1255 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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stated that I was being detained at headquarters, it would be best to let my
uncle, who was ill, and who is an elderly man, being over 70 years of age,
and who was on the point of taking a trip to Europe, and I didn't want him
to be unnecessarily alarmed by seeing in the papers that I was detained, and
I wrote a telegram to Mr. Adolph Montag informing him that I was no longer
in custody, that I was all right, and that he could communicate that to my
uncle. That was so that my uncle should not get hold of an Atlanta paper
and see that I was in custody and be unnecessarily alarmed.

I returned from Montag Brothers to the Pencil Factory, being accompanied by one of the traveling men, Mr. Hein, Mr. Sol Hein, and on my
arrival at the factory I went up into the office and distributed the various pa-
pers all over the factory to be acted on the next day. In a few minutes Mr.
Harry Scott of the Pinkerton detectives came in and I took him aside into my
office, my private office, and spoke to him in the presence of Mr. N. V. Darley
and Mr. Herbert Schiff. I told him that I expected that he had seen what
had happened at the Pencil Factory by reading the newspapers and knew all
the details. He said he did'nt read the newspapers and didn't know the de-
tails, so I sat down and gave him all the details that I could, and in addition
I told him something which Mr. Darley had that afternoon communicated to
me, viz: that Mrs. White had told him that on going into the factory at about
12 o'clock noon on Saturday April 26th, she had seen some negro down by the
elevator shaft. Mr. Darley had told me this and I just told this to Mr. Scott.
After I told Mr. Scott all that I could, I took him around the building, took
him first back to the metal room and showed him the place where the hair
had been found, looked at the machinery and at the lathe, looked at the table
on which the lathe stands, and the lathe bed and the underside of the lathe,
and there wasn't a spot, much less a-blood spot upon it. I then showed
him the other spot in front of the dressing room, and then took him to the fourth
floor and showed him where I had seen White and Denham a little before one
the first time and about three the second time. Then I took him down into
the basement and made a thorough search of the basement, and that included
an examination of the elevator well which was at the bottom of the elevator
shaft, and I noticed Mr. Scott was foraging around down there and he picked
up two or three or may be four articles and put them in his pocket, and one
of them I specially noticed was a piece of cord exactly like that which had
been found around the little girl's neck. We then had been showed him
where the officer said the slipper had been found, the hat that had been found and
where the little girl's body was located. I showed him, in fact, everything that the
officers had showed us. Then I opened the back door and we made a thorough
search of the alleyway and went up and down the alleyway and then went
down that alleyway to Hunter Street and down Hunter to Forsyth and up
Forsyth in front of the Pencil Factory. In front of the Pencil Factory I had
quite a little talk with Mr. Scott as to the rate of the Pinkerton Detective
Agency. He told me what they were and I had Mr. Schiff to telephone to