Author: Mary Phagan
ALONZO MANN, Sworn In For The Defendant, 68th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video ALONZO MANN, sworn for the Defendant.I am office boy at the National Pencil Company. I began working there April 1, 1913. I sit sometimes in the outer office and stand around in the outer hall. I…
M 0 NIX, Sworn In For The Defendant, 69th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video M. O. NIX, sworn for the Defendant.I am credit man for Montag Bros. and bookkeeper. I have charge of the bookkeeping and documents and papers of the National Pencil Company. I am familiar with Mr. Frank's…
HARRY GOTTHEIMER, Sworn In For The Defendant, 70th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video HARRY GOTTHEIMER, sworn for the Defendant.I am a traveling salesman. I make two trips a year for the National Pencil Company, from the first of February to the first of April, and from the first of…
MRS RACHEL JACOBS FRANK, Sworn In For The Defendant, 71st To Testify
Stream Video Download Video MRS. RACHEL JACOBS FRANK, sworn for the Defendant.I am the mother of Leo Frank. I live in Brooklyn. I lived in Texas three years, where Leo was born. Mr. Moses Frank of Atlanta is my husband's…
OSCAR PAPPENHEIMER, Sworn In For The Defendant, 72nd To Testify
Stream Video Download Video OSCAR PAPPENHEIMER, sworn for the Defendant.I am in the furniture business. I am also a stockholder of the National Pencil Company. I have been getting comparative sheets as to the weekly business of the Company from…
C F URSENBACH, Sworn In For The Defendant, 73rd To Testify
Stream Video Download Video C. F. Ursenbach, sworn for the Defendant.I married a sister of Mrs. Leo Frank. I phoned him on Friday and asked him if he would go to the baseball game Saturday. He said he didn't know,…
MRS C F URSENBACH, Sworn In For The Defendant, 74th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video MRS. C. F. URSENBACH, sworn for the Defendant.I am Mrs. Leo Frank's sister. I received a telephone message for Mr. Ursenbach from Mr. Frank through my cook on Saturday at half past one. I saw no…
MRS ALEXANDER E MARCUS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 75th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video MRS. ALEXANDER E. MARCUS, sworn for the Defendant.I am a sister of Mrs. Leo Frank. I played cards Saturday night at Mrs. Selig's. Mr. Frank was there sitting out in the hall reading, and Mrs. Frank…
MRS M MARCUS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 76th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video MRS. M. MARCUS, sworn for the Defendant.I am no relation of Mr. or Mrs. Frank. I saw Mr. Frank at half past eight or a quarter to nine in the evening on April 26th, at Mrs.…
M J GOLDSTEIN, Sworn In For The Defendant, 77th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video M. J. GOLDSTEIN, sworn for the Defendant.I played cards Saturday night, April 26th, at Mrs. Selig's house. I got there about 8:15. We played in the dining room. Mr. Frank was sitting in the hall. There…
I STRAUSS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 78th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video I. STRAUSS, sworn for the Defendant.I was at the home of Mrs. Selig, Saturday night, playing cards. I got there about 10:30. Mr. Frank let me in. While we played he was sitting in the hall…
SIGMUND MONTAG, Sworn In For The Defendant, 79th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video SIGMUND MONTAG, sworn for the Defendant.I am engaged in manufacturing stationery. I am treasurer of the National Pencil Company. The company receives its mail at my office, which is two blocks from the pencil factory. Frank…
Tom Watson: The Celebrated Case of The State of Georgia vs. Leo Frank, Watson’s Magazine the Jeffersonian Monthly, August 1915
by Thomas E. Watson (pictured), Watson's Magazine, Volume 21 Number 4, August 1915 THE LAWS OF Georgia are extraordinarily favorable to a person accused of crime. He is not only protected in all of his rights under the Constitution of…
TRUMAN MCCRARY, C, Sworn In For The Defendant, 80th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video TRUMAN Mc CRARY, (colored), sworn for the Defendant.I am a drayman on the streets of Atlanta. I work for the National Pencil Company. I have hauled for them. I have drayed for them most every Saturday…
D J NIX, Sworn In For The Defendant, 81st To Testify
Stream Video Download Video D. J. NIX, sworn for the Defendant.I was office boy at the pencil factory from April, 1912, to October, 1912. I worked there every other Saturday until the first of September, and then every Saturday thereafter.…
FRANK PAYNE, Sworn In For The Defendant, 82nd To Testify
Stream Video Download Video FRANK PAYNE, sworn for the Defendant.I was office boy last Thanksgiving day at the pencil factory. It was snowing that day. I am 16 years old. Mr. Schiff and Mr. Frank were working there in the…
PHILLIP CHAMBERS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 83rd To Testify
Stream Video Download Video PHILLIP CHAMBERS, sworn for the Defendant.I am 15 years old. I started working for them December 12, 1912, as office boy, at the pencil factory. I left there March 29, 1913. I stayed in the outer…
GODFREY WEINKAUF, Sworn In For The Defendant, 84th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video GODFREY WEINKAUF, sworn for the Defendant.I am superintendent of the Pencil Company's lead plant. Beginning with July, 1912, up until the first week in January, 1913, I visited the office of the pencil factory every other…
CHARLIE LEE, Sworn In For The Defendant, 85th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video CHARLIE LEE, sworn for the Defendant.I am a machinist at the pencil factory. I remember an accident to Duffy in the metal room. His finger was hurt on the eyelet machine, about Oct. 4, 1912. It…
ARTHUR PRIDE COLORED, Sworn In For The Defendant, 86th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video ARTHUR PRIDE (colored), sworn for the Defendant.I worked on the second floor of the factory. On Saturdays I work all over the factory, doing anything that is necessary. Beginning with July of last year I have…
DAISY HOPKINS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 87th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video DAISY HOPKINS, sworn for the Defendant.I am a married woman. I worked in the factory from October, 1911, to June 1, 1912. I worked in the packing department on the second floor. Mr. Frank never spoke…
MISS LAURA ATKINSON, Sworn In For The Defendant, 88th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video MISS LAURA ATKINSON, sworn for the Defendant.I have been in Mr. Dalton's company three times. I never met him at the Busy Bee Cafe. I have never walked with him to or from the pencil company.…
MRS MINNIE SMITH, Sworn In For The Defendant, 89th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video MRS. MINNIE SMITH, sworn for the Defendant.I work at the pencil factory. I do not know C. B. Dalton. I live at 148 S. Forsyth Street. I have never met Dalton or walked home with him.…
Tom Watson: The Official Record in the Case of Leo Frank, a Jew Pervert, Watson’s Magazine the Jeffersonian Monthly, September 1915
by Thomas E. Watson (pictured), Watson's Magazine, Volume 21 Number 5, September 1915 IN NEW YORK, there lived a fashionable architect, whose work commanded high prices. He was robust, full of manly vigor, and so erotic that he neglected a…
I M HAMILTON, Sworn In For The Defendant, 90th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video V. S. Cooper to I. M. Hamilton. All sworn for the defendant.V. S. Cooper, W. T. Mitchell, O. A. Nix, Samuel Craig, B. L. Patterson, Robert Craig, Ed Craig, T. L. Ambrose, J. P. Bird, J.…
R L BAUER, Sworn In For The Defendant, 91st To Testify
Stream Video Download Video R. L. BAUER, sworn for the Defendant.During the summer of 1909 and 1910, I worked at the National Pencil Company on Saturdays. Since that time I have worked off and on at the factory on Saturdays…
GORDON BAILEY, C, Sworn In For The Defendant, 92nd To Testify
Stream Video Download Video GORDON BAILEY, (colored) sworn for the Defendant.I work at the factory. I am sometimes called "Snowball." I never saw Jim Conley talk to Mr. Frank the Friday before the murder. I have never, at any time,…
HENRY SMITH, Sworn In For The Defendant, 93rd To Testify
Stream Video Download Video HENRY SMITH, sworn for the Defendant.I work at the pencil factory in the metal department. I work with Barrett. He has talked to me about the reward offered in this case. He said it was $4,300,…
MILTON KLEIN, Sworn In For The Defendant, 94th To Testify
Stream Video Download Video MILTON KLEIN, sworn for the Defendant.I saw Mr. Frank last Thanksgiving evening at a dance given by the B'nai B'rith at the Hebrew Orphans' Home. I also saw him that same afternoon between half past four…