1427 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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EXHIBIT "A"

STATE OF GEORGIA, VS. LEO M. FRANK.
Extraordinary motion for a new trial.
In Fulton Superior Court, March Term 1914.

Personally appeared Annie Maude Carter of 88-1/2 West Linden
Ave., who on oath says, that about October 7th 1913, I was
looked up in the Fulton County Jail where I saw Jim Conley.
I first met Jim Conley in the Court House in November 1913,
at the time I was sentenced to jail. After I was sentenced I
was well acquainted with Conley and knew him well for four months
straight in jail. I talked daily with him about all his affairs
and I asked him if he was guilty or not; and he first told me
no, that he was innocent; that God above alone knows who did
the murder, and I said if you are not guilty, why should you
worry so, and he told me he was so near guilty, he felt lost,
that he had lost all hope. During December 1913, we were very
good friends in jail, he had all confidence in me, he would tell
me his secrets and of course I would listen. He again told me
he didn't know anything about Mary Phagan murder and then I
told him if that was so, he could prove up his character, so
during Christmas week I was talking with him in his cell and he
said he would tell me the whole truth about it. I asked him
why he waited so long. He said "If I tell you will you marry me"
and I told him yes. He then told me that he really did the mur-
der of Mary Phagan, but that it was so plainly shown on Mr.
Frank that he let it go that way; That him and Mr. Frank both
had connection with the girl, but then he immediately con-
fessed that he lied, when he said that Mr. Frank had connection
with the girl and said that he had done it all alone by himself.
He begged me never to say anything about this. He said he first
choked her and after she was unconscious he had connection
with her, and she being young and never having had anybody, he
had to tear her privates. He said he was sitting on a box in
the factory when the girl came down, that he told her some