Reading Time: 3 minutes [500 words]

LEO M. FRANE.

191

get upstairs to have fixed.” I
saye, “T ain't allowed to let any-
body in here after six o’cloek.”
‘Mr. Frank come busting out of
the door and run into Gantt un-
expected and he jumped hack
frightened. Gantt says, “I got
2 pair of old shoes upstairs, have
yon any objection to my getting
them?’ Frank says, “I don’t
think they are up there, I think
I saw the boy sweep some up in
the trash the other dey.” And ha
@ropped his head down just so,
then says, “Newt, go with him
and stay with him and help him
find them;” went up there with
Mr. Gantt and found them in
the shipping room. Mr. Freuk
phoned me that night aboot’ an
‘hour after he left, sometime after
seven o'clock. He enys “How is
everything?” and I says, Ev-
erything is all right so far as T
know, end he says, “Good-bye.”
That is the first time he ever
phoned me on a Saturday night,
or at all

Made my rounds regularly ev-
ery half hour Saturday night.
About three next morning went
down the basement and discov-
ered the body there; found the
body of the girl then. Got up
the ladder and called up police
station; carried the officers
down where I found the ;
tried to get Mr. Frank on
telephone when the officers came;
saw Mr. Frank Sunday morning
about 8; he looked down on the
floor and never spoke to me.

On Tuesday night, April 29, T
‘had a conversation at the station
house with Mr. Frank, I said,
Mr. Frank, it’s mighty hard for
me to be handeuffed here for
something I don’t know anything
about. He said, “What’s the dif-
ferenee, they have got me locked

up end a man guarding me.” I
said, Mr. Frank, do you believe
T committed thet crime, and he

id, “No, Newt, 1 know yon
didn’t, but I believe you know
something about it.” I-said, Mr.
Frank, I don’t know a thing
about i, no more than finding
the body. He said, “We are not
talking about that now, we will
let thet go. Lf you keep that up
we will both go to hell,” then
‘the officers came in,

Cross-ezamined. Mr. rank
and Mr, Gantt had had a
difficulty. Mr. Frank had told
me, “Lee, I have discharged
My, Gantt, I don’t want him in
‘here, keep him out of here.” He
didn’t give me any different in-
structions on that Saturday, he
didn’t tell me not to go in the
basement or in the metal depart-
ment, When I was in the base-
ment one of the policemen read
the note that they found. They
read these words, “The tall,
Black, slim negro did this, he
will try to lay it on the night”
and when they got to the word
“night,” I gaid, They must be
trying to put it off on me T
didn’t say, Boas, that’s me.

L. &. Dobbs. Am a sergeant
of police. On the morning of
April 27th, about 3:25, a call
eame from the pencil factory
that there was a murder there.
The negro opened up the door
and said there was & woman
murdered in the basement, The
girl was lying on her face;
couldn't tell whether she wes
white or black, only by her gold-
en colored hair, Her face was
full of dirt and dnst, and was
swollen and black. The cord
was around her neck; sunk into
the flesh; she also had a piece of
her underelothing around her

Related Posts