Category: LEO FRANK TRIAL SWORN STATEMENTS
SERGEANT L S DOBBS, Sworn In For The State, 180th To Testify
SERGEANT L. S. DOBBS, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I saw Mr. Rogers on Sunday try to get in that back door leading up from basement in rear of factory. There were cobwebs and dust there. The door was closed.SERGEANT…
TILLANDER, Sworn In For The State, 181st To Testify
TILLANDER, sworn for the State in rebuttal.Mr. Graham and I went to the pencil factory on April 26th, about 20 minutes to 12. We went in from the street and looked around and I found a negro coming from a…
E K GRAHAM, Sworn In For The State, 182nd To Testify
E. K. GRAHAM, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I was at the pencil factory April 26th, with Mr. Tillander, about 20 minutes to 12. We met a negro on the ground floor. Mr. Tillander asked him where the office was,…
J W COLEMAN, Sworn In For The State, 183rd To Testify
J. W. COLEMAN, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I remember a conversation I had with detective Mc Worth. He exhibited an envelope to me with a figure "5" on the right of it.CROSS EXAMINATION.This does not seem to be the…
J M GANTT, Sworn In For The State, 184th To Testify
J. M. Gantt, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I have seen Leo Frank make up the financial sheet. It would take him an hour and a half after I gave him the data.J M GANTT, Sworn In For The State,…
IVY JONES C, Sworn In For The State, 185th To Testify
IVY JONES (c), sworn for the State in rebuttal.I saw Jim Conley at the corner of Hunter and Forsyth Streets on April 26th 1913. He came in the saloon while I was there, between one and two o'clock. He was…
HARRY SCOTT, Sworn In For The State, 186th To Testify
HARRY SCOTT, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I picked up cord in the basement when I went through there with Mr. Frank. Lee's shirt had no color on it, excepting that of blood. I got the information as to Conley's…
L T KENDRICK, Sworn In For The State, 187th To Testify
L. T. KENDRICK, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I was night watchman at the pencil factory for something like two years. I punched the clocks for a whole night's work in two or three minutes. The clock at the factory…
VERA EPPS, Sworn In For The State, 188th To Testify
VERA EPPS, sworn for the State in rebuttal.My brother George was in the house when Mr. Minar was asking us about the last time we saw Mary Phagan. I don't know if he heard the questions asked. George didn't tell…
C J MAYNARD, Sworn In For The State, 189th To Testify
C. J. MAYNARD, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I have seen Burtus Dalton go in the factory with a woman in June or July, 1912. She weighed about 125 pounds. It was between 1:30 and 2 o'clock in the afternoon…
W T HOLLIS, Sworn In For The State, 190th To Testify
W. T. Hollis, sworn for the State in rebuttal.Mr. Reed rides out with me every morning. I don't remember talking to J. D. Reed on Monday, April 29th, and telling him that George Epps and Mary Phagan were on my…
J D REED, Sworn In For The State, 191st To Testify
J. D. REED, sworn for the State in rebuttal.Mr. Hollis told me on Monday, April 28th, that Epps had gotten on the car and taken his seat next to Mary, and that the two talked to each other all the…
J N STARNES, Sworn In For The State, 192nd To Testify
J. N. STARNES, sworn for the State in rebuttal.There were no spots around the scuttle hole where the ladder is immediately after the murder. Campbell and I arrested Minola Mc Knight to get a statement from her. We turned her…
DR CLARENCE JOHNSON, Sworn In For The State, 193rd To Testify
DR. CLARENCE JOHNSON, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I am a specialist on diseases of the stomach and intestines. I am a physiologist. A physiologist makes his searches on the living body; the pathologist makes his on a dead body.…
DR GEORGE M NILES, Sworn In For The State, 194th To Testify
DR. GEORGE M. NILES, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I confine my work to diseases of digestion. Every healthy stomach has a certain definite and orderly relation to every other healthy stomach. Assuming a young lady between thirteen and fourteen…
DR JOHN FUNK, Sworn In For The State, 195th To Testify
DR. JOHN FUNK, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I am professor of pathology and bacteriologist. I was shown by Dr. Harris sections from the vaginal wall of Mary Phagan, sections taken near the skin surface. I didn't see sections from…
T Y BRENT, Sworn In For The Defendant, 196th To Testify
T. Y. BRENT, sworn for the Defendant in sur-rebuttal.I have heard George Kendley on several occasions express himself very bitterly towards Leo Frank. He said he felt in this case just as he did about a couple of negroes hung…
M E STAHL, Sworn In For The Defendant, 197th To Testify
M. E. STAHL, sworn for the Defendant, in sur-rebuttal.I have heard George Kendley, the conductor, express his feelings toward Leo Frank. I was standing on the rear platform, and he said that Frank was as guilty as a snake, and…
MISS C S HAAS, Sworn In For The Defendant, 198th To Testify
MISS C. S. HAAS, sworn for the Defendant, in sur-rebuttal.I heard Kendley two weeks ago talk about the Frank case so loud that the entire street car heard it. He said that circumstantial evidence was the best kind of evidence…
N SINKOVITZ, Sworn In For The Defendant, 199th To Testify
N. SINKOVITZ, sworn for the Defendant, in sur-rebuttal.I am a pawnbroker. I know M. E. Mc Coy. He has pawned his watch to me lately. The last time was January 11, 1913. It was in my place of business on…
S L ASHER, Sworn In For The Defendant, 200th To Testify
S. L. ASHER, sworn for the Defendant in sur-rebuttal.About two weeks ago I was coming to town between 5 and 10 minutes to 1 on the car and there was a man who was talking very loud about the Frank…
ORAL STATEMENT OF LEO M. FRANK.
Gentlemen of the Jury: In the year 1884, on the 17th day of April, I was born in Cuero, Texas. At the age of three months, my parents took me to Brooklyn, New York, and I remained in my home…
ADDITIONAL STATEMENT MADE BY DEFENDANT, LEO M. FRANK.
In reply to the statement of the boy that he saw me talking to Mary Phagan when she backed away from me, that is absolutely false, that never occurred. In reply to the two girls, Robinson and Hewel, that they…