0259 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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EXHIBIT D.

STATE OF GEORGIA,
COUNTY OF FULTON,
State of Georgia, In Fulton Superior Court.
Vs.
Leo M. Frank.

Before me, the undersigned officer authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Samuel Aron, who being first duly sworn, deposes and says on oath as follows:

Deponent says that just after the indictment of Leo M. Frank for murder, as near as he can recall about two days after the indictment, this deponent was at the Elks Club on Ellis Street, Atlanta, Georgia, that at that time he saw one A. H. Henslee, not then known to this deponent by name, but now known and recognized by this deponent as one of the jurors who tried the Frank case and returned a verdict of guilty; said A. H. Henslee was at said Elks Club at the time mentioned, and made this statement in this deponent's hearing: "I am glad that they indicted the God damned Jew. They ought to take him out and lynch him" and if I get on the jury I'd hang that Jew sure. This statement was made in connection with the indictment of Leo M. Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan, and made in this deponent's hearing by the said A. H. Henslee, who afterwards served on the jury and brought in a verdict of guilty.

At this time this deponent left the Club, not caring to get into the argument, which was becoming heated and which was very condemnatory of Leo M. Frank by the said A. H. Henslee.

Samuel Aron.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 3rd day of Oct., A. D. 1913.

Robt. C. Patterson,
Notary Public Fulton County, Ga.

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