0650 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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Lee it would be all right to pass Gantt in, and Gantt went in. Newt Lee closed the door, locking it after him,---I heard the bolt turn in the door. I then walked up Forsyth Street to Alabama, down Alabama to Broad Street, where I posted the two letters,---one to my uncle, Mr. M. Frank and one to Mr. Pappenheimer, a few minutes after six, and continued on my way down to Jacob Whitehall and Alabama Street store, where I went in and got a drink at the soda fountain and bought my wife a box of candy. I then caught the Georgia Avenue car and arrived home about 6:25. I sat looking at the paper until about 6:30 when I called up at the factory to find out if Mr. Gantt had left. I called up at 6:30 because I expected Newt Lee would be punching the clock on the half hour and would be near enough to the telephone to hear it and answer it at that time. I couldn't get Newt Lee then, so I sat in the hall reading until seven o'clock, when I again called the factory; this time I was successful in getting Newt Lee and asked him if Mr. Gantt had gone; he says, "Yes," I asked if everything else was all right at the factory; it was, and then I hung up. I sat down and had supper, and after supper, I phoned over to my brother in law, Mr. Ursenback, to find out if he would be at home that evening. I desired to call on him but he said he had another engagement, so I decided to stay home, and I did stay home reading either a newspaper or Metropolitan Magazine that night. About eight o'clock I saw Minola pass on her way home. That evening, my parents in law, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Selig, had company, and among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Morris Goldstein, Mr. and Mrs. M. Marcus, Mrs. A. E. Marcus and Mrs. Ike Strauss. Mr. Ike Strauss came in much later, something after ten o'clock. I had been sat reading in the hall, until about a quarter to ten, when I