0153 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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came out and stamped right above the trash barrel. I was down
staire about the trash barrel. He told me he was going to
stamp two times; then he stamped, and I opened the door, and
then I came back and sat on the box about an hour and a half.
Mr. Frank says: "I'll stamp after this lady comes, and you go
and shut the door and turn that night latch" That's the first
time he told me to lock the door, and he says: "If everything is
all right, you take and kick against the door". And I kicked aga-
inst the door. I stayed there about an hour and a half that time.
Then, Mr. Frank came down and unlocked the front door, looked up
the street, and then went back and told the lady to come down.
She came down and said to Mr. Frank, while they were walking:
"Is that the nigger?" and he says: "Yes" and he says: "He's
And she says: "Well, does he talk much?"; and he says: "No,
the beat nigger, I've ever seen." They went on out together;
Mr. Frank came back. I went in his office. He gave me a $1.25.
The lady had on a blue skirt with white dots in it, and white
slippers and white stockings, and a grey tailormade coat with
pieces of black velvet on theedges of it, and a black hat with big
black feathers over. The next time I watched for him was a
Saturday in January, right after the first of the year. He said
there will be a young man and two ladies that would be there that
Saturday morning. I was standing by the side of Gordon Bailey on
the elevator when he come and told me that, about half past seven
in the morning, and he said I could make some money out this
man. Gordon Bailey and me was on the elevator together. He could
hear what Mr. Frank was saying. I got through cleaning at about
a quarter after two and stayed at the door. It was open, and
the ladies came about half past two or three o'clock,
and the young man came in and says: "Mr. Frank put you wise?"
"Didn't he tell you to watch the door, two ladies and a young
man would be here?" He said: "Well, I'm the one". Then he come
and told the ladies to come on, and they went up stairs towards
the clock; they stayed there about two hours. I didn't know
either of the ladies. I don't know what they had on. The man was
tall, slim built, heavy man, he didn't work there. I seen him
talking to Mr. Holloway frequently during the week. That's
the last time I watched for him. Snowball and I were in the box