0460 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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here if they caught me. He would get me out on bond and send me away. I never saw Mincey before seeing him at the station house in Mr. Lanford's office. I got orders from Mr. Frank to write down how many boxes we needed and give it to him. I didn't tell Mr. Black or Mr. Scott about the mesh bag because they didn't ask me. I disremember when I first told about it. I think it was after I was in jail. I told Mr. Dorsey about it after I came out of jail. Mr. Frank knew for a whole year that I could write. I used to write for him the word "luxury", "George Washington," Magnolia, Uncle Remus, "Thomas Jefferson," that's the name of pencils. I spell "Uncle Remus" "O-n-e R-1-n-e-s", I spell "luxury" "l-u-x-u-r-y", I spell "Thomas Jefferson" "T-o-m J-e-f-f-e-r-s-o-n" or "J-e-f-f-e-r-s", I spell "George Washington" "G-e-o-r-g-e W-a-s-h-i-n-g-t-o-n". After Mr. Frank found out what I meant he understood it. I spell "ox" "o-x". Yes I wrote him orders to take money out of my wages. The pocket book was a wire looking whitish looking pocket book, had a chain to it. You could take it and fold it up and hold it in one hand. When I wrote the word "luxury" and "Thomas Jefferson", I didn't have anything at all to copy from. I was writing it down for Mr. Frank.

MRS. J. A. WHITE, recalled for the State.

I have seen this man before at police headquarters (indicating Conley) about a month after the murder. At that time I did not identify him as being the man I saw sitting on the box. The man sitting on the box was about the same size as Jim Conley. I couldn't state it was Jim Conley. He was sitting in a dark place, and he looked black to me. He had on dark clothes. I don't know whether he was bareheaded or not. I told Bass Rosser about this on May 7th. That was the first time I told