1164 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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GODFREY WEINKAUF, sworn for the Defendant.

I am superintendent of the Pencil Company's lead plant. Beginning with
July, 1912, up until the first week in January, 1913, I visited the office of the
pencil factory every other Saturday, between three and five o'clock. I would
stay there about two hours. I would find Mr. Holloway, Mr. Frank and Mr.
Schiff there. I never saw any women in the office there.

CROSS EXAMINATION.

I never saw Jim Conley there at the factory on Saturday afternoon. I
am sure I saw Holloway there on Saturday afternoon.

CHARLIE LEE, sworn for the Defendant.

I am a machinist at the pencil factory. I remember an accident to Duffy
in the metal room. His finger was hurt on the eyelet machine, about October
4, 1912. It bled freely and the blood spouted out. There was a lot of the
blood on the floor. He went down the hall to the office, by the ladies' dress-
ing room. There was blood at that point. Gilbert also got hurt in the metal
room last year. He was bandaged in the office also. In going from the metal
room to the office, you go right by the steps.

CROSS EXAMINATION.

I have been with the company two years and four months. Two weeks
ago my wages were raised 2 1-2 cents an hour. Mr. Darley raised them. I
have not talked to anybody about what I was going to swear in this case.
I did not see Gilbert get hurt up there. I saw him after he was dressed.
Duffy was hurt in the metal room on the machine opposite Mary Phagan's
machine. The pencil company took a written statement from me, signed by
me, to keep the fellow from suing the company. I saw my signature this
morning. I have never told you I signed that statement. The blood was
streaming from his finger and dropped all over the floor. The whole floor
was bloody. He came out down the hall to the office. He stopped about in
front of the dressing room, about three steps from the water cooler and asked
me which office to go in. The blood was streaming from his finger while he
was standing there, about eight or ten seconds. It dropped just in one place,
holding his hand like this. It wasn't cleaned up, they only swept the floor
once a week, that's all the cleaning it gets. I never noticed it after that time.
I have never taken any notice whether you can see that blood there now.
Duffy was cut right near where these chips were taken up on the floor. It
might have been the same place. It was right near there. I wouldn't say
it was the same spot or not.