0355 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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to see whether Newt Lee could have seen the body from where he
stood. We placed a bulk about the size of an ordinary body
about the same position that this body was found in and you could
see the bulk of the body by looking carefully by standing at the
spot Newt Lee said he had seen it. A man couldn't get down that
ladder with another person. It is a difficult matter for one
person to get through the scuttle hole. The signs of dragging that
I saw was right at the bottom of the elevator shaft, on the south
side of the elevator. The sign of dragging came right around
the elevator straight back east of the ladder, it started east
of the ladder. A man going down the ladder to the rear of the
basement would not go in front of elevator where dragging was. The
hasp appeared to have been pulled straight out of the door, on
the inside, it was not bent. The body was cold and stiff, hands
folded across the breast. I didn't find any blood on the ground
or on the sawdust around where the body was found. Yes, the
hasp is bent the least bit. When we got there Sunday morning,
I think the elevator was on the second floor. We tried to make
Lee run the elevator, but he said he couldn't do it.
FURTHER REPLY:
I found the handkerchief about two feet towards the rear
beyond the body on a sawdust pile.
RE-CROSS EXAMINATION:
I found it possibly ten or fifteen minutes after we found
the body. The handkerchief was bloody just like it is now.
RECALLED FOR THE STATE:
The trap door leading to the basement was closed when
we got there. There was cobwebs and dust both there.
J. H. STARNES, Sworn for the State:
I am a city officer. Went to the pencil Company's place of
business between five and six o'clock, April 27th. The Pencil Com-
pany is located in Fulton County, Georgia, and that's where the
body was found.