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LEO M. FRANE. 231

office where I sat and talked and answered every one of their
questions freely and frankly, trying to aid and to help them in any
way that I could. After staying there a fow minutes, Mr. Darley
and myself went over to Bloomiield’s; they told us somebody was
‘busy with the body at that time and we couldn’t see it. Bo we went
over to Montag Brothers and found that nobody was down there.
After that I caught a Georgia Avenue car and rode to the house
of Mr. Sig Montag, our General Manager, and discussed with him
at length and in detail what I had seen that morning and what the
detectives had to say. I returned to my home at about a quarter to
11; washed up end had my breakfast in company with my wife. I
told her of the experience L had had that morning. I left the house
and went to Mra, Wolfsheimer’s honse; found quite a company of
people, and the conversation turned largely on what I had seen that
morning. The conversation was #bout the little girl that had been
Killed in the pencil factory that morning, although it was at that
time a5 much @ le to me as it was apparently to everybody
else. Returned with my wife to my home, where we took our lan
together with my parents-in-law, with Minola McKnight serving.
After dinner, read a Kittle while, and then went down town; went.
into the undertaker Bloomfleld’s, where I saw a large erowd of
people nearby on the outside; on entering I found quite a number
of people who were working af the pencil factory; stood in line
and went into the room again and stayed a few minutes in the
mortuary chamber. Then Mr. Darley and Mr, Schiff and myself
went down to police headquarters and into Chief Lanford’s office,
and the thres of ws answered all sorts of questions that not only
Chief Lanford, but the other detectives would shoot at us, Mr.
Darley said he would like to talk to Newt Lee and went into an-
other room, The detectives showed us the two notea and the Re
back with still s few unused leaves to it, and the pencil that they
elaimed they had found down in the basement near the body. One
of these notes was written on a sheet of pencil pad paper, the other
was written on a shect of yellow paper, apparentiy a yellow sheet
from the regulation order pad or order book of the National Pen-
ei] Company. These are the two notes, Mr. Schiff and myself
left police heddquartere down to Jacobs’ Alabama and Whitehall
Street store, and each of os had a drink, and I bonght a cigar for
each of us at the cigar counter. T returned to my home abort a
quarter to 4. Went out again. Reached home about 7 or a little
after for supper. After supper had callers. About 10 o'clock, all
the company left, and I went upstairs with my wife and retired
about 10 o’clock.

Next morning, arose sbout 7 and washed and shaved and dressed,
and while I was dressing the door bell rang, and my wife again
answered the door, atid there were two detectives down there, one
was John Black, and the other, Mr. Haslett, of the city detectives.
They told mo they wanted me to step down to headquarters with
them. On the way down, I asked Detective Haslett what the trouble
down at the station house was, and he said: “Well, Newt Lee
has been saying something, and Chief Lanford wanted to ask you

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