0564 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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ohair and looks down at Frank.Frank grabs scratch pad from type-
writer table and starts to make memorandum upon paper, but his
hand trembles so he couldn't.Frank gets up to goj, Frank: "Now, Jim
you keep your mouth shut, do you hear?" Conley: "All right, I will
keep my mouth shut, and I will be back here in forty minutes."
Conley goes out. It took us eighteen and a half minutes by the watch
to go through the movements and conversation, (as above set forth)
which Conley says took place between him and Frank on Saturday,April
26th. The experiment was made as rapidly as the dialogue could be
read. The eighteen and half minutes did not include the eight min-
utes that Conley said he was in the wardrobe and also the time it
him to write the notes, including the eight minutes he remained in
the wardrobe and the ten minutes estimated for writing the notes, the
whole performance would have taken 36 1/2 minutes.

CROSS-EXAMINATION. We started the experiment at the entrance of Mr.
Frank's office at ten top of the stairs. We had the copy of Conley's
movements and the conversation in our hands all the time. Mr.Haas
and Mr. Wilson read the directions. Mr.Brent took the part of Conley.
As they would read out the things that Conley did, Mr.Brent would do
them. I went with him all the time. I don't think the giving of the
directions lengthened the time very much, because the directions
were being given while the enactment of each scene was going on. It
wasn't done slowly and deliberately. When they dropped the body, those
knots did not come untied. The sack that they carried, to represent
the body, contained wet sawdust and cinders, and was supposed to
weigh 107 pounds. It was tied up tight. There was only point in
the enactment where might have been a loss of time, and that was
where Mr.Frank was supposed to have paused in the office, and I
suppose five or ten seconds were lost there. Mr. Fleming took part
of Mr.Frank. When they took the body down on the elevator, Mr.Brent,
representing Conley, opened the cloth and rolled the corpse out on
the floor, on the cloth, then dragged her back to where the body was
found. Mr.Brent dragged it back. He simply picked up the sack by the
end and pulled it along. He dragged the sack with the enclosed saw-
dust