0654 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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work in the metal plant, and that she was due to draw $1.20,
the pay-roll book showed that as the detectives had told
me that someone had identified the body of that little girl
as that of Mary Phagan, there could be no question but what it
was one and the same girl. The detectives told me then
they wanted to take me down in the basement and show me exactly
where the girl's body was found, and the other paraphernalia
that they found strewed around; and I went to the elevator
box,--the switch box, so that I could turn on the current, and
found it open. In reference to that switch box being open
or shut, it was open on this occasion, however,--I had given
instructions to the factory to keep it open, and those in-
structions were given because a member of the fire department
had gone through all that part of the city, and the National
Pencil Company, among others, and told us that no switch
box, no box in which an electric switch was situated, could
be locked up, but had to be open, so it could be easily ac-
cessible in case of fire, so they wouldn't run any risk of
electrocuting anybody, or if they wanted to move quickly,
they could throw it on and start the elevator,--you couldn't
lock it up, the firemen wouldn't know where the key was.
However I turned on the switch, started the motor, which runs
the elevator, going, then Mr. Darley and half dozen more of us
and the detectives got on the elevator; I got on the elevator
and I started to pull the rope to start the elevator to going,
and it seemed to be caught, and I couldn't move it, I couldn't
move it with a straight pull, and couldn't get it loose, so I
jumped out, we all got off, and I asked Mr. Darley to try his
hand,--he's a great deal larger man and a great deal stronger
man than I was,--so he was successful in getting it loose--it