1387 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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street; and that, when she got in front of the National Pencil
Company's factory on Forsyth Street, she heard a girl or
woman screaming and crying, saying "please don't", and then she
heard the voice shut off suddenly, with no noise or sound much
like one holding their hand over the mouth of another person;
that, when she heard the cry, she stopped and listened, and says
the sound of voice in distress apparently came from the basement
of the National Pencil Company's building; that she knows that
the sound came from the basement of the pencil company building
because there is a grating in front of the building, which is
open; the doors of the building facing the street, being all
closed, and she noticed an open place beneath the grating which
lead into the basement of the building, that, at the time she
heard the screaming of the girl or woman, she thought perhaps
some man was whipping his wife and, after waiting a short time
and hearing no further similar sounds, she decided to go to her
home, where she related the circumstances described to her
son-in-law, A. B. Williams and Mrs. Elizabeth Cohen; that she
thought no more of the incident or occurrence until the follow
ing morning, when the said Williams came into her room and told
her that Mary Phagan had been murdered in the National Pencil
Company's factory; that she said so to him, Williams, then and
there insisted that she go before the Solicitor General and give
him the benefit of the information she had outlined to him;
that, on or about May 5th she was subpoenaed to appear before
the Solicitor General; that she answered the subpoena and made
and signed a sworn statement in the Solicitor's office, said
statement being taken down by Mr. Hugh W. Dorsey, in his own
hand writing and which set forth the same facts as hereinbefore
related, that the Solicitor-General tried very hard to induce
her to swear that the screaming that she heard was at a much later
time in the day, and he called her attention to the fact that
Frank was not in the factory at the time she heard the screams;
and she told the Solicitor General that she would not testify
to anything but the truth, even though her testimony did not suit
the Solicitor General; that she left her address with the
Solicitor and fully expected that she would be subpoenaed to