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

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LEO H. FRANK

213

"There, said, 'I can prove where I was.'"

Mrs. E. M. Carson

I worked at the pencil factory. Rebecca Carson is my daughter. I have seen blood spots around the ladies' dressing room three or four times. I saw Jim Conley on Tuesday after the murder. He was sweeping around my table. I said, "Well, Jim, they haven't got you yet," and he said, "No." I said, "Jim, you know Mr. Frank never did that," and he said, "No, Mr. Frank is as innocent as you are, and I know you are."

Cross-examined

I have seen blood in the dressing room around the lockers and some around the mirror. I have seen girls up there mash their fingers on the machines. I have seen blood in the sink in the toilet room and on the machines. I have seen spots about as big as my finger, different spots up on the fourth floor.

Miss Mary Pirk

I work at the National Pencil Co. I talked with Jim Conley Monday morning after the murder and accused him of the murder. He took his broom and walked right out of the office, and I have never seen him since. His character for truth and veracity is bad; I would not believe him on oath.

Cross-examined

I suspected Jim because he looked and acted so differently. Jim acted very peculiar. I mentioned it to several of the girls standing around: Miss Denham, Miss McCord, Mrs. Johns, and several others. I accused Jim before I saw the blood at the ladies' dressing room. It was all smeared. Mr. Frank is a perfect gentleman; I have always found him to be one in my dealings with him. I have never heard any of the girls say anything about him. I have never heard of a single thing immoral that he did in those five years. I have never heard of his going into the girls' dressing room. I have never heard of his slapping them as he would go by. I have never heard Mr. Frank talk to Mary.

Mrs. Tora Small

I worked on the fourth floor of the pencil factory. I saw Jim Conley on Tuesday. He was worrying me to get money from me to buy a newspaper, and then he would come and ask me for copies of the paper before I would get through reading them. He told me Mr. Frank is just as innocent as I am, and he said, "God knows I was nowhere around this factory on Saturday." I didn't see Mr. Frank talking to Jim anywhere in the factory on Tuesday. I have never seen him talk to that man in my life. I have known Conley for two years. His general reputation for truth and veracity is bad. I don't know of any man on earth that I would believe on oath.

Cross-examined

I did not see Mrs. Carson talk to Jim on Tuesday or Wednesday. I saw Mr. Frank and Miss Carson talking on business by 9 o'clock on Tuesday. They stopped right in front of my machine. Mr. Frank went downstairs, and Miss Carson went back to her work.

Julia Fuss

I work on the fourth floor of the pencil factory. I have never known anything wrong or immoral to be going on in Mr. Frank's office. I talked with Jim Conley Wednesday morning after the murder. He was sweeping around there and asked me to see the newspaper.

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