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The Murder of Little Mary Phagan (2025 Edition) by Mary Phagan Kean

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Wednesday, 30th December 1914: Long Legal Battle In Leo Frank Case, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 30th December 1914,PAGE 3, COLUMN 4.Both Sides Prepare for Hard Fight Before the Supreme Court. MAY USE...
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Tuesday, 29th December 1914: Leo M. Frank’s New Fight For Life, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Tuesday, 29th December 1914,PAGE 1, COLUMN 1.May Last in Courts for Six Months Before a Final Decision Is...
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Monday, 28th December 1914: Leo Frank Decision Is Expected Today, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Monday, 28th December 1914,PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.Followers of the many phases of the Leo Frank Case are keenly...
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Sunday, 27th December 1914: Bond Witness Charges Attempt To Frame-up, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Sunday, 27th December 1914,PAGE 2, COLUMN 4.Isom Says Effort Has Been Made to Get Him to "Double-Cross" Solicitor....
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Friday, 25th December 1914: Lamar Postpones Action On Appeal, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Friday, 25th December 1914,PAGE 9, COLUMN 3.Advices yesterday from Washington say that Justice Lamar, of the United States...
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Wednesday, 23rd December 1914: Marshall Will Make Supreme Court Plea, The Atlanta Constitution

The Atlanta Constitution,Wednesday, 23rd December 1914,PAGE 9, COLUMN 3.Frank's Atlanta Lawyers Will Prepare for Plea to the Prison Board.WILL PLEAD...
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Tuesday, 22nd December 1914: Alexander Scores Charge Of Dorsey, The Atlanta Constitution

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Monday, 21st December 1914: Newman Decides Frank Case Today, The Atlanta Constitution

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Sunday, 20th December 1914: Appeal Of Frank To Supreme Court Not Yet Allowed, The Atlanta Constitution

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Saturday, 19th December 1914: Newman To Hear Frank Case Today, The Atlanta Constitution

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1099 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: there. I must have said so. I don't remember saying it. I told them I metMr. Frank at the corner of Nelson and Forsyth Street before I went to thefactory. Yes, I told them I went from Peters Street and met him at the cornerof Nelson and Forsyth before I went to the factory. As to why I told them thatstory, because I did meet him there. No, I didn't go straight from PetersStreet to meet him at the corner of Nelson and Forsyth as I told them. I wentstraight from Peters street to

1098 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: reason I told them I left home at 9 or 9:30, because there was not anything doing at the factory at that time. I told them it was about 9 o’clock when I looked at the clock, because I don’t know what time it was when I looked at the clock, and I told them I had some steak and some sausage for breakfast and a piece of liver and I drank some tea and bread. Well, there was some sausage, but I don’t know whether I ate it or not. Yes, I had

1097 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: that statement in the detectives' office. Mr. Black and Mr. Scott were present. They didn't question two or three hours. I did some writing before then, before that statement was made. Yes, I know I did some writing before May 18th. I did some writing in Chief's office that Sunday. I told Black I bought whiskey on Peters Street at about 10.30. I told them I paid forty cents for it. I don't remember telling them that I bought the whiskey at 11 o'clock. Yes, I told them I went into the Butt-In Saloon

1096 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: could'nt tell you anybody who came to the factory the first Saturday I watched.The second time I think there were some young ladies working up on thefourth floor. I don't know about the third time. I don't know whether any-body was working there Thanksgiving or not. I didn't see Mr. Schiff at all.I will swear that he was not in the office with Mr. Frank. I don't knowwhether any ladies were working there the next time or not. I have been backin the metal department, but I never have been on the right hand

1095 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: told me to watch for him. I don't know whether Mr. Frank knew he was there or not. There were eight niggers in all working in the factory. Snowball, the fireman and me did just plain manual labor, the rest of the negroes had better jobs. Snowball, the fireman and me were the last negroes to get jobs there. We were the new darkies; the others had been working there before we went there. Mr. Frank used to laugh and jolly with me. I couldn't tell you the first time he did this. Mr.

1094 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: standing by the side of Gordon Bailey when he come and told me, and he said, I could make a piece of money off that man. Yes, Snowball could hear what he said. The man and ladies came about half past two or three o'clock. They stayed there about two hours. I didn't see either one of the ladies. I can't describe what either one of them had on. The man was tall slim built, a heavy man. I have seen him at the factory talking to Holloway, he didn't work there. I have

1093 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: that time about half an hour and then the girl went out. He gave me half a dollar this time. The next time I watched for him and Mr. Dalton too, somewhere along in the winter time, before Thanksgiving Day, somewhere about the last part of August. Yes, that's-somewhere after the winter. This time he spoke to me on the fourth floor in the office. Gordon Bailey was standing there when he spoke to me. He said, "I want to put you wise again for to-day." The lady that came in that day was

1092 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: my habit not to do it. As to how they would know how much to pay me if I didn't ring in, I knew they paid me $1.10 a day all the time. No, they didn't pay me by the clock punches, they paid me by the day, they paid me 11c. an hour. Sometimes I would punch the clock when I got there; that was my duty. Sometimes I was paid when I didn't work, I don't know how that happened, but Mr. Frank would come and tell me I didn't take out

1091 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: but $6.05. Snowball was drawing $6.05. As to who it was I didn't want to see what I was drawing, there was one named Walter Pride; he's been there five years. He said he drew $12.00 a week. Then there was Joe Pride, he told me he drew $8.40 a week. They were down in the basement and asked me how much I was drawing. I told them I didn't know none of their business. Then there was a fellow named Fred. I don't know how much he drew. The next one was the

1110 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: remember the time. I never saw Conley on April 26th. If he was there he was skulking around and hiding. I never saw McCrary talk to him that day. On Monday morning I saw Conley, instead of being upstairs where he ought to be sweeping, he was down in the shipping room watching the detectives, officers and reporters. I caught him washing his shirt. Looked like he tried to hide it from me. I picked it up and looked at it carefully and it looked like he didn’t want me to look at it

1109 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: except when Schiff. was off on his vacation. I have never seen any of them bring any women in there or take any out. I have never been sick or missed a single Saturday since last year. I would leave about 4.30 Saturday after- noon. I have never seen Dalton in the factory at all. I wouldn't have let a fellow like that in the building unless I knew what his business was. There was nobody practicing any immoralities in the building. If they did I would know it. I would have put them

1108 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 77RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.I communicated immediately with the police when we found the blood back there. I think Harry Scott was the first man I reported Conley's nervousness to. It was on Monday, April 28th, 1913.E. F. HOLLOWAY, recalled for cross examination.I am the day watchman and time keeper. I look after the register to see that everybody registers. No, it was not a habit of Conley to register or not as he pleased and to get his pay anyhow. If he didn't register I always got after him. I applied the same rule to him

1106 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: (Witness identifies various portions of factory from the factory model—Defendant's Exhibit 4). There is no lounge, sofa, cot or bed-in-the whole factory. I found two boxes down in the basement in Clark Woodenware side of old dirty, rotten stuff, too dirty and rotten for a human being to rest upon. It's boggy in there. They had on top of them some dirty, filthy, nasty crocus sacks. There is no lounge, bed, sofa or anything of the sort in the metal room. I have never seen a chair in there. I have never seen any

1107 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 76to see if I could pick out a man that looked suspicious, and Jim Conley was the man I thought looked most suspicious. The latter part of last year I issued orders that the sweepers must stop cleaning up by twelve o'clock and if they hadn't cleaned up by that time they would have to knock off and leave the factory. If they stayed there after twelve o'clock I didn't know anything about it. Harry Denham usually stayed in the factory every other Saturday afternoon to clean the motor and oil the machinery and

1104 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Miss Mary Fink on April 28th and she didn't say that I committed the crime and I didn't shoot out of the room immediately after she said that I didn't tell Miss Carson on Monday that I was drunk all day Saturday. I didn't see her at all on Monday. I didn't tell Mr. Herbert Haas on Monday that I was afraid to go on the street, that I would give a million dollars if I was a white man. I said if I was a white man I would go on out. I

1105 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: wrote the word ‘Luxury’ and ‘Thomas Jefferson.’ I didn’t have anything at all to copy from. I was writing it down for Mr. Frank.MRS. J. A. WHITE, recalled for the State.I have seen this man before at police headquarters (indicating Conley) about a month after the murder. At that time I did not identify him as being the man I saw sitting on the box. The man sitting on the box was about the same size as Jim Conley. I couldn’t state it was Jim Conley. He was sitting in a dark place, and

1103 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: standing at the steps. I could see the clock from there. Then I went back and got a piece of striped bed tick, something like your shirt there, had whitish looking stripes on it. I taken the cloth and spread it down and rolled the little girl in-the cloth and tied it up and laid her down in the cloth, I tied the cloth around her. I did my best and her feet were hanging out of the cloth, also her head. If I didn't tell Black and Scott anything about the hat and

1102 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: stayed up there a good little while, ten or fifteen minutes. I didn't tell the officers the peg-legged negro went up first. I didn't tell them in the first statement. I may have told them in the next statement. The peg-legged negro didn't stay up stairs no time. Came back down with Mr. Holloway. Mr. Darley came down five or ten minute after Mr. Holloway came down. Yes, that was after he came back from Montag's. I have no idea what time it was. After Holloway came down, the lady with the green dress

1101 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: to tell it all right at one time. I just told a little and kept back a little. Yes, and Mr. Dorsey went down seven times while I was telling some and holding back some. They didn't ask me to back any stories. No, it didn't take Mr. Dorsey seven-times to tell the truth. Yes, I said I added to it every time he went down. But he wouldn't go back and try to do anything with it. I didn't tell the officers that I went to a moving picture show after I left

1119 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: stop on the platform. Mr. Frank did not know that I had not completed the data sheet (Defendant's Ex. "8") for him before Saturday morning. It usually took Mr. Frank and me about three hours to finish the financial sheet. This is the financial sheet that Mr. Frank made up on Saturday afternoon, April 28th (Defendant's Ex. "2"). It is in his handwriting. I didn't see it at the factory on Friday. First saw it the following week when I got it back from the general manager. It is accurately prepared from the calculations

1120 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 89packed in tissue paper, and he has to know which pencils are packed. He has got to go through all the pencils to determine which took wrappers and which did not. Our pencil production averaged 2500 to 3000 gross per week. A gross is 144. The next item is "skeletons." Skeleton is a card board with a little place in it where six pencils go on one side and six on the other and the wrapper goes around it. The assortment boxes don't take skeletons, the cheaper pencils do. He had to know the

1118 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Frank. There were no women at the factory. I have never seen Mr. Daltou in the factory in my life. Daisy Hopkins waited on the office floor. She left the factory June 6th, 1912, as appears from the time book. Never saw her in the factory after she quit work. On the 26th Saturday in January, Frank remained in the office with me until 5 o'clock to catch my train. I was at the factory last Thanksgiving day. It was very cold and rainy. It was a holiday at the factory. The office boy

1117 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: of the company were taken care of. We simply looked after the manufacturing end. The financial sheet which Mr. Frank and I worked on on Saturdays showed how our week terminates, whether a profit or loss. We had to show what we manufactured, what we packed, the materials that were made to go on the pencils, covering lead, plugs, tips, boxes. We showed our shipments, what our average-order-jobs amounted to, what we purchased for and the price. Our factory week began on Friday night and went through Thursday night. In making up the financial

1116 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 85passengers except Mary Phagan. As to what attracted my attention to Mary getting on the front end of the car, as a general rule when she would catch our car Mr. Matthews would say to her "You are late to-day," and sometimes she would come in and remark that she was mad; that she was late to-day and when she came that morning Mr. Matthews said to her, "Are you mad to-day ?" and she said, "Yes, I am late." And sort of laughed and came on in the car and sat down. She

1115 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: get off the car at Broad and Marietta because there was a street car conductorsitting behind me, an ex-conductor and he had a badge on his coat and Ilooked at it and it had a little girl's picture. I reached over to where Marywas and said, "Little girl, here is your picture" and she said, "No, it is not."I don't know who the other little girl was riding with her. The other littlegirl was dressed something like Mary. I didn't pay much attention to theirdresses, but they looked sort of alike. Mary's dress wasn't

1114 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Don't know the day. It was shortly after April 28th. After Conley madehis last statement Chief Beavers, Lanford and I went to the jail with Conleyand saw the Sheriff and he went to Frank's cell. The last time I saw Frankwas Saturday, May 3rd. As to whether Mr. Prehn refused to see me, onlythrough Sheriff Mangum, as to the number of people I told Conley didn't fitthe first time and those I told him didn't fit the last time, I couldn'tnot name those, that would almost be impossible unless I had the statementclear in

1113 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 82the little girl was Mary Perkins. He never said anything at all about MaryPerkins. We pressed him that day as to whether he saw Mary Phagan or not.He finally told us that he saw her dead body. He never did tell us that he hearda lady scream though we asked him about it. He said he did not hear anybodyscream while he was sitting on the box. He said he didn't hear anything atall that day. He never said anything about Mr. Frank having hit her, andhaving hit her too hard. He never said

1111 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 80some time. Hasn't been used since Christmas. If the negro went out and bought-beer I didn't know it. I never saw him. I don't recollect whether the drayman was up there April 26th to get his pay or not. There was so much excitement in the factory on Monday that we shut down about 9:30. Nobody stayed at their work. Jim Conley quit work like everybody else and went out. As to-one thing that Conley said that the others didn't do I haven't got any. The shirt he was washing was the same shirt

1112 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 81very strongly to him and tried to make him give a confession. We used alittle profanity and cussed him. He made that statement after he knew that Iknew he could write. We had had him for about the last three hours that day. Hemade another statement on May 24th which he was put in writing. (Defend-ant's Exhibit 37.) He was carried to Mr. Dorsey's office that day and wentover the statement with Mr. Dorsey. He still denied that he had seen thelittle girl the day of the murder. He swore to all the statement

1130 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 99and entered and how he figured it.) In my opinion it would take a prettyswift man three and a half hours.CROSS EXAMINATION.A man's familiarity with a special class of work will aid materially inmaking it up. If he had had to get up the information which was furnishedme it would take him a good deal longer than it did me, for the informationwas already furnished me. I have allowed for his experience and familiaritywith the business, in the way of saving time, in making my estimate. I havetried to make my figures sufficiently conservative

1129 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 98RE-CROSS EXAMINATION.I had no objection to coming to your (Mr. Dorsey’s) office. - I offered to assist you in any way I could. No, it was not Mr. Frank’s custom to make an engagement Friday for Saturday evening and then go off and leave the financial sheet untouched. The pencil factory is three- or four blocks from Montag’s. Some of them are short blocks. Guess it takes three to five minutes to go over there. I have never timed myself. The first time on Monday I observed the peculiar behavior of Conley was between

1128 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 97factory. The times was when women came up there and tried to get money toget him out. I have seen these books scattered all over the factory, wholebooks and parts of books. I have seen them since this murder. Both beforeand after. I have seen sheets sometimes. I knew that Jim could write. Ihave given him and the other negroes tablets like (State's Exhibit H).They are kept everywhere in the factory. They would go down in the base-ment and write. I did not talk to Frank on Monday or Tuesday about JimConley's peculiar conduct

1127 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Thanksgiving Day, when I left him at the corner of Mitchell and Alabama, where he caught a Washington Street car. I don't know what he did that afternoon. I do know that I remained at the factory every Saturday afternoon since I have been there because I have nothing else to do. I paid off, April 25th. I remember Helen Ferguson coming to the window and I paid her. I can tell you the names of many more that I paid off that afternoon. (Witness gives names of eight or ten more he claims

1126 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: else the same way. When we advance a man money it is put down on a slip and entered in an envelope, called "Loan." We don't take a receipt for it. I can show that Frank gave $2.00 to Arthur White and it was deducted. I made the entry in the time book the next week and deducted it the following Saturday. We don't enter it on the cash book or average sheet (Defendant's Exhibit 5) as all in Mr. Frank's handwriting. It begins from January 10, 1911. As a rule Mr. Frank put

1125 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: it and put it under the head of specialty, that is the head of the classes of goods manufactured that week. You must have the slat record. I haven't got the slat record here. It certainly is different from this. It comes from the cedar mill. The item on the financial sheet "Defendant's Exhibit 2) that he got from the slat record is the item under "Material Cost" -- "Slats 2719½ gross at 22c." That is all he would have to get on the financial sheet with reference to slats. That wouldn't take any

1123 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 92do any work. The girls were standing around, crying. We had to suspend. As I went out of the shipping room that morning, I saw Conley standing in the back of the room. I said, "What are you doing here?" He says: "I am scared to go out, I would give a million dollars if I was a white man." I is very dark on the ground floor around the elevator. I have never known the doors to Mr. Frank's inner or outer office to be locked. Even if they were you can see

1124 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 93book was on Monday or Tuesday. It takes about an hour or an hour and a quarter to enter those orders on the book. It is true that I testified before the coroner that it wouldn't take over half an hour to make the orders. It takes an hour and a half to do all of the work of transcribing them that you pointed out to me. Acknowledgments are usually made by the person who transcribes the orders and enters them on the requisition. If Mr. Frank didn't make acknowledgments, that would not make

1122 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: cinnati, Ohio, received 4-26-13, ship at once." All of these eleven orders are in Mr. Frank's handwriting and he entered them that day. That is the regular book that we keep those orders in (Defendant's Exhibit 12). I have looked at the original orders and compared them with Mr. Frank's entry in the book and they are correct. I have here the original orders from which Mr. Frank made his entries, with the exception of one, which I can't find. They were in Mr. Dorsey's possession for some time. These are the eleven original

1121 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 90count it as actual cash. On that Saturday, we couldn't have over $30 or $35 in the drawer. Yes, I acquainted Joel Hunter, the accountant, with all the data that goes in the financial sheet and explained it to him in detail, and also Mr. Bidwell. I gave them all the data necessary to make up the sheet. The sheet here headed "Comparison 1912-1913" is Defendant's Ex. "11") is made up by Mr. Frank to show the difference between one week of this year and the same week of last year and in making

1140 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 109were washing right then. When we came out we saw Mr. Frank at his desk in his office writing. Mr. White borned off from him. He did not look nervous or unusual. You can look down from the landing on the third floor and see whether anything is being put in or taken out of the elevator on the office floor. White and I on the fourth floor could have gone anywhere in the building that day. It was open to us.CROSS EXAMINATION.We were working about 40 feet from the elevator. There were crocus

1138 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: She left about two o'clock. She left about two o'clock because we were out of material and she was laid off for the rest of the week. I have never seen Mr. Frank speak to her. I went to the factory on April 26th, to see Mr. Schiff. He was not there. I often go there on Saturdays and holidays. The street doors were open when I got there. I did not see Mary Phagan, nor Jim Conley, nor Monteen Stover. The doors to Mr. Frank's inner and outer office were open. The time

1139 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: reckoned it so positively. I left home I knew at about a quarter to twelve. I looked at my watch. It takes twelve or fifteen minutes to walk to the factory. I got to Wolfheimer's pretty close to 12 o'clock. I was there ten or fifteen minutes.RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.At the time the detectives and Mr. Dorsey talked to me about the murder, I overlooked the fact that I had been to Wolfheimer's. My wife called my attention to it when I got home. I mentioned this matter to my father and my wife before I

1137 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 106RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.I went to Mr. Dorsey’s office because he subpoenaed me. I thought I had to obey it. Mr. Starnes and Mr. Campbell and the stenographer were there. All of them asked me questions. I signed a statement about twenty-one pages long. I have seen Jim Conley reading newspapers up on the fourth floor, twice since the murder. It is not unusual to see spots all over the metal room floor.RE-CROSS EXAMINATION.Conley was sitting by the elevator when he was reading those papers, during working hours. The other time he was reading down at

1136 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 105next to Mary's. There is a good deal of water over there by Mr. Quinn's room. Mary's hair was a light kind of sandy color. You could plainly see the dark spots and white spots with it ten or twelve feet away. Helen and Mary were the best of friends and were neighbors. Helen made mention that Mary was not there when we were paid off. I have never noticed any spots around the metal room. That's the first time I had ever seen anything like that.RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.I have never looked for spots before.

1135 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 104MRS. EMMA CLARKE FREEMAN, Sworn for the Defendant.I married on April 25th. I worked at the pencil factory before that, at the time I was married. I was laid off on April 25 by Mr. Schiff. On the 26th I reached the factory when the bell about 25 minutes to 12. I saw Mr. Frank at his office. He was talking to two men when we went in. Mrs. White and Mr. Frank’s stenographer were also in the office. Mr. Frank gave us permission to go up on the fourth floor to get my

1134 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 108desk. When I was in there he was at work on a pile of letters and thingslike that.RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.When I was first employed at the factory Mr. Nix said to me, "I willgive $12.50 a week, when the busy season comes up, about the first of August,I will raise it to $15. About the middle of June, I asked him to raise it onthe first of July, but he said, "We will wait until August 1st." At the timeI testified at the coroner's inquest. I had never seen any of the financial sheets.I did

1133 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: was I that called Mr. Frank over the telephone. I did not insist on going over there. He insisted on my coming. The acknowledgments consisted of stamping the orders with a number, putting the dates down there and acknowledging them by post cards to the people. Mr. Frank did not leave Montag's with me. He left before I did. He didn't know how long it was going to take me to write those letters. Mr. Montag hadn't finished dictating to me when I talked to him, so he did not wait. While I was

1132 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Frank that I would have time to come over there and that I would be over there later. I started over to the factory between 10:30 and 11. I went alone. It takes about five minutes to get over there and I reached there before eleven o'clock. I don't know whether Mr. Frank was there when I got there. I waited in the outer office a few minutes before I started to work. I went in the inner office to get the orders to acknowledge for Mr. Frank. I acknowledged them for Mr. Frank.

1150 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 119seen girls once or twice come in with their fingers mashed come into the toilet room and go to the sink after they had washed their fingers. I don't know when I heard that Mrs. White said that she had seen a negro sitting on the box. I think I read it in the paper sometime that week. The big spot of blood I was talking about was occasioned by the girls whose sickness was on them. I have never seen Mr. Frank or anybody else have anybody down at the office at any

1131 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 100RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.In making out this sheet Mr. Frank had to make about 40 multiplications, 160 additions. The mistake is not a serious one.HERBERT G. SCHIFF, Recalled for cross examination.The books show that $4 was loaned to Arthur White. I made the entry in the book. The $2.00 was for "what" Mr. Frank loaned him that day and $2.00 loaned him the middle of next week. As to where the entry is that Mr. Frank lent Arthur White $2.00 these slips are not kept after we take it off. After the payroll is made we

1148 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 2:15. As to how I knew that was the time after this matter came up I experimented to see just what time it was I saw him on the car, and I have gone over my movements just as I did them on that day, and the first time I experimented I got to the Capitol five minutes past two, and the second time I got there at eight minutes past two, and the third time exactly at two o'clock. I came very near colliding with the car in front of the capitol, as

1149 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 118wouldn't know whether it was running or not unless your attention is directed to it. I had looked at the clock five minutes before I saw Mr. Frank in front of Rich's. I had just looked at the time also before I saw him going into Jacobs'. I am certain of the time I saw him. That was the exact time by the clock. I get $10.00 a week. Last time my salary was raised it was raised in January. There has been no raise since then. I had heard that some of the

1146 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 115CROSS EXAMINATION.He had not seen me for several weeks. He didn’t know I was in the city, and when he saw me there on the porch he came over to speak to me. 387 Washington Street is three doors above Glenn Avenue. I saw him take the car at the corner of Glenn and Washington Street.JEROME MICHAEL. Sworn for the Defendant.I live in Athens. I was in Atlanta on April 26th. I took dinner at Mrs. Wolfshiemer’s residence at 387 Washington Street. I saw Mr. Frank upon that day between five minutes to 2

1147 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 116JULIAN LOEB, Sworn for the Defendant.I live at 380 Washington Street, across the street from the Wolfsheimer residence. I am a cousin of Mrs. Frank. I saw Mr. Frank on April 26th in front of the Wolfsheimer residence. I was there when he came by. It was between 1:50 and 2 o’clock. He was talking to Mrs. Michael and Mr. Jerome Michael and was inviting them to attend a meeting of the B’nai B’rith lodge on the next day which was Sunday. He was president of that lodge. He left and walked towards town

1144 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 113Sunday. The first that I knew of it was when I saw her name in the paper the next morning. The subject was mentioned at the dinner table on Sunday.RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.My health is bad and I did not care to hear much of the facts of the crime at the time. I was operated on the next day. Mr. Frank spared my feelings. These are the clothes Mr. Frank wore on April 26th (Defendant's Exhibit 49).MISS HELEN KERNS, Sworn for the Defendant.I work for the Dodsom Medicine Company as stenographer. My father works for

1145 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 114clock because I had an appointment at a quarter after one. I left Kress' atfive minutes after one and went down Whitehall street to Jacob's corner.Whitehall street was badly crowded. It didn't take me more than a minute ora minute and a half to walk down to the corner. It was only a few steps.There was no one standing between the bank and myself on AlabamaStreet.MRS. A. P. LEVY, Sworn for the Defendant.I live right across the street from where Mr. Frank lives. I am not arelation of his either by blood or marriage.

1142 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 111before I did on April 26th and left the house before I breakfasted. I got back home to dinner about 1:15. My wife and Mrs. Frank were eating then. They told me in the morning to come home a little sooner, that they wanted to go to Grand-Opera that afternoon. We have dinner a little earlier than usual, and I came home a little earlier. Mr. Frank came in after I did, about 1:20. There was nothing unusual about him. No scratches or bruises about him. He sat down to his meal. The ladies

1143 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 112MRS. EMIL SELIG, sworn for the Defendant.I am Mrs. Frank's mother. Mr. and Mrs. Frank have been living with us two years. The sideboard is in the same position it always has been except when we sweep under it. We had lunch on April 26th after 1 o'clock, about ten minutes past one. Mr. Frank came about twenty minutes past one while we were eating. He sat down with us and ate. Mrs. Frank and I left before he did. We left about half past one. He was still eating at the table. After

1160 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 129and stayed about an hour. He talked to me, my stenographer, Miss Hattie Hall, and Mr. Gottheimer, one of the salesmen. Up to about a year ago I went to the factory almost every Saturday afternoon. Mr. Frank would always be working at his desk on the financial sheet. The telephone in my house is about 20 feet from my bed. I didn't hear it ring Sunday morning. My wife was aroused by its ringing and she waked me. The man at the other end asked me if I could identify a girl that

1141 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 110husband and another man were there. I was working at the Selig's when they come and got me. They tried to get me to say that Mr. Frank would not allow his wife to sleep that night and that he told her to get up and get his gun and let him kill himself, and that she made her get out of bed. They had my husband there to bulldoze me, claiming that I had told him that. I had never told him anything of the kind. I told them right there in Mr.

1158 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 127say anything about a cord around her neck but said she had a frill of her petticoat around her neck. He mentioned he had paid her off the Saturday before. I don't know that he mentioned the name of the girl at all at that time. He said he had discharged Gantt because he was not honest. I think he said Newt Lee was a good fellow because he knew about him. On Monday night over at Selig's Mr. Frank was there and we had a conversation on the subject. He spoke of having

1159 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 128There 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 some joke he had read, and we asked him to desist as it was distracting us from the game. Frank was reading a magazine which caused him considerable merriment and laughter.I. STRAUSS, sworn for the Defendant.I was at the

1157 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 126him and his wife coming down Washington street opposite the Hebrew Orphans Home. He gave me my rain coat right there, which he had borrowed previously.CROSS EXAMINATION.He and his wife and my wife and myself generally play cards Saturday evening. We were very much interested in bridge and played together often. Mr. and Mrs. Selig's family usually played poker Saturday night. Mr. Frank and his wife never played poker. I am positive I rang Mr. Frank up and asked him to go to the ball game. Mr. Frank called it off about one thirty

1156 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 1258CROSS EXAMINATION.The letter was folded exactly as it is now to the best of my recollection, just in that shape. Mr. Frank has no rich relatives in Brooklyn. That is my son’s handwriting (State’s Exhibit K). It is a photographic copy. There was another paper included in the envelope which that letter came in, some price list, but I didn’t look at it. It had numbers of pencils and prices on it. That letter was read in Hotel McAlpin, in Mr. Moses Frank’s room. As to what relatives Mr. Frank has in Brooklyn, my

1155 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 124RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.I have never seen a letter written by Mr. Frank. The only writing of his that I am familiar with are figures and things like that, pay-rolls, writings in requisitions and words that consists largely of abbreviations.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

1154 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 123CROSS EXAMINATION.When Mr. Frank came that morning, he went right on into the office, and was at work there and stayed there. He wasn’t out once. Don’t know how long he stayed out.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 22nd, 1912, and ending May 24, 1913 (Defendant’s Exhibit 9), are in Mr. Frank’s handwriting. The eleven items beginning

1153 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 122CROSS EXAMINATION.I have been in Mr. Schiff's house about seven years. On Saturdays and holidays Mr. Schiff generally gets up about seven o'clock and goes to the factory when I wake him up. He never gets up unless I wake him. Mr. Schiff told me sometime afterwards he was glad I did not wake him up that day. I know it was eleven o'clock when he called up the second time, because the clock was striking. They didn't say what Mr. Frank wanted him for.ANNIE HIXON (c), Sworn for the Defendant.I am Mrs. Ursenbach's

1152 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 121MISS JULIA FUSS, Sworn for the Defendant.I work on the fourth floor of the pencil factory. I have never known anything wrong or immoral to be going on in Mr. Frank's office. I talked with Jim Conley Wednesday morning after the murder. He was sweeping around there and asked me to see the newspaper. As he read it he kinder grinned. He told me he believed Mr. Frank was just as innocent as the angels from Heaven. I know his general character. He was never known to tell the truth. I would not believe

1151 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 120MISS DORA SMALL, Sworn for the Defendant.I worked on the fourth-floor of the pencil factory for five years. I saw Jim Conley on Tuesday. He was getting me to get money from me to buy a newspaper and then he would come and ask me for copies of the paper before I would get through reading them. They were extras. He would even get two of the same edition. He would take it and run over there and sit on a box by the elevator and read it. He can read all right. He

1170 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 189in to view the body Mr. Frank was standing outside talking with Mr. Schiff and Mr. Darley. Mr. Frank went in to view the body later on, ten or twenty or thirty minutes later. I was sitting down waiting for the rest of the men while he went there. Zigank was sitting with me. I don't know whether Mr. Frank went in the room to see the body or not. Mr. Frank was nervous when he got there, and when he came out just the same. Just the same expression he has got on

1168 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: HENRY SMITH, sworn for the Defendant.I work at the pencil factory in the metal department. I work with Barrett. He has talked to me about the reward offered in this case. He said it was $4,300, and he thought if anybody was to get it, he was to get it, because he found the blood and hair, and he said he ought to get the first hook at it. He said it six or seven different times.CROSS EXAMINATION.He would come out of the room counting it off on his hands. He did that two

1167 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 136Saturday afternoons, frequently during the past twelve months. I was there while Mr. Schiff was off on his trip. I was up at the office on the Saturday afternoon before Mr. Schiff went away. Mr. Holloway, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Frank and the office boy were there. I have never seen any women in Mr. Frank's office on the Saturdays I have been there.CROSS EXAMINATION.I have always found Mr. Schiff there on Saturday afternoons with the exception of the time when he was off on his trip during January and February. The only specific Saturday

1166 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 186troduced him to Mr. Frank. There isn't a word of truth in that. I have never gone down in the basement with this fellow Dalton. I don't even know where the basement is at all. I have never been anywhere in the factory, except at my work.CROSS EXAMINATION.I have never been in jail. Mr. W. M. Smith got me out of jail. Somebody told a tale on me, that's why I was put in jail. I don't know what they charged me with; they accused me of fornication.RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.I never was tried. I never

1165 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 134ARTHUR PRIDE (c), sworn for the Defendant:-I worked on the second floor of the factory. On Saturdays I work all over the factory, doing anything that is necessary. Beginning with July of last year I have not missed a single Saturday afternoon at the factory. I would work until about half past four. I have never seen any women come up there and see Mr. Frank, or any drinking going on there, or seen Jim Conley sitting and watching the door. The employees used the back stairs leading from the metal room to the

1163 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: I worked at the factory on Saturday afternoons until 3.30 or four. Mr. Schiff and Mr. Frank would always be working in the office. I have never known him to have any women in there, or see any drinking going on. I would go to dinner about 1 or 1.30. Mr. Frank would go about 12.30 to one and get back about three. I would stay in the inner office all the time. Mr. Schiff sat right across from me in the inner office. I would go to Montag's and stay about ten or

1162 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 181CROSS EXAMINATION.I did not haul any for the pencil factory on April 26th. I took a sack of hay there. That was about 7.30... I didn't see Mr. Frank upstairs that time. I did not see Jim Conley at all that day. It may have been as late as 8.30 that I reached the factory that day. The trunk was not there. I was paid sometime before 12 o'clock that day. Some boxes are piled around in there pretty high around the elevator going down there. There are some pretty large ones, four or

1161 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: had already been to the undertaker's. He told me they had taken him into a dark room and flashed on a light, and he said he saw the little girl there. He described how she looked. He said her face was scratched and her eye was discolored, and she seemed to have a gash in her head. Her mouth was full of sawdust and he described her in a general way. He did not call my attention to his being nervous. He did not say anything to me about an attorney or about having

1169 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: JOE STELKER, sworn for the Defendant.I have got charge of the varnishing department at the pencil factory; about sixty people work under me. I saw the spot that Mr. Barrett claimed he had found in front of the young ladies dressing room. It looked like some one had some coloring in a bottle and splashed it on the floor. Chief Beavers asked me to find out whether it was varnish or not. I saw the white stuff on it. It looked like a composition they use on the eyelet machine or face powder. They

1164 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 138GODFREY WEINKAUF, sworn for the Defendant.I am superintendent of the Pencil Company's lead plant. Beginning withJuly, 1912, up until the first week in January, 1913, I visited the office of thepencil factory every other Saturday, between three and five o'clock. I wouldstay 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. Iam sure I saw Holloway there on Saturday afternoon.CHARLIE LEE, sworn for the Defendant.I am a machinist

1180 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: shaft to the place where the body of the young lady is said to have beenfound, and 80 feet from the front of the elevator shaft to the trash pile and90 feet from the elevator shaft to the boiler, and 116 feet from the elevatorshaft to the colored people's toilet. It is 50 feet from the elevator to theback stairway. The chute as shown on the page 2 of the plat is five feet wideand 15 or 20 feet long. It empties upon a platform in the basement abouteight or ten feet from the

1179 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: RE-CROSS EXAMINATION.On the first of April he had $111.13; on the 18th of April he deposited $15.00. That is all he deposited that month, and these checks were drawn against that $111.13 and $15.00.R. P. BUTLER, sworn for the Defendant.I am the shipping clerk of the pencil company. I am familiar with the doors leading into the metal room. They are wooden doors, with glass windows. There is no trouble looking through those windows into the metal room, even when the doors are closed. The glass in the door is about fifteen inches by

1178 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 147RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.I wrote that letter as a matter of conscience. It is as follows:- "To theGrand Jury of Fulton County, W-D. Beattie, foreman. Gentlemen: Amonga number of people with whom I have discussed the unfortunate Phagan af-fair, I have found very few who now believe in the guilt of Leo M. Frank, andI have felt a deep conviction growing in my heart that a terrible injusticemight be inflicted upon an innocent man. While we are all mystifiedby the published evidence now at command, I am impelled by a sense of dutyto ask that you

1177 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Mr. Brent enacted everything that was supposed to have been done by Conley. Mr. Fleming played the part of Mr. Frank. Neither one of these gentlemen are connected with the pencil factory. In putting the cloth around the corpse I think they actually gained time. They did it really faster than it could have been done. Mr. Herbert Haas did most of the reading of the directions. There were no feet hanging out of the sack like the body would. As to whether it isn't much easier to take the sack as it was

1176 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 145if you get caught, I will get you out on bond and send you away." Conley: "That is all right, Mr. Frank." (Pause) Frank: "I am going out home; can you come back this evening and do it?" Conley: "Yes, sir, I am coming to get my money." Frank: "Well, I am going home to get my dinner now; you come back here in about forty minutes from now; it is near my dinner hour and I am going home to get my dinner now and be up money. Conley: "How will I get

1175 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Frank, what am I going to do with these things?" and Mr. Frank said:"Leave them right there," and Conley threw them in front of the boiler;Conley goes to the elevator, and Frank come on up, and stepped off at the firstfloor, and Frank hits Conley a blow on the chest which run him against theelevator; Frank stumbles out of elevator as it nears the second floor, Frank goesand washes his hands, and comes into the private office, and they sit downin the private office, Frank rubbing his hands on the back of his hair;

1174 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: it was occupied by Montag Bros. They used it as a manufacturing plant.The Clarke Woodenware Company subleased part of the first floor from Montag Bros. They used the front door on Montag Bros. in going in there. Wehave not put in any new floor on the second story of the building. I haveknown Mr. Frank four or five years. His character is good.CROSS EXAMINATION.I have come in contact with Mr. Frank in business and I have heard myassociates talk about him. I have seen him twenty or thirty times duringthe past five years. I

1173 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 142while Mr. Whitfield and I were back there looking behind the radiator, we found the cord and twine about the radiator. Whitfield was examining the stains when I picked up the envelope which was all rolled up. I found the envelope about three o'clock on May 15, within eight or ten inches of the trap door. The name was written in lead pencil, so far as I know the envelope has not been changed any since I saw it. I did not see any "5" on the envelope. We went out to see Mr.

1172 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 141the case at all. At the time of the interview with the little girl and thelittle boy they were both in the room with their father. Their father tookme out there.W. D. McWORTH, sworn for the Defendant.I am a Pinkerton detective. I worked for three days on the Frankcase. For three days I took statements from the factory employes and onMay 15th, I made a thorough search of the ground floor. I found near thefront door on the ground floor, stains that might or might not have beenblood. All the radiators in the factory

1171 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: - 140 -should say that perhaps he was talking and not acting for about fifteen minutes. Of course he was talking all the time that he was acting. I did not say that I thought he was talking half of the time.RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.In going through his performance he walked very rapidly. We were almost on a trot behind him. I was at the factory fifty minutes while he enacted his story. I left him after he had written one note in Mr. Frank's office. He wrote the note very rapidly. It took him about

1190 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 159DR. WILLIS F. WESTMORELAND, sworn for the Defendant.DIRECT EXAMINATION.A practicing physician for twenty eight years, general practice and surgery. A professor of surgery for twenty one, and formerly president of the State Board of Health. If the body of a girl between thirteen and fourteen years old was embalmed about ten hours after death, after taking out a gallon of fluid and putting in α-gallon of embalming fluid, of which 8 per cent. is formaldehyde and the body was buried and nine or ten days after upon a post mortem examination a cut an

1189 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: that gives this specimen the chocolate brown color. The next one (Defend-ant's Exhibit 88B) has in it the hot water and the entire vomit and embalm-ing fluid added to it, that is formaldehyde. This cabbage was not well chewed,and looks like it did before it was eaten. She ate it at 5 minutes after 12,and it stayed in her stomach 45 minutes. The next one (Defendant's Ex-hibit 88D) was a man 25 years old. He did not chew his well. He ate it in5 minutes. I took it from his stomach 1 hour and

1188 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: ference with the brain or any pressure on the brain, no doctor could tell that -long after death whether or not the wound would have produced unconsciousness, because the skull may be broken and considerable hemorrhage and de pression occur without any loss of memory. There is no outside physical indication of any sort that a man could find that can tell whether it produced unconsciousness or not. If the body was found 8 or 10 or 12 hours after death, with that wound and some blood appears to have flowed out of the

1187 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: and nothing has moved out of the stomach, that would show me nothing as to how far digestion had progressed, for starch is found in the stomach from the beginning of digestion until the last particle of bread has passed out of the stomach and that may be three or four hours. Medical men are able to compile tables showing how long it takes to digest cabbage and other things by testing for protein, but not for starch, because proteins are the only substances which combine with the hydrochloric acid and which are digested

1186 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 156and the passage from the stomach into the small intestines. The presence of such cabbage would make it very uncertain as to how long before the food would pass out of the stomach. I couldn't say, and I don't think anybody could say, how long cabbage and wheat bread in such condition would stay in the stomach. As far as wheat bread and water are concerned the acidity of the stomach with reference to hydrochloric acid may go between 40 and 60 degrees, which is the average height of the acidity. With wheat bread

1185 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 1544 1-2 minutes. I walked from the same place in the pencil factory to the corner of Whitehall and Alabama Sts., and it took me three minutes and twenty seconds. I walked from the corner of Hunter and Broad Streets to the same place in the pencil factory and it took me one minute and a half.PROF. GEO. BACHMAN, sworn for the Defendant.- Prof. of Physiology and Physiological Chemistry Atl.-Col. Phys. & Surgeons. Bomar says it takes 4 hours and a half to digest cabbage. That's for the cabbage to pass from the stomach

1184 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 158J. R. LEACH, sworn for the Defendant.I am division superintendent of the Ry & Power Co. I know the schedule of the Georgia Avenue line and the Washington St. line. The Georgia Avenue line leaves Broad and Marietta on the hour and every ten minutes. It takes two minutes to go from Broad and Marietta to the corner of Whitehall and Alabama. It takes 12 or 13 minutes to run from Broad and Marietta to the corner of Georgia Avenue and Washington St., about ten minutes from Whitehall and Alabama to Georgia Avenue and

1183 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 152side of the table in the dining room, or on the north side of the table, in factyou can not see the table at all, or the door leading from the dining room tothe sitting room. Sitting in a chair against the jamb of the kitchen door, youcould not see a man in that mirror. You would have to be a foot or moreinside of the door before you get any view of the mirror at all.CROSS EXAMINATION.Taking a point between the door and the back porch and a point aboutthe pantry you could

1182 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 161shows the place where the cotton sacks were kept. Defendant's exhibit 76 is a view of the plating room. Defendant's exhibit 77 is a view of the metal room showing where the floor was chipped by the detectives in front of the dressing room. On the left is the ladies' dressing room. Defendant's exhibit 78 shows the lathe. Defendant's exhibit 79 is a view from the third floor looking to the second floor. You can see a man walking from the metal room towards the elevator, just as is shown in this picture. Defendant's

1181 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 150RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.There will be no difficulty about one person going down the scuttle hole back of the elevator.RE-CROSS EXAMINATION.If the Washington St. car had passed the nearest corner, it would be at Pulliam and Georgia Avenue.FURTHER EXAMINATION.Sitting near the back door, he could not see the mirror.FURTHER EXAMINATIONI do not know what the arrangement was in the Selig home on April 26.J. Q. ADAMS, sworn for the DefendantI am a photographer. I took photographs of the Selig home at 68 E. Georgia Avenue from the inside and the outside of the back door, looking

1200 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: .169he was there. I know the characteristics of the boys very well. No, I can not tell what Frank did when he was in the class room.V. H. KRIBGSHABER, sworn for the Defendant.I live in Atlanta. I have known Leo Frank for about three years. His general character is good.CROSS EXAMINATION.I did not come in contact with him frequently. I am a Trustee of the Hebrew Orphans Home and Mr. Frank is also. I met him once a month there. I don't know how long he has been on the Board. I have met

1199 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: RICHARD A. WRIGHT, sworn for the Defendant.I live in Brooklyn, N. Y. I am a consulting engineer, with offices in New York City. I knew Leo Frank four years at Pratt Institute. I also knew him three years at Cornell. His general character is good.HARRY LEWIS, sworn for the defendant.I live in Brooklyn, N. Y. I am a lawyer. I was formerly Assistant District Attorney of Brooklyn. I have known Leo Frank about twelve years. I have been a neighbor of his until he came South. His general character is good.HERBERT LASHER, sworn for

1198 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 187the body is disinterred nine days after death. I could not hazard a guesswithin two days of the time. I think I might in two weeks.CROSS EXAMINATION.The amount of digestion in the stomach depends on the amount of mastica-tion in the mouth. If the food is bolted there is no digestion. I am not famil-iar with Dr. Crittendon's table. If he states that boiled cabbage is as easy todigest as raw cabbage he is at issue with the generally accepted authorities.Normal stomachs have certain idiosyncracies. Digestion in normal stomachs issupposed to go along certain

1197 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: has not been masticated thoroughly. They have been swallowed almost whole. Raw cabbage is easier digested than cooked cabbage. Cooked cabbage is the most indigestible form of it. It is the ptyaline in the saliva that acts on the cabbage in the mouth. Action on the carbohydrate part of the cabbage. The carbohydrate digestion ceases after that leaves the mouth until it reaches the small intestines. The only thing that the stomach does is the churning movement by muscular action. As soon as gastric juice of the stomach strikes the cabbage it neutralizes the

1196 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 165never heard of Mr. Frank's kissing girls and playing with their nipples on their breasts. I have never known Mr. Blackstock. I never heard that Mr. Frank would walk into the dressing room when the girls were dressing, nor that he tried to put his arms around Miss Eula Cato and tried to shut the door on her, or going in the dressing room with Lula McDonald and Rachael Prater, nor that Mrs. Pearl Darslon about five years ago threw a monkey wrench at him when he put his hand on her and held

1195 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 164taken it according to the way the body was lying and the small intestine was clear six feet below the stomach. The stomach was normal, and there was no mucous and every indication was that the digestion was progressing favorably and this cabbage was found with the naked eye in the stomach and unmistakable evidences of undigested starch granules and thirty-two degrees of hydrochloric acid, I say emphatically that no man living in my judgement could say how long that cabbage had been in the stomach. If Mary Phagan was alarmed concerning her surroundings,

1194 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 183or not. It would be a pure conjecture if he said anything on that subject. Skulls are sometimes fractured without unconsciousness. Each stomach is a law to itself. It is a known fact that some stomachs will digest different substances quicker than others. I don’t think that there is an expert in the world who could form any definite idea of either chemical analysis of the liquids of the stomach or by the condition of the cabbage lodged in the stomach as to how long it had been in the stomach.CROSS EXAMINATION.I am not

1193 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 162vagina removed from the body that the blood vessels are congested, this may be due to menstruation or the natural gravitation of blood to those parts and is not necessarily indicative of violence. Manipulation of the membrane would account for the displacing of the epithelium. The use of embalming fluid would make a diagnosis of rape utterly unreliable. Strangulation might result in a distension of the blood vessels. The entire pelvic vessels are always more or less congested during menstruation. No one could make a digital examination of the vagina of a corpse without

1192 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 161RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.The human tongue could not produce any sign of violence in the vagina.Where there is a skull wound an inch and a half long cutting through thelittle arteries like the wound-described above there would bleed and if the bodylay in one place 30 or 40 minutes there would be bleeding and if the body ispicked up and carried about 40 feet and dropped at another place I wouldexpect to find blood there. Skull wounds bleed very freely, and there wouldbe blood wherever the body was.DR. J. C. OLMS'I'EAD sworn for the Defendant.Practicing physician

1191 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 160scopic test of the wall of the vagina it was found that some of the small blood vessels had congested blood in them, these facts would not necessarily indicate violence of any kind during life, it being also known that there had been a digital examination by the physician just after death and before embalming, and that the physician performing the post mortem had removed the wall of the vagina with his hand and scissors. Any epithelium can be very easily stripped after death. The digital examination could have stripped it. So could the

0934 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: the defendant's wife had not visited him for a certain time after he was firstimprisoned, told the jury:"Do you tell me that there lives a true wife, conscious of her husband'sinnocence, that wouldn't have gone through snap-shooters, reporters andeverything else, to have seen him."Whereupon the following colloquy ensued:Mr. Arnold: I must object to as unfair and outrageous an argument asthat, that his wife didn't go there because of any consciousness of guilt on hispart. I have sat here and heard the fairest argument I have ever heard,and I can't object to it, but I

0933 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Mr. Arnold: That's absolutely incorrect, they never saw Quinn there then, and never swore they did.Mr. Dorsey (resuming): No, they didn't see him there; I doubt if anybody else saw him there, either.Mr. Arnold: If a crowd of people here laughs every time we say anything how are we to hear the Court? He has made a whole lot of little misstatements, but I let those pass, but I am going to interrupt him on every substantial one he makes. He says those two young Quinns—says they say Quinn was there before 12, and

0932 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: wonderful endowments which, if directed in the right line, bring honor and glory; if those same faculties and talents are perverted and not controlled, as was the case with this man, they will carry him down. Look at McCue, the mayor of Charlottesville, a man of such reputation that the people ele- vated him to the head of that municipality, but notwithstanding that good reputation, he didn't have rock-ribbed character, and becoming tired of his wife, he shot her in the bath-tub, and the jury of gallant and noble and courageous Virginia gentlemen, noting

0931 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: The solicitor-general having, in his concluding argument, made the various statements of fact about the Durant case, as shown in the preceding ground of this motion, the judge erred in failing to charge the jury as follows, to-wit:“The jury are instructed that the facts of other cases read or stated in your hearing are to have no influence upon you in making your verdict.You are to try this case upon its own facts and upon the opinion you entertain of the evidence here introduced.”95. Because the Court should have given in charge the instruction

0936 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Mr. Dorsey (resuming): Now, may it please Your Honor, if they don't see the force of it, you do—Mr. Rosser: I want to know, is Your Honor's ruling to be absolutely disregarded like that?The Court: Mr. Dorsey, stay inside of the record, and quit commenting on what they say and do.Mr. Dorsey: I am inside of the record, and Your Honor knows that's an entirely proper comment.Mr. Rosser: Your Honor rules—he says one thing and then says your Honor knows better.Mr. Dorsey: Your Honor knows I have got a right to comment on the

0935 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 98. Movant says that a new trial should be granted because of the following:The Solicitor-General, in his concluding argument to the jury, spoke as follows: -If there be a negro who accuses me of a crime of which I am innocent, I tell you, and you know it's true, I'm going to confront him, even before any attorney, no matter who he is, returns from Tallulah Falls, and if not then, I will tell you just as soon as that attorney does return, I'm going to see that that negro is brought into my

0937 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: The Solicitor-General, in his concluding argument, referring to the visitof the defendant to Bloomfield's undertaking establishment, on April 27, madethe following remarks to the jury:Frank says that he visited the morgue only once but twice. If hewent down there and visited that morgue and saw that child and identifiedher body, and it tore him all to pieces, as he says you it did, let any honestman, I don't care who he be, on this jury, seek to fathom the mystery of thisthing; tell me why it was, except for the answer I give you,

0939 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Mr. Dorsey: Holloway says when he got back Monday morning it washung up in the office, but Boots Rogers said this man Frank—and he was sus-tained by other witnesses—when he came there to run that elevator Sundaymorning, found that power box unlocked.Mr. Rosser: That's not what you asked.Mr. Dorsey: Yes, it is.Mr. Rosser: You said Frank had the key in his pocket next morning,and that isn't the evidence, there's not a line to that effect.The Court: Do you still insist that he had it in his pocket?Mr. Dorsey: I don't care anything about that;

0940 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Whereupon the following colloquy occurred:Mr. Arnold: There's not a word of evidence as to that, that's a grossly improper argument, and I move that that be withdrawn from the jury.Mr. Dorsey: I don't state it as a fact but I am suggesting it.Mr. Arnold: He has got no right to deduct it or suggest it, I just want your Honor to reprove it, reprimand him and withdraw it from the jury; I just make the motion, and your Honor can do as you please.Mr. Dorsey (resuming): I am going to show that there must

0938 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Mr. Rosser: Now, the question of whether Boots said he went into that room is now easily settled. (Mr. Rosser here read that portion of the cross examination of the witness Rogers, stating that when Frank left the door of the undertaking room, he went out of view.)Mr. Dorsey: Well, that's cross examination, ain't it?Mr. Rosser: Yes, but I presume you would tell the truth on cross examination, I don't know; he passed out of his view, he didn't say he went into a room.Mr. Dorsey: Correct me if I'm wrong. Boots Rogers said

0928 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Did you ever hear C. D. Donegan talk about Frank?A. No, sir.Q. You never heard any of these factory people talk about him?A. No, sir.The Court erred in permitting the solicitor, although the witness denied hearing all of the remarks referred to, to say in the presence of the jury that he was not four-flushing, but that he was trying to bring the witnesses there, thereby improperly saying to the jury that he had such witnesses and meant to bring them in.The Court erred in not withdrawing this whole subject from the jury

0927 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q--You don't know, you never heard anybody say that Mr. Frank would take girls in his lap in his office here?A. No.(Here objection was made by Mr. Arnold.)The Court: On cross examination he can ask what he has heard of certain things.Mr. Arnold: Up to April 26th?The Court: Yes, sir.Mr. Dorsey: I am not four-flushing or any such thing; I am going to bring the witnesses here.Q. You never heard of Frank going out there to Druid Hills and being caught did you, before April 26th?A. No, but our reporter, it was his business

0926 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Avenue car reached Broad Street at 12:07. The Court permitted this and other like testimony to be introduced as tending to discredit their statements that the car was on schedule time that day. In doing this the Court erred, for the fact that the English Avenue car was ahead of time as much as four minutes on other days did not indicate that it was ahead of time on the day of the murder.89. Because the Court erred, over the objection of the defendant that the same was irrelevant and immaterial and prejudicial to

0929 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Mr. Arnold: I got it out of the public prints, at the time, Mr. Dorsey published all over the country, I read it in the newspapers, that's where I got it.Mr. Dorsey (resuming): On April 15, 1913, Mr. C. M. Pickett, the district attorney of the City of San Francisco, wrote a letter—Mr. Pickett and Mr. Arnold. I want to object to any communication between Mr. Pickett and Mr. Dorsey—it's just a personal letter from one man, and I could write to some other person there and get fifty just as satisfactory to me,

0930 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: The Court: You can state, Mr. Dorsey, to the jury, your information about the Durant case, just like he did, but you can read anything—don’t introduce any evidence.Mr. Dorsey (resuming): My information is that nobody has ever confessed the murder of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams. But, gentlemen of the jury, as I’ll show you by reading this book, it was proved at the trial, and there can be no question about the fact, Theodore Durant was guilty, the body of one of these girls had been found in the belfry of the church

0925 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: illegal and prejudicial to the defendant, permitted the solicitor-general to ask the following questions, and the witness, Mrs. Mary E. Wallace, to make the following answers:Q. I will ask you now if you are acquainted with his general character for lasciviousness; that is, as to his (Frank's) attitude towards girls and women?A. Yes, sir.Q. Is that good or bad?A. Bad.The Court admitted the above questions and answers, over the objection of the defendant as above stated, and thereby erred, for the reasons stated.87. Because the Court, over the objection of the defendant, made at

0924 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Not very much? Well, answer the question: yes or no; are you acquainted?A. All right, she said, not very much.The Court admitted the above questions and answers, over the objection of defendant as above stated, and thereby erred, for the reasons stated.83. Because the Court, over the objection of the defendant, made at the time the evidence was offered, that the same was immaterial, incompetent, illegal and prejudicial to the defendant, permitted the solicitor-general to ask the following questions, and the witness, Miss Marie Carst, to make his (Frank's) general character for lasciviousness;

0921 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: prejudice in the minds of the jurors against the defendant; and, not to illustrate the question of whether he was or was not the murderer of Mary Phagan. The Court overruled these objections and let the testimony go to the jury; and in doing so, movant contends, erred for the reasons above stated.79. Because the Court permitted the witness, Harlee Branch, at the instance of the solicitor-general, to testify to incidents at the pencil factory, wherein Conley, after having made the third affidavit, purported to re-enact the occurrence of the murder between himself and

0922 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: carry it back, and he put the body on his shoulder and carried it back to this sawdust which is away back here, and that he came on back, and he said there was some things in here which he threw on this trash pile, and Mr. Frank, he said, was up in the cubby hole, he came out somewhere back there— and later he led us up there—and that Mr. Frank told him to run the elevator up; so Conley and the officers and Mr. Frank got us who were with him came

0923 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: (b)--The sayings and actings of Conley, as aforesaid, not under oath, had and 'made without cross-examination, and reported by the witness to the Court, the net result of which is a repetition of Conley's statement, without the sanction of an oath.(c) That Conley went to the factory immediately after making his last affidavit; that that last affidavit is not the way he made the story on the-stand; that he tells it wholly differently on the stand; at least differently in many particulars; that it can not help the jury (Conley to go to illustrate

0912 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: stration. Defendant's counsel complained of the conduct of the spectators in the court room. The Court gave no relief except directing the sheriff to find out who was making the noise.(c) During the examination by Mr. Arnold, counsel for the defendant, of V. H. Kreighaber, a witness for the defense, there was laughter in the audience sufficiently generally distributed throughout the audience and loud enough to interfere with the examination. Mr. Arnold called the Court's attention to the interruption for the purpose of obtaining some action from the Court thereon.The Court stated that if

0913 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Court of his own motion cleared the room before the jury announced their verdict. When the verdict of guilty was rendered, the fact of the rendition of such verdict was signaled to the crowd on the outside, which consisted of a large concourse and crowd of people standing upon Hunter and Pryor Streets. Immediately upon receiving such signal and while the court was engaged in polling the jury and before the polling ended, great shouts arose from the people on the outside, expressing gratification. Great applauding, shouting and halloing was heard on the streets

0911 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: The Court paid no further attention to this applause than to ask, "What is the matter with you over there?"In failing to grant the mistrial requested, the Court erred. The motion, taken in connection with the admitted and proven facts, movant contends, clearly show that the defendant was not having a fair trial by reason of the great excitement of the crowd. The court room was in an exceedingly small building, on the ground floor, and was crowded during the whole of the trial and defendant contends that this prejudice and animosity of the

0920 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: not convict Frank under the testimony of Conley alone; but that, to do so, there must be a witness other than Conley or circumstances corroborating the evidence of Conley.78. Because the Court permitted the witness, Irene Jackson, at the instance of the solicitor-general, and over the objection of the defendant, made at the time the testimony was offered, that the same was irrelevant, immaterial, illegal, and prejudicial to the defendant, to testify substantially as follows:"I remember having a conversation with Mr. Starnes about a dressing room incident. I told him that Mr. Frank came

0919 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: When the jury was finally charged by the Court, and the case submitted to them, and when Mr. Dorsey left the court room, a large crowd on the outside of the court house, and in the streets, cheered by yelling, and clapping hands, and yelling "Hurrah for Dorsey."When it was announced that the jury had agreed upon a verdict, crowds had thronged the court room to such an extent that the Court felt bound to clear the court room before receiving the verdict. This the Court did. But, when the verdict of the jury

0917 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: had been influenced by the fact that certain physicians called were the family physicians of some of the jurors. In discussing it, the solicitor said: "It would not surprise me if these able, astute gentlemen, vigilant as they have shown themselves to be, did not go out and get some doctors who have been the family physicians, who are well known to some of the members of this jury, for the effect it might have upon you when I am going to show that there must have been something besides the training of these

0918 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 75. Because this defendant, as he contends, 'did not have a fair and impartial jury trial, guaranteed to him under the laws of this State, for the following reasons, to-wit: 'Public sentiment seemed to the Court to be greatly against him. The court room was a small room, and during the argument of the case so far as the Court could see about every seat in the court room was taken, in and without the bar, and the aisles at each end of the court room were packed with spectators. The jury, in going

0914 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: the poll of the jury, which was then in progress, and not finished. Indeed, so great was the noise and confusion without that the Court heard the responses of the jurors during the polling with some difficulty. The Court was about 10 feet from the jury. In the court room was the jury, lawyers, newspaper men, and officers of the court, and among them there was no disorder.The polling of the jury is an important part of the trial. It is inconceivable that any juror, even if he was not his own, to announce

0916 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: This address of the solicitor was made in the hearing, and in the presence of the jury, without any protest or comment on the part of the Court.The defendant made no objection to this argument at the time same was being had, for the reason that similar argument made by Mr. Hooper had been objected to by counsel, and their objection overruled. The objection made to the argument of Mr. Hooper was not here repeated, for the reason that the Court had stated, in the outset of the case, that objection once noted in

0915 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: on cross examination if these statements in this affidavit were true, and had denied that these statements were true.69. Because the Court erred in permitting Mr. Hooper, for the State, to argue to the jury that the failure of the defense to cross-examine the female witnesses who, in behalf of the State, had testified to the bad character of Frank for lasciviousness, was strong evidence of the fact that, if the defendant had cross-examined them, they would have testified to individual incidents of immorality on the part of Frank; that the defendant's knowledge that

0910 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Mr. Arnold testified: I wish to state that on Friday when court adjourned Mr. Dorsey left the court room and as he left the court room I heard loud cheering at the front. On Saturday, when court adjourned, I asked Mr. Dorsey not to go out until the jury had gotten away from there. I they could hear the noise of the crowd, for they should cheer him again as he left the court room. Mr. Dorsey said he might, and remained in the court room for a while. Finally, I thought the crowd

0909 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: the court house and, in the hearing of the jury, cheered and shouted 'Hurrah for Dorsey' in the hearing of the jury.That on Saturday, August 23, 1913, while the trial was still on, and when the court adjourned and Mr. Dorsey emerged from the court room a large crowd, standing on the street, applauded and cheered Mr. Dorsey, shouting 'Hurrah for Dorsey.'The jury occupied a room in a cafe.About 100 feet away, and a portion of the crowd moved up in front of the cafe, which was open at lunch, and in the hearing

0908 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: This request was submitted in writing and was handed to the court before the jury had retired to consider of their verdict and before the court began his charge to the jury.This request was a legal and pertinent one, particularly adjusted to the facts of the case and should have been given, and the Court in declining to give it committed error, although the general principle involved may have been given in the original charge.63. Because the Court declined to give the following pertinent legal charge in the language requested:"No presumption can arise against

0904 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: the center of town, junction of Broad and Marietta, at 12:05. At the time Mathis was running ahead of this Fair Street car, which is due at 12:05 at the junction of Marietta and Broad Sts., the Fair Street car would be on its schedule. I have compared my watch with Mathis' watch prior to April 26th. There was at times a difference of from 20 to 30 or 40 seconds. We were both supposed to carry the right time. When I came in with my watch with Mathis' I suspect mine was correct,

0903 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: The Court permitted this testimony to go to the jury over the objections above stated and in doing so committed error for the reasons stated. Movant contends that this was prejudicial to the defendant because it was a material matter to determine at what time his car got to Marietta and Broad streets on the day of the murder, and it confused and misled the jury to hear testimony as to when he got there upon days other than the day of the murder.51. Because the Court permitted the witness J. C. McEwen, at

0902 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Dr. Westmoreland who had once been president of the State Board of Health and Dr. Harris, who had been and was its Secretary. This row between the doctors stated is utterly-immaterial and irrelevant and was harmful to the defendant because it tended to discredit the testimony of Dr. Westmoreland who resigned from the Board and to sustain the testimony of Dr. Harris, who remained as Secretary of the Board after Dr. Westmoreland's resignation.49. Because the court permitted the witness E. H. Pickett to testify over the objection made when the testimony was offered that

0907 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 60. Because the Court refused to give the following pertinent legal charge in the language requested:"The jury are instructed that if under the evidence they believe the theory that another person committed this crime is just as reasonable and just as likely to have occurred as the theory that the defendant committed the crime, that then the evidence would not in a legal sense have excluded every other reasonable hypothesis than that of the prisoner's guilt and you should acquit him."This request was submitted in writing and was handed to the Court before the

0905 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: "I got hold of the information about Conley knowing how to write through my operatives that I had investigating while I was out of town. McWorth told me in person when I returned."The Court permitted this testimony over the defendant's objections, as above stated, and in doing so committed error. It was prejudicial to the defendant, because the solicitor contended that the failure of Frank to report the fact that Conley could write, was a circumstance against Frank's innocence, and he sought to show by the above testimony that the detectives were forced to

0906 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 57. Because the Court permitted the witness Miss Dewie Hewell, over the objection of the defendant that the same was irrelevant, immaterial, incompetent, illegal and dealt with separate and distinct matters and issues from this case, to testify:"I am now staying in the Station House. Before I came to Atlanta to testify I was in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Home of the Good Shepherd. I worked at the Pencil Company during February and March, 1913. I quit there in March. I worked on the fourth floor and worked in the metal room, too. I

0901 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: the members on adjournment that it was their wish that he should still continue as Secretary and Director of the Laboratory.""The President then made a short statement in support of his protest against the Secretary, and reiterated some of the charges made at the previous meeting, and in addition made objection against the Secretary's action in sending out antitoxine No. 64, which had been recalled by tests made in Washington to be of less potency than it was originally labelled and also condemning the Secretary for replacing Dr. Paulin and personally taking up the

0898 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Not longer than that, and he got there at 12:20, then; and what time did you go away?A. I left a little after one.Q. How much after one?A. I do not know, probably five or ten minutes.Q. One-ten then; now, how much of that time during that time you were there did it take Conley to act what he said, leaving out the conversation he had with the different men?A. That would be a difficult thing for me to estimate, while he was acting, he was acting very rapidly, he kept us on

0897 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Mr. Frank got on the elevator. Mr. Frank was waiting there for him; then they brought the elevator on up to the second floor, and he had them to stop the elevator just, I suppose, foot or a little more below the landing, and he said Mr. Frank jumped off of the elevator, and went around to a point, and after getting up, he told Mr. Frank to wash his hands, and that he showed us back of the elevator where Mr. Frank was gone to a sink that he and he said he

0896 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Go ahead.A. He was telling his story as he went through there, and he said when he got up there, he went back and he said he found this body back in that place.Q. Go ahead and tell what he said and did.A. He was talking constantly all the way. I don't know how he made out a part of his story.Q. Go ahead now, and state what Conley did and said as he went through that factory?A. Well when he got back — After reaching this point at the rear left side

0892 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Who was undressing?A. Ermile Mayfield, and I came in the room, and while I was in there,Mr. Frank came to the door.Q. Mr. Frank came in the door?A. Yes, sir.Q. What did he do?A. He looked and turned around and walked out.Q. Did Mr. Frank open the door?A. Yes, he just pushed it open.Q. Pushed the door open?A. Yes, sir.Q. And looked in?A. Yes, sir.Q. And smiled?A. I don't know whether, I never notice to see whether he smiled or not,he just kind of looked at us and turned around and walked out.Q.

0891 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: case of murder and can not be heard in a murder trial, even when the defend-ant has put his character in issue.41. Because the Court permitted the witness W. D. MoWorth to testify,at the request of the Solicitor-General, over the objection of the defendantmade at the time the testimony was offered, that the same was immaterial,"Mr. Pierce is the head of the Pinkerton office here. I do not know wherewhere he is; the last time I saw him was Monday evening. I do not knowMr. Whitfield is (Mr. Whitfield was also a Pinkerton man).

0899 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 46. Because the Court permitted the witness Mrs. J. J. Wardlaw, who before her marriage was Miss Lula McDonald, to be asked by the Solicitor-General the following questions and to make the following answers:Q. You never knew of his improper relations with any of the girls at the factory?A. No, sir.Q. Now, did you ever, do you know, or did you ever hear of a girl who went with Mr. Frank on a street car to Hapeville the Saturday before Mary Phagan was murdered?A. No, sir.Q. On the same street car with Hermes Stanton

0895 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Well, he pushed the door open and stood in the door, did he?A. Stood in the door.Q. Looked in and smiled?A. Yes, sir.Q. Didn't you say that?A. I don't remember now, he smiled or made some kind of a face whichlooked like a smile, like smiling at Ermile Mayfield.Q. At Ermile Mayfield, that day she was undressed?A. But he didn't speak, yes sir.Q. He didn't say a word, did he?A. No, sir.Q. Did he say anything about any flirting?A. Not to us, no, sir.These questions and answers were objected to for the reasons

0900 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 47. Because the Court permitted the witness, W. E. Turner, at the instance of the Solicitor and over the objection of the defendant made at the time the evidence was offered that same was irrelevant, immaterial and dealt with other matters than the issues involved, to testify:"I saw Mr. Frank talking to Mary Phagan on the second floor of the factory about the middle of March. Frank was talking to her in the back part of the building. It was just before dinner. I do not know whether anybody was in the room besides

0894 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Then did you hear it talked of?A. I have heard it spoken of, but I don't remember.Q. You have heard them speak of other times when you were not there, is that correct?A. Yes, sir.Q. How many times when you were not there? That is three times you saw him; how many times did you hear them talk about it when you were not there?A. I don't remember.Q. What did they say Mr. Frank did when he would come in that dress- ing room?A. I don't remember.Q. Did he say anything those three

0893 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Now when was it that he run in there on Miss Ermile Mayfield?A. It was the middle of the week after we had started to work, I don't remember the time.Q. The middle of the week after you had started to work?A. Yes, sir.Q. Was that the first time you ever heard of his going in the dressing room, or anybody?A. Yes.Q. That was the first time?A. Yes, sir.Q. Then that was reported to this forelady?A. Yes, sir.Q. Then when was the second time that you heard he went in there?A. He went

0890 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: not see anyone of the city detectives and that included Scott. Frank did not tell me that, the inference was without Mr. Rosser's consent, that was the ceive none of the city detectives without Mr. Rosser's consent, that was the substance of his conversation. Mr. Roberts came up and announced the city detectives; this was at Frank's cell in the county jail."The Court permitted this testimony to go to the jury over the objections — made as above stated, and in doing so committed error.This was especially prejudicial to the defendant, because the Solicitor,

0886 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: (Objection was here made by the defendant that the answer sought would be immaterial.)The Court: Well, I don't know what it is, ask him the question.Q. Didn't you tell Gantt the reason why Frank said he was going to turn you off?A. No, sir.Q. Didn't Frank tell you he was going to turn you off unless you would permit him to do with you what he wanted to do?A. No, sir.Q. No such conversation ever occurred?A. No, sir.Q. With M. Gantt, the man who was bookkeeper and was turned off there?A. No, sir, I

0885 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Why, Mr. Schiff, if this is the door right here and—A. Mr. Dorsey I know that factory.Q. Well, I am trying to get you to tell us if you know it; you have no objection to telling it, have you?(Here objection was made by defendant's counsel that Schiff had shown no objection to answering the questions of the Solicitor and that such questions as the one next above, which indicated that the witness did object to answering was improper.)Mr. Dorsey: I have got a right to show the feeling.The Court: Go on, now,

0884 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Epps who claimed that on Saturday of the crime he accompanied Mary Phagan from a point on Bellwood Avenue to the center of the city of Atlanta, by showing that on April 27th at the house of Epps, he asked George, together with his sister, when was the last time they saw Mary Phagan. In reply, the sister of Epps said she had seen Epps on the previous Thursday, but the witness Epps said nothing about having ridden down with Mary Phagan the day of the murder but did say he had ridden to

0889 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: past twelve. That they were on their schedule time on April 26th and did reach that place at 12:07 or 12:07½. What other crews did at other times or even what this crew did on other oceans was wholly immaterial and in no way illustrated just what took place on the trip wherein Mary Phagan came to town. That other crews often came ahead of time or that this particular crew often came in ahead of time was wholly immaterial.38. Because during the examination by Mr. Arnold, counsel for the defendant, of V. H.

0888 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: 36. Because the Court permitted, at the instance of the solicitor the witness Sig Montag, to testify over the objection of defendant, made at the time the testimony was offered that same was irrelevant, immaterial, and incompetent, that he got the reports made of the crime by the Pinkertons and that they were made. That these reports were sometimes every day and then they did not come for a few days and then came again. That he practically got every day's report; that he got the report about finding the big stick and about

0887 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: that Frank had committed disagreeable and prejudicial acts with the witness and the final assertion of the solicitor when the Court ruled it out that he would introduce Gantt and let the Court rule on Gantt too, was highly prejudicial to the defendant. The Court erred in permitting the solicitor to make the insinuations and to indulge in the threats that he would let the Court rule on Gantt too, in the presence of the jury and without any rebuke on the part of the Court. The Court erred in not formally withdrawing these

0883 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: that to the State authorities; was a circumstance going to show the guilt ofFrank.27. Because the Court permitted the witness Harry Scott, to testify overthe objection of defendant's counsel, made while the testimony was offered,that the same was irrelevant, immaterial, illegal and not binding on the de-fendant, that the witness first communicated Mrs. White's statements aboutseeing a negro on the street floor of the pencil factory on April 26, 1913, toBlack, Chief Lanford, and Bass Rosser, that the information was given tothe detectives on April 28th.The Court, over the defendant's objections, permitted the above

0882 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: The Court: "Well, he knows what he is asking him."Upon this suggestion of the Court, that the Solicitor knew what he was doing, the spectators in the court-room applauded, creating quite a demonstration.Mr. Arnold again complained of the conduct of the spectators in the courtroom. The Court gave no relief, except directing the Sheriff to find out who was making the noise, to which Sheriff replied that he could maintain order only by clearing the court-room.25. Because the Court erred in admitting, over the defendant's objection, made at the time the testimony was offered,

0881 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: did not disclose the fact that Mrs. White saw the negro on April 26th, was evidence that the defendant was seeking to suppress testimony material to the discovery of the murderer.24. Because, during the trial, and on August 3, 1913, pending the motion of defendant's counsel to rule out the testimony of the witness Conley tending to show acts of perversion on the part of the defendant and acts of immorality wholly disconnected with and disassociated from this crime. (Such evidence being set out and described in grounds 13 and 14 of this motion.)The

0880 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. (Looked at No. 12). Did Frank have any knowledge of your business down there?A. I don't know; he knowed I was in the basement; he knowed I was there.Q. Was Conley there when you were?A. Yes, sir; I seen Conley there at night; the night-watchman, too—he wasn't Conley.Q. At the time you saw Frank there was anybody else in the office with him?A. Yes, sir; there would be some ladies there; sometimes two and sometimes one, maybe they didn't work in the morning and would be there in the evening.Q. How many times

0879 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: in the basement; that he saw Conley there when he went there; that some-times when he saw him in his office there would be ladies there, sometimes Conley there, but sometimes he would give a quarter, that he did that a half dozen or more times; that he went to his office about once a week for a half dozen weeks, that he saw Frank there in the evenings and in the day times; sometimes he would see cold drinks in the office, Coca-Cola, lemon limes, etc., that sometimes he saw beer in the

0878 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: examination showed plainly that it had not begun to dissolve, or at least, onlya very slight degree, and it indicated that the process of digestion had notgone on to any extent at the time this girl was rendered unconscious at anyrate. I wish further to state that on examination Mary Phagan's stomach Ifound that the starch she had eaten had not even the beginning of alteration;there were a few of the starch cells which had not even the beginning of the pro-cess of digestion, having changed into the substance called starch-dextrine,but these were very

0874 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Miss Daisy Hopkins left at Christmas, because Mr. Dalton told me that she wasn't coming back. It was one Saturday. Mr. Dalton was a slim looking man and tall, with thick eye lashes, black hair, light complected, weighed about 135 pounds, about thirty-five years old. I seen him around the factory several times. The first time was somewhere along in July, when he come in there with a lady. About two weeks after that, I seen him at the door, about the last of August. The next time was just about Thanksgiving Day. Then

0873 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: all right, old boy, I don't want you to have anything to say to Mr. Herbert or Mr. Darley about what's going on around here.' The next time I watched was Thanksgiving day. I met Mr. Frank there about eight o'clock in the morning. He says: 'A lady will be here in a little while, me and her are going to chat. I don't want you to do no work, just watch. The lady came in about a half an hour. I didn't know her. I have never seen her working at the factory.

0872 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: weight, she was nice looking, had on a blue looking dress with white dots in it, had on a greyish looking coat with kind of tails on it, white stockings, white slippers andCROSS EXAMINATION"The first time I watched for Mr. Frank was sometime during last summer, about in July. I would be there sweeping and Mr. Frank come out and called me in the office. That was on a Saturday, about three o'clock. As to what Mr. Dalton would do, the young lady that worked at the factory would go out and get him

0877 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: not give to sustain their opinions individual and isolated experiments but must answer from their knowledge of the science obtained from all sources, that . . ."Knowing the facts that cabbage would pass out of the stomach very quickly in a normal one I ascertained here digestion, and as soon as I saw the cabbage in this case, I at once felt certain that the girl either came to her death or possibly the blow on her head at any time, perhaps three quarters of an hour or half an hour or forty minutes,

0876 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: and said: "Mr. Frank, Chief Beavers, Chief Lanford and Scott and Conley want to talk with you, if you want to see them;" that Frank said: "No, my attorney is not here, and I have got nobody to defend me;" that his lawyer was not there, and that no one was there to listen to what might be said.The Court erred in admitting this evidence for the reasons above stated.The solicitor in his argument pressed upon the jury that the failure of Frank to face this negro and the detectives was evidence of guilt,

0875 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: When the solicitor first sought from the witness Conley the evidence here sought to be excluded the defendant objected because the evidence sought to be brought out would be immaterial. The Court ruled that such evidence would be immaterial, but after this ruling the solicitor brought out the direct testimony here sought to be ruled out and excluded. After the direct testimony supra had been brought out after the Court's ruling, the cross-testimony supra here sought to be withdrawn was also brought out in an effort to modify or explain the direct evidence. Under

0871 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: "When the witness Conley was still on the stand his testimony not having been finished, the defendant, by his attorneys, moved to rule out, withdraw and exclude from the jury each and all the answers, moved to rule out, withdraw cause the same are irrelevant, immaterial, the above questions and answers, bematters and things irrelevant and disconnected with the issues of this case.After hearing argument of counsel, the Court overruled the motion to rule out, withdraw or exclude said above stated questions and answers from the jury, but permitted the same to remain before

0870 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Thanksgiving Day?A. No, sir, he wasn't working in the office on Thanksgiving.Q. The next time, was there any ladies working on the fourth floor?A. I don't remember.Q. You don't remember whether there was or not?A. No, sir.Q. You can't remember that?A. No, sir.Q. They might have been?A. I didn't see none of them there.Q. You didn't see them?A. No, sir.Q. You only saw them working there one day?A. I saw them working there the second evening.Q. On the fourth floor.A. Did you say anything about - Do they know you told about watching

0869 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. What time did Mr. Holloway leave?A. Mr. Holloway left away from there about two o'clock.Q. The next time you watched was right after Christmas?A. No, sir, the next time I watched was Thanksgiving Day, then—Q. You said awhile ago September was after Thanksgiving?A. Yes, sir, after Thanksgiving day.Q. All right. Well, now, Thanksgiving Day you have told about in January, who did you see there in January, I mean who of the force?A. I disremember now who I did see in January when I was there that morning.Q. You didn't remember?A. Yes, sir,

0868 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. That was behind Thanksgiving Day?A. Yes, sir.Q. Before or after Thanksgiving?A. This here was before Thanksgiving.Q. Haven't you said half a dozen times that you watched in September,and that was after you Thanksgiving? Haven't you told that a dozen times tothe jury?A. I said it was after Thanksgiving.Q. Yes?A. Well, September is after Thanksgiving.Q. Your understanding is that it was after Thanksgiving?A. Yes, sir, it was after Thanksgiving.Q. So that it was in September, after Thanksgiving?A. Yes, sir.Q. That is correct, now, Jim?A. Yes, sir, after Thanksgiving.Q. Yes, that is right. Well, now,

0867 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. This year?A. Yes, sir.Q. I am not talking about that. Did you see Mr. Darley that timewhen Mr. Holloway was sick?A. When Mr. Holloway was sick, I disremember now whether I seenMr. Darley that day or not.Q. Did you see Mr. Schiff that day?A. I disremember whether I saw Mr. Schiff or not.Q. You disremember that?A. Yes, sir.Q. Did you see anybody that day?A. Yes, sir, I seen somebody that day.Q. Who?A. I saw Mr. Frank that day for one person.Q. I know; but outside of Mr. Frank, who else of the office

0866 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. What time did he leave there?A. Well, I don't know. He left away from there somewhere about two or half past two, I reckon.Q. Well, don't reckon, please; tell what you remember?A. He left away from there about two or half past two, all right; I couldn't say just what time it was.Q. You don't know what time it was?A. He generally stayed—Q. Not what he generally did; but on that particular day—that day, what time did he leave—the first time you said you waited for Mr. Frank?A. He left away from there

0864 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. When did you see him again?A. I saw him again about two weeks after that.Q. What was he doing then?A. I just met him in the door then.Q. Met him in the door?A. Yes, sir.Q. What date was that, about when?A. I don't know; it was on a Saturday; I disremember the time.Q. That is the time you have already talked about. You have done toldabout that?A. Yes, sir, I have done told about it.Q. This morning?A. Yes, sir.Q. I don't know, somewhere about the last of August, I reckon.A. About the last

0863 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. About how tall was he--would you say he was?A. Well, he was tall; I guess he was about as tall as that young man sitting there.Q. About as tall as this man (indicating Mr. Arnold)?A. Yes, sir.Q. Weighing about as much?A. I don't know whether he would weigh as much as that man, or not.Q. Does he look like he would weigh about that much?A. Yes, sir, he looks like he would weigh about that much.Q. Then he was about the size of Mr. Arnold, Mr. Dalton was?A. Yes, sir, just about that

0861 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. What sort of ears did she have?A. She had ears like people.Q. Like folks?A. Yes, sir.Q. I didn't expect her to have them like a rabbit, and she didn't have,did she?A. No, sir, she didn't have ears like a rabbit.Q. Well, did she have large or small ears? - Do you remember that?A. No, sir, I didn't pay any attention to her ears, whether they werelarge or small.Q. You can't give any description of her at all now, can you, Jim?A. I can't give a description of her, except she was a white

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: A. I don't know where Mr. Dalton works at.Q. When Mr. Dalton told you Christmas that she was going away, where was Mr. Dalton?A. He was there.Q. I know, but where was he when he told you that?A. He was coming out of the factory.Q. When was that?A. It was Saturday; I don't know the date.Q. You don't remember the date?A. No, sir.Q. You don't remember the date now?A. No, sir.Q. You don't remember his name?A. I know his name was Dalton.Q. What else besides Dalton?A. No, sir, I don't know his first name.Q.

0865 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Where did you see him the last time?A. The detectives brought him down there to the station house, andsaid had I ever seen him about in there.Q. And you told them what you knew?A. Yes, sir, I told them about what I knew.Q. And you haven't seen Mr. Dalton since?A. No, sir.Q. Now, Jim, how was Mr. Dalton dressed the first time you ever sawhim?A. - Well, I disremember now how he was dressed.Q. Can't you give us any help about that at all?A. All I can remember him having on, I think,

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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

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

0853 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Or the second day, do you know how many hours?A. No, sir.Q. Nor the third?A. No, sir.Q. Or Thanksgiving?A. No, sir.Q. Do you know how much you were paid for either one of those days?A. Yes, sir, I can tell you what I was paid Thanksgiving Day when I watched for him.Q. Well, you know what that was $1.50?A. No, sir, I said it was $1.25.Q. Well, outside of the factory, do you remember what you got for your services?A. Outside of the factory, I remember once I got a half a dollar;

0854 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. You don't remember about that?A. No, sir.Q. You have no memory at all about that?A. No, sir.Q. What time did you get up the first morning you watched for him?A. I couldn't tell you to save my life.Q. Nor what time you went home, you couldn't tell me?A. No, sir, I couldn't tell you.Q. You couldn't tell me anything at all about that?A. No, sir.Q. The second time you watched for him. Can you remember the time you got back to the factory?A. No, sir, I couldn't tell you what time I got

0855 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. The day after Thanksgiving. Do you remember what you had been doing that day?A. No, sir, but to my remembrance I think I came back to work the day after Thanksgiving.Q. Are you certain about that, or have you any memory at all about it?A. I think I came back to work.Q. What time did you get there?A. I don't know, sir, what time I got there.Q. What time did you leave that day?A. I don't know, sir.Q. You can't remember anything about that?A. No, sir.Q. The day before Thanksgiving, what time did

0858 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. How long had Snowball worked at the factory?A. I don't know, sir.Q. Now, that time, when you watched in January, was Snowball there that day—I believe you said it was Wednesday?A. Yes, sir, I said I watched there in January.Q. Well, was Snowball there?A. I don't know whether he was or not?Q. Now, the only time you ever heard Mr. Frank say anything in front of Snowball was that time you have just mentioned? Thanksgiving, is that what you said?A. Yes, sir.Q. You heard him say something before Snowball then?A. One time was

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. Well, the third one; was Snowball there that day?A. I disremember about the third Saturday.Q. Well the next one was Thanksgiving. Did you see him Thanksgiving morning?A. I didn't see him Thanksgiving morning, but I saw him the day before Thanksgiving.Q. That is the time when you heard Mr. Frank talking in the presence of Snowball?A. Yes, sir.Q. He didn't hesitate to talk for Snowball?A. No, sir.Q. He talked before Snowball just like he did before you?A. Yes, sir.Q. The first time he did that was Thanksgiving Day, that he talked before Snowball?A.

0860 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. And she worked on the fourth floor?A. Yes, sir, she worked on the fourth floor.Q. Has she worked there in 1913?A. I don't know; I don't remember seeing her there; I don't know whether she has worked there in 1913 or not.Q. You can't remember that?A. No, sir, I can't remember that.Q. You worked on the same floor with her, didn't you?A. I didn't work with her at all. I worked on the same floor.Q. And you don't know whether she worked there in 1913 or not?A. No, sir, I don't remember.Q. But

0859 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. He just come in there and commenced talking to you, and paid noattention to Snowball?A. He didn't know Snowball was in there.Q. In the elevator. How could he help seeing him if he was in theelevator?A. The elevator was gone down. Whenever I would get ready towork at night, he would send the elevator to the basement, and we wouldgo in the back room.Q. You were not on the elevator when you had that talk?A. No, sir, that talk was in the back room.Q. I am talking about just before Thanksgiving. You were

The Murder of Little Mary Phagan (2025 Edition) by Mary Phagan Kean

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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

0849 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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

0848 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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

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

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

0845 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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.

0844 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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. 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

0842 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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

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

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

0839 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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

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

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

0836 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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.

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.

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

0833 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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

0832 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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.

0831 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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

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 ........................

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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.

0337 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: INDEX #2 - continued.Witnesses:Nolurty, Miss Lena - 204 204Najor, Miss Marjorie - 218Novotny, Miss - 118 219Moonlight, Minola (colored) @ 176 177 177Moody, Gruman (colored) 206 206Neab, Phillip - 255Nix, C. A. - 211Nix, D. J. - 206 207Nix, H. C. - 196 196 196Owens, Dr. Wm. J. C. 281 224 227Olmstead, Dr. J. C. 245 246Osborne, Miss Annie 262Payne, Frank 207 208Papenheimer, Oscar 199 257Patmalee, Mrs. J. C. 211Patrick, J. B. 231Patterson, B. L. 211 190Park, Miss Mary 262Pirk, Miss Mary (recalled) 190Pride, Arthur (colored) 205 210 210 210Pollard, C. B. 161 161

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

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

0021 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Charles J. Moore makes the following affidavit, deposing andsaying as follows: that he is an attorney at law,occupying room 501 onthe 3rd floor of the Kiser Building at the corner of Hunter and Pryor Streets;that on Friday,August.20th,deponent was in his officeand saw the jury come out of the court house entrance at about 6 P.M.that soon after Mr.Dorsey appeared in the court house entrance and agreat cheering and yelling occurred by the crowd immediately oppositethe entrance,and afterwards the crowd yelled "Hurrah for Dorsey",andthe volume of the yells were so great that they could have

0319 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: positively and firmly, how did he make the statement?Give his language as well as you recollect it; if you do not recollect his language, what was the tenor of it?(A).Yes, he was bitter.7.(Q).Did you hear A. H. Henslee, of Monroe, Ga., between said dates, say anything about what the jury that tried Leo W. Frank for the murder of Vary Phagan would do if that Jury did its duty; if so, what did he say, giving his language as nearly as you can recollect it, and if you cannot recall the exact language, state

0334 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Witness.Anderson, W. E.- 6670Barrett, H. P.- 4843Beavers, J. E.- 6969Black, John R.- 272931Coleman, Mrs. J. W.(Recalled)- 11Conley, James- 3194119Dalton, C. B.- 808082Duffy, J. E.- 5152124Ferguson, Miss Grace- 11131134Forrest,- 1131Gantt,- 666669Ghent,- 313272Grace,- 707070Holloway, E. F.(Recalled by defendant)- 797979Hurt, Dr. J. W.- 464750&51Jefferson, Mrs. Geo. W.- 737374Lassiter, R. M.- 454545Lee, Newt (colored)- 707071Monteen, Miss- 706768Nightinght, Albert (colored)- 676767Pergus, H. J.- 121-Rogers, L. W.- 162223Roser,- 808080Scott, Harry (recalled for state)- 347374Smith, Dr. Claude- 444444Stanford, Nell- 717171Stover, Miss Monteen- 151741Waggoner, Miss T.- 494969White, Mrs. J. A.(recalled for state)- 83121120STATE RESTS.TESTIMONY FOR DEFENDANTAdams, Miss Grace- 230231Anderson, A. H.- 227227Adler,

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.

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;

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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