Author: Mary Phagan


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

Here is the translated text as follows:324 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.He said all right. He didn't want him to run anywhere else because he wanted him to work hand in glove with these men, and he wanted to know what…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 325Schiff, as willing and anxious as he was, couldn't stultify himself to such an extent as to tell you that Frank did that work on Saturday morning. But if he did…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:326 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Frank: "Tuesday morning?" "I saw him Tuesday morning"—he was up there on the fourth floor after the murder, on Tuesday, sometime between nine and eleven o'clock." I said, "Between nine…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 327Let's talk about Jim Conley reading the newspapers. If Jim had committed that crime and he hadn't felt that he had the power and influence of Leo Frank behind him to…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:328 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS."Time Tuesday!" "I couldn't tell you, I guess it was between eight and nine o'clock." The other one saw him somewhere between nine and eleven or eleven thirty. This lady,…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 329The facts are too firmly and too deeply rooted. Oh, yes, says Mrs. Small, I saw Frank up there on that fourth floor between eight and nine o'clock Tuesday morning, and…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:8380 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,Let not able counsel and the glamour that surrounds wealth and influence deter you. I honor the way they went after Minola McKnight. I don't know whether they want me…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 331I am as proud of being elected to the position of Solicitor General by the people of this community as I am of anything else. However, I have never yet seen…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:332 XY, ‘AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Q: "I checked the ticket and I went on with my work." So Frank was up there Tuesday morning."Now, speaking about Mrs. Carson, how far towards the elevator did Mrs.…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 333It was evident that many had seen the blood—that blood which at first wasn't blood but paint, and then wasn't paint but cat's blood or blood from someone who was injured,…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:334 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.There is no slush fund behind this case. Now, let's move on a little bit.They tried very hard to break down this man, Albert McKnight, with Minola—and I believe I'll…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO WM. FRANE, 335You say it's foolish, ridiculous, and a silly piece of business—a great folly. But murder will out, and Providence directs things in a mysterious way. Not only that, as Judge Bleckley…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:336 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Exactly four times, as I'll show you when I come to read this statement by Leo M. Frank, for he chatted, and he chatted, and he chatted, and he chatted,…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 337Jim says he looked at him like he thought, "I done it." It's the difference between ignorance and education, and these notes that you had that man prepare in your office…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:338 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.I tell you, gentlemen of the jury, that a smarter man than Starnes, or a smarter man than Campbell, a smarter man than Black, a smarter man than Rosser, in…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 339Let it be the doubt of a man who has conjured it up simply to acquit a friend, or a man that has been the friend of a friend; let it…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:340 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The strength of the case does not rest upon this instance or that one, but upon all, taken together and bound together, which make a cable as strong as it…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANE, 341He was willing to help this man take the body from the second floor, where the blood was found, into the basement and keep his mouth shut and protect him until…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:342 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.This pretty, attractive little girl, twelve months, and a man of your brilliant parts didn't even know her, and do you tell me that you had made up the pay-roll…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 343Has Conley lied? Has Dewey Hewell lied? Has Gantt lied? Has Miss Ruth Robinson lied? And even Frank, in his statement, admits that he knew Mary well enough to know that…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:344 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,You stand in the way of the consummation of your diabolical and evil plans.You say that you and Schiff made up the payroll on Friday, and I wouldn't be at…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 345The issue at hand is torn down, and the person who refused to go into specific instances on cross-examination, if he didn't contemplate this little girl's ruin and damnation, it was…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:346 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.He returned from the factory and said, "But I know there were several of them, and I went on chatting with Mr. Montag." I told you I was going to…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 347In another instance, he says, "I chatted with them." "Entering, I found quite a number of people, among them Darley," etc. "I chatted with them a few minutes,"—using the same words…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:348 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.While out of the building, he wanted to call Jim Conley, if Jim had seen, and his saying that he had seen would have given him away. Then it was…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 349Like you, I would have stormed the jail or done anything. It oughtn't to be, because that thing ought to be left to be threshed out before an upright court and…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:350 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.You are born, and that man is not like other men. He saw this girl, he coveted her; others without her stamina and her character had yielded to his lust,…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 351Blood was spattered towards the dressing room; you know it was blood because Starnes says he saw it was blood and he saw that the haskoline had been put over it.…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:352 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.In the dressing room at a time when no reward is shown to have been offered—and indeed, when you know that no reward was offered because no executive of this…

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

Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 353A white substance was smeared over it. "It was not there Friday, I know," said Mel Stanford, "because I swept the floor Friday at that place. The white substance appeared to…