0023 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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the time, which was shortly after the Mary Phagan murder, almost everyone was discussing the murder, and this deponent was very much interested in the matter, as was everyone else; this deponent heard the man with Hemslee say to Hemslee "I don't believe Frank committed that murder; if he did, he is one Jew in a million, not one Jew in a million would commit such a crime"; and to this statement said Hemslee replied in deponent's hearing: "I believe he did kill the girl, and if by any chance I got on the jury that tries him, I'll try my best to have him convicted." The above statement of Hemslee was in reference to Frank's guilt of the murder of Mary Phagan

The following persons make the following affidavit: R. C. Knight, Ex-Ordinary, H. G. Howell, Sol. City Court; O. Roberts, Atty, J. B. Shelmutt, Clerk Walton Superior Court, Alonza C. Stone, Judge City Court of Monroe, deposing and saying as follows: that they are personally acquainted with J. J. Nunnally and W. L. Ricker, and that said Nunnally and Ricker are each men of the highest personal and moral character and reputation, and that they are each entirely trustworthy, and worthy of belief, as to any statement made by them, or each of them.

The following persons make the following affidavit: W. H. Burwell, Henry H. Little, Ordinary, Frank L. Little, Chmn.Board of Education, Sparta, T. H. Hunt, H. D. Chapman, Tax Collector, H. Co., Thos. F. Fleming, H. H. Middlebrooks, Cashier 1st Nat.Bank, G. W. Erier, Mayor of Sparta, R. E. Wheeler, Cashier, Sparta Savings Bank, D. E. Wiley, Clerk Superior Court, A. H. Birdsong, Treas. H. Co., E. A. Rosier, Sr., Pres. Bank of Sparta, W. D. Bennett, Cashier Bank of Sparta, T. B. Hightower, Sheriff H. Co., deposing and saying as follows that they are personally acquainted with Jno. H. Holms, Shi Gray, and S. M. Johnson, and that said Holms, Gray and Johnson are each men of the highest personal and moral character, and reputation, and that they are each entirely trustworthy and worthy of belief, as to any statement made by them or each of them.

The following persons make the following affidavit, deposing and saying as follows: W. F. Upshaw, S. R. Berman and Henry H. Kennedy,