0010 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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with H. Johenning, one of the jurors who served in the trial of Leo
M. Frank for murder of Mary Phagan; that during May, 1915, said M.
Johenning met deponent and deponent's daughter on Forsyth Street,
Atlanta, Georgia, and then and there deponent said M. Johenning expressed
to the deponent and deponent's daughter the firm belief that Leo M.
Frank was guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan. This statement was
made by M. Johenning forcefully and positively and as his profound
conviction.

H. Q. Loevenhart makes the following affidavit, deposing
and saying as follows: that for some eighteen months prior to July,
1915, he was connected with the Judges Broom works in the city of
Atlanta; that he is personally acquainted with M. Johenning, one of
the jurors in the above case, and that during the month of May, 1915,
said M. Johenning had a conversation with this deponent, in which he
discussed the death of little Mary Phagan; that in said conversation
the said juror, M. Johenning, expressed his opinion to deponent that
Frank was guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan, and that it was his
profound conviction.

Miss Miriam Loevenhart makes the following affidavit, de-
posing and saying as follows: that she is personally acquainted with
M. Johenning, a juror, who served in the above stated case; she says
that prior to the trial of Leo M. Frank, said juror, M. Johenning, had
conversation with this deponent and deponent's mother, and in their
presence expressed his profound conviction that Leo M. Frank was
certainly guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan; that said M. Johenning
made this statement, positively, almost vehemently, and that his ex-
act language, which was in response to a remark from this deponent in
reference to the case was, as near as deponent recalls, "I know that
he is guilty", referring to Leo Frank; that said Johenning made this
statement more than once to this deponent before the commencement of
the trial of Leo M. Frank for murder.

Leo M. Frank makes the following affidavit, deposing and
saying as follows: that he is the defendant in the above stated case,
and that his sole counsel in said case were L. Z. Rosser, Morris
Brandon, R. R. Arnold and H. J. Heas; that at and before said trial
was entered on, and during the whole of said trial, that affiant had