1174 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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it was occupied by Montag Bros. They used it as a manufacturing plant.
The Clarke Woodenware Company subleased part of the first floor from Montag Bros. They used the front door on Montag Bros. in going in there. We
have not put in any new floor on the second story of the building. I have
known Mr. Frank four or five years. His character is good.

CROSS EXAMINATION.
I have come in contact with Mr. Frank in business and I have heard my
associates talk about him. I have seen him twenty or thirty times during
the past five years. I have not contributed anything to any fund for his
defense. I have not heard of any such fund.

DR. WM. OWENS, sworn for the Defendant.
I am a physician. I am also engaged in the real estate business. At the
request of the defense I went through certain experiments in the pencil fac-
tory to ascertain how long it would take to go through Jim Conley's move-
ments relative to moving the body of Mary Phagan. I kept the time while
the other men were going through with the performance. I followed them
and kept the time. Mr. Wilson of the Atlanta Baggage Co. also kept time
with me. Mr. Brent and Mr. Fleming enacted the performance. The per-
formance enacted was as follows: "12:56 o'clock, Conley goes to cotton box
from elevator stairs, gets piece of cloth, takes cloth back to where body lay
and ties it just like a person that was going to give out clothes on Monday,
ties each corner, draws it in and ties it, ties the four corners together, and
runs right arm through cloth, went to put it up on his shoulder and found he
couldn't get it up on shoulder, it was too heavy, and he carried it that way
on his arm, when close to little dressing room in the metal department, he
let the body fall; he jumped, and he was scared and said, 'Mr. Frank, you
will have to help me with this girl, she is heavy.' Frank comes and runs
down from the top of the steps, and after he comes down there he caught her
by the feet, and Conley laid hold of her by the shoulders, and when they got
her up that way, they backed, and Frank walked out on Conley. Frank
was nervous and trembling, too, and after walking a few steps, Frank let her
feet drop; then they picked her up and went to the elevator and sat her on
the elevator, and Frank puffed down the cords, and the elevator wouldn't go,
and Frank said: 'Wait, let me go in the office and get the key,' and Frank
goes in the office and gets a key and comes back and unlocks the storage
box, and after that he started the elevator down; the elevator went down to
the basement, and Frank said, 'Come on,' and he opened the door that led
direct to the basement in front of the elevator, and carried it out and laid
her down, and Conley opened the cloth and rolled her out on the floor, and
Frank turned around and went on up the ladder, and Conley carries the body
back to where the body was found. Conley goes around in front of the boiler,
and notices her hat and slipper and a piece of ribbon; and Conley said: 'Mr.