0556 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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undertakers, I didn't see the impress of the cord on the neck. I
just took one look and then came right out again. I saw the dis-
coloration of the eye and that bruise and I sort of felt sick and
I walked right out.

REDIRECT EXAMINATION - I am a German and I am accustomed to drinking
my beer, I have never trusted Jim Conley after he put water in my
beer.

HARLEE BRANCH, Sworn for the defendant.
I work for the Atlanta Journal. I had an interview with Jim
Conley on two occasions. On May 31, he told me he didn't see the
purse of this little girl. He said that it took about thirty five
minutes after going upstairs until he got out of the factory. He
said he finished about 1.30 and then went out. He said that Lemmie
Quinn got into the factory about 12 o'clock and remained about 8
or 9 minutes.

CROSS EXAMINATION - I am sure about his saying he saw Lemmie Quinn
at the factory at that interview. He was in jail when I had that
interview. It was a few days after he went through the factory. As
to Conley's movements at the factory, I was there a few minutes after
twelve. Conley arrived there about 12.30 or 12.15. The detectives
told him what he was there for. After a few minutes brief conversa-
tion, Conley started telling his story. When he reached the point
at the rear left side of the factory, he described the position
of the body, and described what he did with the body, and how Mr.
Frank helped him. He enacted the whole story and talked all the
time. After he had reached the point of disposing of the body and
writing the notes, I found it was time for me to go back to the
office and I left. Conley began the enactment of the story a few m
inutes after he got there, which was a quarter past twelve, and
he went through very rapidly. We had to start a sort of trot to kee p
behind him. I left the factory at 1.10. In estimating the time Con-
ley devoted to acting and how much to telling the story would be
a guess. There is no way of disassociating the time between the two.
I didn't attempt to do that. It would be a pure guess because I