0470 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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oonvicted he is my negro. I knew about the reward being offered.
If I told you that I sometimes left the factory by three o'clock
I meant four o'clock. Jim Conley worked regularly at the factory
except when he was in the stockade thirty days. Conley regis-
tered every morning, but a lots of times he would not register at
dinner and sometimes at night. I nailed up the door that leads
into the Clarke Wooden Ware place on Monday because we never let
that door stand open. Mr. Darley told me to do it. I know it
was not open on Saturday. It was nailed up Saturday noon when
I left there and it was open Monday when I got there. The chutes
back there were nailed up. The one next to the rear end of the
building I know was nailed up to keep the Clarke Wooden Ware peo-
ple from coming up through there. Boxes were piled up back in
there. That stairway back there has been nailed up for some time.
Hasn't been used since Christmas. If he negro went out and
bought beer I didn't know it. I never saw him. I don't recol-
lect whether the drayman was up there April 26th to get his pay
or not. There was so much excitement in the factory on Monday
that we shut down about 9:30. Nobody stayed at their work. Jim
Conley quit work like everybody else and went out. As to one
thing that Conley did that the others didn't do I haven't got any.
The short he was washing was the same short he has been wearing
all day. I say that he was trying to hide the shirt because he
was trying to push it ever behind the pipe where you couldn't see
it. He had the shirt on when he was arrested. He was not try-
ing to hide it then.

RE-CROSS EXAMINATION.

I was subpoenaed to Mr. Dorsey's office by regular court
subpoenas. I thought I had to go there. There were three or four
men when I got there.