S L ASHER, Sworn In For The State, 199th To Testify

S. L. ASHER, sworn for the Defendant in sur-rebuttal.

About two weeks ago I was coming to town between 5 and 10 minutes to 1 on the car and there was a man who was talking very loud about the Frank case, and all of a sudden he said: "They ought to take that damn Jew out and hang him anyway. " I took his number down to report him.

CROSS EXAMINATION.

I have not had a chance to report since it happened.

ADDITIONAL STATEMENT MADE BY DEFENDANT, LEO M. FRANK.

In reply to the statement of the boy that he saw me talking to Mary

Phagan when she backed away from me, that is absolutely false, that

never occurred. In reply to the two girls, Robinson and Hewel, that they

saw me talking to Mary Phagan and that I called her" Mary," I wish to

say that they are mistaken. It is very possible that I have talked to the

little girl in going through the factory and examining the work, but I

never knew her name, either to call her "Mary Phagan," "Miss Phagan,"

or "Mary. "

In reference to the statements of the two women who say that they

saw me going into the dressing room with Miss Rebecca Carson, I wish

to state that that is utterly false. It is a slander on the young lady, and

I wish to state that as far as my knowledge of Miss Rebecca Carson goes,

she is a lady of unblemished character.

DEFENDANT CLOSES.