0897 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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Mr. Frank got on the elevator. Mr. Frank was waiting there for him; then they brought the elevator on up to the second floor, and he had them to stop the elevator just, I suppose, foot or a little more below the landing, and he said Mr. Frank jumped off of the elevator, and went around to a point, and after getting up, he told Mr. Frank to wash his hands, and that he showed us back of the elevator where Mr. Frank was gone to a sink that he and he said he shut off water, while Mr. Frank was gone around there, and when Mr. Frank came back, they went in the office, and in this office through—there is an outer office there, and he was in and come through in this office back there, this inner office, and he indicated Mr. Frank's desk and a desk right behind it, I presume this is the two desks (indicating) that Mr. Frank sat down in a chair at that desk, and he told him to sit at this other desk, and Mr. Frank told him to write some notes, and he was asked by some of the officers to write what Mr. Frank had told him to write, and he sat down there and wrote one note, and I believe—I know he wrote one note, and I don't know whether he wrote two or not, and that Mr. Frank handed him some money and that later he took it back, and I don't remember whether he gave him the cigarettes and money before or after this, I don't recall. Anyway, when he was in there, after he had written the notes for the officers, I found it was time for me to get in the office with my copy, he hadn't finished, he was still sitting there, and I telephoned into the office for relief, someone to relieve me, and I went to the office, and I left him there in this office, and I went in.
Q. What time was it when Conley got there?
A. I should judge it was a quarter past twelve, I didn't look at my watch.
Q. A quarter past twelve, what time did you get there?
A. I must have gotten there five minutes before he did.
Q. Then what time did you leave?
A. I left about one o'clock.
Q. What time did he begin?
A. They rushed him right up the steps and probably two or three minutes after he got up there, he began this enactment, and he went very rapidly, in fact, we sort of trot to keep behind him.
Q. You say you did keep behind him, were any questions asked him during that?
A. Constantly, yes, sir.
Q. How many people were asking him questions?
A. Well, I suppose four or five of the officers.
Q. How much of the talking that Conley did was you cut out?
A. Well, I have cut out a good deal, I have no way of indicating how much.
Q. Well, did he do or not more talking that you have stated?
A. A great deal more.
Q. A great deal more? How much more would you say?
A. I have no way of estimating, he was talking constantly, except when he was interrupted by questions.
Q. Now, Mr. Branch, do you know the amount of time that Conley spent in this? First, you say you got there at a quarter past twelve, did you?
A. I didn't time it, but it must have been, because I was endeavoring to get there at twelve o'clock, and when I got to the office from police station, it was five or ten minutes after twelve, and I walked down just about a block and a half.
Q. And Conley got there at what time?
A. He came just, I should say, five minutes after I did, not longer than five minutes.
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