steps, there are some double doors there.
It was locked on Saturday when I got there. Have never found it
that way before. I took my key and unlocked it. When I went up-
stairs I had a sack of bananas and I stood to the left of that
desk like I do every Saturday. I says like I always do "Alright
Mr. Frank" and he come bustling out of his office. He had never
done that before. He always called me when he wanted to tell me
anything and said "Step here a minute." Well, this time
he came up rubbing his hands and says, "Newt, I am sorry that I had
you come so soon, you could have been at home sleeping. I tell
you what you do, you go on in town and have a good time." He
had never let me off before that. I could have laid down there
in the shipping room and gone to sleep, and I told him that. He
says, "You needs to have a good time. You go down town, stay
an hour and a half and come back your usual time at six o'clock.
Be sure and be back at six o'clock." I then went out the door
and stayed until about four minutes to six, when I came back.
The doors were unlocked just as I left them and I went and says,
"Alright Mr. Frank", and he says, "What time is it?" and I says,
"There is a few minutes to six." He says, "Don't punch yet,
there is a Jew worked today and I want to change the slip."