0458 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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to write to his mother and tell her that I was a good negro.
The reason I didn't take the pencil down with the shoes, it was
too far back for me to see it, I got my hair cut last week. My
lawyer sent me barber. They gave me a bath and bought me clean
clothes. My wife gave me my shirt. I didn't read any
newspapers on Monday about this crime. It don't do me no good
because I can't make any out. I didn't try to read any that
day. I washed that shirt on Thursday, May 1st, in the metal
room about half past one or two. As to how that dung came to
be in the elevator shaft, when Mr. Frank had explained to me
where he wanted to meet me and just as I started out of the place
that negro drayman came in there with a sack of hay and I gave
him a drink of whiskey that I bought at Barley's saloon on
Peters Street that morning, and he suggested that I go down in
the basement and do it, there's a light down there, and I went
down the ladder and stopped right by the side of the elevator,
in front of the elevator, somewhere about the edge of it. No,
I didn't see the two white men go and talk to Mr. Frank in
his office that day. No, I didn't see a man by the name of
Mincey at the corner of Carter and Electric Avenue that day. I
didn't tell him that I killed a girl that day. I didn't
say I killed one today and I didn't want to kill another. I
didn't tell Harlee Branch that Mary Phagan was murdered in the
toilet room on the second floor, or that the body was stiff when
I got back there, or that it took at least thirty minutes to
get the body downstairs and write the notes. I don't remember
telling Miss Carson on May 1st, that Mr. Frank was innocent. I
didn't have any conversation with Miss Mary Pirk on April 28th
and she didn't say that I committed the crime and I didn't shoot
out of the room immediately after she said that I didn't tell