0677 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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and in a few minutes afterwards detective Barnes brought up
Newt Lee from the cell room. They put Newt Lee into a room
and hand-cuffed him to a chair. I spoke to him at some length
in there, but I couldn't get anything additional out of him.
He said he knew nothing about couples coming in there at night,
and remembering the instructions Mr. Black had given me I
said: "Now, Newt, you are here and I am here, and you
had better open up and tell all you know, and tell the truth
and tell the full truth, because you will get us both into
lots of trouble if you don't tell all you know," and he
answered me like an old negro: "Before God, Mr. Frank, I am
telling you the truth and I have told you all I know." And
the conversation ended right there. Within a minute or two
afterwards the detectives came into the room, the is,
detective Scott and detective Black, and then began questioning
Newt Lee, and then it was that I had my first initiation into
the third degree in Atlanta police department. The way that
fellow Black cursed at that poor old negro, Newt Lee, was
something awful. He shrieked at him, he howled at him he
cursed and did everything but beat him. Then they took
Newt Lee down to cell and I went to my cot in the outer
room.

Now before closing my statement, I wish to touch upon a
couple of insinuations and accusations other than the one on
the bill of indictment, that have been leveled against me so
far during the trial. The first is this, the fact that I
would not talk to the detectives; that I would not see Jim
Conley. Well, let's look into the facts a few minutes, and see
whether there was any reason for that, or if there be any truth
in that statement.