229 Page – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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LEO M. FRANK, 197

I received a grant from Mr. Darley or Mr. Frank. Mr. Frank was present at the time. Mr. Frank told me that when the little girl asked if the metal had come back, he said, "I don't know." It may be true that I swore before the coroner that in answer to that question from Mary Phagan about whether the metal had come yet, Frank said, "No," and it is possible that I so reported to you. If I said "No," I meant "I don't know."

Miss Monteen Stover

I worked at the National Pencil Company on April 25th. I was at the factory at 5 minutes after 12 on that day and left at 10 minutes after 12. I went there to get my money and went into Mr. Frank's office; he was not there. I didn't see or hear anybody in the building. The door to the metal room was closed. I had on tennis shoes, a yellow hat, and a brown raincoat.

Cross-examined

I didn't notice the safe in Mr. Frank's office; I walked right in and walked right out. I am fourteen years old and worked on the fourth floor. I knew the paying-off time was 12 o'clock on Saturday, and that is why I went there.

R. P. Barrett

I am a machinist for the National Pencil Company. On Monday morning between 6:30 and 7:00, April 28th, I found some spots at the west end of the dressing room on the second floor of the factory. They were not there on Friday. It was blood; it looked like some white substance had been wiped over it. We kept potash and haskoline, both white substances, on this floor. I found some hair on the handle of a bench lathe; Mell Stanford saw this hair. The hair was not there on Friday. There was a pan of haskoline about 8 feet from where the blood was found.

Cross-examined

I never searched for any blood spots before until Miss Jefferson came in and said she understood Mary had been murdered in the metal department; then I started to search right away. I could tell it was blood by looking at it; I can tell the difference between blood and other substances. I found the hair some few minutes afterward—about 6 or 8 strands of hair and pretty long.

Mell Stanford

I work at the National Pencil Company and swept the whole floor in the metal room on April 26th. On Monday, I found a spot that had some white haskoline over it on the second floor near the dressing room. That wasn’t there on Friday when I swept. I use a small broom in sweeping. The spot looked like it was blood, with dark spots scattered around; it looked like the large broom had been used in putting the haskoline on the floor.

Mrs. George W. Jefferson

I worked at the National Pencil Company and saw blood on the second floor in front of the girls’ dressing room on Monday. It was about as big as a fan, and something white was over it. I didn’t see that blood there on Friday. There are cords in the polishing room, used to tie pencils with.

B. B. Haslett

I went to Mr. Frank's house on Monday morning after the murder, about 7, and took him to the station house.

B. F. Holloway

I am the day watchman at the National Pencil factory and have worked there for two years. I was there on April 26th from 6:30 a.m. till 11:45. I look...

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