0653 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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light, and I saw the body of the little girl. Mr. Rogers
walked in the room and stood to my right, inside of the
room. I stood right in the door, leaning up against the right
facing of the door, and Mr. Black was to the left, leaning on
the left facing, but a little to my rear, and the attendant,
whose name I have since learned was Mr. Thesseling, was on the
opposite side of the little cooling table to where I stood--
in other words, the table was between him and me; he removed
the sheet which was covering the body, and took the head in
his hands, turned it over, put his finger exactly where the
wound in the left side back of the head was located,--put his
finger right on it; I noticed the hands and arms of the little
girl were very dirty,--blue and ground with dirt and cinders,
the nostrils and mouth,--the mouth being open--nostrils and
mouth just full of saw-dust and swollen, and there was a deep
scratch over the left eye on the forehead; about the neck,
there was twine,--a piece of cord similar to that which is
used at the pencil factory and also a piece of white rag.
After looking at the body, I identified that little girl as
the one that had been up shortly after noon the day previous
and got her money from me. We then left the undertaking
establishment, got in the automobile and rode over to the pencil
factory. Just as we arrived opposite the pencil factory, I saw
Mr. Darley going into the front door of the pencil factory
with another man, whose name I didn't know; we went up to the
second floor, the office floor; I went into the inner office,
hung up my hat, and in the inner office, I saw the night watch-
man, Newt Lee, in the custody of an officer, who I think was
Detective Starnes,--the man who had phoned me. I then un-
locked the safe and took out the pay-roll book and found that