0392 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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murder was committed in the basement. Mr. Frank stated that
it looked easy for the staple to be pulled out and I
agreed with him, because the staple looked black and it looked
to me as if it had been pulled out before. On Monday Mr.
Frank explained about why he was nervous on Sunday
morning. I heard him speak of the murder numerous times.
When we started down the elevator Mr. Frank was nervous,
shaking all over. I can't say positively as to whether his
whole body was shaking or not, but he was shaking. Newt Lee
seemed to be composed when I saw him at the factory. Mr. Frank
could have driven the nails in the back door, but I thought
I could do it with more ease. Mr. Frank looked pale Sunday
morning. I think he seemed upset, but he did some things
around the factory there that a man who was completely upset
could not have done. I don't think. When riding down to the
police station from the pencil factory Mr. Frank was on my
knee, he was trembling. I saw the financial sheet on Sunday
on Mr. Frank's desk. Mr. Frank picked it up in his hand. Gantt
was at the factory three or four times after he was discharged.
My recollection is that Frank said something about the financial
sheet on Sunday. It was on May 3rd that Mr. Haas, the in-
surance man, asked that the factory be cleaned up on the Mabry
side and on the other side. When my attention was called
to it I noticed something that I looked like blood with some-
thing white over it at the ladies dressing room on Monday
morning.

CROSS EXAMINATION.
Mr. Quinn called my attention to the blood spots.
Barrett called Quinn's attention to it. Barrett showed me
some hair on a lever of the lathe. It was 20 or 30 feet from
Mary Phagan's machine on the north side of the room. There were