Author: Mary Phagan


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

Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS."Well, I am going home to get dinner, and you come back here in about forty minutes and I will fix the money." I went over to the beer saloon and…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK205Frank, "Is that the nigger?" and Mr. Frank said, "Yes," and she said, "Well, does he talk much?" and he says, "No, he is the best nigger I have ever seen." Mr.…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:206 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.From the basement, it was lying on his desk. He put it in the safe.**Mrs. J. A. White (recalled).** I have seen this man before at police headquarters (indicating Conley)…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO W. FRANK207He ought to be sweeping, down in the shipping room watching the detectives, officers, and reporters; caught him washing his shirt. It looked like he tried to hide it from me.Henry Scott…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:208 -AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.We closed the office at 6 o'clock. We never had any women up in the office. We paid off the help on Friday, April 25th; I remember paying Helen Ferguson that…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK209It was about 15 minutes to 12 when we left the factory. Mr. Frank was writing when we came into his office. When we left the factory, the following people were still…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:210AMERICAN STATE TRIALSWe were out of material, and she was laid off for the rest of the week. I have never seen Mr. Frank speak to her. I went to the factory on April…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANKTestimony of a WitnessThey made her get out of bed. They had my husband there to bulldoze me, claiming that I had told him that; I had never told him anything of…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSCross-examined, Mr. Frank got home about 11 o'clock on Sunday. He told us he had been sent for to come to town. He spoke of a crime having been committed; I…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO H. FRANK213"There, said, 'I can prove where I was.'"Mrs. E. M. CarsonI worked at the pencil factory. Rebecca Carson is my daughter. I have seen blood spots around the ladies' dressing room three…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:214X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.As he read it, he kind of grinned. He told me he believed Mr. Frank was just as innocent as the angels from Heaven. He was never known to tell the…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. PRANE215Brooklyn, Mr. Moses Frank of Atlanta is my husband's brother; I saw him at Hotel McAlpin in New York City on April 27th and April 28th. The letter you handed me (see…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:216 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Mrs. A. E. Marcus testified that she is a sister of Mrs. Loo Franc. On Saturday night, she played cards at Mrs. Selig's house where Mr. Frank was present, sitting…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK217I saw a colored girl who seemed to have a gash in her head; her mouth was full of sawdust. He described her in a general way but did not say anything…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:218 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSThere was a lot of blood on the floor, spouting out.Cross-examined, Duffy was short in the metal room on the machine opposite Mary Phagan's machine. The pencil company took a…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK219I never saw Mr. Frank bring any women into the factory. I never saw Jim Conley guarding or watching the door. I have seen Jim take newspapers and look at them, but…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:920 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The superintendent of the pencil factory, Mr. Frank's character was good.A. D. Greenfield: I am one of the owners of the building occupied by the Pencil Company. I have known…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 221I have been engaged in hospital work for six or seven years and have treated about 14,000 cases of surgery. I have examined the private parts of Leo M. Frank and…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSDr. J.C. Olmstead, a practicing physician for 36 years, stated that given the facts of this case, it would not be possible for a physician to determine whether or not the…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M.PRANE. 223If a body is disinterred at the end of 9 days and the stomach is taken out, and among the contents you find cabbage like that and bits of wheat bread slightly…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:224 & AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Mrs. J. J. Wardlaw worked at the pencil factory. She stated that Mr. Frank's character is good and she has never heard of any improper relations between Mr. Frank and…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 225On Saturday, April 26th, I arrived at the factory at about 8:30 a.m. I found Mr. Holloway, the day watchman, at his usual place and Alonzo Mann, the office boy, in…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:226 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Mrs. Arthur White wanted to see her husband, so I told Alonzo Mann, the office boy, to call up Mr. Schiff and find out when he was coming down. The…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 227I wanted to know when they would have lunch. Minola answered the phone, saying they would have lunch immediately and for me to come right on home. I gathered my papers…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:228 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.I went back and wanted to know if they were ready to go, and at that time they were preparing to leave. I immediately went down to my office, opened…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 229On Saturday, I called the factory and asked Newt Lee if Mr. Gantt had gone again. He said, "Yes." I inquired if everything else was all right at the factory; it…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:230 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The nostrils and mouth were full of sawdust and swollen, and there was a deep scratch over the left eye on the forehead. Around the neck, there was twine—a piece…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 231I went to the office where I sat and talked, answering every one of their questions freely and frankly, trying to aid and help them in any way that I could.…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:232 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSI was asked a few questions about it, and I said, "What did Newt Lee say?" "Well, Chief Lanford will tell you when you get down there." When I got…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 233I called on a detective, preferably a Pinkerton detective, to work with and assist the city detectives in ferreting out the crime. Then I went downtown to the pencil factory, and…