0431 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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on the table to get a box of cigarettes and a box of matches,
and he takes a cigarette and a match and hands me the box of
cigarettes and I lit one and went to smoking and I handed him
back the box of cigarettes, and he put it back in his pocket and
then he took them out again and said, "You can have these", and
I put them in my pocket, and then he said, "Can you write," and
I said, "Yes, sir, a little bit," and he taken his pencil to
fix up some notes. I was willing to do anything to help Mr.
Frank because he was a white man and superintendent, and he
sat down and I sat down at the table and Mr. Frank dictated the
notes to me. Whatever it was it didn't seem to suit him, and he
told me to turn over and write again, and I turned the paper
and wrote again, and when I done that he told me to turn over
again and I turned over again and I wrote on the next page there,
and he looked at that and kind of liked it and he said that was
all right. Then he reached over and got another piece of paper,
a green piece, and told me what to write. He took it and laid
it on his desk and looked at me smiling and rubbing his hands,
and then he pulled out a nice little roll of greenbacks, and
he said, "Here is $200," and I taken the money and looked at it
a little bit and I said, "Mr. Frank, don't you pay another dol-
lar for that watchman, because I will pay him myself," and he
said, "All right, I don't see what you want to buy a watch for
either, that big fat wife of mine wanted me to buy an automobile
and I wouldn't do it." And after awhile Mr. Frank looked at me
and said, "You go down there in the basement and you take
a lot of trash and burn that package that's in front of the furnace,"
and I told him all right. But I was afraid to go down there by
myself, and Mr. Frank wouldn't go down there with me. He said,
"There's no need of my going down there," and I said, "Mr. Frank,
you're a white man and you done it, and I am not going down there.