0348 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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between the body and the door, it was dark back there. The
body was about sixty feet from that door. If the back door had
been open I could have seen that big light back there in the
alley. The back door was closed when I found the body. The
first time I went down the basement that night was seven
o'clock. I went just a little piece beyond the dark, so I could
see whether there was any fire down there. That's what I was
looking for. Yes I could tell whether the door was open from
there. No, I didn't go back as far as they found the body, I
didn't go back that far at all during the night. The reason
I went that far back when I saw the body was because I went to
the closet. There are two closets on the second floor, one on the
third floor and one on the fourth floor. I didn't see the lady's
hat or shoe when I went down to that little place with my lan-
tern, nor the parasol. My lantern was dirty. I was sitting
down there, after I had punched, on the box, set my lantern on
the outside. When I got through I picked up my lantern, I
walked a few steps down that way, I seed something over there,
about that much of the lady's leg and dress. I guess I walked
about three or four feet, or five or six. I guess the body
was about ten feet from the closet. As to what made me look
in that direction from the closet, because I wanted to look
that way, I picked up the lantern to go down there to see the
dust bin, to see whether there was any fire there. The dust bin
was to the right of me. When I was sitting down there the dust
bin was not entirely hid behind the partition. I could see
where the dust came down. The balance of the night in order to
see whether there was any fire in the dust bin or not I went
twenty or twenty-five feet from the scuttle-hole, and when I