0397 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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"Yes." I then asked her how was her father, and she said,
"My father is dying, I think". Then she spoke to me about
getting some assistance from the office for burial expenses,
and she commenced to cry and I walked down the steps with her
to the front door. That was about 9:30. Mr. Frank stayed at
the factory until 9:40, when we left together. We went on up
to the corner of Hunter and Forsyth, took a drink of sodawater
at Cruickshank's at the corner of Forsyth and Hunter. He left
me then and started towards Montag's. That's the last I saw
of him until Sunday morning. The elevator box was unlocked
Sunday morning, and anybody could have pulled it open and started
the elevator. The elevator makes some noise. It is driven
by a motor. It makes more noise when it stops at the bottom
than when it starts. There is nothing to stop it except when
it hits the bottom. I have seen these cords that we tie up
slate and pencils with in every part of the factory. I have
raised sand about finding them in the basement; they go down
in the garbage. There are several truck loads of waste and
debris every day. The general cleaning up of the premises was
had on Tuesday after the murder. The factory is five stories
high, between 150 and 200 feet in length and 75 or 80 feet wide.
It is an extremely dirty place. In some places the floor is
gummed an inch thick, and in some parts of the metal room it
is one eighth of an inch thick, it might not average that
all over. It is always dark on the first floor, through the
hall toward the elevator. On a cloudy day it is very dark. We
keep a light burning there most of the time. I couldn't say
whether we had cleaned up all the trash and rubbish around the
factory, because there are corners and crevices which we don't
usually get to. Saturday, April 26, was a dark, bad, misty
day, until about 9:30. It was cloudy most of the day. It was
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