1535 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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location of such room or place in the factory, and that I knew of other girls that had been to this room with Mr. Frank. I was shocked by the broad insinuation and affirmative statement of Mr. Dorsey, and I told him that all such statements and allusions were lies, and that I had never heard of any such thing ever occurring in the factory, or elsewhere, as to Mr. Frank and any girl employee of the factory were parties to; and-I state now after mature deliberation and thought, that I have never heard such insulting language by direct speech and innuendo, by any of the commonest laborers in and about the National Pencil Factory, as was used to-me by Solicitor Dorsey when in his private office. He being the Solicitor, and I being in his office, believed at the time that he possessed some sort of right to thus accuse me and insult me; and, under this belief, I was obliged to take his insults and listen to his scandalous statements, by direct speech and innuendo, without openly resenting them further than to deny every single one of them. I wish to refer to my evidence, as given on the stand at the trial of Mr. Frank, as to my answers to questions of Mr. Dorsey, where in I was made to say that I had heard Mr. Frank call Mary Phagan by her first name, "Mary". Upon reflection, I wish to explain that my answer, as above repeated, was due entirely to my nervousness because of the badgering that I had been subjected to by Mr. Dorsey; and, as a matter of fact, I cannot recall one single instance wherein I ever heard Mr. Frank address Mary Phagan by any name, and this is the veriest truth. I would not recall, or cannot recall now, under calm deliberation, that I ever heard Mr. Frank address Mary Phagan by any name, as I have never seen him speak with her at any time or place, except when instructing her how to perform her work better and more rapidly while at her work in the factory. Referring back to my first call on Mr. Dorsey, where he had questioned and talked to me for about a half an hour, at the conclusion of which I was directed to another large room, adjoining I believe where Mr. Dorsey had talked to me, in which there were twelve or fifteen other girls and women - all witnesses in the Frank case, and called by Mr. Dorsey, according to my understanding. Among these girls, I remember one Gerrie Smith, Myrtle Cato, Hattie Griffin and Dewey Howell. I remained there