0513 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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mention it at the coroner's inquest. This was Tuesday after-
noon. I told you in the statement I gave you that I could not
swear positively as to the time I was at the factory. I said I
got to the pool room between 12:20 and 12:30. I had been up in
the factory before I met Newt, Freeman and Miss Hall at the Busy
Bee. I was in the office and saw Mr. Frank between 12:20 and
12:25. At the time I made the statement to you that I was there-
between 12:00 and 12:05 I had reckoned the time down as I have
now. The back door at the stairway going up from the office
floor to the top floor is fastened with a bar. It is not closed
except on pay day. It is true that a man on the office floor
could easily lift the bar and walk up, but a man couldn't come
down to the office floor from above at all. Anybody could fix
that bar in its place in half a minute. I told you in the de-
tective's office that I reckoned the time of my being in the fac-
tory from the time I left home and the destination I went to,
and I said I could not remember any stop at Wolfheimer's which
took ten or fifteen minutes, and that I had reckoned it so
positively. I left home I know at about a quarter to twelve. I
looked at my watch. It takes twelve or fifteen minutes to walk
to the factory. I got to Wolfheimer's pretty close to 12
o'clock. I was there ten or fifteen minutes.
RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION
At the time the detectives and Mr. Dorsey talked to me about
the murder, I overlooked the fact that I had been to Wolfheimer's.
My wife called my attention to it when I got home. I mentioned
this matter to my father and my wife before I ever mentioned it
to Mr. Frank. Mr. Frank did not tell me not to mention it to
anybody. If a detective had asked me I would have told him
what I knew about it. At the Coroner's inquest I said it could