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

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LEO M. FRANK, 237

The room had windows opening onto the street. There was no lock on the door, and I know I never went into that room at any hour when the girls were dressing. Occasionally, I have had reports that the girls were flirting from this dressing room through the windows with men; sometimes the girls would loiter in this room when they ought to have been doing their work. It is possible that on some occasions I looked into this room to see if the girls were doing their duty and were not using this room as a place for loitering and for flirting.

The statement of Conley is a tissue of lies from first to last. I know nothing whatever of the cause of the death of Mary Phagan, and Conley’s statement as to his coming up and helping me dispose of the body, or that I had anything to do with her or with him that day, is a monstrous lie.

The story as to women coming into the factory with me for immoral purposes is a base lie, and the few occasions that he claims to have seen me in indecent positions with women is a lie so vile that I have no language with which to fitly denounce it.

I have no rich relatives in Brooklyn, N.Y. My father is an invalid. My father and mother together are people of very limited means, who have barely enough upon which to live. My father is not able to work. I have no relative who has any means at all, except Mr. M. Frank, who lives in Atlanta, Ga. Nobody has raised a fund to pay the fees of my attorneys. These fees have been paid by the sacrifice, in part, of the small property which my parents possess.

Gentlemen, some newspaper men have called me “the silent man in the tower,” and I kept my silence and my counsel advisedly, until the proper time and place. The time is now; the place is here; and I have told you the truth, the whole truth.

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Miss Emily Mayfield

Worked at the pencil factory last summer with Mollie Blair, Ethel Stewart, Cora Cowan, B. D. Smith, Lizzie Word, Bessie White, and Grace Atherton. I have never been in the room when Mr. Frank would come in and look at anybody who was undressing.

Cross-examined

Don’t remember any occasion when Mr. Frank came in the dressing room door while Miss Irene Jackson and her sister were there.

Annie Osborne, Rebecca Carson, Maude Wright, and Mrs. Ella Thomas

Said they were employees of the National Pencil Company. Mr. Frank’s general character was good; that Conley’s general character for truth and veracity was bad and that they would not believe him on oath.

Mrs. Barnes and Grace Atherton

Employees of the pencil company, said that the character of Leo M. Frank was good; that they have never gone with him at any time or place for any immoral purpose, and that they have never heard of his doing anything wrong.

Corinthia Hall, Annie Howell, Lillie M. Goodman, Velma Hayes, Jennie Mayfield, Ida Holmes, Willie Hatchett, Mary Hatchett, Minnie Smith, Marjorie McCord, Lena McMurty, S. W. R. Johnson, Mrs. S. A. Wilson, Mrs. Georgia Denham, Mrs.

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