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LEO M. FRANE.

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Frank by the undertaking es-
‘tablishment and let him see if he
knew this young lady, Mr,
Frank readily consented, 80 We
got out and went in. corpse
was lying in a little kind of side
room to the right of a large
room. Dida’t see Frank look at
athe corpse; don’t remember that
Mr, Frank ever followed me in
this room. He may have
stopped on the outside of the
door, but my back waa toward
him; he could not have seen her
face beeanse it wes lying over
‘towards the wail. We asked Mr.
Frank if be knew the girl, and
he replied that he didn’t know
whether he did or not but that
be could tell whether she worked
st the factory by looking at his

vy roll book, is ‘we were leav-
ing Mr, Frank’s house, he asked
to telepbone Mr.

Darley to come to the factory.
From the undertaker’s we went
to the pencil factory; he opened
the eafe, took out his time book,
ran hia finger down until he came
to the name Mary Phagaa, and
eaid, “Yea, Mary Phagan
worked here, she was here yes-

time she left there. My steno
grapher left about 13 o’clock, and
a few minutes after she left the
office boy left and Mary came in
money and left.” He

girl was found Mr. Frank
‘went around by the elevator,
Mere there was a switch box on
‘the wall and Mr, Frank put the
switch in. The box was not
locked; the insurance eompany
fold him that he would have to
unlocked, In the base-

ment Mr. Frank made the re-
mark that Mr. Darley had
worked Newt Lee for sometime
out at the Oskland plant and
that if Lee knew anything about
the murder that Darley would
stand a batter chance of getting
it out of him than anybody else,
After we came bask from the
basement, Mr, Frank saya, “I
had better put in a new sli
hadn’t I, Darley?” Darley told
him to put in a slip. Frank
lifted out the slip and sew the
slip was punched correctly. Mr.
Frank then put in 2 new slip,
closed the door, locked it and
took his peneil and wrote on
the slip that he had already tak-
en ont of the machine, “April
26, 1913,” I looked at the slip
‘that Mr. Frank took out, the first,
punch was 6:01, the seeond one
was 6:32 or 6:33, He took the
slip back in his office. I glanced
all the way down and there was
@ punch for every number. The
officers showed him where the
body ‘was found and he made the
remark that it was too bad or
something to that effect. When
we left the factory, Newt Lee
‘wes under arrest; never eonsid-
ered Mr. Frank as being under
arrest at that time.

Croas-examined. Never saw
Mr. Frank until that morning.
Mr. Frank readily consented to
go to the undertaker’s with va;
at the undertaker’s don't know
that he didn’t get a glance at the
vorpse, but no one but Mr,
Gheesling and T at this moment
etepped up and looked at the lit-
tle girl’s face. What Mr. Frank
and Mr. Black saw behind my
‘back, I can’t say.

Grace Hicks. Knew Mary
Phagan a year at the peneil fac-
tory; worked in the metal room.
Mary's machine vas right next

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