0014 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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the automobile approached the corner of South Pryor and East Hunter
Streets, he observed the Jurymen in the Frank case turn into South
Pryor from the east, out of East Fair St. Street, and deponent stopped
his automobile to look at the jury, and while doing so noticed that
walking alongside the jury were some six or seven other men. De-
ponent was on the west side of South Pryor Street while the jury in
the above entitled case was walking north along the east side of
South Pryor Street. Deponent's brother, Sampson Kay, got out of the
automobile stating to deponent that he was going to follow the jury.

Miss Martha Kay makes the following affidavit, deposing and
saying as follows: that on the last day of the trial of Leo M. Frank
in the above stated case, August 25th, 1915, she was present in the
court room and when the audience applauded Judge Roan stated to the
sheriff that the cheering and demonstrations would have to stop or
the court room would have to be cleared, to which sheriff replied,
"Your Honor, that is the only way it can be stopped."

Mrs. A. Shurman, makes the following affidavit, deposing and
saying as follows: that on the last day of the trial of Leo M. Frank,
in above stated case, August 25, 1915, she was present in the court
room and when the audience applauded Judge Roan stated to the sheriff
that the cheering and demonstrations would have to stop or the court
room would have to be cleared, to which the sheriff replied, "Your
Honor, that is the only way it can be stopped."

Mrs. A. Shurman makes the following affidavit, deposing and
saying as follows: that she is a resident of the City of Atlanta,
living at 240 Central Avenue; that on Monday morning, August 25, 1915,
the last day of the trial of the said Leo M. Frank in the above stated
case, she was present in the court room in company with Miss Martha
Kay of 264 S. Pryor Street, before time for court to open; that she
saw the jury in said case enter said court room and take their places,
and in a few moments Mr. Hugh M. Dorsey, the Solicitor General of
said court entered the room; just before he entered the room there was
loud cheering in the street immediately outside the court room to
"Dorsey", all of which was loud and long continued and plainly
audible to any one in the court room; as Mr. Dorsey entered the court