0537 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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I didn't think she should go until she finished Mr.Montag's mail. He said something she then about her coming over in the afternoon, and I said I didn't think she ought to work over there as it wasn't her work, and I told her not to do it, but I told her if she got through with Mr.Montag's mail, she could go over there that morning and help him, if she could assist him in anyway.

CROSS EXAMINATION. I have never seen Frank write any of the documents which I say are in his handwriting. I have seen him write. I don't know their system of doing work down at the factory. This order could not have been received on April 22nd(Defendant's exhibit 27) The signature of H.T.Schiff on the requisition sheet(defendant's exhibits 25 to 35 ino.) means that he checked it when the order was filled. I have been with Montag Bros.seven or eight years. I don't know handwriting that is.(State's exhibit K). It looks like Mr.Frank's, but it is not clear to me. It is entirely different from his usual handwriting. It is different from those I have identified positively as Mr.Frank's, but it is figures on those, and here it is in the form of a letter. There is no comparison. With a few capital letters you can't get an idea of a man's handwriting. I am not positive that it is Mr.Frank's handwriting. It might be. You take this sheet here(requisition sheet) and you can't get an idea of a man's handwriting from this, because everything is figures too. His writing might be entirely different if he sat down to write a letter.

RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION. I have never seen a letter written by Mr. Frank. The only writing of his that I am familiar with are figures and things like that, pay-rolls, writings in requisitions and words that consist largely of abbreviations.

HARRY GOTTHEIMER, Sworn for the Defendant.

I am a travelling salesman I make two trips a year for the National Pencil Company, from the first of February to the first of April, and from the first of September to the fifteenth of October. I was at Montag Bros. around ten o'clock on April 26th. I had come in from my trip on the road and was writing up my orders. I had been away ten days. Mr.Frank came in after I got there. I asked him about