282 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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Frank looked at it and said it was all right, and Mr, Frank Jooke¢
up at the top of the house and said, “Why should I hang, I have
wealthy people in Brooklyn”; I asked him what about me, and he
told me that was all right about me, for me to keep my mouth shut,
and he would make everything all right, and then I asked him where
wag the money he said he was going to give me, and Mr, Frank
said, “Here, here is two hundred dollars,” and he handed me a big
roll of greenback money and I didn’t count it; I stood there a little
while, looking at it in my hand, and I told Mr. Frank not to take
another dollar for that wateh man I owed and he said he wouldn’t—
and the rest is just like J have told it before.

The reason I have not told this before is T thonght Mr. Frank
would get out and help me out, but it « that he is not going to
get out, and I have deeided to tell the whole truth about this matter.

While I was looking at the money in my hands, Mr. Frank said,
“Let me have that end I will make it all right with you Monday if
T live and nothing happens,” and be took the money back and I
asked him if that was the way he done, and he said he would give it
back Monday. :

Phe Prisoner’s Counsel put in evidence this letter, written
by Leo M. Frank to Mr. Moses Frank, not typewritten but in
long hand:

Atlanta, Ga, April 26, 1913,

Dear Uncle:

I trust that this finds yon and dear Tante well after arriving
safely in New York. I hope that you found all the dear ones well in
Brooklyn and I await a letter from you telling me how you find
things there, Lucile and I are well.

It is too short a time sinee you left for anything startling to have
developed down here, The opera has Atlanta in its grip, but that
ends today. I’ve heard a rumor that opera will not be given again
in a hurry here.

Today was “Yondef” here, and the thin gray line of veterans,
smaller each year, braved the rather chilly weather to do honor to
their fallen comrades.

Enelosed you will find Jest week’s report. The shipments atill keep
up well, tho’ the result is not what one would wish. There is nothing
new in the factory, ete., to report. Enclosed please find the prica list
you desired,

Tho next letter from me, you should get on board ship. After that
I will write to the address you gave me in Frankfurt.

‘With much love to you both, in which Lucile joins ma, I am

Your affectionate nephew,
Leo M. Frank.