Author: Mary Phagan
266 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:234 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.I went to the top of the elevator shaft, then returned and showed the officer where the slipper had been found, where the hat had been found, and where the…
267 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANKI was introduced to the third degree of the Atlanta police department by detectives Scott and Black, who began questioning Newt Lee. The way Detective Black treated that poor old negro, Newt…
268 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:236 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.When the negro Conley was arrested, I didn't know anybody had any suspicions about him. His name was not in the papers; I had no inkling that he ever said…
269 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 237The room had windows opening onto the street. There was no lock on the door, and I know I never went into that room at any hour when the girls were…
270 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:238X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.O. Jones, Miss Zill Spivey, Charles Lee, N. V. Darley, F. Ziganki, A. C. Holloway, and Minnie Foster testified that they were employees of the pencil company. They knew Leo M.…
271 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK239I did it during business hours; I have never met Mr. Frank anywhere, or at any time, for immoral purposes.**Ruth Robinson:** I have seen Leo M. Frank talking to Mary Phagan. He…
272 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSI waited outside for her two hours, then went in and found Mr. February reading over to her some stenographic statement he had taken. As to whether Minola McKnight did not…
273 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK244A witness stated in the presence of Miss Haas and other passengers, "There has been so much talk that I don’t know what has been said; I don’t remember saying that I…
274 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:242 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Based on the evidence I have listened to, I would say that it indicated digestion had been progressing for less than an hour.**Cross-examined:** I couldn’t presume to say how long…
275 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 243It was impossible to see the direction she went in when she left the office. I didn’t keep the door locked downstairs that morning because the mail was coming in. I…
276 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:244 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.A scratch pad that Conley wrote on; an ordinary white scratch pad.The following affidavit was executed by Minola McKnight:Saturday morning, April 26th, Mr. Frank left home about eight. Albert, my…
277 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANE, 245I remained at home all Saturday night. At 12 o'clock noon on Sunday, I walked up Mitchell Street and got a cigarette, remaining there until 12:45 p.m. I then returned home…
278 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:246 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.I have made up my mind to tell the whole truth, without the promise of any reward or from force or fear of punishment in any way.I got up Saturday…
279 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 247"Can you write?" I said, "Yes, sir, I can write a little bit," and then he gave me a pencil that he got off the top of his desk and told…
280 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:248 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.I laughed and said, "Good luck has done struck me," and I bought a ten-cent double-header. Then I went back to Peters Street, but none of the boys I ran…
281 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 249When he whistled for me, I went upstairs, and he asked me if I wanted to make some money right quick. I told him, "Yes, sir," and he told me that…
282 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:250 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Frank looked at it and said it was all right. Mr. Frank looked up at the top of the house and said, "Why should I hang? I have wealthy people…
283 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 251THE SPEECHES TO THE JURY**MR. HOOPER FOR THE STATE**August 21Mr. Hooper: Gentlemen of the Jury, the object of this trial, as well as all other trials, is the ascertainment of truth…
284 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:252 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.We, the prosecution, require evidence, but we are not looking for blood indiscriminately. Our sole aim is to find the slayer of Mary Phagan, and in seeking him, I try…
285 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 253But the defense, on the other hand, were allowed to let down the bars and walk in.That pencil factory was a great place for a man without a conscience. It was…
286 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:254 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The attitude of the accused toward his victim is evident in the tall, good-natured Jim Gantt, a friend of Mary. He asks Gantt, "You're pretty thick with Mary, aren't you?"…
287 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 255Truth is stronger than all the brains and ingenuity that can be collected in this whole town—this state, the world. How they did hate to give up the fight. They lost,…
288 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:256 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.On that fateful day, Leo Frank knew the hour. On the previous afternoon, little Helen Ferguson, Mary's chum, had called for Mary's pay, and Frank had told her that Mary…
289 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO Hl. FRANE. 257The negro reported hearing a sound that seemed like a laugh broken off into a shriek. It pierced the stillness of the hushed building. Though it was uncanny, he remained seated…
290 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:258 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Now, which is more probable—that Jim heard this expression, or that he imagined the story? Did Jim know Frank had relatives in Brooklyn? Did Jim know there was such a…
291 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 269Leo M. Frank was expecting Jim Conley, and he also knew that Newt Lee was coming. Aye, there was the rub! He expected them both, and it depended upon which one…
292 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:260 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,The defendant was going to pay a dollar or so. He didn't think that Gantt stole that paltry dollar. He expected him to ask where Mary Phagan was. That, gentlemen…
293 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANKWe need not delve into many details in this respect. You remember the evidence about honest old Newt Lee's finding the body. That's all we need to know about him. No suspicion…
294 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:262 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.With a lot of things piled on top of it, he found a bloody shirt! How did it get there? Newt Lee accounts for his time on Sunday. No suspicion…
295 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANKHe is the man about whom it appeared that the whole fight would center. If he could convince you that Jim confessed the murder to him, that would let Frank out! Yet…