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LEO M. FRANE. 188

and when he came upstairs to report, Frank, rubbing his
hands, met him and told him to go out and have a good time
until six o’elock. When Lee returned Frank changed tho
slip in the time clock, manifesting nervousness and taking a
longer time than usnal, When Frank went out of the front
door of the factory that afternoon, he met a man named
Gantt whom he had discharged a short time before. Frank
looked frightened. Gantt declared he wished to go upstairs
and get some shoes he had left there which permission Frank
finally granted, stating that he thought they had been swept
out. About an hour after this occurrence Frank called up
Lee over the telephone from his home, a.thing he had never
done before and asked him if everything was all right at the
factory. Lee found the double inner doors locked which ho
had never found that way before. Subsequently when Lee
wes arrested and Frank was requested by the detectives to
go in and talk to him and find out what he knew, Lee testi-
fied that Frank dropped his head and stated ‘If you keep
that up we will both go to hell.’? On Sunday morning the police
officers telephoned to Frank that the girl’s body had been dis-
eovered and that they were coming to take him to the under-
taker’s where it was. When they came he was very nervous
and trembled, and at the undertaker’s showed a disinclina-
tion to look at the body and did not go into the room where
it lay, but turned away at the door? Another female em-
ployed at the factory swore that at the time when, the State
contended, Mary Phagan and Frank were in the metal room
she was in Frank’s office and he was absent, although he had
declared he had not left the office at all during that time.®
One witness awore that on Monday morning he found six
or seven strands of hair in the lathe which he worked, and
which were not there on Friday Several witnesses testified
that the hair was like that of Mary Phagan, although Dr.
Harris, comparing Mary Phagan’s hair with that on the

2 W. W. Rogers, post, p, 192.
3Monteen Stover, post, p. 197.
+R. P. Barrett, post, p. 107, *

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