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

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LEO M. FRANK. 323

Frank was associated with a store employing two or three people, and we don't know how many more. If his uncle wasn't in Brooklyn, he was so near there that even Frank himself thought he was at the very moment he claimed to be there. He says, "You have seen or are with the people in Brooklyn."

Let's go a step further. On April 28th, he wired Adolph Montag in care of the Imperial Hotel. Listen now to what he says: "You may have read in Atlanta papers of factory girl found dead Sunday morning." In factory? No, "in cellar"? Cellar where? "Cellar of pencil factory." There's where he placed her, there's where he expected her to be found. The thing welled up in his mind to such an extent that, on Monday morning, April 28th, before he had ever been arrested, he wired Montag, forestalling what he knew would surely and certainly come unless the Atlanta detectives were corrupted and should suppress it.

"You have read in Atlanta papers of factory girl found dead Sunday morning in cellar of pencil factory. Police will eventually solve it,"—he didn't have any doubt about it—"Police will eventually solve it"—and be it said to their credit, they did—"Assure my uncle"—he says, Monday morning—"I am all right in case he asks. Our company has the case well in hand." "Girl found dead in pencil factory cellar," he says in the telegram, "the police will eventually solve it," he says, before he was arrested, "I am all right, in case my uncle asks," and "our company has the case well in hand."

Well, maybe he did think that when he got that fellow Scott, that he had it well in hand. I'll tell you, there's an honest man. If there was a slush fund in this case—these witnesses here say they don't know anything about it, but if there was a slush fund in this case, Scott could have got it. At first, he never heard any words that sounded better to him than when Scott said, "We travel arm in arm with the police." That's exactly what Frank wanted them to do at that time. He wanted somebody that would run with Black and Starnes and Rosser, and it sounded good to him.