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Introduction to the Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, July 28th, 1913 to August 21st, 1913, in the Fulton County Superior Court, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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  Leo Frank Trial Brief of Evidence, 1913 STATE OF GEORGIA VERSUS LEO M. FRANK In Fulton Superior Court, trial began July 28th and ended August 21st, 1913. Judge Leonard Strickland Roan, presiding. Conviction of murder at July term on August 25th, 1913 in Fulton Superior Court, Atlanta, Georgia. BRIEF OF THE EVIDENCE Introduction To Leo Frank Trial Brief  
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MRS J W COLEMAN, Sworn In For The State, 1st To Testify

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MRS. J.W. COLEMAN, Sworn for the State. I am Mary Phagan’s mother. I last saw her alive on the 26th day of April 1913, about a quarter to twelve, at home, at 146 Lindsey Street. She was getting ready to go to the pencil factory to get her pay envelope. About 11:30 , she ate some cabbage and bread. She left home at a quarter to twelve. She would have been fourteen years old the first day of June, was fair complected, heavy set, very pretty, and was extra large for her age. She had on a lavender dress, trimmed
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GEORGE EPPS, Sworn In For The State, 2nd To Testify

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  GEORGE EPPS, Sworn for the State. I am fourteen years old. I live right around the corner from Mary Phagan's home. I have known her about a year. The last time I saw here was Saturday morning coming to town on the English Avenue car. It was about ten minutes to twelve when I first saw her. I left her about seven minutes after twelve at the corner of Forsyth and Marietta Street. She had on that hat, parasol and things when I left her. She was going to the pencil factory to draw her money. She said she
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NEWT LEE, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 3rd To Testify

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NEWT LEE. (colored), sworn for the State.On the 26th day of April 1913, I was night watchman at the national Pencil Factory. I had been night watchman there for about three weeks. When I began working there, Mr. Frank carried me around and showed me every thing that I would have to do. I would have to get there at six o'clock on week days, and on Saturday evenings I have to come at five o'clock. On Friday the 25th of April, 1913 he told me "Tomorrow is a holiday and I want you to come back at four o'clock.
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L S DOBBS, Sworn In For The State, 4th To Testify

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L. S. DOBBS, Sworn for the State.I am Sergeant of police. On the morning of April 27th, about 3:25 a call came from the pencil factory that there was a murder up there. We went down in Boots Rogers' automobile. When we got there the door was locked. We knocked we knocked on the door and in about two minutes the negro came down the steps and opened the door and said there was a woman murdered in the basement. We went through a scuttle hole, a small trapdoor. The negro lead the way back in the basement, to a
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J N STARNES, Sworn In For The State, 5th To Testify

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J. N. STARNES, Sworn for the State.I am a city officer. Went to the pencil Company's place of business between five and six o'clock, April 27th 1913. The pencil company is located in Fulton County, Georgia, and that's where the body was found. The staple to the back door looked as if it had been prized out with a pipe pressed against the wood. There was a pipe there that fitted the indentation on the wood. I called Mr. Frank on the telephone, and told him I wanted him to come to the pencil factory right away. He said he
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W W ROGERS, Sworn In For The State, 6th To Testify

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W. W. ROGERS, sworn for the State.I am now connected with Judge Girardeau's court. I was at the station house Saturday night, April 26th, 1913 and went to the National Pencil Company's place of business. It was between five and five thirty that I heard Mr. Starnes have a conversation over the phone. I heard him say, "If you come I will send an automobile after you. " It took us five or six minutes to get out to Mr. Frank's residence at 86 E. Georgia Avenue. Mr. Black was with me. Mrs. Frank opened the door. She wore a
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MISS GRACE HICKS, Sworn In For The State, 7th To Testify

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MISS GRACE HICKS, sworn for the State.I knew Mary Phagan nearly a year at the pencil factory. She worked on the second floor. I identified her body at the undertaker's Sunday morning, April 27th. I knew her by her hair. She was fair skinned, had light hair, blue eyes and was heavy built, well developed for her age. I worked in the metal room, the same room she worked in. Mary's machine was right next to the dressing room, the first machine there. They had a separate closet for men and a separate one for ladies on that floor. There
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JOHN R BLACK, Sworn In For The State, 8th To Testify

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  JOHN R. BLACK, sworn for the State. I am a city policeman. I don't know the details of the conversation between Mr. Starnes and Mr. Frank over the 'phone. I didn't pay very much attention to it. I went over to Mr. Frank's house with Boots Rogers. Mrs. Frank came to the door. Mrs. Frank had on a bath robe. I stated that I would like to see Mr. Frank and about that time Mr. Frank stepped out from behind a curtain. His voice was hoarse and trembling and nervous and excited. He looked to me like he was
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JAMES MILTON GANTT, Sworn In For The State, 9th To Testify

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JAMES MILTON GANTT, sworn for the State.From June last until the first of January I was shipping clerk at the National Pencil Company. I was discharged April 7th by Mr. Frank for alleged shortage in the pay roll. I have known Mary Phagan when she was a little girl. Mr. Frank knew her, too. One Saturday afternoon she came in the office to have her time corrected, and after I had gotten through Mr. Frank came in and said, "You seem to know Mary pretty well," No, I had not told him her name. I used to know Mary when
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MRS J A WHITE, Sworn In For The State, 10th To Testify

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  MRS. J. A. WHITE, sworn for the State. I saw my husband at the pencil factory at 11:30. I stayed there until about 10 minutes to 12. I left him there and came back about 12:30 and left again about 1 o'clock. When I got there at 11:30 I saw Miss Hall, the stenographer, Mr. Frank and two men. I asked Mr. Frank if I could see my husband Mr. White. Mr. Frank was in the outside office then. He said I could see him and sent word by Mrs. Emma Freeman for him to come downstairs. My husband
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HARRY SCOTT, Sworn In For The State, 11th To Testify

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  HARRY SCOTT, sworn for the State. I am Superintendent of the local branch of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. I have worked on this case with John Black, city detective. I was employed by Mr. Frank representing the National Pencil Company. I saw Mr. Frank Monday afternoon, April 28th, at the pencil factory. We went into Mr. Frank's private office. Mr. Darley and a third party were with us. Mr. Frank said, I guess you read in the newspapers about the horrible crime that was committed in this factory, and the directors of this company and myself have had a
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MISS MONTEEN STOVER, Sworn In For The State, 12th To Testify

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MISS MONTEEN STOVER, sworn for the State.I worked at the National Pencil Company prior to April 25th, 1913. I was at the factory at five minutes after twelve on that day. I stayed there five minutes and left at ten minutes after twelve. I went there to get my money. I went in Mr. Frank's office. He was not there. I didn't see or hear anybody in the building. The door to the metal room was closed. I had on tennis shoes, a yellow hat and a brown rain coat. I looked at the clock on my way up, it
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ROBERT P BARRETT, Sworn In For The State, 13th To Testify

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ROBERT P. BARRETT, sworn for the State.I am a machinist for the National Pencil Company. I have been there about eight weeks. On Monday morning, April 28th, I found an unusual spot that I had never seen before at the west end of the dressing room on the second floor of the pencil factory. That spot was not there Friday. The spot was about 4 or 5 inches in diameter and little spots behind these from the rear, 6 or 8 in number. I discovered these between 6:30 and 7 o'clock Monday . It was blood. It looked like some
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MELL STANFORD, Sworn In For The State, 14th To Testify

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MELL STANFORD, sworn for the State.I have been working at the National Pencil Company a little over two years. I swept the whole floor in the metal room on Friday, April the 25th. On Monday there after I found a spot that had some white haskoline over it on second floor near dressing room. That wasn't there on Friday when I swept between 9 and 12 o'clock. I use a small broom in sweeping. I saw a big cane broom standing by the waste metal room on Monday about six feet from where the blood was found. The spot looked
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GEORGE W JEFFERSON, Sworn In For The State, 15th To Testify

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GEORGE W. JEFFERSON, sworn for the State.I worked at the National Pencil Company. We saw blood on the second floor in front of the girls' dressing room on Monday. It was about as big as a fan, and something white was over it. I didn't see that blood there Friday. Yes, there are cords in the polishing room, used to tie pencils with. They are hung up on a post in the polishing room. The spots were dark red in color. These cords are taken off the pencils and we throw them on a nail. We don't untie the knots.
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B B HASLETT, Sworn In For The State, 16th To Testify

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B. B. HASLETT, sworn for the State.I went to Mr. Frank's house Monday morning after the murder, about 7 o'clock. I went out there and got him and took him to the station house. He was at the station house two or three hours. I told him Chief Lanford wanted to see him.CROSS EXAMINATION.I saw Mr. Rosser and Mr. Haas at the station house about 8:30 or 9 o'clock. Mr. Black and I both went out for Mr. Frank Monday morning. We took him to the station house and turned him over to Chief Lanford. They had Mr. Frank in
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E F HOLLOWAY, Sworn In For The State, 17th To Testify

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  E. F. HOLLOWAY, sworn for the State. I am day watchman at the National Pencil factory-worked there two years. I was there on April 26th, from 6:30 a. m. till 11:45. I look after the elevator and freight that come in and out and people that come in and out. As to what I did to the elevator on that Saturday, I didn't do anything except that when Mr. White and Mr. Denham were working on the top floor, I started the elevator up and ripped up a plank for them. The elevator was locked when I sawed that
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N V DARLEY, Sworn In For The State, 18th To Testify

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  N. V. DARLEY, sworn for the State. My name is N. V. Darley. I am manager of the Georgia Cedar Company, a branch of the National Pencil Company. I have charge of the manufacturing and labor in the Forsyth Street plant. Mr. Sig Montag is my superior. Mr. Frank and I are of equal dignity in the factory. I was at the National Company's factory on Saturday, April 26th. I saw Mr. Frank and left about 9:40 in the morning. I was there Sunday morning at about 8:20. I saw Mr. Frank that morning. Observed nothing unusual when I
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W F ANDERSON, Sworn In For The State, 19th To Testify

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W. F. ANDERSON, sworn for the State.I was at police headquarters Saturday, April 26th. I got a call fromthe night, watchman at the pencil factory. He said a woman was dead atthe factory. I asked him if it was a white woman or a negro woman. Hesaid it was a white woman. We went there in an automobile, shook thedoor and Newt Lee came down from the second floor and carried us backto the ladder that goes down through the scuttle hole. About 3:30 Icalled up Mr. Frank on the telephone and got no answer. I heard thetelephone rattling and
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G C FEBRUARY, Sworn In For The State, 20th To Testify

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G. C. FEBRUARY, sworn for the State.I was present at Chief Lanford's office when Leo M. Frank and L. Z.Rosser were there. I took down Mr. Frank's statement stenographically.I don't remember Frank's answers in detail, Mr. Rosser was looking outof the window most of the time. He didn't say anything while I was inthere. This (Exhibit B, State), report is correct report of what Mr.Frank said. It was made on Monday, April 28th.CROSS EXAMINATION.I believe Mr. Rosser and Mr. Frank were in the room when I came in.It was sometime in the forenoon. I have never been a court stenographerexcept
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ALBERT MCKNIGHT, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 21st To Testify

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ALBERT Mc Knight, Colored, sworn for the State.My wife is Minola Mc Knight. She cooks for Mrs. Selig. Between 1and 2 o'clock on Memorial Day I was at the home of Mr. Frank to see mywife. He came in close to 1:30. He did not eat any dinner. He came in,went to the sideboard of the dining room, stayed there a few minutes andthen he goes out and catches a car. Stayed there about 5 or 10 minutes.CROSS EXAMINATION.Mrs. Selig and Mrs. Frank were present when Mr. Frank came in. Iwas in the cook room. There is a swinging door
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MISS HELEN FERGUSON, Sworn In For The State, 22nd To Testify

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MISS HELEN FERGUSON, sworn for the State.My name is Helen Ferguson, I worked at the National Pencil Company on Friday the 25th. I saw Mr. Frank Friday, April 25th, about 7o'clock in the evening and asked for Mary Phagan's money. Mr. Franksaid "I can't let you have it," and before he said anything else I turnedaround and walked out. I had gotten Mary's money before, but I didn'tget it from Mr. Frank.CROSS EXAMINATION.When I got Mary's money before I went up there and called my numberand called her number, and I got mine and hers. I didn't ask the manthat
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R L WAGGONER, Sworn In For The State, 23rd To Testify

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R. L. WAGGONER, sworn for the State.I am a city detective. On Tuesday, April 29th, from ten thirty untila little after 11 in the morning I was in front of the pencil factory on theother side of the street. I would continually see Mr. Frank walk to thewindow and look down and twist his hands when he would come to thewindow looking down on the sidewalk. He did this about 12 times whenI was there in about 30 minutes. I was in the automobile with Mr. Frankand Mr. Black and his leg was shaking. He was under arrest at the
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J L BEAVERS, Sworn In For The State, 24th To Testify

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J. L. BEAVERS, sworn for the State.I am Chief of Police of the City of Atlanta. I was at the pencil factoryon Tuesday, April 29th, and saw what I took to be a splotch of bloodon the floor right near this little dressing room on office floor, seemed tobe as big as a quarter in the center and scattered out in the direction ofthis room near the door. There was one spot and some others scatteredaround that.CROSS EXAMINATION.It may have been Monday that I was at the pencil factory. I don't know whether it was blood or not. It looked
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R M LASSITER, Sworn In For The State, 25th To Testify

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R. M. LASSITER, sworn for the State.I am a city policeman. On Sunday morning, April 27th, I found aparasol in the bottom of the elevator shaft. It was lying about the centerof the shaft. I also found a ball of rope twine, small wrapping twine,and also something that looked like a person's stool.CROSS EXAMINATION.I noticed evidence of dragging from the elevator in the basement.As I passed the rear door at 12 o'clock, the door was closed. The umbrellawas not crushed. I found it between 6 and 7 o'clock in the morning.The elevator comes down there and hits the ground plump
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L 0 GRICE, Sworn In For The State, 26th To Testify

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L. 0. GRICE, sworn for the State.My name is L. 0. Grice. I was at the National Pencil Company'splace on Sunday morning, April 27th 1913. A small sized man, defendanthere, attracted my attention, on account of his nervousness.CROSS EXAMINATION.I was called as a witness in this case one week after it started. Itold some of my friends about Mr. Frank's nervousness and they advisedme to go to Dorsey. I never knew or saw Mr. Frank before. When wewere told of how the little child was murdered, it excited me some.RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.I don't recall trembling any. I am pretty sure I
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MELL STANFORD, Sworn In For The State, 27th To Testify

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MELL STANFORD, sworn for the State (re-called).The door in the rear part of the factory on the second floor on Fridayevening was barred. There is no way in the rear of the building tocome down to the second floor when the door is barred except the fire escape, and you have to be on office floor to undo the door. The area around the elevator shaft on the first floor near the hole and radiator was cleaned up after the murder. It was the early part of the week after the murder.CROSS EXAMINATION.I didn't clean it myself. I saw it
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W H GREESLING, Sworn In For The State, 28th To Testify

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W. H. GREESLING, sworn for the State.I am a funeral director and embalmer. I moved the body of MaryPhagan at 10 minutes to four o'clock, April 27th, in the morning. Thecord (Exhibit C, State) was around the neck. The knot was on the rightside of the neck and was lying kind of looped around the head. It wasn'tvery tight at the time I moved it. There was an impress of an eighth ofan inch on the neck. The rag (Exhibit D, State) was around her hairand over her face. The tongue an inch and a quarter out of her mouthsticking
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DR CLAUDE SMITH, Sworn In For The State, 29th To Testify

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DR. CLAUDE SMITH, sworn for the State.I am physician and City Bacteriologist and Chemist. These chips(Exhibit E, State) appear to be the specimen which the detectivesbrought to my office and which I examined. They had considerable dirton them and some coloring stain. On one of them I found some bloodcorpuscles. I do not know whether it was human blood. This shirt (ExhibitE for State) appears to be the same shirt brought to my office bydetectives which I examined. I examined spots and it showed bloodstain. I got no odor from the arm pits that it had been worn. The bloodI
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DR J W HURT, Sworn In For The State, 30th To Testify

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DR. J. W. HURT, sworn for the state.I am County Physician. I saw the body of Mary Phagan on Sundaymorning, the 27th of April. She had a scalp wound on the left side of herhead about 2 and 1/2 inches long, about 4 inches from the top to the left ear through the scalp to the skull. She had a black contused eye. A number of small minor scratches on the face. The tongue was protruding about a half an inch through the teeth. There was a wound on the left knee, about 2 inches below the knee. There were
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DR H F HARRIS, Sworn In For The State, 31st To Testify

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DR. H. F. HARRIS, sworn for the State.I am a practicing physician. I made an examination of the body ofMary Phagan on May 5th. On removing the skull I found there was noactual break of the skull, but a little hemorrhage under the skull, corresponding to point where blow had been delivered, which shows that the blow was hard enough to have made the person unconscious. This wound on the head was not sufficient to have caused death. I think beyond any question she came to her death from strangulation from this cord beingwound around her neck. The bruise around
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C B DALTON, Sworn In For The State, 32nd To Testify

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C. B. DALTON, sworn for the State.I know Leo M. Frank, Daisy Hopkins, and Jim Conley. I have visited the National Pencil Company three, four or five times. I have been in the office of Leo M. Frank two or three times. I have been down in the basement. I don't know whether Mr. Frank knew I was in the basementor not, but he knew I was there. I saw Conley there and the night watchman, and he was not Conley. There would be some ladies in Mr. Frank's office. Sometimes there would be two, and sometimes one. May be
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S L ROSSER, Sworn In For The State, 33rd To Testify

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S. L. ROSSER, sworn for the State.I am a city policeman. On Monday, April 28th, I went out to seeMrs. White. On May 6th or 7th was the first time I knew Mrs. Whiteclaimed to have seen a negro at the factory on April 26th. These are thesame chips we had at factory. The club was not on floor by elevator theday I searched the place. I had a flash light and searched for everything.I would have seen it had it been there.CROSS EXAMINATION.I made no inquiry of her about this before. She volunteered the information when I came out
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JAMES CONLEY, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 34th To Testify

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  JAMES CONLEY, Colored, sworn for the State. I had a little conversation with Mr. Frank on Friday, the 25th of April. He wanted me to come to the pencil factory that Friday morning that he had some work on the third floor he wanted me to do. All right, I will talk louder. Friday evening about tree o'clock Mr. Frank come to the fourth floor where I was working and said he wanted me to come to the pencil factory on Saturday morning at 8:30; that he had some work for me to do on the second floor. I
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C W MANGUM, Sworn In For The State, 35th To Testify

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  C. W. MANGUM, sworn for the State. I had a conversation with Mr. Frank at the jail about seeing Conley and confronting him. Conley was on the fourth floor. Chief Beavers, Chief Lanford and Scott came down to see Mr. Frank with Conley and asked me if they could see him. I went to Frank and told him the men were there with Conley and wanted to talk with him if he wanted to see them. He said, "No, my attorney is not here and I have nobody to defend me. " He said his lawyer was not there;
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W W MATTHEWS, Sworn In For The State, 36th To Testify

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W. W. MATTHEWS, sworn for the Defendant.I work for the Georgia Railway & Electric Co. as a motorman. Onthe 26th day of April I was running on English Avenue. Mary Phagangot on my car at Lindsey Street at 11:50. Our route was from Bellwoodto English Avenue, down English Avenue to Kennedy, down Kennedy toGray, Gray to Jones Avenue, Jones Avenue to Marietta, Marietta toBroad, and out Broad Street. From Lindsey Street to Broad Street isabout a mile and a half or two miles. We make frequent stops. We werescheduled to arrive at Marietta and Broad at 12:071/2. We were onschedule.
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W T HOLLIS, Sworn In For The State, 37th To Testify

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W. T. HOLLIS, sworn for the Defendant.I am a street car conductor. On the 26th of April I was on the EnglishAvenue line. We ran on schedule that day. Mary Phagan got on atLindsey Street at about 11:50. She is the same girl I identified at theundertakers. She had been on my car frequently and I knew her well.No one else got on with her at Lindsey Street. Epps did not get on withher. I took up her fare on English Avenue, several blocks from whereshe got on. And no one was sitting with her then. I do not recollect
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HERBERT G SCHIFF, Sworn In For The State, 38th To Testify

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  HERBERT G. SCHIFF, sworn for the Defendant. I am assistant superintendent of the National Pencil Co.; I have been with the company about five years. Part of my duties was to get up data for the financial sheet. I occupied the same office as Mr. Frank. I took a trip on the road on the first Saturday in January. All of the company's money except the petty cash was kept over at Montag Bros. office at the general manager's office, Mr. Sig Montag. All mail of the company is received at Montag Bros. The men in Mr. Montag's office
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JOEL C HUNTER, Sworn In For The State, 39th To Testify

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JOEL C. HUNTER, sworn for the defendant.I am a public accountant, engaged in the profession ten or fifteenyears. I have examined the financial sheet said to be made by Leo M.Frank. I examined a copy and then checked it against the original. Inorder to find out how long it would take a person to make out these reports,I went through the calculations. I did not make out the sheets. Iverified the extensions and calculations on the financial sheet (Defendant'sExhibit 2). I found them correct within a decimal. There is oneitem a decimal is incorrect. That was immaterial, merely an error
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C E POLLARD, Sworn In For The State, 40th To Testify

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  C. E. POLLARD, sworn for the Defendant. I am an expert accountant. I was called into this matter for the purpose of seeing the length of time it would take to gather these figures and get the result on the financial sheet and other papers that were furnished me. I studied each sheet and when I was sure of what the result would be I would lay that sheet down and make a copy of it. I would take time myself for each operation. There was a discrepancy of one and one-half gross on the factory records in the
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MISS HATTIE HALL, Sworn In For The State, 41st To Testify

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`MISS HATTIE HALL, sworn for the defendant.I am a stenographer for the National Pencil Company. I do most ofthe work in the office of Montag Bros. Whenever it is necessary I godown to the National Pencil factory and do work there. I saw Mr. Frankabout ten o'clock of the morning of April 26th, at Montag Bros. , when hecame over there that morning. He came in Mr. Sig Montag's office, whereI was taking dictation and I told him that I didn't know whether I wouldbe able to go over there that morning or not, as Mr. Montag was givingme letters
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MISS CORINTHIA HALL, Sworn In For The State, 42nd To Testify

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MISS CORINTHIA HALL, sworn for the Defendant.I work in the finishing up department of the pencil factory. I am aforelady. I was at the factory on April 26th, I got there about 25 minutesto twelve. I had to come to town on the East Lake car and got totown about 11:30 and it took me about five minutes to reach the factory.Mrs. Emma Clarke Freeman was with me. She had spent the night withme. We went there after her coat and to telephone, to call up Mrs. Free-man's husband. We went up to the fourth floor to get the coat
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MRS EMMA CLARKE FREEMAN, Sworn In For The State, 43rd To Testify

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MRS. EMMA CLARKE FREEMAN, sworn for the Defendant.I married on April 25th. I worked at the pencil factory before that,at the time I was married. I was paid off on April 25th by Mr. Schiff.On the 26th I reached the factory with Miss Hall about 25 minutes to 12.I saw Mr. Frank at his office. He was talking to two men when we wentin. Mrs. White and Mr. Frank's stenographer were also in the office.Mr. Frank gave us permission to go up on the fourth floor to get my coat.While we were going up the steps Mr. Frank called to
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MISS EULA MAY FLOWERS, Sworn In For The State, 44th To Testify

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MISS EULA MAY FLOWERS, sworn for the Defendant.I did not work at the factory on Saturday, April 26th. I workedthere Friday, the 25th, in the packing department. Mr. Schiff got fromme the data for the financial sheet on Friday night at ten minutes to six.It was the production for the entire week from my department. It covers all the different classes of work where the goods were finished.CROSS EXAMINATION.I always turn those reports in Friday night or early Saturday morning.They don't touch Friday's work.MISS EULA MAY FLOWERS, Sworn In For The State, 44th To Testify
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MISS MAGNOLIA KENNEDY, Sworn In For The State, 45th To Testify

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MISS MAGNOLIA KENNEDY, sworn for the Defendant.I have been working for the pencil factory for about four years, inthe metal department. I drew my pay on Friday, April 25th, from Mr.Schiff at the pay window. Helen Ferguson was there when I went upthere. I was behind her and had my hand on her shoulder. Mr. Frankwas not there, Mr. Schiff gave Helen Ferguson her pay envelope. HelenFerguson did not ask Mr. Schiff for Mary Phagan's money. I came outright behind Helen Ferguson. We waited for Grace Hicks and then wentdown stairs. Helen didn't say anything about Mr. Frank at all.
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WADE CAMPBELL, Sworn In For The State, 46th To Testify

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WADE CAMPBELL, sworn for the Defendant.I have been working for the pencil factory for about a year and ahalf. I had a conversation with my sister, Mrs. Arthur White, on Mon-day, April 28th. She told me that she had seen a negro sitting at the elevator shaft when she went in the factory at twelve o'clock on Saturdayand that she came out at 12:30, she heard low voices, but couldn't seeanybody. On April 26th, I got to the factory about 9:30. Mr. Frank wasin his outer office. He was laughing and joking with people there, andjoked with me. He thought
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LEMMIE QUINN, Sworn In For The State, 47th To Testify

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LEMMIE QUINN, sworn for the Defendant.I am foreman of the metal department. Barrett pointed out to mewhere he claimed to have found blood spots on the metal room floor. Heasked me whether I thought that he (Barrett) would get the reward ifFrank were convicted. He told me that several people told him that hehad a good chance to get the reward. He said a fellow told him that hewould get $2700 one time and $4500 the other time. He mentioned thatreward to me on several occasions. The floor of the metal room is verydirty. You could not tell at the
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HARRY DENHAM, Sworn In For The State, 48th To Testify

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HARRY DENHAM, sworn for the Defendant.I work on the fourth floor of the pencil factory. I was paid off Friday,April 25th. I came back Saturday to do some work. Mr. Darleyasked me to come back. I had to work on the machinery when it was notrunning. That was the only time I could do it. I got there about 7:30.Mr. Holloway was there when I got there. Between 12 and 1 o'clock Iwas working on the varnish machine. We were hammering. We workeduntil ten minutes after 3. We began to take an old partition out and putin a new one
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MAGNOLIA “MINOLA” MCKNIGHT, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 49th To Testify

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  MINOLA Mc Knight (colored), sworn for the Defendant. I work for Mrs. Selig. I cook for her. Mr. and Mrs. Frank live with Mr. and Mrs. Selig. His wife is Mrs. Selig's daughter. I cooked breakfast for the family on April 26th. Mr. Frank finished breakfast a little after seven o'clock. Mr. Frank came to dinner about 20 minutes after one that day. That was not the dinner hour, but Mrs. Frank and Mrs. Selig were going off on the two o'clock car. They were already eating when Mr. Frank came in. My husband, Albert Mc Knight, wasn't in
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EMIL SELIG, Sworn In For The State, 50th To Testify

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EMIL SELIG, sworn for the Defendant.I am Mr. Frank's father-in-law. My wife and I live with Mr. Frankand his wife. The kitchen in our house is next to the dining room. Thereis a small passage way between them. The sideboard in the dining roomis in the same position now, as it has always been. Mr. Frank took breakfast before I did on April 26th and left the house before I breakfasted. I got back home to dinner about 1:15. My wife and Mrs. Frank were eatingthen. They told me in the morning to come home a little sooner, thatthey wanted
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MRS EMIL SELIG, Sworn In For The State, 51st To Testify

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  MRS. EMIL SELIG, sworn for the Defendant. I am Mrs. Frank's mother* (mother-in-law). Mr. and Mrs. Frank have been living with us two years. The sideboard is in the same position it always has been except when we sweep under it. We had lunch on April 26th after 1 o'clock, about ten minutes past one. Mr. Frank came about twenty minutes past one while we were eating. He sat down with us and ate. Mrs. Frank and I left before he did. We left about half past one. He was still eating at the table. After the opera, while
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MISS HELEN KERNS, Sworn In For The State, 52nd To Testify

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MISS HELEN KERNS, sworn for the Defendant.I work for the Dodson Medicine Company as stenographer. Myfather works for Montag. I took shorthand under Professor Briscoelast winter. I have seen Mr. Frank in his factory. I went there withProfessor Briscoe to get a job. I didn't get the position. I was workingon the 26th day of April for Bennett Printing Company. That day I gotoff about 12 o'clock. I then went around in town to the different storesand did some trading. I had an appointment to meet a girl at 1:15 at thecorner of Whitehall and Alabama Streets, at Jacobs' Drug
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MRS A P LEVY, Sworn In For The State, 53rd To Testify

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MRS. A. P. LEVY, sworn for the Defendant.I live right across the street from where Mr. Frank lives. I am nota relation of his either by blood or marriage. I saw him get off a car onMemorial Day between one and two o'clock. I was dressing to go to thematinee and was watching the cars as they passed to look out for my sonwho was late to dinner and saw Mr. Frank get off the car and cross thestreet to his home. I had a clock on my dresser and also one in the diningroom, and I was hurrying to
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MRS M G MICHAEL, Sworn In For The State, 54th To Testify

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MRS. M. G. MICHAEL, sworn for the Defendant.I live in Athens. On April 26th, I was at 387 Washington Street at2 o'clock, at the residence of my sister Mrs. Wolfsheimer. Mrs. Frankis my niece by marriage. I am no kin to Mr. Frank. I saw Mr. Frankabout 2 o'clock on April 26th. He was going up Washington Street towardstown when I first saw him. I remembered it was about 2 o'clock,because my son David was going to the matinee and he had to leave homebefore 2, and he had just left a few minutes when I saw Mr. Frank. I
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JEROME MICHAEL, Sworn In For The State, 55th To Testify

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JEROME MICHAEL, sworn for the Defendant.I live in Athens. I was in Atlanta on April 26th. I took dinner atMrs. Wolfsheimer's residence at 387 Washington Street. I saw Mr.Frank upon that day between five minutes to 2 and 2 o'clock. I know itwas that time because I had an engagement with a young lady and I hada watch in my hand most of the time. My brother Dave had just left forthe opera when Mr. Frank came up. When I first saw him he was goingtoward the right hand corner of Washington Street and Georgia Avenue,going up Georgia Avenue. I
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MRS HENNIE WOLFSHEIMER, Sworn In For The State, 56th To Testify

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MRS. HENNIE WOLFSHEIMER, sworn for the Defendant.I am the aunt of Mrs. Frank. I live at 387 Washington Street, thethird house from the corner of Georgia Avenue. On April 26th, I sawMr. Frank in front of my house. It was about 2 o'clock. We had finisheddinner which we ate at half past one. I was not on the porch whenhe came up but I walked out on the porch after he came. I did not seehim catch the car as I was called in the house before he left. I saw nothingunusual about him. No nervousness or bruises or scratches.
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JULIAN LOEB, Sworn In For The State, 57th To Testify

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JULIAN LOEB, sworn for the Defendant.I live at 380 Washington Street, across the street from the Wolfsheimer residence. I am a cousin of Mrs. Frank. I saw Mr. Frank onApril 26th in front of the Wolfsheimer residence. I was there when hecame by. It was between 1:50 and 2 o'clock. He was talking to Mrs.Michael and Mr. Jerome Michael and was inviting them to attend a meetingof the B'nai B 'rith lodge on the next day which was Sunday. He waspresident of that lodge. He left and walked towards town up WashingtonStreet towards Glenn. I didn't see him catch the
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COHEN LOEB, Sworn In For The State, 58th To Testify

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COHEN LOEB, sworn for the Defendant.I was on the car with Mr. Frank going back to town on April 26thafter lunch. I caught the car at Georgia Avenue and Washington Street.He caught the car at Glenn and Washington Street which is one blocknearer town. That was about 2 o'clock. It was a Washington Street carwhich goes straight up Washington Street to the Capitol and turns downHunter. We sat together on the same seat in the car. Mr. Frank got offthe car about two or three minutes before I did. He got off in front ofthe Capitol at about 2:10. The
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H J HINCHEY, Sworn In For The State, 59th To Testify

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H. J. HINCHEY, sworn for the Defendant.I have known Mr. Frank between four and five years. I am mechanical engineer for the South Atlantic Blow Pipe Co. I saw Mr. Frank on April 26th opposite the main entrance to the Capitol on WashingtonStreet. I was driving an automobile. He was on the street car comingdown Washington Street going to town. I saw him but did not speak tohim. It was between 2 and 2:15. As to how I knew that was the time afterthis matter came up I experimented to see just what time it was Isaw him on the
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MISS REBECCA CARSON, Sworn In For The State, 60th To Testify

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  MISS REBECCA CARSON, sworn for the Defendant. I work at the National Pencil Co. I have been there over three years. I work on the fourth floor. I am forelady of the sorting department. I have from thirteen to fifteen girls under me. At times I have heard the elevator running when the machinery in the factory was not running. It makes a noticeable noise. You can notice the vibration of the building and you can notice the ropes of the elevator running, and you can hear the cables of the elevator knocking. On Friday, April 25th, I got
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MRS E M CARSON, Sworn In For The State, 61st To Testify

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MRS. E. M. CARSON, sworn for the Defendant.I worked at the pencil factory three years. Rebecca Carson is mydaughter. I am a widow. I have seen blood spots around the ladies'dressing room three or four times. I was at the factory Friday morning.I left about 12:45. I saw Jim Conley on Tuesday, after the murder. He was sweeping around my table, I said, "Well, Jim, they haven't got you yet," and he says, "NO." On Wednesday I said the same thing and he answered the same thing. On Thursday when I said that to him again he said, "No, I
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MISS MARY PIRK, Sworn In For The State, 62nd To Testify

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MISS MARY PIRK, sworn for the Defendant.I am one of the foreladies working at the National Pencil Co. I amat the head of the polishing department. I have been there about fiveyears. I talked with Jim Conley Monday morning after the murder. Iaccused him of the murder. He took his broom and walked right out ofthe office and I have never seen him since. His character for truth andfor veracity is bad. I would not believe him on oath.CROSS EXAMINATION.I suspected Jim as early as Monday April 28th. I did not report itto Mr. Frank then. I don't know why
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MISS IORA SMALL, Sworn In For The State, 63rd To Testify

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MISS IORA SMALL, sworn for the Defendant.I worked on the fourth floor of the pencil factory for five years. Isaw Jim Conley on Tuesday. He was worrying me to get money from meto buy a newspaper and then he would come and ask me for copies of thepaper before I would get through reading them. They were extras. Hewould even get two of the same edition. He would take it and run overthere and sit on a box by the elevator and read it. He can read all right.He had on an old Norfolk coat with a belt around it
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MISS JULIA FUSS, Sworn In For The State, 64th To Testify

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MISS JULIA FUSS, sworn for the Defendant.I work on the fourth floor of the pencil factory. I have never knownanything wrong or immoral to be going on in Mr. Frank's office. I talkedwith Jim Conley Wednesday morning after the murder. He was sweepingaround there and asked me to see the newspaper. As he read it he kinder grinned. He told me he believed Mr. Frank was just as innocentas the angels from Heaven. I know his general character. He was neverknown to tell the truth. I would not believe him on oath.CROSS EXAMINATION.I saw the dark red spots by the
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EMMA BEARD, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 65th To Testify

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EMMA BEARD (colored), sworn for the Defendant.I am Mr. Schiff's servant. On April 26th somebody called Mr. Schiffon the telephone. I answered the telephone. It was about half past ten. It sounded like a boy's voice. It said, " I Tell Mr. Schiff Mr. Frank wanted him at the office. " Mr. Schiff was asleep at the time. I waked him up and he said, "Tell Mr. Frank I will be there as soon as I can get dressed. " And I repeated the message to the boy and told him what Mr. Schiff said. Then Mr. Schiff went back
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ANNIE HIXON, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 66th To Testify

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ANNIE HIXON (colored), sworn for the Defendant.I am Mrs. Ursenbach's servant. Mr. Frank called up on the telephoneabout half past one on April 26th. I told him Mr. Ursenbach wasnot in and he said "Tell Mr. Charlie I can't go to the ball game this afternoon. " I told Mrs. Ursenbach about it.CROSS EXAMINATION.I have been working for Mrs. Ursenbach two years. Mr. Frank andhis wife came over to Mrs. Ursenbach's on Sunday after we had breakfastabout nine o'clock. They come over there every Sunday. I didn'tpay any attention to what they talked about that morning. They werejust laughing and
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ALONZO MANN, Sworn In For The State, 68th To Testify

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ALONZO MANN, sworn for the Defendant.I am office boy at the National Pencil Company. I began workingthere April 1, 1913. I sit sometimes in the outer office and stand aroundin the outer hall. I left the factory at half past eleven on April 26th 1913.When I left there Miss Hall, the stenographer from Montag's, was in theoffice with Mr. Frank. Mr. Frank told me to phone to Mr. Schiff and tellhim to come down. I telephoned him, but the girl answered the phoneand said he hadn't got up yet. I telephoned once. I worked there twoSaturday afternoons of the weeks
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M 0 NIX, Sworn In For The State, 69th To Testify

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M. 0. NIX, sworn for the Defendant.I am credit man for Montag Bros. and bookkeeper. I have charge ofthe bookkeeping and documents and papers of the National Pencil Company. I am familiar with Mr. Frank's handwriting. These financialsheets beginning with May 22, 1912, and ending May 24, 1913 (Defendant's Exhibit 9), are in Mr. Frank's handwriting. The eleven items beginning with order Number 7187 running through Number 7197, appearing on pages 56 and 57 of the house order book (Defendant's Exhibit 12) are in Mr. Frank's handwriting. These entries below that are in Miss Hattie Hall's handwriting.I employed Miss Hattie
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HARRY GOTTHEIMER, Sworn In For The State, 70th To Testify

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HARRY GOTTHEIMER, sworn for the Defendant.I am a traveling salesman I make two trips a year for the NationalPencil Company, from the first of February to the first of April, andfrom the first of September to the fifteenth of October. I was at MontagBros. around ten o'clock on April 26th. I had come in from my trip onthe road and was writing up my orders. I had been away ten days. Mr.Frank came in after I got there. I asked him about two important orders as to their shipments and he replied that he couldn't tell whether they had been
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MRS RACHEL JACOBS FRANK, Sworn In For The State, 71st To Testify

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MRS. RACHEL JACOBS FRANK, sworn for the Defendant.I am the mother of Leo Frank. I live in Brooklyn. I lived in Texasthree years, where Leo was born. Mr. Moses Frank of Atlanta is myhusband's brother. I saw him at Hotel Mc Alpin in New York City onApril 27th and April 28th 1913. The letter that you hand me (Defendant'sExhibit 42) I saw on Monday, April 28th 1913. It is my son's handwriting.This sheet (Defendant's Exhibit 43) is a sort of financial sheet. I hadlunch with Mr. Moses Frank at Hotel Mc Alpin on Monday, April 28th 1913.His wife read this
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OSCAR PAPPENHEIMER, Sworn In For The State, 72nd To Testify

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OSCAR PAPPENHEIMER, sworn for the Defendant.I am in the furniture business. I am also a stockholder of the NationalPencil Company. I have been getting comparative sheets as tothe weekly business of the Company from Frank since March, 1910. Upto the time the Post Office distributed mail on Sunday, I used to alwaysgo to the Post Office to get my mail and always found this report on Sundaymorning. When I quit going to the Post Office on Sundays I receivedthe reports in the first mail on Monday mornings. I have here the reportfor the week ending April 24, 1913 (Defendant's Exhibit
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C F URSENBACH, Sworn In For The State, 73rd To Testify

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C. F. URSENBACH, sworn for the Defendant.I married a sister of Mrs. Leo Frank. I phoned him on Friday andasked him if he would go to the baseball game Saturday. He said hedidn't know, he might go and would phone me later and let me know.On Saturday when I got home about twenty minutes to two my cook toldme that Mr. Frank had phoned and told me that he wasn't going to thegame. I saw him on Sunday, after the murder, at my house. I saw noscratches, marks or bruises on him. He seemed to be a little disturbedin mind.
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MRS C F URSENBACH, Sworn In For The State, 74th To Testify

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MRS. C. F. URSENBACH, sworn for the Defendant.I am Mrs. Leo Frank's sister. I received a telephone message forMr. Ursenbach from Mr. Frank through my cook on Saturday at halfpast one. I saw no scratches, bruises, or marks on Mr. Frank on Sunday.He was nervous as one would have been under the circumstances.He borrowed a rain coat from my husband that afternoon. The rain coatwas at our house on Saturday. It was there when my husband asked himif he would wear it on Sunday. Mr. Frank did not have it on Saturday.CROSS EXAMINATION.On Sunday Mr. Frank when he was at
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MRS ALEXANDER E MARCUS, Sworn In For The State, 75th To Testify

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MRS. ALEXANDER E. MARCUS, sworn for the Defendant.I am a sister of Mrs. Leo Frank. I played cards Saturday night atMrs. Selig's. Mr. Frank was there sitting out in the hall reading, andMrs. Frank was going in and out of the room. Mr. Frank went to bedafter ten o'clock. I noticed nothing unusual about him, no bruises,marks or signs.CROSS EXAMINATION.He came in one time and told me something funny about a baseballjoke. We were still playing when he went to bed.MRS ALEXANDER E MARCUS, Sworn In For The State, 75th To Testify
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MRS M MARCUS, Sworn In For The State, 76th To Testify

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MRS. M. MARCUS, sworn for the Defendant.I am no relation of Mr. or Mrs. Frank. I saw Mr. Frank at half pasteight or a quarter to nine in the evening on April 26th, at Mrs. Selig'sresidence. We played cards there. Mr. Frank opened the door for us.He stayed in the hall reading. We played cards in the dining room. Hewent to bed between ten and half after ten. He appeared as natural asusual. I left the house about twelve o'clock.CROSS EXAMINATION.We had a game of cards every Saturday afternoon at somebodyelse's house.MRS M MARCUS, Sworn In For The State, 76th
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M J GOLDSTEIN, Sworn In For The State, 77th To Testify

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M. J. GOLDSTEIN, sworn for the Defendant.I played cards Saturday night, April 26th, at Mrs. Selig's house, Igot there about 8:15. We played in the dining room. Mr. Frank was sittingin the hall. There was nothing unusual about him, no nervousnessor anxiety. There was nothing that attracted our attention. I havenever known Mr. or Mrs. Frank to play poker. I should say he went tobed about 10:30. His wife followed about fifteen minutes afterwards.I never noticed any marks or bruises about his person.CROSS EXAMINATION.He came in while we were playing to tell us of some joke he had read, and
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I STRAUSS, Sworn In For The State, 78th To Testify

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  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 reading. I could see him through the door. There was nothing unusual about him. He went to bed immediately after I got there. His wife went to bed soon afterwards. I STRAUSS, Sworn In For The State, 78th To Testify  
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SIGMUND MONTAG, Sworn In For The State, 79th To Testify

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SIGMUND MONTAG, sworn for the Defendant.I am engaged in manufacturing stationery. I am treasurer of theNational Pencil Company. The company receives its mail at my office,which is two blocks from the pencil factory. Frank comes to my officeevery day of the year to get the mail and instructions with regard to ordersand the business of the factory. He came to my office on April 26th,about ten o'clock and stayed about an hour. He talked to me, my stenographer, Miss Hattie Hall, and Mr. Gottheimer, one of the salesman. Up to about a year ago I went to the factory almost
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TRUMAN MCCRARY, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 80th To Testify

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TRUMAN Mc CRARY, (colored), sworn for the Defendant.I am a drayman on the streets of Atlanta. I work for the NationalPencil Company. I have hauled for them. I have drayed for them mostevery Saturday for the past three years. I would work on Saturdayafternoons until half past three and sometimes as late as five. I would be sometimes there so late the shipping clerk would be gone. I havenever found the front door locked on a Saturday afternoon. I havenever seen Jim Conley watching there Saturday afternoon. I have neverseen him guarding the door. I have never seen him around
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D J NIX, Sworn In For The State, 81st To Testify

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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. I am 19 years old. Before Sept.1, 1 worked on Saturdays until between four and six o'clock. OnSaturdays after Sept. 1, 1 worked until between 5:30 and 6. I havenever missed any days while I have been at the factory. On Saturdayafternoons, Mr. Frank and Mr. Schiff would be there working. I would stay in the outer office. I never left the factory on Saturday afternoon.
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FRANK PAYNE, Sworn In For The State, 82nd To Testify

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FRANK PAYNE, sworn for the Defendant.I was office boy last Thanksgiving day at the pencil factory. It wassnowing that day. I am 16 years old. Mr. Schiff and Mr. Frank wereworking there in the office that day. Mr. Schiff sent me up on the fourthfloor to straighten the boxes up. Jim Conley was there sweeping. Heleft the factory about 10:20. I left about 11. He had finished his work.I went by the office to get my coat. Mr. Schiff and Mr. Frank were stillworking. When I left I did not see Conley anywhere about the door.For two months I worked
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PHILLIP CHAMBERS, Sworn In For The State, 83rd To Testify

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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 stayedin the outer office. On Saturdays I stayed until 4:30 and sometimes until5 o'clock. I never left before 4:30 on Saturdays. I would go to dinnerabout 1:30 and get back at 2. Sometimes on Saturdays I would be sentto Montag's for 15 minutes, to get the mail. I would sometimes go outto the Bell Street plant to get the pay roll there. I would get back at 12o'clock. Mr.
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GODFREY WEINKAUF, Sworn In For The State, 84th To Testify

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GODFREY WEINKAUF, sworn for the Defendant.I am superintendent of the Pencil Company's lead plant. Beginningwith July, 1912, up until the first week in January, 1913, I visited the officeof the pencil factory every other Saturday, between three and fiveo'clock. I would stay there about two hours. I would find Mr. Hollo-way, Mr. Frank and Mr. Schiff there. I never saw any women in theoffice there.CROSS EXAMINATION.I never saw Jim Conley there at the factory on Saturday afternoon.I am sure I saw Holloway there on Saturday afternoon.GODFREY WEINKAUF, Sworn In For The State, 84th To Testify
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CHARLIE LEE, Sworn In For The State, 85th To Testify

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CHARLIE LEE, sworn for the Defendant.I am a machinist at the pencil factory. I remember an accident toDuffy in the metal room. His finger was hurt on the eyelet machine,about Oct. 4, 1912. It bled freely and the blood spouted out. Therewas a lot of the blood on the floor. He went down the hall to the office, bythe ladies' dressing room. There was blood at that point. Gilbert alsogot hurt in the metal room last year. He was bandaged in the office also.In going from the metal room to the office, you go right by the steps.CROSS EXAMINATION.I have
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ARTHUR PRIDE, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 86th To Testify

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ARTHUR PRIDE (colored), sworn for the Defendant.I worked on the second floor of the factory. On Saturdays I work allover the factory, doing anything that is necessary. Beginning with Julyof last year I have not missed a single Saturday afternoon at the factory.I would work until about half past four. I have never seen any womencome up there and see Mr. Frank, or any drinking going on there, or seenJim Conley sitting and watching the door. The employees used the back stairs leading from the metal room to the third floor. You can hear the elevator running if the machinery
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DAISY HOPKINS, Sworn In For The State, 87th To Testify

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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 to me when he would pass. I never did speak tohim. I've never been in his office drinking beer, coca-cola, or anythingelse. I know Dalton when I see him. I never visited the factory withhim. I never have been with him until I went to his house to see Mrs. Taylor, who lived with him then. That was the only place I have everseen him. I
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MISS LAURA ATKINSON, Sworn In For The State, 88th To Testify

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MISS LAURA ATKINSON, sworn for the Defendant.I have been in Mr. Dalton's company three times. I never met himat the Busy Bee Cafe. I have never walked with him to or from the pencilcompany. I have never walked home with him.CROSS EXAMINATION.I worked at the National Pencil factory two days last month. I haveknown Mr. Dalton six months. I have been in his company three times.I did not know Daisy Hopkins.MISS LAURA ATKINSON, Sworn In For The State, 88th To Testify
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MRS MINNIE SMITH, Sworn In For The State, 89th To Testify

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MRS. MINNIE SMITH, sworn for the Defendant.I work at the pencil factory. I do not know C. B. Dalton. I live at148 S. Forsyth Street. I have never met Dalton or walked home withhim. I don't know the man. I know Mr. Frank. I have spoken to himsix times in the four years and a half that I worked there.CROSS EXAMINATION WAIVED.V. S. Cooper, W. T. Mitchell, 0. A. Nix, Samuel Craig, B. L. Patterson,Robert Craig, Ed Craig, T. L. Ambrose, J. P. Bird, J. H. Patrick andMRS MINNIE SMITH, Sworn In For The State, 89th To Testify
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I M HAMILTON, Sworn In For The State, 90th To Testify

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I. M. Hamilton. All sworn for the defendant. Testified that they livedin Gwinnett or Walton County; that they used to know C. B. Dalton beforehe left Monroe in Walton County, that his general character fortruth and veracity is bad, and that they would not believe him on oath.I M HAMILTON, Sworn In For The State, 90th To Testify
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R L BAUER, Sworn In For The State, 91st To Testify

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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 doing extra work. I have also been up to theoffice Saturday afternoons, frequently during the past twelve months. Iwas there while Mr. Schiff was off on his trip. I was up at the office onthe Saturday afternoon before Mr. Schiff went away. Mr. Holloway,Mr. Schiff, Mr. Frank and the office boy were there. I have never seenany women in Mr. Frank's office on the
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GORDON BAILEY, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 92nd To Testify

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GORDON BAILEY, (colored) sworn for the Defendant.I work at the factory. I am sometimes called" Snowball. " I neversaw Jim Conley talk to Mr. Frank the Friday before the murder. I havenever, at any time, heard Mr. Frank ask Conley to come back on any Saturday. I have never seen Mr. Frank bring in any women into the factory. I have never seen Jim Conley guarding or watching the door. Ihave seen Jim take newspapers and look at it, but I don't know if he readthem or not. I have seen him have papers at the station house like hewas
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HENRY SMITH, Sworn In For The State, 93rd To Testify

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HENRY SMITH, sworn for the Defendant.I work at the pencil factory in the metal department. I work withBarrett. He has talked to me about the reward offered in this case. Hesaid it was $4,300, and he thought if anybody was to get it, he was to getit, because he found the blood and hair, and he said he ought to get thefirst hook at it. He said it six or seven different times.CROSS EXAMINATION.He would come out of the room counting it off on his hands. He didthat 2 or 3 times and sort of laughed, counting that imaginary money.HENRY
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MILTON KLEIN, Sworn In For The State, 94th To Testify

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MILTON KLEIN, sworn for the Defendant.I saw Mr. Frank last Thanksgiving evening at a dance given by theB'nai B'rith at the Hebrew Orphans' Home. I also saw him that sameafternoon between half past four and six o'clock. The dance lasted fromeight to half past eleven. Mr. Frank helped Mr. Copeland and myselfgive the dance. We were the committee in charge.CROSS EXAMINATION.I was down at the jail to see Mr. Frank when the detectives broughtConley down there. I sent word down that Mr. Frank didn't care to seeConley, that he didn't care to see anyone at that time. He knew that
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NATHAN COPLAN, Sworn In For The State, 95th To Testify

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NATHAN COPLAN, sworn for the Defendant.I remember last Thanksgiving Day was a very disagreeable day. Idon't remember whether it snowed. The B'nai B 'rith is a charitable organization here composed of young men. They gave a dance out at theJewish Orphans' Home Thanksgiving evening. Mr. Frank had chargeof it. Mr. Frank and his wife were there. I got there about 8 o'clock.They were there at that time. They stayed there until about 10 o'clock.NATHAN COPLAN, Sworn In For The State, 95th To Testify
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JOE STELKER, Sworn In For The State, 96th To Testify

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JOE STELKER, sworn for the Defendant.I have got charge of the varnishing department at the pencil factory,about sixty people work under me. I saw the spot that Mr. Barrettclaimed he had found in front of the young ladies' dressing room. Itlooked like someone had some coloring in a bottle and splashed it on thefloor. Chief Beavers asked me to find out whether it was varnish or not.I saw the white stuff on it. It looked like a composition they use on theeyelet machine or face powder. They carry that stuff around in bucketsin the metal room. It gets spilled on
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HARLEE BRANCH, Sworn In For The State, 97th To Testify

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HARLEE BRANCH, sworn for the Defendant.I work for the Atlanta Journal. I had an interview with Jim Conleyon two occasions. On May 31st, he told me he didn't see the purse ofthis little girl. He said that it took about thirty-five minutes after goingupstairs until he got out of the factory. He said he finished about 1:30and then went out. He said that Lemmie Quinn got into the factoryabout 12 o'clock and remained about 8 or 9 minutes.CROSS EXAMINATION.I am sure about his saying he saw Lemmie Quinn at the factory atthat interview. He was in jail when I had
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JOHN M MINAR, Sworn In For The State, 98th To Testify

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JOHN M. MINAR, sworn for the Defendant.I am a newspaper reporter for the "Atlanta Georgian. " I visitedGeorge Epps Sunday night, April 27th. I went there to ask him and hissister when was the last time either of them had seen Mary Phagan.George Epps and sister were both present. I asked them who had seenMary Phagan last, and the little girl Epps said she had seen her on theprevious Thursday. George Epps was standing right there and he saidnothing about having seen her Thursday. He said he knew the girl, thathe had ridden to town with her in the mornings
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W D MCWORTH, Sworn In For The State, 99th To Testify

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W. D. Mc WORTH, sworn for the Defendant.I am a Pinkerton detective. I worked for fifteen days on the Frankcase. For three days I took statements from the factory employees andon May 15th, I made a thorough search of the ground floor. I found nearthe front door on the ground floor, stains that might or might not havebeen blood. All the radiators in the factory had trash, dirt and rubbishbehind them. Behind one of the radiators near the Clark Woodenwareplace, where the partition is, I found much trash, behind the trap door,up against the partition, and on top of the
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JOHN FINLEY, Sworn In For The State, 100th To Testify

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JOHN FINLEY, sworn for the Defendant.I was formerly master machinist and assistant superintendent ofthe pencil factory. I have known Mr. Frank about five years. His characterwas good.CROSS EXAMINATION.I am now superintendent for Dittler Bros. They are not related tothe Franks. I left the pencil company about three years ago. I havenever heard anything about women going up in the factory after workhours. Mr. Frank and I usually left together about six o'clock. Mr.Frank went to lunch usually about one o'clock. I would sometimes workat the factory all Saturday afternoon. I did that most of the time that Iwas there. The
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A D GREENFIELD, Sworn In For The State, 101st To Testify

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A. D. GREENFIELD, sworn for the Defendant.I am one of the owners of the building occupied by the Pencil Company on Forsyth Street. I have owned it since 1900. When we boughtthe building it was occupied by Montag Bros. They used it as a manufacturing plant. The Clarke Woodenware Company sub-leased part of the first floor from Montag Bros. They used the front door on MontagBros. in going in there. We have not put in any new floor on the secondstory of the building. I have known Mr. Frank four or five years. Hischaracter is good.CROSS EXAMINATION.I have come in
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DR WM OWENS, Sworn In For The State, 102nd To Testify

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DR. WM. OWENS, sworn for the Defendant.I am a physician. I am also engaged in the real estate business. Atthe request of the defense I went through certain experiments in the pencilfactory to ascertain how long it would take to go through Jim Conley'smovements relative to moving the body of Mary Phagan. I keptthe time while the other men were going through with the performance.I followed them and kept the time. Mr. Wilson of the Atlanta BaggageCo. also kept time with me. Mr. Brent and Mr. Fleming enacted the performance. The performance enacted was as follows: "12. 56 o'clock,Conley goes
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ISAAC HAAS, Sworn In For The State, 103rd To Testify

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ISAAC HAAS, sworn for the Defendant.I know Leo M. Frank for over five years. His character is verygood. I did not hear my telephone ring on Sunday morning, April 27th.My wife heard it. The telephone is twenty-two feet from my bed.CROSS EXAMINATION.My wife waked me up when she answered the telephone.ISAAC HAAS, Sworn In For The State, 103rd To Testify
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A N ANDERSON, Sworn In For The State, 104th To Testify

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A. N. ANDERSON, sworn for the Defendant.I work at the Atlanta National Bank. That is the original passbookof Leo M. Frank (Defendant's Exhibit 50).CROSS EXAMINATION.I don't know that that's the only bank account that he had. He mayhave had others. Yes, the pencil company does business with the AtlantaNational Bank. I don't know anything about how much moneythey had on April 26. Mr. Frank's bank book was balanced August"11. These are all the checks that he drew (Defendant's Exhibit 51)during April.RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.These cancelled checks are the ones that have been paid since April1, 1913. Mr. Frank had drawn no others
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R P BUTLER, Sworn In For The State, 105th To Testify

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R. P. BUTLER, sworn for the Defendant.I am the shipping clerk of the Pencil Company. I am familiar withthe doors leading into the metal room. They are wooden doors, withglass windows. There is no trouble looking through these windows intothe metal room, even when the doors are closed. The glass in the dooris about fifteen inches by eighteen inches. Any one of ordinary heightcan see through them easily.CROSS EXAMINATION.The doors are six feet wide together. The passageway from theelevator back to the metal room is ten feet wide with the exception ofthat part where we have some boxes piled up,
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I U KAUFFMAN, Sworn In For The State, 106th To Testify

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I. U. KAUFFMAN, sworn for the Defendant.I made a drawing of the Selig residence on Georgia Avenue, in thiscity, showing the kitchen, dining room, the reception room, parlor andpassageway between the kitchen and dining room. The mirror in thedining room is in the sideboard as shown on the plat (Defendant's Exhibit52). It is fourteen feet from the kitchen door to the passageway inthe dining room and the passageway is a little over two feet. Standingin the back door of the kitchen room against the north side of the door,I could not see that mirror, because of the partition between the
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J Q ADAMS, Sworn In For The State, 107th To Testify

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J. Q. ADAMS, sworn for the Defendant.I am a photographer. I took photographs of the Selig home at 68 E.Georgia Avenue from the inside and the outside of the back door, lookingtoward the passageway that leads in the dining room. The door into thedining room was open, for me. This view (Exhibit 62) is view madefrom the outside of the rear door. I was about three feet outside of thedoor. The picture does not extend to the mirror, or the sideboard. Youcould not see them from the outside. This (Exhibit 63 for Defendant) isa photograph taken standing directly in the
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T H WILLET, Sworn In For The State, 108th To Testify

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T. H. WILLET, sworn for the Defendant.I am a pattern maker. I made the pattern of pencil factory from ablue print. This is the model (Exhibit 13 for Defendant).CROSS EXAMINATION.The height of the floors is not made according to scale. The floorplan is a correct representation, according to the blue print. The windowsin Mr. Frank's office were not put in by me.RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION.I was given no instructions except to follow the ground floor plan asshown on the blue print. This is the blue print (Defendant's Exhibit85), from which I made the model.T H WILLET, Sworn In For The State, 108th
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C W BERNHARDT, Sworn In For The State, 109th To Testify

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C. W. BERNHARDT, sworn for the Defendant.I am a contractor and builder. This (Defendant's Exhibit 52) fairlyrepresents the back porch of the Selig home, as well as the first floor ofthe house. Standing in the kitchen door you can't look through the passageway and see into the mirror. If you move up a little distance youcan see about 18 inches of the mirror. You could see nobody sitting onthe south side of the table in the dining room, or on the north side of thetable, in fact you cannot see the table at all, or the door leading from thedining
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H M WOOD, Sworn In For The State, 110th To Testify

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H. M. WOOD, sworn for the Defendant.I am the Clerk of the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues ofFulton County. Standing in the back kitchen door of the Selig residence,that enters on the back porch and undertaking to look into the diningroom, I could not see the mirror in the corner of the dining room at all. Moving up into the kitchen, near the passageway, I could see nothing but top of one chair by looking in the mirror.CROSS EXAMINATION.The view that I could get of the mirror would depend upon where Istood in the kitchen. I can only speak from
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JULIUS A FISCHER, Sworn In For The State, 111th To Testify

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JULIUS A. FISCHER, sworn for the Defendant.I am a contractor and builder. I looked at the house of the Selig'sat 68 E. Georgia Avenue. Standing in the kitchen door, I had very littleview of the sideboard. You could see possibly an inch in the mirror. Youcan get no view from the mirror. The test was made sitting down andstanding up. The mirror is four feet high from the floor. You could getno view of the dining room table, nor see a man sitting at the table. Themirror is fixed straight up and down. The view you get depends on theangle
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J R LEACH, Sworn In For The State, 112th To Testify

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J. R. LEACH, sworn for the Defendant.I am division superintendent of the Ga. Rwy. & Power Co. I knowthe schedule of the Georgia Avenue line and the Washington Street line.The Georgia Avenue line leaves Broad and Marietta on the hour andevery ten minutes. It takes two minutes to go from Broad and Mariettato the corner of Whitehall and Alabama. It takes 12 or 13 minutes torun from Broad and Marietta to the corner of Georgia Avenue andWashington Street, about ten minutes from Whitehall and Alabama toGeorgia Avenue and Washington Street. The Washington Street carleaves Broad and Marietta two minutes after
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K T THOMAS, Sworn In For The State, 113th To Testify

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K. T. THOMAS, sworn for the Defendant.I am a civil engineer. I measured the distance from the intersectionof Marietta and Forsyth Streets to the pencil factory on Forsyth Street.It is 1,016 feet. I walked the distance, it took me four and a half minutes.I measured the distance from the pencil factory to the intersection ofWhitehall and Alabama; it is 831 feet. I walked the distance and it tookme 31/2 minutes. I measured the distance from the pencil factory to thecorner of Broad and Hunter; it is 333 feet. I walked it in a minute andthree quarters. I walked at a
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L M CASTRO, Sworn In For The State, 114th To Testify

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L. M. CASTRO, sworn for the Defendant.I walked from the corner of Marietta and Forsyth Streets to the upstairs of the National Pencil factory on S. Forsyth Street at a moderategait. It took me 41/2 minutes. I walked from the same place in the pencilfactory to the corner of Whitehall and Alabama Streets, and it tookme three minutes and twenty seconds. I walked from the corner of Hunterand Broad Streets to the same place in the pencil factory and it tookme one minute and a half.L M CASTRO, Sworn In For The State, 114th To Testify
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PROF GEO BACHMAN, Sworn In For The State, 115th To Testify

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PROF. GEO. BACHMAN, sworn for the Defendant.Prof. of Physiology and Physiological Chemistry Atl. Col. Phys. &Surgeons. Bomar says it takes 4 hours and a half to digest cabbage.That's for the cabbage to pass from the stomach into the intestines.The gastric digestion takes 4 hours and a half. That is the time it issupposed to be in the stomach. More digestion occurs in the small intestine. The pancreatic juice helps digestion mostly in the small intestine. It consists of water in organic salts of which sodium carbonate is the most important, and a number of ferments. The ordinary time that ittakes
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DR THOMAS HANCOCK, Sworn In For The State, 116th To Testify

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DR. THOMAS HANCOCK, sworn for the Defendant.A doctor for 22 years. Engaged in hospital work 6 or 7 years.Have treated about 14,000 cases of surgery. Have examined the private.parts of Leo M. Frank and found nothing abnormal. As far as my examination disclosed he is a normal man sexually. If a body is embalmedabout 8 or 10 or 12 hours after death, a gallon of the liquids of the bodyremoved, a gallon of embalming fluid, containing 8% formaldehydeis injected, the body buried and a post mortem examination made atthe end of 9 or 10 days, and the doctor finds back
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DR WILLIS F WESTMORELAND, Sworn In For The State, 117th To Testify

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DR. WILLIS F. WESTMORELAND, sworn for the Defendant.DIRECT EXAMINATION.A practicing physician for twenty-eight years, general practice andsurgery. A professor of surgery for twenty years, and formerly presidentof the State Board of Health. If the body of a girl between thirteenand fourteen years old was embalmed about ten hours after death, aftertaking out a gallon of fluid and putting in a gallon of embalming fluid, ofwhich 8%is formaldehyde and the body was buried and nine orten days after upon a post mortem examination a cut an inch and a halflong cutting through to the skull in some places was found by
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DR J C OLMSTEAD, Sworn In For The State, 118th To Testify

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DR. J. C. OLMSTEAD, sworn for the Defendant.Practicing physician for 36 years. Given the facts that a younglady 13 or 14 years old died and 8 or 10 hours after death the body wasembalmed with a preparation containing 8% formaldehyde, andthe body is exhumed at the end of 9 or 10 days, and a post-mortem examination shows a wound on the left side of the back of the head aboutan inch and a half long, with cuts through to the skull, but no actualfracture of the skull, but a hemorrhage under the skull correspondingto the point where the blow was
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DR W S KENDRICK, Sworn In For The State, 119th To Testify

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DR. W. S. KENDRICK, sworn for the Defendant.I have been a practicing physician for thirty-five years. I was Deanof the Atlanta Medical College. I gave Dr. Harris his first positionthere. If a young lady between thirteen and fourteen years of age diedand a post-mortem examination was made within eight or ten days afterdeath, by a physician who makes a digital and visual examinationto determine whether there is any violence to the vagina or not, and insertshis fingers for the purpose of deciding, and the body is embalmed,and after nine days it is disinterred and another post-mortem performedand the physician performing
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JOHN ASHLEY JONES, Sworn In For The State, 120th To Testify

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JOHN ASHLEY JONES, sworn for the defendant.I have known Mr. Frank about a year or eighteen months. Hisgeneral character is good.CROSS EXAMINATION.I am resident agent for the New York Life Insurance Company. Idon't know any of the girls at the pencil factory. I have never heardany talk of Mr. Frank's practices and relations with the girls downthere. Mr. Frank has a policy of insurance with us. It is our customto seek a very thorough report on the moral hazard on all risks. Thereport on him showed up first class, physically as well as morally. Iwent to him in January, 1912,
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DR LEROY CHILDS, Sworn In For The State, 121st To Testify

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DR. LEROY CHILDS, sworn for the Defendant.I am a surgeon. If a person dies and the body found three o'clockin the morning, rigor mortis not quite complete, embalmed the next dayabout ten o'clock, the body disinterred nine days later and a post-mortemmade, and a wound is found on the back of the head behind the ear,almost two and a quarter inches long going through the skull, there wasperhaps a drop of blood under the wound, no pressure on the brain, nofracture of the skull, it would be impossible to determine absolutely atthat time whether or not that wound produced unconsciousness.
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ALFRED LORING LANE, Sworn In For The State, 122nd To Testify

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ALFRED LORING LANE, sworn for the Defendant.I am a resident of Brooklyn, N. Y. I have known Leo Frank about15 years. I knew him four years at Pratt Institute which we both at.tended. I also knew him after he returned from Cornell University. Hisgeneral character is good.ALFRED LORING LANE, Sworn In For The State, 122nd To Testify
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HERBERT LASER, Sworn In For The State, 126th To Testify

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HERBERT LASER, sworn for the Defendant.I live in New York State. I manage my father's estates. I knewLeo Frank at Cornell University, during the years 1903-4-5-6. I was inhis class, and we roomed together for two years. His general characterwas very good.CROSS EXAMINATION.He associated with the finest class of students at the University. Ikept up a correspondence with him a couple of years after he left Cornell.HERBERT LASER, Sworn In For The State, 126th To Testify
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JOHN W TODD, Sworn In For The State, 127th To Testify

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JOHN W. TODD, sworn for the Defendant.I reside in Pittsburg. I am assistant purchasing agent for the CrucibleSteel Co. I attended Cornell University with Leo Frank. I knewhim for years during the time I was in College. I am the life treasurerof our class. His general character was good.JOHN W TODD, Sworn In For The State, 127th To Testify
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PROF C D ALBERT, Sworn In For The State, 128th To Testify

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PROF. C. D. ALBERT, sworn for the Defendant.I am professor of machine designs in Cornell University. I haveheld that chair for five years. I knew Leo M. Frank for two years whilehe attended the University. At that time I was instructor in mechanicallaboratory, and as such I came in contact with him. His characterwas very good.PROF C D ALBERT, Sworn In For The State, 128th To Testify
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PROF J E VANDERHOEF, Sworn In For The State, 129th To Testify

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PROF. J. E. VANDERHOEF, sworn for the Defendant.I am foreman of the foundry at Cornell University. I knew LeoFrank for two years when he attended the University. His characterwas good.CROSS EXAMINATION.I have been at Cornell 25 years. As to what caused me to take anyspecial notice of Leo Frank I come in contact with him every alternateday while he was there. I know the characteristics of the boys very well.No, I cannot tell what Frank did when he was in the class-room.PROF J E VANDERHOEF, Sworn In For The State, 129th To Testify
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V H KRIEGSHABER, Sworn In For The State, 130th To Testify

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V. H. KRIEGSHABER, sworn for the Defendant.I live in Atlanta. I have known Leo Frank for about three years.His general character is good.CROSS EXAMINATION.I did not come in contact with him frequently. I am a trustee of theHebrew Orphans' Home and Mr. Frank is also. I met him once a monththere. I don't know how long he has been on the board. I have methim there probably twice. He also came quite frequently to the Orphans'Home with his uncle, before he was elected to the board. I didnot come in contact with him socially.V H KRIEGSHABER, Sworn In For The
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M F GOLDSTEIN, Sworn In For The State, 131st To Testify

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M. F. GOLDSTEIN, sworn for the Defendant.I practice law in Atlanta. I have known Leo Frank about three anda half years. His character is very good.CROSS EXAMINATION.We used to live on the same street together. I would see him nearlyevery day. I would see him at the Progress Club a few times everymonth. During the last two years, he was the next ranking officer to mein the Lodge.M F GOLDSTEIN, Sworn In For The State, 131st To Testify
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ARTHUR HEYMAN, Sworn In For The State, 133rd To Testify

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ARTHUR HEYMAN, sworn for the Defendant.I practiced law about nineteen years in Atlanta. I have known LeoFrank for three or four years. His general character is good.CROSS EXAMINATION.I have been with him seven or eight times in three years. I havebeen with him alone, I suppose, five or six times, probably for fifteen ortwenty minutes at a time. I have never heard any reference made to hisrelation with the girls in the factory.ARTHUR HEYMAN, Sworn In For The State, 133rd To Testify
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MRS ADOLPH MONTAG, Sworn In For The State, 135th To Testify

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MRS. ADOLPH MONTAG, sworn for the Defendant.I am a sister of Mr. Sig Montag. I have known Mr. Frank fiveyears. His character is very good.CROSS EXAMINATION.I have heard of his character through the ladies he has lived with.Mrs. Meyers has told me how nice he always was to her. My husbandhas always spoken well of him. I have heard a great many people speakwell of him. I heard his uncle speak well of him. My husband has toldme what a fine, intelligent gentleman he was.MRS ADOLPH MONTAG, Sworn In For The State, 135th To Testify
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MRS J 0 PARMELEE, Sworn In For The State, 136th To Testify

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MRS. J. 0. PARMELEE, sworn for the Defendant.My husband is a stockholder in the National Pencil Company. Mr.Frank's general character is very good.CROSS EXAMINATION.I have seen Mr. Frank at the jail twice. I have only come in contactwith him once at the factory. I am a member of the Board of ShelteringArms, and I have heard a great deal of Mr. Frank in matters of charityand in a social way. I have heard different people speak of him, a greatmany people. I have heard the Liebermans, the Montags, the Haases,Mrs. Bauer, Mr. Parmalee and the employees at the factory speak
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MISS IDA HAYS, Sworn In For The State, 137th To Testify

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MISS IDA HAYS, sworn for the Defendant.I work at the pencil factory on the fourth floor. I have known Mr.Frank for two years. His general character is good. I have known Conleyfor two years. His general character for truth and veracity is bad.I would not believe him on oath.CROSS EXAMINATION.Conley borrowed money and promised to pay it back, but he didn'tdo it. We would get it after awhile. He tried to borrow money from me,but I refused to let him have it.MISS IDA HAYS, Sworn In For The State, 137th To Testify
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MISS EULA MAY FLOWERS, Sworn In For The State, 138th To Testify

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MISS EULA MAY FLOWERS, sworn for the Defendant.I work on the second floor of the pencil factory. I have known Mr.Frank for three years. His general character is good. I have knownConley for 2 years. His general character for truth and veracity is bad.CROSS EXAMINATION.His borrowing money and not paying it back is one thing. He haspromised and he has never paid back anything he has ever borrowedfrom me. I had Mr. Gantt take it out of his envelope. I have never metMr. Frank anywhere for any immoral purpose.MISS EULA MAY FLOWERS, Sworn In For The State, 138th To Testify
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MISS OPIE DICKERSON, Sworn In For The State, 139th To Testify

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MISS OPIE DICKERSON, sworn for the Defendant.I have worked at the pencil factory for 17 months. Mr. Frank'sgeneral character is good. I have never met Mr. Frank for any immoralpurpose. I have known Jim Conley ever since I have been at the factory.His general character for truth and veracity is bad. I would notbelieve him on oath.CROSS EXAMINATION.I know Mr. Darley and Mr. Wade Campbell. I don't remember if Iwas with them on the night of April 26th. I don't remember where I was.MISS OPIE DICKERSON, Sworn In For The State, 139th To Testify
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MRS EMMA CLARK FREEMAN, Sworn In For The State, 140th To Testify

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MRS. EMMA CLARK FREEMAN, sworn for the Defendant.I have worked at the pencil factory over four years. Mr. Frank'sgeneral character is good. I am a married woman. I have known Conleyever since he has been at the factory. His general character fortruth and veracity is bad. I would not believe him on oath.CROSS EXAMINATION.I have never heard any suggestion of any wrongdoing on the part ofMr. Frank, either in or out of the factory. I was forelady at the factory for about three years.MRS EMMA CLARK FREEMAN, Sworn In For The State, 140th To Testify
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MISS SARAH BARNES, Sworn In For The State, 141st To Testify

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MISS SARAH BARNES, sworn for the Defendant.I worked at the pencil factory over four years. His character isgood. I have never heard anything bad. He has been the best of men.CROSS EXAMINATION.No one has talked to me about what I was going to swear. I havetold Mr. Arnold what I have told here. I never went with Mr. Frankfor any immoral purpose anywhere.MISS SARAH BARNES, Sworn In For The State, 141st To Testify
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MISS IRENE JACKSON, Sworn In For The State, 142nd To Testify

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MISS IRENE JACKSON, sworn for the Defendant.I worked at the pencil factory for three years. So far as I know Mr.Frank's character was very well. I don't know anything about him. Henever said anything to me. I have never met Mr. Frank at any time forany immoral purpose.CROSS EXAMINATION.I am the daughter of County Policeman Jackson. I never heard thegirls say anything about him, except that they seemed to be afraid ofhim. They never would notice him at all. They would go to work whenthey saw him coming. Miss Emily Mayfield and I were undressing in thedressing room once when
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MISS BESSIE FLEMING, Sworn In For The State, 143rd To Testify

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MISS BESSIE FLEMING, sworn for the Defendant.I worked as stenographer at Mr. Frank's office from April, 1911, toDecember, 1911. Mr. Frank's character was unusually good.CROSS EXAMINATIONI am just talking about my personal relations with him. I have neverseen him do anything wrong there in the factory. He never made anyadvances to me or anyone else. I worked right in the same office withhim. The foreladies came to the office, the other girls did not very much.I never did see any flirting. I never heard about any. Mr. Frank workedon his financial sheet in the afternoons, he didn't have time Saturdaymorning.
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MRS MATTIE THOMPSON, Sworn In For The State, 144th To Testify

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MRS. MATTIE THOMPSON, sworn for the Defendant.I work on the fourth floor of the pencil factory. I have been there three years. Mr. Frank's general character is good. I have never heard anything against him. I have never met Mr. Frank anywhere or at any time for any immoral purpose. I have made complaint about girls flirting out of the windows with men on the outside. After seven o'clock, thegirls are not supposed to be in the dressing room. There is no toilet orbathtub in the dressing room. There is no lock on the door.CROSS EXAMINATION.They were all complaining up
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MISS IRENE CARSON, Sworn In For The State, 145th To Testify

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MISS IRENE CARSON, sworn for the Defendant.I worked for fifteen months on the fourth floor of the pencil factory.I have known Mr. Frank during that time. His character is good. I ama sister of Miss Rebecca Carson, and a daughter of Mrs. E. H. Carson. Iwas with my sister on Whitehall Street on April 26th and recollect seeingMr. Frank there. I have never met Mr. Frank at any time or placefor any immoral purpose.MISS IRENE CARSON, Sworn In For The State, 145th To Testify
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MRS J J WARDLAW, Sworn In For The State, 146th To Testify

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MRS. J. J. WARDLAW, sworn for the Defendant.I worked at the pencil factory four years. I worked on the fourthfloor. Mr. Frank's character is good. I have never met Mr. Frank atany time or place for any immoral purpose.CROSS EXAMINATION.I have never heard of any improper relation of Mr. Frank with anyof the girls at the factory. I have never heard of his putting his armaround any girl on the street car, or going to the woods with them.MRS J J WARDLAW, Sworn In For The State, 146th To Testify
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MISS EMILY MAYFIELD, Sworn In For The State, 147th To Testify

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MISS EMILY MAYFIELD, Sworn for the defendant.I worked at the pencil factory last year during the summer of 1912. I have never been in the dressing room when Mr. Frank would come in and look at anybody that was undressing.CROSS EXAMINATION.I work at Jacob's Pharmacy. My sister used to work also at the pencil factory. I don't remember any occasion when Mr. Frank came in the dressing room door while Miss Irene Jackson and her sister were there.MISS EMILY MAYFIELD, Sworn In For The State, 147th To Testify
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MISSES ANNIE OSBORNE, REBECCA CARSON, MAUDE WRIGHT, AND MRS ELLA THOMAS, Sworn In For The State, denotated as a cluster of people who testified separately and individually, 148th To Testify

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MISS ANNIE OSBORNE, MISS REBECCA CARSON, MISS MAUDE WRIGHT, AND MRS. ELLA THOMAS,All sworn for the defendant, testified that they were employees of the National Pencil company; that Mr. Frank's general character was good; that Conley's character for truth and veracity was bad and that they would not believe him on oath. MISSES ANNIE OSBORNE, REBECCA CARSON, MAUDE WRIGHT, AND MRS ELLA THOMAS, Sworn In For The State, 148th To Testify  
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8 PEOPLE, Sworn In For The State From Misses Mollie Blair To Mrs Barnes, 149th To Testify

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MISSES MOLLIE BLAIR, ETHEL STEWARD, CORA COWAN, B. D. SMITH, LIZZIE WORD, BESSIE WHITE, GRACE ATHERTON, AND MRS. BARNES all sworn for the defendant testified that they were employees of the National Pencil Company, and work on the fourth floor of the factory; that the general character of Leo M. Frank was good; that they have never gone with him at any time or place for any immoral purpose, and that they never heard of his doing anything wrong.8 PEOPLE, Sworn In For The State From Misses Mollie Blair To Mrs Barnes, 149th To Testify
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20 People, Sworn In For The State From Misses Corintha Hall To A. C. Holloway, 150th To Testify

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  MISSES CORINTHA HALL, ANNIE HOWEL, LILLLIE M. GOODMAN, Velma Hayes, JENNIE MAYFIELD, IDA HOLMES, WILLIE HATCHETT, MARY HATCHETT, MINNIE SMITH, MAJORIE McCORD, LENA McMURTY, MRS. W. R. JOHNSON, MRS. S. A. WILSON, MRS. GEORGIA DENHAM, MRS. L. O. JONES, MISS ZILLA SPIVEY, CHARLES LEE, N. V. DARLEY, F. ZIGANKI, AND A. C. HOLLOWAY, all sworn for the defendant, testified that they were employees of the National Pencil Company and knew Leo M. Frank, and that his general character was good. 20 PEOPLE, Sworn In For The State From Misses Corintha Hall To A C Holloway, 150th To Testify  
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39 PEOPLE, Sworn In For The State From D I Macintyre To Nathan Coplan, 151st To Testify

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D. I. MACINTYRE, B. WILDAJER, MRS. DAN KLEIN, ALEX DITTLER, DR. J. E. SOMERFIELD, F. G. SCHIFF, ALL. GUTRAN, JOSEPH GERSHON, PL. D. MCCARLEY, MRS. H. W. MEYER; MRS. DAVID MARX, MRS. A. I. HARRIS, M. S. RICH, L. H. ROSS, MRS. L. H. ROSS, MRS. JOSEPH BROWN, M. M. FITZPATRICK, EMIL DITTMER, WM. BAUER, MISS. HELEN LOBB, AL. FOX, MRS. MARTIN MAY, JULIAN V. BOMHM, MRS. MOLLIE HOSBERG, M. H. SILVERMAN, MRS. M. L. STERN, CHAS. ADLER, MRS. R. A. SOMH, MISS RAY KLEIN, A. J. JONES, L. MISTAIN, J. BERHARD, J. FOX, MARCUS LOEB, FRED, HILLBRON, A. C.
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MRS M W CARSON, MARY PIRK, MRS DORA SMALL, MISS JULIA FUSS, R P BUTLER, JOE STELKER, Sworn In For The State, 152nd To Testify

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  MRS. M. W. CARSON, MARY PIRK, MRS. DORA SMALL, MISS JULIA FUSS, R.P. BUTLER, JOE STELKER, all sworn for the defendant, testified that they were employees of the National Pencil Company; that they know Leo M. Frank and that his general character is good. MRS M W CARSON, MARY PIRK, MRS DORA SMALL, MISS JULIA FUSS, R P BUTLER, JOE STELKER, Sworn In For The State, 152nd To Testify  
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7 PEOPLE, Sworn In For The State From J R Floyd To Lem Smith, 153rd To Testify

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J. R. FLOYD, R. M. GODDARD, A. L. GODDARD, N. J. BALLARD, HENRY CARR, J. S. RICE, LEM SMITH, all sworn for theState, testified that they knew Daisy Hopkins; that her general characterfor truth and veracity was bad and that they would not believe heron oath. J. R. Floyd testified that he heard Daisy Hopkins talk aboutFrank and said there was a cot in the basement.7 PEOPLE, Sworn In For The State From J R Floyd To Lem Smith, 153rd To Testify
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J T HEARN, Sworn In For The State, 154th To Testify

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J. T. HEARN, sworn for the State.I have known C. B. Dalton from 1890 to 1904. At first his generalcharacter was bad, but the last I knowed of him, it was good. I wouldbelieve him on oath.CROSS EXAMINATION.I heard of his being indicted for stealing and selling liquor, but thelast year he was in Walton County he joined the church and I neverheard a word against him after that.J T HEARN, Sworn In For The State, 154th To Testify
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R V JOHNSON, Sworn In For The State, 155th To Testify

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R. V. JOHNSON, sworn for the State.I have known C. B. Dalton for about 20 years. His character fortruth and veracity is good, and I would believe him on oath.CROSS EXAMINATION.I didn't hear he was indicted for liquor selling before he left mycounty. He was in good standing when he left the church. I knew hewas in the chaingang for stealing about 18 or 20 years ago.W. M. COOK, W. J. ELDER, A. B. HOUSTON, J. T. BORN, W. M.WRIGHT, C. B. Mc Ginnis, F. P. HEFNER, W. C. HALE, LEONBOYCE, M. G. CALDWELL, A. W. HUNT, W. C. PATRICK,
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10 PEOPLE, Sworn In For The State From Miss Myrtie Cato To Carrie Smith, 156th To Testify

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  MISS MYRTIE CATO, MAGGIE GRIFFIN, MRS. C. D. DONEGAN, MRS. H. R. JOHNSON, MISS MARIE CARST, MISS NELLIE PETTIS, MARY DAVIS, MRS. MARY E. WALLACE, ESTELLE WINKLE, CARRIE SMITH, All sworn for the Defendant, testified that they were formerly employed at the National Pencil Company and worked at the factory for a period varying from three days to three and a half years; and that Leo M. Frank's character for lasciviousness was bad. 10 PEOPLE, Sworn In For The State From Miss Myrtie Cato To Carrie Smith, 156th To Testify  
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MISS MAMIE KITCHENS, Sworn In For The State, 157th To Testify

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MISS MAMIE KITCHENS, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I have worked at the National Pencil Company two years. I am onthe fourth floor. I have not been called by the defense. Miss Jones andMiss Howard have also not been called by the defense to testify. I wasin the dressing room with Miss Irene Jackson when she was undressed.Mr. Frank opened the door, stuck his head inside. He did not knock. Hejust stood there and laughed. Miss Jackson said, "Well, we are dressing,blame it," and then he shut the door.CROSS EXAMINATION.Yes, he asked us if we didn't have any work to
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MISS RUTH ROBINSON, Sworn In For The State, 158th To Testify

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MISS RUTH ROBINSON, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I have seen Leo M. Frank talking to Mary Phagan. He was talkingto her about her work, not very often. He would just tell her, whileshe was at work, about her work. He would stand just close enough toher to tell her about her work. He would show her how to put rubbers inthe pencils. He would just take up the pencil and show her how to do it.That's all I saw him do. I heard him speak to her; he called her Mary.That was last summer.MISS RUTH ROBINSON, Sworn In For
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MISS DEWEY HEWELL, Sworn In For The State, 159th To Testify

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  MISS DEWEY HEWELL, sworn for the State in rebuttal. I stay in the Home of the Good Shepherd in Cincinnati. I worked at the pencil factory four months. I quit in March, 1913. I have seen Mr. Frank talk to Mary Phagan two or three times a day in the metal department. I have seen him hold his hand on her shoulder. He called her Mary. He would stand pretty close to her. He would lean over in her face. CROSS EXAMINATION. All the rest of the girls were there when he talked to her. I don't know what
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MISS MYRTICE CATO and MISS MAGGIE GRIFFIN, sworn in for the State, 160th To Testify

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MISS MYRTICE CATO and MISS MAGGIE GRIFFIN, both sworn for the State, testified that they had seen Miss Rebecca Carson go into the ladies' dressing room on the fourth floor with Leo M. Frank two or three times during working hours; that there were other ladies working on the fourth floor at the time this happened. MISS MYRTICE CATO and MISS MAGGIE GRIFFIN, sworn in for the State, 160th To Testify
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J E DUFFY, Sworn In For The State, 161st To Testify

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J. E. DUFFY, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I worked at the National Pencil Company. I was hurt there in themetal department. I was cut on my forefingers on the left hand. Thatis the cut right around there (indicating). It never cut off any of my fingers.I went to the office to have it dressed. It was bleeding pretty freely. A few drops of blood dropped on the floor at the machine where I was hurt. The blood did not drop anywhere else except at that machine. None of it dropped near the ladies' dressing room, or the water cooler.
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W E TURNER, Sworn In For The State, 162nd To Testify

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W. E. TURNER, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I worked at the National Pencil Company during March of thisyear. I saw Leo Frank talking to Mary Phagan on the second floor,about the middle of March. It was just before dinner. There was nobodyelse in the room then. She was going to work and he stopped totalk to her. She told him she had to go to work. He told her that he wasthe superintendent of the factory, and that he wanted to talk to her, andshe said she had to go to work. She backed off and he went on
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W P MERK, Sworn In For The State, 163rd To Testify

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W. P. MERK, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I have been a motorman for about three years, in the employ of theGeorgia Railway & Electric Company. I know Daisy Hopkins. I havemet her at the corner of Whitehall and Alabama Street between 2:30 and3:30 on a Saturday. She said she was going to pencil factory. I madean engagement with her to go to her room to see her that Saturday. Iwas in a room with her at the corner of Walker and Peters Street about8:30 o'clock. She told me she had been to the pencil factory that afternoon.Her general character
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GEORGE GORDON, Sworn In For The State, 164th To Testify

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  GEORGE GORDON, sworn for the State in rebuttal. I am a practicing lawyer. I was at police station part of the time when Minola Mc Knight was making her statement. I was outside of the door most of the time. I went down there with habeas corpus proceedings to have her sign the affidavit and when I got there the detectives informed me that she was in the room, and I sat down and waited outside for her two hours, and people went in and out of the door, and after I had waited there I saw the stenographer
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ALBERT MCKNIGHT, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 165th To Testify

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ALBERT Mc Knight, Colored, sworn for the State in rebuttal.This sideboard (Defendant's Exhibit 52) sets more this way than itwas at the time I was there.CROSS EXAMINATIONI don't know if the sideboard was changed, but it wasn't setting likethat is in the corner. I didn't see the sideboard at all, but I don't likethe angle of this plat.ALBERT MCKNIGHT, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 165th To Testify
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R L CRAVEN, Sworn In For The State, 166th To Testify

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  R. L. CRAVEN, sworn for the State in rebuttal. I am connected with the Beck and Gregg Hardware Co. Albert Mc Knight also works for the same company. He asked me to go down and see if I could get Minola Mc Knight out when she was arrested. I went there for that purpose. I was present when she signed that affidavit (State's Exhibit J). I went out with Mr. Pickett to Minola Mc Knight 's home the latter part of May. Albert Mc Knight was there. On the 3rd day of June, we were down at the station
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D H PICKETT, Sworn In For The State, 167th To Testify

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D. H. PICKETT, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I work at Beck & Gregg Hardware Co. I was present when that paperwas signed (State's Exhibit J) by Minola Mc Knight. Albert Mc Knight,Starnes, Campbell, Mr. Craven, Mr. Gordon was present when she madethat statement. We questioned her about the statement Albert had madeand she denied it all at first. She said she had been cautioned not to talkabout this affair by Mrs. Frank or Mrs. Selig. She stated that Alberthad lied in what he told us. She finally began to weaken on one or twopoints and admitted that she had
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DR S C BENEDICT, Sworn In For The State, 168th To Testify

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DR. S. C. BENEDICT, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I am president of the State Board of Health. I was a member ofthe Board when Dr. Westmoreland preferred charges against Dr. Harris.Those minutes (State's Exhibit N) are correct. I desire to say that we do not wish to open up that question again. Dr. Westmoreland's charges are not recorded here. I don't think they were put on the minutes. The reply to the charges were put in the minutes and the action of the Board. The minutes would show what action the Board took.CROSS EXAMINATIONDr. Harris' reply is not entered
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J H HENDRICKS, Sworn In For The State, 169th To Testify

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J. H. HENDRICKS, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I am a motorman for the Georgia Railway & Electric Company. OnApril 26th I was running a street car on the Marietta line to the StockYards on Decatur Street. I couldn't say what time we got to town onApril 26th, about noon. I have no cause to remember that day. TheEnglish Avenue car, with Matthews and Hollis has gotten to town priorto April 26th, ahead of time. I couldn't say how much ahead of time. Ihave seen them come in two or three minutes ahead of time; that daythey came about 12:06.
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J C MCEWING, Sworn In For The State, 170th To Testify

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J. C. Mc EWING, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I am a street car motorman. I ran on Marietta and Decatur StreetApril 26th. My car was due in town at ten minutes after the hour onApril 26th. Hollis' and Matthews ' car was due there 7 minutes after thehour. Hendricks car was due there 5 minutes after the hour. The EnglishAvenue frequently cut off the White City car due in town at 12:05.The White City car is due there before the English Avenue. It is due 5minutes after the hour and the Cooper Street is due 7 minutes after.The English
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M E MCCOY, Sworn In For The State, 171st To Testify

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M. E. Mc COY, sworn for the State, in rebuttal.I knew Mary Phagan. I saw her on April 26th, 1913 in front of Cooledge's place at 12 Forsyth Street. She was going towards pencil company, south on Forsyth Street on right hand side. It was near twelveo'clock. I left the corner of Walton and Forsyth Street exactly twelveo'clock and came straight on down there. It took me three or four minutesto go there.CROSS EXAMINATION.I know what time it was because I looked at my watch. First time Itold it was a week ago last Saturday, when I told an officer.
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GEORGE KENDLEY, Sworn In For The State, 172nd To Testify

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GEORGE KENDLEY, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I am with the Georgia Railway & Power Co. I saw Mary Phaganabout noon on April 26th 1913. She was going to the pencil factory fromMarietta Street. When I saw her she stepped off of the viaduct.CROSS EXAMINATION.I was on the front end of the Hapeville car when I saw her. It isdue in town at 12 o'clock. I don't know if it was on time that day. I toldseveral people about seeing her the next day. If Mary Phagan left homeat 10 minutes to 12, she ought to have got to town
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HENRY HOFFMAN, Sworn In For The State, 173rd To Testify

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HENRY HOFFMAN, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I am inspector of the street car company. Matthews is under me acertain part of the day. On April 26th he was under me from 11:30 to12:07. His car was due at Broad and Marietta at 12:07. There is nosuch schedule as 12:07. I have been on his car when lie cut off the FairStreet car. Fair Street car is due at 12:05. I have compared watcheswith him. They vary from 20 to 40 seconds. We are supposed to carrythe right time. I have called Matthews attention to running ahead ofschedule once or
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N KELLY, Sworn In For The State, 174th To Testify

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N. KELLY, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I am a motorman of the Georgia Railway & Power Co. On April26th, I was standing at the corner of Forsyth and Marietta Street aboutthree minutes after 12. I was going to catch the College Park car homeabout 12:10. I saw the English Avenue car of Matthews and Mr. Hollisarrive at Forsyth and Marietta about 12:03. I knew Mary Phagan. Shewas not on that car. She might have gotten off there, but she didn'tcome around. I got on that car at Broad and Marietta and went aroundHunter Street. She was not on there.CROSS
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W B OWENS, Sworn In For The State, 175th To Testify

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W. B. OWENS, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I rode on the White City line of the Georgia Railway & Electric Co.It is due at 12:05. Two minutes ahead of the English Avenue car. Wegot to town on April 26th, at 12:05. I don't remember seeing the EnglishAvenue car that day. I have known that car to come in a minuteahead of us, sometimes two minutes ahead. That was after April 26th.I don't recall whether it occurred before April 26th.W B OWENS, Sworn In For The State, 175th To Testify
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LOUIS INGRAM, Sworn In For The State, 176th To Testify

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LOUIS INGRAM, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I am a conductor on the English Avenue line. I came to town onthat car on April 26th. I don't know what time we came to town. I haveseen that car come in ahead of time several times, sometimes as much asfour minutes ahead. I know Matthews, the motorman. I have riddenin with him when he was ahead of time several times.CROSS EXAMINATION.It is against the rules to come in ahead of time, and also to come inbehind time. They punish you for either one.LOUIS INGRAM, Sworn In For The State, 176th To
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W M MATTHEWS, Sworn In For The State, 177th To Testify

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W. M. MATTHEWS, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I have talked with this man Dobbs (W. C.) but I don't know what Italked about. I have never told him or anybody that I saw Mary Phaganget off the car with George Epps at the corner of Marietta and Broad.It has been two years since I have been tried for an offense in this court.CROSS EXAMINATION.I was acquitted by the jury. I had to kill a man on my car who assaulted me.W M MATTHEWS, Sworn In For The State, 177th To Testify
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W W ROGERS, Sworn In For The State, 179th To Testify

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W. W. ROGERS, sworn for the State in rebuttal.On Sunday morning after the murder, I tried to go up the stairsleading from the basement up to the next floor. The door was fasteneddown. The staircase was very dusty, like it had been some little timesince it had been swept. There was a little mound of shavings rightwhere the chute came down on the basement floor. The bin was about afoot and a half from the chute.W W ROGERS, Sworn In For The State, 179th To Testify
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TILLANDER, Sworn In For The State, 181st To Testify

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TILLANDER, sworn for the State in rebuttal.Mr. Graham and I went to the pencil factory on April 26th, about 20minutes to 12. We went in from the street and looked around and I founda negro coming from a dark alley way, and I asked him for the office andhe told me to go to the second floor and turn to the right. I saw Conleythis morning. I am not positive that he is the man. He looked to beabout the same size. When I went to the office the stenographer was inthe outer office. Mr. Frank was in the inner
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E K GRAHAM, Sworn In For The State, 182nd To Testify

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E. K. GRAHAM, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I was at the pencil factory April 26th, with Mr. Tillander, about 20minutes to 12. We met a negro on the ground floor. Mr. Tillander askedhim where the office was, and he told him to go up the steps. I don'tknow whether it was Jim Conley or not. He was about the same size,but he was a little brighter than Conley. If he was drunk I couldn'tnotice it, I wouldn't have noticed it anyway.CROSS EXAMINATION.Mr. Frank and his stenographer were upstairs. He was at his desk.I didn't see any lady when I
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J W COLEMAN, Sworn In For The State, 183rd To Testify

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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 envelope he showed me. (Defendant'sExhibit 47 (*51). The figure "5" was on it. I don't see it now. I told himat the time that Mary was due $1.20, and that "5" on the right would notsuit for that.J W COLEMAN, Sworn In For The State, 183rd To Testify
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IVY JONES, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 185th To Testify

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IVY JONES (colored), sworn for the State in rebuttal.I saw Jim Conley at the corner of Hunter and Forsyth Streets onApril 26th 1913. He came in the saloon while I was there, between one and two o'clock. He was not drunk when I saw him. The saloon is on the opposite corner from the factory. We went on towards Conley's home. I lefthim at the corner of Hunter and Davis Street a little after two o'clock.IVY JONES, Colored, Sworn In For The State, 185th To Testify
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HARRY SCOTT, Sworn In For The State, 186th To Testify

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HARRY SCOTT, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I picked up cord in the basement when I went through there withMr. Frank. Lee's shirt had no color on it, excepting that of blood. I gotthe information as to Conley's being able to write from Mc Worth whenI returned to Atlanta. As to the conversation Black and I had, with Mr.Frank about Darley, Mr. Frank said Darley was the soul of honor andthat we had the wrong man; that there was no use in inquiring aboutDarley and he knew Darley could not be responsible for such an act. Itold him that we
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L T KENDRICK, Sworn In For The State, 187th To Testify

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L. T. KENDRICK, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I was night watchman at the pencil factory for something like twoyears. I punched the clocks for a whole night's work in two or three minutes. The clock at the factory needed setting about every 24 hours. Itvaried from three to five minutes. That is the clock slip I punched(State's Exhibit P). I don't think you could have heard the elevator onthe top floor if the machinery was running or any one was knocking onany of the floors. The back stairway was very dusty and showed thatthey had not been used lately
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VERA EPPS, Sworn In For The State, 188th To Testify

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VERA EPPS, sworn for the State in rebuttal.My brother George was in the house when Mr. Minar was asking usabout the last time we saw Mary Phagan. I don't know if he heard thequestions asked. George didn't tell him that he didn't see Mary thatSaturday. I told him I had seen Mary Phagan Thursday.VERA EPPS, Sworn In For The State, 188th To Testify
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C J MAYNARD, Sworn In For The State, 189th To Testify

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C. J. MAYNARD, sworn for the State in rebuttal.I have seen Burtus Dalton go in the factory with a woman in Juneor July, 1912. She weighed about 125 pounds. It was between 1:30 and2 o'clock in the afternoon on a Saturday.CROSS EXAMINATION.I was ten feet from the woman. I didn't notice her very particularly.I did not speak to them.C J MAYNARD, Sworn In For The State, 189th To Testify
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W T HOLLIS, Sworn In For The State, 190th To Testify

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W. T. HOLLIS, sworn for the State in rebuttal.Mr. Reed rides out with me every morning. I don't remember talkingto J. D. Reed on Monday, April 29th, and telling him that GeorgeEpps and Mary Phagan were on my car together. I didn't tell that toanybody. I say like I have always said, that if he was on the car I didnot see him.W T HOLLIS, Sworn In For The State, 190th To Testify
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J N STARNES, Sworn In For The State, 192nd To Testify

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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 over to the patrol wagonand we never saw her any more until the following day, when we calledMr. Craven and Mr. Pickett to come down and interview her. We stayedon the outside while she was on the inside with Craven and Pickett. Theycalled us back and I said to her, " Minola, the truth is all we want, and ifthis is
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Monday, 28th April 1913 10,000 Throng Morgue to See Body of Victim

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  The Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Coroner's Jury inspects remains and scene of tragedy, then waits until Wednesday Lying on a slab in the chapel of the Bloomfield undertaking establishment, with the white throat bearing the red marks of the rope that strangled her, the body of Mary Phagan was viewed by thousands this morning. No such gathering of the morbidly curious has ever before been seen in Atlanta. More people were attracted than by any crime in the history of the city. The crowds came in droves, and a steady procession passed before the slab on which
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Monday, 28th April 1913 12-Year-Old Girl Sobs Her Love for Slain Child

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  Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 "I'd help lynch the man that killed poor Mary. If they'd let me, I'd like to hold the rope that choked him to death. That's all he deserves. I was playing with Mary only a few days ago. She was my playmate nearly every day. But when I saw her dead body I wouldn't have known her, her face was so bruised and out and swollen. It was horrible. I hope they catch the man that did it."—VERA EPPS, twelve-year-old chum of Mary Phagan. Vera Epps clenched her little hands and anger blazed
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Monday, 28th April 1913 3 Youths Seen Leading Along a Reeling Girl

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  Edgar L. Sentell, lifelong friend of Mary Phagan, says he saw a man answering this description, walking with the girl after midnight Sunday, a few hours before the body was found. He has identified the man as Arthur Mullinax, who, however, was to-day apparently cleared by an alibi established by his sweetheart.   Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 E. S. Skipper Tells Police He Saw Lads Urging Her Down Street Night of Crime. The story of three men leading a weeping, unwilling girl on Forsyth Street Saturday night is being sounded to its depths to-day by Atlanta policemen
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Arrested as Girl’s Slayer

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  Photograph of Mary Phagan showing her in street dress. JOHN M. GANTT ACCUSED OF THE CRIME; FORMER BOOKKEEPER TAKEN BY POLICE Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 J. M. Gantt, arrested in Marietta for the murder of Mary Phagan, gave to a reporter for The Georgian his story of his actions that led to his arrest. He protested his innocence, and declared he was home in bed at the time the crime is supposed to have been committed. In striking contradiction to this statement is the assertion of Mrs. F. C. Terrell, of 284 East Linden Street, where Gantt
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Body Dragged by Deadly Cord After Terrific Fight

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  Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Stretched full length, face downward on the floor of the basement at the rear of the plant, the body was found. A length of heavy cord or wrapping twine, which had been used by the slayer to strangle the child after he had beaten her to insensibility, was looped around the neck, and a clumsy bandage of cloth, torn from her petticoat, as if to conceal the horrible method of murder swathed the face. The stray end of the cord lay along the child's back between her two heavy braids of dark red
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Chief and Sleuths Trace Steps in Slaying of Girl

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    Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 In the room where Mary Phagan was attacked and paid out her young life to the brutality of her assailant, across the floor where her limp form was dragged, down the stairs and down through the square trap-door into the dirty basement where her body was found, Chief of Police Beavers and two detectives trailed, step by step, every move of the girl's murderer to-day. Determined that not a clew should be overlooked in the efforts to fix guilt upon the man or men that took the young girl's life, the Chief
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Monday, 28th April 1913 City Chemist Tests Stains For Blood

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  Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Pieces of wood, the stains on which are believed to be those of the blood of murdered Mary Phagan, are undergoing a chemical examination this afternoon by the city chemist. The discovery of white powder on the factory floor strengthened the belief that a frantic effort had been made to erase the evidences of the crime. The powder resembled very much cleaning preparations that are used. * * * Atlanta Georgian, April 28th 1913, "City Chemist Test Stains for Blood," Leo Frank case newspaper article series  
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Gantt Was Infatuated With Girl; at Factory Saturday

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  At the right is Miss Ruth Phagan, aunt of Mary Phagan, and in her arms is Miss Ollie Phagan, sister of the victim, whom she is trying to comfort.   Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Gantt was arrested on a warrant sworn out, in Judge Powers' court, charging him with murder. Gantt was last seen before his arrest at 8:45 this morning by Herbert Schiff, assistant superintendent of the factory. A few minutes later he was on a car bound for Marietta. The officers in Marietta were notified by telephone and were on the watch for a man
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Girl and His Landlady Defend Mullinax

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    Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Declaring her belief in the absolute innocence of her sweetheart, Arthur Mullinax, in the murder of Mary Phagan, pretty 16-year-old Pearl Robinson made a pathetic figure as she appeared before Chief of Detectives Lanford this afternoon and accounted for the whereabouts of Mullinax Saturday night up until about 10:30 o'clock. With Miss Robinson were Mrs. Emma Rutherford, the landlady of Mullinax, and her two sons, Thomas and James, who took up the moves of Mullinax from the time he left Miss Robinson until the next morning, establishing what appears to be a
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Girl is Assaulted and then Murdered in Heart of Town, The Atlanta Constitution

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The Atlanta Constitution Monday, April 28th, 1913 Page 1 Chum Identifies Victim as Mary Phagan, of 146 Lindsay Street, Then Swoons. Girl Had Just Resigned From National Pencil Company, in Which Plant Her Body Was Found. MOTHER AND FATHER STAY UP ALL NIGHT WAITING HER RETURN Negro Watchman Is Under Arrest on Suspicion—Police Believe That She Was Lured to Building by Three Young Companions, Assaulted Despite Her Vigorous Struggles, and Then Killed to Shut Her Lips. While mother and father anxiously waited her return home Saturday night, pretty 14-year-old Mary Phagan lay dead in a corner of the dark basement
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You Are There: Girl is Assaulted and then Murdered in Heart of Town, Atlanta Constitution, April 28th, 1913

Girl is Assaulted and then Murdered in Heart of Town Atlanta ConstitutionMonday, April 28th, 1913 Chum Identifies Victim as Mary Phagan, of 146 Lindsay Street, Then Swoons. Girl Had Just Resigned From National Pencil Company, in Which Plant Her Body Was Found. MOTHER AND FATHER STAY UP ALL NIGHT WAITING HER RETURN Negro Watchman Is Under Arrest on Suspicion—Police Believe That She Was Lured to Building by Three Young Companions, Assaulted Despite Her Vigorous Struggles, and Then Killed to Shut Her Lips. While mother and father anxiously waited her return home Saturday night, pretty 14-year-old Mary Phagan lay dead in
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Girl to Be Buried in Marietta To-morrow

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  Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Stepfather and Sister to Accompany Body, But Mother May Not Be Able to Go. The body of murdered Mary Phagan, which has been at the Bloomfield morgue since she was found strangled to death Sunday morning, will be taken to Marietta to-morrow morning at 8:35 o'clock, over the W. & A. Railroad. At noon the funeral services will be held and the body of the child will be laid to rest in the family lot in the Marietta Cemetary. W. J. Coleman, the girl's stepfather, and her sister, Miss Ollie Phagan, will accompany
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Girl’s Grandfather Vows Vengeance

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    Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Standing with bared head in the doorway of his Marietta home, with tears falling unheeded down his furrowed cheeks, W. J. Phagan cried to heaven for vengeance for the murder of his granddaughter, fourteen-year-old Mary Phagan, and vowed that he would not rest until the murderer had been brought to justice. In a silence unbroken save by the sound of his own sobs and the noise of the gently falling rain, the old man lifted his quavering voice in a passionate plea for the life of the wretch who had lured the
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Horrible Mistake, Pleads Mullinax, Denying Crime

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  This youth, formerly a street car conductor, is held in connection with the investigation of the slaying of Mary Phagan in the basement of the National Pencil Factory in South Forsyth Street. He stoutly denies any connection with the crime, and declares his arrest as a "horrible mistake." He has accounted for himself, and likely will be released.   Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Arthur Mullinax, identified as the man who was with Mary Phagan at midnight Saturday, a few short hours before her dead body was found, and now a prisoner in solitary confinement at police headquarters,
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Monday, 28th April 1913 “I Could Trust Mary Anywhere,” Her Weeping Mother Says

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  Mary Phagan, 14-year-old daughter of Mrs. J. W. Coleman, 146 Lindsay Street, whose slain body was found in the basement of the National Pencil Factory, 37-39 South Forsyth Street. The girl left her home Saturday morning to go to the factory, where she had been employed, to draw wages due her. She was seen on the streets at midnight Saturday with a strange man. She was not seen alive thereafter. MRS. COLEMAN PROSTRATED BY CHILD'S DEATH Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 "No Working Girl Is Safe," She Sobs, Overcome by Her Sudden Sorrow. Lying on the bed in
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Incoherent Notes Add to Mystery in Strangling Case

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  Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Two mysterious notes—incoherent, misspelled and unintelligible—were found in the cellar of death; Were they written by the girl as she lay in delirium just before the end came, or Were they written by her slayer to throw the police off the track and turn suspicion towards a negro? Here they are: "He said he wood love me laid down like the night witch did it but that long tall black negro did by his sleb." "mama that negro hired down here did this I went to get water and he pushed me down
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Lifelong Friend Saw Girl and Man After Midnight

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  Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Edgar L. Sentell, twenty-one years old, a clerk employed in C. J. Kamper's store, and whose home is at 82 Davis Street, was one of the first to give the detectives a hopeful clue to the solution of the hideous mystery. Sentell, a well-known young man, had known Mary Phagan almost all her life. When she was just beginning to think of dolls with never a thought of dreary factories and the tragedies of life, he used to see her playing in the streets of East Point when her folks lived there. She
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Look for Negro to Break Down

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  Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Newt Lee, the negro-night-watchman arrested in connection with the Phagan murder, practically admitted to Detective John Black this afternoon that he knows something of the circumstances surrounding the death of the little girl. The police are confident that Lee will tell all he knows before 6 o'clock. Lee's admission came after he had been "sweated" for two hours by a corps of officers under the direction of Detective John Black, and was wrung from him by a trap which Black set and into which the negro walked. Black said: "Now, Lee, I know
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Monday, April 28th, 1913: Arthur Mullinax Blundered in Statement, Say Police. Atlanta Georgian.

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    Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Arthur Mullinax was arrested by detectives late in the afternoon in Bellwood Avenue, near the viaduct, as he was on his way to his boarding house. His positive identification by E. L. Sentell, of 82 Davis Street, a clerk for the Kemper Grocery Company, as the man he saw with the little Phagan girl in Forsyth Street about 12:20 o'clock yesterday morning, and alleged discrepancies in the statement of the prisoner led Chief Beavers and Chief of Detectives Lanford to order him locked in a cell and held on suspicion. Sentell, who
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Mullinax Held in Phagan Case

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National Pencil Co. Building at 37-39 S. Forsyth St. in which the Phagan girl was slain The Atlanta Constitution Monday, April 28th, 1913 Page 1 Former Street Car Conductor Arrested as He Leaves the Home of His Sweetheart on Bellwood Avenue. As he was leaving the home of his sweetheart, Miss Pearl Robertson , on Bellwood avenue, early last night, Arthur Mullinax, a strikingly handsome youth, was arrested by Detective Rosser and carried to police headquarters. He is being detained under suspicion of having been implicated in the slaying of Mary Phagan. E. R. Sentell, a resident of 82 Davis
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Negro is Not Guilty, Says Factory Head

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  Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Superintendent Leo M. Frank Is Convinced Newt Morris Was Not Implicated. Owing to a delay in receipt of metal shipment part of the plant of the National Pencil Company had been shut down for most of the week and Mary Phagan worked but part of the time. A few minutes after 12 o'clock Saturday she went to the office and drew her pay, which amounted to $1.60. A holiday had been given the employees on Memorial Day and there were but very few about the place. The day watchman left shortly before 11
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Neighbors of Slain Girl Cry for Vengeance

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  Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Slaying of Mary Phagan Arouses Friends of Family to Threats of Violence. "I wouldn't have liked to be held responsible for the fate of the murderer of little Mary Phagan if the men in this neighborhood had got hold of him last night," was the statement to-day of George W. Epps, 246 Fox Street, whose home adjoins that of Mrs. Coleman, mother of the slain girl. By to-day the first hot wave of indignation that cried for the blood of the criminal had had time to subside, but the feeling still ran high
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Monday, 28th April 1913, J. M. Gantt is Arrested on His Arrival in Marietta; He Visited Factory Saturday, The Atlanta Journal

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Arthur Mullinax, who seems to have established an alibi through statements of friends that he was at home on night of the murder. The Atlanta Journal Monday, April 28th, 1913 (Page 1, Column 1, Row 1) James Milton Gantt Protests His Innocence, Declaring He Knows Nothing of the Crime — Says He Went to Factory Saturday to Get Pair of Shoes Left There—His Statement is Confirmed by Superintendent Frank DECLARES HE KNEW MARY PHAGAN BUT HAD NOT HARMED HER It Is Not Known What Was Purpose of His Visit to Marietta Monday —His Whereabouts Sunday Not Yet Explained —Story of
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, The Atlanta Journal

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Mary Phagan Atlanta Journal Monday, April 28th, 1913 (Page 1, Column 2) Developments in Case Have Come Thick and Fast Monday but No Evidence Has Yet Been Developed Which Fixes the Atrocious Crime — Mullinax Seems to Have Proved Alibi SUPERINTENDENT FRANK AIDS POLICE IN TRYING TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY He Was Closely Questioned for Several Hours Monday but Left Headquarters in Company With His Attorneys and Friends—Crime Was Committed in Metal Room on Second Floor—Sleeping Compartment Found in Factory Basement Detectives expect to wring the secret of Mary Phagan's murder from Newt Lee, negro night watchman at the National
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Coroner’s Jury Visits Scene of Murder and Adjourns Without Rendering Verdict, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal Monday April 28th, 1913 (Page 2, Column 2) Will Meet Again Wednesday Morning When Witnesses Will Be Examined—Five Hundred People Present When Inquest Was Begun For an hour Monday morning, a jury empaneled by Coroner Paul Donehoo groped through dark basement passageways and first-floor rooms in the factory of the National Pencil company hunting for evidence that would aid them in reaching a verdict as to who murdered pretty Mary Phagan. At the end of their hunt, the body adjourned. They will meet again on Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock to continue their investigation. Many witnesses who
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Monday, 28th April 1913 “God’s Vengeance Will Strike Brute Who Killed Her,” Says Grandfather of Mary Phagan, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal Monday, April 28th, 1913 (Page 2, Column 2) Calling upon God Almighty to visit speedy vengeance upon the murderer or murderers of his fourteen-year-old granddaughter, Mary Phagan, whose mutilated body was discovered Sunday morning in the basement of the National Pencil company's factory on Forsyth street, W. J. Phagan, an elderly citizen of Marietta, declares that he will never rest until the fiend or fiends are brought to justice. The old man almost collapsed when he learned of the awful crime, and he sobbed piteously as he prayed for divine aid in clearing up the mystery surrounding
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Man Held for Girl’s Murder Avows He Was With Another When Witness Saw Him Last, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal Monday, April 28th, 1913 (Page 2, Column 4) Arthur Mullinax, Trolley Conductor, Denies That E. L. Sentell Saw Him Saturday Night With Mary Phagan Arthur Mullinax, identified by E. L. Sentell, of 22 Davis street, clerk for the Kamper Grocery company, as the man whom he saw with Mary Phagan, the murdered girl, at midnight Saturday, vehemently denies any part in the atrocious crime, and declares that he will be able to prove an alibi. Subjected to a quizzing in the office of Chief of Police Beavers, he told an apparently straightforward story of his actions on
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Strand of Hair in Machine on Second Floor May Be Clew Left by Mary Phagan, The Atlanta Journal

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1—Mary Phagan's own handwriting, as shown in her address she wrote for Sunday School teacher. 2—Written by Lee at suggestion of detectives for purpose of comparison. 3—One of notes found in cellar. 4—Also written by Lee at suggestion of detectives. The Atlanta Journal Monday, April 28th, 1913 (Page 2, Column 2) It's Discovery Leads to Theory That She May Have Been Attacked There and Then Dragged to Factory Basement The finding of half a dozen strands of hair in the cogs of a steel lathe in the metal room on the second floor of the National Pencil company's factory and
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Thousands Visit Morgue to View Girl’s Body, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal Monday, April 28th, 1913 (Page 2, Column 3) Six thousand people, according to reliable estimates, visited P. J. Bloomfield's undertaking parlors Monday morning to see the body of Mary Phagan. It was the largest crowd, police say, that had ever viewed a murder victim's body in Atlanta. Scores of friends, hundreds of acquaintances and fellow-workers in the pencil factory and thousands of simply curious walked around the bier between 7 o'clock and noon. So far as known, no relatives appeared. The mother of the girl is ill at her home as a consequence of her daughter's death
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Two Maundering Notes Add Mystery to Crime, The Atlanta Journal

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1—Mary Phagan's own handwriting, as shown in her address she wrote for Sunday School teacher. 2—Written by Lee at suggestion of detectives for purpose of comparison. 3—One of notes found in cellar. 4—Also written by Lee at suggestion of detectives. The Atlanta Journal Monday, April 28th, 1913 (Page 2, Column 4) City detectives, detailed to run down the murderer or murderers of fourteen-year-old Mary Phagan, are endeavoring to clear up the mystery surrounding the authorship of two crudely written and badly composed notes which were found near the corpse of the murdered girl in the basement of the pencil factory.
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Pinkertons Take Up Hunt for Slayer

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  Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Investigate Story of Wife of Employee That She Saw Strange Negro Around Factory. The Pinkerton Detective Agency was brought into the Phagan murder mystery this afternoon when Leo Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil Company's factory, called upon the local representatives and engaged their services. The operatives went to work at once, following out clews already obtained and developing new ones. Their attention was called to the story of Mrs. Arthur White, wife of one of the employees of the factory, who went to the factory to see her husband Saturday. She noticed
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Playful Girl With Not a Bad Thought

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  Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 "She was just a little, playful girl, without a bad thought in her mind, and she has been made the victim of the blackest crime that can be perpetuated," was the bitter denunciation of the assailant of Mary Phagan by her uncle, D. R. Benton, yesterday. Mary and her mother lived with Mr. Benton at his home near Marietta for several years following the death of Mr. Phagan. Then Mary's mother married J. W. Coleman and the family moved from Marietta to East Point about 1907. Twelve months ago they moved to their
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Police Question Factory Superintendent

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  STRAND OF HAIR CLEW IN KILLING OF PHAGAN GIRL Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Body of Mary Phagan Is Found in Basement of Old Granite Hotel in Forsyth Street—Mute Evidence of Terrible Battle Victim Made for Life WHITE YOUTH AND NEGRO ARE HELD BY THE POLICE After Being Beaten Into Insensibility Child Was Strangled and Dragged With Cord Back and Forth Across Floor—Incoherent Notes a Clew. Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil Company plant, in which Mary Phagan was employed, was taken to police court this morning by Detective Black to tell what he knows in
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You Are There: Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest, Atlanta Journal, April 28th, 1913

Police Think Negro Watchman Can Clear Murder Mystery; Four Are Now Under Arrest Mary Phagan Atlanta JournalMonday, April 28th, 1913 Developments in Case Have Come Thick and Fast Monday but No Evidence Has Yet Been Developed Which Fixes the Atrocious Crime — Mullinax Seems to Have Proved Alibi SUPERINTENDENT FRANK AIDS POLICE IN TRYING TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY He Was Closely Questioned for Several Hours Monday but Left Headquarters in Company With His Attorneys and Friends—Crime Was Committed in Metal Room on Second Floor—Sleeping Compartment Found in Factory Basement Detectives expect to wring the secret of Mary Phagan's murder from
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Slain Girl Modest and Quiet, He Says

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  Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Timekeeper at Pencil Factory Declares Mary Phagan Attended Strictly to Her Work. "She was a quiet and modest little girl," was the tribute paid Mary Phagan to-day by E. F. Holloway, a timekeeper at the National Pencil Company's plant. "I never noticed her talking with any of the employees. She was invariably polite, as though she had been carefully reared in her home. She paid attention strictly to her own work and never was seen conversing with any of the men, so far as I know. "In fact, I don't know that she
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Soda Clerk Sought in Phagan Mystery

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  Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Weeping Girl Like Mary Phagan Seen Saturday in Company of Soda Jerker. The police late this afternoon began a search for a soda water clerk who was seen talking to a girl answering the description of Mary Phagan Saturday night at 12:10 o'clock, in front of a rooming house at 286 1-2 Whitehall Street. The information was given to the police by L. B. and R. C. King, brothers, who said they passed the Whitehall Street address at that hour and saw the couple. Their attention was called to them, they say, by
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Story of the Killing as the Meager Facts Reveal It

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  Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 A new turn was given the mystery to-day when strands of blood-matted hair were found in a lathing machine on the second floor of the factory. The discovery made it certain that the crime was committed in the factory by some one who had access to the building, a theory which had been without conclusive support previously. Blood stains leading from the lathe to the door showed the manner in which the fiend had dragged the body of his victim and had taken her to the basement. Appearances indicated that the murderer had
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Suspect Gantt Tells His Own Story

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  DENIES GUILT BUT IS IDENTIFIED AS MAN SEEN LEADING GIRL Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 The Georgian will pay $500 reward for EXCLUSIVE information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer of Mary Phagan. J. M. Gantt, accused of the strangling of Mary Phagan, was brought to Atlanta this afternoon at 4 o'clock from Marietta, where he had been under arrest in the Sheriff's office since forenoon. Fearing a demonstration from the crowd that had been waiting at the Walton Street station for several hours, Detective Hazlett transferred his prisoner from a Marietta car to a
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Monday, 28th April 1913 Where and With Whom Was Mary Phagan Before End?

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  Atlanta Georgian Monday, April 28th, 1913 Detectives to-day are using all their resources to learn where Mary Phagan was every minute of Saturday and Saturday night, whom she saw, with whom she talked, and what she said. There are wide blanks in the story of her movements. These must be filled. 12:10 p. m.—Mary Phagan appeared at the National Pencil Factory at ten or fifteen minutes after 12 o'clock noon, Saturday, and drew the pay due her, $1.60. She chatted a few minutes with friends. The manager is sure she then left the building. She told her mother she
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 $1,000 Reward

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The Atlanta Constitution Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Page 4 The assault and murder of 14-year-old Mary Phagan comprise the most revolting crime in the history of Atlanta Homicide is bad enough. Criminal assault upon woman is worse. When a mere child, a little girl in knee dresses is the victim of both there are added elements of horror and degeneracy that defy the written word. This outrage with all its gruesome and pitiful settings occurred in the very heart of Atlanta. It was committed by some human beast with more than jungle cruelty and less than jungle mercy. The detective
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Bartender Confirms Gantts Statement

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  Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Says Phagan Suspect Left Pair of Shoes In His Place Saturday Evening. Charles W. McGee, of Colonial Hills, a bartender in the saloon of J. P. Hunter at 35 South Forsyth Street, almost directly across from the National Pencil Company plant, corroborated to-day the story told by J. M. Gantt about leaving a pair of shoes in the saloon from Saturday night until Monday morning. "The man I judge to be Gantt from the description came into the saloon, but stayed only a short time," said McGee. "I noticed nothing suspicious about Gantt
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Bloody Thumb Print is Found on Door, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 (Page 4, Column 3) Murderer of Mary Phagan Probably Left Factory by the Rear Door A bloody thumb print, found Tuesday afternoon on the rear door to the basement of the National Pencil factory, leads the police to the theory that the murderer of Mary Phagan left the factory building by that door after he had deposited the girl's body in the basement. This theory is still further strengthened by the fact that when the murder was discovered Sunday morning it was found that a staple had been drawn from the fastening on
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Charge is Basest of Lies, Declares Gantt

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  Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 John Milton Gantt, the accusation of a terrible crime hanging over him, from his cell at police headquarters, has made to-day a complete denial of any connection with the Mary Phagan murder in the first formal statement to the public since his arrest in Marietta yesterday afternoon. The statement, which was given to a Georgian reporter, was said by Chief Beavers to be substantially the same as that taken by the police department stenographer last night for the use of the city detectives. This remarkable denial, if it is to be given credence,
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 “Every Woman and Girl Should See Body of Victim and Learn Perils”

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The Atlanta Constitution Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 A middle-aged woman, with signs of care and sorrow stamped on her features, pushed through the mob of people which crowded around the entrance to the Bloomfield undertaking establishment in which lay the body of Mary Phagan. She made her way determinedly, shoving and pushing. Reaching the doorway she was stopped from entering by Policeman Tribble who stood on guard. "You can't go in, ma'am. Nobody's allowed to see the body." "What?" she exclaimed. "Not letting anybody see her?" She stepped back as if aghast. For a moment she hesitated, apparently undecided whether
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You Are There: “Every Woman and Girl Should See Body of Victim and Learn Perils”, Atlanta Constitution, April 29th, 1913

"Every Woman and Girl Should See Body of Victim and Learn Perils" Atlanta ConstitutionTuesday, April 29th, 1913 A middle-aged woman, with signs of care and sorrow stamped on her features, pushed through the mob of people which crowded around the entrance to the Bloomfield undertaking establishment in which lay the body of Mary Phagan. She made her way determinedly, shoving and pushing. Reaching the doorway she was stopped from entering by Policeman Tribble who stood on guard. "You can't go in, ma'am. Nobody's allowed to see the body." "What?" she exclaimed. "Not letting anybody see her?" She stepped back as
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Factory Employee May Be Taken Any Moment

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  Gantt reading murder warrant   Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 A sensational arrest will be made in the Mary Phagan murder mystery within a few hours. It will be based on the firm theory of the police and detectives that the strangled girl was never outside the factory of the National Pencil Company from the time she went in there for her pay Saturday noon until her dead and mutilated body was taken to the morgue early Sunday morning. The detectives do not believe that Arthur Mullinax is guilty of the murder. They do not believe that J.
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Factory Head Frank and Watchman Newt Lee are Sweated by Police

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  Leo M. Frank.   Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Mysterious Action of Officials Gives New and Startling Turn to Hunt for Guilty Man—Attorney Rosser, Barred, Later Admitted to Client. Has the Phagan murder mystery been solved? The police say they know the guilty man. Chief of Detectives Lanford at 2 o'clock this afternoon told The Georgian: "We have evidence in hand which will clear the mystery in the next few hours and satisfy the public." All the afternoon the police have been "sweating" Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the factory where the girl worked, and putting through the
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You Are There: Factory Head Frank and Watchman Newt Lee are “Sweated” by Police, Atlanta Georgian, April 29th, 1913

Factory Head Frank and Watchman Newt Lee are "Sweated" by Police Leo M. Frank. Atlanta GeorgianTuesday, April 29th, 1913 Mysterious Action of Officials Gives New and Startling Turn to Hunt for Guilty Man—Attorney Rosser, Barred, Later Admitted to Client. Has the Phagan murder mystery been solved? The police say they know the guilty man. Chief of Detectives Lanford at 2 o'clock this afternoon told The Georgian: "We have evidence in hand which will clear the mystery in the next few hours and satisfy the public." All the afternoon the police have been "sweating" Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the factory
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Former Playmates Meet Girl’s Body at Marietta

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    Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 The little town of Marietta, Georgia, where her baby eyes first opened upon the light of day scarcely fourteen years ago, will to-day witness the sorrowful funeral of Mary Phagan, the sweet young girl who was mysteriously murdered in the National Pencil Factory Saturday night and whose body was later found in the basement where it had been dragged by unknown hands. The casket, accompanied by the girl's stricken family—her mother and stepfather, her sister Ollie, 18 years old, and her three brothers, Ben, Charley and Josh, all young boys, left the Union
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Gantt’s Release Asked in Habeas Corpus Writ, The Atlanta Journal

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The Atlanta Journal Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 (Page 1, Column 2) Petition Made to Judge George L. Bell and Will Be Heard at 4 o'Clock JAMES MILTON GANTT charged with the murder of Mary Phagan is seeking his release upon a writ of habeas corpus. Petition for such a writ was made Tuesday morning to Judge Bell of the superior court and he directed that a hearing be had at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Judge Gober, attorney for Gantt, made the petition and will argue Tuesday afternoon for the immediate release of the former bookkeeper. Gantt sets forth in his
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Guilt Will Be Fixed Detectives Declare

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Mrs. J. W. Coleman, below, mother of slain Mary Phagan, and Ollie Phagan, sister of the murdered girl . Mrs. Coleman is prostrated by grief over the crime, and warns all mothers of working girls to watch carefully their loved ones. Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Has the murderer of pretty little Mary Phagan slipped the net that the police most carefully spread for him? Is the author of the crime that shocked the city and State with its terrible brutality still at large? Is the mystery, as baffling in its myriad conflicting elements as it is revolting in
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 I Am Not Guilty, Says John M. Gantt

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The Atlanta Constitution Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 "I Was Not in Love With Mary and She Was Not With Me," Asserts Man Accused of Murder. "I did not kill Mary Phagan. I haven't seen her within a month. They accuse me falsely. I'm innocent and will swear it by heaven above." John M. Gantt, the youthful bookkeeper arrested on the charge of murdering Mary Phagan, sat in the detective chief's office at police headquarters last night, looked his questioners squarely in the eyes, and sweepingly denied all accusations. "I went to Marietta to take charge of a farm I have
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 I Feel as Though I Could Die, Sobs Mary Phagans Grief-Stricken Sister

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Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Among all the hearts that are bowed down in sorrow over the murder of Mary Phagan, the 14-year-old factory child found dead in the National Pencil factory Saturday, there is none who feels the suffering and the anguish of the separation so keenly as her sister, Ollie, 18 years old, her companion since childhood. For with her it is the suffering of youth, when the rose-veil of life has been lifted to show its tragic and terrible side in all its fullness for the first time. And it is all the more pitiful for
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Is the Guilty Man Among Those Held?

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    Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Is the murderer of Mary Phagan among the four men who are being held at police headquarters, or is he still at large, either among those still unsuspected or among those who have been severely quizzed by the officers? The men still in custody are: 1—Newt Lee, negro night watchman, who is thought to know much more about the crime than he has told, but who has not been regarded as the perpetrator; 2—Arthur Mullinax, former street car conductor, for whom a strong alibi has been established, and from whom suspicion is
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Keeper of Rooming House Enters Case

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  Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 J. W. Phillips Thinks Couple Who Asked for Room May Have Been Gantt and Girl. Was the young woman who, in company with a young man, applied to John W. Phillips, keeper of a rooming house at Forsyth and Hunter Streets at about 11 o'clock Saturday night for a room, Mary Phagan, the little girl who was found murdered the following morning? And was Gantt the man with her? Phillips was not positive to-day. He saw the young woman in the morgue at Bloomfield's undertaking establishment, and it is understood he positively identified
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained By Police, The Atlanta Journal

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Leo M. Frank. Superintendent of the National Pencil company, snapped by a Journal photographer on the way to police headquarters. Mr. Frank is not under arrest, but will be a witness at the coroner's inquest. The Atlanta Journal Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 (Page 1, Column 3) Detectives Building Case on Theory that Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery Chief Lanford Believes That Testimony of the Superintendent and Negro Night Watchman May Lead to the Arrest of the Person Guilty of the Atrocious Crime That Has Shocked the Whole City—No Further Arrests Expected Soon MRS. FRANK IN TEARS AT POLICE STATION
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You Are There: L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained By Police, Atlanta Journal, April 29th, 1913

  L. M. Frank, Factory Superintendent, Detained By Police Leo M. Frank. Superintendent of the National Pencil company, snapped by a Journal photographer on the way to police headquarters. Mr. Frank is not under arrest, but will be a witness at the coroner's inquest. Atlanta Journal Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Detectives Building Case on Theory that Frank and Negro Can Clear Mystery Chief Lanford Believes That Testimony of the Superintendent and Negro Night Watchman May Lead to the Arrest of the Person Guilty of the Atrocious Crime That Has Shocked the Whole City—No Further Arrests Expected Soon MRS. FRANK IN
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Loyalty Sends Girl to Defend Mullinax

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  Miss Pearl Robinson, sweetheart of Arthur Mullinax, the man questioned by the police in connection with the slaying of Mary Phagan. Her story cleared Mullinax of any suspicion of complicity in the crime which has shocked Atlanta.   Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Brave little Pearl Robinson! Her loyalty and devotion to Arthur Mullinax, one of the four men held in connection with the brutal strangling of Mary Phagan, form the only bright feature in a sordid and revolting crime. What did she care for the stares of the groups of people that hung about the detective headquarters
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Negro Watchman is Accused by Slain Girl’s Stepfather

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  Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 That Mary Phagan never left the factory after she entered it at 12:15 o'clock Saturday, the day of her murder, and that she was killed and her body dragged into the basement by the negro night watchman, Newt Lee, now in jail, is the firm belief of the child's stepfather, W. J. Coleman, and other members of her family. As for Arthur Mullinax, former street car conductor, held on suspicion, Mr. Coleman told a Georgian reporter he thought him innocent of the crime. He was also very doubtful if J. M. Gantt, ex-bookkeeper
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Nude Dancers Pictures Upon Factory Walls

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  Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Suggestive Illustrations Clipped From Magazines Pasted Up About Scene of Tragedy. Pictures of Salome dancers in scanty raiment, and of chorus girls in different postures adorned the walls of the National Pencil Company's plant. They had been clipped from a theatrical and prize-fighting magazine. A more melodramatic stage setting for a rendezvous or for the committing of a murder could hardly have been obtained. The building is cut up with partitions, which allow of a person passing about from one part to another without attracting the attention of others. While the main entrance
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Pastor Prays for Justice at Girls Funeral

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  Atlanta Georgian Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 Mother and Aunt of Mary Phagan Swoon at Burial in Marietta This Morning. A thousand persons saw a minister of God raise his hands to heaven to-day and heard him call for divine justice. Before his closed eyes was a little casket, its pure whiteness hid by the banks and banks of beautiful flowers. Within the casket lay the bruised and mutilated body of Mary Phagan, the innocent young victim of one of Atlanta's blackest and most bestial crimes. The spirit of the terrible tragedy filled the air. An aunt of the strangled
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Tuesday, 29th April 1913 Pinkertons Hired to Assist Police Probe the Murder of Mary Phagan

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John M. Gantt, former bookkeeper of the National Pencil company, and acquaintance of Mary Phagan, who is under arrest, and was put through a gruelling third degree last night at police station. He maintains his innocence.   The Atlanta Constitution Tuesday, April 29th, 1913 For Hours Detectives Labor With John M. Gantt, Former Employee of National Pencil Company and Alleged Admirer of Pretty Mary Phagan. SISTER OF PRISONER ADMITS SHE DECEIVED ATLANTA DETECTIVES Told Them Gantt Had Not Been Home When He Declared He Was in Bed. Now Admits Story Untrue. Gantt Caught in Marietta, With Suit Case Filled With
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