0015 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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room there was also cheering in said court room. There was also
applauding in the course of Mr. Dorsey's speech a couple of times on
said date.

Miss Martha Kay makes the following affidavit, deposing and
saying as follows: that she is a resident of the City of Atlanta, liv-
ing at #264 South Pryor Street; that on Monday morning, August 25,
1913, 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 Mrs. A.
Shurman, of #240 Central Avenue, before time/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 house for
"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 room
there was also cheering in said court room. There was also applauding
in the course of Mr. Dorsey's speech a couple of times on said date.

Sampson Kay makes the following affidavit, deposing and saying
as follows: that he is a resident of the city of Atlanta, living at
#264 South Pryor Street; that on Saturday evening, August 22nd - 1913,
about 6 or 8:30 o'clock P. M. he saw the jury in the above entitled
case walking along South Pryor Street with a deputy sheriff in front
and another walking in the rear of said jury; said jury turning into
South Pryor Street from East Fair Street, and thence up South Pryor
Street to the Kimball House. Deponent followed the jury some 15 or
20 feet in the rear thereof, from E. Fair Street up South Pryor St.
to near the corner of M. Mitchell and S. Pryor, when he passed ahead,
and waited on the corner of said streets until the jury had passed,
and then continued to follow them up to the Kimball House. This de-
ponent says that there were some six or seven men walking alongside
the jurymen talking to them all the way from the corner of E. Fair
and South Pryor Streets, up to the Union Station, just north of corner
of Alabama and S. Pryor Streets, when the men left them, and the
jury went on and entered the Kimball House through the Wall Street
entrance.