0952 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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EXHIBIT P.

Georgia, Fulton County.
The State of Georgia ) Fulton Superior Court.
vs. )
Leo M. Frank. )

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Notary Public in and for said county, Sampson Kay, who being duly sworn says that he is a resident of the city of Atlanta, living at No. 204 South Pryor Street. Deponent further says that on Saturday the 23rd day of August 1913, about 8 or 8:30 o’clock p. m. he saw the entire above entitled case walking along South Pryor Street with a deputy sheriff in front and another walking in the rear of said jury, up South Pryor Street to south Pryor Street from East Fair Street, and thence some 15 or 20 feet to the rear Kimball House. Deponent followed the jury Street to near the corner of E. and Mitchell and S. Pryor, when he passed ahead and waited on the corner of said streets until the jury had passed, and then continued to follow them up to the Kimball House. This deponent says that there were some six or seven men walking alongside the jury, talking to them all the way from the corner of E. Fair and S. Pryor Streets, up to the Union Station just north of the corner of East Alabama and S. Pryor Street, when the men left them, and the jury went on and entered the Kimball House through the Wall Street entrance.

Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 3d day of September, 1913.
ROBT. C. PATTERSON,
Notary Public, Fulton County, Georgia.

SAMPSON KAY.

EXHIBIT Q.

State of Georgia, Fulton County.
The State of Georgia ) Fulton Superior Court.
vs. )
Leo M. Frank. )

Personally appeared Samuel A. Boorstin, who, being duly sworn, on oath says: That on Friday evening, on the 22d day of August, 1913, at about 5 or 5:30 p. m., he was present at the opening session of Fulton Superior Court, Judge L. S. Roan, presiding, during the trial of the State versus Leo M. Frank, and after adjournment, and when the jury had been taken from the court-room, and shortly thereafter, the Solicitor-General, Hugh M. Dorsey, had passed out of the court-room, there was a large crowd waiting outside, through which the jury passed, comprising, perhaps, no less than two or three thousand people; that this crowd did tumultuously and noisily applaud, and cheer the Solicitor-General, and did congregate around the court-room on the outside, standing in great numbers, both on the street and on the sidewalks; that deponent, upon adjournment of court, was walking up Pryor Street from said court-room in a northerly direction, and when he reached Pryor and Alabama Streets, he saw two persons peering out of the third floor corner window in the Kimball House, looking in a southward direction at the large crowd congregated between the Kiser building and the court-house; that as deponent continued walking northward and reached the restaurant in the
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