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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.

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

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.

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

I. STRAUSS, sworn for the Defendant.I was at the home of Mrs. Selig, Saturday night, playing cards. Igot there about 10:30. Mr. Frank let me in. While we played he wassitting in the hall reading. I could see him through the door. There wasnothing unusual about him. He went to bed immediately after I got there. His wife went to bed soon afterwards.MRS. EMIL SELIG, recalled for the Defendant.(Witness denies categorically that any of the contents of MinolaMc Knight's affidavit (State's Exhibit "J") are true). I have neverraised Minola's wages one penny since she has been with me.CROSS EXAMINATION.I didn't

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

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.

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

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

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

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

J. C. MATTHEWS, sworn for the Defendant.I was at Montag Brothers on April 26th. I saw Mr. Frank in theoffice of Montag Bros., in the morning of that day. I couldn't give youthe exact time. I work at Montag Bros.J C MATTHEWS, Sworn In For The State, 67th To Testify

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 figures, out

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

HERBERT G. SCHIFF, sworn for the Defendant.I am assistant superintendent of the National Pencil Co.; I havebeen with the company about five years. Part of my duties was to getup 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 thecompany is received at Montag Bros. The men in Mr. Montag's officemade the deposit of money of the

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

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.

C. W. MANGUM, sworn for the State.I had a conversation with Mr. Frank at the jail about seeing Conleyand confronting him. Conley was on the fourth floor. Chief Beavers,Chief Lanford and Scott came down to see Mr. Frank with Conley andasked me if they could see him. I went to Frank and told him the menwere there with Conley and wanted to talk with him if he wanted to seethem. He said, "No, my attorney is not here and I have nobody to defendme. " He said his lawyer was not there; that no one was there tolisten at what

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 first saw