0590 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914

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REDIRECT EXAMINATION. That cabbage doesn't look (State's Exhibit G)
as if it had been chewed at all. Cabbage chewed that way would be
hard to digest.
JOHN ASHLEY JONES, sworn for the defendant.
I have known Mr. Frank about a year and eighteen months. His
general character is good.
CROSS EXAMINATION. I am a resident agent for the New York Life
Insurance Company. I don't know any of the girls at the pencil
factory. I have never heard any talk of Mr. Frank's practices and
relations with the girls down there. Mr. Frank has a policy of
insurance with us. It is our custom to seek a very thorough report
on the moral hazard on all risks. The report on him showed up first
class, physically as well as morally. I went to him in January, 1913,
and tried to write him additional insurance and on April 8th, I
went to the factory to take his application, where I met him and
his wife. After a thorough-examination-of him by our physician and
a very satisfactory report, covering his moral reputation, we issued
him a standard policy. I have never heard of Mr. Frank going out to
Druid Hills and being caught there, but it was the business of our
inspector to find out and he certainly would have issued such a
policy if he had found it out. Two or three of us in the office
signed a long letter to the Grand Jury in the interest of justice,
Mr. Robert L. Cooney, Mr. Hollingworth, Mr. Clark and myself signed
it. We decided this was a matter of persecution. I think Mr. Cooney
started it. No I have never heard of Mr. Frank's kissing girls
and playing with their nipples on their breasts. I have never known
Mr. Blackstock. I never heard that Mr. Frank would walk into the
dressing room when the girls were dressing, nor that he tried to
put his arms around Miss Myrtis Cato and tried to shut the door on
her, or going in the dressing room with Lula McDonald and Rachael
Prater, nor that Mrs. Pearl Darnell about five years ago threw
a monkey wrench at him when he sought to put his hand on her and held
money in one hand. I have never seen any nude pictures hanging in