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LEO M. FRANE. 225

urday, April 26th, arrived at the factory at about 8:30 a.m. I
found Mr. Holloway, the day watchman, af his usual plage and Alonzo
Mann, the office boy, in the outer office, (After describing at
lengtl the work he did in his office that, morning.)

About 9 o'clock Mr, Darley and Mr, Wade Campbell, the in-
speetor of the factory, came into the outer office, and I stopped
what work I was doing that day on this work, and went to the
outer office and chatted with Mr. Darley and Mr. Campbell for 10
or 15 minutes, and conversed with them, and joked with them, and
while I was talking to them, about 9:15, Miss Mattie Smith came
in and asked me for her pay envelope, and for that of her sister-
in-law, and 1 went to the safe and unlocked it and got out the pack-
age of envelopes that Mr. Schiff had given me the evening before,
and gave her the required two envelopes, and placed the remaining
envelopes that I got out, that were left over from the day previous,
in my cash box, where I would have thom handy in case others
might come in.’ I continued to work on those invoiees, when I waa
interrupted by Mr. Lyons, Superintendent of Montag’ Brothers. I
told him if he would wait for a minute I would go over to Montag
Brothers with him, as I was going over there; and he stepped out
to the onter office, and as scon as I come to a convenient stopping
place in the work, I put the papers I had made out to take with me
in a folder, and put on my hat and coat and went to the outer
office, when’ I found that My. Lyons had already left, Mx. Darley
left with me abont 9:35 or 9:40, and we passed out of the factory,
and stopped at the corner of Hunter and Forsyth Streets, where
we each bad a drink af Crnickshank’s soda water fount, where
I bought = package of Favorite cigarettes, and after we bad our
drink I lighted a cigarette and went on my way to Montag Brothers,
where I arrived at 10 o'clock, Chatted with Mr. Montag, and spoke
to Mr. Matthews, and Mr, Cross, of the Montag Brothers, and to
Miss Hattie Hall, che Pencil Company's stenographer, and asked
her to come over and help mo that moming; that I ‘had enough
work to keep her busy that whole afternoon, but she said she dida’t
want to do that, she wanted to have at least half » holiday on
Memorial Day. ‘I then spoke to several of the Montag Brothers’
foree on business matters and other matters, and after that I saw
Harry Gottheimer, the sales manoger of the National Pencil Com-
pany, and I spoke at some length with him in reference to several
of his orders that were in work at the factory, there were two of
his orders especially that he laid special stress on, as he seid he
desired to ship them right sway. Returned to the factory alone.
On srrivat there I went to second or office floor, and I noticed the
clock, it indieated 5 minutes after 11, I saw Mr. Holloway there,
and { told him he eould go as soon as he got ready, and he told mo
he had some work to do for Harry Denham and Arthur White,
who were doing some repair work up on the top floor, and he would
do the work first. I then went into the affiee and found Miss Hat-
tie Hall, who bad preceded me over from Montag’s, and another
lady who introduced herself to me as Mra, Arthur White, and the

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