1492 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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whose presence was not requested or desired; that among those visitors was one whom this Respondent has every reason to believe was working in the interest of the defendant; that this party presented Respondent with sandwiches which this Respondent did not eat, that this same party also offered to present Respondent with whiskey; that Deponent was threatened with physical harm while in the County prison to the extent of the possibility of taking his life; that he was denounced as a liar, relative to his testimony in this case; and this Respondent is sure without the knowledge or through the neglect of the Sheriff or any of his men, but directly attributable to the construction physically of the County prison and the inadequate force allowed the Sheriff to oversee and care for it, that respondent is advised and believes that one of the parties friendly to the defendant is already priming himself to swear that Respondent made certain admissions while he was in the County prison, which this Respondent did not make, and which testimony will be false, but will be given, if given to help the defendant and damage this Respondent."

In this respect the State submits that the said James Conley was a prophet, because the State will show by affidavit that an effort was made to poison said Jim Conley, and they have, through convicts, men unworthy of belief, so shaped and directed matters as to make it appear that this disreputable woman, Annie Maud Carter, who was convicted of highway robbery, did get such an admission from said Conley, and the State insists that the entire transaction is merely in keeping with the Ragsdale incident, and that the whole thing is founded upon falsehood.

Fourth, the said Annie Maud Carter after making said affidavit, was, as the State insists, it will be able to show, placed in hiding, where not only the State's officers and officials cannot see her or interview her with reference to the matters and things to which she has sworn, but her whereabouts is being kept concealed from her own family, a circumstance which the State submits in and of itself should demand at the hands of

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