0700 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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CROSSEXAMINATION. I was ten feet from the woman. I didn't notice her very particularly. I did not speak to them.

W.T. HOLLIS, Sworn for the State in rebuttal.
I don't remember talking to J. D. Reed on April Monday April 29, and telling him that George Epps was with Mary Phagan on my car together. I didn't tell that to anybody. I say like I have always said, that if he was on the car I did not see him.

J. D. REED, Sworn for the State for rebuttal.
Mr. Hollis told me on Monday April 29, that Epps had gotten on the car and taken his seat next to Mary and that the two talked to each other all the way as though they were little sweethearts.

J. N. STARNS, Sworn for the State in Rebuttal.
There were no spots around the scuttle hole where the ladder is immediately after the murder. Campbell and I arrested Minola McKnight, to get a statement from her. We turned her over to the patrol wagon and we never saw her any more until the following day, when we called Mr. Craven and Mr. Pickett to come down and interview her. We stayed on the outside while she was on the inside with Craven and Pickett. They called up back and I said to her, "Minola the truth is all we want." And she started to put the statement down. Mr. Gordon her attorney, was on the outside, and I told him he could go inside without his making any demand on us, and he went in with me, and Mr. February had already taken down part of the statement and I stopped him and made him read over what he had already taken down, and after she had finished the statement, Attorney Gordon went to Mr. Dorsey's office and then he came back to the police station. After he returned the affidavit was read over in the presence of Mr. Pickett, Craven, Campbell, Albert McKnight, and Attorney Gordon and she signed it in our presence. You (Mr. Dorsey) had nothing to do with holding her. You told me over the phone that you couldn't say what I could do, but that I could do what I pleased about it.

CROSS EXAMINATION. No, I did not lock her up because she didn't give us the right kind of statement, as to the authority I had to