1251 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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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 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 per-
haps, 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 to-
gether 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 tele-
phone 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 impression now, that this very time
slip (Defendant's-Exhibit 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 interval of an
hour had occurred three times during the time that Newt Lee had been
punching on that Saturday night, April 26th. When I had first looked at it,
I only noticed that every line had a punch mark on it, but I didn't notice
what time the punch marks themselves were on; this time I studied the slip
carefully, it was the same slip I had taken out of the clock, Chief Lanford
or one of the officers handed it to me at police headquarters, which I abso-
lutely identified with the writing which was on it, which I had on readily see
if you look now, even though it has been erased. Then I went to be some
altercation about Mr. Rosser coming in that room, and I heard Mr. Rosser
say:- "I am going into that room, that man is my client;" that was the first
intimation I had that Mr. Rosser was going to look after my interests in this
matter. Chief Beavers stated that he wanted me to give him a statement,
and he said: "Mr. Frank, will you give us a statement?" And I said:- "Cer-
tainly, I will give them a statement,-I considered it only right that anybody
that was at that factory that day should give the police a statement," telling
who he had seen, where he had gone and what he had done; and I gave them
a statement freely and unreservedly, while I had no idea that I had to make
a statement at that time, I did give it to the very best of my ability, freely,
and answered every question that was put to me. Mr. Beavers was sitting
on the opposite side of the table from where I was sitting, Chief Lanford was
sitting at a desk, and Mr. Rosser was sitting quite a distance away, probably
25 feet, sitting in the front window with his back to us. After I had given the
statement, several of the officers came into the room, among them being Chief
Beavers, and Chief Beavers and Chief Lanford and Mr. Rosser were ap-