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LEO M. FRANK.

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Frank, “Is that the nigger?” and
Mr. Frank said, “Yes,” and she
anid, “Well, does he talk mnehf?
and be says, “No, he is the best
nigger I have ever seen.” Mr.
Frank called me in the offtee and
gave me $1.25. Next time I
‘watched was on a Saturday about
the middle of January. A man
and ladies came about half-past
2 They stayed there about 2
hours; didn’t know either one of
the ladies; can’t describe what
either one of them had on. The
man was tall, slim built, a heavy
man; have seen him at the fae-
tory talking to Holloway; he
didn’t work there; have heen in
prison three times since I have
been with the pencil company.
Seven or eight times within the
last 4 or & years. Snowball and
I drank beer together sometimes
in the building, I never was
drank at the time Mr. Frank told
me to wateh for him. He talked
to me before Snowball. There
were eight niggers in all work-
ing in the factory. Snowball,
the fireman and me did just plain
manual labor, the rest of the ne-
roea had belter jobs, The time
‘Mr. Frank told me about wateh-
ing for him, he didn’t know
Snowball was in there. Snow-
hall was standing right there by
me. Miss Daisy Hopkins
worked on the fourth floor in
1912, She was pretiy, low,
eb kind of heavy weight.
Looked to ba about twenty-three.
T was arrested on the Ist of May,
Bent for Mr. Black to come down
when I made my firet statement
on May 18. I denied I had been
to the factory in that statement.
Told Mr. Black on May 24, the
time I made the second state-
ment, that I helped tote the lit-
fle girl; think I told them about

Mr. Frank getting ma to ‘watch
for him, that he told me he
strack a girl and for me to go
back and get her; didn’t give
Mr. Frank clear away that time;
kept some things back. I told
the detectives about wanting me
to watch for him when I got
back to the factory; don’t know
why I didn’t tell them that at
the time I told them about mov-
ing | ie body. told the officers
886 ‘ry Phagan go 1
at all; didn’t tell them I Foard
any seream ; told Mr. Starnes and
Mr, Campbell, That was after I
got out of jail, I said I heard
the seream before I went to sleep,
which I did; told Mr. Starnes
and Mr. Campbell about some-
body ronuing back on tiptoes;
don’t know why I didn’t tell it
the day 1 told them I was going
to tell the whole truth; didn’t
mean to keep back anything
then. ‘That day I told them ev-
erything I remembered. When
I got to the top of the atairs,
Mr. Frank had that cord in his
bands; don’t remember when I
first told about that. If I didn’t
tell it that day when I said I was
telling the whole truth, I just
didn’t remember it, The reason
why I didn’t tell Scott and Black
before I wrote four notes in-
stead of two, they didn’t ask me
how many I wrote, © wrote
three notes on white and one on
green paper. The resson I didn’t
tell Seott and Black about burn-
ing the body, because some one
had done taken them off the ease.
Did not sea a man named Mincey
on the electric car that day;
did not tell how I had just killed
& girl and did not want to kill
another, Saw Mary Phagan’s
pocketbook, or mesh bag, in Mr.
Frank’s office after he got back

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