W E TURNER, Sworn In For The State, 161st 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 this

year. I saw Leo Frank talking to Mary Phagan on the second floor,

about the middle of March. It was just before dinner. There was nobody

else in the room then. She was going to work and he stopped to

talk to her. She told him she had to go to work. He told her that he was

the superintendent of the factory, and that he wanted to talk to her, and

she said she had to go to work. She backed off and he went on towards

her talking to her. The last thing I heard him say was he wanted to talk

to her. That is all I saw or heard.

CROSS EXAMINATION.

That was just before dinner. The girls were up there getting ready

for dinner. Mary was going in the direction where she worked, and Mr.

Frank was going the other way. I don't know whether any of the girls

were still at work or not. I didn't look for them. Some of the girls came

in there while this was going on and told me where to put the pencils.

Lemmie Quinn's office is right there. I don't know whether the girls saw

him talking to Mary or not, they were in there. It was just before the

whistle blew at noon. Mr. Frank told her he wanted to speak to her and

she said she had to go to work, and the girls came in there while this conversation was going on. I can't describe Mary Phagan. I don't know

any of the other little girls in there. I don't remember who called her

Mary Phagan, a young man on the fourth floor told me her name was

Mary Phagan. I don't know who he was. I didn't know anybody in the

factory. I can't describe any of the girls. I don't know a single one in

the factory.