Author: Mary Phagan
386 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:354 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The witness did not go back on the affidavit which he had signed, though he did modify his statements.All right; I'm not going to call over all these other people—Mrs.…
387 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 855Consider that scuttle hole. Don't you know that Frank would have rushed to get his detective, Scott, to put the police in charge of the information that blood had been found…
388 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:356 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.After he killed that girl and changed his clothing, that old Newt didn’t have the time. Why did he say it then? Because he knew that Lanford and Black and…
389 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 357It is evident that someone planted that shirt sometime on Monday, though we do not know at whose instance and suggestion.Regarding the club, both Doctor Harris and Doctor Hurt have stated…
390 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:358 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.I was about to have lunch when I got to my house, and Minola answered the phone. She responded that she would have lunch immediately and for me to come…
391 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 359"They didn't keep it shut all the time," said Albert. "And you know he didn't eat anything in that dining room?""Yes, I know he didn't eat."And this is the tale that…
392 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:360 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.I have enough to attend to my own business without running theirs. Now, go out there and bring in Julius Fisher, a photographer, and all these people to try to…
393 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 361"You know you can’t see from the kitchen into the dining room, you know that, don’t you?" "Yes sir, you certainly can see;" and the very evidence of the photographs and…
394 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:362 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS."Whether it's fair or not,—that's a fair statement?" And Albert says, "I don't know whether it's fair or not, but I know I saw Leo M. Frank come in there…
395 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 363You and I haven’t the physical strength, but there is certain language and certain statements and assertions made in this statement by this defendant which merit some consideration. This defendant stated…
396 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:364. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Her husband would never have gone to him through snapshotters, reporters, and over the advice of any Rabbi under the sun. And you know it. Frank says in his statement, with…
397 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 865You know why. Ah, you did know that Conley could write. You knew it, not only because he wrote the notes for you, through which you sought to place the responsibility…
398 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:866%. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.There never lived within the State of Georgia a lawyer with half the ability of Mr. Luther Rosser, who, possessing a consciousness of his client's innocence, wouldn't have said, "Let this…
399 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO H. FRANK. 867**The Court:** I know; go on.**Mr. Dorsey:** They see the force of it.**Mr. Rosser:** Is that a fair comment, Your Honor, if I make a reasonable objection, to say that we…
400 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:368 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.If you were innocent of murder, could any lawyer, Rosser or anybody else, keep you from confronting the accuser and nailing the lie? No lawyer on earth, no lawyer that…
401 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO H. FRANK. 360Newt Lee had been there for only two or three weeks—three weeks, to be precise. Frank could have told you that the detectives emphasized the fact that couples frequented the place…
402 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:370 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS."Now, first, contrast that statement for a moment with this statement with reference to the condition of the floor where Barrett worked. There he says there wasn't a spot, much…
403 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO U. FRANK, 871Can you justify yourselves on that point, as against the evidence of all these witnesses who have told you that that was blood, and against the evidence of Doctor Claude Smith,…
404 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:372 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Even if he had been such a fool and so unlike the other members of his race, by whom brutal murders have been committed, he should have taken time to…
405 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 373According to his own statement, Lemmie Quinn had to come and ask him to go back to see the blood spots on the second floor, found by this man Barrett. Is…
406 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:374 X¥. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Mr. Dorsey: Rogers said he never did look at that body.Mr. Arnold: I insist that isn’t the evidence. Rogers said he didn't know and couldn't answer whether he saw it…
407 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 375Leo M. Frank's nervousness can be attributed to the circumstances surrounding the case, yet he returned, like a dog to its vomit or a sow to its wallow, to view the…
408 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:376 X¥. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The electricity might innocently electrocute some members of the fire department in case of a fire. I ask you, gentlemen of the jury, what was the necessity for leaving the…
409 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK, 377**Mr. Rosser:** He doesn’t claim that. He says the point is it was easily gotten in the office, but that’s not what he said.**The Court:** You claim that’s a deduction you…
410 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:378 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.In his statement, the defendant says, "though I didn't look at her and couldn't have recognized her if she was in the dirty, distorted condition," yet he claims, "but I…
411 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 370When the incident occurred, the first question asked was not, "Has there been a fire?" but "Has there been a tragedy?" Starnes, the man who initially suspected Newt Lee, the negro…
412 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:880 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Had he been up there, he innocently called Newt to find out, he said, if Gantt had gone and Newt said to find out if everything was all right at…
413 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 381This man Frank had stepped out of his office to answer a call of nature. He would have remembered it, and if he wouldn't have remembered it, at least he wouldn't…
414 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:382 &X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,"You were in your office," and Frank said "yes." And not until he saw the wonderful capacity, the wonderful ability, the wonderful devotion of this man Scott to the truth…
415 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:LEO M. FRANK. 383A man named Mr. Kelley, who rode on the same car with Hollis, the same car that Hollis claims or Matthews claims that he rode on, knew the girl, knew Matthews,…