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LEO M. FRANE. 243

office. It was impossible to sea the direetion she went in when she
left. I didn’t keap the door locked downstairs that morning because
the mail was coming in. I locked it at 1:10 when I went to dinner,
Arthur White and Harry Denham were also in the building. They
were working on the machinery, doing repair work; and Mrs. White
‘was also in the building. I went up there and told them I was going
to dinner and they had to get out, and they said they had not finished,
then I said, “Mrs. White, you will have to go, for I am going to
Jock these boys in here.” You can go in the basement from the front,
I got baek at 3 o’clock; went upstairs to tell those boys I was back;
told them to “ring out when you go down to let me know when you
go out,” and they rang out, and Arthur White came in the office and
said, “Mr, Frank, loan me 92.00," and I give him $2.00, and he
walked away. I locked the outer door behind them. The night
watehman got there at twenty minutes to 4. On Friday night I told
hizo, “You had better eome around early tomorrow, beeanse I may
go to the ball game. I told him he could go out; he got there so
early and I was going to be there. He come back about four minutes
to 6; the reason I know that I was putting the clock slips in and the
clock was right in front of me. I said, “I will be ready in a min-
nie,” and he went downstaire and I came to the offices and put on my
eoat arid hat and followed him and went ont. When I went ont, talk-
ing to Newt Lee was J. M, Gantt, a man I had fired about two weeks
previous, Newt told me he wanted to go up to get a pair of shoes
he left while he was working there, and I said, “That’s all right, go
with him, Newt”; and I went on home, and got there about @:25,
T tried to telephone Newt when I got home; didn’t get an answer,
and at 7 o’clock I called him and asked him if Gantt got his shoes,
and he said, “Yes, he got them,” and I said, “Is everything all right,’
and be said, “Yes”; and the next thing I knew they ealled me at 7:30
the next morning; don't-know that our watchman has been in the
habit of letting people in the factory at any time. I took a bath
Saturday night at my home. I changed my clothes. The elothes that
I changed are at home, and this is the suit of clothes I was wearing
Saturday. After I left the shop I went to Jacob’s Pharmacy and
bought a box of candy for my wife and got home about 6:25.

The State also introduced the following exhibits:

A piece of cord found around Mary Phagan’s neck, about the
sige of a heavy twine, with a knot in it.

A rag that was found around Mary Phagan’s neck, with blood on
it. White piese of eloth, soiled, Looked as if it was a piece torn off
from petticoat.

Four or fiva chips of wood, with red splotches on them, chipped up
from the second floor of the National Pencil Company factory in
front of ladies’ dressing room.

A shirt found by detectives in trash barrel at Newt Lee’s home.
Shirt wes very bloody; blood was on both sides of ehirt and high up
on armpits on the inside,

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