0491 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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the detectives got to the factory,Frank was at the Station House. He wasthere
nearly all morning. He phoned me first about twelve o'clock, and then again about twelve thirty. He wanted to see if we
could not injustice to all the employees try to sift this thing
down, and he suggested getting the Pinkerton. He phoned again
near one o'clock. Mr.Frank spoke about his nervousness. He didn't
talk a great deal about it. He may have spoken to me one or twice
about it. I think one time he explained to me how terrible the
girl looked and the other time they rushed him to the under-
takers in a dark room and threw on the light. He said he was awful-
ly shaken up. As to what Mr.Frank said when they telephoned him ab-
out the murder, he asked what was the matter, had there been a fire
at the factory. Another reason he was nervous he said, he hadn't
had any breakfast, he wanted a cup of coffee. We had been without
a stenographer quite a while. The work had accumulated to some
extent. As to what work there was in the factory for Mr.Frank to
do Saturday except the financial sheet, he entered the orders,
made requisitions. I do not know Miss Hall entered all those
orders. I know she took dictation. That is all I know about it.
The first time I saw those orders entered on the order book, was on
Monday or Tuesday. It takes about an hour or an hour and a quarter
to enter those orders on the book. It is true that I testified be-
fore the coroner, that it wouldn't take over half an hour to enter
the orders. It takes an hour and a half to do all of the work
of transcribing them that you pointed out to me. Acknowledgments
are usually made by the person who transcribes the orders and
enters them on the requisition. If Mr.Frank didn't make acknowledg-
ments, that would not make a difference of over five or ten minutes
in time. I said it would take an hour and a half to do all of the
work lying on the table, requisition and all, transcribe them and
acknowledge them. As to what that work was, beginning with orders
7187 on the 28th, there are eleven orders, going down through 7197.
None of that was done on Friday because the orders weren't there.