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The Atlanta Constitution,
Tuesday, 19th August 1913,
PAGE 3, COLUMN 4.
A number of men were called to the stand Monday morning by the defense. Some of them were factory employees in various positions who swore to the good character of the superintendent and others were asked various questions on particular points.
Charlie Lee, known to local fight fans, was a witness to Frank's good character.
Rabbi David Marx was called by the defense to explain the B'nai Brith society, of which Leo Frank is local president. He had got as far as the declaration that it is an international Jewish organization when Solicitor Dorsey made the point that the subject was immaterial. Judge Roan sustained him and Dr. Marx was excused from the stand.
R. P. Butler, a shipping clerk at the factory, was used to show the dimensions of the doors to Frank's office and also that glass windows were made in the doors, so that an ordinary person standing outside the office might look in.
Godfrey Winecoff, superintendent of the lead plant of the National Pencil factory, swore on the stand that he had frequently been to the office on Saturday afternoons and had never seen anything out of the way.
Sig Montag, general manager of the National Pencil company; N. V. Darley, head of one of the subsidiary plants; Nightwatchman Holloway and F. Ziganke, an employee in the metal room, were later put on the stand as character witnesses. All swore that Frank had a good character.
Lou Castro, erstwhile shortstop of the Atlanta baseball team in the palmy days when gonfalons flew over Poncey park, and since manager of various minor league clubs, followed Harllee Branch to the stand. The baseball player had walked from several corners to the factory and timed himself in an effort for the defense to show the time necessary for Mary Phagan to have gone to the factory from either of the points where she is said to have left the car. He also timed himself on several walks Frank claims to have taken that day.