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LEO M. FRANE.

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do it was during business
hours; have never met Mr,
Frank anywhere, or any time for
immoral purposes.

Ruth Robineon. Have seen
Leo M. Frank talking to Mary
Phagan, He would stand just
close enough to her to tell her
about her work; would show her
how to put rubbers in the pen-
cils; would just take up the pen-
il and show her how to do it;
he called her Mary,

Dewey Hewell, Stay in the
Home of the Good Shepherd in
Cincinnati; I worked af the pen-
ei] fact four months; have
seen Mr, talk to Mary
Phagan two or three times a day
in the metal department; have
seen him hold his hand on her
shoulder, He called ber Mary;
he would stand pretty close to
her; would lean over in her face.

Gross-eramined. All the rest
of the girls were there when he
talked to her; don’t know what
he was talking to her about.

Myriice Cato and Maggie
Griffin had seen Mise Rebecea
Carson go into the ladies’ dress-
ing room on the fonrth floor with
Leo M, Frank two or three times
during working hours; there
wore other ladies working on the
fourth floor at the time this
happened.

J. E. Duffy. Worked st tho
National Paneil Company; out
2 forefinger on the left hand;
went to the office to have it
dressed; a few drops of blood
dropped on the floor at the ma-
chine where I was hurt; 10-
where else except at that ma-
chine; none near the ladies’
dressing room or the water
eooler; had a large piece of cot-
ton wrapped around my finger.

Cross-examined. Never saw

any blood anywhere except at
the machine; went from the of-
flee to the Atlanta Hospital to
have my finger attended to.

W. E. Turner. Worked at the
Nations! Peneil Company; saw
Leo Frank talking to Mary Pha-
gan on the second floor, about the
middle of March; there was no-
body else in the room; she was
going to work and he stopped to
talk to her; she told him she had
to go to work; he told her that
he was the superintendent of the
factory, and that he wanted to
talk ¢o her, and she said she had
to go to work; she backed off and
he went on towards her talking
to her.

Cross-examined. Can't de-
scribe Mary Phagan; don’t know
any of the other Httle girls in
there; don’t remember who
ealled her Mary Phagan, a young
man on the fourth floor told ma
her name was Mary Phagan; T
don’t know ‘who he was; didn’t
know anybody in the factory;
can’t describe any of the girls,

W. P. Merk. Know Daisy
Hopkins; met her at 2:30 or 3:30
on a Saturday; she asid she was
going to pencil factory; made an
engagement with her to go to her
room to see her that Saturday;
was in a Toom with her at the
eorner of Walker and Peters
street about 8:30 o'clock; she
told me she had been to the pen-
el factory that afternoon; her
general character for truth and
veracity is bad; would not be-
lieve her on oath.

George Gordon, Am a lawyer;
was at polieo station part of the
time when Minola McKnight was
making her statement; went
down there with habeas corpus
proceedings to have her sign the
afiidevit; I sat down and waited

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