0347 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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a difficulty and I knew that Mr. Frank didn't want him in
there. Mr. Frank had told me "Lee, I have discharged Mr. Gantt,
I don't want him in here, keep him out of here," and he had
said, "when you see him hanging around here, watch him." That
is the reason I thought Mr. Frank was startled when he saw Mr.
Gantt. Mr. Gantt is a great big fellow, nearly seven feet.
When he went out I watched him as he went to the beer saloon
and I went on upstairs. He left the factory about half past
six. I went through the machine room every time I made a punch
that night. I went to the ladies' dressing room every half
hour, that night until three o'clock. I went all over the
building every half hour, excepting the basement. I went down
to the basement every hour that night. Mr. Frank had instructed
me to go over the building every half hour and he said go down
in the basement once in awhile. He said go back far enough to
see the door was closed. He told me to look out for the dust
bin because that is where we might have a fire and to see that
the back door is shut and to go over all the building every
half hour. No, he didn't give me any different instructions on
that Saturday, he didn't tell me not to go in the basement or
in the metal department. He allowed me to carry out the in-
structions just like I had been doing before. Yes. If I had
gone back to find out whether that door was closed or not, I
would have found the body, but I could see if the door was open,
because there was a light back there. No, it wasn't open that
night. It was shut when I found the body. It was about ten
minutes after I telephoned the police that they arrived. When
I was down there I was close enough to the door to see it was
shut, there was a light in front of it. There was no light