0617 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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the typewriting of these letters and brought them to my desk
to read over and sign, which work I started doing as Clerk and
Miss Hall left the office, as near as may be, at a quarter to
twelve, and went out, and I started to work reading over the
letters and signing the mail. I have the carbon copies of
these letters which Miss Hall typewrote for me that morning
here, attached to the letters from customers, or the parties
whose letter I was answering; they have been introduced, and
have been identified. I see them here (Defendant's Exhibit 8),--
Southern Bargain House; there was a letter from Shode-Lombard,
dye makers, 16 Franklin Street, the American Die Lock Company
Newark, N.J., another letter to Shode-Lombard Company in
answer to one of theirs about a die, Shode-Lombard Company
being in New York; one to Henry Disston & Sons, in reference
to a knife which they sent us to be tried out, a circular
knife, one to J. B. McCrery, Five & Ten Cent Syndicate, one to
the Pullman Company of Chicago, Ill., in reference to their
special imprint pencils, which they were anxious to ship as
soon as possible, one to A. J. Sasener, export pen maker;
these letters are copies of the ones I dictated that morning;
I signed these letters, and while I was signing, as Miss Hall
brought these letters in to be signed, I gave her the orders
which had been received by me that morning at Montag's office,
over at the General Manager's office, I gave her these orders
to be acknowledged. I will explain our method of acknowledgment
of orders in a few minutes. I continued signing the letters
and separating the carbon copies from the letters, and putting
them in various places, I folded the letters and sealed the
letters, and of course I told Miss Hall I would post them my-
self. Miss Hall finished the work and started to leave when
the clock whistle blew, and left the office and returned. It took