230 Sheet – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS

I monitor the elevator and freight that come in and out, as well as the people who enter and leave. The elevator was locked on Friday night when I left, but I went off on Saturday and forgot to lock it. I don’t remember stating that I locked it on Saturday; I did say in an affidavit that it is kept locked all the time. I left the factory at 11:45 on Saturday. Around 9:30, Mr. Frank and Mr. Darley went over to Montag Bros. I have seen Gantt talking to Mary Phagan frequently.

**Cross-examined:** I never saw Mr. Frank speak to Mary Phagan.

**To Mr. Dorsey:** On May 12, 1913, I told you that the elevator was locked because I forgot to tell you I did some sawing. I took the key out, left the elevator unlocked, and took the key back and put it in the office.

**N.V. Darley:** I am the manager of the Georgia Cedar Company, a branch of the National Pencil Company. I was at the factory on Saturday, April 26th, and saw Mr. Frank. I was there again on Sunday morning at about 8:20 and saw Mr. Frank. I noticed his hands were trembling and observed that he seemed still nervous when he went to nail up the back door. He said that he had not had breakfast and didn’t get any coffee, and that they had rushed him by Bloomfields, carried him into a dark room, turned the light on, and he saw the girl instantly, which was why he was nervous. Newt Lee seemed to be thoroughly composed. I heard him speak of the murder numerous times. When we started down the elevator, Mr. Frank was nervous, shaking all over. I don’t think his whole body was shaking, but he was definitely shaking.

I don’t think a day passed at the factory that Mr. Frank did not get nervous. When anything went wrong, he would wring his hands, and I have seen him push his hands through his hair. When things went wrong, it would upset him. If anything out of the ordinary happened, I have seen him, I suppose, a thousand times, rub his hands. I never saw Mr. Frank speak to Mary Phagan; I don’t know whether he knew her or not. I didn't know we had a girl by that name in the factory until I found out afterwards.

**W.F. Anderson:** I was at police headquarters on April 26th when I got a call from the night watchman at the pencil factory that 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. I went there, and Newt Lee came down from the second floor. I called up Mr. Frank on the telephone at 3:30 or 4 and got no answer.

**Cross-examined:** 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:** I can’t say positively as to whether it took him a pretty good while or not.

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