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0641 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: salesman sells little or big his salary goes on and his expenses goes on. Rent, heat, light, power, sales department men, and all that, is figured out, as you would find by looking back, continuously, from week to week, and there is no work other than jotting it down to figure in this total.The repair sundries is also arbitrary at $150.00. The machine shop, however, is evadable. It appears alongside of "Investment". "Investment" is crossed out, and "Machine shop" written in. There is a reason for that. The time was at the inception of

0642 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: in ferrules, the medium rubber, and the better class of rubber.In other words, it's gotten by adding together therubber at 9 cents a gross, and the rubber at 14 cents a gross,and adding together the total amount of gross used. And yousee it says "materials", and it is reckoned at 10 cents; inother words, the materials used in making the tips in that tipplant we figured at 10 cents a gross, and the labor is in-cluded in that payroll item up above. Then there is 25 grossof these medium ends.Then the lead, which is

0643 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: morning before I would take it over. Then it tells tipsdelivered from Mr. Quinn's report.Now on the right side you will notice this entry, "Bet-ter grades, gross, net." From this small sheet we gettotal of better grades 710, gross. Then right below it says700 gross net. There were 710 gross, and on that repackedsheet I called out there 10 gross good goods repacked, there-fore the difference of 10 gross. Then we look on down thispencil sheet, cut down each and every one of the items accordingly--you will notice in some places I marked some

0644 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: filled these figures in; I am no typewriter; I cannot operate a machine; I have two or three dozen of these every now and then typewritten together, and keep them in blank in my desk; I didn't typewrite those on that day, or any other day; I just filled these figures in those blanks--this is the sheet (Defendant's Ex. 11)--called the comparison sheet between 1912 and 1913, which is nothing more nor less than taking the vital figures, the vital statistics of one week of 1913, and comparing them with the same week of

0645 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: formerly a member of our Board of Directors, although he is notnow. The other sheet I always invariably sent to my uncle,Mr. M. Frank, no matter where he is, who is President of theCompany. On this particular Saturday, my uncle had during theweek ending April 26th gone to New York, stopping at HotelMcAlpin, preparatory to taking his annual trip abroad forhis health, he being a sick feeble old man. When I made outthat financial, I really made out two small ones, and I putone in an envelope, addressed it to Mr. Oscar Pappenheimer(Def't's Ex.

0646 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Mr. Sig. Montag, General Manager of the Pencil Company, and putit under my inkwell, intending to take it up on the morningof Monday following.I then came to the checking up of the cash on handand the balancing of the cash book. For some reason or otherthere are no similar entries in this book after those of thatdate. That's my handwriting. (Def'ts Ex. 40) and I didthat work on Saturday afternoon, April 25th, as near as mightbe between the hours of 5:30 and 5 minutes to 6:30. Now inchecking up it didn't take me an

0647 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: .. it up to $30.54; the actual amount which the cash book showed.Now on the left-hand side of this book, the debits for the week between April 21st, which was Monday, previous to April 28th, it being a record simply of the petty cash used by us, showed that we had a balance on hand the Monday morning previous of $39.85. On April 23rd we drew a check for $15.00, and on April 24th we drew another one for $15.00. I mean by that we would draw a check for $15.00, and go over

0648 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: lump the different items that were all alike together (Def't's Ex. 10). This sheet has been identified and explained, and you notice that there were four items of drayage grouped together, the total being $6.70. I just extend -that-over to the right there $6.70. Then I don't have to put drayage down in this book four times; just make one entry of drayage for the four-times we paid drayage together, which gives the same total, and makes the book look a great deal neater. So on throughout, five items of cases, two items of

0649 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: which was put into the clock the night, --Saturday night, -- no one was coming down to the factory on Sunday, as far as I knew, or as far as custom was, to put the slips into the clocks and therefore, we had to put the slips into the clock dated with the date on which the help were coming into the factory to go about their regular duties and register on the Monday following, which, in this case, was April 28th. Now, on one of these slips, Newt Lee would register his punches

EMMA BEARD C, Sworn In For The Defendant, 65th To Testify

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EMMA BEARD (colored), sworn for the Defendant.I am Mr. Schiff's servant. On April 26th somebody called Mr. Schiff on the telephone. I answered the telephone. It was about half past ten. It sounded like a boy's voice. It said, "I Tell Mr. Schiff Mr. Frank wanted him at the office." Mr. Schiff was asleep at the time. I waked him up and he said, "Tell Mr. Frank I will be there as soon as I can get dressed." And I repeated the message to the boy and told him what Mr. Schiff said. Then Mr. Schiff went back to sleep

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

Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 33The concept of "malice implied" in law is a legal fiction—a presumption made in the absence of knowledge. It is a leap in the dark, a guilty guess as to how and why a killing took place, without knowing either the how or the why. It is an arbitrary fiat substituted for proof, demanding proof to overthrow it. It is a conclusion forced on the conscience of a juror, which he must take for truth and act on as truth until the accused, by evidence, shall establish it to be a

0650 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Lee it would be all right to pass Gantt in, and Gantt went in. Newt Lee closed the door, locking it after him,---I heard the bolt turn in the door. I then walked up Forsyth Street to Alabama, down Alabama to Broad Street, where I posted the two letters,---one to my uncle, Mr. M. Frank and one to Mr. Pappenheimer, a few minutes after six, and continued on my way down to Jacob Whitehall and Alabama Street store, where I went in and got a drink at the soda fountain and bought my wife

0651 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: lighted the gas water heater preparatory to taking a bath,and then continued reading in the hall; at 10:30, I turnedout the gas, went into the dining room, bade them all good-night, and went upstairs to take my bath; a few minutes later,my wife followed me upstairs. (At this point the jury retiredfor a short intermission.) I believe I was taking a bath whenyou went out,--on Saturday night; and after finishing my bath,I laid out my linen to be used next day, my wife changed thebuttons from my old shirt to the shirt I was

0652 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: and the man who I afterwards found out was detective Black,hung his head and didn't say anything. Now, at this point,these two witnesses, Mr. Rogers and Mr. Black differ with meon the place where the conversation occurred,--I say, to thebest of my recollection, it occurred right there in the housein front of my wife; they say it occurred just as I leftthe house, in the automobile; but be that as it may, this isthe conversation: They asked me did I know Mary Phagan, Itold them I didn't; they then said to me, "didn't a

0653 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: light, and I saw the body of the little girl. Mr. Rogerswalked in the room and stood to my right, inside of theroom. I stood right in the door, leaning up against the rightfacing of the door, and Mr. Black was to the left, leaning onthe left facing, but a little to my rear, and the attendant,whose name I have since learned was Mr. Thesseling, was on theopposite side of the little cooling table to where I stood--in other words, the table was between him and me; he removedthe sheet which was covering the

0654 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: work in the metal plant, and that she was due to draw $1.20,the pay-roll book showed that as the detectives had toldme that someone had identified the body of that little girlas that of Mary Phagan, there could be no question but what itwas one and the same girl. The detectives told me thenthey wanted to take me down in the basement and show me exactlywhere the girl's body was found, and the other paraphernaliathat they found strewed around; and I went to the elevatorbox,--the switch box, so that I could turn on the

0655 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: seemed like the chain which goes down in the basement had slipped a cog and gotten out of gear and needed somebody to force it back; however, Mr. Darley was successful in getting it loose, and it started up, and I got on and the detectives got on and I caught hold of the rope and it worked all right. In the basement, the officers showed us just about where the body was found, just beyond the partition of the Clark Woodenware Company, and in behind the door to the dust bin, they showed

0656 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 153 and the number 134 (deft's Bx 41). I wrote on it "Taken out 8:25 A.M." and two lines under that, with a casual look at that slip, you can't see it.I can see it. When looking casually at that slip, you see nothing, and by the way, this sheet has been identified (Def's Bx. 41). It is the one to which reference has been made so many times, and if you will look at it, you will see the date, April 26th, which was put on there on the evening of Saturday, April

0657 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: successive punches were made at the time which the punchesthemselves showed. After putting a new slip in the clock,we all went out of the factory and went downstairs and lockedthe door, and I was going to go down to the office, topolice headquarters, because the officers said they wanted toshow me some notes which they said were found near the body andthe pad lock and staple which they showed me had been with-drawn, and which they said had been taken down to the stationthe first time they had Newt Lee down there.Now, gentlemen, I

0658 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: up to Chief Lanford's office where I sat and talked and answered every one of their questions freely and frankly, and discussed the matter in general with them, trying to aid and to help them in any way that I could. It seemed that, that morning the notes were not readily accessible, or for some other reason I didn't get to see them, so I told them on leaving there that I would come back that afternoon, which I ultimately did; after staying there a few minutes, Mr. Darley and myself left, and inasmuch

0659 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Wolfsheimer, and at Mr. Wolfsheimer's house, we found quite a company of young people, and the conversation turned largely on what I had seen that morning; also, among those who were present, were Mrs. L. G. Cohen, Mrs. N. G. Michael, Mrs. Carl Wolfsheimer, Julian Michael, Phillip Michael, Miss Helen Michael, Miss Virginia Silverman, Miss May Lou Lieberman, Julian Loeb and Herman Loeb. After staying there about an hour with my wife, I went in her company to visit the home of my brother-in-law, A. E. Marcus, whose home is situated on Washington Street

ANNIE HIXON C, Sworn In For The Defendant, 66th To Testify

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ANNIE HIXON (colored), sworn for the Defendant.I am Mrs. Ursenbach's servant. Mr. Frank called up on the telephone about half past one on April 26th. I told him Mr. Ursenbach was not in and he said "Tell Mr. Charlie I can't go to the ball game this afternoon." I told Mrs. Ursenbach about it.CROSS EXAMINATION.I have been working for Mrs. Ursenbach two years. Mr. Frank and his wife came over to Mrs. Ursenbach's on Sunday after we had breakfast about nine o'clock. They come over there every Sunday. I didn't pay any attention to what they talked about that morning.

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

Here is the translated text as follows:384 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.We can't send him to the gallows upon it. It is a libel on our nature to presume without knowledge that every killing is with malice. Although man is capable of cold-blooded assassination, he naturally recoils from the deed; and for one murder done in cold blood, there are a hundred killings that result from misfortune, or great provocation, giving rise to sudden passion, or the instinct of self-preservation. If any presumption must be made by the law, the presumption should be more in harmony with reason and experience. But

0660 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Virgind. I chatted with them a few minutes, and I noticedthat the people who were going in to see the body were standingin line and moving in, and that others from the factory weregoing in and I thought I would go in too and pay my respects,and I went and stood in line, and went into the room again andstaid a few minutes in the mortuary chamber; the little girlhad been cleaned up, her hair had all been cleaned and smoothedout, and there was a new white sheet over the rest of herbody. I

0661 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: from the regulation order pad or order book-of the NationalPencil Company (State's Ex. ZJ, the sheet was a yellow sheetwith black ruling on it, and certain black printing at thetop. These are the two notes, (indicating papers.)At the top of these notes where it showed the series and date,and you can see it has either been worn out or rubbed out, butthe date was originally on there, and down below here is theserial numbers now, both of those notes were written as thoughthey had been written through a piece of carbon paper and thedate

0662 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: corner of Whitehall and Alabama, where Mr. Schiff waiteduntil I caught an Alabama Street or Georgia Avenue car and re-turned to my home. I returned to my home about a quarter tofour, and found there was no one in, as my wife had told methat if she wasn't at home, she would probably be at the resi-dence of Mr. Ereenberg, I proceeded over there, coming upWashington Street in the direction of the Orphans' Home, andon Washington Street, between Georgia Avenue and the nextstreet down, which I believe is Bass Street, I met ArthurHaas and

0663 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: I saw there his wife, Mrs. Haas, her son Edgar Haas, and acousin of my wife's, Montefiore Selig. My wife had left wordwith Mrs. Haas that I should call for her at the residence ofMr. Marcus, which is next door, or just a few doors away, andI went by end called for my wife at six o'clock and a fewminutes before seven my wife and I left the residence of Mr.Marcus and started down Washington Street towards GeorgiaAvenue on our way home. On our way home, we met our brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Chas.

0664 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: walked from my home on Georgia Avenue down to WashingtonStreet, down to police headquarters, walking the whole way.On the way down, I asked Detective Haslett what the troubledown at the station house was, and he said: "Well, Newt Leehas been saying something, and Chief Lanford wanted to ask youa few questions about it;" and I said: "What did Newt Leesay?" "Well, Chief Lanford will tell you when you get downthere." Well, I didn't say anything more to him, went rightalong with him, and when I got down to police headquarters,I sat in one of

0665 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: interval of an hour had occurred three times during the time that Newt Lee had been punching on that Saturday night, April 26th. When I had first looked at it, I only noticed that every line had a punch mark on it, but I didn't notice what time the punch marks themselves were on; this time I studied the slip carefully. It was one of the same slips I had taken out of the clock. Chief Lanford, one of the officers handed it to me at police headquarters, which I absolutely identified with the

0666 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Rosser were apparently having a sort of conversation, and I overheard Mr. Rosser say "Well, it is preposterous, a man who would have done such a deed must be full of scratches and marks and his clothing must be bloody." I imagine Mr. Rosser must have had an inkling that they were suspicious of me, and as soon as I heard that, I turned and jumped up and showed them my under clothing and my top shirt and my body, (exposed it to them all that came within the range of their vision. I

0667 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: to you for your examination. The detectives were evidentlyperfectly well satisfied with what they had seen there, andof course they left without any further remarks with Mr. Haas.I went downstairs and conversed with my folks down thereuntildinner time, which was served to my father-in-law and mymother-in-law and my wife and myself by Minola McKnight.About that time, Mr. and Mrs. Wolfsheimer came in and conversedwith us, Mr. Wolfsheimer telling me that he would take medowntown that afternoon in his automobile. After dinner, Itelephoned down to the office and telephoned to Mr. Schiff, andtold him to

0668 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: spoke to the boys who were there in the office about thehappenings of that morning, of course, more or less length.Then Mr. Quinn said he would like to take me back to the metaldepartment on the office floor where the newspapers thatmorning had said that Mr. Barrett of the metal department hadclaimed he had found blood spots, and where he had foundsome hair. Mr. Quinn first took me to the little lathe backin the metal department, and explained to me that Mr. Barretthad told him just the same as he said here, that those

0669 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: the main ingredients of that compound are, for practical purposes, soap and oil, and it now is diluted to a great extent with water so it can flow easily onto the tools or onto the metal, so that the tools that they use it on won't get brittle or smeared up, and that haskoline compound is carried to these little machines in the metal room, right almost up to that dressing room, and the haskoline remains on them and sticks to them, and you are apt to find that haskoline compound on the floor

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

Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 35The responsibility lies upon others. It is a concept defined in the following words: "Express malice is when one, with a sedate, deliberate mind and formed design, kills another; this formed design is evidenced by external circumstances discovering that inward intention, such as lying in wait, antecedent menaces, former grudges, and concerted schemes to do him harm."Thus, jurors, you see what it is you have to find, and also what is the evidence of its existence. You have to find a fact—the condition or state of the mind at and before

0670 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: room, and we have had accidents there, and by the way, in reference to those accidents, the accidents of which we have had records, are not the only accidents that have happened there; for instance, a person cuts a finger; that is an accident, we give first aid to the injured in the office, and we don't have any report on that, the only reports we have are of those accidents that incapacitate the health, where they demand the money for the time that they have lost due to the accident, and we will

0671 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: solvent, should have been put on there in a liquid state, it would not have showed up white, as it showed up then, but it would have showed up either pink or red, and where the spot of blood was, or whatever it was, that stuff was white, and not pink or red.I returned after making this examination from which I noticed two or three or four chips had been knocked up, the boys told me, by the police that morning; I returned to my office and gathered up what papers I had to

0672 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: in the presence of Mr. J. V. Darley and Mr. Herbert Schiff.I told him that I expected that he had seen what had happenedat the Pencil Factory by reading the newspapers and knew allthe details. He said he didn't read the newspapers and didn'tknow the details, so I sat down and gave him all the detailsthat I could, and in addition I told him something which Mr.Darley had that afternoon communicated to me, viz: that Mrs.White had told him that on going into the factory at about 12o'clock noon on Saturday April 26th, she

0673 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: I opened the back door and we made a thorough search of the alleyway and went up and down the alley and then went down that alleyway to Hunter Street and down Hunter to Forsyth and up Forsyth in front of the Pencil Factory. In front of the Pencil Factory I had quite a little talk with Mr. Scott as to the rate of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. He told me that they were and I had Mr. Schiff to telephone to Mr. Montag to find out if those rates were satisfactory. He phoned

0674 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: company with another one of their traveling men, Mr. Jordan. At the corner of Forsyth and Hunter Streets, I met up with a cousin of my wife's, a Mr. Selig, and had a drink at Cruickshank's soda fount at the corner of Hunter and Forsyth. Then I went up into the factory and separated the papers I had brought back with me from Montag Brothers, putting them in the proper places, and sending the proper papers to the different places. I was working along the regular routine of my work, in the factory and

0675 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: and my hands and my arms - I suppose he was trying to hunt to see if he could find any scratches. I stayed in there until about 12 o'clock when Mr. Rosser came in and spoke to the detectives, or to Chief Beavers. After talking with Chief Beavers he came over to me and said to me that Chief Beavers thought it better that I should stay down there. He says: "He thinks it better that you be detained at headquarters, but if you desire, you don't need to be locked up in

0676 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: of the note that I wrote. Detective Starnes then took me down to the desk sergeant where they searched me and entered my name on the book under a charge of suspicion. Then they took me back into a small room and I sat there for awhile while my father-in-law was arranging for a supernumerary police to guard me for the night. They took me then to a room on the top of the building and I sat in the room there and either read magazines or newspapers and talked to my friends who

0677 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: and in a few minutes afterwards detective Barnes brought upNewt Lee from the cell room. They put Newt Lee into a roomand hand-cuffed him to a chair. I spoke to him at some lengthin there, but I couldn't get anything additional out of him.He said he knew nothing about couples coming in there at night,and remembering the instructions Mr. Black had given me Isaid: "Now, Newt, you are here and I am here, and youhad better open up and tell all you know, and tell the truthand tell the full truth, because you will

0678 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: establishment, to the factory, and I went to headquartersI went to headquarters the second time, going there willinglywithout anybody coming for me. On each occasion I answeredthem frankly and unreservedly, giving them the benefit of thebest of my knowledge, answering all and any of their questions,and discussing the matter generally with them. On Monday theycame for me again. I went down and answered any end all oftheir questions and gave them a statement which they took downin writing, because I thought it was right and I was onlytoo glad to do it. I answered

0679 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: know about him." I said: "Gentlemen, you have come to thewrong man, because Mr. Darley is the soul of honor and is astrue as steel. He would not do a crime like that, he couldn'tdo it," and Black chirped up: "Come on, Scott, nothing doing,"and off they go. That showed me how much reliance could beplaced in either the city detectives or our own Pinkertondetectives, and I treated such conduct with silence and it wasfor this reason, gentlemen, that I didn't see Conley,surrounded with a bevy of city detectives and Mr. Scott, be-cause I

ALONZO MANN, Sworn In For The Defendant, 68th To Testify

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ALONZO MANN, sworn for the Defendant.I am office boy at the National Pencil Company. I began working there April 1, 1913. I sit sometimes in the outer office and stand around in the outer hall. I left the factory at half past eleven on April 26th 1913. When I left there Miss Hall, the stenographer from Montag's, was in the office with Mr. Frank. Mr. Frank told me to phone to Mr. Schiff and tell him to come down. I telephoned him, but the girl answered the phone and said he hadn't got up yet. I telephoned once. I worked

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

Here is the translated text as follows:36 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.In the presentation of facts, the circuit attorney frankly admitted to the court and jury that the offense would only be murder in the second degree. He relied upon the subsequent flight of Jackson (who did flee and was arrested some months later in Iowa), and a former grudge, as evidence to elevate the case to the grade of murder in the first degree. He put the case to the jury on the ground, frankly and properly conceded, that a killing, under unknown circumstances, was only murder in the second

0680 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: ever said he couldn't write. I was sitting in that cell in the Fulton County Jail--it was along about April 12th, April 13th or 14th--that Mr. Leo Gottheimer, a salesman for the National Pencil Company, came running over, and says, "Leo, the Pinkerton detectives have suspicion of Conley. He keeps saying he can't write; these fellows over at the factory know well enough that he can write, can't he?" I said: "Sure he can write." "We can prove it." The nigger says he can't write and we feel that he can write." I said,

0681 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: police headquarters, my wife was there when you me, she was downstairs on the first floor, I was up on the top floor. She was there almost in hysterics, having been brought there by her two brothers-in-law, and her father. Rabbi Marx was with me at the time. I consulted with him as to the advisability of allowing my dear wife to come up to the top floor to see me in these surroundings with city detectives, reporters and snapshooters; I thought I would save her that humiliation and that harsh sight, because I

0682 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: had windows opening onto the street. There was no lock on the door, and I know I never went into that room at any hour when the girls were dressing. These girls were supposed to be at their work at 7 o'clock. Occasionally I have had reports that the girls were flirting from this dressing room through the windows with men. It is also true that sometimes the girls would loiter in this room when they ought to have been doing their work. It is possible that on some occasions I looked into this

0683 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Nobody has raised a fund to pay the fees of my attorneys. These fees have been paid by the sacrifice in part of the small property which my parents possess.Gentlemen, some newspaper men have called me "the silent-man-in-the tower," and I kept my silence and my counsel advisedly, until the proper time and place. The time is now, the place is here, and I have told you the truth, the whole truth.EVIDENCE IN REBUTTAL-FOR STATE.J. R. FLOYD, M. GODDARD, L. GODDARD, J. J. BALLARD, HENRY CARR, J. A. RICE, JIM SMITH, all sworn for

0684 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: W. M. COOK, W. J. ELDER, A. B. HOUSTON, J. T. BORN,W. M. WRIGHT, C. B. McGINNIS, F. P. KEPNER, W. C. HALE, L. BOYCÉ,M. G. CALDWELL, A. W. HUNT, W. C. PATTERSON, all sworn for the Statetestified that they knew C. B. Dalton, that his general characterfor truth and veracity was good, and that they would believe himon oath.MRS. H. B. JOHNSON, MISS MARIE CARR, MISS NELLIE PETTIS, MARYDAVIS, MRS. MARY B. WALIA C. ESTELLE WINKLE, CARRIE SMITH, allsworn for the defendant, testified that they were formerly employ-ed at the National Pencil Company

0685 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: MISS DEWEY HEWELL, Sworn for the State in rebuttal.I stay in the Home of the Good Shepherd in Cincinnati. I worked at the Pencil Factory four months. I quit in March 1913. I have seen Mr. Frank talk to Mary Phagan two or three times a day in the metal department. I have seen him hold his hand on her shoulder. He called her Mary. He would stand pretty close to her. He would lean over in her face.CROSS EXAMINATION. All the rest of the girls were there when he talked to her. I

0686 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: W. H. TURNER, Sworn for the State in rebuttal.I worked at the National Pencil Company during March of this year. I saw Leo Frank talking to Mary Phagan on the second floor, about the middle of March. It was just before dinner. There was nobody else in the room then. Mary was going to work and he stopped to talk to her. She told him she had to go to work. He told her that he was the superintendent of the factory, and that he wanted to talk to her, and she said she

0687 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: .on oath.GEORGE GORDON. Sworn for the State, in rebuttal.I am a practicing lawyer. I was at police station part of the time when Minola McKnight was making her statement. I was out-side of the door most of the time. I went down there with habeas corpus proceedings to have her sign the affidavit and when I got there the detectives informed me that she was in the room, and I sat down and waited outside for two hours, and people went and out of the door, and after I had waited there I saw

0688 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: .out a habeas corpus, which I did. The detectives said they wouldn't let her go without your consent. You said you didn't have anything to do with looking her up as to whether Minola McKnight did not sign this paper freely and voluntarily (State's Exhibit J), it was signed in my absence while I was at police station. When I came back this paper was lying on the table signed. That paper is substantially the notes that Mr. February read over to her. As they read it over to her, she said it was

0689 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: our Anglo Saxon liberties."They did not tell me that they al-ready had a statement that she had made, and which she declaredto be the truth.REDIRECT EXAMINATION. You (Mr.Dorsey) did not tell me that youhad no right to look anybody up. I told you that, and you agreedto it, but you would not let her go. I told you that Chief Beav-ers said he would do what you said and then I asked you to giveme an order. You said you wouldn't give me an order. When I toldStarnes that I thought I ought to

M 0 NIX, Sworn In For The Defendant, 69th To Testify

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M. O. NIX, sworn for the Defendant.I am credit man for Montag Bros. and bookkeeper. I have charge of the bookkeeping and documents and papers of the National Pencil Company. I am familiar with Mr. Frank's handwriting. These financial sheets beginning with May 22, 1912, and ending May 24, 1913 (Defendant's Exhibit 9), are in Mr. Frank's handwriting. The eleven items beginning with order Number 7187 running through Number 7197, appearing on pages 56 and 57 of the house order book (Defendant's Exhibit 12) are in Mr. Frank's handwriting. These entries below that are in Miss Hattie Hall's handwriting. I

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

Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 37The power to take life is the most awful power a government possesses, and because of its gravity, its exercise demands the utmost caution. A government may take life, but it should be fatal to the peace of any tribunal of government to do so by crossing the line that marks the distribution of power. If the boundary is doubtful—if we are not certain of the legal territory on which we stand—humanity, the spirit of the law, and justice itself demand that the path of safety is to err humanely. We

0690 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: would not talk, she said she didn't know anything about it. I told her that Albert made the statement that he was there Saturday when Mr.Frank came home, and he said Mr.Frank came in the dining room and stayed about ten minutes and went to the sideboard and caught a car in about ten minutes after he first arrived there, and I went on and told her that Albert had said that Minola had overheard Mrs.Frank tell Mrs. Selig that Mr.Frank didn't rest well and came home drinking and made Mrs. Frank get out

0691 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: out to see her, he said Mr. Starnes and Mr. Campbell would be up there and they would let us know about it, and we went up there and Mr. Starnes and Mr. Campbell brought her in. They let us see her allright. I did not ask Campbell or Starnes to turn her out. I didn't ask anybody to turn her out. I never made any suggestion to anybody about turning her out. Nobody cursed, mistreated or threatened this woman while I was there. I don't know what took place before I got there.E.

0692 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: having stated anything to her mother on Sunday morning. The affidavit does not contain anything that she did not state there that day. Before she made that affidavit, she said he did eat dinner that day. She finally said he didn't eat any. At first she said he remained at home at dinner time about half an hour or more. She finally said he only remained about ten minutes. At first she said Albert McKnight was not there that day. She finally said he was there. She said she was instructed not to talk

0693 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Dr.S.C.BENEDICT, Sworn for the State in rebuttal.I am president of the State Board of Healthas a member of the Board when Dr.Westmoreland preferred charges against Dr.Harrie, these minutes (State's Exhibit N) are correct. I desire to say that we do not wish to open up that question again Dr.Westmoreland's charges are not recorded here. I don't think they were put on the minutes. The reply to the charges were put in the minutes and the action of the Board. The minutes would show what action the Board took.CROSS EXAMINATION. Dr. Harris' reply is not

0694 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: It is due 5 minutes after the hour and the Cooper St. 1d due 7 minutes after. The English Avenue would have to be ahead of time to out off the Cooper St. car. That happens quite often. I have come in ahead of time very often. I have known the English Avenue car to be 4 or 5 minutes ahead of time.CROSS EXAMINATION. I don't know when that happened or who ran the car. I don't know whether they ran on schedule time on April 26, or not. When one car is out

0695 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: next day. If Mary Phagan left home at 10 minutes to 12, she ought to have got to town about 10 minutes after 12, somewhere in that neighborhood. She could not have gotten in much earlier. The time that I saw her is simply an estimate. That was the time my car was due in town. I remember seeing her by reading of the tragedy the next day. I didn't testify at the, Coroners inquest, because nobody came to ask me. No, I have not abused and villified Frank since this tragedy. No, I

0696 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: a minute and a half ahead. I have caught him as much as threeminutes ahead of time last Spring, on the trip due in town 12.07.I didn't report him. I just talked to him. I have known him to beahead of time twice in five years while he was under my super-vision.H. KELLY, Sworn for the State in rebuttal.I am a motorman of the Georgia Railway & Power Co. On April26, I was standing at the corner of Forsyth and Marietta St. aboutthree minutes after 12. I was going to catch the College Park

0697 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: W. M. MATTHEWS, Sworn for the State in rebuttal.I have talked with this man Dobbs (W.C.) but I don't know what I talked about. I have never told him or anybody that I saw Mary Phagan get off the car with George Epps at the corner of Marietta and Broad. It has been 12 years since I have been tried for an offense in this court.CROSS EXAMINATION. I was acquitted by the jury. I had to kill a man on my car who assaulted me.W. C. DOBBS, Sworn for the State in rebuttal.Motorman Matthews

0698 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: EKK.GRAHAM,Sworn for the State in rebuttal.I was at the pencil factory April 26,with Mr. Tillander, about 20 minutes to 12. We met a negro on the ground floor. Mr. Tillander asked him where the office was, and he told him to go up the steps. I don't know whether it was Jim Conley or not. He was about the same size, but he was a little brighter than Conley. If he was drunk I couldn't notice it. I wouldn't have noticed it anyway.CROSS EXAMINATION. Mr. Frank and his stenographer were up stairs. He was

0699 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: was the soul of honor and that we had the wrong man; that there wasno use in inquiring about Darley and he knew Darley could not beresponsible for such an act. I told him that we had good infor-mation to the effect that Darley had been associating with othergirls in the factory; that he was a married man and had a family.Mr. Frank didn't seem to know anything about that. He said it wasa peculiar thing for man in Mr. Darley's position to be associatingwith factory employees, if he was doing it.CROSS EXAMINATION. We

HARRY GOTTHEIMER, Sworn In For The Defendant, 70th To Testify

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HARRY GOTTHEIMER, sworn for the Defendant.I am a traveling salesman. I make two trips a year for the National Pencil Company, from the first of February to the first of April, and from the first of September to the fifteenth of October. I was at Montag Bros. around ten o'clock on April 26th. I had come in from my trip on the road and was writing up my orders. I had been away ten days. Mr. Frank came in after I got there. I asked him about two important orders as to their shipments and he replied that he couldn't

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

Here is the translated text as follows:38 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Indignation so deep and so universal was felt, and Providence supplied what indignation could not furnish.Thus, in limine, my friend would have your feelings prejudge the case. He would have you enlightened by the judgment—the foregone conclusion—of a "whole people," and awe you against any resistance to their decree. Into this sacred temple, whither Justice has retired, calmly, severely, and carefully to weigh, to deliberate, and to mature her even judgment, my friend madly rushes and flings the passions of a multitude into the scales.His classic memory alone ought to

0700 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: CROSSEXAMINATION. I was ten feet from the woman. I didn't notice her very particularly. I did not speak to them.W.T. HOLLIS, Sworn for the State in rebuttal.I don't remember talking to J. D. Reed on April Monday April 29, and telling him that George Epps was with Mary Phagan on my car together. I didn't tell that to anybody. I say like I have always said, that if he was on the car I did not see him.J. D. REED, Sworn for the State for rebuttal.Mr. Hollis told me on Monday April 29, that

0701 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: look her up, it was reasonable and right that she should be looked up. I did that for the best interest of the case I was working on. No, I didn't have any warrant for her arrest. She was brought to Mr. Dorsey's office by a bailiff by a subpoena. I took her away from Dorsey's office and put her in a patrol wagon. I expect Mr. Dorsey knew we were going to look her up, but he did not tell us to do it. No, he didn't disapprove of it. I didn't know

0702 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: dead at 3 A.M. with a rope around her neck indented and the fleshsticking up, bruised on the eye, blood on the back of her head, thetongue sticking out, blue skin, every indication that she came toher death from strangulation, her head down. rigor mortis had beenon her twenty hours, the blood had settled in the back, more the gravitywould naturally take it in the face, she is embalmed, formaldehydeis used and injected in the various cavities of the body, includingthe stomach, a pathologist takes her stomach a week or ten daysafter, finds cabbage

0703 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: hardly any change on its chemical property. When it comes incontact with the formaldehyde it is supposed to be preserved.It has some neutralizing effect on the alkali present. Thatdecomposes in time after death, unless hindered by some preservative.The hydrochloric acids in the stomach also disappear if the stomachhas disintegrated and the preservative has disappeared. It disappearslike the other fluids and tissues of the body unless hindered bysome preservative agent. Sometimes digestion is delayed a gooddeal even in a normal stomach by insufficient mastication, too muchdiluting of the juices, or anything that hinders the operation

0704 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: REDIRECT EXAMINATION.taken out nine days afterwards would be a little in excess of what I would consider normal, under the conditions already named.Dr. GEO. M. NILES, sworn for the State, in rebuttal.I confine my work to diseases of digestion. Every healthy stomach has a certain definite and orderly relation to every other healthy stomach. Assuming a young lady between thirteen and fourteen years of age at 11.30 April 26, 1913, eats a meal of cabbage and bread, that the next morning about three o'clock her dead body is found, that there are indications in

0705 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: The starch digestion should have progressed beyond the stateerythrogetrin; in the course of an hour. There should have beenenough free acid to have stimulated the n pyloris, and back to acertain extent, and there should have been some contents in theduodenum. I am assuming of course that it is a healthy stomach andthat the digestion was not disturbed by any psychic cause whichwould disturb the mind or any severe physical exercise. I amnot going so much by the physical appearance of the cabbage. Anysevere physical exercise or mental stress has quite an influenceon digestion.

0706 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: busy at once. Of course, it would not be prepared as well. The digestion would be delayed of course. That cabbage is not as well digested as it should have been (State's exhibit G.) But the very fact of your anticipating a good meal, smelling it, starts your saliva going and forms the first stage of digestion and digestion is begun right there in the mouth, even if you haven't chewed it a single time. Any deviation from good mastication retards digestion. I couldn't presume to say how long that cabbage lay in Mary

0707 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: alfactories act as a stimulant to the salivary glands.DR.JOHN FUNK,Sworn for the State in rebuttal.I am Professor of Pathology and Bacteriologist I was shownby Dr.Harris, sections from the vaginal wall of Mary Phagan,sections taken near the skin service. I didn't see sections fromthe stomach or the contents. These sections showed that theepithelium wall was torn off at points immediately beneath thatcovering in the tissues below, and there was infiltrated pressureof blood. They were you might say engorged, and the white bloodcells-in those-blood vessels were more numerous than you willfind in a normal blood vessel.

0708 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: fluid containing usual amount of formaldehyde, this being injected into the veins in the large cavities, she is interred thereafter, and in about a week or ten days she is disinterred, and you find in her stomach cabbage like that, (State's Exhibit G) and you find granules of starch undigested, and those starch granules are developed by the usual color tests, and you also find in that stomach thirty two degrees of combined hydrochloric acid, the pylorus closed, and the duodenum, and six feet of the small intestines empty, no free hydrochloric acid being

0709 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: EVI DENCE FOR DEFENDANT IN SUR-REBUTTAL.T. Y. BRENT, Sworn for the defendant in sur-rebuttal.I have heard George Kendley on several occasions express himself very bitterly towards Leo M. Frank. He said he felt in this case just as he did about a couple of niggers hung down in Decatur; That he didn't know whether they had been guilty or not but somebody had to be hung for killing those street car men and it was just as good to hang one nigger as another, and that Frank was nothing but an old Jew and

MRS RACHEL JACOBS FRANK, Sworn In For The Defendant, 71st To Testify

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MRS. RACHEL JACOBS FRANK, sworn for the Defendant.I am the mother of Leo Frank. I live in Brooklyn. I lived in Texas three years, where Leo was born. Mr. Moses Frank of Atlanta is my husband's brother. I saw him at Hotel Mc Alpin in New York City on April 27th and April 28th 1913. The letter that you hand me (Defendant's Exhibit 42) I saw on Monday, April 28th 1913. It is my son's handwriting. This sheet (Defendant's Exhibit 43) is a sort of financial sheet. I had lunch with Mr. Moses Frank at Hotel Mc Alpin on Monday,

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

Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 89The vindication and the eulogy are both wrong—both hurtful—both illegal—both disturbing elements which the law carefully shuts out from the consideration of court and jury. I have no word to utter against the deceased—none. The law puts his character out of the reach of an assailant here—out of the reach of eulogy also. His character is not in issue in this cause. If that character was good, the law will not permit you to hear it, lest the memory of his virtues might awaken undue indignation; if bad, the proof of

0710 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: S. L. ASHER, Sworn for the defendant, in sur-rebuttal.About two weeks ago I was coming to town between 5 and10 minutes to one on the car and there was a man who was talkingvery loud about the Frank case and all of a sudden he said,"They ought to take that damn Jew out and hang him anyway". Itook his number down to report him.CROSS EXAMINATION. I have not had a chance to report since ithappened.ADDITIONAL STATEMENT MADE BY DEFENDANT,LEO M. FRANK.In reply to the statement of the boy that he saw me talk-ing to

0713 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: was right in front of me. - I said, "I will be ready in a minute" and he went downstairs and I come to the office and put on my coat and hat and followed him and went down. When I went out, talking to Newt Lee was J.M.Gantt, a man that was fired about two weeks ago. Newt Lee told me he wanted to get in to get a pair of shoes he had left there. I went and told Mr. Frank, and Mr. Frank said to me, "What does he want?" and

0714 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: STATE'S EXHIBIT C.Piece of cord found around Mary Phagan's neck, about size of a heavy twine, with a knot in it.STATE'S EXHIBIT D.Rag that was found around Mary Phagan's neck, white piece of cloth, soiled. Looked as if it was a piece torn off from petticoat.STATE'S EXHIBIT E.Four or five chips of wood, with red splotehes on them, chipped up from the second floor of the National Pencil Company factory in front of ladies dressing room.STATE'S EXHIBIT F.Shirt found by detectives in trash barrel at Newt Lee's home. Shirt was very bloody blood was

0715 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: STATE'S EXHIBIT J.Affidavit executed by Minola McKnight for Solicitor Dorsey, as follows: -"State of Georgia,County of Fulton.Personally appeared before me a Notary Public in and for the above State and County, Minola McKnight, who lives in the rear of 351 Pulliam St., Atlanta, Ga., who being duly sworn deposes and says:On Saturday morning, April 26,1913, Mr. Frank left home about eight o'clock, and Albert, my husband, was there too, Albert got there I guess about a quarter after one and he was there when Mr. Frank had them lock the door after dinner, but

0716 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: net to say anything about what happened at home there?A. Yes sir.Q. Is that true?A. Yes sir.Q. And that's the reason you would rather have been locked up last night than tell?A. Yes sir.Q. Has Mr. Pickett or Mr. Graves or Mr. Campbell or myself influenced you in any way or threatened you in any way to make this statement?A. No sir.Q. You make it of your own free will and accord in the presence and in the presence of Mr. Gordon, your attorney?A. Yes sir.(Signed) Minola McKnight.Sworn to and subscribed before me, this

0718 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: STATE'S EXHIBIT L.A small whip handle found by detective McWorth at thepencil factory.STATE'S EXHIBIT M.CLOTHES WORN BY MARY PHAGAN CONSISTING OF hat, hair ribbons(2), dress, corset with hose supporters attached, one broken,corset cover, knit underwear, underskirt, drawers, (right leg tornand soiled with blood), pair of silk garters, pair of hose, pairof low shoes, handkerchief, parasol.STATE'S EXHIBIT N.Copy of the minutes of the state Board of Health, found onpages 144-145 thereof, reading as follows:"The President then addressed the Board at length on hisreasons for thinking that the Secretary should be requested toresign, the subjects dealt

0719 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: against the Secretary by the President of the Board in a report to the Governor, and upon which they are called upon to act, beg to report as follows:-Resolved:- "That the members of the Board present, after carefully considering the charges and all the evidence in its possession, unanimously agree that there have been certain slight irregularities in the conduct of some departments of the laboratories of the State Board of Health, which should be corrected; these irregularities have not been as important in character or result as some of the newspapers have demanded

OSCAR PAPPENHEIMER, Sworn In For The Defendant, 72nd To Testify

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OSCAR PAPPENHEIMER, sworn for the Defendant.I am in the furniture business. I am also a stockholder of the National Pencil Company. I have been getting comparative sheets as to the weekly business of the Company from Frank since March, 1910. Up to the time the Post Office distributed mail on Sunday, I used to always go to the Post Office to get my mail and always found this report on Sunday morning. When I quit going to the Post Office on Sundays I received the reports in the first mail on Monday mornings. I have here the report for the

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

Here is the translated text as follows:40 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The speaker is reminiscent of Antony's oration over the dead body of Caesar, and he is fresh from the interview of Hamlet with the "buried majesty of Denmark." If his policy were like that of the artful Triumvir, who sought to inflame the rabble of Rome to avenge the death of his friend, or like that of the murdered father, who stirred a living son to vengeance, his words would be well matched to his purpose. But he is neither in Rome, moving a fickle populace to counter-revolution, nor in

0720 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: STATE'S EXHIBIT 2Miss Hattie Hall's testimony before Coroner's inquest, as follows:-"He (Mr. Frank) came to Montag's office and I went to his office. I went to his office after he went to his, somewhere between 10:30 and 11. I didn't notice the clock. Ask to whether I got any financial sheet on Monday, or not, I remember the previous Saturday I was at the pencil factory and I helped him make up the financial sheet. I filled in part of it, I suppose by that he must have got at up. I transferred some

0721 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: STATE'S EXHIBIT S. Portion of the affidavit made by Lemmie Quinn for Solicitor Dorsey as follows:- "The doors that lead up to the back stairs, after work hours are locked, but this door at the back of my department, the lock had been broken off and we placed a bar across it. The idea of that was to keep employees from the fourth floor going down from that department and ringing out and getting their money before it was ready. Customarily it was closed. That was the purpose. There is no exit from the

0722 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: stayed.No, he didn't leave before I up.Yes, I took a nap.He came a little after one and we ate dinner and I laid down and took a considerable nap."STATE'S EXHIBIT EPortion of testimony of Mrs. Josephine Selig before the Coroner's inquest, as follows:-"As to what Mr. Frank said about this affair, I don't know if he made any reference to it.The Mrs. Frank had told me.I don't remember that he said anything at all about this crime.He probably spoke of it in a general way.He is superintendent of the pencil factory, I think I

C F URSENBACH, Sworn In For The Defendant, 73rd To Testify

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C. F. Ursenbach, sworn for the Defendant.I married a sister of Mrs. Leo Frank. I phoned him on Friday and asked him if he would go to the baseball game Saturday. He said he didn't know, he might go and would phone me later and let me know. On Saturday when I got home about twenty minutes to two my cook told me that Mr. Frank had phoned and told me that he wasn't going to the game. I saw him on Sunday, after the murder, at my house. I saw no scratches, marks or bruises on him. He seemed

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

Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 41Appeal to hurtful prejudices. His work was but half done; it remains for him to shape the defense, and crush it in advance."I know," he exclaims, "there is not human power enough to deny the guilt of Worrell—it will not be denied; but the plea of insanity will be set up. Everything nowadays is insanity. Drunkenness is insanity; eccentricity is insanity; forgery is insanity. Huntingdon was insane. Insanity is the broad, common cloak spread to cover crime."Jurors, I am sorry to see a man of talents and high moral position, like

0730 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT "40"Report of tip deliveries from tip plant, being part of data for financial:"Weekly report of Metal Dept. #18April 24, 1913.Large hyalet Mach. 804Small " " 440Brazing " 644Knurling " 885Tips delivered#5 850#10 448#12-Redipped 35#17 641,877(Signed) J.A. Quinn

0731 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT B.Abstract (of orders) sheet, being a complete record (beginning with the week ending Jan.16,1913) of the number of orders received each week, classified as to price under different headings, said number being totaled at the end of each week and the average price ascertained. The following is a record of orders for the factory month of April, 1913:WEEK ENDING 4/5/1360ct. 70ct. 80ct. 90ct. $1.00 $1.10 $1.20 $1.30 $1.40 $1.50 $1.60 $1.70 $1.80 $1.90 $2.00Friday 28 159 4/8 30 7/8 3/4 5 33 1/2 20 1/2 15 1/2Saturday 29 1 2/8 30 2

0732 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 6.Value of shipments for week ending April 24, being part ofdata for financial.SHIPMENTS WEEK ENDING 4/24/1318th( 29.57( 27.00( 22.40( 40.00( 124.00( 86.42( 22.59( 17.50( 14.66( 87.00Apr. 18e 400.7519 482.0021 1146.0622 1457.0523 706.6324 1246.0719th( 10.40( 12.80( 17.50( 14.92( 75.04( 45.80( 21.25( 128.10( 51.65( 69.55( 124.00( 17.50( 17.84( 15.07( 75.99( 13.70( 40.65( 14.25( 14.66( 16.67( 10.00( 13.70( 1267.2823rd( 185.70 ( 204.52( 12.04 ( 644.40( 28.98 ( 142.08( 29.13 ( 89.00( 29.80 ( 27.75( 80.00 ( 15.48( 11.5924th( 23.04( 19.45( 14.15( 20.00( 87.70( 5.16

0733 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: NATIONAL PENCIL CO., Atlanta, Ga.FACTORY RECORDPENCIL STOCKWeek Ending April 27 - 1913DATE 10 EX 20 EX 40 EX 60 EX 80 EX 100 EX 120 EX 144 EX 160 EX 176 EX 192 EX 208 EX 224 EX 240 EX 256 EX 272 EX 288 EX 304 EX 320 EX 336 EX 352 EX 368 EX 384 EX 400 EX 416 EX 432 EX 448 EX 464 EX 480 EX 500 EX TOTALIN STOCKApril 17 294 32 65 42 61 34 10 100 10 94 5794 3 10 2 61 163 5479 64 10

0734 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: NATIONAL PENCIL CO., Atlanta, Ga.FACTORY RECORD.Week Ending.April 19, 1913.PENCIL STOCK.STATE.510x.410x.320x.24x.911x.704.904x.6xx.Japan.#2.#3.#4.1490.1410.1410.410.320.200.200.With Hand Written.Pencil Co.Atlanta.TOTAL.Finish.4.36½.17½.4½.1x.4.9½.1x.7.31½.L.26.30.TOTAL.46.31½.6½.19½.50.4.15.20.2½.9.19½.31.22.19½.23.24.TOTAL.19½.8 25.6.31.25.Stock Bad.This Week.19½.P 25 6.9½.100 71.100 129.Total.Stock Bad.This Week.Total.Stock Bad.End Week.TOTAL.

0736 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 8Eight carbon copies of eight letters, all dated April26, 1913, and addressed toSchroder & Lombard Engraving Co., 18 Franklin St., N. Y.Henry Diston & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.J. Ellinger Co., 621 Broadway, N. Y.Southern Bargain House, Richmond, Va.American Supply Co., 104-6 Halsey St., Newark, N. J.Jasman Mfg. Co., 124 E. Kinzie St., Chicago, Ill.The Pullman Co., Chicago, Ill.Schroder & Lombard, 18 Franklin St., N. Y.and signed "National Pencil Company, by H. R. Supt."On each letter are the initials "LMF-HR".Each letter acknowledges receipt of letter receivedfrom the addresses and whose names are set forth

0737 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: A large book containing all of the financial sheets ofthe National Pencil Company, beginning with the week endingNovember 25, 1909, and ending with the week ending April 24,1913. Each of these sheets report the financialoperations of the National Pencil Company for the respectiveweek named thereon, and in form is identical with the sheet ofApril 24, 1913, set forth herein as "Defendant's Exhibit 2".

0738 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 10.a small receipt book containing the following receipts:April 19,1913. Received of National Pencil Co. 15 cents--Kerosene. (Signed) Nute Lee, F.April 21,1913. Received of National Pencil Co. 75 cents--type. (Signed) A.Mann, F.April 21,1913. Received of National Pencil Co. Two dollars,Dray. (Signed) Truman Modkary.April 21,1913. Received of National Pencil Co. $8.50, cases. (Signed) John Glass.April 21,1913. Received of National Pencil Co. 35¢--express--Warner. (Signed) 30, Express Co., F.April 21,1913. Received of National Pencil Co. 50¢--postagestamps. (Signed) A. Mann, F.April 21,1913. Received of National Pencil Co. 25¢--parcelpost. (Signed) A. Mann, F.April 22,1913. Received of National Pencil

0739 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 11.Comparison sheet, 1912-1913, being part of data for financial sheet:Comparison 1912-13Wk ending Apr.24/13(48 hrs) 1912 1913Payroll 1036.15 1052.55Mch.Shop 75 70.00Expense 1551.55 1623.20Matl.Cost 1271.46 1652.56Total expenditures 2856.01 3175.75Net Value Productions 2431.28 3066.31Apparent Results -Deficit 424.79 Def.109.44Value shipments 2523.28 5436.78 2509 gr. 4374 gr.Productions: Net 2152% 2710%Good 454% 700Medium 829 629%Cheap 546 599Jobs 300 791Percent Jobs 14% 29%Remarks 1912 55 hrs. work

MRS C F URSENBACH, Sworn In For The Defendant, 74th To Testify

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MRS. C. F. URSENBACH, sworn for the Defendant.I am Mrs. Leo Frank's sister. I received a telephone message for Mr. Ursenbach from Mr. Frank through my cook on Saturday at half past one. I saw no scratches, bruises, or marks on Mr. Frank on Sunday. He was nervous as one would have been under the circumstances. He borrowed a rain coat from my husband that afternoon. The rain coat was at our house on Saturday. It was there when my husband asked him if he would wear it on Sunday. Mr. Frank did not have it on Saturday.CROSS EXAMINATION.On Sunday

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

Here is the translated text as follows:42 & AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Was it that, inoculated with the virus of prejudice against the plea, you should look hatefully upon the proof of it? Or were you to be so blinded by this cataract of denunciation as not to see the defense at all?If juries have let some men escape under the plea of insanity, are you therefore to hang a madman as compensation to baffled justice? Are you to forget your oaths and stifle your consciences because other juries have been careless of legal obligation? "Attend to your own business" is a

0740 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Page 56 7 Home Order Book DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 12.Salesman Ship to Kind No. Qty State date rec'd how ship Page 57.7187-D.R. E.W. Co. 557 Reg. 24/12 St. Joe, Mo. 4/26/13 at once 4/28/137188-D.R. " 468 " 4/26/13 Peru, Ind. 4/26/13 " " 4/28/137189-D.R. " 455 " 4/26/13 Logansport, Ind. 4/26/13 " " 4/28/137190-D.R. " 458 " 4/26/13 Pekin, Ill. 4/26/13 " " 4/28/137191-D.R. " 425 " 4/26/13 Wilke barre, Pa. 4/26/13 " " 4/28/137192-D.R. " 262 " 4/26/13 Saginaw, Mich. 4/26/13 " " 4/28/137193-Mich. 300 5 210 " 4356-Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. 4/26/13 "

0742 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 14 to 24 inclusive.Eleven original orders addressed to the National Pencil Co., Atlanta, Ga., signed by the following firms:F.W.Woolworth Co.(Store #65 - Syracuse, Ind." " #7 - Ft. Wayne, Ind." " #25 - Decatur, Ind." " #26 - Wilkesbarre, Pa." " #28 - Saratoga Springs, N.Y." " #104 - Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.Beutel Bros. Co., Dubuque, Iowa.Montag Bros., Atlanta, Ga.John Mager & Co., Chicago, Ill.R.R.Kindell & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.said orders request the National Pencil Company to ship to said respective firms, at once, certain merchandise (pencils) noted therein. Each of said orders

0743 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 25.Requisition sheet in handwriting of Leo M.Frank as follows:House No. 7197 Date April 26, 1913Salesman D.P. Order No. 4/24/13Bill toNATIONAL PENCIL CO., ATLANTA,MANUFACTURERS GA.Ship to F.W.GO. 617 Felix St.Ship When at once 3t, Joseph, Mo.RemarksSales No. Amount Name or Remarks45x 4 4220x 1/2 #4 1/2280x 1/2 #4 1/2440x 1/2 #5 1/2720x 1/2 W.P. 1/2630x 1/2 1/2910 1/2 1/2908 1/2 1/2430 1/2 1/2240 1/2 1/2O.K. CompleteHGSDate Shipped Complete April 28, 1913SHIPPED COMPLETEApril 28, 19132700.X03

0744 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT NO. 60.Requisition sheet, in handwriting of Leo M. Frank, as follows:House Number7168DateApril 26, 1913SalesmanBill toJ. P. P.Order No.4/22/13NATIONAL PENCIL CO.,MANUFACTURERSATLANTA, GA.Ship toF & W Co.AtTerre Haute,Ship Whenat onceRemarksInd.Sales No. Amount Name or Remarks37 155 246 2180 2165 3920 1910 1April 26, 19131322311CompleteO.K.HdSDateShippedShipmentApril 26, 1913Shipped CompleteApril 26, 19137/6/13

0745 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: House No. 7129 Date April 26, 1913 Order No. 191Salesman D.P. Order No. 4/26/13Bill to NATIONAL PENCIL CO., ATLANTA, GA.MANUFACTURERSShip to F & W Co. $25 At Logansport, Ind.Ship When At onceRemarks c/o Penna RySales No. Amount Name or Remarks Apr.26,191310 4 457 1 135 1 180 2 2 20 Sub.Pls.45 1 1140 1 1155 1 1660 1 1630 1 1910 1 11008 1 11008 1 1440 1/2 1/2280 1/2 1/2O.K. HGS CompleteDate complete shipmentApr.26,1913SHIPPED COMPLETEApr.26,19138708

0746 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 28.Requisition sheet in handwriting of Leo M. Frank as follows:House No.7190DateApr. 26, 1913191SalesmanD.P.Bill toOrder No.4/26/13NATIONAL PENCIL CO.,MANUFACTURERSATLANTA,GA.Ship toE. W. Hood, 566At347 E. Main St.Ship Whenat onceDeKalb, Ill.RemarksSales No.AmountName or RemarksApr. 26, 1913104420230 sub. Pta.237225522452212022O.K.CompleteHBSDatecompleteshipmentApr. 26, 1913SHIPPED COMPLETEApr. 28, 19132704406

0747 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 20.Requisition sheet in handwriting of Leo M. Frank as follows:House No. 7191 Date Apr. 26, 1913Salesman D.P. Order No. 6/24/13Bill to NATIONAL PENCIL CO., 191MANUFACTURERS ATLANTA, GA.Ship to P. & W. Co. $25 At Wilkes-Barre,Ship When @ Pema Ky PennaRemarks BY ONCESales No. Amount Name or Remarks Apr. 29, 191310 5 535 5 5770 2 2430 5 5640 2 2840 2 2908 1 1280 1/2 1/2280 1/2 1/2280 1/2 1/2440 1 1440 1 1440 1 1720 1 W P 1OK HGS OSCompletedateshipmentApr. 29, 1913SHIPPED COMPLETEApr. 29, 1913

0748 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 30.Requisition sheet in handwriting of Leo M.Frank, as follows:House No. 7198 Date April 5, 1913 191Salesman D.P. Order No.4/24/13Bill to NATIONAL PENCIL CO., MANUFACTURERS ATLANTA, GA.Ship to E.W.J. & Co. / 2000 At Saratoga Springs,When at ONCE N.Y.Remarks: O/D & E.Ry 416-18 BroadwaySales No. Amount Name or Remarks 1/2810 520 5 20 Sub Pkgs.37 136 145 1120 1140 1155 1770 1 #3650 1620 1980 1910 1 980 Sub.950 1420 1220 1 #3280 1 #4840 11000 1/21002 1/2880 1/2 #2280 1/2 #3480 1/2 #5440 1/2720 1/2 W.POK HGS 08SHIPPED COMPLETEAPR 25, 1913

0749 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 21.Requisition sheet in handwriting of Leo M. Frank, as follows:House No.7193Date April 26, 1913 191SalesmanBill to Ma11Order No. 04856NATIONAL PENCIL CO., ATLANTA, GA.MANUFACTURERSShip to 5 & 10c StoreSault Ste. Marie,Ship When August 1stRemarks #104Sales No. Amount Name or Remarks10 1035-37 5 Asstd45 5910 5640 51008 21008 2Best Route to Chicagothen by water

MRS ALEXANDER E MARCUS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 75th To Testify

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MRS. ALEXANDER E. MARCUS, sworn for the Defendant.I am a sister of Mrs. Leo Frank. I played cards Saturday night at Mrs. Selig's. Mr. Frank was there sitting out in the hall reading, and Mrs. Frank was going in and out of the room. Mr. Frank went to bed after ten o'clock. I noticed nothing unusual about him, no bruises, marks or signs.CROSS EXAMINATION.He came in one time and told me something funny about a baseball joke. We were still playing when he went to bed.MRS ALEXANDER E MARCUS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 75th To Testify

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

Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 43In the middle of the nineteenth century, a rampant guilt devised fraud of the gallows and the penitentiary!A man may smile at this folly as the senseless cry greets him on the street, or he reads it in the expression of thoughtless type, hastily put up to sustain a nine days' wonder. However, he may not smile if he sees this stupidity come into court decently dressed, and taking its seat on the bench, at the bar, or in the jury box.Silly individuals sometimes lift the same hue and cry against

0750 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 52.Requisition sheet in handwriting of Leo M. Frank, as follows:House No. 7194 Date Apr. 26, 1913 Order 191Salesman H.G. Order No. 4/25/13Bill to NATIONAL PENCIL CO., ATLANTA.MANUFACTURERSShip to Earlell Bros. Co. At 619-659 Clay st.Ship When At once Dubuque, IowaRemarks:Sales No. Amount Name or Remarks May 6, 1913480 5 5 ✓210 5 5 ✓55 25 5 ✓20 20 5 ✓30 25 5 ✓O.K. H.G.S. Complete(Shipping ClerkInclude all B.'s with this)datecompleteshipmentMay 6, 1913SHIPPED COMPLETEMay 6, 19132756410

0751 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 53Requisition sheet in handwriting of Leo M. Frank, as follows:House No.7196SalesmanBill toDate - May 26, 1913Order No. 4/26/13NATIONAL PENCIL CO., ATL.MANUFACTURERSShip to Montag Bros.Ship When at onceAt Atlanta, Ga.Remarks:Sales No. Amount Name or Remarks May 26, 1913136x 50 Blks. sub. 55 gro. pts. 501900 10 added 4/29 81920 10 Transferred 51840 10 10R910 10 1040x 50 added 5/6/13 50480x 2 2420x 10 5/26/13 10O.K.HGSC.B.BookFILE BMay 6, 1913May 26, 1913

0752 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 34.Requisition sheet in handwriting of Leo M.Frank, as follows:House No. 7196 Date April 26, 1913 191Salesman Bill toNATIONAL PENCIL CO., ATLANTA,MANUFACTURERSShip to John Magnus Co. At 1055 W. 35th St.Ship When at onceRemarks: Chicago, Ill.Sales No. Amount Name or Remarks Date, 26, 1913156x 25 25O.K.HGSCareful selection of goods.CompleteDatecompleteshipmentApr. 26, 1913SHIPPED COMPLETEApr. 26, 19132698

0753 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 35.Requisition sheet in handwriting of Leo M. Frank, as follows:House No.7197Date. Apr. 26, 1913.SalesmanBill to H.G. 191NATIONAL PENCIL CO., Order No. 4/24/13MANUFACTURERS ATLANTA.Ship to R. P. Kindle & Co. At 512 Plum St.,Ship When at once Cincinnati, OhioRemarks:Sales No. Amount Name or Remarks160x 3p. 50 F.O. 154 51 1/2no stampHoldCANCELLED6/17/13643

0754 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 36.STATEMENT OF JAMES CONLEY MADE TO JOHN R.BLACK AND H. SCOTT AT POLICE BARRACKS, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1913.My full name is James Conley. I reside 152 Rhodes St. with Lorine Jones, who claims to be from Cartersville, Ga. This woman is not my wife, and I have been living with her for a little over two years. I have been having intercourse with Lorine Jones. I have been employed as elevator man and roustabout at the National Pencil Co. factory in Atlanta for the past two years. Before going to

0755 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 37.STATEMENT OF JAMES CONLEY OF MAY 24,1913.STATE OF GEORGIA,COUNTY OF FULTON.Personally appeared before the undersigned, a Notary Public, in and for the above State and County, James Conley, who being sworn on oath says:On Friday evening before the holiday, about four minutes to one o'clock, Mr. Frank come up on the fourth floor where I was coming to his office.That was the Isle and asked me to come to his office.That was on the fourth floor where I was working, and when I went down to the office he asked me could

0756 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: ON Friday, April 25,1913, I went to Frank's office at four minutes to one, which is a mistake. I made this statement in regard to Friday in order that I might not be accused of knowing anything of this murder, for I thought if I put myself there on Saturday, they might accuse me of having a hand in it, and I now make my second and last statement regarding the matter freely and voluntarily, after thinking over the situation, and I have made up my mind to tell the whole truth, and nothing

0757 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: that you get that next week" and they stood there and talked a-while but she did not hear anything else they said, then shewent on out the door while they come back up the steps, and Mr. Darleystepped up there and Mr. Holloway come down and left and I didnot see him anymore. While they were coming down, about 5minutes after Mr. Darley had gone, Mr. Holloway went out on the side-walk and stood there 3 or 5 minutes and Mr. Holloway came back and went backup the steps, and then here come another

0758 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: I said "I got too hot in there," and he said "I see you are sweating", when he opened the door he was staring to step out and his eyes were looking large then suddenly look, and he jerked the door open and I was right in front of the door and them Mr. Frank said to me to sit down in a chair.In the one that turns all-the-way-around-and when I sat down he told me to get up and shut the door that was the door between his office and the stenographer's office,

0759 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Said "Well, is that will you want for good Mr. Frank" and he said Urea and I saw him be one I wrote on was and take out a brownish looking scratch pad the one I wrote on was and he said I saw him take out a brownish looking I took his pencil and made a mark or it.I took it to be and "No" but he shut the tablet up and looked at me and told me that was all he wanted me, and he come all the way to the top

MRS M MARCUS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 76th To Testify

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MRS. M. MARCUS, sworn for the Defendant.I am no relation of Mr. or Mrs. Frank. I saw Mr. Frank at half past eight or a quarter to nine in the evening on April 26th, at Mrs. Selig's residence. We played cards there. Mr. Frank opened the door for us. He stayed in the hall reading. We played cards in the dining room. He went to bed between ten and half after ten. He appeared as natural as usual. I left the house about twelve o'clock.CROSS EXAMINATION.We had a game of cards every Saturday afternoon at somebody else's house.MRS M MARCUS,

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

Here is the translated text as follows:44 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.You are to judge by intuition, not by reason. You are to cut yourself off from the influence of all knowledge gained by others after long study and painful examination of the human mind in ruins, and trust to instinct. Your own unenlightened reason is not even to guide you. It is a question only of eyesight! As the afflicted were "to look on the golden image and live," so you are "to look and determine." This is simple and summary, and, one would suppose, final, too; for if error

0760 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: tomorrow, and I went and changed shoes and pulled off the pants andput on my hat and come down at 10 minutes to 10, and didn't goback any more until Tuesday morning and went to work at Tuesdaymorning and got through with my work and went downstairs abouthalf past 9 and there was such a crowd down there I didn't staylong, and I come back up the aisle and went to taking up some trashand about half past 10 or 11 o'clock, Mr. Frank come back up theaisle and leaned over the table right

0761 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: got a piece of cloth, and I got a big wide piece of cloth andcome back there to the men's toilet where she was, and I tied herup, and I taken her and brought her up there to a little dressingroom, carrying her on my right shoulder, and she got too heavy forme and she slipped off my shoulder and fell on the floor rightthere at the dressing room and I hollered for Mr. Frank to comecome down there and he was too busy at his work, and Mr. Frankdown there to me and

0762 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: where was the money he said he was going to give me and Mr.Frank said "here, here is the two hundred dollars," and he handed me a big roll of green bank money and I didn't count it. I stood there a little while looking at it in my hand, and I told Mr.Frank he would take another dollar for that watchman, and he said he would not - and the rest is just like I told it before. The reason I have not told this before is I thought Mr.Frank would get out

0763 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 40.Cash book of the National Pencil Company, page 197 of which contains the following entries, in Frank's handwriting:Page 195 v, page 1971913 Cash Dr. 1913 Cash4/28 Balance 59.95 4/28 W. Rosene Cr. 15 To check 15.00 " W.V. 4.70 " 15.00 " D.W. 1.00 " 16.00 " expenses 10.50 " 53.85 " express 1.10 " " stage 1.00 " Parcel post .16 " 2 wks rent typewriter 2.00 " Supplies, Schmeegass .45 " 24-Hdw.Co. .85 " J.A. Smith 11.50 " Vendale .50 " H. .40 " H. & H. Wright 4.00 "

0764 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 44.Cash book items made out by Frank to balance same.Kerosene .15 .15Type .75 .75Dray 2.00 2.001.00 1.002.00 2.006.70 6.70cases 2.25 2.251.25 1.251.75 1.751.50 1.5010.50 10.50Express .55 7.75 12.40Postage .50 & .60 1.10Parcel post .02 6.13 3.00Rent Typex. 2.00 wks 4.00Supplies .48-80hm. .48Xmas in .85 2.16King Mde. .60 2.15Thread .05 .65Garf .10 8.65Herbert Wright 4.00 11.6029.85 4.0030.00 39.8169.8520.8130.04Cash box $4.84 shortO.K. F=6/13

0765 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT NO. 42.Letter written by Leo M. Frank to Mr. Moses Frank. The letter was not typewritten, but was in long hand and was as follows:SLAT MILL,OAKLAND CITY, GA.LEAD MILL,BELL ST. & SOU. R.R.NATIONAL PENCIL COMPANYOFFICE AND FACTORYATLANTA, GA., April 26, 1913.Dear Uncle:I trust that this finds you and dear Aunt well. After arriving safely in New York, I hope that you found all the dear ones well in Brooklyn, and I await a letter from you telling me how you find things there. Lucille and I are well.It is too short a

0766 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 45.weekly report forwarded to James P. Frank by Leo M. Frank,enclosed in Leo M. Frank's letter to James Frank, as set forthin Exhibit "42", said report being in Frank's handwriting, samebeing folded to the same size as envelope set forth in Exhibit"44" herein.FINANCIAL.Week ending April 24, 1913.Production: NetGood 2714 gr.Medium 700 gr.Cheap 629 gr.Jobs 59 gr.791 gr.Net Value Prod'n 3066.31Total Expenditures 3175.75Result-Deficit 109.44Shipments$5438.784374 gr.Orders received 33530.31 value1904 casesO.K. - F

0767 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 44ENVELOPE IN WHICH LEO M. FRANK'S LETTER (EXHIBIT 42) TO MOSES AND INTERCITY REPORT (EXHIBIT 43) WERE ENCLOSED. THE ADDRESS ON SAID ENVELOPE BEING IN LEO M. FRANK'S HANDWRITING.NATIONAL PENCIL CO.ATLANTA, GA.Mr. L. M. Frank,c/o Hotel McAlpin,Broadway & 34th St.,New York, N.Y.Atlanta, GA.April 26,6-1913

0768 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 45.Weekly report sent by Leo M. Frank to Oscar Pappenheimer and received by the latter on April 28, 1913, said report being in the handwriting of Frank.FINANCIAL.Week ending April 24, 1913.Production:- NetGood 2719 Gr.Medium 689 Gr.Cheap 659 Gr.Jobs 791 Gr.29%Net Value Prod'n $3066.51Total expenditures 3176.75Result- Deficit 109.44Shipments$5459.784374.44Orders received $3320.51 Value1904 GrossO.K. - F

0769 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 46.weekly financial reports of the business of the NationalPencil Company sent by Leo M. Frank to Oscar Pappenheimer, foreach week beginning January 16, 1913 and ending with the weekending April 24, 1913, each of said reports being identical inform with the defendant's exhibit "46" and being in the handwritingof Leo M. Frank.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 47.Pay envelope found by detective Starnesworth. It is anordinary pay envelope used by the pencil company with the number"186" written thereon, with the first initials of a name on it,as "M" and a "Ph".DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 48.Club found by detective

M J GOLDSTEIN, Sworn In For The Defendant, 77th To Testify

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M. J. GOLDSTEIN, sworn for the Defendant.I played cards Saturday night, April 26th, at Mrs. Selig's house. I got there about 8:15. We played in the dining room. Mr. Frank was sitting in the hall. There was nothing unusual about him, no nervousness or anxiety. There was nothing that attracted our attention. I have never known Mr. or Mrs. Frank to play poker. I should say he went to bed about 10:30. His wife followed about fifteen minutes afterwards. I never noticed any marks or bruises about his person.CROSS EXAMINATION.He came in while we were playing to tell us of

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

Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 45If there is one subject within the circle of disease that more than another tasks and taxes the human mind, it is the subject of insanity. This is the opinion of every author who has written upon it, of every medical jurisprudent, of every keeper of lunatic asylums, and of every man who professes to have learned by study anything of the manifestations or phenomena of mental disorder, without exception. Yet my friend exclaims, "Does not every person know an insane man when he sees him?"I wish it were so! I

0770 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 51.Twelve cancelled checks drawn on the Atlanta National Bank, signed by Leo M. Frank as follows:No. Date Amount Payee Endorsements460- 4/12/13 - $20.00 - Mrs. L. M. Frank Mrs. L. M. Frank Chamberlain-Johnson-DuBose Co.451- 4/12/13 - 1.50 - West View Floral Co. West View Floral Co.452- 4/12/13 - 12.54 - Haas & Co. Haas & Co.453- 4/9/13 - 32.50 - Rivers Realty Co. Rivers Realty Co. American Natl. Bank454- 4/9/13 - 5.00 - Mrs. A. Selig Mrs. A. Selig S. Schloss Co. Travelers Bank & Tr. Co.454- 4/6/13 - 4.75 - S.

0777 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 62.Picture of the Selig home taken from the outside of the back door of the kitchen. It shows the entrance kitchen and also the door leading into the dining room. It shows nothing else in the dining room.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 63.Picture of Selig home taken standing directly inside the back door of kitchen, shows practically same view as last picture but shows no view at all of the dining room.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 64.Picture of the safe with open door standing in outer office of the National Pencil Company.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 65.Picture of the outer office

0778 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 70.Picture of the corner in the basement where body was found,around the left corner behind the partition as shown on the picture.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 71.Picture showing passage way leading to the back door in thebasement of the factory. Picture shows boxes piled up on each sideof the passage way to the height of the ceiling.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 72.Picture showing entrance to the factory from the street.shows the partition on the right immediately entering the factory,behind which is the elevator. The steps leading to the secondfloor of the factory are shown in the background.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT

0779 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 80.Picture showing elevator box on the first floor.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 81.Picture showing elevator wheel at the top of the fourth floor.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBITS 82, 83, 84.Pictures showing view of the metal room on the second floor.Pictures show doors of the metal room to be partly made of transparent glass.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBITS 85 and 86.Pictures of the metal room closet with the door open and closed.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 87.Blue print from which the model of the factory (defendant's exhibit 3) was made.

I STRAUSS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 78th To Testify

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I. STRAUSS, sworn for the Defendant.I was at the home of Mrs. Selig, Saturday night, playing cards. I got there about 10:30. Mr. Frank let me in. While we played he was sitting in the hall reading. I could see him through the door. There was nothing unusual about him. He went to bed immediately after I got there. His wife went to bed soon afterwards.I STRAUSS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 78th To Testify

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

Here is the translated text as follows:46 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Anyone who has made advancements in the field of science cannot help but be impressed by the great truth that "man is wonderfully and fearfully made."Insanity can be detected by a mere look! However, there is feigned insanity, which can be so convincing that it often baffles even the most enlightened investigators. There is also concealed insanity, which can be so crafty and subtle that it deceives even the most experienced keepers and physicians of lunatic asylums when deciding on a patient's discharge. In other words, the insane patient is

0780 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 88a,b,c,d,eFive jars containing contents of stomach taken from different parties who had eaten cabbage and bread.DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 89.Extract from the minutes of Walton Superior court showing three indictments for larceny from the house against C. B. Dalton, at the April Term,1894 of said court. Pleas of guilty in each indictment and a fine of $50. and twelve months in the chain gang sentence in each case. Also indictment of C. B. Dalton, at the February Term,1899 of Walton Superior Court for stealing bale of cotton. Plea of not guilty, and verdict of

0781 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 90.Testimony of Lewett Lee before the Coroner's inquest as follows;"The (Mr.Gantt) says 'I would like to have them(shoes) because I got to go to work Monday.'I says 'I can't let you in there unless Mr.Frank says so.He says 'Is Mr.Frank there?'I says, yes . if you want me I will go up and ask him, by that time Mr.Frank comes down and runs right into Mr.Gantt standing in the front door and he looked like he was frightened.I saw Mr.Frank was and right discharged taken out one way.He and Mr.Gantt had fell

0782 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: (defendant's exhibit 91 (cont'a)came there, he told him that it would not be necessary for himto work just at that time, that he could go out onthe street and enjoy himself for four hours, then come out tothe factory at 6 o'clock in the evening from 6 to 6:30, ando'clock. Frank stated that he went on duty and worked until sixlee returned at 6 o'clock, went on duty and frank left the buildingat about 6:15. On his way out he saw lee sitting on a packingbox outside the door of the factory talking to

0783 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Defendant's exhibit 92 (Cont'd)they had gotten through, Mr. Frank left the factory about 1 P.M. Saturday, while white and Denham were still on the top floor. Mr. Frank Chen went to his home, to his dinner, returning to the factory about 3 P.M., and as both white and Denham were through with their work, there was no one else there. They left about 3:30 P.M. as far as Mr. Frank knows he was the only person at the factory after that hour. On Friday, Mr. Frank had instructed his negro night watchman, Newt Lee,

0784 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT 94.Court proceedings under which Jim Conley was released fromFulton County Jail upon petition of Solicitor Hugh H. Dorsey:"The State,vs,Leo M. Frank, ) No.) In Fulton Superior Court, May Term, 1913.) Indictment for Murder.The petition of Hugh H. Dorsey, Solicitor General of theAtlanta Circuit, including Fulton County, respectfully shows:1.-James Connelly is a material witness for the state in theabove stated case.2.-Petitioner is apprehensive that said Connelly may not beforthcoming as a witness at the trial of the above named defendant,unless detained in custody.3.-Said Connelly has been detained since May 1st, 1913, by thepolice

0785 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: The above and foregoing petition read and considered,Let the said James Connelly be taken into custody by theSheriff of said County or Fulton, and be confined in the commonJail of said County, until discharged by further order of thiscourt.Let the said James Connelly be served with a copy of this order andthe petition on which it is based, and let him be released on saidConnelly may be assessed in a reasonable sum upon proper applicationto the Court and after reasonable notice in writing to theSolicitor General of the Circuit. It appearing to me that

0786 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Georgia,Fulton County.Read and considered, it is ordered that this petition and order be filed and duly entered upon order that said named suspects in connection with the Phagan murder, and now held in common jail of said county, to wit, Leo M. Frank and Newt Lee, be either personally or by serving their attorneys, and either citizens of said county who may receive this notice by publication or otherwise, may show cause before me, Friday, the 13th day of June, at 10 o'clock a.m. or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard

0787 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 3. Respondent shows to the court that the city police prison is so arranged and so officered, that respondent is absolutely safe as to his physical welfare, that any attack that might be made upon him, that he is as safe from harm in his cell in a solitary one, there being no one else even confined in that cell block with him; that the key to this cell block is kept in cell block 8, in all ways in the possession of a sworn and uniformed officer of the city, under the instructions

0788 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Placed about, it is an absolute impossibility for the best glass in the world or the best trained deputies to know exactly what is going on at any and all times or any reasonable part of the time; that the keys to practically all of "the cell blocks are carried by "convicted criminals", known as "trusties", who turn in and out parties entering or leaving cell blocks, and while they have general instructions covering their work, it is an impossibility for the inside deputy to know whether he is discharging his duty properly at

0789 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: the State there was necessity for same,Wherefore this Respondent agrees to the passage of an orderrevoking former orders in this case, and waives his presence atthe Court, upon a hearing of same.(signed) wm. i. smith,Attorney for James Conley.Georgia, Fulton County.Personally appeared before the undersigned attestingofficer, James Conley, who after being duly sworn deposes andswears that the facts set out in the above and foregoing responseso far as they come within his own personal belief are true and wherederived from the information of others he believes them to be true.Sworn to and subscribed before methis

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

Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. © 47The joint report of all the physicians concluded that the prisoner was certainly insane at the time of the killing.The case provided an excellent opportunity for the "looking" test of insanity. The counsel looked, but could not see it; the jury looked each day upon the prisoner, but could not see it; the judge looked, but could not see it. If sight alone had governed, the prisoner would have been hanged. And now, jurors, what did save that man's life? There was a judge presiding in the case and watching

SIGMUND MONTAG, Sworn In For The Defendant, 79th To Testify

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SIGMUND MONTAG, sworn for the Defendant.I am engaged in manufacturing stationery. I am treasurer of the National Pencil Company. The company receives its mail at my office, which is two blocks from the pencil factory. Frank comes to my office every day of the year to get the mail and instructions with regard to orders and the business of the factory. He came to my office on April 26th, about ten o'clock and stayed about an hour. He talked to me, my stenographer, Miss Hattie Hall, and Mr. Gottheimer, one of the salesman. Up to about a year ago I

0790 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: bend all their power and ingenuity in holding him to his present statement, adding to and taking therefrom only such things as will aid its plausibility. I am informed that Lemford is a fair man to the ordinary-minded man, but how can he be fair to this ignorant negro? What chance would he have to retract any lies he may have told or if in a repentant mood, he should wish to tell the truth? This negro in the city prison, in the power of Lemford, apart from all questions of truth, would be

0791 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: my first statement. I made the statement that I went to the pencil factory on Friday, April 25th, and went in Mr. Frank's office at five minutes to one, which is a mistake. I make this statement in regard to Friday in order that I might not be accused of knowing anything of this murder, for I thought if I put myself there on Saturday they might accuse me of having a hand in it, and I now make my SECOND and LAST STATEMENT regarding the matter freely and voluntarily, after thinking over the

0793 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: STATE OF GEORGIA,County of Fulton.I Hereby Certify, That the foregoing pages, hereunto attached, contain a true Transcript of such parts of the record as are specified in the Bill of Exceptions and required, by the order of the Presiding Judge, to be sent to the Supreme Court of Georgia, in the case ofLEO M. FRANK,Plaintiff in Error.Vs.THE STATE OF GEORGIA,Defendant in Error.Witness my signature and the seal of Court affixed this the 10th day of November 1913Clerk Superior Court Fulton County, GeorgiaEx-Officio Clerk City Court of AtlantaIn Poor Condition

0795 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Leo M. Frank,Plaintiff in Error,vsState of Georgia,Defendant in error.3311 of October Term,From Fulton Superior Court.Hon. Geo. E. Gordon, Judge.Petition for affirmance on February 17th,1914.Motion for Re-Hearing.And now comes Leo M. Frank, Plaintiff in error in the case above stated, who was the losing party therein, and at the same time as which the decision was rendered, and before the remittitur in said case has been forwarded to the clerk of the trial court, and files this his motion for re-hearing, on the grounds following, to-wit:I. Because the court in rendering the decision in said

0796 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: testimony was offered that the same was material, illegal and incompetent, to testify substantially as follows: The ladies' dressing room on 1 have seen Miss Rebecca Carson come into the ladies' dressing room on the fourth floor with Leo M. Frank and saw them working hours, hours.She then came in and saw them one out during working hours.The court permitted this testimony to go to the jury over the objection of the defendant made as is foresaid and in doing so committed error.The court stated that this evidence was admitted to dispute the witnesses

0797 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 135 to 137 of the Brief filed in this case.4. Because the court in rendering the decision in said case, overlooked the following material facts in the record, to-wit: ground two of the motion for new trial, which reads as follows:"Because the court erred in permitting over objections the witness Lee to testify that Frank, on April 26th, when alone with him at 6 o'clock in the morning, talked to him a shorter time than did W. P. Arnold, one of Frank's attorneys, when he interviewed the witness just before the trial. The detectives

0798 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: to 141 of the brief filed in this case.6. Because the court in rendering the decision in said case, overlooked the following material facts in the record, to-wit:16 of the motion for new trial, which reads as follows:"Because the court erred in admitting over objection of defendant, material and not binding on Frank, permitted the witness White, to testify that Arthur White, her husband, and Campbell are both connected with the Pencil Company and that she never reported, seeing the negro on April 26th, 1913, which she testified she did see in the pencil

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

Here is the translated text as follows:48 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,Gentlemen, the legal test of insanity laid down by the prosecution is not law. Our own Supreme Court has repudiated it in the case of Baldwin. Knowledge of right and wrong is possessed by both the sane and the insane. I grant that for several hundred years, it was the only test for the common law. The obstinate ignorance of the English Bench yielded to the genius of Erskine, what it denied to the experience of lunatic hospitals, and granted in Hadfield's case the existence of insane delusion, under cautious

TRUMAN MCCRARY, C, Sworn In For The Defendant, 80th To Testify

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TRUMAN Mc CRARY, (colored), sworn for the Defendant.I am a drayman on the streets of Atlanta. I work for the National Pencil Company. I have hauled for them. I have drayed for them most every Saturday for the past three years. I would work on Saturday afternoons until half past three and sometimes as late as five. I would be sometimes there so late the shipping clerk would be gone. I have never found the front door locked on a Saturday afternoon. I have never seen Jim Conley watching there Saturday afternoon. I have never seen him guarding the door.

0800 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 8.-- Because the Court, in rendering the decision in said case, overlooked the following material facts in the record, to-wit, Ground 26 of the motion for new trial, which reads as follows:"Because the Court, in permitting the witness Harry Scott, to testify over the objection of defendant, made at the time the testimony was offered, that he had received information from Conley, and nothing upon the defendant, that he had not otherwise gotten from other sources, but that he got his information as to that from entirely outside sources, and wholly disconnected with the

0801 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: were not considered in the decision, which appears from the face thereof.Plaintiff in error says that the error committed, as is disclosed from aninspection of the grounds here quoted, was material. The facts allegedherein to be overlooked in this ground were discussed in the brief filedby plaintiff in error, as will appear from pages 213 to 215 of the originalbrief, filed in this case.10. - Because the Court, in rendering the decision in said case, over-looked the following material facts in the record, to-wit, Ground 32 ofthe motion for new trial, which reads as

0802 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Said ground just quoted set up material facts constituting error in said case, which the Court in the decision rendered, overlooked, and which were not considered in said decision, and appears from the face thereof. Plaintiff in error says that the error committed, as is disclosed from an inspection of the ground here quoted, was material. The facts alleged herein to be overlooked in this ground, were discussed in the brief filed by plaintiff in error, as will appear from pages 269 to 292 of the original brief, filed in this case.

0803 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 12. Because the court in rendering the decision in saidcase, overlooked thefollowing material facts, to-wit: Ground 55of the motion for New Trial, which reads as follows:"Because the Court permitted the witness L. H. Kendrickover the objection of the defendant, made at the time theevidence was offered that the same was irrelevant, immaterialand incompetent, to testify substantially as follows:'I worked at the factory for two years. When I worked thereI needed the time about 5:24 o'clock. You would have to changeit from about three to five minutes, I reckon.' have to changethe clock permitted the

0804 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: overlooked, and which was not considered in said decision as appears from the face therof. Plaintiff in error says that the error committed, as is disclosed from an inspection of the ground here quoted, was material. The fact alleged herein to be overlooked in this ground was discussed in the brief filed by plaintiff in error, as will appear from pages 298 to 300 of the brief filed in this case.14. Because the court in rendering the decision in said case, overlooked the following material facts, to-wit: Ground 54 of the Motion for New

0805 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: "The clock of the pencil company was not accurate. They may vary all the way from three to five minutes in 24 hours. The Court admitted this testimony over the objections made and in doing so committed error, for the reasons stated. This was prejudicial to the defendant, because whether the clocks were or were not accurate on April 26th was material to his defense. The witness Grant had not worked at the factory for three weeks and did not know that the clocks were not keeping accurate time three weeks before the trial.

0806 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: error committed, as is disclosed from an inspection of the ground here quoted, was material. The fact alleged herein to be overlooked in this ground was discussed in the brief filed by plaintiff in error, as will appear from page 45 of the reply brief filed in this case.17. Because the court in rendering the decision in said case, overlooked the following material facts, to-wit: Ground 35 of the motion for New Trial, which reads as follows:"Because the Court permitted, at the instance of the Solicitor-General, the witness Sig. Montag, to testify over the

0807 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 10. Because the court in rendering the decision in said case, andin the 17th head note and in the 17th division of the opinion, held (asthe head note reads) "From the evidence, the court is authorized tofind that the jury was not influenced to give other than true answersto the questions propounded," By a loud yelling from persons on the outside of the courthouse which took place while the polling of the jury wasbeing taken; and further on, in the body of the opinion, under division17, the court use the following language upon this

0808 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: in his belief that his verdict was in no way affected by the demonstration during the progress of the trial or by that which subsequently occurred while the jury were considering their verdict. But the question is not whether in effect the jurors were influenced by this demonstration, but were the demonstrations calculated to influence the jurors in their action." And the court proceed to cite the Wolfolk case, 81st Ga., 751 and the case of Smith vs Lovejoy, 62nd Ga., 592, in which the court held in fact that the affidavits of jurors

0809 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: ahead of schedule.In the body of the opinion, the testimony of the state whichwas introduced is showing the time of arrival of the car was that of an in-spector who testified that once or twice he had timed it, and that the testi-mony running in ahead of schedule time, and two other witnesses who testi-fied that they were operatives on the line in question and that they hadknown the car to come in several minutes ahead of schedule time. Thereis no distinct notice in the opinion of the witness Owens whose only testimonyrelated to

D J NIX, Sworn In For The Defendant, 81st To Testify

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D. J. NIX, sworn for the Defendant.I was office boy at the pencil factory from April, 1912, to October, 1912. I worked there every other Saturday until the first of September, and then every Saturday thereafter. I am 19 years old. Before Sept. 1, I worked on Saturdays until between four and six o'clock. On Saturdays after Sept. 1, I worked until between 5:30 and 6. I have never missed any days while I have been at the factory. On Saturday afternoons, Mr. Frank and Mr. Schiff would be there working. I would stay in the outer office. I never

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

Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 49You have been led to believe that no difficulty can attend the investigation of either subject, that your pathway in both will be as "easy as the road to a mill," and that you may therefore dismiss from your minds all anxiety, all perturbation, all solicitude, touching the rightful exercise of the power of life or death, now committed to your hands. I must say, as respectfully as I know how to utter the words, this is "bad advice." To yield to it is at once a crime in morals and

0811 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 21. Plaintiff in error shows that in the 169th and note, the court recited that where the order over ruling the motion for new trial contains nothing which could indicate that the Judge was dissatisfied with the verdict or that he failed to exercise his discretion "the Supreme Court will not inquire whether the Judge is exercising discretion under or by remarks by him, pending the disposition of the motion."Plaintiff in error contends that the remarks made by the Judge which form the basis of the ground under consideration, were not merely made pending

0812 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: The undersigned, L. Z. Rosser, Reuben R. Arnold, Herbert Haas and Leonard Haas, do hereby certify that they are counsel for plaintiff in error in the case above stated, and that upon careful examination of the opinion of the Supreme Court therein, - they, and each of them believe that the facts set forth in the foregoing motion for re-hearing have been overlooked.This 24th, day of February, 1914,Attorneys for Plaintiff in Error.

0815 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: ( I N D E X )Bill of Indictment, Page 1.Verdict, Page 3.Extraordinary Motion for New Trial, Page 43.1st Amended Motion, Page 43.3rd Amended Motion, Page 45.Order of May 9th, 1914, Page 51.Order Striking 2nd Amended Motion, Page 58.4th Amended Motion, Page 53.Order of May 9th, 1914, Page 61.5th Amended Motion, Page 63.Order of May 9th, 1914, Page 75.6th Amended Motion, Page 76.Order of May 9th, 1914, Page 79.Response to Extraordinary Motion New Trial, Page 80.States Response to Amendments 1,2,3, & 4, Page 114.Reply to 6th Amendment to Extraordinary Motion, Page 131.Order Overruling Extraordinary

0816 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: ( I N D E X .)Bill of Indictment, Page 1.Verdict, Page 3.Extraordinary Motion for New Trial, Page 3.1st Amended Motion, Page 43.2nd " ", Page 45.3rd " ", Page 45.Order of May 9th, 1914, Page 51.Order Striking 2nd Amended Motion, Page 58.4th Amended Motion, Page 53.Order of May 9th, 1914, Page 61.5th Amended Motion, Page 82.Order of May 9th, 1914, Page 75.6th Amended Motion, Page 76.Order of May 9th, 1914, Page 79.Response to Extraordinary Motion New Trial, Page 80.States Response to Amendments 1,2,3, & 4, Page 114.Reply to 5th Amendment to Extraordinary Motion,

0818 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: INDEX.PART I.MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL........ Page 1PART II.AMENDED MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL....... Pages 2 to 122GROUND 1 ........................ Page 2" 2 ........................ " 3" 3 ........................ " 3" 4 ........................ " 3" 5 ........................ " 3" 6 ........................ " 4" 7 ........................ " 4" 8 ........................ " 4" 9 ........................ " 5" 10 ........................ " 5" 11 ........................ " 6" 12 ........................ " 6" 13 ........................ " 7" 14 ........................ " 51" 15 ........................ " 55" 16 ........................ " 55" 17 ........................ " 56" 18 ........................ " 56" 19 ........................ " 56" 20 ........................

0819 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: INDEX—Continued.GROUND 36 .................................................. Page 68" 37 .................................................. " 68" 38 .................................................. " 69" 39 .................................................. " 69" 40 .................................................. " 70" 41 .................................................. " 71" 42 .................................................. " 71" 43 .................................................. " 71" 44 .................................................. " 75" 45 .................................................. " 78" 46 .................................................. " 79" 47 .................................................. " 80" 48 .................................................. " 80" 49 .................................................. " 82" 50 .................................................. " 82" 51 .................................................. " 83" 52 .................................................. " 84" 53 .................................................. " 84" 54 .................................................. " 84" 55 .................................................. " 85" 56 .................................................. " 85" 57 .................................................. " 86" 58 .................................................. " 86" 59

FRANK PAYNE, Sworn In For The Defendant, 82nd To Testify

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FRANK PAYNE, sworn for the Defendant.I was office boy last Thanksgiving day at the pencil factory. It was snowing that day. I am 16 years old. Mr. Schiff and Mr. Frank were working there in the office that day. Mr. Schiff sent me up on the fourth floor to straighten the boxes up. Jim Conley was there sweeping. He left the factory about 10:20. I left about 11. He had finished his work. I went by the office to get my coat. Mr. Schiff and Mr. Frank were still working. When I left I did not see Conley anywhere about

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

Here is the translated text as follows:50 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.This aspect of it necessarily creates the difficulty of the investigation. How shall we distinguish between crime and insane impulse? May we not mistake one for the other? Is there not danger that a mistake may be of grave consequence, on the one hand to give impunity to guilt, on the other to put to death the innocent? Yes! There is difficulty, there is danger, a mistake is easy; we may confound two things as opposite as heaven and hell. Acting upon the error, you may bring a result which

0820 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: INDEX—Continued.GROUND 80 ................................................ Page 103" 81 ................................................ " 103" 82 ................................................ " 103" 83 ................................................ " 104" 84 ................................................ " 104" 85 ................................................ " 104" 86 ................................................ " 104" 87 ................................................ " 105" 88 ................................................ " 105" 89 ................................................ " 106" 90 ................................................ " 106" 91 ................................................ " 108" 92 ................................................ " 108" 93 ................................................ " 110" 94 ................................................ " 110" 95 ................................................ " 111" 96 ................................................ " 112" 97 ................................................ " 113" 98 ................................................ " 114" 99 ................................................ " 116" 100 ............................................... " 118" 101 ............................................... " 119" 102 ............................................... " 121" 103

0821 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: ORIGINAL MOTION FOR NEW TRIALSTATE OF GEORGIAvs.LEO M. FRANKCONVICTION OF MURDERIN FULTON SUPERIOR COURT.MOTION FOR NEW TRIALAnd now comes the defendant in the above stated case and moves the court for a new trial upon the grounds following, to-wit:1. The verdict is contrary to the evidence.2. The verdict is contrary to the law.3. The verdict is against the weight of the evidence.4. The court, over the objection of the defendant, heard evidence of other transactions and tending to establish other crimes and offenses, wholly separate and distinct from the charge in the Bill of

0822 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: that until such time as this motion may be heard and decided, that the movant have full leave to amend this motion for new trial.This 26th day of August, 1913.L. S. ROAN,Judge S. C. Stone Mountain Circuit,Presiding.GEORGIA, FULTON COUNTY :Service acknowledged. Copy received. All other and further service waived.This Aug. 27, 1913.F. A. HOOPER,HUGH M. DORSEY,R. A. STEPHENS,Solicitor General, Fulton County, Georgia.We further agree to the order within giving time to prepare and file a legal brief of the evidence. Aug. 27, 1913.HUGH M. DORSEY,Solicitor general.AMENDED MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL.GEORGIA, FULTON COUNTY. No.State of

0823 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 2. Because the Court erred in permitting, over objections the witness Lee to testify that Frank, on April 29th, when alone with him at the station house, talked to him a shorter time than did Mr. Arnold, one of Frank's attorneys, when he interviewed the witness just before he talked to Lee.The detectives had induced Frank to talk with Lee alone on April 29th at the station house for the purpose of inducing Lee to talk. Mr. Arnold, in the presence of Lee's attorney, and the jailer, had interviewed Lee just before the present

0824 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: ceded by the State that these dotted lines and crosses were no part of nor represented any part of the building but were put in the picture for the purpose of illustrating the theory of the State, as showing where the body was found and where it was carried.The admission of the picture in evidence, with the lines and crosses thereon, was, when offered, objected to because, as movant contends, it was argumentative, representing and illustrating the State's view of the case by means of red lines and crosses, which was no part of,

0825 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 9. Because the Court, over objection made by the defendant at the time the same was offered, that it was immaterial and irrelevant, permitted the witness Darley to testify that on the morning the body was found Newt Lee was composed.Defendant objected to this evidence as illegal, irrelevant and prejudicial to defendant which objection was overruled and movant assigns its admission as error for said same reasons.This evidence was not only irrelevant and immaterial, as movant contends, but hurtful, because this evidence was heard upon the theory of comparison between the conduct of Lee

0826 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: the Movant contends this evidence was highly prejudicial, and the failure of the Court, upon proper motion, to rule it out was a great injury to the defendant. And the failure of the Court to rule out said prejudicial and irrelevant and immaterial evidence is here assigned as error and a new trial should be granted because said evidence was illegal, irrelevant and highly prejudicial and involved other transactions not legitimate under investigation, and the same amounted to accusing the defendant of other and independent crimes.11. Because the witness Conley, at the instance of

0827 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: evidence sought was irrelevant and immaterial. The Court ruled that the evidence would be immaterial, but further questions were asked by the solicitor and elicited the evidence here complained of.While Conley was still on the stand, and after cross examination a day and a half on other subjects, defendant's counsel made a motion to rule out, exclude and withdraw from the jury all the-testimony, both direct and on cross, detailing Frank's associations with women and Conley's watching at other times than the Saturday of the murder, to-wit: April 26, 1913. Said motion was made

0828 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. What kind of a looking woman?A. She was a tall, heavy built lady.Q. What did you do on that occasion?A. I stayed down there and watched the door as he had told me to do this last time.Q. Then what was done?A. Well, after the lady came and he stamped for me, I went and unlocked the door as he said. He told me when he got through with the lady he would whistle, and when he whistled for me to go and unlock the door.Q. That was on Thanksgiving day of what

0829 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Now, you said you watched for Mr. Frank?A. Yes, sir.Q. When was the first time you ever watched for Mr. Frank?A. The first time I ever watched for Mr. Frank alone and knowed he was in the office—Q. When was the first time you ever watched for Mr. Frank alone or with somebody else? Don't make any difference.A. I couldn't exactly give you the—Q. Tell us the best you can?A. Some time during last summer, when I was watching for him.Q. Tell us the first time, now?A. Yes, sir.Q. Whereasabouts in the summer;

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

Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL, 51After the close of the evidence, I will refer you to many authors. At present, I read to you from Ray's Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity, section 381:"To determine exactly the mental condition of an epileptic at the moment of committing a criminal act is often a difficult task. It may have taken place in the absence of any observer, in a fit of fury that rapidly passed away, and which perhaps may not have followed any previous paroxysm; or the accused, though subject to the disease, may not have recently suffered

PHILLIP CHAMBERS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 83rd To Testify

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PHILLIP CHAMBERS, sworn for the Defendant.I am 15 years old. I started working for them December 12, 1912, as office boy, at the pencil factory. I left there March 29, 1913. I stayed in the outer office. On Saturdays I stayed until 4:30 and sometimes until 5 o'clock. I never left before 4:30 on Saturdays. I would go to dinner about 1:30 and get back at 2. Sometimes on Saturdays I would be sent to Montag's for 15 minutes, to get the mail. I would sometimes go out to the Bell Street plant to get the pay roll there. I

0830 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. What time would you usually get back there?A. I would leave away from there about half past twelve, ring out the clock, and come back about half past one or two o'clock.Q. Would you ring in again?A. Yes sir; sometimes I would and sometimes I wouldn't.Q. The first time you say you ever watched, you say you watched for Frank and somebody else last July?A. Yes, sir.Q. You don't know who the man was?A. Yes, sir, I know who the man was.Q. Who was he?A. A man named Mr. Dalton.Q. Where is he?A.

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. That time--that particular time, I mean?A. Well, I would be sweeping.Q. I'm talking about that time--that particular time?A. When he told me to watch?Q. Yes, what did he say to you when you told you?A. I'm going to explain to you now--Q. That particular time, now?A. Yes, sir.Q. Give it to me, now?A. I would be there sweeping--Q. Oh, don't give me what you would be doing. I want to know about that particular time?A. I was at the factory.Q. Where?A. Sweeping on the second floor.Q. Now, what time was that?A. Somewhere about

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. She went with the man?A. No, sir, she went out by herself to get the man and come back with the man.Q. How long was she gone?A. I don't know, sir, how long.Q. And that was about half past three?A. Yes, sir.Q. The beginning of that transaction was about half past three?A. Yes, sir.Q. How long was she gone?A. I don't know, sir, how long she was gone.Q. You don't know how long she was gone?A. No, sir; I don't know how long she was gone.Q. Was she back after awhile?A. Yes, sir.Q.

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: a trap door and stairway that leads down in the basement, and they pull outthat trap door and go down in the basement.Q. And that time, she came down and says: "All right, James?"A. Yes, sir.Q. She knew you?A. Yes, sir.Q. Because she worked in the office?A. No, sir; she didn't work in the office; she worked on the fourth floor.Q. Then you went through that door—a door right behind the elevator?A. No, sir; there isn't a door back of the elevator; there's a big woodendoor, just a step there; it goes back in

0834 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. First time anybody ever asked you or talked to you about it?A. Yes, sir.Q. Now, they went down the basement?A. Yes, sir.Q. How long did they stay there?A. I don't know, sir, how long they stayed there.Q. What became of them?A. Well, they came back up.Q. About what time?A. I couldn't give no time, because I don't know what time it was when they went down there.Q. Well, about what time?A. I don't know, sir; I couldn't give you what time they came back up.Q. It was after 3:30 when this whole thing

0835 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Then he came out behind you and left?A. Yes, sir.Q. Now, that's the first time?A. Yes, sir.Q. Now, when was the next Saturday?A. The next Saturday was two weeks after that, near the same thing.Q. Well, what was the same thing or not?A. Well, it was about two weeks after that.Q. Was that in August or in July?A. Well, it was about the last of July or the first of August.Q. Now, do you remember the date?A. Where did I go?Q. Yes, sir; I drawed your money that time; did you draw it?A.

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. You remember that distinctly?A. Yes, sir.Q. What time did he go to dinner that day?A. I don't know, sir, what time he went to dinner that day; I wasn't there when he went to dinner.Q. What time did he get back that day?A. That was somewhere near a quarter past two. I saw him going up the steps with his clothes and his hat on. I don't know where he had been.Q. What was the next that happened?A. He went in his office next that happened?Q. Then what was the next that happened?A.

0837 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. When you went down, she was in Mr. Frank's office?A. No, sir, I was standing at the clock, and saw her go into Mr. Frank'soffice.Q. Then you went down and watched?A. Yes, sir, I went down and watched.Q. Did you hear her come out of that office?A. No, sir.Q. Didn't you say a while ago that, while you were at the door, youheard these other people coming out of his office?A. No, sir, I said this—this was what I said: after I got to the top ofthe steps I could hear them going

0838 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Did he know whether you were through or not?A. I don't know, sir, whether he did or not.Q. He gave you some money?A. He gave me half a dollar.Q. And the other time they didn't give you but a quarter.Q. Then you left?A. Yes, sir.Q. Give the next time?A. Pretty hard for me to remember.Q. It was Thanksgiving Day, the next time, wasn't it?A. No, sir, it wasn't Thanksgiving Day, the next time; I had watchedfor him and Mr. Dalton, too, before that Thanksgiving Day.Q. Give us the best you can, or the

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Where was you when he told you?A. Right at the elevator.Q. Was it before twelve o'clock?A. I don't know, sir, whether it was twelve o'clock or not.Q. After twelve?A. I don't know whether it was after twelve or not.Q. You don't know anything about that, you can't remember that?A. No, sir.Q. Anybody standing around there then?A. There was Gordon Bailey standing there.Q. That's Snowball?A. Yes, sir.Q. Anybody else there?A. Not to my knowing, it wasn't.Q. Wasn't the office force there at that time?A. They were not standing at the elevator; they were back

GODFREY WEINKAUF, Sworn In For The Defendant, 84th To Testify

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GODFREY WEINKAUF, sworn for the Defendant.I am superintendent of the Pencil Company's lead plant. Beginning with July, 1912, up until the first week in January, 1913, I visited the office of the pencil factory every other Saturday, between three and five o'clock. I would stay there about two hours. I would find Mr. Holloway, Mr. Frank and Mr. Schiff there. I never saw any women in the office there.CROSS EXAMINATION.I never saw Jim Conley there at the factory on Saturday afternoon. I am sure I saw Holloway there on Saturday afternoon.GODFREY WEINKAUF, Sworn In For The Defendant, 84th To Testify

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Here is the translated text as follows:52 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.A few diligently conceal it, or if they avoid it, declare their murderous designs and form diverse schemes for putting them in execution, testifying no sentiment of remorse.The most of them, having gratified their propensity to kill, voluntarily confess the act and quietly give themselves up to the proper authorities. A very few only, and these to an intelligent observer, show the strongest indications of insanity, fly, and persist in denying the act.While the criminal act itself is in some instances the only indication of insanity, the individual appearing rational

0840 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Give us the best estimate you have got?A. Well, some time half past, I reckon.Q. Sometime half past; half past what—half past two or half past three?A. It was half past two, I reckon.Q. He came back you say. What made him come; did he come back and hunt you?A. No sir, he didn’t hunt me.Q. Where were you?A. I was standing by the office when he got there.Q. Then he came in there with you?A. Yes, sir.Q. What did he say to you?A. He told me, he said: “She be here in

0841 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. You don't know what a brunette is?A. No, sir.Q. Did she have light hair?A. She had hair like Mr. Hooper's.Q. What sort of clothes did she have on?A. She had on a green suit of clothes.Q. Green all over?A. As far as I could see.Q. What kind of shoes and stockings did she have on?A. I didn't pay no attention to her shoes and stockings.Q. But Miss Daisy Hopkins, what sort of clothes did she have on the first time she came down there?A. The first time that she came there she had

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Now, Jim, don't everybody in that factory know Jim Conley?A. No, sir, didn't everybody in that factory know me.Q. Give me one of them?A. I don't know, sir, I don't know whether they all knew me or not.Q. Didn't the lady go up and down on the elevator at all?A. No, sir, the girls never did.Q. You swept on the fourth floor?A. Yes, sir, I swept on the fourth floor a while.Q. How long did you sweep on the fourth floor?A. Been sweeping up there ever since last January.Q. You saw that little

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. And then the next time, now, was Thanksgiving Day?A. Yes sir, the next time was Thanksgiving Day.Q. What hour was it Thanksgiving Day?A. I don't know, sir, what hour; I met Mr. Frank there that morning about eight o'clock.Q. Anybody else there?A. I didn't see anybody else there.Q. Where did you meet him, then?A. I met Mr. Frank right at the door; I was sitting on the box when he come in.Q. That's when he mentioned it to you again?A. That's when he took me on the inside and told me--Q. Tell me

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. What time?A. Somewhere near eight o'clock.Q. What did you have to do there?A. I had to stack some boxes up on the fourth floor.Q. Eighth floor?A. No, sir. I said fourth floor.Q. That was about Thanksgiving Day?A. Yes, sir.Q. Was it the same week of Thanksgiving you saw her up there?A. I don't know, sir, whether it was the same week of Thanksgiving, but somewhere near Thanksgiving; it wasn't many days.Q. How was she dressed that night?A. I disremember how she was dressed that night.Q. What sort of looking face did she have?A.

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. You didn't say you saw them go in?A. No, sir, I said I heard them go towards it.Q. And you didn't say you heard them go in?A. No, sir, I said I heard them go towards his office.Q. But you didn't see the others?A. I don't remember saying I seen the others.Q. Now she came, and she went up and walked towards Mr. Frank's office, and stamped?A. Mr. Frank came out there and stamped.Q. Where did he come to and stamp?A. Came to the trash barrel where he told me—Q. You mean upstairs?A.

0846 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Then the lady came down?A. No, sir, Mr. Frank come down—Q. He left the lady up there?A. No, sir, Mr. Frank come down to the two doors and unlocked thedoors and went on—come back, and says: "Everything all right?" I says:"Yes, sir." He went to the front door and fixed the lock, unlocked the frontdoor hisself, he went and looked up the street and turned it, that (illustrating) andcome to the steps and taken the knob and turned it, there at the head of thestair door, and told her to "come on."Q. He

0847 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Where did you go when you left there on Hunter and Forsyth Street.A. I went to the beer saloon over there on Hunter and Forsyth Street.Q. How long did you stay there?A. I don't know, sir; about an hour, I reckon.Q. Then went home?A. No, sir, I went to Peters Street and stayed a good while.Q. Drank some more beer over there?A. No, sir, I didn't drink no beer over there.Q. Didn't drink but one beer that day?A. I don't know, sir, how many I drank at that saloon on Forsyth andHunter.Q. About

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. That was in the dead of winter, then?A. Yes, sir, in the dead of winter.Q. About when?A. About January, I reckon.Q. About the middle of January, or what?A. I don't know, middle, first or last, I don't know-somewhere in January.Q. How do you know it was somewhere in January?A. Because it was right after the first of the year.Q. Well, if it was right after the first of the year, you know what timeit was in January?A. I said somewhere about the first or middle.Q. Well, was it in middle, or first, or

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Well, I'm sorry I cut you off, I'll open it again and give you a better chance. That was about half past seven?A. Yes, sir.Q. What floor of the factory?A. I can't remember now just what floor it was on.Q. You didn't see anybody at the time except Mr. Holloway?A. I saw Gordon Bailey; me and him was on the elevator together.Q. He was talking to you so Gordon Bailey could hear him?A. I don't know, sir, I reckon he could hear; he was talking so he could hear.Q. He was talking so

CHARLIE LEE, Sworn In For The Defendant, 85th To Testify

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CHARLIE LEE, sworn for the Defendant.I am a machinist at the pencil factory. I remember an accident to Duffy in the metal room. His finger was hurt on the eyelet machine, about Oct. 4, 1912. It bled freely and the blood spouted out. There was a lot of the blood on the floor. He went down the hall to the office, by the ladies' dressing room. There was blood at that point. Gilbert also got hurt in the metal room last year. He was bandaged in the office also. In going from the metal room to the office, you go

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Here is the translated text as follows:EDWARD D. WORRELL. 53The kind and gentle do not in a day grow hungry for blood. Such violent and sudden antagonisms are the surest evidence of mental disease. The law of evidence permitting proof of good character in criminal cases is founded upon this philosophy of man's nature, and it is a true philosophy. It is introduced as proof that the crime was not committed, not to excuse it. If piety, honesty, and gentleness may perish or turn to their opposites in a moment, if they cannot furnish any resistance to the influence of

0850 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. They went up to Mr. Frank's office?A. I don't know, sir, where they went after that, after they went up-stairs, I don't know where they went after they got upstairs.Q. You were near enough, wasn't you to see?A. No, sir, I was at the door.Q. You don't know which way they went?A. I saw them when they turned that way, towards the clock.Q. You say it was about half past two?A. Yes, sir, it was about half past two or three o'clock.Q. How long did they stay there that time?A. Stayed there, looked

0851 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Ever seen him since then?A. I seen him since he was talking to Mr. Holloway then.Q. But you don't know who he was?A. No, sir.Q. Ever saw the girl before or since?A. No, sir, never saw the girls before or since, to my remembrance I haven't.Q. Now, Jim, you were talking to me when we left off about the time you say you watched for Mr. Frank.A. Yes, sir.Q. Did you watch for him again?A. In January, yes sir.Q. Well I am talking about January. Is that the last time you watched for

0852 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. But I am not asking about that. I am talking about the secondSaturday?A. You asked me what I did the second Saturday, well, I don't re-member.Q. You mean you watched for him Saturday and then the secondSaturday you watched for him again?A. Then the second Saturday after that I watched for him.Q. You missed a Saturday?A. Yes, sir.Q. And then you watched the next Saturday?A. Yes, sir.Q. That is what you say about it now?A. Yes, sir, that is what I say about it now and what I said before.Q. Now the Saturday

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Of course, you don't know except from your best recollection. Then you didn't watch for him until Thanksgiving Day?A. Until Thanksgiving Day.Q. What did you do the Saturday before Thanksgiving Day?A. I don't remember what I did.Q. What did you do the Saturday after Thanksgiving Day?A. I don't know what I did.Q. And the next Saturday?A. Well, the next Saturday—I could tell you what I did that Saturday.Q. And the next Saturday?A. Well, I don't know, sir, what I did the next Saturday.Q. And the next?A. The next Saturday I did some watching

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