1178 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.

I wrote that letter as a matter of conscience. It is as follows:- "To the
Grand Jury of Fulton County, W-D. Beattie, foreman. Gentlemen: Among
a number of people with whom I have discussed the unfortunate Phagan af-
fair, I have found very few who now believe in the guilt of Leo M. Frank, and
I have felt a deep conviction growing in my heart that a terrible injustice
might be inflicted upon an innocent man. While we are all mystified
by the published evidence now at command, I am impelled by a sense of duty
to ask that you carefully weigh the testimony of all persons connected with
the crime, and the accumulating evidence, and if further indictments are war-
ranted, that the Honorable Body, of which you are the foreman, will not
hesitate to find them. If I am exceeding the privilege which perhaps might
be accorded citizens in thus addressing your Honorable Body, it is your
privilege to ignore what I have said. Whatever may be your conclusion in
the matter, I wish to assure you in thus addressing you, that I am discharging
a duty which has weighed heavily on my conscience, the performance of which
I could not forego. I do not even know Mr. Frank, and have no personal
interest in the case whatever. Very truly, your fellow-citizen, William
Owens." The pantomime that we enacted at the factory was the story as
told by Jim Conley on the stand.

ISAAC HAAS, sworn for the Defendant.

I know Leo M. Frank for over five years. His character is very good.
I did not hear my telephone ring on Sunday morning, April 27th. My wife
heard it. The telephone is twenty-two feet from my bed.
CROSS EXAMINATION.

My wife waked me up when she answered the telephone.

A. N. ANDERSON, sworn for the Defendant.

I work at the Atlanta National Bank. That is the original pass-book of
Leo M. Frank (Defendant's exhibit 50).
CROSS EXAMINATION.

I don't know that that's the only bank account that he had. He may
have had others. Yes, the pencil company does business with the Atlanta
National Bank. I don't know anything about how much money they had
on April 26. Mr. Frank's bank book was balanced August 11. These are
all the checks that he drew (defendant's exhibit 51) during April.
RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.

These cancelled checks are the ones that have been paid since April 1,
1913. Mr. Frank had drawn no others since then.