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LEO M. PRANE.

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Brooklya, Mr. Moses Frank of
Atlanta is my husband’s brother;
saw him at Hotel MeAlpin in
New York City on April 27th
and April 28th. The letter you
hand me (sea post, p. 250) is
my son’s handwriting. The word
“Yondef” in the letter is He-
brew, meaning “Holiday.”

Cross-examined, Mr. Frank
has no_rich relatives in Brook-
Iyn. My brother-in-law, Mr,
Bennett, is a clerk at $18 a week.
My soninlaw, Mr. Stearns, is
in the retail cigar business. As
to what my means of support are
‘we have about $20,000 out at in-
terest, my husband and I, at six
per cent. We own the honse wo
live in. We have a $6,000 mort-
gage on it. The house is worth
abont $10,000. My husband is
doing notbing. He is not in
good health. Up to a year ago
he was a traveling salesman.
These are the only relatives my
son has in Brooklyn. Mr. Moses
Frank, my brotherinlaw, is
supposed to be very wealthy. My
bnsband is 67 years old. He is
‘broken down from hard work
and in very poor health.

Osear Pappenheimer, Am a
stoekholder of the National Pen-
eil Company; have been getting
comparative sheets from Frank
since March, 1910; have here the
report for the week ending April
24, 1913. T got that on Monday
morning, April 28th.

C. F. Ursenbach. Married a
sister of Mrs. Leo Frank. On
Saturday, abont 20 minztes to 2,
any cook told me that Mr. Frenk
had phoned and told me that he
wasn't going to the game; saw
him on Sunday, after the murder,
at my house; saw no scratebes,
marks or bruises on him. He
seemed to be a little disturbed

in mind; saw him again that
afternoon, He told us about the
tragedy that evening. He gave
me my rain coat, which he had
borrowed previously.

Cross-ecamined. He and his
wife and my wife and myself
generally played cards Saturda:
evening, My. and Mrs. Selig
family usually played poker Sat-
urday night, Mr. Frank bor-
rowed my rain eoat at 4:30 Sun-
day when it was raining, and I
met him about 6 o'clock on Wash-
ington Street, and he returned it.
He never had that rain coat until
Sunday afternoon; am positive
that he did not bave it on Sat-
urday,

Mrs, €._F. Ursenbach, Am
Mrs, Leo Frank’s sister. T saw
no seratches, bruises, or marks
on Mr. Frank on Sunday. He
‘was nervous as one would have
been under the cireumstances. He
‘borrowed a rain coat from my
hhusbend that afternoon. The
rain coat was at_our house on
Saturday. Mr, Frank did not
have it on Saturday.

Cross-examined. On Sunday
‘Mr. Frank, when be was at the
house, told us he had been called
down town and that this little
girl was murdered, and he told
what a horrible crime it was;
did not say who committed it;
said nothing about employing a
lawyer; aaid he had thought he
heard the telephone ringing in
lis sleep, the night before; said
when he saw the corpse it was a
grewsome sight; said nothing
about suspecting Newt Lee as be-
ing the guilty party; said he was
sorry he let Gantt in the factory
Saturday afternoon, because he
mistrusted him, beeause he had
not been honest; did not say he
thought Newt Lee or Gantt had

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