0016 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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Samuel A. Boorstin makes the following affidavit, deposing
and saying as follows: that on Friday evening, on the 22nd day of
August, 1915, at about 5 or 5:30 P.M., he was present at the court
room of Fulton Superior Court, Judge H. Stonean presiding, during the
trial of the State vs. Leo M. Frank; and after adjournment, and when
the jury had been taken from the court room, and shortly thereafter,
the Solicitor General, Hugh M. Dorsey, had passed out of the court
room, there was a large crowd waiting outside, through which the jury
passed, comprising, perhaps, no less than two or three thousand
people; that this crowd did tumultuously and noisily applaud and cheer
the Solicitor General, and did congregate around the court room on
the outside, standing in great numbers, both on the street and on the
sidewalks; that deponent, upon adjournment of court, was walking up
Pryor Street from said court room in a northerly direction, and when
he reached Pryor and Alabama Streets, he saw two persons peering out
of the third floor corner window in the Kimball House, looking in a
southward direction at the large crowd congregated between the Kiser
Building and the court house; that, as deponent continued walking
northward and reached the restaurant in the Union Car Sheds, corner
Pryor and Wall Streets, he still observed one of the figures in the
jury room peering southward, with both hands upon the window-sill,
whom he recognized as being Juror Smith, one of the jurors in the case
of the State vs. Leo M. Frank, and then on trial. The other
person, who had his head through the window peering southward, had
by this time stuck his head back into the room, and deponent could
not tell who he was.

W. B. Gate makes the following affidavit, deposing and saying
as follows: that on September 1, 1915, in the afternoon, I was
standing at the corner of Alabama street and S. Pryor Street, and
had intended to go down S. Pryor Street to the court house, where the
Frank trial was being conducted, but was unable to get any closer to
the court house on account of the crowd that had gathered in the
street; I was about one block of the court house. While I was
standing at this place, I heard a great deal of cheering and shouting,
the street being full of men most of whom were making noise and cheer-
ing. I saw some one come out of the court house, who, I understood
was Hugh Dorsey, the solicitor, and he was picked up by some of the
crowd and carried across the street on the shoulders of the men who