1166 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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troduced him to Mr. Frank. There isn't a word of truth in that. I have never gone down in the basement with this fellow Dalton. I don't even know where the basement is at all. I have never been anywhere in the factory, except at my work.
CROSS EXAMINATION.
I have never been in jail. Mr. W. M. Smith got me out of jail. Somebody told a tale on me, that's why I was put in jail. I don't know what they charged me with; they accused me of fornication.
RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.
I never was tried. I never had to pay anything except my lawyer's fee, which I paid to Mr. Wm. Smith. I never was taken to court.
MISS LAURA ATKINSON, sworn for the Defendant.
I have been in Mr. Dalton's company three times. I never met him at the Busy Bee Cafe. I have never walked with him to or from the pencil company. I have never walked home with him.
CROSS EXAMINATION.
I worked at the National Pencil Factory two days last month. I have known Mr. Dalton six months. I have been in his company three times. I did not know Daisy Hopkins.
MRS. MINNIE SMITH, sworn for the Defendant.
I work at the pencil factory. I do not know C. B. Dalton. I live at 148 S. Forsyth St. I have never met Dalton or walked home with him. I don't know the man. I know Mr. Frank. I have spoken to him six times in the four years and a half that I worked there.
CROSS EXAMINATION WAIVED.
V. S. Cooper, W. T. Mitchell, O. A. Nix, Samuel Craig, B. L. Patterson, Robert Craig, Ed Craig, T. L. Ambrose, J. P. Bird, J. H. Patrick and I. M. Hamilton. All sworn for the defendant. Testified that they lived in Gwinnett or Walton county; that they used to know C. B. Walton before he left Monroe in Walton county; that his general character for truth and veracity is bad, and that they would not believe him on oath.
R. L. BAUER, sworn for the Defendant.
During the summer of 1909 and 1910, I worked at the National Pencil Company on Saturdays. Since that time I have worked off and on at the factory on Saturdays doing extra work. I have also been up to the office