Category: APPEALS GEORGIA SUPREME COURT
1591 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: R. P. BUTLER, W. V. DARBY, H. G. SCHIFF, BULA FLOWERS, JOE WILLIAMS, JOS.STEIKER, R. W. LOEB, L. A. QUINN, P. SIGANSKY, Sworn for the Movants.We are acquainted with the handwriting of Jim Conley.…
1592 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: the least doubt in my mind that these letters were written by thesame person who wrote the notes found by the dead body of MaryPhagan.S. M. NETTLEBAUM, Sworn for the Movant.I am a court…
1593 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: eral character for truth and veracity. The same is good and we would believe them on oath in a court of law.WILLIAM J. BURNS, Sworn for the Movent. In the office of Solicitor General…
1594 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: ed me to make a comparison of the handwriting which appeared on the two notes found by the body of Mary Phagan, and copies of which appear as State's Exhibits Y and Z in…
1595 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: COUNTER SHOWING OF THE STATE.GROUND 1.W.A. GHEESLING, Sworn for the State. I am the undertaker who took charge of the body of Mary Phagan and who swore upon the trial of the case of…
1596 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: JOHN R. BLACK, Sworn for the State. I am the party referred to in the above affidavit of Mr. John W. Coleman, and that I did so exhibit the hairs recovered from the factory…
1597 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: entirely too light in color and was not of the same texture as that of Mary Phagan." This statement is false and untrue. I did not say positively that it was not Mary Phagan's…
1598 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: have me quoted as saying "positively that the hair on said lathe was not the hair of Mary Phagan, and that the same was entirely too light in color and not of the same…
1599 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: looking for me. He told me to leave town that Sunday before the Conley case came up the next week. He told me not to let them get me by any means. I asked…
1600 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: the second time and I wasn't there, and he come again, & think it was Thursday or Friday, and I wouldn't make him no affidavit, and then he says "I will come to see…
1601 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: the head man, and me and these other two fellows were standing in the waiting room and he reads this affidavit over to me, or pretended to read it to me, whatever he read…
1602 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: around and walked out and he told me other things connected with that matter at that time. I asked him to make a statement and he said he was afraid they would lock him…
1603 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Lessitt was the truth. I was present at the police headquarters when Minola McKnight made her affidavit sustaining everything that Albert McKnight said to me. Albert McKnight, in the presence of his wife, Minola…
1604 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: breakfast table Sunday morning and my wife was listening from thekitchen. Then Mrs. Frank was only paying my wife $3.50 per weekup to the Saturday of the murder and they told her if she…
1605 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: operating on his mind in telling what he did. Albert McKnight is present when I sign this affidavit and has heard read over to him the same before I signed it, and Albert McKnight…
1606 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: X nevernever came back to work after the newspaper published the repudia-tion of his evidence of the State. April 15, 1914.W. H. BOYD, Sworn for the State. I know C.W.Burke. I run the Tex-minal…
1607 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: end described her costume to my friend who said:"That's right,she was wearing clothes of that kind."8TH GROUNDMRS. CARRIE SMITH, sworn for the State. On Monday night,April 20,1914, at about 10:00 o'clock I was standing…
1608 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: was bad. Some time after the trial of the case I was requested by Miss Marie Karst to meet her for the purpose of going to a show on the 7th floor of the…
1609 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: at the time. I don't know, of course, what Frank and this woman were doing in there, but I do know that they were in that room which was supposed to be used only…
1610 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Frank and know that he was a man. I didn't pay much attention to what the girl had to say. I talked to Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey in the presence of Mr. Hass…
1611 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: won't forget it." I have heard people say that Frank was a man of bad character. This was the general talk among the girls in the factory. I heard the employees in the factory…
1612 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: to be Burns detectives, asked me if there was anybody else besid.s myself that I knew who had seen Frank go into the dressing room with women. I stated that my recollection was that…
1613 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: RUTH ROBERSON, Sworn for the State. I worked at the NationalPencil Company for three years and was working there during theyear 1912, up until the middle of April, 1913, just a few weeksbefore Mary…
1614 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Frank case. I can positively state that I do not remember ever having seen Miss Griffin and I did not know her name, and certain it is that she never talked to me in…
1615 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: solicitor insulted me. The solicitor general never suggested or intimated in any way that I had had sexual intercourse with the defendant in his office or any other place in his factory, or that…
1616 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: of her affidavit. Directly after the murder, knowing that my daughter had been working at the pencil company's place of business, I talked to her about the same and she told me exactly what…
1617 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: and true report of the evidence which I gave on that trial. Some time recently, C.W.Burke, representing himself to be a detective representing Leo M.Frank and from the office of L.Z.Rosser, called on me…
1618 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: long enough to think what to do and what to say. Burke was writing this all down, as we were talking and when we finished, he got the stenographer of the National Pencil Company…
1619 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: Q. I know, but are you acquainted with his general character, what is generally said about what has been said about him? A. I can't express my opinion of his general character?Q. Just answer…
1620 Slide – Georgia Supreme Court Leo Frank Appeals Documents, 1913, 1914
Visible Translated Text Is As Follows: am going to ask you were you ever in Mr. Frank's office, meet him there between the middle of June and the 1st Saturday in January of this year, he asked if you ever…