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 from

the night, watchman at the pencil factory. He said a woman was dead at

the factory. I asked him if it was a white woman or a negro woman. He

said it was a white woman. We went there in an automobile, shook the

door and Newt Lee came down from the second floor and carried us back

to the ladder that goes down through the scuttle hole. About 3:30 I

called up Mr. Frank on the telephone and got no answer. I heard the

telephone rattling and buzzing. I continued to call for about five minutes.

I told Central that there had been a girl killed in the factory and

I wanted to get Mr. Frank. I called Mr. Haas and Mr. Montag, too. I

got a response from both, I think a lady answered the telephone. I got them in a few minutes. I tried to get Mr. Frank again about four o'clock. Central said she rang and she couldn't get him. There was some blood on the girl's underclothes.

CROSS EXAMINATION.

There was a wound on the left-hand side of the girl's head. The

blood was dried up. It was wet right next to the skin. Lee said over the

telephone that it was a white girl. It took us about three minutes to get

to the factory from the police station, just as quick as the automobile

could get us there. We got there inside of five minutes after I received

his telephone message. Lee had a smoky lantern. You couldn't see very

far with it. It was smoked up right smart. Lee said he had been to the

closet and had his lantern sitting down there and he looked over and saw

the lady. He said, he saw her while he was standing up. I said he

couldn't see her. You could see the bulk of anything that far, but you

couldn't tell that far whether it was a person. He told me when I first

got him that he had his lantern sitting down right in front of him. The

body was lying sort of catecornered and on the left side of the body I saw

a number of tracks which lead from the body to the shaving room. There

is an opening from the place where the body lay into the shaving room.

I found a pencil down there. There are plenty of pencils and trash in the

basement. The trash was all up next to the boiler.

H. L. PARRY, sworn in behalf of the State.

I reported the statement of Leo M. Frank before the coroner's jury.

I have been a stenographer for thirty years and considered an expert.

CROSS EXAMINATION.

Newt Lee was asked the following questions and gave the following answers at the coroner's jury: "Q. Had you ever seen him change that before? A. Well, he put the tape in once before. Q. When was that? A. I don't know, sir, when it was, it was one night. Q. How long did it

take him the first time you ever saw him put the tape on? A. I never

paid any attention to him. Q. Well, about how long did it take him, five

minutes? A. No, sir, it didn't take him that long. Q. Did it take him

a minute? A. I couldn't tell exactly how long. Q. How long did it take

the other night, on Saturday night? A. Well, it took him a pretty good

little bit, because he spoke about it. He said it's pretty hard, you know,

to get on. " I don't know whether he swore anything, else on that particular

subject without examining the record.