1175 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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Frank, what am I going to do with these things?" and Mr. Frank said:
"Leave them right there," and Conley threw them in front of the boiler;
Conley goes to the elevator, and Frank come on up, and stepped off at the first
floor, and Frank hits Conley a blow on the chest which run him against the
elevator; Frank stumbles out of elevator as it nears the second floor, Frank goes
and washes his hands, and comes into the private office, and they sit down
in the private office, Frank rubbing his hands on the back of his hair; Frank
happened to look out of the door, and said: "My God, there is Emma Clarke
and Corinthia Hall," Frank runs back; Frank says: "Come over here, Jim, I
have got to put you in this wardrobe"; Frank puts Conley-in wardrobe;
Conley stayed there quite a while; Frank: "You got in a tight place"; Con-
ley: "Yes, sir"; Frank: "You did very well"; Frank goes in the hall and
comes back and lets Conley out of the wardrobe; Frank made him sit down;
Conley sits down; Frank reaches on table and gets a box of cigarettes and
matches, takes out cigarette and match, and hands Conley box of cigarettes;
Conley lights cigarette, and commenced smoking, and hands Frank back box
of cigarettes, Frank puts cigarettes back in his pocket and takes it out;
Frank: "You can have these"; Conley reaches over and takes box of cigar-
ettes and sticks them in his pocket; Frank: "Can you write?" Conley: "Yes,
sir, a little bit"; Frank takes-out his pencil and sits down; Conley sits down
at table; Frank dictates notes; Conley taking paper that Frank gave him;
Conley writes one note; Frank says, "Turn over and write again"; Conley
turns over paper and writes again; Frank: "Turn over again"; Conley turned
over again and writes on next page; Frank: "That is all right." Frank reaches
over and gets green piece of paper and tells Conley what to write; Conley
writes, Frank then lays it on his desk, looks at Conley smiling and rubbing
his hands, runs his hands in his pocket and pulls out a roll of bills; Frank
says: "There is $200.00." Conley takes the money and looks at it a little
bit; Conley: "Mr. Frank, don't you pay another dollar when that watchman
comes, I'll pay him myself"; Frank: "All right, I don't see what you want
a watch for, either; that-big fat wife of mine wanted me to buy her
an automobile, and I wouldn't do it; (pause) I will give you the best way. You
go down in the basement, you saw that package of money on the floor in front
of the elevator; take a lot of that trash and make up a fire and burn it."
Conley: "All right, Mr. Frank, you come down with me and I will go."
Frank: "There is no need of my going down there, and I-haven't got any
business down there." Conley: "Mr. Frank, you are a white man and you
done it, and I am not going down there and burn it myself." (Pause). Frank:
"Let me see that money." Frank takes money and puts it in his pocket.
Conley: "Is this the way you do things?" (Pause) Frank turned around
in his chair, looks at money, and looks back at Conley, and throws his hands
and looks up. Frank: "Why should I hang? I have wealthy people in Brook-
lyn." Conley: "Mr. Frank, what about me?" Frank: "It is alright about
you, don't you worry about this thing; you must go back to your work on
Monday, like you have never known anything, and keep your mouth shut,