1404 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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he, Dalton had joined defendant on several occasions in acts of immoral conduct with women and girls and that he had on various occasions joined defendant and women in the office of defendant, and that on these occasions they would all drink beer and have a so called good time and that Dalton had seen Jim Conley and defendant on various occasions talking earnestly together and that women and girls had told him that defendant had committed both natural and unnatural acts of intercourse with them, and that Dalton had at various times taken women to the basement of the Pencil Factory for immoral purposes, with the knowledge and consent of defendant, and detectives Campbell and Starnes told Dalton that they had called on him to see if he would not support the statement of Jim Conley, that Dalton told the detectives referred to that every suggestion they had made was untrue and proceeded to deny separately and collectively every suggestion made to him by detectives Campbell and Starnes as outlined above, that Dalton told the detectives referred to at that time that he did not know defendant; that he knew nothing against or about the character of defendant and had never seen Mr. Frank go into any closets, dressing rooms or other places with any women or girls at any time or place, and that he never had joined defendant at any time or place in acts immoral with women and girls and that he never at any time or place saw defendant in conversation with Jim Conley and that no woman ever told him that defendant had committed either natural or unnatural immoral acts with them or attempted to do so or asked to do so, that Dalton told detectives Campbell and Starnes that he, Dalton, had been in the basement of the National Pencil Factory with one Daisy Hopkins for immoral purposes but that he told the detectives then that he never went to the factory with Daisy Hopkins with the knowledge or consent of defendant, but told the detectives at the time of the conversation referred to that he went to the basement with the consent and knowledge of Jim Conley, and that the said Conley always received a tip of 25 cents from him for such privilege, and that the said Conley would remain on guard for said Dalton while he was in the basement, with the understanding thoroughly understood between Dalton and Jim Conley