1218 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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law to tell him that on account of some work I had to do at the factory, I
would be unable to go with him, he having invited me to go with him out to
the ball game. I succeeded in getting my niece and his cook answered
the phone and told me that Mr. Unsensbach had not come back home. I
told her to give him a message for me, that I would be unable to go with
him. I turned around and continued eating my lunch, and after a few min-
utes my wife and mother-in-law finished their dinner and left and told me
good bye. My father-in-law and myself continued eating our dinner. Minola
McKnight serving us. After finishing dinner, my father-in-law said he would
go out in the back yard to look after his chickens and I lighted a cigarette and
laid down. After a few minutes I got up and walked up Georgia avenue to get
a car. I missed the ten minutes to two car and I looked up and saw in front
of Mr. Wolfshiemer's residence, Mrs. Michel, an aunt of my wife who lives
in Athens, and there were several ladies there and I went up there to see
them and after a few minutes Mrs. Wolfshiemer came out of the house and I
waited there until I saw the Washington street car coming and I ran up and
saw that I could catch the car. I got on the car and talked to Mr. Loeb
on the way to town. The car got to a point about the intersection of Wash-
ington street and Hunter street and the fire engine house and there was a
couple of cars stalled up ahead of us, the cars were waiting there to see the
memorial parade; they were all banked up. After it stood there a few min-
utes as I did not want to wait, I told Mr. Loeb that I was going to get out
and go on as I had work to do. So I went on down Hunter street, going in the
direction of Whitehall and when I got down to the corner of Whitehall and
Hunter, the parade had started to come around and I could not get around at
all and I had to stay there fifteen or twenty minutes and see the parade.
Then I walked on down Whitehall on the side of M. Rich & Bros.' store
towards Brown and Allen; when I got in front of M. Rich & Bros.' store, I
stood there between half past 2 and few minutes to 3 o'clock until the parade
passed entirely; then I crossed the street and went on down to Jacobs and
went in and purchased twenty-five cents worth of cigars. I then left the store
and went on down Alabama street to Forsyth street and down Forsyth street
to, the factory, I unlocked the street door and then unlocked the inner door
and left it open and went on up stairs to tell the boys that I had come back
and wanted to know if they were ready to go, and at that time they were
preparing to leave. I went immediately down to my office and opened the
safe and my desk and hung up my coat and hat and started to work on the
financial report, which I will explain. Mr. Schiff had not come down and
there was additional work for me to do.

In a few minutes after I started to work on the financial sheet (De-
fendant's Exhibit 2), which I am going to take up in a few minutes I heard
the bell ring on the time clock outside and Arthur White and Harry Denham
came into the office and Arthur White borrowed $2.00 from me in advance
on his wages. I had gotten to work on the financial sheet, figuring it out.