0543 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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after I got there. His wife went to bed soon afterwards.

MRS.EMIL SELIG, Recalled for the defendant.

(Witness denies categorically that any of the contents of
Minola McKnight's affidavit (Defendant's exhibit J)are true.) I have never
raised Minola's wages one penny since she has been with me.

CROSS EXAMINATION. I didn't see Albert McKnight at my house on Sat-
urday. He has been to the house two or three times. I was in bed
when Mr.and Mrs.Frank went down stairs Sunday morning in response
to the ringing of the telephone. Mr.Frank got home about eleven
o'clock Sunday morning and then ate his breakfast. He and his wife
went out together. Minola was paid $3.50 a week. I advanced her a
week's wages. I don't know what week that was. I didn't pay her
anything the next week. The first week I gave her $5.00 and told
her to give me the change. She brought $1.00 the next morning, and
told me she kept 50¢ which I deducted the next week.-I think Mrs.
Frank gave her a hat. I don't know when that was. Mrs. Frank has
never given her any money to my knowledge.

SIGMUND MONTAG, Sworn for the defendant.

I am engaged in manufacturing stationary. I am treasurer of
the National Pencil Company. The company receives its mail at my
office, which is two blocks from the pencil factory. Frank comes to
my office every day of the year to get the mail and instructions
with regard to orders and the business of the factory. He came to
my office on April 26, about ten o'clock and stayed about an hour.
He talked to me, my stenographer, Miss Hattie Hall, and Mr.Gottheimer,
one of the salesman. Up to about a year ago I went to the factory al-
most every Saturday afternoon. Mr. Frank would always be working at
his desk on the financial sheet. The telephone in my house is about
20 feet from my bed. I did not hear it ring Sunday morning. My wife
was aroused by its ringing and she woke me. The man at the other
end asked me if I could identify a girl that was killed in the base-
ment of the pencil factory. I referred him to Mr.Darley who was most
familiar with the help in the factory. After breakfast Mr. Frank
came to my house. It was a raw, chilly morning. He was no more ner-