0463 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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Saturday afternoon. I would visit the factory every
Saturday afternoon between five and six
to find out how the financial was for the week. I found
Mr. Frank in his office on every occasion except the one I
have mentioned above. Mr. Schiff would help him on the
financial. A few Saturdays I have gone there and Mr. Schiff
was not there. He may have been on his vacation. I here and
discharge all the help. I come in contact with the help ninety
per cent. more than Mr. Frank. Mr. Frank has nothing to
do with employing or discharging them. On Saturdays, Holloway
is supposed to leave the factory at four o'clock and the night
watchman comes on. We had no negro night watchman there last
September as stated by Mr. Dalton. Our night watchman was Mr.
Kendricks, a white man. The first time we ever hired a negro
night watchman was three weeks before the murder. As to
who else stayed at the factory on Saturday afternoons, usually
the office boy, sometimes the stenographer, Walter Pride, who
cleans up the third floor, I have never known of any other time
but Saturday that the financial sheet was worked on, except
possibly a holiday. I saw Conley on Monday. He looked to be
excited and when I spoke to him he failed to look up as he usually
does. I went around the factory that morning and looked at
everybody to see if I could pick out a man that looked suspicious,
and Jim Conley was the man I thought looked most suspicious.
The latter part of last year I issued orders that the sweepers
must stop cleaning up by twelve o'clock and if they hadn't
cleaned up by that time they would have to knock off and leave
the factory. If they stayed there after twelve o'clock I
didn't know anything about it. Harry Denham usually stayed in
to oil the machinery and he selected someone to stay with him.