0833 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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a trap door and stairway that leads down in the basement, and they pull out
that trap door and go down in the basement.
Q. And that time, she came down and says: "All right, James?"
A. Yes, sir.
Q. She knew you?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Because she worked in the office?
A. No, sir; she didn't work in the office; she worked on the fourth floor.
Q. Then you went through that door—a door right behind the elevator?
A. No, sir; there isn't a door back of the elevator; there's a big wooden
door, just a step there; it goes back in the back there?
Q. I know; but it goes back in the back there?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Then you opened that door?
A. Then came back and opened that trap door?
Q. And then they went down there?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. She said "All right, James"?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Then you went through that door?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. She didn't tell you to open it?
A. Yes, sir; she said, "All right, James"—something like that.
Q. She said "All right," and then opened the door?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What made you open the door?
A. Because she said she was ready; I knowed where she was going;
Mr. Frank told me to watch.
Q. Mr. Frank told you to watch?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. But he didn't tell you where they were going?
A. Yes, sir; he told me where they were going.
Q. How came him to tell you that?
A. I don't know, sir.
Q. When did he tell you that?
A. That day.
Q. That they were going to the basement?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. That he was going to stay in his office?
A. He didn't say—where he was going to stay.
Q. Well, he stayed there?
A. As long as I stayed there I didn't see him go out.
Q. She said all right, and went through that door?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Opened it and they went down?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. You shut that trap door?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And that was in July?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And the first time that ever happened?
A. Yes, sir. f
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