0191 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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to go and illustrate that affidavit when he says now on the
stand that much of it was a lie, and that it did not happen that
way at all; that this evidence was of another transaction, not bind
ing on this defendant.

45. Because the Court declined to allow Dr. David Vaxx to
give testimony in behalf of the defendant as to the character of
the Jewish organization known as B'Nai Brith. Defendant's counsel
stated at the time that Dr. Vaxx would testify that while the B'
Nai Brith was an international Jewish charitable organization,
its charity did not extend to giving aid to persons charged with
a violation of the criminal law, as was Mr. Frank in this case.
The State objected to permitting Dr. Vaxx to make the answer
sought, and the Court declined to permit the testimony to go to
the jury.

46. Because the Court permitted the witness Mrs. J. J. Ward--
law, who before her marriage was Miss Lula McDonald, to be
asked by the Solicitor General the following questions and to
make the following answers:

Q. You never knew of his improper relations with any of the
girls at the factory?
A. No, sir.

Q. Now, did you ever, do you know, did you ever hear of a
girl who went with Mr. Frank on a street car to Hapeville the
Saturday before Mary Phagan was murdered?
A. No sir.

Q. On the same street car with Heman Stanton and H. W. Baker
and G. S. Adams?
A. No sir.

Q. And about his putting his arm around her and trying to get
her at various places to get off with him?
A. No sir.

Q. And go to the woods with him?
A. No sir.

Q. She was a little girl that got on at the corner of Forsyth
and Hunter sts. Have you seen the car pass?
A. No, I don't know that.

Q. You never heard of it at all?
A. No sir.

Q. The Saturday before? /O.E.