0846 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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Q. Then the lady came down?
A. No, sir, Mr. Frank come down—
Q. He left the lady up there?
A. No, sir, Mr. Frank come down to the two doors and unlocked the
doors and went on—come back, and says: "Everything all right?" I says:
"Yes, sir." He went to the front door and fixed the lock, unlocked the front
door hisself, he went and looked up the street and turned it, that (illustrating) and
come to the steps and taken the knob and turned it, there at the head of the
stair door, and told her to "come on."
Q. He turned the knob and told her to come on down?
A. Went to the stair doors.
Q. Told her to come down?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And she left?
A. No sir, she come down; and after she got to me, she says to Mr.
Frank, "Is that the nigger?"; and he says: "Yes"; and she says: "Well,
does he talk much?"; and he says: "No, he's the best nigger I've ever seen."
Q. She stopped there and looked at you?
A. No, sir.
Q. Didn't you say she stopped and asked Mr. Frank: "Is that the
nigger?" She asked Mr. Frank that.
A. She stopped and said to Mr. Frank: "Is that the nigger?"
A. No, sir, she didn't stop.
Q. She just kept walking?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Neither stopped, neither of them stopped?
A. No, sir, neither of them stopped at all; she just said that—
Q. Said: "Is that the nigger," and just kept walking on?
A. Yes, sir, she kept on walking.
Q. And kept on walking off?
A. Yes, sir, she kept on walking, and Mr. Frank said: "Yes, that's the best
nigger I ever saw."
A. Yes, sir.
Q. You didn't see them stop at all?
A. No, sir, I didn't see them stop at all.
Q. Went out together?
A. No, sir, they never went out together.
Q. What did Mr. Frank do then?
A. Mr. Frank went up and opened the door and come back up stairs.
Q. How long did he stay there?
A. I don't know, sir, how long he stayed there.
Q. You left there and went back in the office?
A. Yes, sir; he called me, I went in the office, and Mr. Frank come
and gave me a dollar and a quarter.
Q. Give you $1.25 that time?
A. Yes, sir, he gave me $1.25 that time.
Q. You went on then?
A. No, sir, I stayed there a little bit, he asked me where I was going
that day. I says: I ain't going nowhere; I'm going on home." He says:
"I'm going home directly, too." I says: "Is that all, Mr. Frank." He says:
"Yes," and I left away.
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