1034 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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and I went and says, "Alright, Mr. Frank," and he says, "What time is it?"
and I says, "It lacks two minutes of six." He says, "Don't punch yet, there
is a few worked to-day and I want to change the slip." It took him twice as
long this time than it did the other times I saw him do it. He fumbled putting
it in, while I held the lever for him and I then made some remark about
he was not used to putting it in. When Mr. Frank put the tape in I punched
and I went on down-stairs. While I was down there Mr. Gantt came from
across the street from the beer saloon and says "Newt, I got a pair of old shoes
that I want to get upstairs to have fixed." I says, "I ain't allowed to let any-
body in here after six o'clock." About that time Mr. Frank come busting
out of the door and run into Gantt unexpected and he jumped back frightened.
Gantt says, "I got a pair of old shoes upstairs, have you any objection to my
getting them?" Frank says, "I don't think they are up there. I think I saw
the boy sweep some up in the trash the other day." Mr. Gantt asked him
what sort they were and Mr. Frank said "a pair of tan shoes." Gantt says, "Well, I had a
pair of black ones, too." Frank says, "Well, I don't know," and he dropped
his head down just so. Then he raised his head and says, "Newt, go with him
and stay with him and help him find them," and I went up there with Mr.
Gantt and found them in the shipping room, two pair, the tans and the black
ones. Mr. Frank phoned me that night about an hour after he left, it was
sometime after seven o'clock. He says "How is everything?" and I says,
"Everything is all right so far as I-know," and he says, "Good-bye." No, he
did not ask anything about Gantt. Yes, that is the first time he ever phoned
to me on a Saturday night, or at all.

There is a light on the street floor just after you get in the entrance to the
building. The light is right up here where that partition comes across. Mr.
Frank told me when I first went there, "Keep that light burning bright, so the
officers can see in when they pass by." It wasn't burning that day at all.
I lit it at six o'clock myself. On Saturdays I always lit it, but weekdays it
would always be lit when I got there. On weekdays I always got there at
five o'clock. This Saturday he got me there an hour earlier and let me off
later. There is a light in the basement down there by the foot of the ladder.
He told me to keep that burning all the time. It has two little chains to it
to turn on and turn off the gas. When I got there on making my rounds at
7 p. m. on the 26th of April, it was burning just as low as you could turn it,
like a lightning bug. I left it Saturday morning burning bright. I made my
rounds regularly every half hour Saturday night. I punched on the hour and
punched on the half and I made all my punches. The elevator doors on the
street floor and office floor were closed when I got there on Saturday. They
were fastened down just like we fasten them down every other night. When
three o'clock came I went down the basement and when I went down and got
ready to come back I discovered the body there. I went down to the toilet
and when I got through I looked at the dust bin back to the door to see how
the door was and it being dark I picked up my lantern and went there and I