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LEO M. FRANE.

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Tittle bit, because he spoke about
it, He said it’s pretty hard, you
know to get on.”

G. C. February. Was present
at Chief Lanford’s office when
Teo M. Frank and L. Z, Romer
were there; took down Mr.
Frank's statement stenographic-
ally. ‘This (see post, p. 242), is
a correct report of what Mr.
Frank said. It was made Mon-
day, April 28th,

‘Albert McKnight. My wife is
Minola McKnight, She cocks
for Mrs, Selig. Between 1 and
2 Memorial Day was at the home
of Mr. Frank to see my wife.
‘He came in close to 1:30. He
did not eat any dinner; went to
the sideboard of the dining room,
stayed there 10 or 15 minutes
and then he goes out and catches
scar,

Cross-examined. Mra, Selig
and Mrs. Frank were pres
ent when Mr. Frank came
in. I was in the cook room.
You can see from the kitchen in-
to the dining room. You can
Jook in the mirror in the corner
and see all over the dining room.
T looked in the mirror in the
corner and saw him; was never
in the dining room in my life.
Minola went into the dining
room, and stayed a minute or
+wo; don’t know whether the
other folks ate dinner or not.
Told about Mr. Frank not eating
after T came back to Birming-

I told it to Mr. Craven of
the & Grege Company. Jt
was befora Minola went down to

the |. _ Mr, Starnes, Mr.
Campbell, Mr. Morse, Mr. Mar-
tin and Mr, all_talked to
me; didn’t see Frank or

Mrs. Selig thet Saturday through
the mirror; ecouldn’t tell who was
in the dining room without look-
ing in the mirror,

Helen Ferguson. Worked at
the National Pencil Company,
Friday, 25th; saw Mr. Frank
Friday, April 25th, and asked
for Mary Phagan’s money. Mr.
Frank said, “I can’t let you have
its” head gotten Mary's money
before, but I didn’t get it from
Mr. Frank.

R. L. Waggoner, Am a city
detective; was in the automobile
with Mr. Frank and Mr. Black
and his leg was shaking; he was
under arrest at the time.

J. L. Beavers. Am chief of
police of Atlanta; was at the
peneil factory on Tuesaday, April
29th; saw what I took to be a
sploteh of blood on the floor
near this dressing room on office
floor; there was one spot and
some others scattered around
that.

Cross-eramined. Don't know
whether it was blood or not; it
looked like it. .

R. M. Lassiter. T am 2 city
policeman; ou April 27th found
a parasol in the bottom of the el-
evator shaft; it waa lying about
the center of the shaft; also
found a ball of rope twine, small
wrapping twine, and also some-
thing that looked like a person’s
stool.

Cross-examined. Noticed evi-
dence of dragging from the ele-
yator in the basement; the um-
brella was not crushed.

L. 0. Grice. Was at the Na-
tional Pencil Company’s place on
Sunday morning, April 27th;
defendant here, attracted my at-
tention, on account of his ner-
‘vousness,

MeR Stanford (re~door in the rear part of the fac-
tory on the second floor on Fri-
day evening was barred; the
area around the elevator shaft on

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