0664 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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walked from my home on Georgia Avenue down to Washington
Street, down to police headquarters, walking the whole way.
On the way down, I asked Detective Haslett what the trouble
down at the station house was, and he said: "Well, Newt Lee
has been saying something, and Chief Lanford wanted to ask you
a few questions about it;" and I said: "What did Newt Lee
say?" "Well, Chief Lanford will tell you when you get down
there." Well, I didn't say anything more to him, went right
along with him, and when I got down to police headquarters,
I sat in one of the outer offices that the detectives use, it
wasn't the office of Chief Lanford; he hadn't come down yet,
that was about between 8 and 8:30 when I got down there. Well,
I waited around the office possibly an hour, chatting and
talking to the officers that came in and spoke to me, but I
still didn't see anything of Chief Lanford; and bye and bye,
probably after an hour, half past nine perhaps, Sig Montag and
Herbert Haas, a couple of my friends, came up and spoke to me;
I was conversing with them, and possibly at 10 o'clock, I saw
Mr. Luther Rosser come up, and he said "Hello Boys, what's
the trouble?" And Mr. Haas went up to him and spoke to him,
and they were talking together and a few minutes later Chief
Lanford, who had in the mean-time arrived, and who seemed to
be very busy running in and out answering telephone calls, came
in and says "Come here," and beckoned to me; and I went with
him and went into his room, in his office, and while I was in
there, to the best of my recollection, anyhow it is my impres-
sion now, that this very time slip (Def't's Ex. 1), on
which at that time that taken out at 8:26, with the two
lines under it, had not been erased, was shown to me, and in
looking over it and studying it carefully, I found where the